I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY BESIDES THE OC'S.

Julie's Point of View

I turned my alarm clock off in the morning when I heard it to begin to chime, I sat up stretching my arms before I threw my blanket back to allow me to climb out of the bed to go use the bathroom. I came back switching into a tank top and basketball shorts, I grabbed my phone along with my house keys before I headed out of my room, I didn't see Wade up so I wrote a note putting it on the refrigerator for him to see if he was to get up before I was to return. I headed out of the house putting my buds in my ear to listen to the music I had on my phone along with putting a timer on my phone to allow me to know when it was time to head back home. I jogged for a good hour and a half before I returned home, I let myself in seeing Wade sitting on the couch eating a bowl of cereal that he had made himself.

"Morning." I said as I shut the door behind me locking it as I ran a hand through my hair.

"Morning…have a good run?" Wade asked.

"Yeah…I'm going to go shower then going to get something to eat." I said.

"When are you meeting Drew?" Wade asked as he yelled it down the hall.

"1:30, it shouldn't take that long though…" I said.

"You'll be home for dinner?" Wade asked as I turned heading back towards the living room to finish the conversation.

"I should be, if not I'll text you if I'm going to be late." I said.

"Okay…" Wade said as I headed back down the hall grabbing a new outfit from my room and went into the bathroom to shower up after the sweat that I had collected from the jog I had just finished. I finished the shower wrapping my hair up before I went into my room tossing my workout clothes onto my bed, I was hoping to get one in tomorrow before our flight, if we were to fly out tomorrow, I headed out to the kitchen heating up a few slices of pizza that we didn't eat last night and grabbed myself another bottle of water to go with it. I watched whatever was on the television, which was another basketball game or sport that Wade must have missed over the last few days. I ate my food peacefully watching the game and listening to my brother get into it, which was the most entertaining of the two. I took my plate out to the kitchen, I rinsed it off before I headed back to my bathroom to finish the process of getting ready and slipped on a pair of tennis shoes before I grabbed my phone, purse, the two sets of keys and the paint pallet that I had grabbed yesterday at the store. I headed out to the living room, I told Wade I was heading out before I went to my car texting Drew that I was just leaving to the museum and that I'll see him there. I arrived to the museum after he did, I pulled into the spot beside his car seeing him leaning against the trunk of his car wearing tight jeans and his green shirt that had vintage type design on the front, it was a good outfit on him and his hair was pulled back into a ponytail yet again and his sunglasses were covering his eyes. I climbed out of my car after it was put in park and the engine was turned off, I locked my car as I approached the man that was leaning against the car.

"Sorry for being late." I said.

"Nah, I left earlier and got here earlier than planned." Drew said as he stood up from his car as he followed me into the museum that was open for business.

"Hi Mrs. Holmes." I said seeing her behind the receptionist desk.

"Hi Ms. Bennett, here to work on your room?" She asked.

"Yeah, maybe just a little bit…I ordered the bench for the room and it's to be shipped here…." I said.

"I'll keep a look out for it and sign for it when it arrives…" She said.

"Thanks." I said as I led Drew to the room that was assigned for my stuff, I unlocked it with the keys before I pulled the door open and Drew slid in behind me and made sure it closed behind us so no one would try to enter.

"So, what colors do you want to start with?" Drew asked as he put his sunglasses to hook on the collar of his shirt.

"I have narrowed it down to these right here." I said picking up these light purples and light blues.

"Well, they are definitely light." Drew said.

"I don't want something too vibrant…plus did you see the walls out there, they are the same color as these walls right here, a dull gray or off white." I said.

"I see that…what about a yellow?" Drew said.

"It'll match the gold that is on the bench." I said.

"Not something too bright like the gold…" Drew said as he pulled the pallet out of my grip and fumbled through the pallets trying to find the right yellow that he was imagining. "This one, its light and its yellow, it's not too extravagant." Drew said as I nodded as I grabbed that color sheet and the colors I chose, I walked over to the wall holding them up to the wall the best I could.

"Seeing them up on the wall, which one seems like a better option to be painted on the wall?" I said.

"I am now leaning towards that purple." Drew said.

"I think the purple is the winner." I said as I pulled them back from the wall, "Thanks…now off to home to go buy this paint and paint it next week."

"Uh, next week is your birthday…"

"Like I don't know that…I can do it the following day or the day before."

"Why do that when we can paint it today?"

"But-" I began to say as Drew put his hands on his hips giving me a dirty look, "You want to help me paint today?" I asked.

"Yes…I wore a tank top underneath and these are my bad jeans suspecting we were going to get dirty with painting today." Drew said.

"I wish I knew." I said as I looked down at my outfit.

"Just be careful then." Drew said smirking as I rolled my eyes, we headed out of the room and I left it unlocked for the time being so we won't have to unlock it when we returned. I climbed into Drew's car letting him drive to the store that Wade and I had went to the day prior, we went straight to the paint department grabbing two cans of paint of the right purple along with some paint brushes to use and the blue paint tape to use to outline the black mark area that will be cut for the entrance way to the room, then we headed towards the front grabbing a newspaper. "Why do we need a newspaper?" Drew asked.

"To lay across the floor of the area we are painting to collect any that may drip so it won't ruin the flooring." I said.

"Oh, duh Drew!" Drew said as he rolled his eyes at his stupidity.

"You want some water?" I asked.

"Please." Drew said as I grabbed a couple water bottles for us to drink during the time we were to paint the room. We went through a line, I made the purchase with their card before we headed back to the museum where we went back to the room where he started placing the newspapers around the room where we would be painting as I was trying to ply the can tops off.

"We are in business." I said as I got them both opened and pulled out the paint brushes I had opened for us to use. He walked over taking a brush from me along with the one can of paint that was open, "Thanks for helping." I said following him over to the one side of the room to start painting the one wall, he began at one side and I started at the other to try to get it done sooner hopefully. We met in the middle, our paint cans sitting between us two as we sat on the ground Indian style to paint the bottom half of the wall, and this was the easiest way to do so. "This purple is coming out very pretty." I said.

"Yeah, but it isn't as pretty as you…" Drew said as I glanced over to him feeling my cheeks coming slight red for no apparent reason as I looked back at the wall in front of me.

"I doubt that…this may need another coat later…" I said looking at the wall that was slowly drying that I had painted as I looked back towards Drew to dip my brush back into the can when I felt Drew run his finger across my nose with a wet sensation and I noticed his finger had purple on it and he must have had paint on it. "Did you just paint my nose?" I asked.

"Yes…I think you are pretty without it but you claim that the paint is prettier so I was helping you out." He said smirking as I dipped my finger into the paint can spreading some paint on his cheek because he turned away from me. "Why'd you do that to me?" He asked.

"Because you did it to me." I said as he dipped his finger into his can marking my arm since I turned my face far enough around so he couldn't get my face, this led to me and him chasing each other around the room to try to apply paint to the others body that didn't already have paint on it and I guess this consumed way too much time when the door opened to the room getting both Drew and I stop in our tracks slowly turning to look at the door that was now open, I'm sure that we looked absolutely ridiculous right now with our arms and faces covered with the paint we had purchased for the walls and not for us.

"I'm sorry to interrupt whatever you two are doing, but the museum is closed and I'm heading home, I'll lock the doors but won't set the alarm yet…can you lock up after you leave and set the alarm system?" Mrs. Holmes asked.

"Yes…no problem." I said nodding running a hand through my hair realizing I must have gotten some paint in my hair.

"Okay…" She said nodding as she turned around and let the door close behind her.

"Yeah, she probably thinks I'm so weird girl and I'm going to be surprised if I don't get a call saying they decided not to use my work anymore after this." I said.

"If they do that then they need to learn how to have fun." Drew said.

"Shit, I need to text Wade to let him know that I won't be home for dinner." I said pulling out my phone texting Wade that I won't be home for dinner and he responded with a thank you for letting him know as Drew and I went back to work on painting the walls.

"I'll take that back wall if you want to start on that wall." Drew said as he nodded to the wall opposing wall from the one that we had painted previous to this fight.

"First, I'm going to finish that wall." I said nodding to the wall that still had the white gray paint on it.

"Good idea." Drew said as we walked back over finishing that wall together before we separated to the two different walls to try to get the paint job done together when I heard him to slowly start singing 'Every Rose Has It's Thorn' and I smirked as I glanced to him and only saw his back side as he was slowly brushing the paint onto the wall up and down like clockwork.

"Are you singing 'Every Rose Has It's Thorn?'" I asked curiously as he slowly turned to look at me.

"Yeah, sorry…I was listening to it on the way over here and it's stuck in my head." Drew said.

"Continue on, I love that song…you mind if I sing with you?" I asked.

"Not at all…I like a girl that has good taste of music…I'm kind of surprise you even listen to that song." Drew said.

"How could I not listen to that song? It's a famous ballad by one of the best bands…plus, just because I'm a girl doesn't mean that I don't listen to that kind of music…I used to listen to that music when I studied with my classmates." I said honestly as I turned back to work on my paint job.

"I like that…" He said as I could tell he was smiling even though I couldn't see it.

"Where do you want to pick the song up at?" I asked curiously.

"The beginning if you are up to it." He said.

"I'm always up for the challenge." I said as he counted to three before we started singing from the beginning and we made it through the whole song.

"What other songs do you know?" Drew asked.

"It's pretty weird how many songs I have stored in my head…wait, I got my phone that has music on it…" I said as I pulled out my phone going to my music library. I listed off all the songs and artists I had on my phone, I realized I need to import more songs onto it since I hadn't done so since the beginning of this semester and I had increased my music library on my computer since then.

"Play some of that Aerosmith you have." Drew said as I nodded as I went to the Aerosmith selection I had and played all the songs I had on my phone from them, we sung along to the songs as we were painting away at the walls and I met him 3/4ths the way towards his wall and he was 1/4th way into the wall where we had met to complete said wall.

"We got one wall left…" I said as we both turned to look at the wall that the door was planted on.

"That wall should be the simple one, there is a chunk missing for the door and they are cutting some of it out anyway…" Drew said as he was right.

"First let me put the tape over the black line." I said as I headed to the bag from the store pulling out the only item left inside, I opened the tape roll and tried to find the end so I could pull the tape off. It took a lot longer than I had planned but I walked over ripping big pieces off and applying it over the line and handing it over to Drew to do it to the opposing side until I got to the highest point I could reach. "That is about as high as I could go." I said looking up at the end of the taped area I had done before I looked over at Drew's that was barely that much higher than mine.

"Well we are missing quite a bit of line." Drew said.

"I see that." I said smirking.

"How do you plan on fixing that?" Drew asked as I looked at the line trying to think about it and thinking of a possible option.

"We can pull a bench in to step up onto to finish it up." I said, that was the only option I came up with.

"That seems like a lot of work." Drew said.

"What is your brilliant idea?" I asked.

"You'll see." He said smirking as he walked over squatting down and I felt him slide his head between my legs picking me up on his shoulders screaming as he went to stand to his full height and gripping clumps of his hair out of fright.

"Put me down…" I said in my timid scared voice.

"You're fine…I'm not going to drop you…" Drew said.

"I can't…" I said.

"Julie, you have done much worse things than sitting on my shoulders…"

"True…"

"The quicker you do the job the sooner you will get off my shoulders…" Drew said as I nodded before he handed me the tape as I did the job before he walked with me on his shoulders over to the paint cans picking one up and carried it back, it freaked me out most when he squatted down to grab the can from the ground. He walked back over to stand in front of the door that we were previous standing in front of. "Make this quick." He said as I reached down grabbing the brush out of the can to do the job above the door, "Just don't get any in my hair." He said.

"Sorry to tell you that you already have some in it from our paint war earlier." I said.

"It should come out right?" Drew asked as I began painting at the wall.

"You don't want purple hair?" I asked sarcastically.

"As much as it will match my eyes, I don't think I can pull it off." Drew said.

"I think it makes you look good…everyone needs a little purple in their lives." I said smirking as he slowly stepped along the wall as I knew he was watching every move of my paint brush to see how far along I was on painting and if he needed to move any. I tried to hurry so I could get off his shoulders and when I reached to the one end of the wall that didn't need to be done Drew slowly knelt down and let me step off his shoulders which was a relieve to finally get off his shoulders before we separated to go on either side of the door to paint the two halves of the wall. We finished the paint job and overlooked the paint job we have done and it definitely needed another coat of paint but it would have to wait until another day because it needed to dry for sure before we were to apply anymore paint to it. "It looks good…just needs another coat but that can wait until a later time." I said as I nodded in approval at the work that we had done today.

"I agree, I love it." Drew said as I smirked as I glanced over at him as he had a smile on his face at the work he had done as well.

"I guess we should get out of here…" I said.

"Yeah…let me know when you want to apply that second coat and I'll come help you sweetie." Drew said as he did a half smirk.

"I will honey." I said smirking back before I picked up my water taking a much needed swig of it before I pushed the tops back onto the cans of paint and rested the paint brushes against the cans in a safe spot in the room before I led Drew out of the room locking the room behind us to let it dry for however long until I can come back to apply the second coat. I led him out of the museum, I relocked the doors behind us and set the alarms for the museum to be activated until the morning for the first person in to disarm before opening the museum.

"You want to go get something to eat with me?" Drew asked as we walked along the museum with each other towards the parking lot that I knew only had both our cars in.

"I would love to but I'm not sure if Wade had made me a plate or not and it's kind of late…." I said.

"Oh…okay." He said, by the tone of his voice it sounded as if it was filled with disappointment.

"I'm sorry…we'll do dinner this weekend, I promise." I said.

"I am going to hold you to that…" Drew said smiling as we stood between our two cars.

"You drive safe and thanks for helping me today…" I said.

"No worries, I am the one that kind of pushed you into doing it." Drew said.

"Well, thanks for pushing me into it….I had fun…and I need a shower again." I said looking at my arms that had dry paint on it and realizing just how much it was burning now that it was dried.

"Me too…" Drew said.

"Well, text me when you get home and I'll text you back…"

"You better…." Drew said as I rolled my eyes as I lunged into him wrapping my arms around him for a hug and he wrapped his arms around me holding me close to his embrace.

"Night…" I said as I stepped back pushing a strand of hair behind my ear nervously and awkwardly, I felt like a little school girl again and I don't know why I was acting so nervous around him. I smiled as I started to slide between our cars unlocking my door looking back at him smiling wide before I slid into my car and started it so I could pull out of the parking spot and headed home to shower to get the paint off my skin and to eat a much needed meal. I pulled into the driveway parking my car and pulled the emergency brake on before I headed inside the house.

"Whoa, what happened to you? Did the paint explode?" Wade asked as he looked me over at the paint that was dried on me by now.

"Not exactly, Drew got a hold of it and it kind of turned into a paint war…it's burning like hell and I would love to shower." I said.

"I would say so…there is left over Stouffer's Lasagna in the fridge if you want to heat it up."

"You are rest of the pizza?"

"For lunch when you were out." He said.

"Oh….alright, thanks." I said as I headed down the hall to make a quick stop at my room putting things on my bed before I found my pajamas I had worn the night before taking them with me to the bathroom taking a shower and it took me what seemed to be hours just to scrub the paint off and I wasn't able to do my face in the shower until I got out staring at myself in the mirror scrubbing the best I could with my facial soap and the sink water. I dried my face with the one washcloth before I walked out and went into my room tossing my dirty clothes into my hamper when I noticed my phone was missing from my bed. "Wade!" I exclaimed as I headed out of the room afraid that I had left it somewhere.

"What?!" Wade exclaimed back as I headed down the hall to go make my dinner in the kitchen after I was to find my phone.

"Have you seen my phone?" I asked curiously.

"Oh, I went and grabbed it because it was ringing…Drew called and I answered it…he said you didn't respond saying you were home so I told him you were home safe and sound….." Wade answered.

"I forgot that I needed to text him….thanks." I said as he handed me the phone back as I held in my hand carrying it with me to the kitchen where I had heated up some of the food Wade told me about earlier.

"How'd it turn out?" Wade asked.

"It's a light purple…it needs another coat on it further down the road but it needs to dry…" I said as he nodded in understanding.

"But you aren't doing it next week are you?"

"Why does everyone assume I would? Drew thought I was going to do so too."

"I know you enough, you're my sister and I know how much of a work horse you are because you are just like me." Wade said.

"I won't do it next week, promise." I said as he smirked.

"You better not…I will tie you to a chair." Wade said as I rolled my eyes and chuckled.

"I would like to see you try." I said.

"You will."

"I can't wait." I said in a sarcastic excitement as the microwave chimed as I pulled out the plate taking it out to the living room enjoying my meal while watching the television.