Toxic Love

Chapter 2 - The First Night 

As I stepped inside my new roommate's apartment, I felt my chest cave a bit. My face had whitened like a ghost as I stared at the poorly kept living room. It was clear as day she was having an issue keeping her home even decently tidy. Trash was littered everywhere. Emptied bottles and cans of beer were strewn all over. Worn clothes were tossed and hung around random furniture. The living room absolutely reeked of spilt alcohol and cigarette smoke. 

I did my best not to make any noticeable expressions but Alexis caught it anyway. 

“The place is a little messy. Sorry.” She spoke as she walked past me into her kitchen. 

I remained quiet. I wasn’t sure what to say honestly. I observed her quietly to see what she would say next. Alexis then peeked her head out of the kitchen waving her hand holding a can of beer. 

“Want a beer?” She asked. 

“Oh no thank you…” I replied. 

Alexis raised an eyebrow and walked towards me popping her can of beer open. She smirked a bit and took a long chug. I stared at her as she drank up and a trail of beer escaped from the side of her lips traveling down her neck. 

“Ahh~” she sighed as she pulled away her lips from the edge of the can and wiped at her mouth with her wrist. She eyed me and began to circle around me, curiously checking me out. 

“You know…you’re the first ever guy I met that rejected a cold beer…are you one of those…straightedge heads?” 

I rapidly shook my head and stammered a bit nervously. I wasn’t sure why my response came out nervous. It just did. 

“H-huh? ..o-oh no ..no no..n-not at all….umm…sorry. It’s just…I have work tomorrow and I need to head to bed…” 

I averted my eyes and clutched onto my briefcase tightly. 

Alexis tilted her head a little and stopped circling me as she met my frontside again. 

“Work huh?….what do you do for work?” 

I cleared my throat a little and replied, 

“I work in an office. I’m a data analyst for Milton Inc. Umm… it's an Ad business marketing company.” 

Alexis was clearly uninterested and unimpressed. She yawned a little and continued sipping her beer. I didn’t blame her. The work I was doing was pretty mundane stuff. I told her that it was only because she asked. I didn’t bother to go into more details. It didn’t seem like she wanted more anyway. I got my point across. 

Alexis nodded and pointed to the couch. 

“Feel free to just dump all the stuff on the couch to the ground and crash on the couch. I’ll probably clean it later…” 

I nodded a bit after glancing at the couch. 

“Umm…okay….oh uhh…when would you need the rent money by?” 

Alexis finished the rest of her beer and crushed the can in her hand, tossing it behind her carelessly. “Just whenever you get paid is fine. I’m not going to badger you about that too much. You seem like the type that’s responsible about that stuff anyway…” 

I nodded and looked away. 

“Right….sure…” 

Right around now I was expecting her to carry on. Yet she didn’t move. She remained standing in front of me continuing to look at me. This night was just getting weirder and more awkward by the minute. After a pause, she turned and headed to her bedroom without saying anything. I figured that was her way of saying goodnight. With a huff under my breath, I looked around me and shook my head. I wasn’t going to take any chances sleeping here with all this mess around me. So I dropped my briefcase next to the couch and began tidying up. There was so much to clean and get rid of, that I sort of fell into a focused workflow trance. I didn’t pay any attention to anything else except just cleaning the living room. 

I didn’t realize that Alexis had walked back out of her room. She stood there quietly watching me clean. Alexis had an expression of intrigue on her face. I guess she didn’t expect me to clean up for her. As I turned around to take out the bag of trash I jumped a bit seeing Alexis. 

“O-oh…hey umm….sorry. I was just…cleaning up a bit. I hope you don’t mind.” 

Alexis remained quiet for a bit and let out a soft chuckle after. “You’re kinda cute…you know that?…hahaha…” 

I blushed instantly and stuttered a little.

“E-excuse me?…me?…c-cute?….” 

Alexis smirked and held out her hand. She was holding out a key. “It’s a spare key….it’s for you to keep so you can come in whenever.” 

Then I realized she only disappeared to her room to fetch me a spare key. That made sense considering I didn’t have a key yet. I was too quick to assume that she had left to sleep. 

“Ah…right…thank you,” I said quietly as I took the key from her hand. 

Alexis nodded and fixed her hair up. 

“Good night…Cody.” 

I paused for a second. It felt a little weird to hear her call my name. But I remembered that we exchanged names over email already. 

“Good night to you too… A-Alexis…” 

“Lexi….you can call me Lexi.” She replied back. 

I looked up at her and nodded.

“Lexi…” 

And with that, she turned and headed back to her room closing the door behind her. 

I sighed and plopped onto the couch. I was finally at peace. It seemed like my crazy night was finally drawing to a close so I laid down, loosened my tie and closed my eyes. I was praying internally that I would get enough pay at work soon so I can move out of this shit house of an apartment. I wasn’t even here for a full day and already the experience was exhausting. 

“3 months…no…fxxx that. 2…2 months and I’m going to bust out here. I’m gonna work my ass off.” I thought to myself. 

As I slowly began to lull into sleep, I shifted around a bit to find a more comfortable position on my side. Then I felt something under my hand in the crevice of the couch. I froze a bit and kept my eyes tightly shut. I took a small deep breath and sat up a bit. I gulped and slowly picked up what my hand was touching. I didn’t dare to look before picking it up. I was way too scared. I held it out in front of me and slowly opened my eyes hoping it was just a piece of trash. Damn. I was wrong. Not even a mile close. 

In my hand was Lexi’s panty. It was a lacy black panty, made with quite a bit of see through-ish material. I felt my face burn with redness and my heart race wildly. It was undeniably a sexy piece of underwear. It didn’t take long for me to finally come to my senses and I gasped before chucking it away quickly. I quickly laid back down and covered my head with my hands, curling into a ball. I shut my eyes tightly and remained silent. I was doing the best I could to unsee and erase the incident I had just experienced from my mind. 

“These next 2 months …are going to be fxxxing ridiculous….” I thought to myself…

- To be Continued -