More Than Roommates
After a few minutes, she frowns delicately.
“Not quite right for you,” she says. “But best of luck, dears.”
We exit back into the sunlight, laughing softly. “One down,” Seth mutters. “And immediately rejected.”
The second apartment is a townhouse a few blocks away, cream-colored with slanted ceilings and a faint smell of lavender and old wood. The landlord greets us with a broad smile, oblivious to our inside jokes. He drones on about the noisy neighbors upstairs who “practically lives in drums” and the furnace that “sings at night.” Seth and I exchange a glance definitely not the one.