Moving In

Although I work from home, work has been time consuming and I feel like I’m rushing myself to get things squared away for Riza to move in today. Excitement and fear are the only emotions I have been feeling since I went to bed last night. Excited because I get to see her every day. Fear because she’ll have to see me every day.

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I walk back in my bedroom to lay down for a bit, cell phone in hand. I need to give Keith a call and let him know I found a roommate. He’ll be surprised that it’s Riza. I think they may have messed around in high school. With both of their track records for spontaneously jumping in bed with people I wouldn’t put it pass either one of them. Getting on my bed, I lay on my back as I dial his number.

He picks up after quite a few rings, “Hey Lou. What’s up?”

I chuckle, “Nothing much man. Just checking on you. How’s life treating you in Virginia?”

“Let’s just say Virginia is undeniably for lovers.”, he laughs, “I’m actually back in Phoenix until Friday.”

“Really? Funny how you didn’t bother to call me and let me know that in advance. I’ll take a guess and say that you were too busy chasing tail to remember me. How could that possibly be more important than me? You know what, don’t answer that! No need to upset me this early in the morning.”

He laughs again, “I apologize Lou. It did kind of slip my mind. Hey, how did that ad work out for you? Was it better than trying to go out and look for a roommate?”

I clear my throat, “Yeah. I’m still debating if putting that ad online was a good idea. But it actually worked. After a few weeks of being posted someone did finally call about it, and you…you wouldn’t believe who answered it.”

“Oh yeah, who was it?”

“It was…”, a faint knocking sound has me pause for a moment. I hear it again a little louder this time. “Hold on there’s someone at my door.”

“Okay.”

I get off the bed and head to the front door. Looking through the peephole, I see Riza standing outside. Even the peephole can’t distort her beauty. I take a deep breath and the phone back to my ear, “She’s here already. I’m helping her move in today. I’ll call you back later.”

Thought I hear him say something else before I hung up, but if he’s here until Friday, I’m pretty sure he’ll wind up stopping by. Knowing it’s a girl moving in with me I know he won’t waste any time trying to get more details. I open the door, “Hey Riza, I wasn’t expecting you so soon.”

She giggles, “Sorry about that, I was so excited about moving in that I actually didn’t sleep much last night after I got off work. You ready to get to work?”

“Yeah, just let me put on a shirt.” Once the statement leaves my mouth, embarrassment consumes me. I did not intend on her seeing me half naked. But instead of staring at me and making me more uncomfortable, she turns and heads towards the box truck sitting by the curb. I rush back to my room and throw on a shirt that I hope is somewhat clean, and hurry back out to help her.

Once I reach the truck, my eyes zoom in on her butt. I don’t mean to; it’s just she’s bent over trying to lift a box and her butt is up in the air. It’s so round and probably just as soft. I try to force myself to look somewhere else but it feels as if my eyes are glued on her. She finally picks up the box and turns around. Our eyes meet and I feel the heat rush to my face.

She smiles, “If you’re finished staring at me, I could really use the help moving all of this.”

I physically gulp. Don’t think I will get away with not embarrassing myself around her. I nod before stepping up into the back of the truck with her, “I’ll take this box it seems like it’s pretty heavy.” I reach for the box in her hands but she turns sideways moving it away from my grasp.

“No, you don’t. I’m not weak just had a little difficulty picking it up. Help yourself to all the rest though.”

She steps sideways to get by me and her but rubs up against my crotch. Holy… it is soft! I bite my lip to keep myself from saying anything that will make this situation anymore awkward. I think that’s the first time anyone’s ever been that close to me. Well there was that one time… I shake my head at the thought so I can get to work.

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“Goodness that felt like it took forever.”, she laughs a little out of breath.

“Definitely feels like it. Glad I live on the first floor or it would have taken a lot longer.” I say handing her a bottle of water and sitting on the couch across from her.

A chuckle comes from her after sipping her water, “Yeah, glad we do too!”

I chuckle as well, “I’ll make sure I get used to that. This is actually my first time having a roommate, so I guess there will be plenty of things I’ll need to get used to.”

She places her water on the table, “Speaking of which, I told you why I was looking for a place, why were you in need of a roommate?”

“Rent was going up. I could handle it, but I like being comfortable with my money.”, I look away from her down to my hand. “So, where do you work?”

“Seems like we should have talked about this before I moved my stuff in here. I’m currently unemployed.”

My eyes quickly shift back to her, “What?!” I know she’s my dream girl and all, but having a roommate with no job kind of defeats the whole purpose of having a roommate at all.

She laughs out, covering her mouth with her hand as she calms down, “Lou, I’m joking.”, she places her hand on her chest and takes a deep breath, “Maybe if you weren’t so busy staring at my ass earlier, you may have remembered me saying I didn’t sleep last night after work.”, she laughs again but a little softer than before.

I want to crawl into my couch cushions and live there until death comes digging in them for me. What’s another word for ‘I’m so embarrassed that my whole body is probably beet red right now’? I shake my head and advert my gaze away from her and to the floor. “R…right.” I say not caring if she even heard me.

After what felt like my most failed and embarrassing conversation I ever had, I decided to go take a shower. While under the heat of the water my mind begins to wander about her rubbing up against me, and how soft she felt. Once I’m done, I hop out the shower and open the door to go get dressed.

“Wow! I was wondering what the bottom half looked like since I saw you without a shirt this morning.”, she chuckles.

Please, why?