𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐞 𝑫𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈

-𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐕-

With only food on her mind, Adriana quickly zoomed up the stairs and turned to her rooms direction, unfortunately, she bumped into something, again. All Aria could do was to watch out for her pizza falling, and that's what she did. After being sure the pizza was safe and sound, her attention drifted to what she bumped into.

"Sorry, Elias."

She smiled in hopes to not anger the guy. It looked like he picked his room and left his jacket there, which left him in a black button up, again, with a few undone buttons on top. He just stared at Adriana, with what appeared like, no thought behind his gaze.

"Do you want some pizza?"

Aria lifted the box a little as to gesture to it, that seemed to draw his attention. Still not getting an answer, Adriana decided to speak up again.

"Well, just know that if you want some, it will be in my room for about twenty minutes from now. After that it's gone. I warned you!"

With that she passed him and went into her room. Elias stood in the hallway, looking at the door that Adriana disappeared behind. His thoughts about her were racing against each other.

So carefree, so... Tiny and fragile...

His head continued to fill with thoughts about Adriana, which he hope he could drain out with a shower.

Meanwhile, Adriana was already digging into her food with pure bliss and happiness. Afraid to stain her precious books while eating, the girl decided to go on her PC. After checking the time table and a few other documents that were sent to her e-mail, Aria went on Google to research her weird new dormmates. Instead of reading some articles, she decided on watching a video.

Interesting. "Elias Perez, Nicolas Clark and Isaac Holland. The feared trio of 'The BuonCibo' restaurant chain company." Feared? What's up with that? "The BuonCibo is involved with the Italian Mafia?" Mafia? Please. "The story of the feared trio." Man. All of these sound so bad, I love it. I'll go with this one.

As soon as she hit play, there came a knock on her door, making Adriana flinch, as if she was a kid caught doing a bad thing. She quickly shut down her PC and placed it on the ground next to the bed.

"Come in!"

After the words left her mouth, the door opened to reveal Elias, who's body was still slightly steaming from the hot shower he took. His hair was naturally wavy, so the wet and messier than his usual uptight suit and business look gave his face a nice frame and made it look softer. He looked much more approachable in a pair of black sweatpants and a black tank top, that exposed his bronze tinted biceps.

"Oh hi! You took up my offer! Come, come here, sit down."

Adriana happily patted a place next to her for Elias to sit down. There was something calming about him to Aria.

Elias sat down next to her and took the offered slice of pizza, still not saying a thing, but that was fine by Adriana. She picked up her PC again, turning it away from Elias eyes to close the tab where she stalked them, and pulled up an hour long YouTube video about a serial killer.

"Are you fine with listening to true crime podcasts? It's a guilty pleasure of mine."

Elias nodded, his mouth filled with the cheesy goodness. With the okay from her new eating buddy, she pressed play. After watching that whole video, they watched another one, and another one. Until the pizza was done and only the box was left. With every video Adriana got more and more comfortable with Elias, making it harder and harder for him to leave. Too late now, he was stuck as a teddy bear.

Even though she met him five hours ago, Adriana was already chill with Elias. Every passing hour she got unconsciously closer to him, first touching shoulders, then with her whole side warming up from his body heat.

"See? The police was so close, but they didn't have a search warrant so they couldn't go in and see the body. Ha, Idiots."

She commented, almost whispering as to not disturb the piece they had so carefully crafted. Elias gaze shifted from the PC placed on one of his thighs to Adriana, who was fixated to the screen. She talked while not expecting an answer. Her face was slightly illuminated by the computer and the warm fairy lights all around that Adriana put up.

Elias looked around to get a better view of what Adriana was actually like, your room can say a lot of things about you. He saw the empty room and boxes piled up next to the walls, there wasn't a lot of them. As he continued his investigation, a head of hair leaned on his shoulder, drawing his attention back. There she was, her pink lips slightly parted, resting peacefully on Elias shoulder.

Not wanting to disturb her sleep, he moved away, holding Adriana laying her down in a comfortable position before leaving and closing the door with the pizza box in his hand.

"What were you doing in Adrianas room, huh, Eli?"

Isaac caught him right handed, a smile graced his face. Isaac smiling was never a good sign. Not wanting to deal with his bullshit, Elias ignored Isaac and headed for the kitchen to throw away the pizza box. Unlucky for him, Isaac wasn't about to let it go that easily and followed Elias down the corridor.

"Come on Eli, it's already weird enough to see you not ignoring someone. Now you spend time with her?"

"...Pizza."

One word. One word made Isaac stop dead in his tracks and loose that smile.

"Pizza. Pizza? You're kidding."

Isaac continued to follow and nag Elias while he went down stars to throw out the pizza box, but the tall guy didn't mutter one more word to him. Finally Nicolas caught a part of the investigation and got curious.

"What are you pulling his dick for, Isaac?"

"I saw him coming out of Adrianas room. Him."

A look of deep confusion appeared on Nicolas face.

"Darlings room? The fuck?"

"Exactly! All he told me was pizza." Isaac mimicked Elias voice in hopes to rile the guy up, which gave no results.

"... Whatever. I'm going to bed. Buona notte, losers. I have a gig tomorrow."

"And school."

Elias spoke again. Earning a glance from both his friends. Nicolas groaned while going up the stairs as a sign of acknowledgement. The thought of Elian and Adriana alone in her room gave Nicolas a bad taste in his mouth. He could've paid a thousand dollars to know why it nagged him that much.