starting over

chapter 1

And I get the seat beside the fat creepy guy on the eight hour flight, the luck of the irish.
"have you travelled before? He asks me smiling to reveal his yellow teeth.
"no" I answer dryly hoping he'll piss off.
"you look awfully young to be travelling alone, are you staying with family in America?"
"yes" no.
"well that's good in America you'd have to be careful there are a few creeps out there and you are a very pretty young woman"
"erm, thanks but.I'll manage"
"ok"
"I'm actually really tired i was hoping to get some sleep on the plane"
"oh well don't let me keep you from that, you have a little snooze there and I'll wake you up when we land" he promises.
"thanks" because it'll be so easy to fall asleep with you staring at me.
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When i finally land and get my luggage i wait for a cab for above fifteen minutes before finally getting one i give her the address of the hotel and sit down to relax but ofcourse my phone decides to come to life i have one e-mail from jude.
Hey, i know your just landing today so maybe if you wanted to meet up later to finalise if you would be living with me or not or you'd like to get to know the place and we could meet up later.
I can meet up today, how about an hour at the hotel I'm staying at, you know the name right?
Yeah, see you then
That'll give me enough time to wash and get something to eat.

I'm just finishing off my ceasar salad when i hear a knock at the hotel door, i open the door to find a tall muscular slightly tanned nineteen year old boy with brown messy hair that falls down just to his eyes.
"I'm jude" he says with a very sexy deep voice.
"Annie, come on in" I say opening the door wider and leaving him enough room to slip in, he's wearing dark washed jeans and a simple midnight blue topnotch his sleeves rolled up.
"wouldnt it have been a good idea to have a permanent place to live before moving to America?" he asks looking around the room.
"I had to leave quite quickly" he raises a brow to me.
"Did you do something?" he says cautiously.
"no, I'm not on the run or anything"
"okay, well do you want to come see the apartment?"
"yeah, sure" We both walk out of the room and into the elevator.
"how do you feel about motorbikes?" he asks casually.
"why?" I ask almost jumping with excitement.
"because I'm stupid and that's what I brought here"
"are you saying to get to the apartment i have to go on your bike?"
"yeah, your not scared or anything are you?"
"no, I live them i had one back in ireland but had to sell it to come here"
"I wouldn't actually guess you were irish"
"because i dont have an accent?"
"yeah, to be honest and no offence but their a bit annoying if i was going to turn you down that would probably be the reason"
"I guess I got lucky then"
"unless I live in a pig sty"
"do you?"
"sometimes it looks like it"
"I can live with that" we then exit the elevator and go out to see a huge bike with a black design sprayed Down the side looking kinda intimidating against the grey.
"can we go now?" I ask not being able to contain my excitement anymore, he chuckles and hands me his helmet.
"what about you?"
"I'll be ok"
"but your on the front so if we do crash it'll hit you first" I say handing it back to him.
"fine you take the jacket then"
"fine" I say putting on the oversized jacket and climbing eagerly on behind him i hold his torso but eventually sit up starlight holding the handles on the side letting the wind hit my face, i missed this so much, in the mirror i see jude smirking at me so I smirk back then sit up straighter again and enjoy the rest of the ride.

"so what do you think?" he asks me as i look around the front room it has a single brick wall with a TV hanging on it and three sofas facing it, the kitchen isnt too small or too big it has black shiny counters with pans hanging from above the island in the middle.
"I like it, is that fruit fake though?" I ask gesturing to the plastic looking apples in a fruit bowl.
"yeah, I have real food though" he says opening the fridge.
"ok, can i see the bedroom?"
"yeah sure" he leads me back down a hall behind one of the sofas and into the last room, i walk in its simple but nice there's a bed in the middle with a closet at the bottom and a window with a sill big enough for me to sit at and a bedside locker beside the bed.
"it's cute" I say.
"so, would you wanna live here?"
"sure, if that's ok i mean"
"yeah"

I get a cab back to the hotel and get my luggage and cancel the room.
"bet you feel pretty stupid spending your bikes money in a hotel room you stayed in for like two hours" jude says smirking as we leave the hotel.