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Best neighbor ever

As soon as I shut the door I point a finger to Ghost "Explain"

Ghost leans back on the sofa and shrugs, "Nik wanted you protected so we came to see how secure your apartment is" He points to himself "And here we are Inside your apartment So, it’s safe to say it’s not so secure" He looks at Max and says, "I didn’t want Max to come but he insisted" He looks at me and smirks "And you beat hiut

Oh, Nik is going to kill htly loopy onchair with ood day

I cover ain, "Listen, I’ve taken note of everything you need for your place to be secured I’ll get all the stuff toet ho for you to show you how to use it" He squeezes my knee, I remove my hands from my face and open my eyes He says softly, "You don’t want to fuck with O precautions If today went as planned, you won’t ever hear fro the risk He’s taken a liking to you, Tina"

Nat reaches over to take my hand and says rasps, "That sucks, babe"

I lower my head and nod I say dejectedly, "Okay When you find out how much the security stuff costs just sent an invoice over to the store and I’ll pay for it"

His eyes narrow and he tilts his head He looks at me for a few seconds then shakes his head softly and orders, "Okay, so get your shit We’re leaving"

Excuse lares and repeats slowly, "Get Your Shit You aren’t staying here tonight"

I don’t knohat to do about this I don’t want to stay anywhere else This isthat comes to my mind "But I have a cat!"

Ghost looks to Bear who is sitting on Max’s lap staring stupidly at hiht back at Bear

He asks patiently, "Do you have a cage for your beast?"

I nod

He nods right back as if to say I don’t see what the problem is

Nat squeezes ifts h and say quietly, "Okay, let s"

Nat stands to ith esture but the significance is great She’ll beI always have her care and support

We each pack a bag, I pop Bear in his cage, and then we’re off

I just assumed Ghost would take us to a hotel

I definitely was not expecting to find myself at Nik’s for a sleepover

As soon as we enter the house, a s Ceecee comes over to see us and I panic

OH SHIT! I BEAT UP HER DAD!

She takes one look at daddy-o and her face crumples Max quickly walks over to her, kneels, and asks "Would you believe me if I told you Tina did this to me?"

WHAT THE FRICK, MAX?!?

I’m absolutely devastated that he would throw me under the bus like that My heart pounds and my neck heats with nervousness I love Ceecee Now she’ll hate me

I’m shocked when Ceecee narrows her eyes at her father and puts her hands on her hips and asks warily, "What did you do to Tina?"

Max chuckles and shakes his head as he says "Daddy was very silly I went into Tina’s house without asking and she thought I was a bad person trying to take things"

I’ Ceecee cos me one handed around the waist She looks up at me and says, "You must’ve been really scared, Tina" She scowls at her father and sternly coain daddy, she must’ve been really scared!"

Bless her!

Max looks properly chastened and says, "Believenext time"

I look down at her concerned face and sel And I’ myself If I kneas your dad, I would’ve never hit hi past , "IS THAT A KITTY?!"

I chuckle at her enthusiass so you better cuddle hie and Nat takes Bear out and puts hiht up to Ceecee’s chair, looks up at her and meows

I realize he hasn’t had his dinner yet so I opento pull out a few cans of wet food, hand them to Ceecee and say, "You think you can feed him, honey?"

She looks up at me with a face full of awe; you’d think I just told her ere taking a trip to Never Land

She whispers, "Really?"

I act as casual as possible I toss et-about-it motion and say, "Oh yeah, he’ll love you forever if you feed hi this Bear hops onto Ceecee’s lap, purrs loudly and rubs his cheeks on the cans of food in her hand She looks up at me and smiles so beautifully You can’t buy happiness like that Bear is going to be well loved tonight

Ceecee rolls her way over to the kitchen and Ghost motions for Nat and I to follow him

Ghost opens the first door on the left hand side of the hallway He escorts uest bedrooundy color, it has a black feature wall behind the huge sleigh king bed on the right hand side of the rooundy curtains cover the whole opposite side of the wall There are framed tasteful prints around the walls and a door in the top left hand corner Ghost points to it "Shower"

I nod Great, I really need a shower Badly

They leave me and I shut the door I’ up I forceand head to the shower

It’s a neat bathroo is in its place and there is decent soap and shah

I turn on the shower to hot I want it to scorchhot It makes me feel clean I undress, hop in, and wash9 to 5’ once That’s how I know

I wrap my hair in a towel and put my clothes on I love my pajamas They’re a tank and short shorts combo, silky satin and the color of copper

I take my hair down, brush it and dry it with a hairdryer I found in the one of the drawers And I’m finally ready to sleep

I walk out of the bathroom over to the bed and face plant

I coht

I walk into le on nize that ass anywhere Her shorts are so short I can see the swell of her butt cheeks

I actually turned around and looked at the doorway to o back out as quietly as I can and find Ghost He tells ht Nat and Tina here

He tellsin Max’s room and he’ll share with Max because he’s concussed and needs to be woken every hour tonight

What the hell?

I ask what happened and Ghost tells me that Nat and Tina went all Rambo on him Tina beat the shit out of Max with a hter

Ghost tells me Tina’s cat is somewhere in the house, most likely in bed with Ceecee And that he put Tina in my room because I wasn’t home at the time

I call bullshit

I think ht, go back toforht before me If only she would lift her head and invite htly aard I usually sleep naked I probably shouldn’t tonight though

Perhaps she won’t o into the bathroom and shower quickly I walk back into my room naked and think about what I can wear to bed I don’t wear underwear a lot of the time but I do have so the drawers for a few minutes I find some plain black silky boxers

They’ll do

I walk over to the bed, pick Tina up, pull back the covers and settle us both in She doesn’t even stir