Hey, I realise last chapter wasn't too great, it was honestly slightly rushed.
I will be going back and editing it to make it make more sense, and possibly splitting them into 2 different chapters.
This chapter will be quite long, with little to no smut, just plot. I usually do these before writing.
I'll respond to some reviews I had whilst writing this.
TheManApart I must admit I rushed chapter 2 slightly, and filled it with a little too much smut, just so I could get on to Chapter 3 really, which will has no smut whatsoever.
tellingmark Thanks! As I'm sure you can see from above, there most certainly will be more.
Without further ado...
ELLIE POV
When Joel had first seen me once hearing the house was ready, he looked like he'd just found a house full of supplies, that no one had looted yet. He had an ear to ear grin, and after hurriedly telling me about the house being ready, he practically dragged me there to show me. From the outside, it looked like any other house in the town, but unlike quite a few houses, it still had all of it's windows, except for the one on the second floor to the far right, which was quite a big bonus these days, since we could hardly make glass anymore.
I smiled at Joel, it'd be nice to have our own house. It always felt to crowded in Maria's house, even though there were only 4 of us. We entered through the front door, which looked fine, apart from needing a lick of paint maybe. Most of the floors were oak, but the lounge had an armchair and a sofa which I could see had been sewn up in places, but it was a lot better than most I had seen, especially since it seemed clean.
We continued through to the kitchen, where, although it had a lot of appliances, only half worked after 20 years. The oven seemed to work, but on what Joel called a "hob" only 2 of the spots would heat, which wasn't too bad, other than that the dishwasher wasn't working, and seemingly had been stripped down for spare parts, which wasn't a big deal. I was glad to find that we had a working microwave, but sadly the bigthingythatwashesclotes didn't, even though I didn't think we had the materials to make one work anyway.
We also had a dining room, which really was just a big table with cabinets around it, but I wasn't complaining, this was more than I'd had my whole life, or at least the parts I could remember.
Having seen all of the downstairs, we continued up to the second floor.
We had one of the few houses in the whole town that actually ITALIC had a second floor, though it came at a cost, no one really wanted to be near the fence, so the house had been left abandoned, until me and Joel came along and offered to take it.
When you came to the top of the stairs, straight to opposite was a bathroom, which actually worked now the power was back on, An since Jackson already had sewers, it wasn't that hard making all the toilets work once again. We even had our own shower, but we were told not to use it very often, as hot water most certainly wasn't unlimited.
Once I'd poked around in there for a bit, we looked at the 3 other rooms, which were all bedrooms, though one didn't have a bed, and in the biggest room, the "Master Bedroom" Joel had called it, had a double bed, and a bathroom within it, though most of what was in there had been ripped out, which left only a sink.
I looked towards the bed, and grinned at Joel. "I can't wait to see what we can get up to on there" I winked at him, although I thought I saw him wince for half a second and his smile falter for a second, as though he was having a mental battle with himself. I decided to leave him to it, rather than interfere.
We spent most of the rest of the day moving into our new house, but since we didn't exactly have many possessions to carry over, it went rather quick. I was just unpacking my things into our room, mostly clothes gifted to us by members, when I smelt something nice coming from below. I practically ran down the stairs, to see what Joel was up to. "Watcha' cookin'? I asked, panting slightly.
He smirked at me "Roast chicken, and some potatoes, there's no need to charge in here like a goddamn elephant" I mock frowned at him, "Call me when it's ready"
"I was just going to eat it all myself, I'm very hungry" he said, rubbing his stomach slightly.
"You fucking dare, Joel, you fucking dare." With that, I went back upstairs to finish packing our clothes away in the two small wardrobes in our room.
After Dinner, Joel decided we should go to movie night, so I could make some friends. Now I'm not against people here, but I'd rather keep myself to myself. Even so, Joel insisted, so after showering and putting on some slightly smarter clothes, off we went.
We missed the start of the movie, though only by a few minutes. As I stood on the stairs of the old theatre, trying to find anyone that looked my age, Joel whispered in my ear, "The movie's called 'Lion King'", after that, he started off toward the adults room, and after yet another minute of looking around randomly I found a few kids that looks in their mid teens,
I went to sit near them.
"How do I even start a conversation?" I thought to myself.
"They'll think I'm wired"
"What if they don't want to be friends with me?"
These thoughts were put to an end by someone talking to me.
"Hello?" I looked at her and saw it was a girl who looked around 14, with blonde hair, put back in a pony tail, similar to mine.
I suddenly realised I had been looking at her for over 5 seconds without saying anything, so I hurriedly replied "Uh... Hi, I'm Ellie"
A small smile appeared on her face, and she said "I'm Caitlin, Cate for short". I turned my head toward the group, and a lot of them were giggling and looking in our direction.
"Ignore them, they're dicks"
I was taken aback by her bluntness, but she most likely wasn't lying, and those girls didn't look like the types I'd want to be befriend if I was honest.
As the movie went on it was mostly silent, except for the occasional laughter from the girls which was annoying. At a few points in the film me and Cate struck up a quiet conversation, about how we got to the town, what life was like before coming here, and just general girl stuff.
After the movie was over, we said bye to each other, and went our separate ways, and me and Joel took off home.
"Who was the girl you were talkin' to?"
"Her name's Cate, she's same age as me"
"Good that you found a friend" he smiled over at me.
"What're we gonna do when we get home?" I asked.
"Sleep? I don't know, it's almost 12"
I smirked at him, and subconsciously licked my lips slightly.
Hope this chapter is a bit better to read, I'll see you all in the next chapter.
