roommates

05

Chapter Five : Spilled Milk

"Hey how was it? Anything broken?" Preston asks as soon as we see them in the waiting room.

"She's fine," Kayden answers for me.

"Great, can we go now? I'm getting sick of the hospital smells," Chelsea states with disgust.

"Yeah, I just have to sign Fiona out."

"Okay we'll wait in the car," Preston says. Kayden whispers something to him that I cannot hear while handing him the car keys.

"Fiona, go with them," Kayden calls out while walking to the front desk.

I follow Preston and Chelsea out the hospital and we make our way to where Smokey was parked.

"So, why does he call you Fiona?" Chelsea questions.

I debate on whether I should answer or not. I decide on telling her.

"Unfortunate accident with green paint on my first day at the apartment."

"Kayden paints?"

"Erm, no. I do," Preston jumps in.

This confuses me because I was 100 percent sure the paint I had spilled was Kayden's. That's why he was so mad it got all over his canvas. Plus, Preston wasn't even home. He would have cleaned up if he had left.

"What? I thought it was Kayden's."

"No, it was me."

"Oh."

We get to the car and Preston makes small talk with me, asking me about where I came from and what I'm doing here. I tell him about my writing but I don't tell him about all the drama that went down before I left. A few minutes later, Kayden opens the car door and steps inside.

"Ready to go?" he asks everyone.

We all nod our head and Kayden starts the engine. The ride back home was quiet, but it was a peaceful quiet. Kayden and Preston must have resolved their issues back at the hospital. Kayden drops Chelsea off at her sorority house and we go back to the apartment.

We're all exhausted when we get back to the apartment and everyone's too tired to clean up the mess Kayden and Preston had made during their encounter earlier. So, we just leave it and head into our rooms to sleep.

When I woke up the next morning, Preston and Kayden were both gone. Preston had left a note for me on the fridge that said he would be back around noon and that I could eat anything from the fridge. He also added that I could skip my week of chores because of my fractured ribs.

I smiled at the note and opened the fridge to look for some food. I found some milk and fruit and took them out of the fridge. I grabbed a glass cup from the cabinet and began to pour milk in it. While I was pouring the milk, I hear the door slam close and it made me jump. The cup spilled and the glass shattered over the floor. Kayden storms into the kitchen and the first thing he sees is the mess.

"Will it kill you not to make a mess Fiona? Everywhere you are it's just mess after mess after mess!"

"My mess? This is your fault! I was having a great morning till you stormed in here? Where were you anyway?"

"School!"

"School? You go to school?"

"Sophomore at UBC."

"Oh. Well then what are you doing here?"

"Done with classes for the day."

"Why the hell did you have to slam the door? It scared the living daylights out of me."