here's da thing: I've had the idea for this story while I was taking a shower and yes, it's smutty -not just yet, but it will be. The chapters are really short cause I have two stories to finish (which I will NOT abandon, especially 50SOF, for those who're constantly asking), but I really like this prompt so yep. Here it is. Hope you enjoy!

(sorry for the mistakes, as always. I'm still Italian lol.)

Regina knew she had made a mistake the very moment they handed her the keys to that apartment. They had warned her, it was a very small place for a person "like her" -so had called her the real estate agent.
Regina didn't care, she was there for a reason: to finish her studies. The same studies she should have completed five years earlier but, for various reasons, she had given up to dedicate herself to… something else. This time, however, she wouldn't let anything and anyone interrupt the course of her life and, most importantly, of her dreams. She wanted to get a medical degree since she was a child, it was her dream, she had sacrificed everything to follow it, and now she was finally ready. This time she would make it.

While she was carrying a stack of boxes into her new house, she heard the door just a meter away from hers opening. What -or better, who - came out of that door almost made her stumble and fall, with the boxes on top of her.
"Hi." blond hair, short beard and a pair of metallic blue eyes that reminded her of the ocean she used to live next to when she was a child. Her mouth opened with the intent to say something, but immediately closed as no sound was able to get out. What's the matter, you idiot? Never seen a man before?

"Hi." she replied, trying hard to control her voice to avoid sounding like a fifteen years old girl in front of her first crush.

"Need a hand with those boxes?" he tried to approach her but Regina was faster: she walked inside the house in a hurry and put them down on the huge kitchen table. A huge table in a house that has a total of three rooms, really helpful.

"I'm fine, thank you." she said, getting out again. She didn't even bother to close the door behind her, she would be back with more boxes soon. She cleared her throat as, at her return, she found him still there, leaning against the door, staring at her with his arms folded across his chest and a raised eyebrow. God, he was really sexy. Regina took a few minutes to check him out through her lashes, when she was sure he couldn't see her, just to curse herself for doing such thing a few seconds later.

"Is there something wrong?" she heard him asking with the typical I-know-exactly-what-is-wrong smirk.

"absolutely not." she tried to walk as quickly as she had done before, but this time the boxes were four and she was slowed by their weight.

"Please, let me help."

"I can perfectly do it on my own, thank you." she said annoyed as, with difficulty, she tried to carry the weight further, even though her arms were about to surrender.

"are you sure?"

"Yes. I am. Do you think that, just because I'm a woman, my arms are not strong enough?"

She heard him chuckling and the desire of kindly inviting him to go fuck hi—to mind his own business, almost drove her insane. Okay, he was handsome, and insanely sexy, and God damn it, she had never felt so alive next to a man, but he was insufferable and presumptuous and sexist. Definitely not the best example of a good neighbor.

But, fuck, he was hot.

Mills, get. A. Grip.

When she managed to bring all the four boxes safe and sound on the table next to the others, she let out a cry of victory, which made him laugh even more. Regina clenched her fists -the fists she would gladly smash against his perfect face- and took a deep breath before walking out again: "so, what can I do for you?" she said, with the total intention of letting him understand just how annoyed she was "As you can see, I'm really busy—"

"Oh, me too."

"Good, then I won't keep you." she saw him smirked and she swore, she swore she was about to punch him. Luckily for her there were just four more boxes left but, basing on her previous experience, she wisely decided to take two at a time. She narrowed her eyes as he took the other pair.

"You have quite a temper, haven't you?"

"And you clearly have a hearing loss. I told you I didn't need your help." that irritated tone in Regina's voice managed to make him smile one more time.

"I was just trying to be nice." he said, putting the boxes down where he saw her doing. His words and the way he had said them, forced Regina to bite the inside of her cheek: she felt almost guilty for being so rude with him. He was just trying to make a good impression on her, as her new neighbor.

"My name is Robin." he extended his arm towards her, and Regina quickly shook his hand, tightly. What she felt at the contact between their skins forced her to bring her chocolate dark eyes in his blue ones:
"Regina." and there, she got lost for a long moment. It was as if a million informations was traveling at the speed of light between a look and the other. When they left, they both had the feeling that they knew each other a bit better. It felt strange, different.

"Um… I live next door, so, if you need the sugar you know where to ask." he smiled as he reluctantly gave her his back and walked straight to the door. It was enough, for now.

Regina felt the need to accompany him to the door, as if, for some unknown reason, she didn't want that man to leave her just yet.

"Thank you." she was there, leaning against the door, in the same position as he was before. That smirk hadn't left his lips for a second and Regina didn't know whether to be annoyed or pleasantly surprised about that.

"Robin?" a third voice stopped her from returning his smile and say goodbye, and Regina soon found out who it belonged to: a girl. A woman. No more than thirty. Beautiful, blonde, tall, exactly what Regina was not.
"Honey, I've been looking for you everywhere!" she said while wrapping her arms around Robin's neck and pulled him in for a kiss. The show was taking place before her eyes, but Regina didn't dare moving an inch. She didn't know what to do, her heart was pounding in her chest and it was because of a feeling she knew far too well: disappointment. "I took a shower, I hope you don't mind." she saw him smiling before her slimy -amazingly full and red- lips covered up Robin's in a quick kiss.
"Absolutely not, Brittany."

"Hmm… when will I see you again? I already miss you so much." she looked at him mischievously and Regina almost threw up. God, why the hell wasn't she turning on her heels and leaving?

"whenever you want, baby. You know I'm always here for you." it was only after a languid, disgusting kiss that made Regina want to slam the door, put four padlocks on it and not leave her house anymore, that the woman finally noticed her: "Good morning." a fake but totally satisfied grin colored her face before she could disappear behind the elevator's doors.

Robin looked at Regina, shrugging: "as I was saying, see you soon."

Again that smirk, but this time his lips were covered with red lipstick.

let me know what you think and if you want me to continue, otherwise I'll just delete this and go on like nothing happened xoxo

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