Song: Les filles désir - Vendredi sur Mer
Some weeks had passed, the temperature high, Hannele and Nia spending more time at Michelle and Sage's apartment, playing video games, chess, and talking..., Michelle barely sleeping or eating, didn't even look like a human being anymore, at night she would watch anime on the computer on a platform where Aelin could also go along with, Sage skating every day with Cole, learning new skills and denying she was falling in love.
The volunteering program had ended and it was two weeks before classes started and one to Sage's twenty years old birthday, when they both left the house, Sage, wearing beige cargo pants and a brown shirt, going to the skate park, Michelle, wearing all black, exposing her tattoos and scars, again with rastas but this time shorts, skimming her shoulders, skinner, pale, supposedly to Hannele's.
"I'll be home at like 9 PM," Michelle said when they were about to go in different ways.
"Why so late?"
"I don't know... See ya!"
Sage saw Michelle getting away in a hurry, taking her phone out of her pocket, and then calling someone or answering a call.
"Just for you to know, I said Sage I'm on my way to your house, but I'm going to buy stuff for her." Was the first thing she said before Hannelle could say a 'Hi.'
"I need to buy gifts for them as well. Can I go with you?"
Them? "Right... Almost forgot about Skye."
Three hours later they were back in Hannele's one-room apartment, where Michelle decided to leave the wrapped gifts since Sage could find them in her room. She was laying on the sofa, checking on her phone, just in case, at the same time she received a message from Aelin: «Wanna pass by? I'm thinking about watching One Piece.» Michelle immediately got up, yet with her eyes on the phone. "I'm sorry, I gotta go." She said to Hannele in the kitchen.
"Why? Did something happen?"
"No, is just a friend of mine who is about to start watching a masterpiece."
She kissed Hannele's cheek and took long and fast steps to the exit, analyzing the address Aelin had just sent. She took a while to decide whether she would walk or take two buses, the one chosen was this last option, giving her time to read during the travel and while waiting for the transport.
"I don't know if I'm in the right place." She said on the phone, looking at a Craftsman-style house with rustic curb appeal.
"Hold on." Aelin left their bed and, barefoot, drove to the foyer. "Yeah, You're in the right place."
"What a house..." She admired, yet on the phone, walking towards Aelin wearing tight black shorts and a red t-shirt, hair down and black eyeliner, that day using glasses.
Michelle hung up the call, walking on the stone way that led to a vault. Once they exchanged two greeting kisses, Aelin conducted her to the bedroom, talking about anime at the same time the guest looked at the house with her wide eyes, trying to guess its price. The main living space offered raised ceilings and large windows which proffered great views of the exterior. The well-equipped kitchen was complete with a large island and eating bar. Aelin's room was extremely spacious, the walls were gray like Michelle's, covered with anime posters and bands', with a queen-sized bed between the window and one of the walls, covered with gray sheets as well, and in front of it, a dresser decorated with a TV. It was a room someone could easily mistake for Michelle's.
They stink rich, Michelle thought while watching them sitting in the bed.
"Make yourself comfortable." They said, "Did you fight someone again? Why is your eye purple?"
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I Hate My Roommate
Teen Fiction«It felt like things were going back to normal, their balance, the peace between those walls that sooner or later would reach a climax and everything would break into pieces, it would look like the damage is irretrievable and there's no turning back...
