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Chapter-25

ɪ'ᴠᴇ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ʙᴇᴇɴ ꜱᴏ ɪɴᴛᴏ ꜱᴏᴍᴇʙᴏᴅʏ ʙᴇꜰᴏʀᴇ
ᴀɴᴅ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏ ᴛɪᴍᴇ ᴡᴇ ʙᴏᴛʜ ᴛᴏᴜᴄʜ ɪ ᴏɴʟʏ ᴡᴀɴᴛ ᴍᴏʀᴇ
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I stood infront of my apartment building and saw smoke coming out of the windows from my apartment, Luke is standing beside me, clearly pissed off with his girlfriend.

Chase was dropping me at my place like he was doing for the last 4 days but we got a shock after reaching there. Apparantly, Malea was cooking for Luke and she sent him to buy something from the store. Let me tell you, she knows shit about cooking.

The dish in the oven caught fire and slowly that fire only increased since that dumbass decided to pour water in it. Scared, she ran out letting everything burn and not caring about calling the firefighters.

"I'm sorry." Malea said for the 100th time since I arrived.

"You could've told me you can't cook! I wasn't going to break up with you or force you to cook." Luke snaps.

"Don't talk to me like that, it's not my fault your stupid oven caught fire!" She yelled loudly.

"It wasn't stupid bitch." I whispered to myself. We bought it from our first salary. "How much is the damage?" I ask the firefighter dude.

"You can't stay here for some days, the living room caught fire too and it'll take a couple of weeks for the smoke to completely go away. It's not safe to stay there." He replied.

"Can I collect my things?" I ask with hopeful eyes.

"I'll advise you to refrain from entering the house right now, wait for a day or two." He says before walking away.

I want to kill Malea so badly right now. I turn to Chase who was standing just beside me.

"I'm going to kill her, I swear. Her presence is irritating me now." I tell him, burying my face in his chest.

"C'mon, you're not needed here. Let's go." He says.

"What no? I have to talk to the insurance company and I don't have anything to wear and I-"

Luke cuts me off, "I'll take care of it. Will you be fine staying with him?" He asks. "You can stay at my parents' place." He offers.

"I'll stay with Melissa or Logan, don't worry about it." I tell him. He nods before going back to calling someone on his phone. Malea is nowhere to be seen, I guess she left.

"You're not going anywhere else." I look up at a frowning Chase.

"I am, I can't stay with you for so long. You'll kick me out once you see how I live." I explained.

"Shut up." He says.

"You shut up." I point my finger at him which he just kisses softly before pushing me towards his car.

"Wait but-"

"Less talking, more walking." He says.

"Hey, that rhymed!" I exclaimed.

"Celeste?"

"What?" I ask, looking back at him.

"Less talking." He says again, so I mocked him to which he just shook his head.

He opens the door for me and gently pushed me inside. I look back at my smokey apartment and Luke. I wave at him, he waved back before focusing on the caller again.

"I have nothing to wear." I say once we step inside Chase's house.

"We'll go to buy something tomorrow." He says as he stretches his arms.