The Mom Next Door

43-Sofia

*jens pov*

After Charles's place, I stop at a few more near clothes stores, then I get home.

I walk through the door of the building and head up the stairs to my floor. I walk down the hall, and I realize one of the doors by my door is wide open. I peak in and I hear some noises.

I just keep walking until I get to my place, and I walk through the door, putting all my bags down. I stand up then I walk back into the hallway. I slowly creep up to the door that's wide open, and take another look inside.

I've never seen anyone come in or out of this room, I thought it was vacant, so this is weird. I decide to walk in and follow the clinking noises.

I get to the kitchen and jump little when I see Giselle laying on her back, under the kitchen sink with a tool box beside her. She's messing around with the pipes. 

She's in a tight black nike sports bra, and a pair of high waisted spandex shorts. She's covered in sweat and her hair is up in a messy bun with some wavy strands sticking out. I lean against the door frame, just watching her.

Then she sits up a little to grab a tool, she notices me and gets scared, jumping up and hitting her head on the pipe. I put my hand over my mouth and she squints her eyes, rubbing her forehead. "Oh my god. Are you okay??" I ask and walk over to her, squatting down.

"You scared me..." She says once she sits up completely. "I'm so sorry." I shake my head. "Let me see." I say and move her hand off her forehead. "Jesus.." I say once I see the blood. "Is it bad?" She asks.

"No, it just broke some skin." I say since it isn't that bad. "C'mon." I say and help her stand up. I bring her into my apartment, and sit her down on my bed.

I go into the bathroom and get a paper towel a little wet. Then I walk out and sit close beside her. I lightly turn her head towards me, and start to clean off the blood on her forehead.

"Tell me if I hurt you." I say and try to be as gentle as possible. I tilt my head as I try to get it all off. "Ow!" She says and I jump, taking my hand away. "I'm just kidding." She says and starts to laugh. "Stoppp." I say and push her shoulder.

Once I finish, I put some vaseline on the area, and a bandaid to finish it off. I look at her face and I can't help but giggle since she has a Spongebob bandaid directly in the middle of her forehead. She takes my phone and looks at herself with my camera. "This is a nice bandaid. They don't sell these in France." She says, being serious.

I just bust out laughing and shake my head. "Here. You can have them." I say and give her the box of Spongebob bandaids. "No, I can't take this from you." She shakes her head. "Giselle. They're bandaids-. Just take them. I don't care." I shrug and put the box in her hand. "Thankyou." she smiles and I giggle. "Yeah." I nod.

It gets a little quiet and she looks at me. "How did you know I was in that room?" She asks. "I didn't." I shrug. "Oh so you we're just being nosy?" She smiles and I roll my eyes. "I was not being nosy, I was just curious." I shrug and she shakes her head.

"Yeah? Well you were watching me." She tilts her head. I go to defend myself, then I stop. "Yeah I was." I shrug and she laughs. "Well I don't mind." She shrugs and I just keep my eyes at hers. "Good." I say and stand up.

"I'm gonna take a shower." I tell her and start to take my shoes off. "I probably should too." She says since she's all sweaty. "Probably." I agree and she giggles.

She leaves and I get undressed, walking into the bathroom. I take a quick shower, then I watch tv on my laptop.

-

It's the next weekend, and my classes have started. So far it's not that bad, but I do hope it gets a little better. I just don't know anyone and it's kind of hard to keep up since most people are already used to everything.

But the campus is beautiful. Everything looks so elegant and poise. And It's so clean-. The college I go to is called Sophia University. I was talking to Giselle about it, and apparently it's pretty popular.

I'm just proud of myself for finishing my first week of classes. Me and Giselle have gotten a lot closer, especially since I need her help with schoolwork sometimes. And I even went to Charles's shop again, and we exchanged phone numbers.

Today is Saturday, and I decide that I just wanna stay in and chill. So I order takeout and just stay in my pajamas. Eventually I get the text that my food is here, so I go down to the lobby, literally in my socks.

I thank the delivery man then I turn and Giselle is just staring at me from the front desk. "What." I ask and eat one of my fries. "Nothing." She shrugs and eyes me down. "Want one?" I ask and hold the bag of food out to her. "I'm okay, thankyou." She shakes her head 'no'.

"Mk." I shrug. "You wanna watch a movie with me when you're done down here?" I ask. "What movie?" She asks. "I don't know. You can pick if you want." I shrug. "Ok." She nods. "I was just finishing everything, so I'll be up in 20 minutes." She says and I nod.

I go back to my room and eat my food on the couch. Once I finish I go in my bedroom and see my phone ringing on my bed. I see that Leah is facetiming me and I answer. "Hey, what's up?" I ask. "Here baby." I hear Leah say and the phone moves around until Sofia's face appears on my screen. "Oh my god- Hi mama!" I say excitingly. "Hi Jennifer!!" She squeals. "How are you?? I miss you so much." I tell her. "I miss you too. Me and mommy got the package you sent!" She says. "Really? Did you like it?" I ask.

"Yeah! The candy was really good." She says. "I'm glad you liked it. I'll send you some more soon." I say and she smiles big. "Ok!" She nods.

"How do you like it there?" Sofia asks. "It's pretty cool. But it'd be a lot cooler if you were here." I say and she smiles. "You're still gonna come straight to my house when you get back, right?" She asks. "Yes, I promise." I nod and she smiles.

Me and Sof talk for about 10 more minutes, just about random stuff and catching up with eachother since we haven't talked in a while.

"Well mommy wants to talk to you now." She says and I giggle. "Alright, let me talk to her." I say and Sofia passes the phone.

"Go find Liza baby." Leah says and I hear the sound of Sofia's little feet run off. "Who's Liza?" I ask. "Our new cat." Leah sighs. "Really?? That's exciting." I say. "Mmm. Maybe if she didn't throw up all the damn time." She says and I giggle. "Yeah, that sucks." I giggle. "Thanks for the package by the way, Sof really did love it. And so did I." She says and I smile.

"No problem." I say. I hear the door to my apartment open and I look at Leah. "Hey I gotta go, I'll call you tomorrow, k?" I tilt my head. "Ok, bye." She says and I hang up.

Giselle walks in my room with a blanket around her. And she just smiles at me. "Hi." I say while laying down. "Hey." She says once she walks over and jumps on the bed beside me. "Can we actually go to your place? It's just way more comfortable." I tilt my head. "Plus you have a tv." I say.

"Ok." She nods. "Alright. Lemme use the bathroom real quick." I say and go into my bathroom. Once I wash my hands, I walk out and Giselle hands me my phone from off the bed once she stands up. "Let's go." She says and we walk out.

I look down at my phone and see a text Leah sent about 5 minutes ago.

"I love you." I read off my phone and smile to myself.