Inciting Incident [A.I]

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"TJ." Luke shouts.

"What?" The blonde replies, biting the end of her pen.

"Do you still need a roommate?" Luke asks, looking at her feet which were in the lap of her boyfriend of two years.

"Erm yeah?" She frowns, not quite sure where he was going with this.

"I have a friend, who's just got a job, near yours, he was looking for somewhere to live." Luke smiles.

"He?" Mason asks with raised eyebrows.

"How much is he willing to pay?" TJ asks, clearly intrigued.

"Don't kn-"

"Are you fucking joking, Taylah, no way are you having another male living in your flat!" Mason shouts, pushing her feet off him.

"Well I'm sorry I don't want to go in to the dorms." She shouts back. Luke excuses himself, not meaning to cause such a massive argument. The argument got more and more heated and ended when Mason landed his hand on TJ's face, with so much force it was heard in the room next door. Luke rushed back to the living room to see Mason just leaving.

"What his number?" TJ asks, breathing heavily, trying to ignore the fact she has just been hit, again, by her boyfriend.

"I don't know if I-"

"Give me the number!" She shouts. Luke quickly hands her the number and TJ collects her things, making her way to her car. "Hi is this Ash?" She asks as someone answered the phone.

"That would be me who's this?" He replies.

"It's TJ - erm Taylah I - Luke gave me-"

"Oh, Mason's girl?" He replies, chuckling slightly.

"Do you want to move in or not?" She asks curtly.

"I don't know, I have pretty high standards-"

"So do I, I also have a lack of patience, do you want to see the apartment or not?" She sighs.

"Luke told me you was moody." he chuckles. "But yeah, if you text me the address, I'll be over as soon as." he smiles, ending the call.

TJ texts Ash the address, as well as letting him know she'd be about half an hour. On her way home she stops at the coffee shop and gets a coffee, gaining many stares due to her tears stained face which had makeup smudged everywhere. When she get back in the car she fixes her make up and carries on her drive.

"Where the fuck was you?" Ash shouts as he sees TJ, carrying her warm cup of coffee.

"I told you I'd be half an hour." TJ rolls her eyes.

"You've been 45 minutes."

"I'm late, a lot, did Luke not tell you that?"

"I guess he left that out." Ash chuckled. "You look really stressed," Ash says, stopping his chuckling. "I could help with that." he adds with a slight smirk.