The End

Taking a step.

"And a caramel smoothie to accompany the food," I finished the statement for him.

That was my favorite food ever since I grew teeth and most of my close people knew that. I buzzed him in.

"You spoil me too much are you sure I haven't grown two heads already?"

"Don't worry I can take care of that if it ever happens."

"What brings you here to my humble aboard?"

"I just came to hang since someone decided not to come live with me in the first place."

"Oh my dearest dramatic cousin, you know I've always dreamt of having my own apartment ever since I was a small girl."

"Then you should have let me get you a bigger apartment than this."

"Im working on something cuz and before you know it, I'll probably have as much money as you do and a whole mansion to myself."

"Not to brag but I don't think the wealth you have or get will ever encompass mine, besides you have a trust fund that you didn't want to touch."

"Speaking of that I may want to rethink that soon because of the project Sallie and I want to start."

"Let's dish this out and you can tell me all about that project."

I gave him a big smile as I headed to the kitchen.

"Why do we have three servings?"

"Oh I forgot to tell you Nicholas is coming over if you don't mind, he wanted to hang and I told him that I'm headed to your place."

"I don't, I have a bone to chew with him anyway. Has he slept with the entire Connecticut female population?"

Laughing, "I don't want to taint his image Jo you'd have to ask him that on your own."

I brought the plates to the dining table and sat. Malcom had his coat off and sleeves rolled up.

"I can see why Mellisa is always drooling at you."

"Leave Mell alone, she tends to exaggerate things at times."

"But she is a nice girl."

Malcolm's phone rang.

"It's Nicholas, I'll buzz him in."

I think I'll have to give some of my friends access to my flat. I'm tired of buzzing people in every time.

"Hey man, I hope you brought me food."

"All you ever think of is food Nick."

"I am starving, I've been in a six hour meeting with only two tea breaks in the middle, cut me some slack. Hi Jos." he said smiling.

"Hi Nicholas, come on let's dig in before the food gets cold."

We ate in silence 'cause it seemed we were all very hungry.

"That was very delicious, who's idea was it?" Nicholas asked.

"This is Jo's favorite set of food."

"let me tell you one thing, you can never go wrong with fries and chicken in my case, see how you enjoyed it."

I cleared the table and joined the boys in the living area.

"Tell us about that project now."

"Before that I better warn Nicholas here to keep his nightly escapades in check. I don't want you guys to be bailing me out of prison for assault charges!"

"Whoa! Slow down, my what?"

"Some lady came up to me today asking me to stay away from you cause you are taken already the audacity of that woman, anyway I handled her calmly this time."

"Was her hair red with a face looking like a cake?"

Laughing," yeah that's her."

"Suzzana, I'm so sorry about her. She is Kristen's little sister and a brat," he said.

"Forget her and listen to me now, so I want to start my own bookstore actually Sallie and I as co-owners so I wanted you to help me get the necessary permits and how to go about getting a lease actually we want to buy the whole building it's more like a mansion."

"Cant you just lease it for now then as time goes by you buy it?" Nicholas asked.

"Nicholas is right there, you don't know how the business will turn out and you don't want to be left with a whole building which isn't giving you any profits."

"So I should let the building buy itself, I mean with the profits I will get from it?"

"Yes, now you are talking like a business lady."

"I didn't flunk on all those business classes you and uncle made me take you know, also in it we want to have a ballroom for people to enjoy dance and a Cafe with tea, coffee and baked goods which people will buy and enjoy when they are not reading. It'd be like a dating spot. Then we want to have a garden full of flowers outside with those lamps looking like pots."

The guys were looking at me with big smiles.

"Oh and probably one day when it's doing well, you can propose to your future wives there," I said laughing.

"Okay slow down Jos we don't know about that but we know people will surely want to spend their time in that bookstore, you have everything covered seems like we only have to implement all that now."

"Yes and you have alot of time to do that since campus break is coming up. But you are still going to be coming to C.G.E right?"

"Yes, your dad will throttle me if I quit."

We spent the rest of the afternoon talking and making plans for the future even. We cracked jokes and I got to know more about Nicholas. They really were more like brothers than friends just like Sally and I.

"Stephy will have a fit if you post that on your gram Malcom."

"What's she going to do? Throw a tantrum all the way from Mexico?"

Immediately his phone rang and guess who wanted a video call!

"Estephania! How did you even see that picture so fast."

"You two rascals better not corrupt our sweet Jo and you tend to forget that I'm a social media babe."

"why does your hair look like a tornado hit it," Nicholas asked.

"Oh I'm in the middle of a shoot, Hey Jo, did these two feed you? Don't let them near your fridge or I swear you'll regret it by the time they are leaving."

"Actually I'm surprised they even brought food and drinks oh and my fridge has a big padlock on it, no way through there."

"Good girl."

"We are right here guys,"

"Oops! I gotta run see you when I get back from Mehico ."

"Nop, don't look at my fridge."

We all laughed at that.

Jowie's Note.
Hi everyone!
Thank you for the continuous love.
So I thought about this hard and decided to update on Sundays only so that atleast I could give you guys a long-ish chapter to read.
I hope you have a lovely week ahead, see you next sunday ( or whichever day it falls wherever you are) Enjoy!😊