Girl Next Door (A 5SOS Fanfic)

Chapter 5: Eviction Notice

*Please read the A/N @ the end!*

Alyssa's POV:

After slamming the door in Luke's face, I sighed and flopped onto the couch. There was nothing to watch on TV, so I ripped open a packet of chocolate chip cookies and nibbled on one as I pondered on the mess that was my life. Just as I was about to swallow my gorgeous cookie, the door bell rang. I groaned in frustration and opened the door to see Tori standing there with tears brimming around her eyes. I rolled my eyes and looked at Tori before swallowing my cookie. Tori sniffled.

"So, are you gonna come in and tell me what's wrong, or are you just gonna stand there?" I said.

Tori welcomed her self in and crashed onto the couch

"So what seems to be the problem?" I asked.

Tori said nothing, but took out a crumpled and folded piece of paper and handed it to me. I unfolded the paper, and in big red letters at the top it read:

EVICTION NOTICE.

Uh-oh.

Date of Notice: 06/05/14

Tenant in Possession: Miss Victoria Green

Location: 8700 Pershing Drive, California

TAKE NOTICE: You are indebted to the landlord in the sum of:

$10, 700.

YOU ARE REQUIRED to pay the above sum within 5 WEEKS after you receive this notice OR surrender possession of the premises to the Landlord.

City Commissioner of Land and Estate.

I felt the bile rising to my throat. Tori had to pay nearly 11 grand in five weeks. Five weeks. Eleven grand. Eleven grand. Five weeks. I got so angry I started cussing in French.

"QUEL EST LE PROBLEME VOUS, TORI?! SAVEZ-VOUS COMBIEN VOUS ÊTES EN PANNE?!" I screamed, throwing the piece of paper on the floor. Tori's eyes were welling up even more. I took a deep breath, counted to ten and switched to Spanish.

"Honestamente, Señor os ayude, porque no hay manera que usted puede AUMENTAR ONCE GRAND EN CINCO SEMANAS! ¿CUÁLES SON SUS PADRES QUE VAN A DECIR UNA VEZ conocer a esta?! Oro para que el Señor haga un milagro para salir de esta situación. ¿Cómo puedes ser tan estúpido?!" I yelled.

That's one of the benefits of having a Spanish father and a French mother. You always sound so educated. I took another deep breath and put a comforting arm around my now sobbing best friend.

"Hey." I said. "Don't worry about it. If one of us goes down, we go down together."

Tori sniffled. "Thanks, Alyssa. Do you think I could stay here for a while? Just until I save up enough money to rent another apartment."

"Of course you can." I reassured. My mom surely wouldn't mind since it seems that she actually loves Tori more than me. "Now, are you hungry? Cos I'm in the mood for a pizza."

Tori smiled and picked up her phone and a pizza takeaway menu. "I'm on it." she grinned.

This is why I love Tori. She pretends that the worst possible situations mean nothing and carries on with life with her head held high. That's how I know that no matter what happens between Luke and I, Tori's always gonna have my back.

A/N:

Hi guys! So, how was this chapter? Not too short we hope! We know we only updated the last chapter yesterday, but we just wanted to get this out of the way because we have a few exams coming up. Since we updated quite quickly, we may or may not update on Saturday, but whatever, we'll see how it goes. Also, thank to all our readers; now we have 121 reads on this book *cue round of applause*. Hope you guys have a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious week!

Fierce and Love

Anna and Tolu xxx