Roommates

Chapter 1

Esther

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"Wake up! Wake up! Wake upppp!!!" I'm woken up by my best friend Rose jumping up and down on my bed. "Ugh what? it's way too early!" I groan looking at the clock which read 7:30am. "I know it's early," she says "but we need to start driving now if we wan't to get to our new apartment on time to meet our new roommates," and with that she left my room.

"Ugh" I say as I shove my pillow into my face. I am definitely not a morning person. After a couple minutes of lazing around in bed I decide it's best to get up. Once I'm up, I sleepily stagger off into the bathroom. When I'm in the bathroom I stand in front of the mirror and look up at my reflection. I'm mortified, I look like hell I think to myself, maybe a nice shower will help. I take off my pyjamas and put my hair into a messy bun, turning the water on so it's just the right temperature and I step into the steamy shower. I lather myself up with my favourite coconut body scrub and enjoy the warmth of the water on my skin. Once I wash the soap off I turn off the water and hop out of the shower, wrapping a towel around my body.

I walk back into my bedroom with the towel wrapped around me and go to my closet to grab something to wear. I end up deciding to just wear a plain white tee, light blue jeans and my converse shoes. I put on my bras and knickers and chuck on my clothes. I walk over and stand in front of my mirror. I take out my messy bun and lets my curly grey hair run wild. I grab some mascara out of my makeup bag and apply some to my lashes. I look in the mirror again, "eh good enough for me" I say to myself putting the mascara away.

I grab my bags and walk down the stairs to see Rose sitting at the kitchen table eating her breakfast. I set my bags down next to Rose's and walk into the kitchen. "Finally" Rose says jokingly and I just roll my eyes. "You know I'm not I morning person Rose" I say to her. She just gives me the 'oh believe me I know' look and I smile and grab some cereal for breakfast. 

After we finish our breakfast we both grab our bags and start packing them in the car. I make sure too lock the door before we leave the house so that no one can get in, since my parents left yesterday on a business trip and won't be home in a few days. I'm glad I got to say goodbye to them before I left since I'll be away at Uni for awhile. Rose's parents died in a car crash a few years ago, so she's been living with us ever since, but now we're both moving  to live in an apartment with a couple of strangers, in a city 5 hours away from our home. You could say that I am definitely nervous. Especially since we have no idea who we're going to be living with. What if they're axe murderers? I think to myself. Rose comes up and slings her arm around my shoulder and says "we'll be fine hun, we'll be back to visit soon enough" I smile at her and say "let's go" and with that we both jump in the car and start driving to the city.

5 hours later

I'm woken up by Rose ripping out my earphones and screaming in my ear "WE'RE HERE!" clapping her hands with a big grin on her face. I groan and sit up in my seat. "Come on sleeping beauty" she says "lets go meet our new roommates". I reluctantly follow her out of the car and she knocks on the door of the big two story apartment that stands before us. I nervously bite my lip as we await an answer. After a minute or so the door opens to reveal a tall, muscular guy about 18-19 the same age as us with black hair and chocolate brown eyes. I look at Rose as to say have we got the right apartment? but she's too busy staring at the rather good looking guy standing in front of us. I roll my eyes. Yep she's a total goner I think to myself. I decide to break the awkward silence since Rose was a little too preoccupied undressing the guy with her eyes. "Hey I'm Esther and this is my friend Rose, ah we're your new roommates" I say. The guy smiles and says "I'm Lucas, it's nice to finally meet you guys" and he pulls us both in for a tight hug. Well okay this guy is really friendly I think to myself. He lets us go and I smile while Rose giggles like an idiot. "Come in" he says, gesturing us into the apartment. We walk in and look around a bit while Lucas leads us into the living room. "Hey Ashton!" Lucas yells, "come meet our new roommates". 

After awhile I hear a door open, "here he comes" Lucas exclaims and in walks a tall guys around the same height and age as Lucas except he was more muscular then Lucas was and he was shirtless. Yes shirtless. With just a pair of boxers on drying his hair with a towel. He must have just gotten out of the shower I thought to myself. He had light brown hair that was spiked up from him ruffling the towel to dry his hair and he had caramel eyes. Damn he was a sight for saw eyes I thought. Rose just smirked at me and I rolled my eyes. There's no way I'd have anything to do with my roommate in that way, so many things could go wrong. 

"This is Ashton guys" Lucas states "and this is Esther and Rose our new roommates" Lucas points to Rose and I introducing us to Ashton. "Hey" Rose and I both say to Ashton and he just looks at us, groans and walks off into a room that I presume is his bedroom. I furrow my brows in confusion "what's with him" I ask. "He's always grumpy" Lucas shrugs "you'll get used to it". I nod and say "so should we get our bags Rose?". "I'll help" Lucas says and Rose smiles at him and they walk out to the car together. I follow behind them and smile at Rose flirting with Lucas already and it's only been what? like five minutes. 

After we unpacked I went upstairs to settled into my new room. It was a fairly big room, and it had a big window with a nice view of the park next to our apartment. However, I didn't have an ensuite like I did back at home but I'll manage. Luckily there's two bathrooms here, one upstairs and one downstairs. It would be a little awkward if we only had one bathroom with four people living here. And I wouldn't want to run into Ashton, I don't want to get on his bad side. Lucas says he's always grumpy. I wondered why but I let it slide and started thinking about other things.

After awhile of laying in bed thinking about my new life, I finally let sleep consume me and I went into a deep, peaceful slumber.