Living With Jordan

Chapter 2

I arrived at my brothers apartment building, as I got out of the Uber I tried wiping my tears away but they wouldn't stop falling from my eyes. I took the elevator to the 4th floor and searched for a while to find my brothers apartment. I've never been here so I got kinda lost. Finally, I found room 446, I tried wiping my tears away again before knocking on the door but they still wouldn't stop.

*knock knock knock* I knocked as hard as I could so my brother would wake up to the noise.

"Hold on a second." I heard from the other side of the door. As the door slowly opened I could see my brothers face turn to shock. "Rose what happened?"

"Charlie!" I ran into his arms and started to cry even more. "Why are you crying?" He asked me in a soft, worried voice.

I stepped back, wiped my tears, and spent a couple of seconds trying to settle down before speaking. "Mom kicked me out," I said with a shaky voice. "What happened?" He replied with an angry look on his face.

"She came home drunk and I told her she should stop drinking." I paused and inhaled a couple of times before saying the rest. It was hard to say but I knew I had to tell him. "But instead of her listening to me she slapped me and kicked me out." tears trailed down my face again.

"That's it you are not going back to that house, you are staying here." Charlie wiped my tears away as they fell. "We will get your things tomorrow." He looked at me with a smile and patted my head. "Okay." I finally started to settle down and wiped away my last tears.

Charlie walked me over to the couch and sat me down. Then left to go get me some water. I sat curled up in a ball until I heard footsteps approaching. I turned around thinking it was Charlie back with my drink but it was some other guy. He was probably the hottest guy I ever saw. He seemed about 6 feet tall, I am only 5'1 so he was basically a giant to me. His arms had a couple of tattoos on them and he had the most beautiful blue piercing eyes.

"Who are you?" He said snapping me out of my trance. "How about you tell me who you are first!" Before any of us could answer each other Charlie came back in with my drink. He handed me the water and introduced us to each other.

"This is Jordan, he is my best friend and has been living here with me for a while now." I was shocked to hear Charlie had a roommate. "You told me you lived alone." I crossed my arms and waited for an answer from him.

"Sorry I didn't tell you, I needed help paying rent awhile back and Jordan wanted to move out of his parents place, so we ended up being roommates." He further explained that he didn't want me to know that he was struggling. "You could have told me tho" I replied with my arms still crossed.

*cough cough* Jordan made coughing noises to try to butt into our conversation. "Charlie are you not going to tell me who this is."

"This is my little sister Rose, she is off limits!" I never heard Charlie's voice that deep and scary before. "Okay geez!" Jordan even was shocked by Charlie's voice.

"I will sleep on the couch tonight and you can sleep in my room. Tomorrow after grabbing your stuff at the house we can go shopping to get stuff to transform my office room into a bedroom for you." Charlie tells me then directs me to his room and gives me one of his shirts to sleep in. He points me to the washroom and says to wash up then head to bed.

I did what he said and took a shower. His shirt only reached the top of my thighs, he wasn't a really tall guy and he was pretty skinny so I could fit in his clothes. I only had my underwear on underneath so I ran as fast as I could back to his room, but about halfway there I ran into Jordan. I could feel his eyes checking me out from top to bottom, I tried pulling the shirt down as much as I could but it hardly did anything.

Jordans POV
I was walking back from the kitchen when I saw Rose running out of the bathroom, I don't think she saw me and ran straight into me. She jumped back and stood there pulling her shirt as far down as she could. I couldn't help but look at her, she was beautiful. If only she wasn't Charlie's sister I thought to myself.

Rose POV
"What do you think you're looking at!" I gave up on trying to pull my shirt down and slapped him across the face.

"Who would have thought you would have pandas on your underwear." Jordan chuckled. "It's cute." he looked at me with a smirk on his face.

"Shut up!" I ran into Charlie's room and slammed the door. That night I hardly slept, I kept thinking about going back to that house tomorrow and hoped mom wasn't there.