Ch 1: My bestfriend's request

"Please Gia he will be a nice roommate I promise." Lily pleaded.

"But Lily finally I have got my own apartment I don't want to share it. I finally got to live alone. You know how much I wanted to live by myself since we were in college. Adding to it it's Zavier, your elder brother we are talking about. You know how I feel about him," I defended.

" I swear you won't even feel that anyone is there. Pleaseee! I will owe you one and will take you for Pizza every weekend for 3 month. Say it's a deal please." Lily offered.

Ah! The problem with dealing with a bestfriend is she knows all about your kryptonite.

"But..." I still tried to protest one last time.

"Even when you will not feel like going out I will deliver the pizza myself."

" Damn you! You just know too much! Fine I will accept Zavier as my Flat mate. You really know how much we hate each other still you are making me do it," I said to her.

"I wouldn't have but you know I am living with my boyfriend and my parents are such great travellers. They have put our house on rent for a year. Zavier doesn't have any other place to stay until he finds a rental place and shifting and all then too will take time but he had returned from Marine Force today. So you won't have any problem because he isn't civilize for now plus you will have additional income he is gonna pay the rent. Free money! , " saying that she started laughing.

" He was in Marine?" I asked.

" Oh! You didn't want to even hear his name so I didn't mention that earlier. C'mon now girl be ready to serve our serviceman," she said and winked on the video call.

"Eww you make it sound so wrong, " I joined laughing with her.

"Alright I will send him to you now, " Lily said.

"Now? He will be here from now only?"

" Yeah he was already on the way, " she replied.

Seriously! This girl was trying to cut a deal with me while he was already halfway.

" He put a frog in my shorts when we were 7 and you are making him my roommate. I hate that bastard," I said to those memories already making me angry.

"All those happened when we were kids now we are 25 and trust me you are not the only one who have issues with him. I really thought the girls who didn't have an elder brother like this are blessed. He was three years elder to us and was 30 times more irritating but still that was past. He had been better in later years you wouldn't know because you avoided him as much as you could since you joined college and he left to serve the very next year," she reminded me of more things that made me hate him so much.

He had cut off the hairs of my favourite doll. He had broken my new watch, threw my diary in a pond, made fun of me, the list just goes on and on. In short he made sure my live was hell. That snobby brat.

" I am gonna have headaches again," I sighed.

" Well it's not that bad I am not setting you up with him," she said and started laughing again. Yeah this girl is enjoying teasing me. Only if she hadn't been my bestie! I swear I would have pulled all her hairs out.

"Shut up! If you don't wanna die." I threatened.

" Alright I will and tonight lemme set you up with one of my colleague. It's been one and half year now and you are still living with the memories of that Nate since you too broke off.

" Nope I am not living with his memories. Infact after his cheating in our relationship I just have lost interest in dating and all. I don't think I will like anyone again," I said.

"C'mon girl. Off course you will just wait for tonight," she said giggling.

With few more giggles she bid me goodbye.

And soon enough my doorbell started ringing.

I opened the door and in front of me was the sight I didn't think I would see.

Zavier Throne stood at the door all tall, muscular, a little tanned with broad shoulders. His eyes as blue as the ocean itself. His hairs wasn't short and messed up like it used to be instead his dark hairs were all set smoothly swept back a little longer and were falling just above his shoulder. His face too wasn't now that of just a little scrawny boy ready to pull another prank but had turned handsome with chiseled jawline and he is standing here in his navy uniform which is adding to his hotness!

What the hell happened to the thin, scrawny, mischievous idiot little shit head?

" Hi Gia!" Even his voice has become deep, masculine, nice and smooth. Oh My God!

" Hi Zavier! All grown up now I see," I maintained my calm attitude.

" You can say that. It's been so long. How are you? Can I come in?" He asked.

"Sure! Come in," I moved aside giving him space to enter and closed the door as he entered," it's been 5 years since the last time we met before you were going away. I am as good as someone can get when there personal prankster leave them and that someone isn't the butt of their prankster's joke anymore. Your room is to the right," okay I shouldn't do that we are meeting after years. I shouldn't pick at old wounds so soon. I calmed myself down.

" I see you are still upset over our past memories," he replied and smiled softly it wasn't a teasing smile, " as we are starting a fresh, want me to apologise?" he asked.

" Looks like marine life taught you some manners. Good job growing up," I replied. Well he has turned really all well mannered but I don't want an apology after an entire childhood of hell. He was staring at me with an intense look so I just turned and started guiding him through the flat. I don't wanna blush in front of him.

"Thank you madam," he replied.

"That's the bathroom, there is kitchen, the living area is here and that's my room which is off course off limits. We will make more house rules later so that we can live peacefully for now that's all," I finished guiding him.

" I hope your house rules don't restrict me from us hanging by ourselves?

How about evening?" He asked and came closer. Damn what is trying now? I could feel the heat radiating out of him on myself.

" Depends on my schedule mister. My dearest Lily has set me up with some boy tonight," I played it cool to avoid him but as soon as I spoke these words I definitely heard him growl in a animalistic and possessive sort of way which made my heartbeat faster.

So I turned to look at him.

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