New Life, New Family, Old Friends

CHAPTER 4

~Sorry I haven't updated in awhile. I went away for holidays. Anyway I hope you like it! :D
By the way, most of this story will be in Bella's Point of View. But I'll still change it every now and then~

BELLA'S POV

We were driving around town looking at all the stores, in search of a furniture store. We drove around for a few minutes, before finally coming across a furniture store.

We pulled up at the front and got out of the car. Adrian locked the car and came over to me. "So…" I rolled my eyes. "Yes Adrian?" "I was just wondering..." I sighed in annoyance "Just spit it out already." He huffed and said "Are we going to be a couple here?" I raised my eyebrows in a questioning way and replied "I don't know. Do you mean imitating being a couple in front of the town?" He smiled "Yeah. I think it may be easier with some things, if people thought we were married. Such as the house." I nodded, agreeing with his reasoning. It would be easier.

"Well then, Honey. You're going to need to buy me a ring now, aren't you?" I smirked and he laughed. "Didn't think about that one." He continued to laugh and finally started calming down after a minute or so. "Here" He said as he reached to his left hand and pulled off a ring he was wearing. He grabbed my left hand and slid it onto my ring finger. He then pulled my hand up to his mouth and placed a soft kiss on it.

"A replacement until we get you one." Again, if I could've blushed I would've been bright red. I smiled and pulled my hand back from his grasp and started to walk ahead to the store. I turned back and asked "You coming?" He smiled a crooked smiled and ran at a human pace to catch up to me.

This time I was the one who grabbed his hand, just as we reached the store entrance. He turned to me and smiled. The doors opened and we continued to walk in.

We walked along the path, through the middle of the store and started browsing. We decided to start with lounge room furniture, as we were already in that section of the store. We came across a nice, smooth, chocolate brown couch. It was one of those ones that started off going straight across then bends and goes down. We both decided to get that, a matching loveseat and a one chair recliner.

That was the couches sorted out. We continued to hold hands as we searched for a nice TV cabinet. We soon found one that was very large but it fit the image we were looking for. We moved onto some tables for the lounge room and found those pretty easily as well.

We were finished the lounge room and moved onto the dining room. Not that we were actually going to use it. But it just feels better if the house was complete. With all the furniture expected in all the rooms. We searched for a while, and finally came across one that we liked. It was a large brown wooden table, with eight seats. Three on both sides and one at each end.

By now, I'm guessing that our main colour theme for the furniture will be brown. Not that I'm complaining. My favorite colour is brown.

"Okay. So, so far we have the dining room and the lounge room furniture. Next is…" I started thinking of what other rooms there are. But came up short. "We really should've gone to the house first, to see what furniture we need." He smiled sheepishly at not thinking that. "Well we still have to get furniture for our rooms." Adrian explained. "True…" I thought for a moment and said "How about we split up and search for the furniture for our rooms?"

"Good Idea." He smiled and let go of my hand. He kissed my cheek right before he walked off to search for his stuff. I huffed and ventured in search of some furniture.

I found a nice large wooden bed, with beautiful intricate designs on the headboard. Now I realize that I won't be using the bed, but it would still be nice to have one. Just to lie down and read or relax on. I then got a bedside table to go with it, a large dresser with draws and a mirror on it. I decided to get a full, floor length mirror on the side as well. I went back to the lounge-room section and chose a brown leather couch, and a large wall length bookcase.

I finished getting everything I wanted and went to find a retail assistant to purchase our furniture. I found a young guy, around the age of 17. He kept on ogling me as I approached and his heart rate had sped up. I told him I wanted to purchase some furniture and he pulled out a notepad. "Show me which ones you would like and I'll write down the reference number for your purchase." I walked him over to the lounge section and showed him which ones we wanted. He wrote down the reference number for each one as I walked around to each one.

Just as we finished the lounge room furniture and were going to the dining room. Adrian approached and wrapped his arm around my waist. "Have you already started?" I smiled and replied "Yes, well you took too long." He smirked "Sorry I took so long Honey." I laughed on the inside at his sly joke.

The Guy whose name I found out was James, went quiet before looking at my left hand. His face went down in disappointment. Obviously he thought I was single.

We finished getting everything and ordered for it to be delivered to our house in 2 hours. We left the shop and got back into the car. Adrian continued to drive through town. In search of what, I don't know.

Finally he pulled up at a place called 'Pam's Paint'. We got out and walked in the store. "So what colors should we get?" Hmmm… what goes well with brown? "All I can think of is white and baby blue." "That's what I was thinking too." We walked over to the white paint and chose a creamy white. We got a normal white as well and went to choose a blue.

We got all the paint and went to the register to buy them. All up we had cream white, baby blue, white, and a warm brown. We also got the equipment/brushes needed to paint the house. We reached the cash register and sat them on the table for the man to scan. He finished scanning them and Adrian paid for them. We went back to the car with the tins of paint and put them in the back of the truck.

This time we headed back to the house. It took 10 minutes to get there with the way Adrian drives. We pulled up out the front of the house. We left everything in the car and grabbed the key. I walked over to the door and put the key in the lock turning the handle.

I walked in, with Adrian in tow, and went into the large expanse of the room. It was beautiful. We walked around the first floor and there was a Lounge room, Dining room, Kitchen and a Bathroom. The rooms were all large in size and were all plain white. We walked up the stairs, to the second floor and looked around.

There were five bedrooms all up and three bathrooms. We each chose the bedroom we wanted and surprisingly they we right next to each other. They were the two biggest bedrooms in the house. They had walk in wardrobes and an adjoining bathrooms.

We went back downstairs and noticed a door to a basement. We went down and had a look around. It was large, just like all the other rooms and bare.

We decided to get started on painting the house. Adrian set up some tarp on all the floors to stop paint from going on the carpet and tiles, while I went to the truck and brought all the paint in. We started by painting the walls Baby Blue, Brown and Cream. We worked at Vampire speed and finished in an hour.

The whole house was painted to perfection and already on the way to drying. I put the paint cans down in the basement as Adrian brought in the rest of the stuff from the truck. We picked up all the tarp and cleaned off the paint from the rollers. Just as we finished the furniture truck came and delivered our furniture.

We set it all up starting from the Dining room. Working our way to the Lounge room, then upstairs to our bedrooms.

Everything was finished now and we sprawled out on the couch in the Lounge room. "I'm finished. No more painting or furniture." Adrian's said in a drained voice. I laughed. "I couldn't be that bad. It's not like we can get tired anyway." "But sstiiilllll" He whined like a little kid causing me to laugh more.

I sat up and looked around. Everything was set up and put in place. Everything was painted and almost dry. It was now 3 o'clock in the afternoon. We decided to go back into town to get all the little things we need for the house. Such as the Kitchen Utensils, a Television, Books for Myself, and other things for the house.

Three hours later and we were finished getting everything we needed. We got back home and set it all up and the house was now complete.

(I was going to stop here, but I thought I'll continue for not updating in awhile. It's not much but here you go.)

We sat back down on the couch like before and turned on the TV to see the news. There was nothing important happening so Adrian muted it and left it on.

Usually I love the silence, but now it just gives me time to think of Edw-him. I couldn't say his name. It hurts too much. With all that's been happening, I haven't really had the chance to think about everything that's happened.

But now that I do, I don't want to. I don't want to remember. I don't want to remember the words he told me. The fact that they never said 'Goodbye'. I don't want to remember any of that. It all hurts too much.

Adrian must have noticed my discomfort and moved next to me. He pulled me into a hug and held me there. "Shhh, it's okay. I understand. You can cry on me. Let it all out." I dry sobbed on his chest. I cuddled closer into him and he just wrapped his arms tighter around me. I told him what happened. Everything. Adrian just held tighter each time I sobbed.

It felt good to be able to tell someone the whole story. I never could. Vampires aren't something you casually talk about to your friends. He didn't judge me and listened the whole time. After I finished explaining, I was dry sobbing again.

He told me that that would be what changed me. Once we experience something traumatic, we change.
I lay in his arms and he just held me there.

We stayed like that all night until the sun started to rise.

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