Cramped Quarters: An Enemies To Lovers Accidental Roommates Romance by Jamie Knight

Author:Jamie Knight [Knight, Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2020-11-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine - Rachel

As the rooster crows. It wasn’t actually a saying, but it should have been. Though indeed that wouldn’t express how early I woke up the next morning after I had decided to lock myself away from Augustus in our shared dorm. Even nature's alarm clock was still fast asleep in its coop when my eyes eased open to the dim blue dawn.

I had to get up this early, to be able to make my way around the kitchen and bathroom without running into Augustus.

I listened for a moment, but there were no sounds forthcoming. Not even the low rumble of fresh morning traffic. I checked the clock. Five in the morning. Late enough to be morning but early enough that most of the world would still be deep in slumber. Perfect.

Tossing my blankets aside, I touched down as light as you please. My bare feet made not a sound. I all but tip-toed through the early morning light to the ghostly looking door, taking customary stops to look under the bed and check in the closet, just in case.

The chair was still in place under the doorknob, so it didn’t seem likely that anything would be amiss. Though my dad had well and true put the fear of God into me.

It was odd, seeing the apartment that early in the morning. It looked the same as it did in the daylight, only with a slightly surreal edge. Empty and slightly other-worldly. Like the furniture hadn’t quite woken up yet.

Keeping things on the downlow, I whipped up a hearty but low-cal breakfast, using only the stove, since the toaster or the blender were a bit too noisy to risk trying.

I couldn’t believe I was roomed with him. Let alone that we were in lockdown. Forced to share a space in a form of imposed house arrest unseen since the Russian Revolution.

I was suddenly reminded of the book I’d read about the boy who got stuck in a lifeboat with an adult tiger. Dad threw it in the fire, saying it promoted heathenistic beliefs because it was set in India, but I had managed to finish it first.

I wasn’t afraid that Augustus might eat me or even that he would hurt me. At least not in the corporeal sense. It was my soul for which I was most concerned. From what I could remember, though, his religion never really fought back. At least not against us.

Dad and his friends would pelt them with all manner of horrible things, from tomatoes to rocks, and yet they stood firm. Loathe as I was to admit it, I could really admire their conviction as well as their passive resistance. It was as if they were practicing the teachings of Jesus much more than we were. Although they claimed to worship Satan.

Augustus really didn’t seem like a bad person. No matter what his beliefs might be. Other than his outburst the night before, I’d never actually experienced him acting out aggressively. Even if his shout of ‘the power of Satan compels you’ did keep me from sleeping.

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