This was a nice day so far for Catra. Adora managed to finish looking through her applications early in the morning when she woke up and they've been having a nice time just being together. They didn't have anything really planned for the day, but even having the one plan helped to not feel sluggish. And now that plan had come up and they were out the door.
The walk from their home to Kyle's wouldn't take long, luckily their location came before they got close to his house.
"I think I see it." Adora said, as they turned onto the street Catra was leading them down. Adora preferred to walk next to Catra, even if that meant one of them had to walk on the grass. The hight difference didn't make it feel right for her to be ahead of or behind Catra. "We're just here to look, window shopping."
"I still don't know why they call it window shopping, you can't really see windows in a window store, they're too clean." Catra said, walking a little fast to keep up with Adora's long legs. Catra did know why it was called window shopping, it was just another thing Catra thought was funny.
"I think it's called window shopping because of store windows." Adora said with a smile. She knew Catra knew what window shopping meant, but Catra liked hearing Adora's voice so Adora couldn't get annoyed with her.
Catra decided to try and make Adora laugh, she could work with this. "Yeah, like I said, window stores." Catra sounded so dumb to herself, it worked though. Adora let out a small chuckle and Catra couldn't keep one of her own contained.
Catra and Adora crossed the street and made their way up the sidewalk to the sign outside the small house. Sure enough there was an open house walk through with an on site Realtor. Catra hadn't even read the sign before, she just assumed that it was an open house because she had heard those were popular.
"Do we just walk up to the house and knock?" Adora asked, not remembering how this was done. She had done this before as a kid but she never paid attention to much back then.
"Well the door's open, so I think we just walk in." Catra said, walking past the sign and up the driveway. Catra stopped and turned around to face Adora. "Check this out Adora, a driveway. These people are living the life of luxury."
"You goof." Adora said with a smile as she walked up to her wife, who now was walking towards the front door.
The front door of the small house was wide open, allowing Adora and Catra to admire the house from the outside. Both of them noticed the small mechanism attached to the doorknob that Catra hadn't seen before. Adora recognized it from her last job when the product trucks came by. There was a small bricked fan against the wall where the door ended, doing it's job and making the air as clear as possible for a house with it's door open.
"Do we just walk in?" Adora asked. Unfortunately for her hesitance, Catra had already stepped foot inside the seemingly empty building.
"Hello? Anyone here? We're here to look at the house!" Catra yelled as she made her way to the end of the small hall at the front door. Adora quickly followed behind, hoping that they wouldn't get in some kind of trouble from doing this. A loud clack came from nearby room and footsteps followed suit. "I'd take that as a yes."
A man in a suit came into the opening hallway from what Catra assumed was either a living room or a kitchen. She had a feeling Realtors just sat in a kitchen doing paperwork, all the time, somehow never running out of paperwork. Adora had the same stigma but wouldn't say it even if she was asked about it.
"Imp?" Catra asked as she recognized who he was. A smile as her friend came in and returned a smile of his own.
"Catra." Imp said with a hint of a smile. Even though Catra thought of Imp as a friend, they never talked. It was usually one word sentences as they passed with a smile. That, and Imp's dad happened to like Catra and her band and talked often about them. "And I assume this is Adora?"
"Yeah, how do you know?" Adora asked, retreating behind Catra slightly.
"Honey, you're the tallest girl in the state, people are bound to know you." Catra said with a chuckle. "I thought you were a bouncer, what happened?"
"Second job, still am." Imp said, looking down at a clipboard Catra hadn't noticed before. His small smile fading before looking back up. "Looking for a house to settle down?"
"Actually," Adora said, trying to gain footing in the conversation now that it might involve her.
"Maybe," Catra cut Adora off. "we want to know what this place looks like first. Then we'll think about it."
"Well it's a small home but leaves itself for great potential, let me show you around." Imp said walking past them towards the front door. "As you can see, we have lovely wooden floor for the entrance." Imp started, taking them around from room to room. Describing what already was there and what could be done with each room.
Adora was uncomfortable at first, walking around in the almost empty house that still had some remnants of living in it. Boxes stacked in one room and pictures unpacked in another. That feeling faded quickly after they had been given a small tour of the kitchen. Adora was amazed at being next to a stove and being able to take steps left and right. She felt much more free and happy with the ceilings in the building not being so close to her head. Sure she was tall but the ceilings at her old apartment didn't grow with her.
Catra was loving the tour so far. The house had so much more space than their small apartment. The fact that the living room couldn't be crossed in just three steps felt liberating. The house was small sure, very small for a house. But it was more than they had now.
"And this is a three bedroom, two bathroom house." Imp said as they made their way out of the living room to take a tour of the rooms. "This house may be small but it's interior design was taken from a villa, leaving rooms being large at the cost that the walls aren't very sound proof. Which can be fixed with a trip to a hardware store. It's not like it's designing on a dime."
"Nice one." Catra said, even if she didn't get the joke. She wanted to keep a positive relationship with Imp even if it was almost nothing.
"Oh so you watch renovation shows too?" Imp asked turning around before continuing to the rooms.
Catra thanked Adora as Adora covered for her. "We don't have TV, so we wouldn't know." Adora said, causing Imp to take a breath of comprehension and continue with his job.
"Anyway, we don't think we really need three rooms." Adora continued, completely off script from what Catra had already imagined in her head. "We already have a room for ourselves and a work room, what would we use the third room for?"
"Well normally," Imp started to reply. Catra was a little lost now, Adora had stepped slightly ahead of her to talk to Imp and now she was lost from the conversation. It was an odd feeling Catra didn't usually get, the one that tells her to close her mouth and let things happen. The feeling was terrible, it made her feel as if nothing would get done. Or it made her feel like she ate really bad seafood. "when a married couple buys a house and settles down, they usually have a kids room. Do you think that's something you two would be interested in? There are other houses in the neighborhood that are being sold that are bigger if this one is too small." Imp prattled on as if it were a script he had practice in telling a hundred times before.
Catra's itch, the one that kept scratching at her skull at all sides trying to tell her something was stronger than ever now. She swore if her little tiny mental urges were physical she would have a migraine. Ever since Perfuma mentioned it it had been gnawing at her, driving her mad trying to make her think about it. Thanks to what Imp said she finally figured out what's been bothering her. Why it was she was so attached to Mermista's kids. Why the apartment no longer felt big enough for the future. Unfortunately for Catra, this entire epiphany came silently into her head as Imp, Adora, and her walked into a bedroom.
"Well I don't think we'll be needing a kids room anytime soon, maybe if you had smaller houses to show us?" Adora asked, hanging on the last word to make her point clearer.
"There are plenty of houses being sold that are smaller than this one, but I'm sure you'd like to finish seeing the rooms and the basement first?" Imp asked, a certain tone of frustration in his voice talking to Adora.
"There's a basement?" Catra asked. "There wasn't a garage but there's a basement?" She continued, trying to not let on that something was bothering her. Catra was doing her best, but she wasn't as good as Adora when it came to hiding how she felt. Catra always put her emotions on blast to let people know how she felt, sometimes she'd even scream it into a microphone. Adora just had so much more practice than her. Catra blamed service jobs.
"Yes it does, it seems like a bad trade off but last I checked you didn't have a car. When it comes to bikes and putting things outside, there's plenty of space to put a shed next to the house." Imp suggested as they finally made it into a large room. "Now here is the master bedroom, as you can see it can hold a queen size bed and more. The closet is a simple one, no walk in, but it makes it feel homey."
"The bed would need to be longer." Adora noted as she walked around the room. Catra walked around with her, getting a feel for just how large the bedroom was. When Catra found herself next to Adora, Adora nudged Catra with her elbow. "And sturdier, am I right?" Adora said with a wink.
Catra couldn't help but laugh.
The tour continued like that for the next room and the bathrooms. The second room was smaller but still fitting a bed with a larger closet. The smaller room had an entire wall as a closet as the doors slid, creating a wall made of two doors. Catra had fun pushing the doors open and closed until they finally left to the next room. The bathrooms were small, almost the size of the one back at their apartment. Catra completely dismissed the bathrooms, the fraction bigger they were didn't matter to her. The fraction bigger did matter to Adora however as she could finally sit down on the toilet and not hurt her legs when they hit a wall. Adora also gushed over the idea of putting in a custom bath that was tall enough for her to sit down in.
Seeing Adora excited about the house really made Catra happy. Even if she knew that Adora wouldn't want to move based on a simple bathroom design change. Catra barely even took a bath or a shower and she always got complimented on her hygiene. Catra quickly remembered that she had fur and Adora was in a different boat with that entirely.
Catra had missed the door to the basement in the first tour around the house. They had to walk back into the kitchen to a door Catra thought was just another pantry. Which was something that she hadn't had the privilege of using in years. The basement was the most cluttered of all the rooms, simply due to how much bigger it was than any other room. Instead of having the basement separated like she had first thought, the basement was the entire size of the ground floor with no walls. The only walls that could be spoken of were the ones around the stairs.
Time flies though, and Catra's interest in the basement meant she didn't have enough time to enjoy the open space. Not to mention she was already thinking of things she could do with it.
"I'm thinking," Catra started as she reached the top of the stairs and stepped into the kitchen. "that I could put all of the band equipment down there and then I can host band practice here."
"That does sound nice." Adora said. "I wouldn't be a bother because I'd be out at work."
"Or, I could just make it like a lair, and just put a TV down there and not do anything else." Catra continued.
"I take it you would like to look at the buying papers?" Imp asked Catra. Imp had recognized the air of the married couple and noticed who was more into the house. Imp specifically asked Catra, making his body language make it clear he was asking Catra.
"Sure, let's," Catra started.
She was cut off by her wife quickly, almost as if she was responding to the question. "I don't think so."
"Oh, was there something you didn't like about the house?" Imp asked, turning to Adora.
"No, the house was lovely, we're just not looking to buy right now." Adora continued, raising her hand to Imp. Catra grabbed Adora's arm as it started to move.
"I'd like to see the papers."
"What?" Adora said, shocked.
Man, aren't I great at not doing anything with this story. I just want to write Catra and Adora being married and being cute and I'm doing that. Sure I guess the whole kid thing is over arching, but that's a side story. The main story is, look at the married ladies, aren't the married ladies cute? Anyway, review. Tell me what you think. And leave suggestions for what Catra and Adora could do together as a married couple.
