I slowly woke up and smiled when I realized that it wasn't a dream when Charlotte offered me to stay the night the night before. I guess we ended up falling asleep since I was going to sleep on the couch, but it felt good to share the bed with her again. I glanced around and saw Charlotte using my shoulder as a pillow, I smiled to myself as she moved a little and got closer to cuddle. I softly placed my hand on her back and tried to get back to sleep but for some reason I couldn't get back to sleep. I sighed and just laid there, not wanting to wake Charlotte up.
"Dang sun, go back to bed," I heard her say with laughter in her voice. I pulled the blankets up so they were over our heads, "thank you sun."
"You're welcome," I joked with her and saw a smile form on her face. She slowly opened her eyes and moved so her head was more on my chest then my shoulder, like she would once in a while to get comfy or keep me in the bed, "We should get up and get breakfast so we can paint," I told her not really wanting to get out of bed. I liked how it felt to lay next to her in the same bed again.
"Do we have to? I'm liking this right now," she replied and moved again so she was re-using my shoulder for a pillow. She smiled at me and sighed when I nodded yes in reply. She shook her head no and tried to go back to sleep. I started to tickle her and rolled us over so I was on top tickling her, "I'm up," she called between laughs. I got up and helped her out of bed.
"Your bed is comfortable," I told her and she gave me a weird look as we both went downstairs.
"It's hard to me," she replied, "so what would you like for breakfast?" she asked once we reached the kitchen.
"How about just some toast and coffee," I told her and chuckled when I realized she was already starting the coffee. I went over to her and leaned against the counter next to her.
"How did you sleep?" she asked as she put the toast going with a yawn. I could tell that she wasn't a morning person at all.
"Good, how did you sleep?" I asked in reply as I watched her get an orange out of the fridge and started to peel it.
"Better then normal," she replied as she got two small plates down from the cabinet. Just as she put the plates on the counter the toast popped and the coffee was done. She smiled as I got the toast out of the toaster and buttered it. She got the cups down and poured us each a cup of coffee.
"That's good that you slept good," I told her once we sat at the table, "so, what all colors of paint did you get?"
"A light brown and a pale green," she replied with a yawn, I guess she hated getting up early, but it was either that or get blinded by the light that would shine into her room through her white lace curtains.
"That's cool, what's going to be what?" I asked with a mouth full, she chuckled and shrugged to answer the question.
"Probably do the railing for the stairs in the light brown, I even got a couple cans of white so the things that'll stay white can get re-done also," she told me and I nodded in reply as I finished my toast. After we were done eating we both went up and changed into their painting clothes and went back downstairs, I noticed how the stairs creaked with each step we took.
"Well, let's find the paint and the brushes then let's get to work," I told her with a smile.
She smiled back and lead me to the spare room where she put the paint and stuff at. I roughly picked two cans up and she picked the other two up and followed me out the door. After she put the cans down she rushed over to the room and grabbed the new paint brushes that haven't been opened yet. She quickly came back out to me and closed the door with her foot behind her and it closed with a slam.
"Oops, didn't mean to close it that hard," she said and tossed me a paint brush, "shoot we should put newspapers down so if we slop paint it won't get on the floor."
"Yeah, paint can be hard to get off carpet sometimes," I told her and followed her to the spare room where she motioned for me to follow. She pulled the two boxes of papers with force and got it out of the space it was shoved into. We took the two boxes out and put all the packing stuff down on the floor around the area's we'll be painting, "So, where to start Char?" I asked as we put the newspapers down on the floor.
"Um, well, we have newspapers under the windows and the door so I'll take this window if you wanna start that one and do them in the light brown," she suggested and I nodded in reply and grabbed a can of the light brown paint and walked on over to the window and started to paint after I opened the can and stirred the paint.
I glanced over and saw Charlotte take her medium brown hair and put it up into a ponytail. She glanced my way and lightly smiled as she started to paint the window frame as I worked on mine.
A while later we had the windows done, with two coats and we went over to the couch and sat down, "So, now we could either do the railing to the stairs or the door," she told me with a sigh.
"How about you take the railing and I take the door?" I suggested and she nodded.
"But first, I'll get us each a pop," she told me and went to the kitchen with a quick pace. She came back out after I heard the fridge get closed and she handed me a pop.
"Thanks Char," I told her softly as I opened the top on the pop. She nodded and got her pop open and took a drink. I stood up and took my pop to the door and placed it on the stand next to me and started to paint the door frame. I glanced over and she was sitting on her butt as she painted the bars that went up from the stairs, "Lazy," I joked and she chuckled and shook her head with a small grin.
"Maybe," was all she replied and continued to paint. After she got about four done she got up and went to the kitchen.
"Everything okay?" I called from the living room, wondering what was going on.
"Yeah, I gotta get the pizza started so by the time we're done here it'll be ready to eat," she called back and I chuckled as I continued to paint the door frame in the light brown she said to use on it. About three minutes or four later she came out and started to paint again. I chuckled and put my brush down and took my t-shirt off.
-Char's POV-
I was painting the railing and glanced over and saw him take his shirt off and I knew my face was turning red. I looked away quickly, and continued to work on the railing for the stairs. I couldn't help but glance at him every now and then, God he was so damn good looking. He hasn't changed much, just more muscles but that was about all.
He glanced over at me and I acted like I was working on the railings, hoping that he didn't catch me looking. I smiled as I finished the one post up and glanced over and he was just finishing the door frame. He turned and I took my eyes off him and a moment late he was sitting on the stairs with me and helped me with the railing.
"You okay?" he asked and I nodded in reply. Not sure what to tell him or not to tell him. I glanced over and he nodded back and we worked on the rest of the railing.
Just as we finished the railing up the timer went off for the pizza. I got up off the stairs and went to the kitchen, washed my hands and then checked the pizza, it was done, so I pulled it out and placed it lightly on the stove and pushed it back off the edge. I searched the drawer where my silverware are and finally found the pizza cutter.
"Pizza is done," I called and heard him enter the kitchen. I glanced up and as he turned the water on and washed his hands. I cut the pizza into twelve pieces and thought that it'll be enough so if we get hungry later there'd be enough left over. That's if we don't eat it all.
I turned to get the plates down and Darry had two in his hands already. I got a spatula out and placed two pieces each on the plates, "we can eat in the living room I don't mind," I told him and we made our way to the living room. We both sat on the couch and slowly ate our lunch.
-Back to Dar's POV-
"So, after we get the railing done, what all do paint?" I asked with a mouthful. She chuckled a little and finished what was in her mouth.
"Well, my room could always use a fresh coat of paint on the window frame and the door frame," she replied and I nodded in return.
"Sounds good to me," I told her and she nodded and finished her pizza. A couple seconds later I finished mine up and we both placed our plates on the coffee table and went back to the painting.
About two hours later we got the whole railing done that lead upstairs. I glanced at her and she seemed a little happy that the railing was finally done. "Well, let's head to my room to do touch ups in there," she told me and I grabbed the paint and she grabbed the two brushes and we went up to her room to do a little bit of painting that she wanted done in there.
"So all you wanted done was the window frame and the door frame right?" I asked and she nodded as she took the one can of paint and I took a paint brush. I went to the door frame and started to paint the door frame as she painted the window frame.
After we were done we both sat on her bed and she fell backwards and let out a soft sigh. I glanced over and she lightly smiled, "what's wrong?" I asked her and she slowly sat back up.
"Nothing, just happy all the painting is done," she replied. She got off the bed and went over to the window and opened it and the light breeze came in, "that's better."
"Yeah it is," I responded as she made the bed bounce a little when she plopped down onto her back instead of sitting on the bed, "comfy?" I asked her with a chuckle.
"Yup," she simply replied and I slowly laid down on my back next to her, "so what all to do now, pretty much everything I wanted painted got done?"
"Anything you want to do," I told her and she shrugged in reply, I guess she has no idea what to do, "is there anything else that could use a fresh coat of paint or could be re-painted?"
"I really haven't looked much," she told me and I chuckled and got off the bed and helped her up. We went to the bathroom that was on the second story, "The only thing could be the walls but that'll take more paint then we have," she softly spoke.
"We still have a full can of white and a full can of the brown," I told her and she nodded.
"I forgot, well, we could go and get the white and the brown also and do the wall in the shower, tub area in the white and the rest in the brown, or we could go down to the hardware store and get more white and just do all the walls in white and the trim in the brown?" she suggested and I nodded.
"Lets go shopping," I told her and she smiled. We both went downstairs, got our shoes on, I put my shirt back on and we left after she grabbed her keys and her purse. We went out to her truck and headed to the store.
When we got there she pulled up in font of the white and red building, turned the truck off and sighed, "after the painting is completely dry we'll need showers in," she softly spoke as she got a little bit of the brown paint off a strain of hair that fell into her face.
"Yeah really, well let's get the paint then go back to the house and finish it up," I told her as we both got out of the truck and went inside. We both walked around and got to the paint and she grabbed a can of white paint but I took it from her with a smile and grabbed another can of brown just in case there's more to be done then what meets the eye.
"I just remembered that there's pale green at the house also, so we could use that in the bathroom but still buy these so if there's more later on," she told me and I nodded as we walked around more. I put the cans of paint in the cart I grabbed and watched her look around to figure out what all we'd need to fix her house up with.
"What are you looking for?" I asked kindly and she just shrugged in reply.
"Just looking to see what all to get or I think I should get for the house," she told me and I nodded and just walked with her as she looked around, "well, lets take these to the cashier and I'll pay and we can take it to the house and do the walls." We went to the cashier and the guy rang them up and she paid when the guy told her the price. I grabbed the paint for her and we headed out to the truck. After we got in we went to her house. After getting there she grabbed the pale green she had and we went to the bathroom upstairs and painted the walls pale green and left the trim white.
When we were done with the bathroom we both went to the living room and sat on the couch with sighs, "thank you," she told me and I looked over.
"No problem, I'm here whenever you need help with anything," I told her and she smiled in reply. She yawned, "tired?"
"A little," she replied and I saw it in her eyes that it was more then a little.
"When the paint is dried you should get a shower in," I told her as I took some green paint from her hair.
"Look whose talking, you have paint on your arms," she told me and I looked then looked around more on my body and I have no idea how the paint got on the back of my shoulder but there was some green paint there.
"True," I told her and she smiled, "what?"
"I have two bathrooms in the place, I could take a shower then you could if you want," she told me and I nodded.
"Actually, I should get home for a few, I'll take a shower over there and make sure the boys didn't burn the house down," I jokingly told her and she nodded.
"Okay see you in a few then. I'll walk over when I'm done with my shower," she told me and I nodded and gave her a hug. She gave me one back and walked me to the door. I lightly kissed her on the cheek then left to my house to get a shower in. When I got home I was surprised to see the house was still standing and it was cleaned. I went to my room, grabbed clean clothes, went to the bathroom and took a shower.
