Welcome to the Jungle - GnR -2

Isn't it strange the way people find each other? Isn't it just plain bizzare how they take one look at each other an know they can trust the other person? Even in New York, a city as danegerous and non-safe, can hold those amazing friendships. That's how Sam, Izzy and Axl found themselfs willing to share a place. They just knew they could trust each other. The real problem there was finding the place.

...

"No!"
"Oh, come on, Izzy. We wont find anything better than that!"
"It's a hell-hole, that appartment. I refuse to live in it!"

Izzy lifted his chin up and crossed his hands on his torso. By that time, Axl was so devestated that he had knelt down to the cold floor of the building they were in and was runing his hands through his hair.

"We will find something.", Sam reassured them.

"How can you know? So far this is the place we can afford. And it's got just one bed.", Axl looked up and raised an eyebrow." Do you really think I'm willing to share a bed with another guy? I mean, you- I've got no problem with, but Iz is a dude."

Sam rolled her eyes and laughed, tilting her head playfully to the side.

"Aw, that's sweet?", she said.

"Really guys? One bed!", Izzy said, turning towards them.

"I still think we won't be able to get better than that", Axl said.

"Okay... flip a coin?"

The two guys looked at Sam with amazed looks on their faces. She looked back for two or three seconds before blurting out:

"What?"

"That's a great idea!", Izzy jumped a bit and ran to her, crouching down next between them.

"Oh-kay then? Heads- we look for another appartment, dibs- we take this one." Sam said and threw the coin far up in the air.

It ringed and flipped madly, making the three friends click their fingers nerviously. When it finally hit the ground with a soft ring, they piled up over it, scaning every inch of the round silver surface.

"It's dibs."

"Ugh!", Izzy plasted a disgusted look on his face."Do we really have to take this appartment?"

"You gotta do what the coin says, Iz, my friend.", Axl smirked and grabbed his black haired buddy by the elbow.

"Screw the god damn coin. I don't want to live there.", Izzy cried and started to pull back.

Sam giggled again and grabbed his shoulders, helping Axl jam him into the elevator.

"No, no, no! Guys, come on, not fair.", he screamed.

"Shut it, Izzy, we're getting that place. The coin said..."

"SCREW THE COIN."

"Come on."

...

"Sign here, here, here and here.", a middle aged man said, pointing to some blank places on the contract.

As Axl placed his signatures on the paper, Izzy was busy pouting. He was sitting on Sam's suitcase with his hands resting on his knees, covering the guitar that was sticking out from his side. Sam sat on the ground beside him and pushed his hand off his knee, resting her chin and arms on it.

"What are you thinking about?", she said softly as if not to break his thoughts.

"Nothing much.", he sighed and looked down at her."I really don't want to live here, Sam."

"I know, sweety, I know. But what can we do? We can't afford all those nice places. And this one at least has runing water in it. Do you remember the one on the 5th?"

Izzy laughed softly.

"Yeah, that bit. I was willing to close my eyes about the mice and the cockroaches but when that dog ran out of the door..."

"I know, right!"

The two friends laughed as the door to their new place with exactly two rooms and a bathroom shut closed. Axl turned on his heels to face his friends and raised his hands to his sides.

"Congratulations, guys. We have a new motherfucking hell hole to live in.", he shouted.

Sam smiled.

"Well, aren't we enthousiastic?"

"Very much so, roomie.", he smiled back."How about we clean this place up a little bit?"

"How about you clean the place up and I take a nap? How does that sound?",Sam said, yawning."I'm whiped out"

"Same here." Izzy said and streched his arms up in the air.

"Then we take a nap?", Axl replied.

"We take a nap. We have to get used to sleeping in one bed.", Sam raised her shoulders and stood up, usind Izzy's leg to help herself do it. "Go lock up, I'll make sure the bed is as clean as it can be."

Axl took the keys out and started dealing with the busted door and all it's locks while Sam got in the bedroom. The old rusty bed was huge at least but didn't look very hygenic. She let out a quiet sigh and flipped the blanket over, revealing a very nasty looking yellow sheet.

"Eesh.", she mumbled and pulled it off. "Holy fuck! I guess this stays on then."

The matress didn't look better at all so she turned the sheet over to his good side and grabbed the baseball bat, that lay in one of the corners.

"Guys, help me out here for a sec, will ya?"

Izzy and Axl immediatly showed their faces. Minues lates, as instructed, the held the corners of the blanket. Sam raised the bat above her head an let it fall deep in it. A cloud of dust rose and the guys coughed. She continued beating the thing up untill all the dust had dissolved and the blanked looked clean. At least looked.

"That was hot!", Axl winked at her as him an Izzy laid it on the bed again.

"Shut up, little boy. And no funny buissness, okay?"

Axl rose his palms up innocently.

"Never."

As him and Izzy slid under the dusty old blanked, Sam reached out and puffed the three pillows, throwing them at the guys. They each took theirs and pulled them under their heads.

"Oh, this is the life.", Izzy purred."Exept that I'm in one bed with two other people."

"Both of them extremely hot so don't complain, okay?", Axl laughed.

Izzy scoofed and pushed him playfully. Sam slid under the covers next to Axl. The heat from the boys' bodied had already made the old bed cozy and sleep worthy. She hummed and sighed a little as she turned her back on the redhead boy, already sleepy next to her.

"Night, guys. And remember, no funny buissness."

"Night, Sam." they said in unison.

Soon she could hear Izzy's deep breathing as she fell asleep. Axl turned towards her back and hesitated for a while. A warm hand snaked over her waist and pulled her closer to him. She snuggled into the pullow but didn't pull. Axl let out a small smile. Soon his eyes were shut and his breaths- deep and calm. They fell asleep.