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PART OF ME - you become so emotionally close to someone that you feel like they are literally a part of you, like a half of your heart. You don't want to live without them - you can't.
Aviana Ember wouldn't know this fe...
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I haven't really made any new friends in my classes yet. It's the end of the week, and Axel doesn't have class today, so instead of waiting around for him or vice versa, I walk home alone. Seattle is pretty cold mid-January, but I'm cozy, bundled up in a big blanket scarf and my knee high boots.
I stop at The Ugly Mug to grab Axel and I a coffee, hoping he'll be okay with that since I can't text him due to a dead phone. It's only early afternoon; I finish class at 2 on Fridays, but I have nothing else to do and no one else to see, so I go straight back to the apartment. The fucking elevator doesn't work. It's under maintenance. I'm in a mood by the time I reach the 9th floor and all I want to do is wash my coffee down the sink and go to bed.
Luci immediately greets me when my key slides into the door, but the first thing I notice is Axel and a girl sitting at our kitchen table.
I don't let myself freak out. Instead, I put on a smile and say, "hey, guys." I set the coffees down on the shelf by the door and sit on the floor to take off my boots and pet Luci at the same time. Axel looks like he wants to explain exactly what's going on, which, I'm sure, there is nothing going on, but I glance up at the two and apologize, "I would have brought three coffees had I known we had guests."
"It's okay," the girl says. "Although a coffee sounds nice."
Only minutes ago I didn't want mine, but the way she says what she says makes me want to keep my coffee more than I ever have before.
Instead I say, "Axel wouldn't mind making you one, would you?" I glance at him, and he shakes his head.
"Uh, no I can make you one, or you can have mine? You'll just have to put cream and sugar in if you want. I drink mine black," he tells the girl, and I get up and turn around to take off my jacket and to hide my reddening face. Yeah, it's just a black coffee, nothing special, except I didn't bring it for Axel's girl-friend. I brought it for him.
I tell myself to stop thinking so immaturely and grab the coffees and take them to the kitchen, Luci on my heels.
"Whatever you want," I say, taking a sip of mine to claim it. "Double-double?"
The girl nods. "Thank you so much."
I scoff when she's not looking, but Axel clearly sees it, and gets up to join me in the kitchen.
"We're just working on homework stuff," he tells me, "our entire class is confused. Thought it would help to work on it with someone else." He nods and explains, "I didn't feel like going out today and leaving Luci, plus, Carrie just lives two blocks down."
I nod. "Cool," I say too enthusiastically and glance past Axel, "it's nice to me you, Carrie. I'm Avi. I don't know if Axel told you he had a roommate."
