Scared to love

Chloë's POV

I get home from my classes at around 3 in the afternoon and I see Jake standing by his car. I park mine next to his and get out to greet him. "Moving in?", I ask him. "Yes I am", he responds. "Need any help?", I ask. "Oh no it's fine", he replies. "I'm headed upstairs anyway so I can take something with me if you want", I say. He looks in the back of his car and hands me a box. "Is it not too heavy?", he asks me. "No it's fine, I've had heavier boxes", I answer. He also takes a box and together we go upstairs. I take my key, open the door, get inside and put the box down in the living room. "How many boxes do you still have in your car?", I ask him as I put my bag in my room. "Just one I'll get it later", he responds. "You only have three boxes? And I though I packed light", I mumble. "Well technically you also only brought three boxes with personal stuff and one of them only was only half filled with your personal stuff", he says. "Touché", I respond.

"So I put a schedule on the fridge with my expected work hours for this weekend so that you guys know when I won't be home", I inform him when we're both standing in the kitchen. He turns around to look at the fridge and examines the schedule. "Wait you have to close tonight and get up early to go work in the bakery?", he remarks after a minute. "Yeah, I've done it before, not the most fun but it's fine. I'll just take a nap when I get home in the afternoon to catch up some sleep", I reply. "I'm going to get ready for work tonight so that I can leave right after dinner", I add as I go to my room to get my uniform. "Is it okay if I order some pizza for dinner?", Jake asks before I enter my room, at the same moment our front door opens. "Pizza sounds good dude", Matthew says when he enters with a box in his hand. "Yeah for me too", I respond. I get in my room and start getting ready as I hear the boys talk in the living room. After a while I get out all ready and see Jake and Matthew sitting at the kitchen table. I walk towards them when the doorbell interrupts me. I open the door and the delivery person hands me three pizza's. I take them, greet the person and walk to the kitchen.

"Ohh finally I'm starving", Matthew says. "You're also moving in tonight?", I ask him. "Yeah but I was wondering if someone could like lend me their car? I don't have my own and all my boxes are still at my parents home", he responds. "Yeah take mine, I'm walking to my work anyway", I answer. "You sure? I can drop you off if you want me to", he offers. I shake my head and say that it's fine since I always walk to the bar. "I'll give you the keys before I leave. Promise me you'll be careful though, my car is my baby", I say. "I will, thanks C!", he exclaims. We talk while eating the rest of our dinner and after we finish, we clean everything up. I take my stuff to leave for work and hand my keys to Matthew on my way out. "Put them on my nightstand when you don't need them anymore", I say before leaving. "See you guys tomorrow, it should be around noon", I add. "Be careful!", Jake yells from his room. I laugh, say I will and close the door behind me.

This night goes by very slow compared to other nights it's frustrating. "Only a few more customers and we can go home", one of my colleagues sighs beside me. "Hopefully they don't stick around for too much longer", I wish out loud. "Let's hope so, it's already past 4 anyway", they respond. Just as we prayed, the customers leave after a good 10 minutes, which means that we can now clean everything and close the bar. We get to go home at around 5 in the morning since it took us a while to get everything clean. I arrive at the apartment at around 5.20 a.m. and get in. Boxes are scattered everywhere, but I just walk towards my room and plop on the bed. It feels like my eyes where only closed for a few minutes when my alarm goes off and I have to get ready to go to the bakery. Luckily, my shift there goes by quickly and when I get home I see the boys walk around the apartment with all of their stuff. When they hear me enter, they greet me with a warm smile and tell me they left some food for me in the microwave in case I was hungry.