Two can be as bad as one

 

The last thing Jools expected was to get back home just to find Mick's sister Dimi at their doorstep.

"What happened?" Mick dropped everything and went running to her. That Cash guy had left her.

She blubbered something about how she didn't have a place to live and he'd taken her life savings too. She was left with nothing.

Jools couldn't roll his eyes at that. Funny, how Mick would say from time to time that this would happen. "If that guy wanted her so much he would have married her by now and they would be in California," he'd said. Jools was a little haunted by Mick's insightfulness. Of course, he'd never told Jools what his future would be.

Before he knew it, Mick told her she would just stay with them for the time being. He'd move into Jools' room.

Jools gritted a smile. Oh, how he was happy (he was thinking) to get home from their Worlds of Fun trip to be in his own bed. Alone. Jools cleared his throat as if they needed to talk about the sleeping arrangements, but of course, Mick didn't take his cue. He was too busy consoling his sister. 

"It's going to be all right," he kept telling her.

Of course, later after Mick brought all his stuff to Jools' room, he spent the first hour telling Jools how much he hated his sister's boyfriend.

"I knew he was up to no good." Mick winced and fretted. Honestly, Jools didn't know Mick could be this emotional. 

Jools guessed he'd be just as peeved. But.... this was no time to remind Mick how much he liked sleeping in his own bed. Alone. Not that Jools had hated sleeping with him, yet it reminded him how much he missed having the whole bed to himself. Still, this was the last thing he ever expected to come home to.

Of course, Mick was out like a log long before Jools was, which was kind of funny to Jools because Mick went on and on about how he couldn't sleep a wink and fell asleep while he was telling this to Jools.

Naturally, Jools didn't know exactly how to react. On their way back, Mick had hinted at the idea that maybe Jools liked him.

"Well, of course, I like you," he told him, but he hadn't carried Mick on his back for some romantic notion. It was the fact he didn't want anything bad to happen to his roommate. A part of him had to wonder if Dimi had gone out of her way to make sure they were together. He shook the thought. It couldn't be. 

Still, their space was shrinking with one more person around.