Chapter Eight

When Lucas and I return from our honeymoon in Hawaii a week later, we come back with more crap than what we left with, which honestly, wasn't much. We basically spent the whole week either on the beach or in our hotel room overlooking the ocean. Our first stop is home so we can drop our stuff off, and then we head over to the cafe'.

When Karen sees us, she comes from behind the counter and gives us both kisses and hugs. I hug my dad. "I thought you guys weren't supposed to land until 4:30" he says. "We decided to take an earlier flight. We missed everyone." Lucas explains.

Karen fixes us all something to eat and we sit down and talk and share pictures from Hawaii. My horrible sunburn has finally turned into a tan and it looks pretty damn hot on me.

"So Karen and I both pitched in and got you guys a wedding present. We wanted to wait until you got back to give it to you." my dad explains. I raise an eyebrow. "What is it?" I ask. My dad tosses me and Lucas each a keyring with a key on it. "Okay, and this is to-??" I ask totally confused. I look at Lucas who looks just as baffled as me. Karen and my dad look at each other and smile. "Come on, lets take a ride." Karen says. We get in our car and drive to Market Street. We're stopped in front of a beautiful two story brick house complete with a garage and basketball hoop outside. "There it is." Karen says. Suddenly, it hits me like a ton of bricks. "You guys bought us a house?!" Lucas and I jump out of the car and run up to the front door. Lucas sticks his key in the lock and the door opens. We run in and look around. "Oh my God." he says in disbelief.

We're still in total shock as we walk around and explore all of the rooms. There's a huge living room and kitchen, a den, and a bathroom downstairs and upstairs there's the master bedroom/bathroom, two smaller bedrooms, and another bathroom. "That's way too many damn bathrooms to clean." I laugh. Me and Lucas come back downstairs. "So you guys like it?" my dad asks. "You guys, this is too much." Lucas says. "No, it's just enough. It's done, and there's nothing you guys can do about it." Karen says. We hug them both. "Oh, and there's a pool in the backyard." my dad laughs. I squeal.

After we get done at the house, we go see Brooke, Nathan, and Haley and tell them about the good news. "Wow, that kind of makes our gift seem kinda lame." Haley says. "Haley, a xbox 360 and PS3 is NOT lame." Lucas says seriously. "Yeah, I think we're gonna get more use out of that than the fancy china and silverware we got." I laugh. "So when's moving day?" Nathan asks. "Whenever we get all the crap in the apartment packed up." Lucas says. "We're gonna have to hire a moving company for the furniture and all the big stuff." I tell him. "Babe, we have me and Nathan. We can move anything." Lucas says. I roll my eyes. "Yeah and when you throw your back out moving that king size bed, I get to say 'I told you so'". I tell him.

When we get home that night, we start packing up what we can into boxes. It's a lot easier since we haven't even taken any of the wedding gifts out of the boxes yet. Nathan and Haley just dropped them all off at the apartment after the reception. "I can't believe that our parents bought us an entire house." I say. "Yeah my mom said the only condition was that we make her a grandma within two years." Lucas tells me. He slips his arms around my waist. "Well, with that big old house, we do have a lot of rooms that we have to christen, don't we?" I smile. Lucas leans down and kisses me softly. I smack him on the butt. "Back to work. I want to move in so we can get to christening." I tell him.

The next day we go to the hardware store and buy paint, brushes, rollers, and everything we need to give our new house a new look. Right now all the rooms are white and it's just too blah. By the time we're done, every room is a different color and has a different feel to it. The kichen is yellow and white, the living room done in beige and brown, the master bedroom and bathroom are done in a deep blue color, the den, which is doubling as my art room, is done in bright red. The downstairs bathroom is done in green and white and has an ivy theme, and the upstairs bathroom has an ocean theme. It's all really badass. With all of us working around the clock for almost two weeks, we finally get all moved in.

After we get all the furniture situated and everything just the way we want, we all collapse on the sofas in the living room. "I'm hungry." Jaime announces and we all laugh. "At least you didn't have to move a 800 lb bed." Nathan tells him while tickling him. "PIzza?" I ask. I get a unanimous "yes" from everyone. For the rest of the night, we just sit around and eat pizza and watch basketball on TV and talk.

Nathan and Haley head home a little later to put Jaime to bed, and Brooke ends up crashing on the sofa in the living room. Lucas and I turn off the TV and the lights and head upstairs to our new bedroom. I flop down on the bed and moan. "Yeah this bed is amazing. I don't think I could ever love anything more at this particular moment." "Hey." Lucas says feigning hurt. "Besides you." I laugh. He lays next to me. "Oh my God, I think you're right." he says as he stretches out. "I told ya."

This place is a mansion compared to our old apartment, and I'm still trying to get used to it. " I still have no idea what we're going to do with these two extra bedrooms." I say. "I was hoping for a nursery." Lucas says. I smile. "Baby, we're two weeks into being married. I kinda want to enjoy that for a while longer before we rush off and start having babies."I tell him. "I didn't mean right away. But someday." We kiss. "Yeah if you had it your way, I'd be pregnant right now." I giggle. "Yep."