Elysian

[03] - some sick joke on me

MIKA
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"Your favourite has arrived!" Devon grins widely.

I glance around, "Can't see him"

He holds up his middle finger, dragging his suitcase inside. While the rest of the group has always stayed in New York, Dev spent two years in New Jersey.

"I'm surprised your other half didn't come" I comment, crossing my arms as I rest against the counter "Isaac got tired of you?"

"No one gets tired of me, like cmon, it's me" Dev huffs as if my words were a complete offence, then adds further "He just fell in love with Brasil and decided to go back there, the traitor. Left me in a group of taken people, let me tell you being the single friend is no fun"

"So we were your second option" I remark.

"Don't act like you haven't been having fun without me either. I saw that video, which reminds me, why haven't I been introduced to gorgeous blonde yet?!" He raises a brow like his holding me hostage.

"My bad, for now on I will make a special visit to your other town every time I get a new friend" I roll my eyes, tasting the sarcasm on my tongue.

"Not holding my breath then, you've had like five friends in all your twenty one years of living" he mocks with a smart ass tone.

"Four actually, one isn't my friend." I point out.

"And other is your own brother" Dev retorts.

Hey, that's still three, which to me is already lots of people to waste my already low patience with. So, I'm my perspective, I'm doing fucking great.

Besides, not every siblings get to be friends with each other. Some don't really get along or just have rocky relationships. So I can in fact consider Rowan a friend. At least, when he's not pissing me off.

Talking about the devil, "Look who's here, Devon Riggs, my man!" my brother bursts through the door of my apartment.

"See, now that's the type of reaction you should have when you see me" he points towards Rowan, handshaking him in their bro way.

"What did you expect, my sis has always been a difficult one" Rowan ruffles my hair when he walks by me, which I dodge my head at.

"Get off" I roll my eyes.

"Exhibit one" he remarks with a chuckle.

I ignore him and question, "What are you doing here anyway?" he didn't know about Devon arriving this early and honestly, usually, he isn't even awake at these hours.

"Due to your incredible idea, I'm currently doing driver duty to Xander" he drums his fingers across my counter, searching for food in my fridge.

I raise a brow, "And decided to stop here to steal my food?" gaze shifting to his full hands.

"He wanted to bring the boxes here" Rowan explains vaguely while reading some package's label before holding it up, "This is just another reason to come"

"Why would Xander be bringing boxes here?" Dev questions, just as confused as me.

"Cause he's moving next door" Rowan shrugs in a 'duh' tone, insinuating we should be aware of the fact. Newsflash, we weren't.