Untouchable

5: Who's at the door?

Lukas's POV

The night was good, it was fun; everyone was enjoying themselves, we had studied, sang and ate. Alexa and Zayden were a good addition to the group, they had this- easy nice guy charm and heroine- thing going for them. We were talking about our favourite songs- I'd like to note that everyone, but Grace and I, have bad taste in music- Lace and Cayson had made up judging by the short side conversation they had that I pretended to not notice so that they'd have their moment.

The banging against the door was strong and heavy, both Alexa and Zayden had gotten up to see who it was, Zayden tugged on her sleeve and told her to stay back, I tucked that little information away for another time and got up to see who was at the door.

Zayden swung the door open, I noticed his stance shifted from his usual relaxed one to a defensive one. I wrapped my arm around his shoulder, trying to diffuse the clear tension in his body. The people standing at the door were new faces, Zayden greeted them with a scowl which was kind of rude I thought.

"Hello!" I greeted the two guys at the door in the most cheerful tone I could muster, they looked like bad news, with baggy shorts and hoodies hiding half their features. The tension in the air could have cut through butter "Say. Hello. Back" I said slowly as if speaking to children. "That's how HUMANS communicate"

They both ignored me, not even sparing me a glance as one of them spoke up "Where have you been Zayden. We really missed you ya'know!"

I could see Zayden's knuckles go white from clenching his fist but the guy at the door didn't seem to care

"Didn't we, Carl? Zayden's a good friend of ours isn't he?"

He seemed to be intentionally trying to get under Zayden's skin, both of them had sick smiles on their faces. I turned around to see Alexa's reaction to this, her arms were crossed over her chest and she was wearing the same frown as Zayden's.

"What do you want?" Zayden snapped

"We're just checking up on you, Zed, it's what friends do," The guy on the left smirked as he took a drag from his cigarette "Doesn't seem like you're doing too well" He nodded his head towards me.

"Not the nicest thing to say" I spoke again only to be ignored for the second time.

"I'm doing just fine." Zayden said sharply "You can leave now"

"What? You don't want to talk to Freddie? He's waiting for you in the car, where are your manners?"

"I think I'll pass"

"Tsk tsk tsk. You wouldn't wanna upset Freddie now would you" The guy on the right spoke, he patted Zayden's shoulder and pulled him outside the apartment. Zayden went with the flow and walked side by side with the two guys towards the elevator

"Zayden" Alexa called out

Zayden turned around to look at her with a blank face but the two strangers tugged at him to keep walking. I heard them from the distance laughing "Oh, I've missed her too" to which Zayden whirled his head so that he was staring right in the guys eyes "Don't push it"

We went back into the apartment and Alexa sprinted across the room to the window where she pulled the curtains to the side and peeked through the glass. I looked over to see what Cayson thought of this but he nonchalantly scrolled through his phone.

"Care to explain what that was about?" Lace directed her question at Alexa as she also watched the interaction going on in the parking lot from the window.

"They're just some old friends of Zayden's" Her voice was low and measured "He's coming back up"

"With his friendly friends?" I asked playfully

She rolled her eyes at me and sighed in what I can only assume to be relief. A few minutes passed before Zayden walked back into the apartment. Grace looked at him skeptically "So...your friendly friends aren't so friendly," she paused, a thoughtful look on her face "they're actually intimidating, yea that's the word"

Alexa chuckled then addressed Grace and I "Aren't you two on a roll today" I shrugged then winked at her "We're charming like that"

"They aren't friends" Zayden brushed it off "But all of you are!" He swayed as he said this and put his hands over his chest. Alexa threw yet another pillow at him. He hugged the pillow and started walking like a penguin towards where she was sitting on the couch, she gave him a dirty look and before she could stand up and walk away, he jumped to the spot next to her and held her tightly as she tried to escape from his grip. Grace jumped on them and hugged them as well. Cayson and Lace were distracted, playing a game on their phones but Lace looked up to see where all the muffled screams were coming from and when she spotted the source her eyes lit up. Lace ran towards them then threw herself at them, I heard Zayden grunt. The moment was cut short by the sound of heavy pounding out of nowhere, everyone stood up and were on alert, the sound was coming from outside and as Lace got up to look outside the window Alexa gave a quick glance to Zayden. Lace turned her head back to us and beamed "IT'S RAINING!" I got excited, jumped over the couch and stood next to her as I looked at the raindrops hitting the windowsill. Grace joined us as well and I propped my elbow on her shoulder.

"Hey!" she smacked my elbow away "Just because I'm shorter, doesn't mean I'm an armrest" She then proceeded to lean against me, I took a step back "Just because I'm taller, doesn't mean I'm a pole"

"Touche"

It was nearing 11 pm and Cayson had called out to Lace to pack her stuff so that they would head to their place; I nodded my head towards Grace indicating that we should get going too. When Alexa noticed us shuffling around to get our books she nearly yelled at us "You guys aren't seriously considering driving in this weather"

"Um yea we are, it's just a bit of rain"

"A bit of very heavy rain!" We heard a loud thunder after a flash of lighting as if mother nature was supporting her statements

"It's going to get worse, we can't wait it out, it's best if we leave now"

Alexa turned on the TV and grabbed the remote control "No, I bet they're telling people to NOT drive on the news" A 'no signal' sign flashed on the screen "The satellite is all messed up, this just proves my point further; you guys can stay the night"

"Yea, I'm staying here tonight anyways" Zayden said "It'll be fun"

"I have a lot of board games! I've got Chess, Snakes and Ladders, Monopoly, Scrabble, Trouble and Jinga, which isn't a board game but it's really nice" Alexa gushed

"You had me at Monopoly and not dying" Cayson put his keys down, the rest of us followed his lead and put down our stuff at the coffee table.

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