Leah's Outfit


I woke up to the sound of birds chirping obnoxiously loud outside my bedroom window. I glanced over at the calendar by my desk, remembering it’s Saturday. I got up and made my way over to the bathroom before walking over to Jack’s.
“Hey, do you know what happened to Ariel last night?” I asked as he opened the door.
“Oh, yeah we went for a walk and such. She stayed out for a few extra minutes to breathe, for some odd reason, and I waited for her in the entrance. When we got back Alex was gone and you were asleep, so she just went home.” He replied.
“Thanks, oh and sorry for last night.” I looked at the ground.
“It’s all good. I got to know Ariel better. She seems really cool.” He chuckled.
“She’s crazy.” He laughed louder this time.
“What are your plans for today?” He asked following me back to my apartment. I went straight to the kitchen as he sat down on the couch.
“Probably nothing, you?” I replied pouring my morning coffee.
“Going to meet up with a friend. Wanna come with?” I turned around and looked at him.
“Who is it?”
“His names Frank.”
“Is he nice or am I going to regret going?” He laughed and shook his head.
“He’s cool.” I nodded and sat down in the chair Alex was in last night.
“I’ll go. When should I be ready?” He told me in an hour then left the apartment, heading to his own to get ready.

-

We pulled up to a little cafe in the center of Baltimore. There were tables outside the shop, and a sign that read ‘free wifi’.
“Oh yay free wifi.” I said without thinking.
“You’re one of those people, aren't you?” Jack joked and I laughed, nodding.
We got out of his car walking to a table where a man sat, scrolling through something on his phone. He looked up at Jack and smiled.
“Hey Jack.” He smiled, standing up as he spoke.
“Hey Frank. This is Leah.” He shook his hand then pointed to me.
“Hi.” I waved sheepishly.
“I’m Frank Iero.” He gave me a charming smile.
“Leah Carey.” He smiled again and turned back to Jack. “Are you guys, like?” He motioned in between us and we both laughed and shook our heads.
“No, she wishes but we’re only friends. She moved into the building I live in.” I smacked Jacks arm and laughed at his comment. We all took a seat at the table Frank previously sat at.
For the next hour we talked, and laughed but mostly told stories of our childhoods. Jack talked about how he met Alex and how the band was formed. I talk about how I met Ariel, which was at Warped Tour. And Frank told me about his sexuality, and then we swapped numbers because he was in need of ‘a new friend’.

-

Once I got home I sat down and immediately started texting Ariel about my day (so far).

L: Allo *glares at the orchestra*
A: u f0ckin w0t m8
L: Catch me if you con m8
A: sanic ftw
L: anywAYS
A: el oh el, whats up, bae?
L: I made a pal. What about you bae?
A: Oh, another one? And I just woke up like 40 seconds ago cause life.
L: Did I wake you up because i don’t care. And ye man Jack introduced me to him.
A: No, feg, my alarm clock did. who is this person, tell ME NOW
L: His names Frank.
A: Sounds interesting, I guess
L: He is actually.
A: Well that’s radical, then, bae. IS HE CUTE
L: He’s like super focking hella but BUT his door swings the other way ufeel
A: Of fucking course he is, but hey, that’s cool mane.
L: right right
A: so I’m gonna attempt to do something with my life today, soo, yeah
L: LETS GO FOR A JOG. I'm completely kidding of course I don’t do that stuff.
A: I thought you were with people anyways? Idk man, but I’ll catch up with you later on tonight or something?
L: I'm sitting on my couch trying to find something to do. and OKAY PAL
A: oH OKAY. ILY LEAH BYE ILY <3
L: I have an appointment at three, so I’ll text you afterwarrrddsss. bye ilyyy
A: think about me
L: always

I sighed, just now remembering I had to go see Dr. Ashleigh today. I got up off of the couch and started to the kitchen to get a bottle of flavored water.



-

“Hello Leah, you can have a seat in your normal spot right over there please” Ashleigh pointed me toward the black leather couch on the far side of the room. As she got her things ready to sit down I glanced around like I always do coming in here. It’s not a very big room, just enough for the tiny women to work with her patients. Straight across from the door is her main desk, with her papers and her computer.A filing cabinet sits next to it. All of that is up against a window that takes up almost the whole wall. It had a beautiful view of the highway (sarcasm). But also of a comforting pond. The cattails littered across the grass surrounding it. It was a pretty sight, enough to somewhat calm me down when I get nervous in here. Sitting in the chair right next to the door Ashleigh looked at me for a minute, as I looked at her. Getting used to my company, she would always say.
She was a pretty lady, she was skinny and once talked about how she was teased for being ‘anorexic’ even though she ‘fucking wasn’t’. The first and last time she’d cussed in front of a patient she said. She had long thin dark hair, I couldn’t ever tell if it was dark brown or black and I never got close enough to look. She has brown eyes, I knew that. And a long slender nose and seemed to fit her skinny structure.
“So tell me how your week went.” She spoke in her soft voice that seemed way too stereotypical for a therapist.
“Um, It was good. I guess.” My eyes flickered around as I fiddled with my hands in my lap.
“What all did you do? Did you go see your mom? Hows the new apartment?” I already felt my leg start to shake violently as she asked the questions that seemed normal.
“Uh um I did the usual. I uh moved in to my apartment and no. Um I haven't gone to see her yet.” I stuttered on my words. Something about talking about my anxiety, made it shoot through the roof. I asked her about this once, she said it was because all the focus was on me.
“Why haven’t you gone to see her?” She always makes casual conversation in the beginning of the session, she says its to get a perspective of where my anxiety might come from.
“I’ve been busy, I only just moved in Wednesday.” She nodded.
“What have you been bust with? Anything interesting?”
“Uh, yeah I’ve made some new friends, I guess?” She smiled at the mention of me interacting with someone other than my mom our Ariel.
“Who are they? What are they like?”
“Uh. Well there’s Jack. He’s funny, he’s my neighbor. Then theres Alex.” I smiled at his name. “He’s sweet, I met him through Jack. And uh, just today actually I met Frank, he’s cool so far.”
“Thats great, I’m really happy that you’ve been making new friends. How has the anxiety around these friends been?”
“Uh, I only had one attack since last week, which is good. But it was when I first met Alex and it didn’t last very long.”
“What do you think caused it?”
“Well, uh. Um well I blanked out and was staring off into space, and I snapped back only to uh realize I was staring at Alex. And I kept thinking that he thought I was weird, I sorta freaked out.”
“Why didn’t it last long, what happened? Was Ariel there?”
“Yeah, and because Alex is the one who helped.” I smiled at the memory, “He has or had anxiety really bad and he knew how to deal with it really well.
“Well that’s really great, I’m really happy you’ve been interacting.”

Notes

I'm a piece of shit for taking so long
hi
so im going to try something, the next chapter will be uploaded on.....uh lets do Sunday. UNLESS i get at lest 5 subscribers then it will be up on Friday.
FRANK IERO FTW
hes my fav okay
~Leanna