Struggling || Murphamy & Jonty AU [ON HOLD]

C H A P T E R ~ O N E

"Come on, push harder." Murphy grunted, beads of sweat starting to roll down his forehead.

"I am." Jasper snapped back, trying to push the couch through the small door frame.

"Maybe if you guys tried turning it, then it would probably fit." Monty suggested, watching as his two best friends struggled to fit the big couch through the small doorframe of Murphy and Jaspers new apartment.

"Okay, let's do that." Murphy sighed, turning the couch to the left. Jasper nodded his head, following Murphy's movements.

After a few more minutes of struggling, cursing, and even a few tears, the two boys finally managed to get the couch into their apartment.

"Finally. God, that was stressful." Jasper panted, flopping onto the couch.

"Come on, we still have lots of boxes to bring in." Murphy said, pulling Jasper to his feet. The three boys walked back into the hallway. They each picked up a box, bringing them into the apartment.

"There's one more box in the hall." Monty announced, setting a box of plates down in the kitchen.

"Okay, I'll go get it." Murphy replied, walking back into the hallway. As he bent down to pick up the box he heard the elevator doors open, followed by the sound of a little girl crying.

Murphy turned around, his eyes landing on a man that couldn't be older than twenty-five, and a little girl that's probably five or something. The man looked exhausted as he carried the girl.

"Come on Addy, please stop crying." He begged the girl, but the tears only fell harder. Murphy stood up, the box in his hands. The mans eyes went wide as he realized someone else was in the hallway.

He sent Murphy a shy smile, mouthing the word 'sorry'. Murphy returned his smile with a shrug.

"Daddy, who is that?" The little girl, that Murphy now knew as Addy, asked the man. She wiped a few tears away as she looked at Murphy.

"I'm Murphy." He smiled, walking over to them.

"I'm Adelaide. But people call me Addy." She grinned, forgetting why she was even crying in the first place.

"Nice to meet you, Addy." Murphy shook her small hand, earning a giggle from the small child.

"And I'm Bellamy." The man said with a smile. Now that Murphy was closer he could see all the details of Bellamys face. He had tan skin, with light freckles covering his cheeks. He had dark brown eyes, behind a curtain of black curly hair.

"Did you just move in?" Bellamy asked, his eyes flickering to the box in Murphy's hands.

"Oh, uh yeah. My roommate, Jasper, and I just moved into 714. What about you two?"

"Well Addy and I live in 715." Bellamy replied with a smile, gesturing to his own apartment.

"Cool. Maybe sometime we could ha-"

"Murphy?" Jasper called, poking his head into the hallway. His eyes landed on Murphy, then on Bellamy and Addy.

"Oh, sorry, hi. I'm Jasper." He smiled, walking over to them.

"I'm Bellamy, and this is my daughter Addy. We live across the hall from you." Bellamy replied, setting Addy on the ground since his arm was getting tired. She walked over to Jasper, holding out her hand. Jasper took her small hand, giving it a shake.

"It's nice to meet you Addy." He said, causing a grin to break out onto the girls face.

"Well, we need to get going." Bellamy sighed, pulling out his keys.