Christina put a to-go cup of coffee in front of my face, warning, I am not a morning person. Sadly all of my other friends are morning people, and I hate them all for it. "Tris," I open my eyes drowsily to see Shauna snapping her fingers at me. I groan and cover my face rolling into the couch. "Lauren!" I groan again louder,
"Shauna! Shut up!" I yell muffled into the sofa, seconds later the blanket is ripped from under me and I tumble to the floor. The girls all started laughing and of course I joined in too, they're all contagious. Lauren folded the blanket and Chris helped me up, Molly and Marlene are in the kitchen making sticky buns so I get up and notice Christina staring at me. "What?"
"Your hair," she says wide eyed.
"My hair? Chrissy, why-" Shaunas hand flys over my mouth. I smile and walk away to the kitchen Molly smiles at me and sets a plate of sticky sweet yummyness in front of me. "Thank you girls," I say before scarfing everything down, the girls all giving me weird looks.
"What?" I ask after swallowing,
"Tris, manners?" I frown at her and how delicately she holds the fork, I scoff and shove half a bun in my mouth. I'm done and washing dishes when Lauren comes trotting in saying "So, while you were all sleeping I went out for a run and guess what?"
"You broke a nail?" Molly joked.
"No actually, we have new neighbors." I dried my hands and crossed my arms at her,
"And?" I say.
"Wanna put some clothes on so we can meet them?" Lauren proposes.
"The only reason you'd say that is if they're boys," Shauna buts in, coming back and putting on a shirt. Marlene smiled and laughed, "Oh please, I thought the only boy you'd ever have in your mind was Peirse."
"The blonde kid?" I ask,
"Yeah with the dark eyes," Molly chimes,
"I told you I'm not into him anymore, God," Shauna rolled her eyes,
"You mean after he got with Jessy?" Christina teased, Shauna turned bright red, oh right, Chrissy told me that Shauna walked in on them at her birthday party. Ouch. "Okay, girls, lets just get dressed and we can meet the guys next door," I say. They all nod and I change into black skinny jeans and a grey long sleeved crop top, I brush my hair and wash my face, putting my hair back into a messy bun and slipping on blue all stars. I grab my keys and walk to the door, with everyone following my lead. "Lauren, lead the way," I say as I lock the door, she walks down the stairs we follow her for about a block before we all see the moving truck. A group of guys standing in front of the door to the apartment block.
We got closer and the five of them stopped drinking their beers and talking, they were looking at us. I felt my face get hot, I knew this was going to happen. There was a tall blonde boy with messy hair and bright celery green eyes, like the inside of a cucumber. Two boys who looked similar, they both had darker skin and short dark hair, darker eyes, but one had eyes close to Marlenes, like dark honey. Then there was another blonde, but his hair was slight slicked back and spiked, he had piercings along his eyebrows and two in his lip. His eyes cold and an icy steel color, but the last boy caught my eye. He was tall dark messy hair tan-ish skin, dark blue eyes. He was sharp and visibly tense.
Lauren smiles and urges us on, "Hey, my names Lauren, and these are my friends," She smiles and gestures to us all, I can't help but cross my arms, noticing what I'm wearing. "This is Molly, Shauna, Marlene, Christina, and Tris," she says pointing to all of us,
"Tris, really? Fuck you all must be the strippers Zeke was telling us about," The slick blonde says,
"Hey shut up Eric," one of the dark skinned boys scolds,
"Sorry Zeke," Eric laughs and puts his hands up, I scoff. Asshole.
"What did you say little girl?"
"Hmm?" I say blinking and raising my eyebrows,
"What did you call me?" He growled, stepping toward me I tilt my shoulders back a bit. So I said it out loud, I have a bad habit of that. Why the hell not? "I called you an asshole," I say smiling,
"Okay," Lauren says, stepping between us, "Tris, Eric, calm down, we didn't come here to pick a fight," I stared him down, a small smile playing on my lips as Eric backs off and walks back to his little group. Zeke rolled his eyes as Eric slammed the door behind him. He sighed "Sorry about him, just got dumped before we moved…" The girls nodded, I looked down.
"So you gonna introduce us?" Marlene asked.
"Oh right," Zeke shook his head and pointed to everyone as he spoke, "I'm uh Ezekiel as you know, this is my brother Uriah, my buddy from school William, Eric, and Four," so they're brothers, that makes sense. "So Christina and I are your actual neighbors," I say, "So who moved?"
"All of us, actually?"
"So, what are you all some sort of boy band?" I ask rather rudely, the guys all stare at me, "What, did I nail it?"
"Uh, sorta," Uriah rubs the back of his neck,
"Sorta?"
"Well Zeke and I moved here 'cause of school, and Four and Will came along because it was convenient for them too," school buddies huh?
"And Eric?" Molly asks,
"Work," Four says bluntly,
"What does he do for a living?" Lauren prods,
"What is this, an interview?" Four growls, I glance at him. He's looking at us disapprovingly, I would normally back down from a jerk like him, but with Eric already making fun of the name my mother gave me, I don't feel like putting up with much. "Excuse me, Four was it?" I start walking towards him, my fists at my sides. He smirks "Yeah, Tris."
"Well then, I don't think it's fair that just about everyone in your little swaré, is being an uptight teenage douche bag, and I'm just about sick and tired of being treated like I'm some sort of contagion that spreads through the air and infects the lungs of young children. Even out of my good charity I came down here from a busy schedule because my friend said there were some nice guys moving in just down the block. Honestly Four I could be shoving sticky buns down my mouth, made by my girlfriends and getting ready for a party that Christina just magically thought that, if I attend, that my love life and the world would be fixed. So I really don't feel like putting up with the bull that you're giving me." I say that full of heart, because I am done, It isn't until Christina clears her throat that I realize that I'm inches from Fours face and everyone is staring.