It's been a whole week since Ashley left and I'm losing my mind.
We've talked, but she's not here so... it's not the same.
"I miss..."
"If you say you miss Ashley one more time..."
"You'll what?" My head snaps in Frankie's direction so fast.
"Um.." Frankie says clearing her throat.
My look pretty much says it all.
I will murder her.
"I'll send you a strongly worded text?" She says making up a lie on the spot.
"Right." I laugh a little at her lame ass lie.
Me and Frankie are hanging out at her house.
Madison and Jade are supposed to meet us here. They both had to turn in some work and take a test so they couldn't exactly ditch with us at lunch.
I should also say that I cut class again.
Don't worry, today wasn't anything important.
Plus it was in the back building and everyone knows that it burned down in 1987.
"Can I tell you a secret, Carlin?" Frankie asks, never turning to face me as she flips the channel on the T.V.
I'm a bit nervous about what she has to say. Her tone is genuine and kinda creepy.
"Sure." I say, turning to her.
"I like you." She says, still not turning from the T.V.
"Frankie don't-"
"Nah. Hold up." She says, putting the remote down and finally turning to face me. "I know you're with Davies and contrary to popular belief, I respect that. I would never try to fuck you two up. That ain't my style." She says and I give her a pointed look. "Okaaaaay." She drawls out with a smile. "That ain't my style when it comes to you." She corrects herself.
"Well, I'm glad to hear that Frank. I like hanging out with you and I wouldn't want to have to stop because you got touchy feely with me." I tell her with a raised eyebrow and a smile.
"I would only touch you if you asked me to, Carlin." She says with that damn Frankie smirk and I can't help but shake my head and laugh at her. "So we cool now?" She asks, raising a brow.
"Yeah." I nod and smile. Frankie is actually not a bad person when she stops trying to fuck everything in sight.
"Good. Cause you're pretty fun to hang out with, Carlin. That is, when you're not obsessively missing your girlfriend." She smiles.
"That's two SAT words in one day, Frankie. I'm starting to think you might actually have a brain in there somewhere." I say, ruffling her short black hair that was done up in a fauxhawk also known as an alternative lifestyle haircut.
"Off the hair, Carlin." She tells me slapping my hand away and smiling.
"What are you two bitches staring at each other for?" Madison asks as she walks down the stairs to the basement where Frankie and I have been all afternoon.
"We were um...we..."
"Save it, Frankie. You better not be hitting on my friend or I'm gonna have to kick your ass." Madison says as she comes and takes a seat next to me.
"She was very well-behaved." I tell my friend through a giggle. "Hey Jade."
"Hey Spence, how's Ashley?" She asks and looks at Frankie. Ahhh...gotta love Jade.
"She's good." I nod. "I miss her like crazy though." I tell her and she nods knowingly.
"Only a few more weeks before Christmas vacation. You'll see her soon enough." Jade tells me and I sigh.
"That's the thing. We don't know if either of us will be able to leave to go to each other. Plane tickets are expensive, plus that's almost three weeks of a break, I doubt if my mom will approve that."
"Did you ask?" Frankie asks me.
"No, I don't see the point." I shrug.
"Well, if your mom says you can go or Ashley's parents say she can come here, I'll pay for the ticket." Frankie says and Madison, Jade and I all have shocked expressions on our face.
"Say what?" Madison asks.
"It's no biggie." Frankie shrugs and picks back up the remote to change the channel.
"Okay, what the hell just happened?" Gotta love Madison.
All three of us look at each other than we all look at Frankie who's busy trying to act like she didn't do something decent.
"How dare you bitches have a shindig and not tell us." We all turn and see Taylor and Gabby walking down the stairs.
"Cause no one wanted you here." Madison says to our friend who feigns insult.
"How dare thee insult me?" She says taking a seat on the couch next to the one we were all sitting on.
"Did you just say shindig and how dare thee?" I ask her with a raised brow.
"She's the lead in the school play." Gabby tells me.
"Which is?" I ask, cause I mean...what the fuck...when do we do school plays.
"Romeo and Juliet. But it's gonna be called Rita and Juliet." Gabby shrugs as she lazily plays in her girlfriends hair.
"Jealous bitches?" Taylor asks and we all look around at each other before saying,
"No." In unison.
"What the fuck made you wanna be in a play?" Frankie asks.
"Maybe I'm tired of spending all my free time with you bitches." She shrugs and takes a bag of weed out of her pocket.
"Since when do you smo-"
"Since just now." Taylor interrupts Jade who just shakes her head and smiles at our friend.
"Do you even know how to roll that?" I ask my friend suspiciously.
"No, but I figure I can freestyle it." She says waving a Vanilla Dutch at us.
I rolled my eyes at Taylor and I know I'm not the only one.
I refuse to take part in her fuckery right now.
I watch my friend rip the plastic off from around it and she scrunched her eyebrows looking confused about where to even begin.
Looking around, I see my friends all holding back a laugh.
"Jesus Christ Taylor! Give it here!" Frankie says holding her hand out.
Taylor hands her the Dutch and Frankie gives it a quick lick all around expertly starts to unravel it putting the piece she peeled off on the table in front of her. "Trash." Frankie says not looking up.
Taylor diligently follows orders and Frankie uses her fingers to rip it apart and throws out the tobacco in the garbage. "Weed?" She says with her hand out.
They are both concentrating so hard and when I look around my friends already found something else more interesting to watch.
"Where did you get this?" Frankie says laughing. "It's horrible weed. But just this once." She takes it out and breaks it up. Then puts it in the blunt and proceeds to roll and lick it effortlessly like she's done it so many times before. Then she takes the piece on the table, she licks that as well and wraps it around the rolled blunt. "Here." She says after letting the lighter pass around it.
That's alotta work and alotta spit involved just for that.
Yuck.
"Is anyone else turned on?" Taylor asks the room but no one answers her. "You're looking so hard Spence. You want some?" Taylor asks me.
"No thank you. I live above the influence."
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"I got you something." My mother tells me when I walk into the kitchen.
"What is it?" I ask in a monotone voice, taking a seat at the table. If it's not Ashley, I don't really care but I'll pretend like I do.
"Here." She said handing me a wrapped box.
"Mom, it's not my birthday or Christmas, what is-"
"Just open it." She says with a smile and I sigh and start to unwrap the box she placed in front of me. She turns around, looking proud of herself as she goes back to cooking dinner.
"Oh my God." I breathe out once I get the box open. "Mom!" I practically scream as I jump up from the chair I was sitting in
"Like it?" She turns around and asks with a smile.
"Love it!" I say running over and giving her a hug.
"Christine and I discussed it, we know how hard this distance is on you and Ashley so she has one as well. We're hoping this will help, even if just a little." She says with a huge grin.
"Ashley has one too!" I practically scream.
"Mhm." She nods, flipping the burger over in the skillet.
"I love you." I say and hug her neck again.
"Okay." She says pulling me off her. "Why don't you go use it." She says and I give her another smile before taking off upstairs. "And by the way." She yells after me as I reach the stop step. "If you skip school again, I will beat your ass." She adds.
"Okay, I won't." I yell back. But I can't help but smile.
Mother's always know.
I open up the box and take out it's contents and turn it on. Before I can even figure out how to work it, it's ringing.
OH MY GOD IT'S ASHLEY!
Excuse me while I FACE TIME with my girlfriend.
"Baaaaaby." I say cheerily when I press accept.
"How much do you love our parent's right now?" She asks with a smile.
"A lot. But not nearly as much as I love being able to see your face right now."
"And any other time we want, no matter where we are."
"Ahhh." I scream out, causing Ashley to giggle at me.
"How was your day baby?" She asks and makes a cute face. I can't even handle it right now. I just wanna kiss her.
"Would it be weird if I made out with my iPhone right now?" I ask her and she burst into a fit of giggles before nodding her head yes.
"I thought so." I say with a smile.
"My day was blah. I skipped school and hung out with Madison, Jade and Frankie." I tell her and gauge her reaction. Surprisingly, she's not upset.
"Sounds fun." She says with a genuine smile.
Okaaaay.
I'm not really sure how to take this right now.
"Baby?" I question, she knows what I'm asking.
"It's really okay baby, honestly." She nods and smiles.
"Okay." I nod. Maybe I should tell her that hanging with Emily is okay. Even though I'm not particularly fond of the girl. I trust my baby. So...
"I think that-"
"I'm okay with you hanging out with Emily." I blurt out.
"Okay." She says with a smile.
"I just wanted to let you know that. I know you don't have many friends there and I don't want you to feel like you can't hang with her because of me."
"Okay baby." She tells me and I smile.
"Now what were you going to say?"
"I don't remember now." She shrugs.
"You're cute."
"Not nearly as cute as you."
"Spencer!" I hear my mother yell from downstairs.
"Yeah?" I scream back.
"Ouch baby." Ashley says cringing.
"Sorry." I say apologetically. "Be right back baby." I tell her and sit the phone down on the bed.
"Noooooo, don't leave me." Ashley says and I can't help but giggle at her cuteness.
"Fine." I say picking her up from the bed and walking downstairs to the kitchen. "Yeah, mom?" I say, once I reach the kitchen.
"Dinner's ready." She smiles as both my brother and dad walk in the front door.
"Oh, I see your mother gave you your present." He says with a smile before kissing me on my forehead.
"Mhm." I nod and smile when I look at my phone and see Ashley smiling back at me.
"Hey Ashley." Glen says pushing my face out the camera so she could see him.
"Hi, Glen." She shakes her head and giggles at him.
"Baby, I gotta go. We're gonna eat dinner." I tell her and she pouts. I walk into the living room for a little more privacy. "No pouting." I tell her pointing a finger at her.
"But you just got on, I don't want you to have to leave already." She says making a sad face.
"You're not being very fair right now." I tell her with a smile. She knows I can't resist her pouts.
"But you loooooove me."
"That I do. I promise to call you back right after dinner." I tell her and she nods.
"Fine. Leave me." She says in a dramatic tone.
"I love you." I tell her.
"I love you more." Is her reply before we hang up.
This definitely doesn't change the fact that I want her here but it does ease the pain a bit.