Free Heat by K. T. Fisher Page A

"Have you heard from Mason?"
     
       She gives me a weird look and nods. "Just the usual, what about Cole?"
     
       "Yeah he called." We stay quiet and I know we both don't know what else to say to each other. We both miss them but we don't want to upset the other. The intercom phone to our apartment rings and we know its Ria and Paige, it doesn't look like Roxie is about to get up so I run over and answer it. When I pick it up I can hear a lot of voices, they sound excited and some are screaming. I can hear Paige's voice but I can't tell what she is saying so I just buzz them in. What the hell is all that about?
     
       I open the door and lean on the door frame as I wait for them to step out the elevator facing our front door. When they see me they smile and hold up their bottles of alcohol and grin, it's an unspoken rule of ours. If we're having a night in, you have to bring a bottle.
     
      They throw their bags on Roxie's bed , because whenever they stop over Roxie sleeps in my bed . They join us in the living room on the sofa opposite after pouring themselves a glass of their drinks. Ria whistles loudly and shakes her head. "What's going on down there then?"
     
       "Down where?" Roxie asks as I say. "Is that the noise I heard from the phone?"
     
       Ria nods her head. "For some reason there's a crowd at the main doors, haven't you heard anything?"
     
       A crowd in front of our apartment building? Roxie sets down her wine glass and sits up. "When I came back from work there were three girls at the doors giggling about something. I heard them mention some photos? They sounded excited about something."
     
       Paige takes a drink from her glass and nods. "The security guards are guarding the doors ; if they weren't there I don't think we would have gotten through them. Luckily they recognized us and helped us through the mob."
     
       I look around at my three friends serious faces and laugh; it all sounds a little crazy to me. They look at me like I’m a crazy person as I grab my phone still laughing. I search our address to see if anything has happened, because whatever the hell is happening must be on the news if people are here. When I see the pictures I'm shocked. There are images of Cole and Mason in front of the building from the past three nights they were here. In some Roxie and I are in them and there's even some pictures of the four of us sitting outside the Italian restaurant enjoying our meal. Why would there be pictures of us be on the internet? Roxie leans into me to see what I'm looking at when she sees the expression on my face. "What the fuck?"
     
       Before Ria and Paige come to take a look I jump up from the sofa, I'm thoroughly confused and I want to know what's happening. The girls all follow me out and we ride the elevator down together. We walk down the corridor and I stop when we come to the glass doors that separate the corridor from the main area. I see a large crowd of mostly girls; they're all either, shouting, laughing or screaming! I look at my friends. "What the hell is going on?"
     
       "Fucking hell." At the sound of Roxie's voice I turn to look at her with wide eyes and then look back towards the crowd again, I see the security guards have their arms stretched open to make sure they don't let anyone in. I want to know what's going on so I open the glass doors which cause some people in the crowd to look over, weirdly that is also when hell breaks loose.
     
       "Oh my God!"
     
       "That's them!"
     
       "Where are they?"
     
       Who are they talking about? One of the security guards turns to us. "Don't worry; the police are on their way."
     
       Police? This is all so weird and unreal. Roxie steps beside me. "What's going on?"
     
       I don't answer because I have no clue; the security guards don't hear her and now that Roxie is next to me, more shouting comes from the crowd.
     
       "Where's Cole?"
     
       "Are you Mason's