You know what I do what I get down? I write romance. I need help.

Love, Katie

I don't own Jimmy.

A Rocky Start

Cindy Vortex struggled with the heavy box in her arms as she got into the elevator. She turned to her best friend and roommate, Libby Folfax who was also holding a large box and sweating profusely.

"Why do we have so much crap?"

"You got me, girl!"

Just before the elevator door closed someone yelled out. "HOLD THE ELEVATOR!"

"Did we forget something?"

"I don't think so."

A man joined them in the elevator. He was wearing a purple t-shirt with some cartoon character named Ultra-Lord. "Hello neighbors!"

"Who the heck are you?"

"I'm Sheen Estevez and you must be the ones moving into apartment C2? I live in C1 isn't that cool? We're going to be neighbors!" She had known this guy for two minutes and he was really getting on her nerves. He hadn't even offered to take one of the obviously heavy boxes she and her roommate were carrying. "Are you two hungry? My roommate and I are having lunch and it would be cool if you could come eat with us."

"We'll be there," Libby replied as the elevator arrived on their floor. Sheen flashed them a smile. Once he was out of ear shot, Cindy turned to Libby and began to protest.

"You cannot be serious."

"Girl, it's free lunch!"

"He's totally weird!"

"I don't have energy to make anything, do you?"

"Oh, fine."

Cindy sent a glare at her best friend, who just knocked at the door. Sheen smiled at them, and then abruptly began shouting, "CODE RED, CODE RED!"

A very pudgy looking redheaded be-speckled man wearing a llama shirt and ugly green pants surfaced from the bathroom.

"Sheen, what is Code Red?"

"We have lunch guests!" Sheen beamed as he gestured to Libby and Cindy.

"You invited girls over!" He squeaked nervously.

"Obviously," Cindy said rolling her eyes. His eyes grew wide and he took a few puffs off an inhaler. But even after they were all ready sitting Carl just stood there gaping after them.

"They are just girls, Carl! Stop staring!"

"Well, we haven't ever had girls over before!"

They'd never had girls over before? This was going to be a long lunch.

"I brought your favorite low calorie sandwich from Jerry's," Sheen said as he pulled out the sandwich and set it on the coffee table. Carl trudged over to the chair across from where the girls were currently sitting.

"So, it's Sheen," Libby started as he handed her and Cindy a bowl of fried rice and an egg roll. "And Carl right?"

"Yep, and there's Jimmy too, but he works for NASA so he's gone a lot during the week."

Libby's jaw dropped open. "Did you say he works for NASA?"

"Yeah, he's super smart," Sheen said with food still in his mouth.

Cindy immediately lost her appetite.

"Where do you work, Sheen?" Libby asked politely.

"MickeyD's all the way baby!"

Libby giggled and Cindy sent her death glare. She had a migraine and it had only been a few minutes.

"Do you like it there?"

"Yeah, and I'm actually really good at it."

"That's cool."

"No! It's lame," Cindy hissed but Sheen just smiled.

"What about you Carl? What do you do?"

"I work at a llama ranch."

"I didn't even think there was such a thing!"

"Well, enough about us," Sheen started. "I want to hear more about you!"

Libby smiled as she finished off a fortune cookie. "Well, I just got hired at Macy's but just for a while because I really would like to work in the music industry."

"That's so cool! Cindy, where do you work?"

She had hoped he had forgotten she was sitting there but she decided she'd answer them. "I'm a lawyer."

"Oh, so you're smart?"

"Yes," she couldn't hide her annoyance now.

"You should talk to Jimmy."

"No thanks, I'll pass."

Finally, Libby seemed to decide she was full and relaxed back on the blue couch they were sitting on. "That was delicious!"

"We love Golden Dragon."

"Maybe we can all go together sometime?"

"Yeah, that'd be cool. Then maybe you can come over and watch some ULTRALORD!" Sheen replied.

"Here," Libby said as she passed a ten dollar bill towards him on the coffee table. "This is for our share."

"Nope, it was my treat," he passed the bill back to her and their hands touched for a moment and Libby blushed a little.

She couldn't be serious!

"Well," Cindy started as she grabbed Libby's arm. "This has been fun, but we have lots of work to do. See you later."

"See you!" Sheen called out before Cindy slammed the door behind them.

"Cindy, wait!"

She glared at her best friend who finally had wiggled her arm out of her Cindy's grasp. "What is your problem?"

"What the hell was that?"

"What was what?"

"You have been whining all day then suddenly you are like giggly and nice!"

"They are our neighbors!"

"You never talked to our neighbors in the last place."

"Fine, I think he's sort of cute, okay?"

"I think you are dehydrated, girl. Did you not notice the ten million Ultra-Lord things he was wearing? Wasn't that a kids show?"

"Doesn't make him any less cute," Libby smiled as she worked her way towards her room leaving a very confused and cranky Cindy to start unpacking boxes.

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