A little opening up

While getting to the floor of his new apartment he spotted a girl coming out of the next apartment and he recognized her immediately as the girl he met the other day on the bus....

Jay decided to enter the apartment before she got to see him so that's what he did and he closed the door immediately leaning on it not knowing why is he acting like that. The thing that he forgot about is the fact that he doesn't live alone anymore, and he realized that when he found Aidan standing in front of him with a suspicious look on his face. " what ?" " Well that's a question for you sir why are you leaning on the door like a teenage girl who saw her crush huh ?", Aidan said with a teasing tone just to get a punch on the shoulder, " eat and mind your business otherwise the next punch will land right on your face", Jay said as he stepped away from the door to the kitchen with Aidan following him and mockingly repeating his words . The boys ate then slept directly because today was such a long and tiring day.

The next day

Jay had to wake up early because it was his shift and he already missed one the other day so he had to show up, but as any good friend he couldn't go out that early in the cold morning and just let Aidan sleep peacefully so he woke him up than left. When he arrived to the Cafe shop Jacob was already there so he greeted him and went to change his clothes, he and Jacob are not close friends but they get each other pretty well, when Jay came out of the changing room he found that Jacob was not there so he knew that the boy is in the back of the shop and he needed to be in front to welcome the customers. He was cleaning the counter when he heard the doorbell so he lifted his head to see who's there, and surprise surprise it was his father ...

" Good morning son ", the old man said to which he received no reply. " c'mon Jay can we not do that every time I'm trying to fix things with you ", Fix things he said like there's anything to fix Jay thought to himself but again no reply came out of his mouth. " Your mom raised you better Jay " and that's it that's what triggered him to lift his head again and face his father directly : " Don't you ever mention her again " Jay said aggressively , " She's my wife you know " " Sir if you're not interested in ordering, please leave ", Jacob just came from behind when he heard Jay's voice and knew that this situation is making his coworker uncomfortable, " well i guess i have to leave now son but if you couldn't find a place to stay in you know my house is always open for you ", then he just left and Jay was connecting the dots in his head unable to react ' how did he knew, it was him i knew it was him' he was so lost in his thoughts and emotions when he felt a hand on his shoulder " Are you okay ? ", Jacob was really concerned about Jay's state because he never saw him looking that weak he never saw him weak at all to start with he always knew him as the cold, calm, quite person, at first he really wanted to know him better and be close to him yet the boy kept on pushing him away every time so he respected his wish. " I'm fine don't worry thanks i appreciate it ", Jay said in his calm voice than continued on cleaning , ' did he just thank me ?'. The two boys continued to work till their shift was over and that's when Jacob build up his courage and walked straight to Jay with the other co-workers eying him it was so hard for him, because everyone knew that Jay doesn't like to be with others and would love to be left alone, " hey wanna eat lunch together" "hmm yeah sure" , it was shocking to everybody and Jay noticed that which made him realize just how much he was pushing them ... Only if they knew that he was afraid to be left alone again, and that he was only protecting himself, but why would they think like that no one been on his shoes to know

After the lunch with Jacob he realized that the boy is not that bad and that they can be friends easily because he reminds him of Aidan who by the way is still sleeping till now. On the evening he was attending a very boring lecture which he did not pay attention to because of what happened this morning. The lecture was over and he had to walk back home because the apartment was so close to the university on his way he saw an old lady struggling with her grocery bags and he usually won't care at all but in his head he was imagining that this woman is his mom and she's struggling like that won't he like someone to help her ? and without thinking much he walked over to her and helped her carrying them all, on the walk he knew that this old lady live in his apartment complex so it was easy to him. What made him panic is that she lived in the next apartment to his and her daughter is the one to open the door ....

Sissel was laying on the couch watching Tv because she had no lecture today, when she heard the doorbell ring so she got up and opened the door and there was her mom with a tall, good looking boy behind her. It took her only seconds to realize that she saw him before and she knew exactly where. Her mom entered the house and the boy followed her helping her to put everything on the table while she stood beside the door eying him carefully she felt guilty because on the day she met him on the bus she judged him and thought that he was a person with no emotions but no person with no emptions will help an old lady that he doesn't even know. Then he turned around to leave assuring her mom that it was okay and that he's happy to help her and just when he was about to leave they made a last eye contact and she didn't know why she couldn't look away from his green eyes ...

Jay left to his apartment unable to control his heartbeats while Sissel couldn't believe that he's her neighbor and she'll see him more often ..