He Is Just My Roommate

Luca’s eyes widened as Eddie walked into the dining room with a familiar-looking blonde. The blonde was grinning at him, and his eyes locked with Eddie, who was smirking.

“Bunny?” Luca said tentatively, glancing around the room for an escape route, hoping the floor would split open and bury him alive.

“Hi, baby. I thought I’d come by and see if you wanted to have some fun,” Bunny said, still smiling.

Eddie dropped into her seat, taking a bite of biscotti and a spoonful of homemade ice cream.

“Baby? ~Luca~!” Kate screamed, and Luca cringed.

“Kate, I—”

“You make me look like a fool! Constantly!”

“Me? Are you kidding me?”

Luca and Kate took their fight to Luca’s bedroom, leaving Bunny standing in front of Eddie and a very confused Parker.

“Well, I guess I’ll go. Bye, Eddison. Tell Luca to call me.”

“Sure thing, Bunny. See you!” Eddie said with a smile.

Parker looked over at her with his mouth open. “What the hell? Luca cheats on Kate?”

“She cheats on him too. It is just their relationship,” Eddie replied with a shrug. It had become normal for her to see them fight. “Don’t worry, they’ll be having angry makeup sex soon.”

“Eddie, this is not normal. Your roommate? He’s a jerk.”

Eddie pressed her lips into a thin line. “Parker, you don’t know Luca—”

“You’re defending him? Eddie, he cheats on his girlfriend!”

“She cheats on him too.”

“That doesn’t make it right.”

“Why are you judging him?”

“You shouldn’t be living with him!”

“Why not? The Morettis, they are… They are the only… They are like my family, Parker.”

“They aren’t your family, and Luca…the way he looks at you…”

“I’m not dating Luca! I’m dating you!”

“Do you have feelings for him?”

“No!” Eddie answered a little too quickly. “No, Parker, he is just my roommate. I’m telling you not to judge him, not because I have feelings for him but because you don’t know him.”

Parker let out a big breath and stared at Eddie. “I don’t—”

“Parker, please.”

Eddie took Parker’s face in her hands and pressed his lips to hers. His tongue darted out to lick her bottom lip.

She opened her mouth, giving him access, and his tongue plunged into her mouth. Parker pulled away and looked at Eddie with a smile.

“You taste like vanilla,” he said with a chuckle, and Eddie felt her cheeks heat.

“How about we finish our dessert?” she said as Parker ran his hand along her thigh.

“I can think of something better.”

“Do you want to stay the night?”

“You sure?”

***

Eddie woke at three in the morning when her phone buzzed. Parker’s arm was wrapped around her waist.

Without waking Parker, Eddie grabbed her phone from the nightstand and unlocked it to see a text from Luca.

The Roommate

Busy?

Eddison

Uh…sleeping.

The Roommate

No you aren’t.

The Roommate

Come to my room.

Eddison

What about Kate?

The Roommate

She left hours ago. I got sick of her.

Eddison

Parker is here.

The Roommate

I know. Come to my room. I want to talk.

Eddie placed her phone back on the nightstand and carefully lifted Parker’s arm off her body. She placed her pillow under his arm, and Parker hugged it tight.

She quietly crept out of her bedroom, shutting the door behind her. She made her way up the hall to Luca’s room and knocked softly on the door.

“Hey,” Luca said as he opened the door. A smirk played on his lips as his eyes traveled down Eddie’s body. “Thanks for dressing up.”

Eddie took a quick look at her outfit, moving her arms up quickly to cover her singlet and panties, but Luca chuckled. “Don’t cover up, cara.”

“You’re a perv.”

“Yet you still love me.”

“Why did you wake me up if you aren’t going to let me in?”

“I feel like popcorn. Want some?” Luca stepped past Eddie and headed toward the kitchen. Eddie struggled to keep up, taking three steps for his every one.

The two sat in the lounge eating popcorn and watching reruns of ~Friends~. Eddie sank back into the couch with her feet on the coffee table, and Luca laid his legs along her lap.

Eddie saw sunlight coming in through the window and turned to her roommate.

“Luca, I’m going back to bed.”

“But I wanted to talk to you.”

“We have been sitting here for, like, three hours, and all you have said is that I have the same hairstyle as Rachel.”

“Well, you do…”

“Luke.”

“Fine. Whatever.”

Eddie pushed his legs off her lap and leaned over to him, kissing him on the cheek before standing and walking back to her room.

Luca pulled his phone out of his pocket and groaned at the time and at the fact that there were three messages from Kate.

Vanderbeek

Luca, I’m sorry I left like that.

Vanderbeek

I miss you.

Vanderbeek

Come find me today. I’ll make it worth your while.

Luca sighed before writing a new message to his brother.

Luciano

I need help.

Marcello

Piss off.

Luciano

Kate and I had a fight.

Marcello

I say good riddance.

Luciano

Marcello!

Luciano

She wants to make up but I want Eddie.

Marcello

The solution is simple. Tell Ed how you feel.

Luciano

I can’t.

Luciano

Parker stayed the night again.

Marcello

Prove that you’re better.

Luca fell back onto the couch, reading and re-reading Mark’s last message.

~Prove that you’re better.~

He turned his attention back to the television just as Ross was explaining to Rachel Phoebe’s theory about how she was his lobster.

~Yes. Eddison is my lobster.~