Charlie and I talked quite comfortably for the journey home, and I began to realise that my mum and him were really related.
When he smiled the way his eyes crinkled was one of the things I loved most about my mum. When he gets nervous or the atmosphere gets awkward, I noticed how he clenched his jaw and began fiddling with his fingers on his right hand with his thumb. When he talked about his mother and became sad, reminded me of when Granddad died, my mum's legs would shake, and jaw would twitch, Charlie did that too. Just small things. Yet the thing I could not quite get over was how their eyes were exactly the same colour. It was like I was looking right at my mother. I had always admired her eyes, and always wished I had the eyes of chocolate milk, so I am glad they have carried on somewhere.
When we pulled up at his- our home, I couldn't help but smile. It was painted white, and had forest surrounding it. Agreed it was small, but cosy, and I have never lived in a big house. So it was perfect.
"I love it!" I squealed and clapped like a four year old. Charlie laughed and shook his head.
"Nice to see you're so exuberant." He quickly retrieved my bags from the boot, leaving me to smile at an inanimate object. "Well you can stand out here when it is going to rain soon-" he pointed to the gathering clouds that were covering the stars, that I have ever barely seen due to light pollution, "- or you can follow me and i'll show you the house." He quirked an eyebrow at my and I grinned and took one of my bags from him, then followed him inside.
He showed me the living room, which had a arm chair by the window, a settee against the wall, opposite a flat screen TV above the fireplace, and a coffee table in the middle of the room. There were various pictures on the wall off a mahogany haired and brown eyed girl at different ages situated along the walls, along with a photo of the same girl but older wearing a wedding dress, stood next to a man, who was drool worthy. Why didn't I come here a few years ago, then I would have had a chance! Damn. There was also a couple of photos of a young girl, with copper hair- exactly the same shade as hottie's and the girls brown eyes. I went up to the picture curiously.
"Hang on, wasn't your daughter married less than two years ago? And this girl looks exactly like her and her-" drool "-husband? Yet this girl is at the very least 5," I looked at Charlie. "Out of wedlock and at 15?" At first he went pale, and looked like a goldfish, then as I said the words 'out of wedlock and at 15' he turned the colour of puce and a vein throbbed in his forehead.
"I'll have you know Marie, that Isabella is a good responsible girl and I will not have you looking at her in that light!" He shouted, but his anger wasn't directed at me, more like at someone else, yet as to whom I hadn't a clue.
"So who is this girl then?" I pointed to the picture.
"None of your business," he then stormed out of the room and up the stairs. I sighed and followed him. Great I haven' been with this guy for more than 2 hours and already he's pissed. I sighed loudly and followed him up the stairs. At the top of the stairs there was a room was on the left, then there was a bathroom directly opposite the stairs, and another room on the right. I followed Charlie into the right room, and I did smile when I saw it. Three of the walls were painted teal, which were recently painted by the slight smell that still lingered, and the last wall had a teal and black wall paper. There was a metal double bed, which dominated the room, and had bedding which matched the wallpaper. In the corner there was a desk where I could put my laptop, and in the other corner there was a door, I had thankfully watched enough American films to know that it was a 'closet' or as I call it a 'wardrobe room'. Situated in the wall to the right of the bed and next to the desk, was a window painted white which had a teal blind covering it.
"It's great! How did you know my favourite colour is teal?" I said looking like a Cheshire cat.
"Well I tried to contact Bella to say that you were coming to live with me, but I found out from her sister-in-law that she and Edward had gone away and are not using electricity," he shuddered, as I noted how hottie's name was Edward, ah-well I prefer hottie anyway. "Then Alice asked, well told me that I should re-decorate the room, so she'd send me all the stuff, and she'll tell Bella when she gets back, which is the week after next."
"I should thank her, can I have her number?"
"Well apparently she is coming to see you on Friday as she is going to Seattle for a fashion show for the day, and will come here after you finish school," his eyes suddenly widened, "Oh yes, school. You start on Monday, so tomorrow I can take you into the main part of town and get you what you need, and you'll pick up your schedule on Monday morning." I couldn't help the large grimace that replaced the grin on my face, urgh a new school. I had never moved before and wasn't looking forward to the change of school.
All that changed though when I saw a large package wrapped badly in pink paper on the bed.
"Hmm, what's that?" I asked Charlie in what I call my inquisitive voice, and he began to blush embarrassed.
"I thought... you know... as you had moved... I you know... would get you something," he looked at his feet. I meanwhile squealed in delight.
"Ooooh, what is it?" I picked it up and noticed it was quite heavy, I gently shook it, but didn't hear much.
"That is why the wrapping paper is on it funnily enough, you have to unwrap it to find out," I stuck my tongue out at him and proceeded to rip off the paper. It was a flatscreen 19" TV, with built in digital and DVD. I jumped up and hugged his small person tightly.
"Thank you so much!" He laughed and hugged me back, then patted my back so he could attach my new TV to the bracket already attached to the wall which I hadn't noticed before. He then told me we was going to order a pizza and asked what I wanted which I quickly replied with any fish one, then he left me alone to settle down on my own.
I put my new ipod into my new docking station which all of my friends chipped in and bought me as a going away present. I quickly unpacked, singing along to Muse and 30 Seconds to Mars, putting my clothes in my wardrobe room, and putting up many pictures of my friends and I on various trips, like the one of 5 of us on the flume at Alton towers, where we were all dressed as farm animals for Emma's 16th birthday. Emma was dressed as a horse as she loves horse riding, Zöe was dressed as a chicken as she was scared of everything (including a kettle, long story), Jess went as a cow as we always say she is moody, Jodie was dressed as a pig as she eats like one (but annoyingly doesn't look like one), and I was dressed as a sheep as that was the only costume left in the shop.
Looking at the photos reminded me that I promised to talk to all of them on Skype when I arrived. So as I started up my laptop, I ventured into the bathroom and saw it was quite decent. There was a shower and a toilet so I was happy. Thankfully I don't really mind if I share a bathroom with Charlie as he doesn't seem like one to pry too much.
By the time I had explored the rest of the house and became exasperated at some of the things I found, like how there was no food in the kitchen, at least I can cook- without giving someone food poisoning anyway- so i'll have to get Charlie to buy some food.
By the time I returned upstairs my computer had booted up and I opened my 79 emails. Mainly from my best friends and some of my good friends, I skipped through them, and as they basically all said 'hope the flight was good' 'how is the weather' etc. etc. So I sent a general one back to everyone, and loaded up Skype. I saw how none of them were on though, and curiously checked the time and almost smacked myself when I realised that I was 5 hours behind so to them it was nearing 1AM and they were probably still at James' party, it was his 17th and his parents are uber-rich so they opened their mansion and he invited everyone in the year, plus he is Jess' boyfriend, but we had a little gathering before I left with Jess and James, Emma and Tim, Alana ad Joe, Zöe and Mike, and Zach and myself. Zach was my boyfriend a couple of weeks back, but we split on mutual agreement easily seeing that we were just good friends, so he came to the gathering. We just went for a meal and bowling.
I heard the doorbell ring, and I raced downstairs, my stomach rumbling loudly, and I grabbed my pizza, went into the living room and dug in.
"I see you have a good appetite then," he stated and sat on the settee as I was in the chair.
"Yep, I love anything edible, but I love fish," I said almost drooling thinking about it. Charlie grinned at me.
"Good because I am a keen fisher, so we always have a good supply." He informed me while taking a bite of his pizza and his eyes fixed onto the American rugby, which just looked like rugby to me, but i'm not a very sporty person. When I asked him what he was watching he laughed and said football, nu-uh that's not football to me. We had a little debate about it and eventually agreed to disagree.
I quickly finished my pizza, and I told Charlie how we were going food shopping tomorrow. He nodded and told me to set my alarm for 10AM in case I'm not up by then, because we were going over to a Sue Clearwater's for tea. I did notice how loved up he appeared when he said 'Sue' and I think he will get a bit of teasing tomorrow, well unless their obvious relationship is public.
I quickly took a shower and washed my hair. Then jumped into bed, and fell asleep while watching my TV.
