After 50 minutes we finally stop in front of a 14 story condo apartment building.
"Are you sure this is the place?" Ren asks craning his neck to look at the building.
Before I can respond someone comes out of the building and knocks on the car window.
"Are you Miss Blackwell?" She asks blushing shyly at Theodore.
Beatrix unconsciously clutches my leg and digs her blunt nails into my bare skin.
"Yes. I am." I reply to the blushing girl and hurry Ren to get out of the car.
"Sorry." Beatrix mutters when seeing my leg bleed.
I shrug my shoulders not caring about the wound since she could have attacked the girl but she didn't. I hand the blushing girl my I.D which Lance set up before I left.
The others get out and start to unpack the car while I go and grab the key from the counter since they rent condos.
"Thank you." I say when we get onto the elevator with everything. Before the girl can say anything else I shut the elevator. "Well that was weird." I say glaring at Beatrix and Theodore who's facing different directions.
Damien sighs and shakes is head wondering what he's going to do with his two awkward besties.
We get off the elevator and Damien pushes the moving cart which the girl downstairs gave us into the big hallway. I give Beatrix my key and she opens our door.
"Wow!" She gasps when she steps inside.
Damien pushes the cart which I have been thrown into downstairs through the doorway. I look around and let out a 'meh'.
"Rich brat!" Beatrix mumbles.
"Proud to be." I say flipping my hair which has grown quickly and is now half-way past my back.
Theodore and Damien chuckle before checking out the rooms.
The condo has three bedrooms two of which are the same size and one slightly bigger all three are upstairs. Downstairs is a bathroom, kitchen, lounge room, and a games room which Kiyoshi made when he found out Ren liked playing games.
I take the room on the right and Ren takes the room on the left both are the same size. The larger bedroom has two computers one of which is hidden in a box in the corner and the other is out in the open with a yellow and black theme (I have the computer in the box). There is also a small treadmill and dog bed for Asra.
Noise come from downstairs followed by shouts. I jump over the barricade on the stairs and land in between the couch and the flat screen TV. I rush into the only room downstairs other than the bathroom to see Beatrix celebrating while Theodore looks defeated and Damien watches the two of them with a 'I don't know you' face.
'Damn you Kiyoshi!' I yell inwardly frustrated that Kiyoshi made the room downstairs a games room with everything a gamer wants; pool table, air hockey table, table football, racing games, darts and more. Kiyoshi says that it's a man's den but I love playing games (since I always win) so Ren can expect to be kicked out.
"How can I lose at PAC-man?" Theodore mumbles.
"Your magic fingers have gone. Hahaha. I'm the champ!" Beatrix rubs it in his face that she won.
"Aren't you supposed to be helping us unpack our stuff?" I ask sitting my butt on the pool table.
Theodore and Beatrix turn to me. "Yes." They answer simultaneously. They look at each other before darting out of the room joking about how PAC-man cheated (bad sportsmanship).
I shake my head at those two and look over at Damien.
"Wanna play?" Damien asks pointing at the two motorbike racing games.
I smirk and push off the pool table. "20 bucks if I win."
"In yen, dollars, yuan, won, euro or ringgit?" Damien asks.
"Yen." I reply and sit on the motorbike.
"Oh?" Damien looks surprised.
"I'm planning on going to Australia next year."
Damien nods sitting on the other motorbike. The game starts and in no time I won.
"20 yen." Damien says handing me the money.
"Oh yeah." I smile and leave the room to go unpack my bags.
"Senior~" Junior appears out of nowhere and says in a honeyed covered voice.
I don't even spare him a glance an continue to put clothes into my closet.
"I couldn't finish everything for this monthly report so can you do it?" Junior asks shaking a laptop in his hands. I gesture to the bed which Junior places the laptop on it. "You're the best, Senior." He says before disappearing.
Junior has always been busy but ever since Edith found out from his subordinate that he's been sneaking out to visit me she's given him a ton more work and even scolded the higher ups in Junior's work (he sorts and collect spirits). Although the rulers of the after life are supposed to manage the 'spirit factory' as some call but they've both slacked off and handed it to the purifiers to manage.
I finish unpacking clothes and work on the folders which just needs to be edited for any mistakes. I should be the one doing this since it's folders from the company which I created but no one except Junior knows so I gave the editing part to him since he wanted it but work always comes first.
The folders are contracts to buy weapons such as; guns, grenades, swords, arrows and bullets since the Enchantments are needing a new supply. Of course these weapons are all illegal and when the Enchantments get the weapons they'll send out a destruction team to destroy the factory and to find out who's behind the operation since the weapons have been shipped international.
After I'm finished I am starving and tired. I smell something delicious from downstairs so i go downstairs to 'investigate'.
"Hello Birdie." Theodore says cooking something in the kitchen.
I flatten my hair which I've been running my hand through in frustration when looking at the folders.
"What you cooking?" I ask looking at the frying pan.
"Chicken stir fry..." Theodore answers with a proud smile but when seeing all of the broccoli in the stir fry he frowns. "With a lot of broccoli."
I smile since I love broccoli but Theodore not so much. I wipe the drool which escaped while I was looking at the stir fry and look towards the lounge room which is connected to the kitchen and dining room without any walls which I love since I can see out of the floor to ceiling windows in the lounge room. "Such a good view." I sigh melting at the scenery.
"It really is." Theodore whispers. I whip my head around and chuckle quietly when he isn't watching the scenery but Beatrix instead who just walked into the room.
"What? Do I have something on my face?" Beatrix asks wiping her face. I see on the edge of her lips is a cookie crumb.
"You!" I yell and point at her. She ate my emergency cookie and cream cake. How could she?! I stand up and she runs away at lightning speed. I open the fridge with a look that Theodore can't read but my thoughts are the opposite.
Ha. As if I'll chase her now. Nah I'll get her when she's eating. Eating my snacks! Hmph! I'll get twice the cake amount from your purse. And that is why you don't keep cash on you, Beatrix.
[Instead you give me your cash] Astrid sighs lazily inside my head.
'You don't have a use for it' I roll my eyes at her.
[Not yet] Is all she says before falling asleep.
I shake my head and walk to the lounge room and lay on the couch. I turn the TV on and watch a bit of news until dinners ready.