After seeing my best and only friend die in front of me, I decided that I needed a change. I was going to move out of my old apartment, get a better job, a puppy and become in control of my life again. No more messing around with guys, I'd had enough of those as it was.
A few weeks after Pippa's death, I found a nice little apartment block near a few work places and coffee shops, ect. I decided to pay the rent for it for 6 months in advance, so I couldn't back out of my plan of moving on with my life. I managed to get a job at a local café, purely because the pay was good and the old lady who ran it liked me so I was paid more than I probably should have been. I also got a King Charles Spaniel puppy, and I've called him Flynn- after Flynn Rider obviously.
One afternoon, after my daily walk with Flynn, I got back to my flat, tired as hell and wanting nothing but sleep. I let myself into the front door, shut it behind me before letting Flynn off his lead and staggering to my bedroom. I was just about to drift off and have a nap, when I heard the doorbell ring. I groaned and rolled over and off my bed. I pushed myself up off the floor and trudged to the door.
'Hello?' I yawned as I swung open the door to reveal a tall-ish brunette girl with perfect everything stood in front of me with a tin in her hands.
'Hello, you must be our new neighbour? Me and my boyfriend live in the flat across from yours and we've been meaning to come across and say hi for a while now but we never get round to doing it.'
'Yeah, I'm Alanis, glad to see I have such friendly neighbours.'
'Oh it's no worry, my name's Arielle. Here, have these, I just made them half an hour ago!'
She passed me the tin which was full of brownies.
'Oh you shouldn't have! Thank you so much, I'll have to repay your kindness one day.'
'No need, sweetie, honestly! See you round sometime!'
'Yeah, bye!'
I waited until she had walked into her apartment to shut the door, then I strolled into my living room, way too awake now to sleep. I decided to put a film on and try the brownies and before I knew it I had fallen asleep. I woke up an hour or so later because I heard a scuffling noise outside my door. I stood up to see a note had been pushed under my door so I decided to take a look.
'Alanis,
Just wanted to remind you that tonight is bin night so make sure both your bins have been taken out
Love
Arielle x'
I sighed with relief, I would never have remembered that in a million years. I silently thanked Arielle before shoving some ballet pumps on and getting everything I needed to put in my bins.
I struggled out of the door with about 6 bags full of rubbish and managed to get all the way to my bins without dropping anything. I unloaded all of my rubbish into the right bins before hearing a bang behind me. I span around to see the last person I wanted to see- that's right. Alex.
Luckily he hadn't noticed me yet so I glanced around, looking for somewhere to hide from him, seeing as I couldn't make a break for my apartment cause he was stood right in front of it. The only place I could see that I could hide in and not be seen was the bin itself. Seeing as I only had on leggings and a tank top, I decided to risk it. I toppled into the bin, miraculously without Alex seeing me. I was almost in the clear when Alex sauntered right past me in order to put his rubbish in his bin and knocked my bin and I over.
'Shit' we both murmured at the same time, just before I screamed.
I'd really done it now.
Alex approached the bin's lid and opened it to see me covered in rubbish, clutching my hip.
'Al? What are you doing here?'
'Well, erm...you see... I was putting out my bin whe-'
'Wait. You live here?'
'Yes, that's why I was putting MY bin out... when my ring fell into the bin so I tried to get it out but I fell in...'
I concluded my absolute bullshit story and looked up at Alex to see him trying to supress a smirk.
'What now Turner?'
'I'm sorry.. It's just...You fell... Into.. A bin?!' he spluttered out between chuckles.
'Yes. Yes I did. Now are you going to help me out or not? I have to get back to Flynn.'
At the mention of another man, Alex's laughed turned to a cough and his breathing increased, eyes wide.
'Flynn?' Alex choked out.
'Yep.' I replied, popping the p. I wasn't going to let him know that Flynn was my dog now was I? after all, he didn't exactly deserve to know.
Alex shook his head before grabbing my hand and pulling me out of the bin. I brushed myself down and, just before I turned to head back to my apartment, I called-
'Oh, and thank you! For this and the brownies!'
with a wink, waiting for the realisation to hit him before stalking back to my apartment.
When I got back, I showered quickly before getting changed into my pj shorts and oversized shirt and settling down in front of the TV. I jumped up in shock as I got a text, not realising I was sat o my phone, before whipping it from under me to see who was texting me. I was confused when I saw who the text was from but even more confused when I saw what it said-
'Alex Band Guy-
Meet me round the corner at Costa in 10, I need to talk to you xxx- Al'
(A/N) Sorry it's been so long guys I haven't had time and I'm trying to update this and my Aidan Turner fanfic as often as possible but it's pretty hard, hope this was okay for everyone, thank you all if you're still reading x
