The Boy Next Door...

The next day I awoke to the sound of the doorbell. Who could that be I wondered it’s so early I say to me. I looked over at my clock rubbed my eyes and looked once more because I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. My clocks red numbers showed 10:30 am. With my previous statement being false and the fact that the doorbell had just rung and I would rather not be rude and keep whoever is out there waiting I bolted out of my bed and to the front door.

Once to the door I opened only to be met with a pair of hazel eyes that seem to look into my soul. I shivered a bit. He looked at me for a min and spoke “umm hello my names Frank and I’m your new neighbor” his voice sounded like velvet and I almost forgot how to speak. “Oh yes Iero correct?” that being the only thing I could think of at the moment. “Yes that’s right.” He paused for a moment then continued once more “I’m sorry to wake you, but I came over wondering if you happen to have a box cutter I misplaced ours.”

I stood there for a moment thinking if we had one and it hit me mom has one in the junk drawer in the kitchen. “Oh yes I believe we do hold on one second.” I turn on my heels and head for kitchen to retrieve the box cutter and a min later I return to the door and hand it over when doing so our hands touch and a bolt of electricity just flowed through me he just smiles this unbelievably cute half smile which put goose bumps down my skin and says “thank you.” He pauses and says “Umm what’s your name?”

It dawned upon me I never did tell him my name “Oh I’m Natalie, Natalie White.” He smiled at my response. “Well Natalie thank you I will be sure to bring this back later when I’m done.” I just reply with a smile and “Anytime is fine keep it for as long as you need.” He just looked at me once more before leaving and said over his shoulder “by the way I like your outfit.”

I’m perplexed by this statement and look at to what I’m wearing. Oh dear god I’m still in my pajamas I then mentally slap myself for forgetting and quickly close the door. I swear so far today has not been my day, or has it? I think about Frank and the statement he made about my outfit and oh goodness those eyes. Those eyes and that smile about melted my heart. I believe I have a bit of a crush, or is it one of those you like them in the beginning and then get to know them and be friend’s things?

I mentally slap myself once more to the crazy thoughts I’m conjuring up. Friends, crush, getting to know each other? I just met this guy why am I over analyzing this? I finally come to my senses and agree that yes he is good looking, but I’m just going to let the pieces fall where they may. While coming to this agreement with myself I ate a bit of a brunch and then headed up the stairs to my room.

I decided that I better dress for the day so I undressed and then continue to look through my clothes that I had in my dresser. I found my black lace bra and matching bottoms, my red and black striped tank top, my black shredded skinny jeans, and my lace up knee high converse. I lay it all out and proceed to get dressed, after I head to my bathroom suite and straighten my hair and apply my foundation, blush, black eye liner, mascara, red sparkly Smokey eye shadow, and I add a bit of red lipstick.

When finally satisfied with my look I walk out and begin to look for my cell phone and Green Day jacket. While looking for my elusive jacket I catch out of the corner of my eye movement outside my window and it’s Frank. He’s opening boxes. I guess he took the room adjacent to my window. He looks up and sees me and just smiles a cheeky smile.

Oh my goodness what if he saw me getting dressed? I thought to myself, but would he really just be smiling at me now if he saw me getting dressed? Hmm I don’t suppose, but note to self keep the curtains closed tighter. I shake off my thoughts and finally find my jacket and head out.

I decided to head over to the Iero’s house and lend a helpful hand as I walk over I see that Miss. Iero has come back out to retrieve more boxes. I take this as my chance to introduce myself and lend my assistance. I walk up to her and say “Hello my name is Natalie White and I live next door do you need any help unloading or unpacking?” she quickly responds “Well aren’t you just the sweetest thing. yes I would love some help. My name is Linda Iero and I suppose you met my son earlier. Thank you again for letting us borrow your box cutter that was so nice of you.” I smile at her and say “You’re very welcome. Now what can I grab for you.” She chuckled and said “anything you can carry”

As Linda and I unloaded some boxes Frank came walking down the stairs looking straight at me. After a minute he spoke and said “come for your box cutter?” I quickly replied “Nope I just came over to offer a hand.” As I set the boxes down that were in my hands he said “Oh well you don’t have to do that.” I just looked at him and started walking back outside for more and saying over my shoulder “I know, but like I said I offered my help and your mother graciously accepted.”

It took all 3 of us a total of 2 and a half hour to unload that truck. It was 1:45 pm when we all took a break. During this time Linda asked if I wanted anything to drink or to snack on I told her water would be fine for now. As she brought me a bottle of water we all sat at the kitchen table talking. She would continue to ask me about the school here and what I thought about it I ended up lying and telling her that it was great and Frank should have no trouble fitting in Monday morning, she asked me about my mother and I explained to her that she actually worked at the hospital where she will be starting at tomorrow.

After so much small talk about work, school, and somewhat a brief history of where they came from we all agreed that we should get back to work. Frank turned to his mom and said “I’m going to take Natalie up to my room and have her help me unpack and decorate is that alright with you?” “Of coarse dear that’s fine.” She just smiled and waved us on I on the other hand just looked at them in disbelief, but nonetheless I followed Frank up to his bedroom.

Once to his room I was kind of confused as to what I should be doing. Do I start unpacking boxes or do I just wait for him to. My thoughts were interrupted and he handed me a box of posters and said “Want to help me put these up?” I looked at him and nodded. While looking through his collection of posters I saw a lot of bands that I loved and a lot of ones I didn’t know.

“Well lucky for you I’m a master poster hanger.” I say to Frank with a serious face as we began he just laughed “Oh yeah what else are you?” he says handing me the tape “Well I’m a vegetarian.” He says enthusiastically at me “What no way so am I!” I just look at him in amazement. I tell him the most important thing about me and he happens to be one as well. Before I let my thoughts get ahead of me and over run my brain I ask him teasingly “So do you always bring girls to your room?”

This question not only shocked him but gave him this evil grin. “Well Natalie do you always just follow boys to there room after they proclaim they are taking you to there room?” I just scoffed and punched him in the arm. “Trust me punk I’m not that easy.” He continued with his playful teasing “Oh yeah because it seemed that easy just like it was real easy to see into your bedroom while you were dressing.”

Oh my goodness did he just say what I think he just said? My face turns flush with embarrassment. My brain went into over dive and I decided to quickly make him think I was upset by not saying anything. His devilish grin faded after a couple of moments of silence.

I finally decided after a minute or two to say something to lighten the mood plus I think if I stayed silent for any longer he might have started apologizing “Oh yeah? Did you like anything that you seen?” his smug grin came back and he just chuckled. “You had me for a second there.” “Really now?” I say back to him. “Yeah, so you’re not mad?” he halfway looks at me. I decided I was going to keep messing with him.

“No I’m mad, but more at myself.” “And why is that I was the one looking.” “Because I didn’t put on a show for you.” He’s just staring at me now and I guess my smile gave it away because now he starts teasing me again. “Well that’s alright because I did get to see you half naked this morning so that should make up for it.” I just smile a wicked smile “Well I guess that does make up for it, but now were not even.”

If that didn’t take him for a loop I don’t know what will. As I finished that sentence we seemed to have ran out of posters to hang so there was nothing to distract me from his full on gaze. Frank looked at me and smiled a smug smile “If you wanted to see me naked all you had to do was ask.” He says this while removing his shirt and I about faint in the process.

For a second I thought he was going to continue undressing because he said naked, but he only took off his shirt. I couldn’t stop marveling over his body it was lean and muscular but looked soft to the touch. His collar bones were very prominent along with his hip bones. I took in every inch of his body that I could see. He stepped forward closing the gap between us and I could feel my knees begin to shake.

He leaned in and said softly with a grin “Were almost even now.” I didn’t know if I should continue playing along or stop, but before I could say anything Linda called for Frank to come help her. He put his shirt back on and my brain took a sigh of relief. Frank didn’t say anything, but just winked at me and smiled a gorgeous smile. As he left I took this opportunity to sit down at his desk chair and collect my thoughts.

I looked around his room and noticed a simple notebook. There were song lyrics, doodles, and just typical things wrote down that you would see in a normal notebook. I come to a blank page and decided I would leave him a small note and then take my leave from the Iero house. I find a pen and begin to write.

Frank as much as I have cherished our afternoon together by seeing each other naked (well mostly me naked) I must get back home to finish homework. Oh by the way here’s my number text me tomorrow and we can do something. I jotted my number down and then randomly I decided to sign my name and kiss the paper so my red lipstick was imprinted at the end.

I put the notebook on his bed and took my leave. As I walked down the stairs Linda saw me and asked if I were alright. I assume because I was still red in the face from all the excitement that occurred not to long ago. “Yes Miss. Iero I’m fine just a little weary Frank and I got all his posters up and got some other stuff out of the way.” I say with a smile knowing fully she will never know what I meant. I continue to say “I’m actually going to head home I have some homework I need to finish and I should probably pick up the house before my mother gets home later.”

“Well aren’t you just sweet thank you so much again for all your help.” She says with a smile. “It’s no problem Miss. Iero” I say waving and walking out the door. As I walk across there lawn and almost halfway through mine Frank comes out of the garage I assume and yells at me. “Where are you going in such a hurry?” “I’ve got homework to do and some cleaning I’ll talk to you later.” I say this still walking to my door. I reach it and head inside before another word is spoken.

I start cleaning the house and after I’m done I head upstairs to my room to finish that last bit of homework I had. I walk in and go directly to my window and close the curtains tight, thank goodness I didn’t see Frank. I change out of my clothes and into some sweat pants and a band t-shirt. I quickly go to my desk and finish the last bit of homework I had left.

When done with my homework it’s about 4:30 pm and it’s almost time for mom to get home from work. So I take this opportunity to take a quick smoke break before she gets here and like usual I go through my skylight and sit on the roof toward the back just in case mom comes around early. I smoke quickly because it’s becoming a bit chilly and head in.

I sprits myself with perfume like always and head downstairs to cook dinner. When dinner is just about done a hour or so later mom shows up and she looks exhausted. She comes to the kitchen and just hugs me. I can smell hospital gunk all over her but I just smile and ask her about her day. She goes on and on about all the people she had to deal with today while we eat our dinner and then finally she asks me how my day was.

I explained to her how I woke up late this morning and leant our box cutter to the new neighbors and how I went over there later on and helped them unpack the truck and helped put away some of there things. She inevitably asked me about Frank so I told her he was really nice and his name and how we liked a lot of the same things. She was really happy with my response.

She would have probably badgered me more if she weren’t so tired, but she just apologized and said she was going to call it an early night. I told her it was fine, we could catch up on stuff later, and I would clean up. It was now 8:00 pm and I was no where near tired so I decided to head to my room and put in a movie and check my Facebook.

I decided on The Nightmare Before Christmas mainly because its my favorite but also because it was already in my dvd player. I turn my TV on and hit play, as its playing through to the main menu I take this time to check my online stuff. Nothing new besides a friends request, and who would have guessed it was none other then Frank. I hit the accept button and take that chance to profile stalk him.

I had no idea how much time had passed while I looked through his pictures and other things, but what had brought me back to reality was my phone ringing signaling me I had a text message. It was Frank.

Frank: its tomorrow want to hang out? xofrnk

Notes

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