Oh yeah, I do not own W.I.T.C.H. or any of the characters, the plot is totally a work of my twisted little mind...
Chapter 21: Will and Matt Interlude
Will's POV
It didn't take long, Shaygon flew straight to his grandfather's pet shop...or at least the roof of the building. Once he landed, Shaygon changed back into Matt. I followed suit, losing the wings as I followed him to a rooftop door.
As we walked down the stairs, I realized, I'd never been an any other parts of this brownstone other than the store and the basement storage area. I mean it's not like I never read the mail box out front. I knew that above the pet store were other units. I just never thought much about it.
That is until Matt opened the door to the second floor and we walked into a short hall, with one apartment door on each side. I was surprised that the hall was brightly illuminated from large windows framed by eggplant colored drapes at both ends. The carpet was thick and plush, with little diamonds shapes in the taupe color. The coffee color of the walls complimented the carpet and with the light the whole thing was warm and inviting.
I followed Matt the short distance of the hall, as he turned to his left and pulled out a set of keys, opening the door to the first unit.
Now, the hall was nice, but the apartment was really nice opening into a huge living area blending with the kitchen via a counter and pony wall. There was no furniture to be seen but like the hall the living area had a lush carpet in a deep jewel-toned green and walls that were a softer green I think I've heard Hay call 'sage'.
I stopped at the door, not knowing what we were doing at the empty apartment, but Matt reached back and pulled me into the unit. Once I was inside, he closed the door, then hung the keys on a peg in the wall.
"Umm, Matt who's apartment is this?"
Matt leaned against the door and slowly replied: "Mine."
"Yours?" I was stunned, simply repeating back what he had said because it didn't make any sense.
Hadn't we just left his house? If Matt had an apartment, wouldn't I have known this before now?
"Want a tour?" With that, he lifted his body off the door, grabbed my hand and began pulling me towards the back of the apartment.
I was dumbstruck, as we walked past the open kitchen, I picked up the smell of wet paint. A quick glance and I saw that the appliances and counter tops were covered with plastic.
"Wait, wait, wait..." I stammered as he pulled me along a hallway with one hand, the other hand pushing doors open as we passed. The first was a spacious room he called a den – since it was empty it could have been anything...so I had to take his word for it.
Next he said: "Guest bathroom," we turned a corner and he opened another door as he said, "spare bedroom."
The hall ended at double doors, Matt stopped here, pulling me to his side before he opened the doors and said, "Main bedroom"
I looked around the large room. Along the far left wall was large bed, a guitar, 2 floor lamps and a small bedside table. Off to the right of where we stood was another door that I could see was to the connected bathroom. But directly in front of us was a wall of windows facing southeast managing to catch the best light the day had to offer.
I guess I was just confused because, I've been helping out at the pet shop downstairs for more than two years now and this is the first time I'd ever been upstairs or heard Matt tell me that he had an apartment here.
So I thought I should share my confusion with Matt.
"Umm, Matt. First we just left your house. Second, in all the time I've known you, you've never told me you had an apartment above the shop. What's going on?"
I mean the human brain can only take so much.
With a grin, Matt pulled me over to the bed and sat down pulling me onto it with him. I landed with a slight 'umph' on top of him, but Matt quickly rolled us until he was on top of me. Matt stole a deep kiss as he rubbed his body against mine.
When the kiss ended, I asked, "Comfy?"
With a grin he answered, "Very"
Then he began to explain.
"Well you know that my grandfather owns this building, right?"
I nodded yes. I was following him this far.
"Well, actually it's one of three that he owns. The pet shop has always been special to him so he's more fond of this one than the other two. Those are 100% rentals. But this one, the pet shop and apartments, are my inheritance. He's always planned on giving it to me and I've always known it would be mine one day."
"Ok," I said slowly as I nodded again. So far, so good...
Matt took in my semi-confused look and a huge smile crept across his face.
"Oh, man! You mean to tell me you can't figure this out?" he laughed and fell back on the bed.
I felt a real urge to punch him in the gut, but restrained myself...just barely.
"What!" I asked starting to feel more than a little irritable.
"Will, you are the queen of planners! That's the reason you're such a good leader for the guardians. I love that about you. Somehow you manage to be spontaneous and still always have a plan. Don't you think I'd have a plan for us?
A plan for US?
Cheers!