Black Roses ||| Tradley AU

Chapter 2

"A what?" Connor screamed throwing the remote. "A roommate! Seriously guys think about it." "Oh I am," James chimed in. "I'm thinking about how we only have three bedrooms, how if our land lord finds out we have another person living here he'll kick us out, and how we can't afford to have another person using our electricity and gas our bills will sky rocket!" James was boiling with rage, he tried to storm our, but I pushed him back down to the couch. "Common guys how about if this guy causes any damage to anything in this apartment I will pay for it, the first time he misses his part of the rent we can kick him out, and he can room with me." Connor and James looked at each other and then back to me. Con said, "Ok, but I want this in writing." So I went back to my room and quickly scraped up a contract

Roommate contract
Our new roommate will
Pay rent on time every month
Not damage anything in flat
Keep his half of the room clean
Eat his own food unless offered food by another person
  And most importantly never let our landlord know he lives here

Signed James, Connor, Bradley, _______

We left an open spot in the contract for our new roommate to sign his name. "So first up on the agenda decide what we are looking for." Connor was the first to say something, "He needs to have a clean record, and a decent credit score." "Oh yeah that's very important, also don't forget he has to be neat and have a job that provides him enough money to pay rent." I wrote down all of the requirements, checked it over with the guys and sent the flyer to the printer.
After lunch I decided better now than later to put up the flyers. So of course I called my go to man Harris to come assist me in putting up the flyers
Hey mate can you come over and help me put up flyers?

What do you need to put up flyers for?

James, con, and I are looking for a new roommate

Dude I would have gladly been your roommate!

Yeah I know Harris, but you are my one escape from this flat. You know how I get sometimes and if I lose the one place I have to go when I can't sleep here, your place, I'll die. And anyway you just told me you wanted to ask Christian to move in with you?

Nah mate remember I told you, Christian and I didn't end up working out. And yeah I get it, sure I'll come over and help

Oh I'm sorry, but thanks see you soon!

I hung up the phone and got the nails and hammers out to put the flyers up. Shortly after Harris showed up his dark brown hair cut down. (A/N - Harris looks like imagine Harry Styles with darker hair and short body.) To be honest if I didn't consider Harris my brother and best friend, I would find him extremely attractive, and even consider him boyfriend material. Harris opened the door with the key I gave him and just strolled on in, giving me a huge hug before he went to the fridge. "Hey what happened to all the apples?" "James ate them all, as usual." Harris sighed, "so can we do this kind of fast since I kind of have to be somewhere later?" I became intrigued. "Where are you off to Harris Peterman?" "Oh nothing, Mason just set me up on a blind date, with a girl," he blushed. "A girl? That's like the first girl you've ever had a date with in 4 years since you swore them off, and decided to try guys! Why now?" "Well I mean I'm getting older and I just want to meet someone, and it's going to be a lot harder if I cut half the population from my list." I chuckled. "We should get going I don't want to miss all the good flyer spots!"

So we embarked on a 1 mile walk to the main area of our town. We put up our flyers on every store front and post we could. By the end of it almost anywhere you turned you would know we were looking for a roommate. All they had to do was call the number on the flyer, confirm they wouldn't murder us, and we'd give them the address. We put our last flyer up when a guy appeared. "Hey, I see you guys are looking for a roommate? Well so am I!" The guy standing before me was about six foot something blond hair and blue eyes. "Yes I am, interviews are all next week just call the number." He smiled nodded his head and walked away. "Haha that was weird there was no reason for him to talk to us." I watched him walk away and thought why did he come up to us, and if he was considering becoming our roommate. "Yeah weird." Harris and I walked the opposite way and I turned my head around one last time and saw this mystery guy looking at me too.