The Boy Between Dreams

Chapter 4: Introduction

*Jacob POV

Well I guess I live here now.

Bailey and Andre (my newly found roommates) lead me to the last door of the hallway. The apartment building where I'm now living is newly built, due to the influx of college and university students who stopped living on campus over the past years. That means this place is modern, and to me, kinda fancy. I can afford this place from my job and the money my moms left me.

"Well here we are, your room." Andre says, opening the door to the room.

"Oh." I mumble taking it all in.

Bailey wheels in, "Disappointed?" She jokes.

"Um not really." I say.

My new room is actually huge. This isn't normal. In a literal way. Each of these goddamn rooms are almost the size of the living room. Now that I see the size of these rooms I think the company isn't charging enough for these apartments (Do not tell the building manager I said that.).

"Feeling special yet?" Andre says, leaning against the door.

Just as I'm about to answer, a knock can be heard from the front door. Andre excuses himself and goes to answer it. A few moments later I see a very excited blonde girl enter the room.

"Holy shit you weren't lying! We really got our fourth roommate!" She squeals, rushing to shake my hand.

"Oh, hi." I say, not breaking character.

"Josie calm down, don't scare him." Bailey scolds.

"Oh she's not scaring me." I say quickly, smiling a little.

"Well, we'll let you unpack. Is there anything in your car or stuff you need to get from your old place?" Andre asks.

"Yeah, there's some more stuff apart from this," I say, holding up two duffle bags, "Only thing is, I own a motorcycle, not a car."

"Oooh punk motherfucker, huh?" Andre says with a smug face as Bailey and Josie leave, laughing.

*Kiro POV

It's about 4 P.M, and Jacob's gonna be introduced to the group. I think I should clarify that apartment 217, me and my roomates' apartment, and 216, the others' apartment, we're kinda all like a big happy family. We consider ourselves a huge-ass friend group. Thing is, in both apartments, you can have up to 4 people in each. So we thought, why not advertise it to other people?

Our group has only been in this apartment complex for a couple of months, most of us had different dorms, classes, but some of us connected and now we all kinda just spawned together. So we took shifts, jobs, broke a few piggy banks and now we all live together, sorta.

The front door opens, and Jacob, Bailey, Andre, and Josie start making a scene.

"M'KAY EVERYONE WE GOT THE 4TH ROOMIE!" Josie yells, half chugging a bottle of water like it was the last thing on earth.

Jacob stands there, not really showing any emotion, and he waves.

"Okay, Josie shut the fuck up," I say, chuckling to myself.

Bailey punches me in the leg, "Let bad bitches be bad." She says.

Andre tells everyone to shut up, and sits on the couch, "Hey everyone as you can see, we have a new cult member."

I cough sarcastically, "Not helping,"

"And we wanna make him feel at home, I presume some of you already know him," Andre continues, pointing at Bailey and me. "So today we're all just gonna do random shit and have a mini party to get to know each other."

As soon as he stops talking, the living room floods with questions, Where are you from? What's your favorite color? What's your major? You taking or giving it??

Jacob answers all the questions, except the last one, I really need to tell Jason to shut up. 

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