Wide Awake | H.S Au

2. I'll punch him for you

Monday

"I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry" Sam was backing away from me but came to a stop when the couch touched his legs and that was my cue to jump onto him.

"Yeah I fucking hope you are you fucking idiot!" My body that I had thrown at him was now in a sitting position, his arms locked between his body and my legs and the panic in his eyes made me smile like a maniac.

Without letting him speak I started to move my fingers under his chin and slowly made my way down to his armpits and stomach while he squealed and shouted and laughed. Izaak and Zelda that had been in the room when I entered was now watching me entertained, both leaning against the kitchen wall.

"I-I totally- AHHHHH" Sam screamed under me as he tried to both escape and talk at the same time, with no result. He was stuck. "Forgot, I forgot Indiana PLEASE" He was laughing like a maniac, and I slowed down my fingers after his apology.

"How the hell do you even forget such a thing?" I look at him like he's stupid and he just stares back at me.

"I mean Amber had been-"

"I mean it is Sam that we're talking about here" Amber pipes in as she has also entered the living room now. My focus goes to her for a second and that's all it takes for Sam to get me off him and escape and hide behind Zelda and Izaak and me ending up on the floor.

I move my hand on reflex to my lower back as it was that which took the hit from the fall. "You don't stop with the emotional pain you've brought me, you have to make it hurt physically too?" I whine as I rub the lower back and butt.

Today was apart from me trying to remind Sam that I in fact still disliked Harry to the point that I wanted to strangle him also the day we finally moved into our shared apartment. We had after many hours gotten everything carried up to the 4'th floor of a 7-story building in the outskirts of the city, just a stone's throw away from the forest and fields that connected to the city.

How we even ended up in such a calm and silent part of the city is beyond me, I mean, it's on the opposite side of the rich, popular, and important people's homes, or my parents if you will. This part of the city was for young adults, the elderly and those who didn't usually work in the city center due to the long way and poor traffic connections. But first and foremost, it was away from the bad parts of the city where most of the crimes happened.

Many didn't also want to live this near to the city edge and nature next to it, the ocean that was a mile or two away scared some, probably because of the storms it brought in to land and sometimes even to this part of the city and, because of the increasing acidic water levels according to the authorities, and families with children wanted to stay away from that.

I on the other hand was over the moon because of the closeness to the sea and forest, I had already made up some plans to go and explore even though you could end up in big trouble if you got caught by the guards.

Since a few years back people needed permission to leave the city, even if you were just wandering around the outskirts you could get in trouble. It had affected the way people connected and the view on outsiders and had in some cases made people more rebellious.

For my friends and I it had affected us in a way that we could not see people we'd gotten to know when we were younger.

As I keep on rubbing my behind the others goes back to lifting furniture, boxes and sweeping the floor. The apartment had been emptied for a while and we got it for a steel but the floors and counters remind us that it has to be taken care of before unpacking everything.

"Why don't you go and look which room you want? Me and Sam already picked out ours." Zelda speaks over the volume of small talk and vacuuming. I look over my shoulder and see her peek out from a room that I assume she has chosen, right next to the kitchen. I can hear Sam roam around, probably hiding in the room right next to Zelda's' and I nod at her words before I return to the entrance of the apartment to go into the hallway that leads to the remaining three rooms.