The One Next Door

Chapter 3

Rhea, Abby, and Joanne were sat around the huge mahagony dinner table, with the cutlery already set on the table. They could see the hustle bustle going on in kitchen just in front of them where the boys were busy cooking, well, more like creating a ruckus at that moment. 

"No, no, you don't cook it like that!" Alessio scolded Flo while he was boiling the spaghetti.

"You aren't even cooking, du unnützes Stück Dreck! (You useless piece of dirt)" Flo muttered while cooking it in his own way.

"Ma vaffanculo coglione (Go and fuck yourself you piece of shit)" Alessio grumbled away in Italian before moving away from the cooking area and sitting on a chair, still grumbling to himself with something like "They can't even cook Italian food right" with a scowl on his face. 

"You do realize I don't understand anything you say and so it doesn't effect me right?" Flo had an amused smile on his face to which Alessio grumbled again and said "Same" before turned his head in the other direction. The girls couldn't help but laugh at the adorableness of these boys. 

"You dickheads, don't start your freaking German Italian war again." Kyle reprimanded before shaking their head at them. He was so used to this now, there wasn't even any point in trying to tell them to stop. The bickering will continue anyway. But he wouldn't have it any other way.

"Uhm, by the way, Flo, you speak German as well?" Joanne asked while blushing slightly. Her eyes were fixed on Flo's intently. 

"Ja, I'm from Austria, so I do. And you are German as well I am guessing from your accent?" Flo asked Joanne and she blushed more before nodding. He grinned at her before going back to work. 

"Anyways, we need a bit of help with chopping the vegetables, think you can help us out?" Kyle asked the girls with a cheeky smile from the kitchen and they replied with a 'sure' before heading over there. 

"Uhm guys, I have to use the bathroom, so you go. I'll be back soon." Joanne told Abby and Rhea and they nodded, before she walked off to the bathroom. Abby and Rhea went inside the kitchen where Kyle and Flo were busy boiling the spaghetti and doing other preparations while Alessio was sitting on a chair at the side, still telling them what to do and what not to do in between. 

"Alright, so what we gotta do?" Abby said while rolling up her sleeves with a determined look on her face. 

"You guys can chop the vegetables!" Alessio instructed, quickly getting into his boss mode again. 

Abby and Rhea complied, Abby grabbed an onion from the basket kept at the side, before washing it and keeping it on the chopping board. "Uh, where is the knife?" She asked the guys.

"Oh, there's one right here." Flo replied before handing over a knife to Abby, however there was some kind of a glint in his eyes and a weird smile on his face that Abby noticed. She shrugged though and took it, ignoring the glint.

Not long after, Rhea grabbed a knife and a chopping board as well, asking Abby to pass a tomato to her. 

"Here ya go, Rhea" Abby gave Rhea the tomato, which she kept on her chopping board and started slicing through it. She suddenly heard a voice. 

"Your name's Rhea?" That deep voice again. Kyle. She turned around. 

"Yeah, why?" She asked with curiosity.

"I feel like I've heard it before." Kyle said honestly, while gazing at Rhea intently, trying to recognize her. 

"I think I recognize you from somewhere as wel- oh fuck!" Rhea yelped loudly. She peered down and saw that she had slightly cut her finger along the way while talking to Kyle.