Part 4: Moving

What did she want to tell me that Jess couldn't know? It was just a matter of time before I knew it.

Who's that guy with you?

She hadn't recognized him?

That's Jess, I answered. You don't remember him?

Ah! Yeah, I remember. He wasn't gone?

Yeah, but he came back.

When?

Yesterday.

Wow. You're fast!

Hey!

She laughed lightly.

Oh, Paris, I said. I got something to tell you.

What?

Well I'm going to move in with Jess. I don't know when yet, but that's soon.

Ok. You don't drop Yale, do you?

No. We'll even try to find an appartment near the campus.

Ah, cool.

Huh...do you mind if he sleeps with us?

No, as long as you don't do anything dirty behind my back!

Paris!

We laughed.

Well, I'm going to bed, I said. I have an early class tomorrow.

Ok. Good night!

Good night!

I went to our room, where I found Jess on my bed, lookig at the ceiling. I joined him.

What about we go to sleep? I whispered in his ear.

He answered with a smile. A few minutes later, we were under the sheets, Jess holding me against him. I soon fell asleep. The week went by quite quickly. Jess spent it looking in the papers to find something suitable, marked some and was asking me my opinion when I was getting back from class. He had found a couple, about fifteen, that we would visit during the week-end. The dinner at my grandparents' went well and, to my greatest surprise, they welcomed Jess. We had wanted to leave early 'cause we had about an hour to do on the road and we wanted to get up early the next morning, but grandma offered my mom's old bedroom. Tiredness obliged, we took it. We went to sleep and got up early, we ate breakfast then left. Grandma and grandpa told us that if we needed anything to call them. We arrived in New Haven around 9:30. The first appartment was too small, the second too big, the third too expensive, the fourth too small and too expensive. When we arrived to the fifth, it was as if it had been done for us and, to add to this, the rent was afordable, and we were 5 minutes away from the campus. There were two bedrooms, one bathroom, a living room and a kitchen and a dining room. We signed. We were allowed to move in the next day. Jess and I decided to move in the next week-end, with my mother's and Luke's help, who both agreed to help. When Jess hung up, he came to sit down next to me on the couch.

What about we go eat dinner? he asked. I'm starving.

Good, me too, I answered. And I know a good place.

Great! I invite.

Oh, thanks!

We kissed and we left. Once again, the week went by in a blur. Once again, we went for Friday night dinner at my grandparents'. We told them about our moving the next day and they offered us their help. Naturally, we agreed. We asked them if they didn't know anyone who had used electrical appliances that they didn't use anymore and my grandmother told me yes. Well...when they arrived the next day, a truck from a furniture store was following them. They were bringing us new appliances. I told them that used stuff would have been ok but grandma said that it was for them a pleasure to do that for us. So we thanked them. As I didn't have a lot of stuff in my dorm, it didn't take long for us to get settled. Luke and grandpa took care of the big parts, and Jess, my mother, grandma and I took care of the rest. In the middle of the afternoon, my mom made us notice that we didn't have a bed, or a couch, nor a tv. So Jess and I went bed, couch and tv hunting with my granmothers money (which she forced us to take, actually...). We came back for dinner with a bed, sheets, a couch and a tv. We installed all that then Luke invited us for dinner. That night, my mother, Jess and I all slept in the appartment and Luke and my grandparents got back home with the promise that they would be there the next morning at 9.