A/N: Hi! This is a translated version of my Finnish story called Jumissa. I'm translating it on my own so I'm sorry for all of the spelling errors. I'm a big supporter of Joella, but it just didn't work for this story. But if you want to read about Joe and the lovely Stella, please check out my story Lovesick. You can find it in my profile. Please remember that Joe is going as Matthew and Susie as Natalie in this story. In the meanwhile, I hope you enjoy this story.
By the way, I own just my crazy ideas.
The next morning I woke up from a private plane's bed. I had slept pretty well considering that I had been forced to leave my old life behind. I dressed into my clothes from yesterday, combed my hair with my fingers and put a fresh mint into my mouth. Then I walked into the seat department of the plane. Matthew was sitting there in yesterday's clothes looking like he hadn't gotten any sleep.
- Good morning sleepyhead, he smiled at me. I siled back quietly. Henry was sleeping in his bassinet again.
- How long did I sleep? I asked and sat opposite to Matthew.
- Almost ten hours, he yawned. I had been out for a long time. How far were we flying to?
- Have you gotten any sleep? I asked him and took a croissant from the table. I started to nip at it.
- Not really. I've been napping while Henry has been sleeping. And that hasn't been much. I think he has colic, Matthew yawned again.
- How do you know what that is? I asked surprised.
- I'm not stupid even though I might look that way, Matthew laughed and I smiled a little too.
- Go to sleep. I'll look after Henry, I said to him as I reached for an orange juice carton from the table. matthew reached for it at the same time and our fingers touched. The touch felt wonderful. I wish he would hold my hand, I heard yself thinking. I was in a plane with a strange man going to a strange place and all I could think about was touching him. Should I be worried? Matthew took the carton and handed it to me as I withdrew my fingers.
- Thanks but we are almost there so I think I'll just sleep later. I'm used to being up so I'll be fine, Matthew yawned again.
-Okay, I just smiled and finished my breakfast.
We had gotten our wedding rings and other important things, like wallets and phones, in the plane. The phones were not allowed to be used to phoning anyone from the past life. My engagement was beautiful. It was silver and it had a small pink stone. The wedding ring was just a silver band. I wouldn't have chosen these myself but I still liked them. They were much like the new me. Matthew had just one silver ring. There was a engraving on both of our rings saying "Natalie and Matthew 07.07.07".
My purse was a big white bag with a long strap. We had been both given credit cards and the bill was paid by someone else. All of our other bills were also paid for us. We were tol that there would be bills coing to our mail box but they would all be paper trash. We could throw them away after opening them. The pilot told us we were landing and Matthew checked that Henry's bassinet was belted right. Then he, much to my surprise, fastened my seat belt and then his own.
When we got out of the plane, Henry woke up. I took him to my arms and he smiled. Matthew put his arm around me and took henry's bassinet to the other.
- Where are we? I asked aloud as I looked at the place we were standing at. The weather was pretty cold and it was just the airort around us and a few trees I could see.
- I have no idea, Matthew replied. We walked into a taxi that was waiting for us. I put Henry to his bassinet and Matthew fastened the seatbelt around it. I climbed to sit beside Henry's bassinet and Matthew took the front seat. After driving a little, there were houses.
- Oh Henry, there's snow! I squeeled like a little child. I heard Matthew chuckle. I had never seen real snow. There wasn't much of it. It was only the early stages of winter.
- Were here, the taxi driver said as the car stopped in front of a two-story house. The house was beautiful. It had a big yard and a two-car-carage.
I stepped outside and walke to the other side of the car to take out Henry's bassinet. Matthew took three suitcase out of the trunk. We were clearly underdressed for this weather because I felt cold just standing beside the taxi. There were keys in my bag so I put down the bassinet, that held a screaming Henry, just to take my keys and opened the door. I put the keys back to my bag, lifted the bassinet t my arms and walked in. Matthew came behind me and closed the door.
I took Henry to my arms and wrapped a blanket from the bassinet around him. The screaming stopped as soon as he got warm. I kissed Henry's forehead and walked around the down floor shushing him. The floor held a small bathroom, a combination of kitchen, dining room and living room, a housekeeping room and a front hall.
- The moving truck should be here today, Matthew said as I walked back to the livingroom.
- I hope so because we don't have any furniture. Would you see the suitcases if there's any warmer clothes to us? I asked Matthew as I went to the bathroom to change Henry's diaper. It was alost dry so I guess Matthew had known how to do that also. When we came back, there were two combinations of clothes on the floor –one for Matthew and one for Henry.
- I thought you might want to choose your own clothes, Matthew said and took Henry from my arms. I noticed he had a little pink on his cheeks. I walked to my suitcase and opened it. The fist thing I saw was some silk underwear. No wonder Matthew had been blushing.
I took a hot pink padded vest, turquoise poloneck knitshirt, white skinny jeans and hot pink socks and beige UGG-boots. I wondered if Natalie owned anything black because Susie didn't wear much other colours than black. I walked into the bathroom to change my clothes and when I came back, the boys were ready.
- Aren't you all fancy! I smiled at Henry who was on Matthew's arms. Henry was wearing lime green pants that had some padding on them, and a white lightly padded jacket with a yellow beanie with a tassel. Apparently the whole family was going to be dressing colourful.
- And look at these shoes! I didn't even know they made Chuck Taylor's for kids, Matthew chuckled. The shoes were yellow with fur inside them.
- Pretty nice, I smiled at Henry and kissed his nose. Matthew was wearing loose light jeans and white lightly padded jacket and the same yellow shoes as Henry.
- Shall we go? Matthew said and we walked to the door together. I took my bag and we stepped outside. I locked the door and we started to walk to the road.
- We don't even have a baby carriage, I sighed as we walked.
- It's okay. I can carry him. He's as heavy as a carton of milk, Matthew laughed and I had to laugh with him. His laughter was like music to my ears. I took a hold of Matthew's arm as we walked along the road. There was a friendly looking woman approaching from one of the yards.
- Where did we move from? I quickly whispered to Matthew's ear.
- Texas, he whispered back to me and kissed y cheek briefly. My cheek felt like it was on fire.
- Hey, you must be the new family moving in to the end of the road? the blond woman asked cheerfully. She was wearing nothing but a long silk dressing gown. I think she was just getting the paper or taking the trash.
- In the flesh. Matthew Smith, Matthew introduced him self to our new neighbour.
- Oh, I'm Nancy Campbell, the woman replied and shook hands with Matthew. I wanted to punch her for lashed her fake eyelashes so hard they almost fell off. She was talking to someone else's husband after all.
- And this is my beautiful wife Natalie and our son Henry, Matthew introduced us and Nancy shook hands with me too. Her face nails almost made a cut to my hand.
- Nice to meet you, I smiled friendly. I didn't want to be rude to the first neihbour that came to greet us.
- Where did you move from? Nancy asked me.
- Texas, I smiled. I had never been to Texas but no one knew that here.
- From so far? Nancy asked surprised.
- We started to think about moving when Natalie got pregnant with Henry. I can do my job anywhere and Natalie loves snow so what would be a better place than this? Matthew told Nancy.
- He's just like a doll. So beautiful. And looks just like you, Nancy said to Matthew as she was watching Henry.
- I think he looks more like his mom, Matthew smiled and kissed my forehead. I closed my eyes as I felt his lips against my skin.
- You have to come to have dinner with us next week, nancy chatted but when I opened my eyes, my attention stole a big truck and two new Toyota Prius- hybrid cars.
- Honey, the moving truck is here, I chirped to Matthew and his head turned to my direction immediately and eyes looked at my mouth just to make sure the word "honey" had come out of my mouth.
- Thank you for the invite, Nancy. We'll have to get back to you when we have unloaded all of our stuff, Matthew smiled friendly to Nancy.
- There's plenty of time, Nancy yelled after us as we started to walk back to our house.
The men from a moving company had already started to unpack the truck. They apparently had their own key because I had locked the door on our way out. The cars were already in the carage.
- I love these! I squeeled as I saw a lime green baby carriage waiting for us on the porch.
- Pretty flashy, Matthew breathed.
- What here isn't? I asked and he just laughed. I took Henry from him and went to look some baby food. Now that we had a microwave, I could heat something. I put a jar of baby food in to heat up and rocked Henry in my arms.
I noticed that Matthew had taken off his jacket and was helping with the unloading. He was wearing a white t-shirt that revealed his biceps. Wow! There were no other words to describe them. I could have stared at him for ages but I woke up from my trance when the microwave beeped.
I took the food from there and started to feed Henry. He had been eating solidfood for only month now but still he ate it really quick. When he was ready, I burped him, cleaned up our mess and walked upstairs holding Henry. The upper floor had three bedrooms. There was a large bed and other stuff in one of them, other was full of home office stuff and the last one had nursey stuff. The upper floor also had a large bathroom and big walk-in closet. Matthew was in the nursery building a crib. I walked into the nursery and put Henry down to a swing that was already built near the door.
- Look, Henry. Daddy is making you a bed. You'll be a big boy tonight and sleep the whole night in it, Matthew chatted to Henry who was looking around him from the swing.
- Do you think we could paint the walls? These white walls and white furniture don't really match our image, I said and heard Matthew chuckle.
- You're right. We'll drive to a hardware store first thing tomorrow, Matthew promised and continued to build the crib.
- Did you see the cars? Hybrids. I didn't even have a car before and now we both have our own, I smiled at Matthew as I opened the first cardboard box. It was full of henry's clothes so I started to put them into a white chest of drawers.
- They were pretty cool, Matthew said clearly thinking about something else. I think he was missing his old life. I kind of didn't. Yesterday I was just a nobody and now I had everything I had ever wanted. We worked in silence. I got all of the boxes in the nursery empty while Matthew built the crib and the changing table.
- You do know that we have to move all of this stuff when we start to paint? Matthew chuckled as he looked around. I was just putting sheets to the crib.
- Of course. But it will be much easier to put stuff back when they already have a place where the belong, I smiled. Matthew lifted a sleeping Henry up from the swing and put him to his crib, and then we went to organize the bedroom. There wasn't anything else coming to the bedroom than a big chest of drawer, a large double bed with a bench to the end of it and two night stands. I found two bedside lamps from one box and I put them on the night stands.
- My clothes fit into the drawer so you can use the whole closet space, Matthew smiled at me.
- Thanks honey, I said sweetly and kissed his cheek. The look on his face was worth it.
- You're welcome, he said quietly and left to get a box from the closet. I walked downstairs and noticed that the men had finished their job and left. I tried to find a box with some decpration stuff but instead of it, I found a box that said "photos" on the top.
I opened it carefully and started to lift framed photos from the box to the livingroom floor. They had been photoshopped so that they looked more real. I found a wedding photo and put it on the mantel. I put a picture of Henry, aged only a few months, beside it. To the bedroom I picked a photo where Matthew was standing behind me his arms around my waist and we were both lookng at Henry who was sleeping in my arms.
I walked back to the bedroom holding the photo frame and saw that Matthew was putting away a cardboard box. I put the frame on the drawer and admired it. We looked like a real family in it.
- That's a great photo, Matthew said and got a new box. I nodded to myself.
- I'll go check up on Henry and then I'll go unpack the kitchen, I said to Matthew and he just nodded to me.
I walked to Henry's crib and peeked in. He was sleeping safe and sound. I turned on the baby monitor and took the receiver with me. Then I walked to the kitchen. I ordered a pizza with my new phone and started to unpack the dishes. I was able to rinse, dry and put to the cabinet three boxes of dishes before the doorbell rang. I took my wallet from my bag and walked to the door. I paid for the pizzas and carried them to the kitchen counter.
Then I walked upstairs to ask Matthew to eat. He had fallen asleep to the bed on his back. I still decided to wake him up to eat and then he could go back to sleep. It turned out to be easier said than done. I decided to be mean and tease him a little. I went to sit lie on top of him on my stomach.
- Honey, come to eat something, I sang to his ear. All I got for an aswer was a grunt. I kissed his cheek and finally his lips. Matthew's arms wrapped around me and his lips started to move with mine. I already felt his tongue touch my lips when I withdrew myself.
- You have my permission to wake me up that way every day, Matthew smied and I slapped his arm.
- Let's go eat, I said and got up. Matthew's arms had dropped to his sides the second I had started to move.
- I'm starving, Matthew said and got up to stand beside me. We walked downstairs together and ate in silence. When we had eaten, there was a cry coming from the baby monitor.
- I'll go, Matthew smiled and got up. I walked to the kitchen and heated a bottle of baby formula. I heard Matthew come down and walk to the bathroom to change henry's diaper. I sat on a purple couch, that had been unwrapped earlier, to wait for them. Matthew came to the livingroom, sat beside me and gave Henry to me. I put the bottle to a hungry Henry's mouth.
- I could get used to this view, Matthew said as he watched me and Henry.
- You'd better get used to it because we are kind of stuck here, I replied.
A/N: I know Joe was born in 1989 so he would have been way too young to be married in 2007. But I wrote it before I realized it so I'm going with it. It will be explained in the next chapter. While you're waiting, please leave me some love :)