Breathe (Anthony Trujillo)

*25

We're sitting in the meeting with the landlord right now. I expected it to be at a small coffee shop or something, but nope. I guess this guy owns half the houses in the hills and has his own realtor company.

"Tish Brooks."

I smile holding my hand out to him.

"Wesley O'Donald."

He takes my hand shaking it. He waves us all to sit down. I sit across from Alex next to Alissa and Sommer. I was handed a paper. I look at Banks in a questioning way.

"Oh, I'm not staying in the house."

I smile trying to hand back the papers. He pushes them back to me.

"We need record that you were there for more than a week."

I look at Banks again and he nods. I nod and take a pen from him. I read over everything before filling it out. I hand him the pen and paper back. I feel something poke my knee. I look down at my knee with a creeped out face. I rub my hand across my knee, something touches the top of my hand. I quickly pull my hand away accidentally punching the table. Everyone looks at me. I smile sheepishly.

"Sorry, muscle spasm."

They all look away and I look back down at my red knuckles. It happens again! This time I hear snickering. I look up and Alex is smirking at me. I relax in my seat and glare at him. He shrugs his shoulders innocently. I flip him off secretly, He puts his hand over his heart pretending to be hurt.

I slip my black flip-flop off and start massaging his thigh with my toes. He grabs my foot and starts massaging it. He looks up at the landlord, I relax in my seat as he continues rubbing my feet without me asking. While he intently focuses on the conversation, I stare at him in awe. He smirks, this telling me he knows I am staring. I continue to stare though not caring.

"Alex could you come up here a minute."

He lets go of my foot and stands up. I'm not sure what for, because I zoned out on his face. I kept staring at all of his imperfections, his acne scars and the small gap in his two front teeth.

When we leave, Alex pulls me off to the side.

"I feel I am obligated to tell you this."

He looks at me with guilt. My heart drops, here we go again another heart break.

"I have a girlfriend."

I look at him with huge eyes.

"You feel obligated, to tell me now?! That should have been something you said when we started flirting."

He nods looking down.

"Thanks for telling me now though, before things got serious."

I walk away catching up with the rest of the group. That's enough, I'm done with guys. Maybe I'll look into girls? We will see.

I think to myself. When we get back to the house I text Kian and Jc.

M-Can I come back?

K-Of course you can.

J-Duh!

I smile and start putting my things back into the bags and everything.

"You're moving in with Alex today?"

Rice asks coming in the room. I shake my head.

"No, I'm going back to Kian and Jc's."

I hear him walk up behind me. He grabs me by the arm and pulls me to my feet.