We are over.

It echoes in my head. Persistently, reminding me of the end of my four-years relationship, a steady part of my life.

Yet instead of crying as I probably should, I'm sitting on the couch, intrigued. I'm shocked and relieved. Realizing he was right, we were together only because we were used to it, it was convenient.

"Well, at least you don't have to find excuses to not have sex with him anymore." My best friend Daniela remarks.

"That's mean Dani."

"No, that's sad! My one-night stands give me more pleasure than your four years boyfriend ever did to you."

"He was a good boyfriend, he was always nice." I don't even know why I'm defending him, he just broke up with me.

"Nice? Really Kelsey? Nice is your criteria for a boyfriend? I will tell you this, nice is not enough," she pauses to take a sip of her beer before continuing. "I don't understand why you date him in the first place. He did you a favor because you would never have the guts to break up with him. It doesn't matter how miserable you were."

I glance sadly at her, she's right. I would probably never break up with him, even if I had no desire for him anymore. It was like we were simply friends and not boyfriend and girlfriend.

I took a sip of the beer Dani has opened for me, I still miss him.

Hopefully, it is only because I can't have him anymore and not because I still have feelings for him. I've always had the bad habit of wanting what I can't have.

He is the only guy I have slept with. It will be weird to date another guy, to sleep with another guy.

The sexual situation between us was far from an ideal one, but I felt so comfortable with him. From now on I will have to be naked in front of someone I don't even know.

Honestly, I don't understand how Dani does it. She makes it sound so easy, so natural. She knows what she wants, and she is confident about herself.

I'm sure as hell I'll be uneasy when I sleep with another guy. If I sleep with another guy again.

Such a thought drives me to drink half of my beer in one shot, it's enervating.

It was when I recognized Dani observing me, her eyes are focused on me. It's how she behaves when she is analyzing me.

She was always torn between being a journalist or a psychologist. And even if she is now studying journalism, I still think she wants to do psychology as well. Or at least she loves to use me as her experiment.

The thing is, she is usually right about what she asserts regarding me, it helps that she knows me pretty well.

We're best friends since high school and now we're studying at the same college. She is studying journalism and I'm studying engineering. It's hard to comprehend how we become best friends. We are completely different, our tastes, opinions, everything is usually opposites.

I love her regardless.

I was anticipating for her to express her opinion because it is always like such. She watches me, analyses me, considers the right way to say it, and declares it.

It didn't come, though. It was interrupted by the keys on my door announcing an arrival.

I turn my head through the entrance to welcome my brother, hearing him talking to someone in the hall.

"Hey, my favorite girls!" He greets us and by the use of 'favorite', I sense something will come up.

"Hi!" I observe him entering the apartment followed by another guy.

"This is my friend Andrew, Andrew this is my sister Kelsey and her friend Daniela."

"Nice to meet you," Andrew speaks, revealing his not so strong British accent.

While he is speaking I innocently glance to acknowledge him. Stopping my sights on his features, which provokes my mouth to drops open.

Recognizing the guy is something. He's currently smiling at us, with his perfect white teeth. Making me wonder how many times a day am I supposed to brush my teeth to look like that?

My eyes continue traveling to check the remaining of him, realizing I'm staring at the hottest guy I have ever seen.

His tawny hair is lightly curled, falling on his forehead, matched with the prettiest green eyes. And checking his lips meanwhile I'm bitting mine, I grasped he is smirking. Proving, I'm busted ogling him.

"Nice to meet you too." I quickly add, shifting my attention to my brother again, in hopes he hasn't caught me gawking at his friend.

"What's up, Char?" my brother's name is Charles, but as the lazy girl I am, I call him Char, simply to shorten it.

"See my friend here has a big flooding problem in his apartment and he needs a place to stay", he starts looking at us.

"Could you please let your room for Andrew and move to Dani's spare room until his apartment is fixed?" He requests and I don't miss his pleading face directed at Dani and me.

"That's fine by me, Kels has already the key to my apartment," Dani states. It's right, I have never given it back to her. She lent it to me last time she spent her holidays in her parents' house and requested me to water her plants, even if I'm the worst to take care of plants.

Believe me, the only plant of mine that has survived is a cactus.

"And we can go party!" She adds bouncing and grinning at me.

"You are going to be the third wheel, Dani." I scoff at Char's statement, getting up to take another beer from the fridge.

I don't know how to tell my brother that  Brandon and I broke up. He adores the guy.

"You don't know the news, Charles?" Dani taunts him with her mischievous smile. She would be pleased to inform him.

"Dani, please, not now. 'I' will tell him later." I assert, emphasizing the 'I' and being assured she has well understood my plea.

"No, not later Kels, tell me now," Char demands impatiently. And I take a deep breath before announcing it, knowing he'll be displeased.

"We broke up Char."

"What? Why? I saw you guys last weekend and you're perfect. Why did you do it, Kelsey?" He asks, frowning. He always calls me Kels, he only calls me Kelsey when he is annoyed.

"Why do you think it was me?" I inquired with one hand holding my beer and the other now on my waist.

"Because he's crazy about you."

That is a good joke, so, now who will tell him? Right, it's me, I will have the pleasure to drop it in his face.

I couldn't avoid the smirk that appears on my face when I say, "Yeah, he sure is, and that's why he was the one who broke up with me." I'm pleased watching Char's mouth drop open, with no response.

"I will move to Dani's place," I inform them. Returning to the initial subject, in hopes, Char forgets about the break-up.

"Thank you, Kelsey!" I sway my head finding Andrew's mischievous smile, the way he pronounced my name with his accent was just...

"How have you guys met?" I let my curiosity out, starting a conversation with him.

"We were classmates in college. We used to go out all the time, but since I'm busy working I haven't seen him as before", he explains, taking the beer Char is handing him. "The last time I came here, Charles was living alone. That's why I've asked him to receive me for a while," he completes, his accent was being stronger now.

"So, you also studied civil engineering?" He nods in response while sipping his beer.

My brother is four years older than me and has studied engineering as well. The only difference is he chose buildings and I'm interested in energy. Especially renewables.

"So, Andrew, please tell me that little Kels here doesn't have to worry about you sleeping with your girlfriend in her bed?"

That's typical Dani. She always finds a way to ask what we want to know without being nosy.

"I don't have a girlfriend, so don't worry."

"Since when do you respect other people's beds? Not having a girlfriend never stops you from sleeping around and using any bed available," my brother spoke with his signature smirk.

"Oh man, that happened once, it won't happen again I promise. I will go to the girl's place. It is easier. I can leave when I want."

It doesn't matter how handsome he is, he seems to be immature. Not the kind I'm fond of.

Anyhow, he is way out of my league.

"That's childish. A real man can at least face the woman he slept with the next day."

"Trust me it avoids a lot of problems. Anyway, it's not like you would like me bringing a girl in your room, right?" He responds lifting his brow and smirking at me.

"Yeah right", I respond getting up from the couch. "I will just take my stuff and leave to Dani's flat."

I end the discussion, moving to my room to take some basic items, like clothes, and hygiene products. I still can come in case I need something else. I'm not going too far, only on the other side of the hall.

My brother joins the room once I'm finishing it.

"Thanks, Kels, for lending your room to Andrew," he recognizes it. "He helped me a lot at the end of college. I kind of owed him, so I couldn't say no."

"It's ok, Char."

"Come, I'm cooking some pasta. You will taste today my brand-new pesto sauce. I did some improvements after last time," he invites grinning.

My brother loves cooking, well to experiment while cooking. He hates following a recipe. He likes to invent adjusting the ingredients. I'm always the one tasting it, and usually, I love it.

"God, I'll miss all these try-outs. I'll have to cook now, or eat the pasta without salt and sauce from Dani," I declare while tasting Char's dish.

Dani has a lot of qualities, cooking is not one of them.

"Don't worry Kels, I'll always invite you to taste my experiments. You still are my favorite taster."

"Here Andrew, I think you will need a key. Could you do a copy and give them back tomorrow?" I ask once we finish the dishes, leaning to give him my keys chain.

It tingles when we touch our hands. I drop the keys and almost jump when I felt a small amount of electricity passing through me. 

Calm down, it was probably the keys...the metal providing static electricity.

I gape at him catching the keys from the floor, smirking and winking at me.  Something tells me that his smirk means trouble. So much trouble.

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