Chris and Co. Oneshots

New Neighbour - Colin Shea x Reader

Warnings: fluff

After pausing for a moment to catch your breath you returned to the task at hand. Grabbing another couple of boxes you started to make your way back inside your new apartment building.

"Whoa, hey you okay there? Need a hand?" You hear someone say as you blindly try and walk inside.

Glancing round you see a kind, incredibly attractive man smiling over at you.

"Oh yeah that would be great, wait you're not gonna steal my stuff right?" You ask making the man laugh.

"No I'm not I promise, I live here too so I wouldn't get far even if I tried" he laughs pointing up at the building as he grabs one of the boxes from you.

"Well it's nice to meet you neighbour" you smile as the two of you walk inside.

"Nice to meet you too, I'm Colin by the way" he smile as you start walking up the stairs.

"(Y/N)" you smile introducing yourself.

The two of you continue walking up the stairs together when you reach the final set of stairs though you notice Colin pause.

Looking over at him you noticed the playful grin was gone. Replaced with a muted sad expression, his Adam's apple bobbing.

"You alright?" You ask him grabbing his attention.

He plasters on a smile one that was far less genuine than the one you'd seen before.

"Yeah just never get used to all these stairs" he says starting up them again.

"Oh you live on this floor too that's cool" you smile catching him up.

Once at the top you walk over to your new apartment opening it up and letting the both of you in.

You place the box down in the kitchen and turn to see Colin looking around the sad expression back on his face.

"You can just put that box there" you tell him point to the couch.

Colin just nods slightly before putting the box down shoving his hands in his jean pockets.

"Nice place" he says with a small smile.

"Yeah decent price too, the last tenet must have been an artist going by the light fixtures over there" you say pointing over to the corner.

"Yeah she um, she made models" Colin tells you.

"Oh did you know her?" You ask.

"Uh yeah, she um we ah we used to date so I was round here a lot" he tell you looking down at the floor.

The sad expression on his face made sense now. You felt bad for the guy, you'd probably struggle walking into your ex's old apartment too.

"Oh I'm sorry, you don't have to stay" you tell him.

He gives you a small smile "no it's alright it wasn't a bad break up or anything, her art career took off so she moved on while I stayed" he says.

"Plus unpacking would be quicker and more fun with company" he smiles.

"Okay but as long as you're completely okay with it, I don't want to accidentally send you into a downwards spiral" you says making him chuckle.

"It's okay I'm past the eating ice cream phase" Colin laughs making you chuckle.

"Well if you revert back send me the bill for the ice cream" you laugh.

The two of you continue chatting and laughing as he helped you unpack. By the evening you were mostly unpacked just a few boxes left which could be left until the morning.

You grabbed a couple beers from the fridge passing one to Colin sitting down beside him.

"So what do you do for a living?" He asks taking a swig of his beer.

"I work in marketing, boring job really but I like it and it pays the bills" you chuckle "what about you?"

"Musician, much to my dad's disappointment" colin chuckles.

"Oh really what did he want you to do?" You ask taking a sip.

"Police officer like him, but I liked music more. That being said I did pick up a few things from him" he explains.

"Oh really like what?" You chuckle.

"I can track down people, I actually helped my ex track down all of her ex's" he explains making you raise a brow.

"Why'd you do that?" You ask.

"She got into her head that if you sleep with more than 20 people you'll never find the one, so thought if she tracked down all of her 20 ex's one would be the one" he explains a small smile playing on his lips.

"I'm guessing that plan didn't work?" You ask with a quiet chuckle.

"God no, but she got over that idea she's probably on number 22 now" he chuckles.

"Well it's good that she got over that mentality just because you've slept with lots of people it doesn't devalue your worth. It's just a number at the end of the day" you smile, noticing him smiling back at you.

"I can cheers to that" he smirks holding his bottle out.

"Cheers" you smile knocking the neck of your bottle against his.

"So what's your number?" He asks after a moment.

"15, I was a wild one back in college" you smirk making Colin snort and shake his head.

"Alright what's your number?" You laugh pushing his shoulder playfully.

"I dunno I lost count" he laughs shrugging his shoulders.

You laugh along with him "Ally would let me hide in here the morning after while I waited for my one night stand to leave" he chuckles.

"Well you can continue to hide here if you want" you offer but he just shakes his head.

"No it's okay I don't do that anymore, guess I've mellowed with age" he smirks.

"Well you're still more than welcome to visit whenever you want, you seem like a nice guy and I'd like to hang out more" you say smiling over him.

He smiles back at you warmly taking a small sip of his beer "me too" he smiles.