The Guy Next Door 》R.A.L

✯ Chapter 1 ✯

Zoey POV:

I laughed shaking my head at my older sister, Emily's lame attempt at being funny as we walked up the stairs to my apartment. Spinning around in circles we looked over the balcony searching for her two children aka my niece and nephew.

"Mom I can't find Marley." Mason said walking down from the other floor, Emily sighed dropping her bags by my front door and followed him up onto the seventh floor of the building.

"Hey Zoey, I need a massive emergency favor." Riker, the guy who lives across the hall from me said running up the stairs.

"Sure, whats up? " I asked. Riker has lived in this building for about 8 and a half months now and I only moved in 6 months ago. There's a good mix of people here, there's a gym and a swimming pool, games room, mini bar all down stairs for the residents to use. It was based off of a hotel, the builders and designers used hotels as inspiration and it turned out amazing.

"My lock on my front door has broke so there's a locksmith coming out today fix it later on but I'm going to an event later, if I give you a spare key do you think you could lock it after they've gone ?" Riker asked.

"Yeah sure that's fine-"

"I will pay you to keep them for one night." Emily said carrying both a 7 year old and a 2 year old down the stairs. Mason is 7 years old and his still getting used to the whole big brother thing, Marley was a surprise and I think he got so used to all the attention being on him he feels a little left out of things, he also hasn't quite understood that Marley is younger then him and can't play all of the games he wants to.

"Can't Joey have them ?" I asked, our older brother Joey loves kids. Don't get me wrong I love those kids to death I'm just not good with the whole baby sitting thing, I get uncomfortable around babies a lot.

"Mason !" Emily laughed running back up the stairs after him.

"Well I'll let you deal with them and I'll go shower then drop the key off yeah ?" He asked making me nod "209 just put something through your door."

He sighed shaking his head and walked into his apartment, laughing I opened my front door and took in Emily's things just as she brought the kids in.

"Go hide and I'll come find you." Emily said handing Mason, Marley. He laughed sprinting down the hall way and begun his hiding as I made us both a coffee. She will go looking for him eventually just not yet.

"Who's Mr. Hot-Muscles ?" Emily laughed.

"My next door neighbor, you're married remember." I said passing her the coffee.

Riker is a very physical man, his always at the gym or his always being active and he has the benefits of keeping himself active and healthy, the body. His muscles are crazy, they're big but not enough to make you go he looks like a cloud they're a nice big, they look like it's steroids but they're natural...I think.

"I was thinking for you, Joey's getting married and you know Marcus is going to be there." Emily said making me sigh, don't remind me.

Marcus was my fiancé but he decided that his boss was also a brilliant girlfriend and couldn't decide between us and so I made that decision for him. There was more to the story of course and he wasn't a bad person apart from the cheating, there were times where he was incredible and it was breath taking of how this amazing person could hurt someone like that, but that story is for another place, another time.

"And we can be mature and adult, just because my ex is my brothers best man doesn't mean I have to take a guy to his wedding to make him jealous." I said opening the front door, damn boy.

"That wedding sounds interesting." Riker laughed.

"You should tag along." Emily smiled standing next to me with her arm around my shoulders, looking Riker up and down.

I closed my eyes and shook my head as Mason shouted for Emily "don't ever have kids." She said walking away screaming "Zoey! why is there a table in the middle of the hall way ?"

"I don't know....I don't even have a fucking table in the hall, I own two tables and they don't just move by themselves." I said looking back at Riker laughing.

My sister gets very stressed, she's a stay at home Mom while my brother-in-law, Leo has a crazy job where he travels a lot and he'll spend like three weeks in New York and then he'll go to Texas, she gets crazy stressed easily.

"I swear to god this place is haunted." I laughed.

"It could be." He smiled.

"Why is the building so old ?" I joked.

"No the guy before killed himself or got killed, they weren't sure. At first they said it was a suicide but then when they looked at it they said it would be impossible for someone to do it like that or something, then they said it was a robbery gone wrong and there's been so many changes to the story I don't know what to believe." Riker said making my mouth drop "are you being serious ?"

"Google it, just don't dig too deep you're the only other normal decent person on this floor." Riker said laughing, I rolled my eyes and shook my head "what about the chick next to you ?"

"You mean the one who only knocks on my door seconds after I get out of the shower ?" He asked "Yeah normal."

"Zoey! Mason locked Marley in the closet and I can't open it!" Emily said making me laugh.

"Well I'm gonna let you get back to whatever is going, so here's the key, thanks." Riker said handing me the key, I laughed shaking my head "no problem, what do you want me to do with the key afterwards ?" I asked.

"Keep it, just in case." Riker smiled.

"You're a very trusting guy, I could steal anything out of your apartment." I laughed leaning against the door frame.

"Considering you only have two tables, I will happily let you steal stuff, well I should probably go before my Mom assumes I'm dead just because I didn't reply to her text, I'll see you whenever I see you and thanks for keeping an eye out." Riker said making me laugh.

"Well your options sounded limited with the shower stalker, it's fine." I smiled as his phone lit up "I literally just got a text from my Mom saying are you dead, I'll see you around 207." Riker smiled walking down the stairs.

Shaking my head I closed the front door and put his key down next to mine. Emily looked at me smirking "You two were so flirting."

"We were talking, did you know the guy who lived here before me died or was murdered and the girl who lives in 206 only knocks on his door seconds after he gets out of the shower." I laughed.

"Honey I would knock on his door seconds after he got out of the shower, are you going to look into the guy who died ?" She asked, I shook my head.

The less I know the less I'll think about it. I don't really believe in ghosts and spirits but lately, since I've moved in a lot of things have happened which aren't explainable. So the less I know the less I'll think about it, I know that if I was to look into it as soon as something 'paranormal' happened that has a very logical explanation I would instantly go he did it.

✯To start this off I'm just going to say welcome to my story/account, it is only going to be Riker/R5 related. I will write stories that are focused on certain members but for now I will only be doing one story at a time. The updates will be regular it'll be between everyday and every other day. These stories will include strong language and sex. Other then that side note, Enjoy! ✯