Raising The Flag. (Guardians Trilogy)

24. GROOT N JOOT a family company

Link
      
-6 pm-
   I awoke from my slumber to the motion of someone shaking me. I slowly flickered my eyes open to see Preston shaking me."link?" he asked
me while shaking me with his one arm. I sat up and scooted over. As much as this seemed normal, it wasn't. "What's that?" he asked looking to a neatly folded piece of paper on the coffee table with "LINK" written on it. I raised my eyebrow to it and reached for it. I opened the paper and scanned the words written on it,

    "Link,
          I'm sorry. Today I don't know what happened. I need you and I feel like you need me, give me a call.
             -Josh."

I knew it wasn't right.. I mean, Preston just randomly happened to live in the same town he left years and years ago? Hmm.. " Hey uh, Preston?" I asked, I felt I needed to find a way to leave or make him leave."yeah?" he replied, seeming to know where it was going."I uh, I kinda need to do something important.. And I kinda need to do it alone... Can we like hangout tomorrow or something?" I said trying to be the nicest without beating the bush. "Uh, yeah. I uh, needed to go soon anyways.. Text me?" he asked slipping on his shoes. "Yeah, again I'm sorry.."."don't worry about it, be safe" he said pulling me into a friendly hug, I returned the gesture and let him out. I watched him pull out of the driveway and speed off to his apartment as I shut the door and stood in the middle of the living area. I scanned around the house and began to think. For a house in Chicago, it was designed alot like one from California. The house was rather open, from where I stood, there was an open view to the hall that lead to the upstairs rooms. A staircase to the left of the hall and 2 rooms on the wall below the hall. The kitchen/dining room was an open doorway the size of two doors, and beside there a small bathroom. I began to feel accomplished at the "empire" we all built. It was quite fascinating. Through these thoughts I remembered... I'm alone. IM HOME ALONE. Mark it down, this never happens. I turned on the stero on low and picked up my phone. I scrolled through the contacts and found jishawa❤ and called it. After a few rings, a tired voice answered. "Hello?" he squeaked out. "Hey.. I got your note." I said calmly."be there in 5" he replied quickly and hung up. Okay then. I shook it off and turned up the song playing, "gangnam style" by psy. I began jumping around in my socks and doing the iconic dance moves till I heard a slight laugh. I stopped and snapped my head towards the door. There stood Josh laughing at me and smiling."oh my god Josh you scared me!" I yelled while grabbing my chest.  He smiled and walked over to me, "I'm sorry for everything.." he said looking down. I stepped closer to him and hugged him. He hugged back and I began to tear up. "I love you Josh" I said into his shoulder."I love you Link" he said back, I could hear the relief in his voice. Sure things were rough, but I couldn't be to upset at him.. We both were in a rough time. Honestly, no one could ever truly hold a grud- CRASH. I jumped out of the hug and ran into the kitchen where the noise came from. There stood tyler, covered in thousand island dressing with various condiment bottles sprawled across the floor, along with a pink pole and vanilla candles."whoops" he said looking at me. Oh my god tyler...