Chapter 9 Finding the Apartment

George opens the door, grabs the cat and throws it towards the back seat.

George- "I can't believe you stole the freaking cat. What the hell is wrong with you dude? Do you have a loose screw???"

The cat points his middle finger at me and:

Flufii - "You better keep your friend on the leash or else I will cut the both of you when you guys are sleeping."

Dan- Dude did you just hear what the cat said?

George- "Are you on fucking drugs or something else?"

Dan- "Nooooooo!!!! He said, he will cut us because you are mistreating him."

George looks at me again with a weird look on his face, like I was an alien or something like that. That's when I realized I was the only one that could understand it. So, I looked back at the cat and gave it a thumbs up. To make sure that the cat knows, we are cool!!!

Dan- "Listen dude I will explain later, for now let's focus on getting the apartment."

George- "Sure, but listen you have to take care of the cat. I am not coming close to it. I don't want it hanging in or around my room. If I catch it loitering around in my room, I will send it to the pound."

I could feel the disdain of the cat towards George. It was not a good day at all and on top of that the cat was pissed off. The holy grail was in my car, and I needed for them both to get along. I was going to leverage both of them in order to achieve my end goals. I was looking to retire ASAP, so I could focus on finding sexy women to be around me. Oh, I forgot, a nice place and a lambo. So, there was nothing that could stop me from achieving this goal.

Dan- "Bro don't worry about it, I will handle it all. You will not be disappointed. We will make so much money from this cat you won't believe it."

George looks at me as I start up the piece of shit car, and rolls his eyes.

George- "We have a total of three places to look at, the first is on 5th Ave, not too far away from downtown."

I start driving and we get into the conversation on how I kidnapped the cat. George was really amused. I could tell that he was shocked. He knew I always played this game called life real safe. The cat I ran over and left the note was his favorite. My favorite moment was when I dodged hugging my uncles wife. That was a swift move, I had to really think fast at the last moment. Since I wasn't sure what I was going to do. As we are driving both of us are laughing the entire way.

George- "Does your uncle have any clue as to what happened that morning?"

Dan- "As far as what I heard from my mom; he told her Sandra was high during it. He comes home sees a flattened cat on the porch and Sandra was confused whether it was real or a dream. The note was peculiar, because how the hell did the person who ran over the cat know where my uncle stayed?"

George- "What a trip man. I think you got away with it, he laughed."

Dan- "I hope so, because he didn't ask me about the time I stopped by when he was on the trip."

We pull up to the apartment building, but we see a bunch of apartments on the left and right side. We drive up the slope further and park at an empty spot. We see the office just up ahead, not that hard to find. I look back at the cat, and it's sound asleep. Snoring like a cat should. I thought that was a good sign. We get out of the car, and I forgot to open the window slightly so the cat could breathe. I didn't want to take the chance of it running away or being kidnapped by some pervert. We start walking up the stairs, the apartments from the outside were not very impressive. But much better than living with me and my ass swipe father. Besides this was going to be the first time in my life that I will be on my own. Feels good to finally become a man. Yeah today is the day, when I start my journey to new adventures. I knock on the door. Both of us could hear the floor moving as the noise got closer to the door. This heavy-set woman opens it. She looked nice, but heavy.

Manager- "Welcome, how can I help you."

George- "I spoke to you earlier about the vacant apartment."

Manager- "Yes, we have only one available as of now, but we also have someone who has applied as well. But we are not sure if they qualify, they have like 10 people who will live there. How many people for this apartment, and how good is your credit?"

At the moment my jaw lifted, and I was like damn man, both of our scores were shot.

George- "Only two of us, but our credit is not great. We are rebuilding it."

The manager was not looking so happy or that was her personality. I could see across from the window the cat jumping up and down in the car

Dan- Can we please take a look at it?

Manager- "Sure here are the keys, bring them back and if you like it fill out this application."

We took the keys and I just thought if she said fill out the application, maybe we had a chance.

George- "Dude, I don't think she is going to give us the apartment."

Dan- "Dude she asked us to fill it out if we liked it. That was a good sign."

I am more of the optimist in the relationship. I've met this guy before we became really good friend, way back in middle school. We walk a block down, and run upstairs. All of these apartments are joined together built adjacent to each other. As we walk into the apartment the living room is a decent size. The dining we don't really care about maybe when guests come by. The kitchen is somewhat small, but manageable. I'm no cook, neither is George from what I know. The bedroom was the only place where a disagreement may occur. One was larger than the other.

George- "I'm not sure that this is the right place."

I'm already in, the trees, plants and the fact that there is no one above or adjacent to us. I tried explaining to George, but he said we had to take a look at other places. Did I mention that gas, water, and trash were included into the price? Hell, there was even rent control. They could only raise the rent at the most 3% a year, and month to month. I thought it was a steal at $1395 a month split into 2.

So, we trucked along, and the cat was becoming really restless. I told George to go ahead without me, I had to figure out in the meantime what to do with the cat. George was really pissed off at me for leaving him at the second place. He had to take Uber back.

Dan- "See you later man, and sorry for leaving you here."

So, it was just me and the cat. The stare the cat gave me was priceless.