He Has A Heart Of Fire

I woke up on Saturday morning, and got out of bed to brush my hair. It was long, and blonde with black underneath. I sighed, it was all tangled from sleeping with it down. I'd have to go get a shower to untangle it.
Taz was already up, cooking herself pancakes for breakfast. I grabbed a towel and turned the shower on to get warm. As I undressed, I moved my fingers along my first tattoo. I'd gotten it 2 weeks ago, at the side of my ribs, just underneath my right boob. It was cursive writing that read "Maybe it's not my weekend, but it's gonna be my year." It was healing up nicely.
The shower began to steam, so I got in and began to sing my 'shower song'. Just the song I sing every time I get a shower.
"But could we burn, darlin'? Like fires in the night,
bloodless inferno incinerates,
all hopes and dreams but ours."

After a good half hour, I was all clean and tangle free. I walked into the kitchen with a towel wrapped around me and another one on my head to see my older brother, Tobias, and my other best friend, Jason, sitting at the table while Taz was shovelling some pancakes onto three plates.
I've always been close with Tobi, there's only 10 months difference between us, so we were in the same classes. Although we hung out with different people, he was still one of my best friends. That's also how he met Tazmyn. They've known each other through me forever, and they started dating 2 years ago, which ended up going surprisingly well.

"Autumn, someone called for you and asked for you to call them back on this number," Taz said passing me a note with some numbers on, as well as my plate of pancakes.
"Thank you," I beamed up at her. "Do you know who it was?"
"No, they didn't say," she said with a mouthful of pancakes, while my brother was watching her with adoration.
"Are you sure you're a girl?" Jason asked her, watching her in shock. She threw a punch to the arm at him.
"It was a guy though, really low voice." she continued.
Was it Andy? I thought. I hadn't realised it had been three days since I saw him, I'd completely forgotten.
After eating our pancakes and washing all the breakfast dishes, I grabbed my phone, took it into my room and dialled the number on the note.

"Hello?" answered that voice.
"Hi, um, it's Autumn?" I said. I sounded as if I was uncertain as to whether or not that was actually my name.
"Oh, hey! I called but your roommate said you were in the shower."
"Yeah, I was," I replied. I sounded like I was pissed off, answering in short sentences.
"Um, yeah, I wanted to see if you wanted to come meet me for coffee today?" He sounded nervous, too.
"Sure, what time? I'm free all day, I just need to do my hair, get dressed and I'm ready."
"About 12 at The Bow Tie?"
"Sure, sounds good, see you then," I hung up and felt a smile creeping up onto my face. Why was I getting so excited? It was only coffee and a catchup.

I walked over to my wardrobe to pick out my clothes. Do I try to look hot? Do I try to look not hot?
In the end, I settled on some ripped, black skinny jeans, a black tank top with a loose, red checkered shirt over it, and my matt black Doc Martens.
My hair was still up in a wet bun, so I started to do my makeup. I did brown, smokey-eye eyeshadow with black liquid eyeliner over the top, and black mascara covering my brown eyelashes.
My skin looked a bit dull from sleep, so I applied some translucent foundation on, too.
I then took my hair down, and dried it. I straightened it to get the frizz out, and then added some wrinklets to the bottom half of my hair. I loved having my hair like this, it looked like the blonde just faded into the black as it curled.

By this time, it was 11:45, so I grabbed my car keys and headed out the door after saying goodbye to everyone while they were playing video games.
It was a 20 minute drive from my place to The Bow Tie, so with bad traffic I was 10 minutes late. I pulled up in the parking lot and rushed in. I found Andy sat in my spot again, on his own. I walked over and said "Sorry I'm late!"
He stood up to greet me, "You're only late 10 minutes, it's cool," he gave me an awkward hug and I sat down.
"I was here early anyway in case you were here on time," he chuckled nervously.
"I'm sorry," I apologised, embarrassed. He made the effort to get here early and I couldn't even be on time!
"Would you like a drink?" he offered as he stood up.
"A cinnamon hot chocolate please," I replied, digging in my purse for some money.
"It's on me," he smiled down at me and then walked towards the till.
I pulled out mmy compact and checked my makeup, everything looked good!
Andy sat back down, and we sat awkwardly in silence while we waited for our drinks.

After what felt like forever, the waitress finally came over with our drinks.
"One black coffee," she put down a mug in front of Andy. "And one cinnamon hot chocolate," she placed down my drink.
We both thanked her simultaneously, and then laughed as I blushed.

"So," he started, "I see your still living in Cincinnati. What do you do?"
"I'm a teaching assistant at a pre-school. It was only supposed to be a temporary job until I find something I want to do, but I've been there for two years now."
"That's cool, do you like working with kids?" he asked, genuinely looking interested.
"It has it's good days. And then there's bad days like coming home with two handprints of paint on your butt," we both laughed. "What's it like being this big rock star? I never heard your band when we were teenagers but you're actually really good!"
"It has it's good days," he winked at me. "Nah, it's cool, it's what I've always wanted to do, you know? It's hard sometimes though when we're all over the country, I start to miss my family, which is why I'm back in town for a couple months."

After talking about what we've been up to since high school, we had both finished our second drinks.
Andy looked at me and said, "Wanna go do something fun?"

Notes

This is a long chapter, haha.
I know we're only three chapters in, but I'm realy enjoying writing this story, is anybody else enjoying it? :)