The Truth

Chapter 12.

The road trip was exhausting but it was really interesting and fun, just like Jared said me.

Now we are about to see our apartment we are going to leave in, I'm so excited.

As we arrive J parks the car in front of the apartment complex, it looks nice, white walls with dark window frames, it reminds me a bit of our old apartment near the university.

"Are you ready?" J asks with a wide smile.

"Yeah, lead the way!" I answer back smiling.

We make our way to the second floor and stop near the door with number seventeen. Jared put the key into the keyhole, twist it, after the quiet click the door is open. He slowly pulls the door to open, so I could enter first. I make a step in the dark space, I feel Jared steps in right after me. Click, as the light goes on and I gasp.

"Cam, do you like it?" He asks nervously.

" I love it!!!" I say smiling.

Now I'm standing in the middle of a huge, something like a studio room.
In the middle of the room stands a dark brown sofa which is combined perfectly with dark floor and milky walls. Near the sofa situated small coffee table made of glass with some magazines on it, big TV standing on a small vintage commode in front of the coffee table. In front of the sofa lays a white round carpet, it looks like the one we had in our previous apartment. Some kind of vintage bookcase stands on the right side of the room. One small detail, which is incredibly important for me are plants, green plants in the white pots are situated in the corner near the balcony door. Our kitchen is on the right, it looks modern in contrast with vintage furniture and I love it. On the left is a small hall which leads us to the bathroom and our rooms.

As we stand near the door which I suppose is going to be my room, Jared smiles at me. He is as excited as I am.
He opens the door and pushes me inside the room. As soon as I enter the room and see it. I turn around and look at Jared in shock.

"J....it's....." I can't formulate my sentence.

"Do you....um...like it?" He stares at me nervously.

Without any words, I pull him into a hug.

This room looks just the same one I had in our previous apartment. It wasn't too big or too small, the size of the room was perfect for me, with minty walls and a white floor. The white king size bed with a lot of blue pillows and the dark blue cover is standing in the middle of the room, there are two doors on the opposite sides, one is the bathroom and another in my closet. In the right corner is a dark blue armchair with two small aquamarine pillows. Different posters and photos are hanging on the walls. By the amount of blue color in the room you can say I'm in love with it.

"Cam..."

"I don't know how you did this, but thank you J I really love it!" I say raising my eyes to look straight at him.
We stay like this for some moments and I feel how Jared's arms go tights on my waist, he pulls me closer to him. Now our faces are inches away from each other.

"Maybe we should go and check out your room now," I say in a whisper.

Jared looks at me and nods.

"Yeah, we should."

Before we step back from each other, J brushes loose stands of hair behind my ear.

Jared's room looks simple, it has grey walls, black floor, king size bed in the middle of the room, white work desk with a chair on the right side. He has a bathroom and a walk-in closet as well.

"What do you think?" He asks, glaring at me.

"Well, it's typical Jared" I laugh.   

J rolls his eyes at my statement.

"Don't roll your eyes at me," I say smiling.

J turns around and goes to the kitchen mumbling something I can't hear.

"Mr. Grumpy I'm going to take a shower," I say loud enough for him to hear and he just nods.

I step inside my room, put my bag on the bed and start to pull out my clothes since we were in a hurry I didn't take a lot of it, so probably tomorrow we need to go shopping. I take my shorts and a t-shirt and go to the bathroom, as I enter there I close the door. I'm a huge fan of tubes and here I have one.

I turn the water on, add some bubble bath and starts to undress. I throw my clothes on the bathroom floor after I'm fully naked I lie down in the warm water and let myself relax.

Instantly I start to think about J, about what happened between us a few minutes ago. How his arm hugged me tightly, our faces inches from each other, he was so close to me.

Knock on the door brings me to reality.

"Cam dinner will be ready in ten minutes," J says simply.

"Alrigth," I answer.

I get out of the tube. The water is dripping from my body as I take a towel and wrap it around me. I put my hair in a messy ban and start to dress into some comfy clothes which are shorts and hoody. When I'm done I make my way to the kitchen.

I step into the kitchen and I look at J, he is busy with preparing  our dinner, to be exactly he is placing plates at the table. I always knew that he is good looking, with time I putt this thougth at the back of my mind, but now I see it clearly. With time he became even more handsome, now he is taller and more muscular, his skin is more tanned now, even his haircut is different. It looks like he has become more mature. Of course, he isn't the same fourteen-year-old boy, he is a man now.

  I lean on the wall and continue to watch him when instantly the sound of my growling belly interrupts the silence. J immediately raises his emerald eyes on me.

"Looks like someone here is hungry, come here," He says with a smile as he always does.

I seat at the table, J places plates with some salad and chicken breasts on the table. Then he turns to the counter and takes a bottle of wine. He opens it and pours some wine in our glasses.

"I thought we can celebrate our moving here and internship and all you know," he breaks the silence.

"Thank you, J" I smile at him.

We start to eat.

" OMG J this is so delicious!" I say to him.

"That's because I'm the best cooker ever," he says with a wide smile.

" Haha you wish, just remember how you tried to make a cake, that was a disaster," I laugh at him.

"You know that I tried to make a surprise for you" He grins at me.

"Yep and you almost set our house on fire,"

We are sitting and laughing at this memory.

I look at the time. It's only half past ten, but I'm so tired after the road trip.

"Cam if you want you can go to sleep,"

Sometimes it's like he reads my mind.

"Yeah, if you don't mind, I'm so exhausted,"

"Sure, no worries, I'll clean it here,"

"Good night J," I say to him and go to my room.

"Night Cam,"  I hear he says to me.

I turn my head and see a smile on his face. I smile back. Time to have some rest, tomorrow is a new day and before the internship starts we have a lot of things to do.