Chapter One; New Roomate?
"Farkle, are you sure this is such a good idea?"
Farkle Minkus sighed for the who-knows-how-many time that day as he balanced the iPhone between his cheek and shoulder while trying to hold the several bags of groceries in one hand, fumbling for the right key in the other, "Yes, I'm positive. Otherwise, I wouldn't have asked you to move in, would I?"
"Right…" Came the reply on the other end of the phone after a moment of silence.
As he stumbled into the apartment, he threw the keys on the table next to the door and slid the phone back into his hand, "Look, I'll call you back later. Bye." And before the girl on the other end of the line could even reply, he ended the call and began to stumble into the kitchen. "Oh, no, I don't need any help, don't worry about it," He called to the two curled up on the sofa watching something on the tv.
"If you insist," The blonde boy shrugged without even looking at him, earning a slap from his girlfriend next to him as she stood.
"I'll help," She offered as she moved over to Farkle who had just begun to unpack the items. "Thanks, Riley," He smiled before turning to place the bread in his hand away.
The pair worked in silence for a while before Riley finally asked with her back to him, "Who were you talking to on the phone?"
Farkle, who had been watching Riley make her way around the kitchen, crinkled his eyebrows in confusion for a moment before realising what she was talking about, "Oh, Maya. Yeah, remember we were thinking about having a fourth roommate to help with rent and stuff?" Riley nodded. "Well, I offered it to her and she accepted."
Riley paused for a moment, licking her lips as she turned to him, "You just offered a room in our apartment to some random girl?"
"She's not a 'random girl'," He defended. "She's the daughter of one of my dad's high school friends. I've known her since I was like twelve but she moved when she was thirteen. We used to be really close but then she moved away and I didn't see her again until I heard she was moving her for college."
Blinking, Riley replied with a simple, "Oh," and continued to unpack the rest of the groceries. Knowing that Riley wasn't going to be saying much more to him, Farkle continued on anyway.
A buzz echoed throughout the apartment. Riley was the only one awake at that time (even though it was closing in on noon) and skipped towards the box mounted on the wall. Pressing the buzzer, she spoke into the intercom, "Hello?"
"Oh," The feminine voice on the other end sounded a little surprised. "I was looking for Farkle's apartment. Do I have the right one?"
"Farkle Minkus?" Riley asked. "Yeah, this is his apartment. Who's this?"
"Maya, Maya Hart," The voice replied as a wave of realisation washed over Riley. This was the girl that Farkle had been telling them about for about a week now. The box buzzed again, "Uh, hello?"
"Oh, sorry," Riley pressed the button that allowed entrance, "Come on up."
No more than two minutes later, a knock echoed throughout the main room as Riley opened the door to reveal a short, blonde. The two studied each other for a moment, Maya having long, wavy blonde hair that had some strands neatly twisted back from her face and pinned delicately with a long trench coat covering up a long sleeved white lacey shirt with black jeans and knee-high boots. Her eyes were a sharp, icy blue, staring straight at Riley as she offered out her hand, "I'm Maya."
As their two hands connected, the brunette couldn't help but notice how cold the other woman's hand was, "Riley, Riley Matthews." She watched as the blonde froze for a moment, seemingly trying to recognise something about Riley but came to a blank.
"I'm here to see Farkle, you know, about the room?" Maya asked as if Riley didn't have a clue what was going on.
Opening the door a little wider, Riley allowed the blonde to step inside, "Actually, he's still asleep but-" Maya cut her off mid-sentence, "Could I go wake him up? I know exactly how to get him up."
Riley was, admittedly, a little taken back by this request but found herself nodding anyway, "It's the first door on the right," She told Maya, pointing down the hallway and then watched for a moment as the girl quickly made her way down the hallway and then listened as she heard Farkle's surprised shout from his room.
Shaking her head, she turned and began to make herself a cup of coffee, knowing she would need the boost later.
This is just a first chapter I have going; I guess you could say more of a prologue. My chapters are longer than this but I don't know if I'm going to pick this up yet. I know I said my next story would be One-Hundred and Sixty-Eight Hours but I'm having a little trouble writing that at the moment. I'm curious, how many of you here are from SOA? If so hey! Your girl is officially 17 now (since last Sunday) whoop, whoop! Please be sure to leave me a review telling me what you thought!