Toscane Days 5

"Ron told me there are four bedrooms upstairs, and there's supposed to be one downstairs too, I guess we've missed it before." dad said

We all got up, put the cups in the sink and went towards the stairs, and apparently, as Ron mentioned to dad, there really was a bedroom we didn't see before, just beside the stairs. It was a pretty big room, with a king size bed. As the rest of the house, it had a very cozy atmosphere. The walls were made of an exposed bricks, which made it look like something out of a middle age set, and a heavy wooden closet beside a large window covered with a burgundy curtain.

"I guess we'll take this one" Lily suggested. "Let's go upstairs…"

On the second floor we found two bedrooms pretty similar to the one downstairs, and two smaller rooms, with queen sized beds in them. "I suppose that Jessie and Katie can take one of the bigger rooms and so does Zoë and Emily and you guys.." dad pointed at Grace and me, "Can each have a room of your own."

That sounded pretty reasonable and everyone was happy with the arrangements. We went back downstairs to bring our bags from the kitchen and each one turned to his room.

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As we went back upstairs I told Grace I didn't mind which room she'll choose, and she said felt the same, so we just randomly decided I'll take the furthest one down the corridor, and she'll take the one next to mine.

First thing I did when I entered my room, I dropped my bag on the floor and fell on the bed. 'this was the longest day of my life…' all I wanted was to fall asleep right at that moment, although I felt like a shower wouldn't hurt, I was too tired to care, but I had to go to the bathroom anyway. So I took my toothbrush out of the bag and decided to try the door on the side of the room, maybe it was a bathroom. The door was locked. I tried again, but it didn't open, so I decided to go outside in search of a bathroom. Just as I was about to leave the bedroom, I heard the inside door open, and Grace appeared on the other side of it. "Grace?" "Oh, Eli, I guess we share a bathroom…"

There was a moment of silence, and then Grace offered me the bathroom. "Go a head Eli, I was just finished in there…" she said.

"Thanks"

"I guess we need to have some kind of a system with the bathroom here" I joked to ease the tension that lingered in the air.

"I don't think we're going to have any trouble, there's a lock on each door, inside the bathroom, so whenever each of us goes in, all we have to do is lock it and that's ok, I think…"

"Sounds good enough for me" I smiled at her.

"So… Good night Eli, I'm totally exhausted, I'm going to sleep"

"Good night neighbor…" I smiled at her.

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I went into the bathroom, brushed my teeth, used the toilet and in two minutes time I was back on the bed, falling asleep.

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Morning came way too soon, but then I remembered, no school anymore, not even work, we're on holiday, so I lazily dragged myself towards the window, closed the curtain and went back to my sweet sleep.

Two hours later…

I opened my eyes having this feeling I just had a great dream, only I couldn't remember what it was about. I took a few more minutes just lying on the bed, enjoying the feeling of waking up after a good night's sleep. In no hurry I then went to open the curtain.

A very bright light welcomed my eyes and it took me a few moments to get used to the strong rays, but as I could see straight again, I was met with one of the most amazing gardens I've ever seen. It was absolutely beautiful. From my room I could see almost the whole garden, and it was huge. It was obviously well kept, yet it had a wild touch in it. The second thing I instantly noticed was the strong flowery smell, that welcomed me as I opened the window. My senses were captivated by this, uet I was rudely disturbed by a loud grumble which came from the general direction of my stomach. Food.

Maybe I'll go down, grab something to eat and then go explore the garden for a while. I went into the bathroom, after carefully knocking and making sure it was empty first. The last thing I need is an awkward meeting to ruin our stay over here. I actually got along fairly well with Grace over the last few days and I had no plans of messing that up over the stupid bathroom schedule…

After I took a shower and changed into some appropriate holiday clothing, meaning some baggy shorts and a white T, I went down in search of some food.

I was starving. Maybe it's the country air, I don't know…

"Hey Eli" Lily greeted me as I walked into the kitchen.

"Good morning E" dad joined in.

"Do we have some food around here? I'm starving…"

"Actually, we've just got up ourselves only a few minutes ago…" Lily remarked "We made some coffee, but we have to go buy some food."

"Maybe you can do us a favor E, go look for the store…" Dad asked "It's supposed to be only a few miles a way according to Ron's directions."

"Sure, I guess… that way I'll get to eat first…" I smiled at dad and Lily and grabbed the car keys.

"Eli, maybe you can ask Grace to come help you, she's up too, I saw her going out to the garden a few minutes ago. Here, I made a list of the necessities" Lily handed me a not so short list and a few local bills. "Drink some coffee, I'll go get Grace from the garden" Lily went out.

"Thanks E, I appreciate you doing this, we're going to take a walk around the area in a few minutes"

"I just want to be close to the food dad, don't worry about it…"

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