Home to souls

Chapter 4

"We need milk, you guys!" yelled Georgia from the kitchen as she finished of the last of the milk. Back when Liza was still living at home, she had been warned of the costs of living at University, but this was getting ridiculous-they were going through a whole carton of milk in a day! Liza chose to ignore her friend as she continued to lounge in the living room reading 'Delirium' by Lauran Oliver; she'd already had breakfast and so had no need of the milk-well until tomorrow, that is. Liza's lips followed the words on the page as she was pulled back into a world of forbidden love. This was where she belonged-lounging on the sofa with a book and music playing through her earphones-nothing could disturb Liza when she was in this state, not even the sofa bouncing up and down to the beat of some heavy metal music,which is exactly what was happening right now- Val had probably just woke up.

It was normal for the house to be so crazy but Liza loved the madness. The house was regularly filled with the girls' friends from University, so it wasn't unusual to see someone that Liza had never seen before wondering around the house. When Liza had thought about how university life would be, she'd never imagined random people walking around her house-sometimes half naked-debating about whether evolution was actually Darwin's theory or if he'd just rediscovered it, but at least they were talking about work.

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After Julian had left the café yesterday he had again tried to get in contact with Aria, but much to his irritation, she had not wanted to return his calls. So, he was left to track her location down and turn up at her doorstep uninvited. The mansion looked impressive;it seemed that Aria really did mean it when she said she was going to live big for the next couple of years. If he had chose to live in this town, he would pave chose the mansion himself, but still, he wasn't here to congratulate the girl on her new house, there were more pressing matters at hand.

He walked towards the back of the mansion. He was no thief, he did not want to enter this way, but the god awful music being played had meant Aria had not heard him ringing the doorbell. To be honest, he was surprised she was into the music she was listening to, he had thought she was classier than that but it seemed he'd overestimated her ear for music. The music was coming from upstairs, and so he decided that would be where he would first check-the sooner he had a word with the girl, the sooner he could go back home.

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Liza knew she was supposed to be reading but 'Braveheart' by Neon Jungle had invaded her ears, and she hadn't listened to the song in so long, so she was allowed to shake her ass off to the tune. She wasn't good at dancing at all, in fact, she knew she was awful, and that's why she would never do it in front of others, but when no one's watching, who cares, right? The song neared its end, calming Liza's newfound dancing hysteria. Grinning, she opened her eyes, ready to fall back onto the couch, only to meet dark chocolate eyes filled with laughter. Mortified, her mouth fell to the ground before turning into anger, "WHAT IN THE HELL?" If she wasn't filled with embarrassment that would not have been her first words, however, right now that was all her rage could muster up. The stranger was doing a very bad job of controlling his twitching lips which only continued to rile up Liza. "Thank god you've finished," that was it, he couldn't control his laughter chuckled heartily. Liza growled and threw her iPod at the stranger, unfortunately athletics had never been Liza's strong suit and so the iPod ending up crashing on the wall.

"Uuggggghhhhh! Look what've you've done," Liza accused the stranger. Julian straightened up and tried to get a hold of himself, "that had nothing to do with me Elizabeth, that was all you." Liza stood confused "how do you know my name, are you one of the others friends?" Now it was Julian's turn to be confused, "you don't remember me?" Liza's blank expression answered his question, "well that's a first. I could've been sure you would've remembered the guy who gave you his number, but maybe you get many of those guys in a day." Liza's blank expression transformed into one of surprise then anger, "are you stalking me?" She grabbed the vase on the table as she walked towards him, "I may look like a little helpless girl, but trust me mate, I can crush your head with this", she stopped in front of him. A smile tucked at Julian's lips, " if your aim with the iPod was any indication of how good you at crushing things, then I'm sure you would." She growled "you took me by surprise you moron." Julian stepped closer to her, "I'm glad I did, or I wouldn't have been able to see your booty popping moves," he started chuckling again. Liza stomped her feet, " stop laughing you asshole." "It isn't my fault if you make me laugh," Julian smiled down at her. "I'm not making you laugh, your laughing at-

"Julian?" They both turned at the interruption. Aria stood at the doorway assessing how close her cousin and best friend were standing, and not liking it one bit. "Aria, the beauty I've travelled miles to see. How are you darling? Received any phone calls lately?" Julian turned away from Liza towards Aria. "You guys know each other?" Liza was beyond confused, how did they know each other? Julian smiled at her, "we're family." "Not by choice" Aria mumbled. "I heard that," Julian scowled, " you try to do something nice for family, and you get this kind of treatment. Such ungrateful souls." "And what nice thing are you here to do?" Aria was beyond irritated by this situation, she knew ignoring her cousin call was not the smartest thing to do,but she'd hoped he wouldn't turn up at hers. And now, Liza had seen him, which would mean questions to answer which she had no interest in doing.

Julian sighed, it was time for business, "maybe you'll like to talk in private? If not I'm all for talking here in front of Elizabeth." Aria looked towards her friend and tried to smile, " let's go outside," she told Julian and turned to walk outside. Julian turned towards Liza, "I hope you haven't lost the card I gave you." "What card?" Liza had no idea what had just happened between Aria and this Julian guy, but she didn't know if she liked it. "So clumsy," he muttered as he pulled out a card from his suit and placed it in Liza's Jean pocket. Liza was beyond confused;she pulled out the card from her Jean pocket as Julian walked away and read Mr.Julian Thomas Black 07791- she screamed, "you asshole!" She heard the hearty chuckle as he left the house behind Aria.