Chapter 2, "Apartment 2J"

The next moring I woke up at 8am. Way too early, but I was too excited to see every inch of the hotel. I opened the window having a view on the yet empty pool area. "Oh my god that's the sunniest Sunday morning I've ever seen", I thought stunning, put on some swim trunks and took a towel. Once I arrived at a pool there was a (good-looking) brunette girl reading something on one of the what I would call "Luxus Lounge Chairs". Only two of them were in the sun already, so I took the one to her right. I've put the towel onto it and glanced at the book which seemed to be a script for some teenie TV show.

Suddenly she slapped my face and started to cry. "You cheated on me!", she shouted. I was totally confused and shocked, I couldn't move any inch. "You said you loved me thousand times, but I know you were having sex with my stepsister! You little bastard!" And once again she slapped me. Now I felt the blood rising to my cheek and it started to hurt. "Ouch!", was the only thing I was able to say when she started to smile.

"Hi, I'm Camille, future Oscar winner. Who are you?"

"What the...", I started to say but she cut me off.

"Sorry if I baffled you, I was practicing for an audition."

"You'll get the role, for sure!"

"Really? I hope so, too!", she shot a huge smile at me. "So, what's your name again?"

"I'm Alex... N-nice to meet you. Well... it wasn't really that nice but yeah... you know what I mean, don't you?"

"Oh, oh yeah... Sorry again." She put the script on a little table next to her lounge chair. "So you're the new one in apartment 1J."

"Yeah, how come you know?" I was baffled again."

"Oh, that's because every week the residents of apartment 1J change their apartments."

"Why's that?"

"You didn't meet the guys from apartment 2J yet, did you?"

"No."

"But you will, for sure. I have to go to the casting now. Good bye, Alex.", she said grabbing the script and walked into the Hotel.

At 12am when more people where coming to the pool I decided to grab something to eat and went to my apartment. I sat down on the couch, turned the TV on and took a giant bite of my sandwich. I opened my Coke and right when I wanted to sip I heard a heavy crash from above and some guys shouting "Whoa! That was a Big Time Crash, Carlos!"

Unfortunately I spilled the whole coke over my t-shirt. "Maybe that's what Camille meant... And this seems to be 'Carlos'..." I turned the TV off and cleaned my T-Shirt up. I grabbed a new coke, put on another shirt and sat back onto the couch listening to the guys of 2J. "Are they playing Apartment Hockey?", I asked myself while eating. Now there was another audible crash and someone shouting "Ouch! Carlos... You broke my bandana!"

Okay... Normally I'm not the one to be bothered that fast, but I didn't want to change apartment and that's why I took the stairs up to apartment 2J. In front of the door much more noise was audible and I imagined how they must've destroyed their apartment. When I knocked at the door everything got quiet inside. I heard someone say "That's Bitters! Fuck!"

Two minutes later a little girl, maybe ten or eleven years old, opened the door and gave me an innocent smile. "Hello.", she said.

"Hi there... I'm Alexander Young from apartment 1J. Is your mom here?"

"No."

"Someone else?"

"Yes."

"Can I talk to this person, please?"

"Hold on a sec.", she answered. But then she turned around, closed the door and shouted: "KENDALL! It's not Mr. Bitters. And next time it'll cost 20$... from each of you."

I was a bit puzzled. "What's this supposed to mean?" I put my ear onto the door.

"Katie, you're not getting any money... It's not Bitters.", a boy's voice said.

"Kendall. You can't trick me. You said 'No matter who it is, distract them while we tidy up.'", the girl said in a contractor's voice.

"Katie! You're so mean!", another boy's voice lamented.

"I know.", she answered.

Once I heard steps, I cleared my throat. Someone said: "Shh! Be quiet" and I believed this must've been Kendall. The door opened and my heart skipped a beat. A tall guy with sand colored hair and awesome green eyes looked at me friendly.

"Hey there, what's the matter?", Kendall said in a calm voice as if nothing happened.

Still shocked by the stunning view I only stumbled something that should have been a "Hello.".

"Is everything allright?", he asked a bit worried, but I only could nod as answer.

"So, what's the matter?", he asked again.

I felt a giant blush creep over my head. "S-sorry, wrong d-door.", I managed to say, turned on my heels and walked to the stairs. Once I was out of sight I ran to my apartment and leaned into the door.

"Oh my god... I think I fell in love..."