The navy blue nail polish slid nicely along my toe nails as I stared at my TV screen.
"And then Snickers was all 'Who do you think you are?' and then Ronnie's got the nerve to push me out of the way?! I was seriously about to get JWow on his ass."
Why I continued to watch Jersey Shore, I'd never know. I was crashing with my parents for awhile considering I'd just gotten back from Princeton, and was back in Wyckoff. That's when my phone blew up.
"Let's have some fun,
This beat is sick
I wanna take a ride on your disco stick
Don't think too much just bust that dick
I wanna take a ride on your disco stick
Let's play a love game,
Play a love game
Do you want love or you want fame?
Are you in the game?"
I looked at the caller ID. Demi.
"You will never believe this!" She shrieked into my blackberry. I blinked for a second, I was tired, and that had surely woke me up.
"What Dems?" I asked as I closed the cap. I stood up and looked at the boxes by the stairs. Demi and I had been apartment hunting since we both had gotten back from college. I was 22, and ready to go places.
"Dallas-" She paused. "Get this, just officially moved in with her boyfriend…" I smiled. Was this going where I think it was? "And the apartments big enough for four, but she says if we can have a down payment by tomorrow, it'll be ours!" She screamed.
"No way!" I screamed back.
"Yes way!" She screamed into the phone. I laughed.
"How much for rent?" I asked. I didn't have as much money as I wanted too, and I had just began an internship at a local office, and money was tight.
"500 hundred a month." She replied. I gulped. "And that's only half of it." I bit my lip.
"Demi, I dunno if I can handle that…" I sighed. I just wanted out of this house. And that's when a light bulb went off. "What if, we had two other roommates? You said Dallas said that the place was big enough for four right? Well if we had four, then we'd only have to pay 250 a month! Come on Demi its brilliant and imagine the friends we could make!" I shouted excitedly.
"Maybe." She replied softly.
"Demi is there an issue…?" I asked confused.
"Well… I kinda already put an ad up for two roommates…" She laughed. I shook my head with a smile. She knew me too well.
"Alright then, it's settled. You think Dallas is willing to meet up with the landlord tonight?" I asked already anxious to get out of my house.
"Babe, the meetings already set, I'll be over to pick you up in 10."
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I looked around the now empty apartment. It was all I ever wanted. It was all white, with 4 bedrooms, fairly small of course. It had two bathrooms, one in one of the bedrooms, and one in the hallway. I jumped for the one with the bathroom and Demi laughed.
"That was so unfair." She laughed as she set down the two boxes she had brought. We had decided to bring over some clothes, and just stay the night here. I couldn't believe how fast the paperwork had gone through, and we already had two roommates coming tomorrow. My brother Jackson, and two of Demi and my best friends Lilly, and her boyfriend Oliver were coming by to help us move in.
"I love the hard wood floor." I said knocking on it as I knelt down. My hand slid across the clean material. "This is just amazing." I repeated over and over again.
"So you've said." She said with a giggle. She opened the box with sheets in it, and laid down two. "Say hello to you bed tonight." I shook my head with my toothy smile.
"So you've said." I mocked in a squeaky voice. She dropped down a bag filled with Chinese food that we had bought for dinner that night, and unloaded. I sat down on the sheets with her and just smiled.
"So," she began opening her bottle of coke. "Our roommates are guys." She said blandly, as if it was no big deal.
"Guys?" I said a little surprised. "I thought we'd get some girls, you know, have some girls nights…" I replied, with disappointed obvious in my strained voice.
"Eh, we'll get over it." She said poking me. "You know, I was going through some stuff before we left. And you'll never guess what I found."
I looked over at her as I spooned some fried rice onto the Styrofoam plate. "What?"
"I found my prom dress. Actually both, and our old yearbook." She smiled.
I knew exactly what would follow. "Get the book!" I screeched, and she immediately jumped up and pulled our junior yearbook from the box.
"Our senior ones at home, but I brought this one, since it had me on the cheer squad." She said with a smile, thinking back to high school.
"Gosh, all you talked about back then was cheer leading!" I said with a giggle. I flipped into the middle of the book. "Awww!" I cried staring at the picture of Oliver and Lilly smooching.
She grabbed the book. "I remember that! Joanie dared them to kiss to prove they were dating and when they did, they fell in love!" She giggled and flipped the page. "I wonder what happened to him." She asked randomly as she stared at the photo on the page. "Otherwise known as your boyfriend." She said looking at me.
Was she talking about Jake? We knew what happened to him. I grabbed the book and glared at Demi. "We all know that I hated Nick Grey with a passion, why you consistently said I liked him was beyond me." I snapped.
"I never said you liked him." I stared at her beyond annoyed. "I said you loved him." She said making kissy faces as she repeated loved.
"Ugh Demi shut up!" I groaned as I looked back at the photo. I remembered that day like it was yesterday.
I laughed at Oliver as he continued his story.
"And then Lilly's dad was all 'Boy, you touch my daughter and I'll kill you!" I kept laughing with Demi and Lilly as he continued his story.
"Mi, what's up babe?" Jake asked as he pecked my cheek.
"Same old, same old." I replied as I took a bite of my pizza.
"Alright well I have lunch dentition so I'll catch you later." He kissed my cheek and ran off. I looked at Demi who was staring off into the distance. I followed her gaze.
"Some one have a thing for Joe Grey?" I asked with a wide grin. She immediately swung her head to face me.
"Who?" I stared at her. "You mean me? Pssht, no." She replied. "I uh, I gotta go." She darted out of the lunch room, and I gave Lilly a look.
"Miles look who's coming this way. Come on Oli-Poo, let's go get some soda." Lilly stood up and grabbed her boyfriend by the ear before stepping away from the table. I looked up to catch Nick's glance.
"If it isn't Slutty Stewart." He said with a stupid smirk wiped across his gorgeous face.
"Shut it Grey, or I'll shove something down your throat." I paused. "Or would you enjoy that?" I said with a mischievous grin.
He rolled his eyes. "Don't you have a boyfriend to annoy?" He questioned.
I laughed. "Weren't you the one to come over here? Gotta thing for me that you can't stay away?" I said with a smile.
"Wow Stewart, falling for you would be like falling for an elephant." He said before turning away.
"Well considering your mother's one I highly doubt it'd be that hard."
He turned around. "Excuse me?" I said darting his beyond delicious looking brown eyes.
I stood up, brining my hands to my waist. "You heard me." I replied simply.
Before he could say anything one of the yearbook staff members turned him around and he flashed a goofy face. The photographer ran off, and Nick's attention was back on me.
"Don't you dare bring my mother into this." He hissed.
"Aw, do we have a momma's boy here?" I said with a fake pout. I could tell he was about to explode, and that's when I felt Jake's arms around my waist.
"Is he bothering you?" Jake asked looking down at my features.
"Yes Jakey Boo." I said burying my head into his neck. Boy did I have a grin playing out of my face.
"You're fucking kidding me right? Don't mess with my girl." Jake said stepping closer to Nick.
"Oh naïve Jake Ryan, you honestly think I'm scared of you?" He let out a chuckle.
"You should be." He said taking a step closer to Nick.
"Eh, that's okay, I'm not." He replied before picking up Lilly's left over mash potatoes and dumping it on Jake's blonde hair. "See you dude." He said with a smirk as he walked away. The whole cafeteria gasped and started cheering fight to Nick as he stepped out. But it seemed as if for once, Nick was being the bigger person.
"Oh he's so gonna get it!" Jake shrieked before running out of the cafeteria.
"That was an um, fun day… I guess…" I laughed as I took a bite out of the egg roll in my hand.
"I know right? We talked on the phone for hours that day. You gushed about how Nick and Jake got into this whole fight over that incident." She laughed. "And if I remember correctly, you went on and on about how hunky Nick looked that day." She winked as she twirled some noodles.
"I did not! I was in love with Jake, and I hated Nick. And you knew that Demi! Ugh. And I haven't seen Nick in 3 years, and I'm quite proud of that." I added. I sipped my cherry coke and looked at Demi who had her eyes shut.
"Apparently you forgot when I walked in on you two almost in a kiss." She said smiling as she licked her fork.
"What are you talking abou-"
"You're just pissed that I beat the crap out of your boyfriend Stewart." He said with a cold laugh.
"You wish Nick. And you didn't even beat the crap out of him!"
"Wanna bet? I gave him a black eye, a groin injury and a bloody lip. That's pretty much beating the shit out of him." He stepped closer. "Admit it." He said.
"You wish, once again." I repeated as he got closer.
"Why most you be in so much denial?" He asked moving closer.
I could fell his hot breath on my face and my eyes fluttered closed as I felt his nose touch mine. I knew his lips were only inches away.
"Hey Miles I wanted to-" I heard Demi say as I quickly shot my eyes open.
"I gotta go…" I screeched, running out before any questions were asked.
She smirked at me knowing that I had just remembered what she was talking about. I groaned.
"Okay so maybe once we almost kissed… I mean…" I didn't know what to say. "That was 5 years ago Demi. I didn't have feelings for him then, so can we drop the subject?"
She spooned some rice and rolled her eyes. "Whatever you want smiley."
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I stepped back into the apartment and dropped the last box.
"Thank you so much guys! I can't thank you enough." I said as I hugged Lilly, Jackson, and Oliver.
"Yeah thanks guys." Demi added as we watched them walk out. I turned to look at Demi.
"So you ready? For living alone, in our own apartment?" I screamed in delight as I opened a box labeled dishes.
"Not alone Mi, we have two roommates coming later today." She added as she looked at the couch that they had helped us carry up.
"Besides them." I said with a smile.
"I'm ready for anything babe." She laughed and hugged me.
And that's when the doorbell rang.
DUHDUHDUHDUMMMMMM. Who is it? Lmfao. I think you know. ; ) We know who's at the door. And right now it MAY seem contrived…. Okay, it is contrived. Right now. Next chapter shall be much more interesting ; ) And I will continue my other fanfiction story, I just love this idea. So…
Love, Live, Niley- Jenna (Hehe, original much?!)
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