Chapter twelve: My Room

I managed to gather my wits, and reinstated my calm composure.

I stared at him with my calm, icy blue eyes, and calmly said, "excuse me? Stay here, with you guys, why would you,?" I began my question, but a simple look from him made me stop. 'What the-'

"Kiko chan, I'm only asking this, because you cannot stay on the streets, it's very cold outside at night, more so then in the morning. And, I already talked it over with Ian and Spencer, they both agreed with your staying here. We have multiple rooms in this house that are empty that you can stay in." He gave me another look, and said the thing that had been on my mind, as if he could read it. "We're not doing this out of charity, I want you to train with us as well." He stated calmly, he then turned around, saying that no was not an answer in this case. I gave up fighting him, and sighed to myself, I then quickly followed after him. Tala walked straight down the hallway, and towards the entrance, he picked up my bags and turned to me. 'Did I leave my luggage there? I don't even remember bringing it in here, how strange.' He nodded upstairs to me, and made eye contact with me again. "You're room will be upstairs like the rest of us. I'll show you where we all are in case you need one of us, alright?" I nodded in agreement, and followed him as he trudged upstairs lugging my luggage behind him.

The hard wood stairs weren't that hard to go up, like some stairs are. The railing to them was also made of wood. The walls were the same creamy color all the way up. The hallway had hard wooden flooring as well, it seemed that that was what all of the floors in this house were made of. Tala led me down a very long hallway, and as he passed he said what the rooms were. The first room we came to was Spencer's room, it had a normal chestnut brown door with a normal matching handle. The second door we came to across from Spencer's and a little bit farther down from it, was Bryan's room, the door was black though, with a black door handle. Farther down from Spencer's room was another door, it was also black with a black door handle; it was Ian's room. The room across from Ian's room was the bathroom, it was a simple chestnut brown, with a gold handle. The bathroom was occupied at that moment though. Tala led me farther down, and on the same side as Ian's and Spencer's was his room. It was a rich, red brown color, with a dark brown handle. Across from his room, was my room. It had a light brown door, with a silver handle on it.

Tala stopped, and waited for me to open it as his hand were full. He nodded to it, and I went over and grasped it's handle tightly. I slowly opened the door, and looked back at Tala. He motioned for me to enter, and I did as he said.

The room was large! Well, it was a lot bigger then my old one was. The floors were hard wood much like the rest of the house. There was a single rather large bed against the west wall. The bed had two pillows on it with dark, and light brown pillow cases, they both had white outlining them. The bed was neatly made, and the comforter ended right at the floor. The comforter was a mixture of dark brown, light brown, and white designs. The base of it all was light brown. There was a dresser beside the bed on the left side, it was a lighter shade of dark brown. There was a white lamp with a light brown shade on the dresser. Across the bed on the other side of the room was a dark brown stone fireplace (it had no fire in it yet). On the far wall, there was a larger dresser made for clothes, it was dark brown. Right across from the door was a large window that stretched from each corner of the wall. It was off of the ground, and on me, it was at my shoulder or maybe a little bit higher. On Tala, it was only at the lower part of the highest part of his chest (say it enough and it'll make sense!). The dark brown dresser was underneath the window. The window sill was light brown, and the curtains were drawn, they were light and dark brown.

I was so transfixed by the room, that I didn't notice that Tala walked right by me, and placed my stuff on the bed that was now to be called mine. He turned to look at me as I gawked at the room. After a while, I looked back at him, and smiled slightly at him. I walked towards him slowly, still glancing around at the place. "Tala, this room is beautiful! Are you sure it's alright if I stay here?" 'It seems way better then me somehow. It just seems out of my league. I wonder if they decorated it themselves' He nodded to my question, and met my gaze as I looked back at him. My icy blue eyes shone brightly at him; I was so happy and grateful. I smiled a lot larger at him, it was more noticeable too.

"I'm glad that you like it so much. You can do whatever you want in here, this is your room now. That means that you can place your clothes in that dresser," He said while pointing to the dark brown dresser underneath the window. "You can lift the curtains and such as well. I do recommend using the fireplace because, it gets rather cold outside and in all of the rooms, the wooden flooring doesn't make it any warmer either. You know where we all are, and if you et lost, just call, one of us is usually up or close by." I nodded to him slowly, taking in everything he said. He sighed to himself, and started walking towards the door calmly. Suddenly, the sound of his retreating footsteps stopped, and silence filled the air. The only thing I could hear was the sound of my breathing. I turned around, and faced him. His back was still turned to me, and his arms were at both of his sides. "And one more thing, we usually get up rather early, so our alarm clocks might wake you up. If you can't find us in the morning, we're just in the training room, the one you were just in." He began walking again, and placed his gloved hand on the door handle. I sighed, and walked quickly up to him. 'I want to say good night, but I'm scared of what he might do or say in return, oh well, I don't think he cares about me anyways.' He turned the door handle, and opened the door. It creaked open, and he stepped out into the hallway. He then closed it behind himself. I quickly went up to the door, and put my ear against it. I listened to the sound of Tala's footsteps going into his room across the hallway.

After he closed his door, I took my ear off of the door, and stood there for a few minutes, listening to the silence. After a few minutes had passed, I sighed to myself, and slowly turned around and headed back to the bed. I stared at it for a little bit, and finally got the courage to take my bags off of it, and sit down on it. 'It feels weird to be sharing a house with some boys that I hardly know. Oh well, they were nice to me after all. I'm kind of tired, I should probably get to sleep soon. I laid down on it quietly, and stared up at the white ceiling above me. I sat up again, and went over to my luggage. I opened up the bag, and found my pyjama's; a simple black tank top with white and black light, baggy pants. I slowly changed into them, and went over to the bed again. I pulled back the covers, and went into them. I then pulled the comforter and covers back onto me quickly; it was freezing in here! I looked down at my arms, and sighed to myself tiredly. I then noticed that the lamp beside me was already on; it was pretty bright to light up this whole room. I then began to remove everything on my arms. After around 15 minutes, I had everything out of my hair, everything off of my arms, and everything off of my neck. They were all placed beside me on the little dresser in nice and neat piles. I smiled to myself, and reached over to switch off the lamp. I did so, and laid down on the nice and soft bed. I laid my head on the pillows, and slowly drifted off to a deep and sound sleep.