Sophia entered the house and closed the door behind her, tired both psychologically and physically, as after she spontaneously kissed Jay and realized her act, she run away from the bar without looking back not even once.
"Why did I do that? What the hell was I thinking ?! How the heck do I convince him now that it was just an act of the moment out of momentary excitement and that it did not mean anything." Sophia passes her palm down her face as her thoughts were many and the troubles she has probably brought to herself even greater since this spontaneous kiss shook her waters and filled her with thoughts and feelings that she should not have yet this time she had no one but herself to blame for that.
"Oh, I forgot about Lisa. I hope they came back." Sophia uttered as soon as that thought crossed her mind then headed to her room to check about her friend yet she found in there nothing close to what she was expecting.
"What in the-? !! Theo, what do you want here !?" Sophia exclaimed in amazement as soon as she saw a sleeping Theo lying on Lisa's bed.
"Mmm... I am sleeping, what else does it look like I'm doing." He responded in a deep and drowsy voice as he swirled around and pulled on the covers.
"I understood that but why on Lisa's bed? Do you have a death wish?" She approached him now out of astonishment and shook him a bit, thinking that she should get him out of there before Lisa was to return and find him there, for if that was to happen Sophia was sure that she would be fierce.
"No, Dimitra just wouldn't let me sleep with her after I went to kiss her. She just slapped me and locked herself in her room." His half-asleep mind did not hesitate to blur out the truth to Sophia who froze in place once she heard his words and comprehended them.
"The heck did you say that you did?! Dimitra ~ !!" Sophia called on her friend now worries as she rushed to Dimitra's door and knocked on it desperately, wanting to see if she was okay and wanting to know what had exactly happened between them. For with the sleepy Theo she did not seem to be getting anywhere.
However, no one could blame him for being sleepy as it was 4 o'clock in the morning.
"Dimitra, open the door, It's me, Sophia. Dimitra !!" Sophia kept knocking on the door persistently until the door finally opened and it revealed Dimitra with a messed up hair that looked like a bush.
"What? Who ?! Where ?! What happened !?" Dimitra questioned her in a panic and with an empty mind as she considered that something very important must have gone down for her to e knocking so much on her door at such an hour.
"You tell me. Did Theo try to kiss you ?!" Sophia asked her going straight into the subject as it still seemed unbelievable to her as a fact and she couldn't help but doubt Theo's words for he may have just been talking nonsense in his sleep, but the look and the silent answer that Dimitra gave her, made Sophia understand that it had really happened.
"He is such a jerk" Sophia shouted right before she pulled Dimitra in her embrace in order to comfort her.
"And the biggest problem is that... I liked it a little. Ah, What do I do Sophia? I am in trouble." Dimitra confessed to her friend as she hid in her arms but Sophia didn't know what to answer her, as she herself was caught between her feelings for two people and just like her didn't know how to solve it.
"Come on, don't worry, in time everything will find its way. Now we have to worry about Lisa and Shiro who are still missing." Sophia pulled her slightly away and looked her in her eyes before she spoke and reminded her of another issue they had at hand and which they should prioritize at the moment for too many hours had passed by.
--- Time skip ---
"Ouch! My love, please slow down," Shiro gave a soft gaze to Sophia, who was applying ointment to the wounds that Lisa had inflicted on him when they had ended up fighting over chocolate.
"Leave the sweet words and the pleads aside Shiro. I'm furious with you. Actually with both of you." Sophia cast him a murderous look briefly as she spoke then returned her eyes on his scatches and red skin.
She sure was happy that he finally got home and she had no reason to worry anymore despite the fact that Shiro had returned without Lisa and prior her as she preferred to take public transportation after what had gone down between them while Shiro came in his car.
Of course, he explained the situation to them all as when he reached there, he found them waiting for him anxiously. The clock showed 7 in the morning and everyone had gathered in the girls' apartment since Shiro was bored of repeating himself, and he gathered them all before telling them the story, from which of course he hid some small details.
Like the flirting he did and the way he thanked the lady policewoman for example for such information did not benefit him to be known.
"I know you have every right to be angry with me, I overdid it but I paid for it, didn't I? I was behind bars for so many hours, so please do not frown at me, my Sophia" Shiro put on his sweet smile and tried to soothe Sophia temperament towards him for he definitely didn't want to get into a fight with her.
As he left his fingers to trail softly and briefly Sophia's cheek, Jay who was standing at the corner, next to the front door, cast a not-so-friendly look at Sophia and his best friend, as the way Sophia treated him and stood next to him, had started to bother him. Yet what he was even more annoyed about was the fact that Sophia hadn't spared a look towards him since he arrived, as if she was ignoring him and pretended to have completely forgotten what happened between them at the bar.
"Yes, how can I not be angry, when you two go around fighting like cats and dogs and leave me worried for so many hours. I really wonder if you care for me at this point" Sophia brushed away his tender touch as she stood up to leave but Shiro took hold of her wrist and pulled her back down on the couch where she was.
He didn't hesitate to bring his arms around her and trap her in his embrace where he kept her tightly while he proceeded to hide his face at the crook of her neck, not caring much about all the eyes of their friend who were observing them.
"You have no idea how much I need you, how much I care, how much I would do to keep you. So do not say those words again. Don't doubt my feelings cause that hurts babe. Please just love me." Shiro whispered to her softly and honestly while Sophia's heart started beating at the sound of his warm voice and the words he had shared with her.
They managed to touch her. To put her in thoughts about her own self instead of him. Once again, Sophia found herself slipping into a dilemma with her feelings yet as she kept feeling his warmth and the way he was holding onto her, she couldn't help but let her anger melt and hug him back, whispering to him that she was not really that mad at him and that she will not go anywhere and will stay by his side.
At that very tender moment of theirs, the main door opened and a weary Lisa entered, her eyes falling on the embracing couple on the couch and her nerves rising once again instantly, from the moment she saw Shiro's face.
"Lisa~ you finally came !!" Dimitra shouted and ran out of the kitchen to bring her in a hug for she surely was awaiting her in order to feel fully relieved.
"Dimitra~, my love. Ah~, you have no idea what I went through because of this idiot !!" Lisa complained straight away without wasting a minute as she falsely whimpered in Dimitra's arms, which made the girls in the kitchen -who were making breakfast, Anna and Reina- start laughing at her dramatic act.
"Stop being so dramatic, we know everything already, Shiro told us," Christin -who was standing by the kitchen door frame rolled her eyes at her friend's excessive behaviour and proceeded to sip on her cup of coffee which she had just made and was holding at hand.
"Oh Lisa, do not stand up, please sit down, you must be exhausted." Jamie interrupted as he stood up from his seat to offer it to Lisa, a move that earned him a sharp glance from Reina as she questioned his good intentions.
"Ah Jamie, thank you dude, so kind of you, not like some other mule I know," Lisa gave Christin a fierce look before continuing. "But I do not have time, I have to get ready because I have some lectures to attend." She concluded as she walked towards her room, not sparing them a second glance.
"No! Lisa wait!" Sophia shot up from her seat immediately and ran to stop her as Theo was still in her bed sleeping, but unfortunately, she did not catch up as Lisa opened the door and froze in place for a few minutes then closed it again and went back to the living room.
"Because I'm in a hurry and I'm too tired to start sending your souls delivery express to hell, I'm going to take a shower and wait for one of you to bring MY clothes from MY room. Did I make myself understood?" Lisa uttered with a deadly aura since her patience had long since expired and she had no appetite for jokes and if she was to step into her room she would most likely end up strangle that audacious guy that dared to enter her room and touch her bed without her permission.
With those words being said she turned and left, entering the bathroom without waiting for a confirmation answer from Dimitra or Sophia, who just faced each other, not knowing which of them had to execute the order.
--- Time skip ---
It was almost 9 o'clock in the evening and Lisa was now forcing herself to stand on her own feet because of how tired she was after the 9-hours of lectures she had suffered.
Her steps were slow and sleepy as she had not had the best sleep in the cell, chained with handcuffs on the railings all night while the other asshole was sleeping comfortably, covered with a blanket.
"I hate the old awful lady guard! Agh !!!" She murmured under her breath upon the slight recalling that passed through her mind while her tired steps had brought her to Joel's apartment in search of someone to cheer her up a bit since she needed that.
However, in her exhausted state, she had forgotten a small detail, but who could blame her mind for being a mess with all the things that were going on around her. Because Lisa was not only feeling tired but also hurt by the tender moment of Sophia and Shiro which she witnessed in the morning and generally her own thoughts that made her feel awful and guilty upon realizing that she had felt bothered.
She was in need of someone to get her mind out off track, someone that could make her smile and forget about things, someone that could make her feel like she was not as horrible as Shiro keeps telling her she is. And that someone was none other but Joel for her for she thought of him almost as a brother.
She rang the bell mindlessly and stood there waiting for the door to open, feeling more and more desperate to see him as seconds ticked away. Her eyes were on the floor but her mind was in a buttle from which she wanted to escape the sooner possible so as soon as the door opened, she left her tired body to fall forward and embrace the body that appeared in front of her tightly without lifting her gaze from the floor.
"I'm a corpse !!" She admitted right before she slowly raised her head to face a stiff Nailor who had been caught unprepared by her act.
"Oh My God!! You are not Joel!!"
---To be continued ...