Chapter 4: Settling In

When I got back to the hotel I found Sam, Kate and Jack (Jamie and Phoebe had already started their journey back to San Francisco) all lounging around mine and Jack's room. As I walked in they all called a word of greeting and then went back to what they were doing. I wandered over to the bed a sat down reconnecting to the weak hotel wifi and rechecking all my websites.

Kate looked at her watch and gasped!

"We should have left about 10 minutes ago!" She cried, standing up of the bed. "We have to go now!" Sam, who was used to Kate being a bit OCD, walked over to her, stood in front of her and held both her hands.

"Calm down." He reassured her. "Stop panicking. We don't have anything to hurry back to!"

"Ok, ok," she sighed. "We don't need to hurry but can we at least start to head off?"

"Yeah," interjected Jack. "I agree with Kate we should probably get a move on." Sam nodded and walked out of the room hand in hand with Kate, into their room which was across the hall.

I grabbed my suitcase that I had packed the night before and wheeled it to the door. Then I went back a checked, double checked and triple check the room for any bits and bobs that I hadn't packed. Then we all headed off towards the valet parking to pick up our cars.

We all said goodbye and then Kate and climbed into her car and Jack and Sam climbed into Jacks car and we headed of to our destinations. Kate and I were going back to Bakersfield where as Sam and Jack were going to San Diego to pick up their stuff then they were coming to Bakersfield to live with Kate and I for a while.

2 months later!

The whole house was filled with boxes and boxes of clothes, furniture and so much more crap that we brought down from our houses. We had each chosen the rooms that we wanted.

Jack and I lucked out and got the biggest room, then Kate and Sam got the next largest and Jamie and Phoebe got the smallest two. It didn't take too long to put everything away and organised this enough to settle down and sleep for the night. We all had microwave dinners and slept on the sofas that were there before we moved in.

In the morning we all carried on unpacking and I began to organise my studio. I had a large cardboard box full of all my paint, pastels and pencils, then another box filled with canvases - some blank and others with paintings on. The room wasn't the biggest but it would definitely do. I was planning to paint the walls bright and colourful, with swirly, almost water marble patterns. I had it all planned out! It was gonna be my new project then I needed to get on with finishing a couple of paintings that I hadn't finished.

After about a week we were basically unpacked, there were only one or two boxes still not unpacked but none of us were really in the mood to unpack them. We were all watching tv together when Sam yawned and stated:

"I'm gonna go to bed bed now! You coming Kate?"

"Yeah, I guess I should!" She yawned and they both trudged up stair together.

"Come on we should go to bed too." I told Jack, nudging him with my elbow.

"Yeah ok, but I'm not too tired so I'll read for a bit!"

We both shuffled up the stair and as I got into bed I heard my phone buzz, I had got a text message. It was from Toby!

Toby: Sup GURL!

Emi: do u ever sleep its like 12! Would love to talk but I gotta go to bed!

Toby: WAT!? Sleeping is for losers!

Emi: Goodnight Toby! I would say sleep well!

I locked my phone and placed it on my bed side table then snuggled down ready for a good nights sleep.

A/N: Hey people! Hope u liked this chapter, I hope to update once a day so the chapters won't be very long! Hope you don't mind!

DFTBA

Rosie x