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A place to stay?
It doesn't happen all at once of course. Like most friendships it starts slow, with semi-awkward hellos when we cross paths to small conversations, Good mornings and Hellos to us texting each other whenever we are free. We seem to have a lot of interests in common but we also argue a lot, but yeah it's nice.
Both Christina and I fit well in our group of misfit friends (consisting of Christina, Uriah, Zeke, Shauna, Four, Marlene, Lynn, Will and I). It's weird at first but then we all meet up at Zeke and Shauna's apartment for food and movie, and everyone argues about what movie they should watch and soon everyone falls into a familiar rhythm with each other like a bunch of high-schoolers – teasing each other and enjoying each other's company while playing truth or dare.
With time I seem to assimilate in the group going to shopping with Marlene and Christina, talking about how much I hate shopping with Lynn, going to the gym with Shauna, talking about favorite books with Will, video games and soccer matches with Uriah and Zeke and well movies and coffee with Four.
Of course everyone knows about the soul mate thing, it is kind of hard to hide a huge tattoo on your arm all the time, though Four seems to manage doing that (and I can't deny it doesn't hurt me), and someone would have put two and two together eventually and got to know about it.
Four and I seemed to become good friends after some initial unease, you can basically say we are inseparable when both of us are out of work. Four visits my apartment quite frequently, sometimes dropping by for dinner or movies, or on his way to work to give me some of that amazing coffee or on most Sundays just sitting there with me and catching up on all the shows we both watch.
I have been to his apartment quite a few times too, usually when Will comes over for the night and I don't want to be listening to Christina and Will moaning all night, I take off to Four's. His place is nice, a two bedroom apartment which is tidy but doesn't have more of his personal touches, not really decorated. We usually watch movies together or just talk. Although once I did fall asleep with my head on Four's shoulder and needless to say it was awkward in the morning but I can't deny that I love the feeling of Four's arms around me. Four is also an exceptionally good cook, I fell in love with his homemade spaghetti the first time I ate it and he can make a mean chocolate fudge. The first time I tried it I immediately demanded he teach me.
So the next Sunday, we are in his kitchen and he is teaching me how to cook. I am not the worst cook per se but I would definitely not qualify as the best as well. Everything I make using Four's help tastes amazing but none of them are even close to the food Four makes. So after a while, I decide to just drop in at any time, using the spare key tucked under a lose tile in front of his apartment door, and raid his fridge for food. He is okay with that.
So here I am sitting in Four's apartment with Zeke and Shauna sharing a plate of lasagna I found in the fridge. I hear the door open to reveal Four and turn around to see him glare half-heartedly at us three, "leave" he says.
"We left you a plate" Shauna says not really scared of Four like the others are knowing him for more than half his life.
Four just groans and plops down on the couch "Just say what you are here for" he says.
"I am homeless" I say.
"What" he says and stares at me. I blush despite myself.
"Well not really. There has been flooding in the apartment upstairs and it is really bad leaking through the ceiling and all that so I just need a place to crash for a week or two. Actually three."
"So… what about Christina?"
"Well she has decided to move into Will's apartment a little early. We all knew she was leaving when the lease for the apartment was up in two months, it just came around earlier now."
"So where are you staying?"
"That's why we came here" answered Zeke "Is your old apartment still free?"
"No, actually it was sold about two months ago to someone else" Four says.
"So I guess we're back to square one" I say disappointed.
"What about Lynn?" he asks Shauna.
"Did you forget that she is still living in her shoebox dormitory till January?"
"I had offered for Tris to move in to our apartment and take the guest bedroom but she refused, something about not staying with a couple" says Shauna.
"Look, I just don't want to be there when the two of you are rolling around in bed going at it" I say pointing at Shauna and Zeke. Shauna blushes but Zeke just looks proud.
"I get it" Four says and shrugs. Then he seems to consider something before speaking "why don't come stay here?"
I am shocked. I would have never thought of Four offering me to stay here. "Are you sure?" I ask trying to believe my ears.
He nods saying "I have a guest bedroom where you can stay and I am single so no trouble about that, I am barely here during the day, generally quiet and you already eat here most of the time."
I consider the offer, I don't think I would mind Four as a flat mate. I look at Shauna who just shrugs looking cool as a cucumber but smirks at me then.
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