Chapter one
“And one and two”
“what the hell are you doing Christa? attacking the sofa?”
“No I am not attacking the sofa Leah” I said, glaring at my best friend.
“then what are you doing?”
“Ty Boe” I said, grabbing my towel and wiping my face
“ok, hold up, why does it look like your attacking the sofa then?”
“Because I don’t have enough room in the dump we call our apartment”
“yeah, well, this “dump” costs us around 654 a month, each” Leah pointed out as the doorbell rang.
“Yeah well it still sucks!” I yelled over my shoulder as I flung the door open. When I turned back around to face the doorway I saw possibly the cutest guy since that one I flipped off at the stoplight earlier today. “Yeah?”
“um, Hi, I’m your new neighbor”
“oh hi!” I said, wishing I hadn’t done my Ty Boe yet. I can imagine what I looked like, all I had on was a pair of nylon shorts and a sports bra and was sweating like a pig. ‘Great first impression idiot’ I thought to myself. The guy smiled
“anyway, I hate to bother you but we don’t have our phone yet, and I was wondering. . .”
“oh yeah, sure, come on in” I said stepping aside “by the way, I’m Christa, and I normally don’t look like this”
He laughed “I’m Nick” he said “and I’m guessing you were doing ty Boe”
“yeah how’d you know?”
He laughed, pointing to the tv where Billy Blanks was frozen mid-punch. “Good guess” I said, feeling like an idiot as he followed me to the kitchen, “oh, this is my roommate Leah” I said pointing at Leah who had her hand shoved in the peanut butter jar “and I’m not sure what she’s doing at the moment” I finished
“I lost my cracker in there” she said pulling out half a club cracker which was, along with her hand, covered in peanut butter, and blushing slightly.
“Hey Leah” Nick said
“hey” she said, walking to the sink to wash off her hand.
“My roommates name is Brian, and I bet right now he’s filling up his waterbed”
I started laughing remembering an inside joke between me and an old friend when we were 17 about waterbeds. Nick looked at me “what?”
“Oh it’s just me and my friend Alex had this joke about sex on a waterbed covered in babyoil when we were younger and you just reminded me of it” Nick looked at me with a small smile
“sounds kinky”
I laughed handing him the phone “I haven’t found out yet, I’ll let you know when I do” I said walking into the living room to turn off the TV. Leah followed me
“damn girl he’s hot!”
“I know! He’s even cuter than the guy I flipped of at the stop sign today!” she laughed
“he’s checking you out”
“Oh God, and I look like crap”
“not really” Leah said, “I mean, look at me”
“Leah, you have on shorts and a cute t-shirt and you think you look like crap? Uh, hello! I’m wearing nylon shorts,a sports bra and I'
m sweating like a pig”
“yeah, well it got his attention” Leah said with a smile I swatted at her with my towel.
“Hey thanks for letting me use your phone” he said “we were craving a pizza over there, hey, you two wanna come over and eat it with us? We have, oh, half the kitchen in a mess now, but the table is in plain sight, along with the chairs” I laughed, looking at Leah
“sure, we’d love to” Leah said with a smile
“just give me a chance to shower” I said. He laughed
“see you in about 30 minutes then?” we nodded he walked out the door, calling bye over his shoulder as I dashed off to the shower.
I found Brian with his butt sticking out of the closet “damn Bri, you should see our neighbors!”
“Did you get the pizza?” Brian’s muffled voice came from the closet
“Yeah man, these chicks are hot!”
“Extra cheese?”
“Yeah, this one, the blonde, oh god does she look good”
“half pepperoni on the other one?”
“Brian get your mind off the damn pizza, I invited them over to eat with us” Brian backed out of the closet
“so how many pizza’s did you get?”
“4 why?”
“Just checking” Brian said, going back into the closet.
“CHRISTA!” Leah yelled from her closet
“what?” I asked, banging the door open, immediately tripping over Leah’s sneakers and flying into a pile of dirty clothes.
“good job dumbass” Leah said “I need you to help me with an outfit”
“that explains the mess” I muttered, looking around the room. Clothes were tossed over the bed, on the floor, shoes everywhere, a pair of jeans had been thrown carelessly across the computer, and a shirt was draped from the fan. Shaking my head I threw Leah’s blue jean shorts at her, “here, wear these with your red tank top”
“what about shoes? Hey, can I borrow your white Adidas with the red stripes?” Leah said, changing shirts.
“Yeah sure” I called over my shoulder as I walked out of the room. Bad mistake. I tripped over her sneakers again, landing in the hall this time.
“By the way” I said after I stood back up and poked my head back in the door “I don’t think this place is such a dump anymore, we’ve finally got something besides old people as neighbors” I turned as Leah started laughing and walked into my room. Throwing myself on my waterbed I looked at the picture of me and Alex, on my night table. God I missed him.
