Home to souls

Chapter 6

It had been over 2 hours since Julian left with Aria, and  2 hours since Liza had binned that disrespectful card he had placed in her palm before he left. She wanted to scream at him, throw something at his stupid face, but unluckily for Liza  she had no clue as to where he was or where Aria was for that matter. They couldn't have gone far, probably went down to the park or something, if she really wanted she could probably go  out and find them, but she didn't want to invade their privacy or come into whatever family issues they had going on.

Julian had said that he and Aria were family and Aria had seemed to know him, so he must be family. But how could he be of Aria's family? He was so annoying, and rude, and idiotic! The image of him putting his card  in her hand kept running back over and over in her head; how dare he think so low of her! She wasn't a play thing, she didn't even know the guy for God's sake.

Realising she hadn't stopped thinking about that guy since he left, Liza started to scold herself. "You dumbass Liza! He wants you to think of him, his playing with your head. Look! Your doing it again! Stop thinking about him," she kept telling the image in the mirror of the bathroom. "He isn't even that hot. I mean sure, his got dimples but I don't even like dimples. Wait-you're still thinking about that ugly moron!" Hitting her head with her hand she tried to remove all memories of him. Sighing Liza opened the tap and washed her face, hoping the cold water will knock his image out of her head. Needing a towel to wipe her face she went to find one in her bedroom, she usually kept them in the cupboard so she automatically walked to it.

"Everyone likes dimples." "Ahhhhhhhhh," the scream that left Liza sounded embarrassingly girly. She didn't scare easily, but when moronic jerks decided to creep up on her without any warning, any human being would be scared. Laying on her bed with a smug smile was Julian. Although he wasn't laughing at her, she could tell he was struggling not too. Furious she grabbed the towel from her cupboard and wiped her face, "you asshole," she breathed into the towel, trying to gather herself together after the little incident.

She threw the towel on the floor and moved towards her bed. "Why are you still here? More importantly, why are you in my bed?" "I've decided we should share this bed, what do you think beautiful?" He winked at her for extra effect. He knew she was getting riled up, but he found the girl's anger hilarious to watch. "WHAT? What do you mean share. This is my room, get the hell out!" "No," Julian said as he got more comfortable on the bed and shut his eyes, "I like this bedroom the best, find another room if you don't want to share." His calm tone was making Liza lose her mind, she opened and closed her mouth a few times, like a goldfish would, as she struggled to come up with a reply in her angered state, "ARIA!" Her scream was loud enough to  be heard from miles away.

Aria was sitting in the kitchen when Liza screamed for her. Thinking something bad must have happened Aria ran to Liza's room, but what she found in Liza's bedroom bewildered her. Julian seemed to look like he was faking to be a sleep on Liza's bed, whilst Liza seemed to be trying to pull him of her bed by dragging the sleeve of his jacket. "What the hell..." Aria hadn't meant to say this out loud, but she was too confused to come up with anything else. Liza immediately stopped what she was doing and moved back, whilst Julian opened his eyes but continued to lay on Liza's bed.

"It's his fault," Liza mumbled. "No it's not," Julian answered clearly. This time Liza was more confident, "his in my bed. Why is he still here?" Aria shrugged, "apparently he wants to stay for awhile, although no one wants him here." "Hey!" Julian pouted, "I'm always wanted." The girls both rolled their eyes in response, Aria spoke up "what are you doing in Liza's bedroom?" "Keeping her company," was Julian's only reply. Liza was not happy with this reply, "his not! He said he wants my bedroom!" Aria let out a slow breath as she realised what this whole nonsense was about, "get out Liza's bedroom Julian" Aria turned to walk away. "But I like this room..." Julian whined as he got up from Liza's bed and walked towards the door. He turned around as he reached the door "I like the red thong in your drawers. Maybe you'll wear it for me some time," and with a wink he left, leaving Liza to scream swear words at his retreating figure.

It had been almost a week since Julian had invaded the house, and it was becoming common for him to to annoy Liza at every given opportunity. However, when he wasn't annoying Liza he seemed to be very interested in finding out about the girls' lives. He would ask random questions about the girls, like a child eager to hear their favourite bedtime story, Liza wondered if he actually wanted to know about the girls or if it was yet another way to annoy them. Sometimes she had no idea what that moron was really up to, but she tried to tell herself it was none of her business, after all it wasn't like he was her family, she'd just have to learn to live with him until he chose to leave.

Liza sat at her university library trying to get some work done. Since Julian had arrived her productivity had dropped, and so she was left trying to catch up  with a tonne of work she should've done during the week. Unfortunately for her Julian had money and charm, meaning he found her at the university library scribbling away, 30 minutes after she'd arrived at the library.

She looked up from her work realising someone was standing on the opposite side of her desk, and her face immediately morphed into a scowl. "What are you doing here?" She took of her headphones huffing. "No hello," he pouted, she noticed he did that a lot. "I was worried, you didn't tell anyone where you were going," he said as he took a seat opposite her. "Yeah right, you can't be here you know, this is the university's library and you are neither a student nor an authorised visitor." He leaned in, "so many rules, don't you ever get tired of all the rules? Tell me Liza, have you ever broken the rules?"She started to go pink at his question, "shut up," she mumbled, "do you have an actual reason as to why you're here?" He leaned back enjoying her discomfort, with a twinkle in his eye he continued, "yes actually. I was thinking about throwing a party." "For what?" Liza asked trying to think if anyone's birthday was coming up. "There never has to be a reason to have a party, beautiful." "You sound so much like Aria right now." Julian scowled, "I'm nothing like my baby cousin. Anyways, I was wondering if you could invite some of Aria's friends, maybe even that guy...what's his name?" "Jaxon?" Liza offered, she had no idea how she knew who he was talking about, but his name popped into her head. "Yes," Julian replied, "invite him too." "Ok," Liza nodded, she was used to helping plan parties, "wait, aren't you and Julian family friends or something? Can't you just invite him?" Julian shrugged, "I could, but I'd rather spend my time inviting more useful companions who'd be helpful in warming up my bed." Liza scrunched her face in disgust, "fine" she stated and got back to her work ending the conversation.