Rent doesn't belong to me. Please review this is my first fanfic on this site.
"Cool, so you like Star Wars?"
"Yep my place is full of Star Wars stuff… books, toys, movies, etc."
"Really?"
"Yea, just something about Star Wars that I just love, but I may have to find a place to store them soon."
"Why?"
"Can't pay for my rent and the stupid landlord, Benny, won't let me slide til I get enough."
Mark starts busting out laughing. Cassandra quickly takes offense to this not realizing what's so funny.
"That's not funny" She scoffs.
"It is when you understand why."
She gives him a questioning look.
"Benny use to live with me and my friends."
"Wait how is that? He is a yuppie scum, and I know there are no way your friends and you are. Right?"
"Benny use to be one of us, until he married. Then he became a yuppie scum."
"Oh, ok." Cassandra then looked at the clock on the wall. Ah I got to go sorry."
She quickly grabbed her jacket then swept the rest of her notebooks into a hot pink bag.
"So I'll see you around?" She asked as she held the other notebook in her hands and tucked the pen into her pocket.
"Yea sure. Good luck with Benny" Mark said with a quick smile.
She started to walk out the door but right when she stepped out the door she slipped on the icy sidewalk. She went down, and her bag fell with the notebooks slipping out. Mark, who had been intrigued by the girl, had been watching her as she left, quickly got up and pushed the notebooks back into the bag and put it on his shoulder before turning to Cassandra to give her a hand up. He started to pull up on her to help her back up. But once fully standing she exclaimed "OW"
"What is it?" Mark quickly asked.
"I think it's my ankle. It hurts badly." Tears started to flow down her face. Mark quickly and gently lowered her back to the ground.
He crouched down next to her. "Mind if I look at it real quick."
She shook her head no. So he gently rolled up her blue jeans to look at the ankle. He could tell it was either broken or sprung as it had already begun to swell and bruise. "Well it doesn't look good. Do you have someone who stays with you?" She shook her head no and whipped her tears away with her jacket sleeve. "Well why don't you stay with me and my friends til your ankle is better?"
"I don't know. I don't want to be in the way of anything."
"Believe me, you won't be a problem, and I don't want you staying at your place if no one is there."
"Ok, but I need some stuff from my apartment. Ok where do you live?"
Cassandra tells him, and come to find out she lives in the building next door on the top floor.
"Ok well that won't be a problem. I'll get you to my place then go to yours to get what you need, alright?"
Cassandra shakes her head yes. "Do you think you can walk if you have someone to lean on?" She shakes her head no. "Alright, let me figure this out real quick." How was he going to get Cassandra to the loft with her stuff and up the stairs and with her? He silently wished someone he knew would come by soon to help.
"HEY MARK" Mark looked up towards the sound of the voice. He smiled when he saw who it was, Collins. "Collins, perfect timing my friend."
"Why what's going on? Who is this?" He said as he motioned to Cassandra on the ground.
"This is Cassandra. I just met her in the Life, and when she left she fell and sprung or broke her ankle. I've offered her to stay at our place until she gets better, and to get some stuff from her apartment for her which is in the building next to ours on the top floor, but I was just trying to figure how I was going to get her and the stuff she has with her to the loft."
"Well I can take her stuff and unlock the loft door while you carry her up the stairs."
"That could work." Collins then picked up the backpack and placed it on one shoulder. Mark then kneeled next to Cassandra. "Alright, Cass, are you ready?" She shook her head yes, and so with that Mark gently placed one arm underneath her knees. Cassandra hung tightly to his neck, and leaned into his bodily heavily. Collins had the key so he went up first so as to unlock the door. When Mark came in the door with Cassandra, Roger was sitting on the window sill staring out the window. He looked up when he heard the commotion. "Hey Mark, finally find you a girl" He said jokingly. "HAHAHA No, this is Cassandra, I met her at the Life, and when she was leaving she slipped and fell. I think her ankle is broken or sprung so she is going to stay until her ankle is better."
"Oh ok." By this time Mark had set Cassandra on the couch with a couple of blankets, and had propped the foot on the couch with some pillows. He was then reaching into the freezer to make her an ice pack.
Mark then gently took off her boot and rolled her pant leg up so to place the pack on it. He then grabbed a blanket and placed it on her as it was rather chilly in the loft.