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Amaia worked five days a week and had two days off, always Sunday and as requested Wednesday. So on her day off, she did the things she always let pile up like laundry, cleaning, grocery shopping, and making lists of things she'd have to get done that day or other days.
With laundry in both the washer and dryer, Amaia grabbed her reusable bags and drove to the grocery store for some basic necessities knowing the best place to get her fruit and vegetables was at the farmers market early in the weekend. Normally she'd be dressed in her business casual work clothes but on her days off she wore long-sleeved shirts, hand me down shirts, or a hoodie with men's sweats (because they have pockets her phone fit in) or gym shorts the kind she used to hate having to wear in High School PE.
Not wanting to make two trips from her car to her apartment Amaia carries three bags in each arm. It didn't get tricky until she made it no more than three feet away from her door, lucky for her a friendly stranger who caught the bag slipping from her hand.
"Oh thank you!" Amaia gushes as the kind brunette
"Glad I could help," The brunette lets out with a laugh
With a shy smile, Amaia asks, "Do you think you could help me carry it to my apartment? I-its just right there"
"Sure," The brunette replies following after Amaia whose apartment door was across the vacant one she had been looking at
"I haven't seen you around, and please don't tell me you've lived here for like years and its just me who never noticed," Amaia speaks up taking glances at the brunette who looked around her 30s and a complete stranger
"No, but I am looking at the empty apartment. I'm Maddie" The brunette introduces as Amaia unlocks her door
Amaia couldn't help but happily gasp, "You might be my neighbor! I can already tell we're going to get along... that is if you sign the lease"
"After today I just might," Maddie says no longer being able to live with her brother and Eagle Rock seemed like the perfect place, even if she'd never feel safe until her ex is dead
"Awesome, well I'm Amaia. Do you want to come inside?" Amaia asks pointing to the inside of her apartment "Swear I'm not like any of the Unsubs on Criminal Minds. I mean you're not..."
"I'm not a serial killer," Maddie laughs making Amaia smile glad to know she didn't have to explain what an Unsubs is
"Well come on in, just a heads up I have a cat so I really hope you're not allergic," Amaia voices as she walks into her apartment and ready to set down her bags in the kitchen but defers to just putting them on her kitchen table
"Is your cat wearing a pirate eye patch?" Maddie asks closing the apartment door and keeping her eyes on the black and white cat that was curled up on the coffee table in the living room
Maddie didn't stay too long but the girls did exchange numbers just in case she did move into the apartment next door.
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When it did come for Maddie to move in it was on Amaia's day off, and she would have helped if it wasn't for the doctor's appointment she had for being 10 weeks pregnant. Amaia still wasn't showing but her pants or jeans had no room for movement around the waist and were getting too tight.
"Okay, you've officially reached Fort Knox-level security" Chimney calls out inside the semi vacant apartment
Maddie upstairs unboxing her things in her bedroom walks out to the banister and looks down, "Oh, you think it's too much?"
"Three motion sensors in the living room? I mean maybe if you're trying to keep Tom Cruise from getting his hands on your NOC list," Chimney references a movie that by the expression Maddie was giving him as she walked down the stairs passed straight through her "Mission: Impossible. No?"
"Sorry, haven't seen it" Maddie replies with a smile before walking to the front open door of her new apartment
"Travesty," Chimney mumbles watching the brunette walk away
"Maybe we pop the hinges off the door" Eddie shares an idea with Buck as the two stand outside the apartment door looking at a plastic-wrapped sofa trying to come up with the best way to fit it inside
"Or we use the Jaws of Life," Buck sighs just as Maddie walks out the door to hear but Eddie liked the idea
"No, no, no. It has to fit. I measured it twice," Maddie voices before raising her hands and does a twisting motion, "Can't you guys just, you know, turn it around the other way?"
"And then the pizza will slide off," Buck complains loud enough for Amaia who was walking to her door to hear making her say,
"Glad to know someone has great priorities"
Amaia's voice makes the two men and Maddie turn to look at her as she held a tote bag in front of her and a lanyard with keys and pepper spray in her hands. Maddie completely forgetting about the pizza she focuses on the women before her.
"Did I forget to inform you I was moving in today?" Maddie asks feeling guilt
"No, no, no," Amaia quickly answers before giving the brunette an explanation, "I -uh didn't text back so that's on me, but I'm glad you have people to help you move in"
"Amaia this is Buck by little brother," Maddie introduces making Amaia turn to look at the man leaning against the white brick archway in a black shirt then turns to look at the other man in flannel, "and this is Eddie by brothers coworker"
Amaia knew a hot guy when she saw one and the two men standing before her were definitely hot guys but hearing Maddie refer to one as the others coworker she couldn't help but imagine invisible quotation marks over the word coworker.
Amaia covered her need to laugh by smiling at the men showing her perfectly straight teeth, "It's nice to meet the both of you"
"D-Do you want to come in for pizza?" Buck offers taking the brown-eyed girl by surprise
Amaia looks over at her apartment door before hesitantly replied, "Let me just check in on Killian, and then I'll be over"
Amaia walking away and into her apartment out of earshot Buck turns to his sister and asks, "Who's Killian?"
