"Teenage Destroya?" said Frank as he entered my room, reading the sign on the door.
"Yeah, what d'you think?"
"Awesome. What you doing?"
"Cutting my hair." I said. "What does it look like I'm doing?"
"You want me to do it?"
"I'm not letting you anywhere near my hair with a pair of scissors." I laughed
"Aw, c'mon. It won't look that bad. I let you cut my hair."
"Alright." I sighed, handing him the scissors. I sat down on a chair. "Just try and make it the same length all the way round.
It actually didn't look that bad in the end, although it was a little shorter than I had asked him because he'd tried to even out a little slip of the scissors.
"I'm feeling a bit girly now. I feel like I might turn gay any minute."
"What shall we do then?" I said, sitting down on the bed.
"I dunno. I'm so bored."
"Can I cut your hair?"
"You only cut it last week!"
"Aww… can I dye it then?"
"Nothing to do with hair!"
"Fine, what then?"
"Um… how about I give you a lip piercing?"
I looked at him for a moment. "You ever pierced someone's lip before?"
"Yeah, I did my own!"
"Sure, why not?"
"Ok, I've got a spare ring somewhere." He jumped up and went into his room, returning two minutes later with some ice, a needle and a lip ring.
"Does it hurt?" I said, eyeing the needle suspiciously.
"Only if you don't numb it properly." he shrugged, handing me an ice cube. "Hold that on it for a while."
"If this goes wrong, I'm going to kill you slowly and painfully, Frank."
"Sure." he said calmly. "Is it numb yet?"
"No, it's only been about a minute!"
"Ugh, well just hurry up."
"Ok, my lip apologises for any inconvenience."
After a few more minutes, it had gone mostly numb.
"You sure it's numb?" he said, poking it.
"Yeah, probably." I shrugged, pushing his hand away. Frank picked up the needle and put it on my lip, ready to push it into the skin.
"Ready?"
"I guess."
I did my best not to yell as the needle pierced into my skin.
"Shit!" I said once he had done it.
"Yeah… I don't think you numbed it properly…" he said, putting the ice to it again
"That fucking hurt!"
"Oh well, it's done now anyway. It's kinda bleeding though."
"It'll stop in a minute." I said, wiping off some of the blood. Just then, Gerard came in.
"You ok?" he said, seeing the blood.
"Yeah, Frank just pierced my lip."
"What! Why?"
"Because not everyone's terrified of needles, Gee." said Frank, putting the needle gently against the top of his finger. Gee flinched.
"Stop it! I mean, why do you want a lip piercing?"
"I dunno, why not?" I shrugged.
"Yeah, what've you got against lip piercings?" said Frank, raising his eyebrows.
