A Haven 5: Home

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We turned onto a graveled road, which seemed at the moment, to lead nowhere. There was no sign of residence as we sped along the road that's sides were covered with sky towering trees and tall grasses and wildflowers. A little ways further down the road some buildings came into view. There was what looked to be a grocery/pharmacy store and some random building that I had no clue what it was and what it was for and on a hill that was far away from the two buildings, where a few houses. One was blue with black shudders near the forest of trees, another was yellow with no shudders and a white door, and the last one was a light green color with a red door. The last house reminded me of Christmas with its choice of colors.

A few miles down the long road, that somehow felt like it was an abandoned town with it's size and population of historic looking buildings and houses, we finally pulled into a very long and narrow graveled driveway, that was surrounded my trees and shrubs. About a half a mile into the driveway, there was a sign that had something illegible written on it. It looked like it was written in some other language, not English.

Cedric pushed a bunch of buttons on a panel, I was guessing was supposed to be for the garage. One of the three garage doors opened and Cedric stopped the engine of the car when he successfully parked in the spot. We walked through the garage door just in time before it closed.

The house was humongous. It was white and had black shudders with little moons carved in them. The door had a screen and was a light gray color. The porch wrapped all the way around the front of the house and had a set of white furniture with a pot of flowers on the table that was in between the couch and the chair. At the top of the house there was an oval shaped window in the middle. The house had two cupolas in the front, one on each side of the house. In front of the house there was garden that consisted of many different types of extraordinary flowers, like violets, daffodils, red and purple tulips, and some other kind of pinkish flower that I didn't know the name of, which was very pretty and smelled pretty too.

Inside there was a large winding staircase near the front door, that had wooden steps without any carpeting. The railing was made of black metal and had roses and spirals as it went up. The living room had white palestine furniture, a mahogany coffee table, a big screen T.V., and a black leather chair in the corner. Walking through the living room was the dining room. The dining room had a large table made of the same material has the coffee table in the other room, and had 12 matching chairs, with a vase full of flowers in the middle of the table, probably from the garden. The wall was all made of glass so that you could see the side yard and the forest and the floor was made from oak wood. The kitchen was in the left corner of the dining room and was absolutely huge. It had white marble counters, an island in the middle with three wooden chairs, which matched the floor. The refrigerator was gray and had one of the water and ice things, it had black painted wood cupboards and every appliance you could think of. If you went out of the kitchen, the opposite way from the dining room, there was a hallway that led back to the living room and the front door and on the other side down the hallway were just closed door leading to various other rooms of the unknown.

"Hey, Sophie," Cedric suddenly said, interrupting my tour of my new surroundings.

"Yeah?" I asked.

"Come up here."

I followed him up the stairs and down the hallway of closed doors.

"Right now no one knows that you're here, so you can sleep in my room, but I'm afraid you're going to have to stay in the closet, because I share my bedroom with my brother."

After seeing the look on my face he spook again, "Don't worry it's a walk-in closet and there's already a blow up mattress inside and a pillow."

I walked into the now darkened room, it was late at night, time flew by way too quickly.

"Please stay here until I come and get you," he said a little hesitant, with a pleading tone, as I entered the closet. I heard the front door close and a bunch of people talking.

"Hey baby boy? Are you home," one of them called up the stairs.

"Yeah, I'll be down in a sec," he kissed me on the cheek and closed the door as he left.

My face was flushed tulip pink. I walked around in the closet. It was big, no doubt about that. I tripped over the air mattress in the process of my searching. I didn't get up; I just fixed the pillow and covered myself with the blanket. I was terribly tired; all the new information had finally drained the energy right out of me. I sat up for a second, trying to listen to the voices down stairs. I felt around with my hand the clothes that hung neatly above me in 'my' closet. I wonder where he keeps his underwear, I thought, my mind going down the gutter. That was for another day. I laid back down, this is home, I thought, and closed my eyes.