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MY POLYVORE IS LOVELAX23
I fluffed my hair and checked my makeup in the mirror by my door, I had just rang in Austin and he usually only took 30 seconds to climb the stairs to my doorstep, so I had to be quick. I was dressed to kill in a brand new dress that I had yet to have an occasion for. It was bright red sleeveless skater dress that I paired with black closed toe pumps and a black and silver crossbody. I had dressed it up with a silver and white statement necklace. My hair was in it's natural loose curls and I had put on some light makeup, Austin hated makeup.
There was knock at the door and I rushed over to it before composing myself and opening the door slowly. He was dressed in a simple black suit it hugged his toned body so well and I could see every curve of his muscles. It made me want to skip dinner and get right to dessert. But, we had business to talk about, important, future business.
"Wow, Als you look amazing. When I said dress to kill I didn't mean literally." He smiled, taking in my whole appearance.
I glowed with pride, I knew I looked good but Austin made it just that much more special. "Thanks, you don't look half bad yourself."
"So are you ready to go?" He motioned towards the hall and I smiled and nodded.
He took my hand and we walked down the narrow stairs together. When we got outside I noticed the car and I assumed we were going somewhere far or he knew I hated walking in high heels.
"Where are we going?" I asked as he held my door open for me then ran around.
He smiled and I knew I wasn't getting a straight answer. "Somewhere intimate and romantic. You've been there before."
The coffee house, I knew it had to be that and at this time of night I wouldn't be surprised if he rented the whole place out. It was like every good dream date ever. The guy rents out the whole place and makes it special…but then we drove past the coffee house. He continued driving until we turned down his street and he parked in his parking spot.
"Your apartment?" I asked, a little let down.
"Nope." He smiled and took my hand as I slid out of the car. "Come on."
He led me up the stairs and past his floor. The rooftop. Where we had our first 'date' thing.
"Is this ok?" He asked, trying to read my expression.
"Yes, perfect actually." I said, looking around at the small table and the bulb string lights hung around the rooftop.
He held out my chair for me and then went around to his. On the table was a simple meal, Chicken Alfredo it looked like.
"Dig in!" He smiled as he poured some wine in my glass.
"Thank you" I said, lifting my glass, signaling a toast. "To us."
"To our future." He smiled, letting me know he had to know how much those words meant to me.
"I thought you said you didn't do well at relationships" I smirked as we started to eat. "You seem to be a pro at this."
"Well, with you...it's easy. Everything is easy with you, it just seems natural."
I smiled at him from ear to ear. "So, to continue our conversation from earlier?"
"I know we have only been really going out for a month and have only really known each other for barely two but with you I just feel like it's right. I feel like you are the person I have been waiting for, now don't get all teary eyed because this is not a proposal, at least not one of marriage. I propose that we move in together, because damn it I am crazy over you. I can't seem to get you out of my head. I find myself talking about you all the time and throughout the day I'll have little thoughts like 'Ally would like that' or 'I need to tell Ally about this' I just want to share everything with you and I've never felt that before in my life, I've never trusted anyone as much as I trust you." He finally finished when he was out of breath and I took that as my turn to speak.
I held a serious face, pretending to think it over. After a few seconds though an uncontrollable smile broke out on my face. "I would love to move in with you Austin, I feel like it doesn't matter that we've only know each other a short time. I mean look at Trish and Dez, they're getting married next spring. That will be right after one year of dating at that time. I don't believe love conforms to time. Love is timeless."
Austin had a small smile on his lips and I gave a confused look. "Are you saying you love me?" He asked and my cheeks burned with fire.
"I-I mean…" Dammit.
"Because I love you Allyson Dawson, so it would be nice if-"
"I love you too!" I shouted a little too loud, which made Austin chuckle.
"Wow, you just literally shout it from the rooftops." He smirked and I giggled.
"So, when should we start home hunting?" I asked after a few comfortable minutes of silent happiness.
"Whenever you want babe, I guess we should make sure moving and searching fits into our schedules."
"I did just finish my summer flavors list, so I am at a small lull right now at work." I smiled and he returned it.
"Ok, well I mean we don't really have 'lulls' where I work so I guess whenever I don't actually have work will be fine." I nodded and that was that.
Our plan didn't really work out, and we had only saw one town-home and one condo since then, both not at all what we were looking for.
Our date that night had ended with us staying at Austin's place since it was convenient of course. It was an amazing end to an amazing night before we had to work the next day. The last amazing night since then as after that we had almost completely opposite schedules and when we did find time together it was little. As little time we had together though we made the best of it. There were many morning breakfast dates as he was getting off shift and I was getting ready to go to the bakery for the day. I loved Austin all the more because he got it, he knew how crazy work schedules could be.
Now it was almost 3 months later and we were finally on the same schedule for a whole week. He worked a few doubles and switched with some guys and got two whole days off...in a row! I had just finished training another college student to help out around the bakery on slow days where there weren't big orders or anything I was needed for.
"Als, I'm here!" Austin called from the living room.
I finished up my low messy bun and simple makeup before grabbing my coat and crossbody purse. My outfit today, simply comfy but stylish. It was a grey, long sleeve crew neck top with a red and black flannel scarf, paired with simple skinny jeans and my Toms desert grey wedges. (A/N:check out the polyvore post)
"I have a really good feeling about this one!" Austin said as I walked into the kitchen. "I got you a pumpkin spice." He smiled.
"Oh my favorite and it's finally back in season too!" I took a long, well needed sip of my liquid caffeine.
"Not that the season ever stopped you before" He joked, coming around and kissing my forehead. "Mmm, I missed you." He slipped his arms around my waist and nuzzled my neck as I leaned back into his rock hard body.
"Austin it's been one night." I smiled, loving how often he said he missed me, it was nice to be missed.
"Yeah, well I hope this place today is good because I want you in the same place as me. I need us to share the same, single bed."
"Really? I was thinking a king sized, but if you wanna squeeze into a single…" I smirked.
"Oh, a king will work for me, more wiggle room." He tickled my sides before grabbing his keys and coffee of the counter.
I giggled before grabbing my things and following out behind him, admiring the view. He stopped at the front door, holding it open for me and smacked my butt as I walked by.
"Austin!" I exclaimed.
"What? Just some encouragement." He smiled.
"You are something else." I shook my head as we walked hand in hand to the car.
The ride was a little longer as the town-homes were new construction almost on the edge of town. That would mean I was no longer walking distance from the bakery. Although if I really wanted to I probably could walk, which Austin would hate. As we pulled in I noted that half of the town-homes were still not completed and some didn't even have grass yet.
"I wonder how long before it looks like a neighborhood and not a construction sight." I said, looking at Austin.
"Probably not long at all, they seem to move pretty fast lately with stuff like this."
"I hope our prospective home has grass" I thought aloud.
"I'm sure it does." He said, squeezing my hand as we pulled up to the house where our Realtor's car was.
We stepped out and she came walking down off the front porch, baring that all too wide smile.
"Austin, Ally!" Denise exclaimed. "It's so nice to see you again, I know how crazy your work must be so thank you so much for taking time out of your day to see this little gem."
I smiled, she was quite cheery for an older woman and had a lot of...spunk to her. "No problem, thank you for finding it for us."
"We have high hopes for this one." Austin said, placing a hand on my back as we walked up the driveway. "Two car garage?"
"Oh, of course! And it has an open floor plan for Ally, along with a dining room and a morning room, plus an amazing basement for Austin, lots of room for entertaining." She boasted.
"How many bedrooms?" I asked, as we walked up the pathway to the front door.
"Four, but remember you also wanted a room for an office and room for guests."
"Yeah but I mean four bedrooms? I was already pushing it with three."
"Well, lets look at it and if four is too many then we keep looking." Austin said, in his cool and calming voice.
I smiled and nodded as Denise opened the door. "So this is the foyer and to your right is the coat closet and after that is the powder room. There are two full baths and two half baths. One that you see here and one in the basement."
"That's convenient." I commented as we moved on to the next room.
"To your right is the main staircase, up goes to the bedrooms and down goes to the basement and to your left is the formal dining room. Which leads right into the kitchen area."
We followed her into the kitchen and I knew she had been waiting for this moment of the tour.
"This is..amazing Denise." I smiled and Austin squeezed my hand in agreement.
"I knew how much the kitchen meant to you and I hope I've delivered. It is completely state of the art from its appliances down to the marble counter tops. The island isn't the big one you asked for but you do have this nice breakfast bar and a whole other room which is your morning room. Then as you can see, a nice open floor plan opens up to the left into the great room. Which will making entertaining all that more easy."
"This is great Denise, breath taking actually."
"And does it come fully furnished?" Austin asked.
"If you would like you can buy it as is, or you can get it as a clean slate." She smiled, motioning us to follow. "But, there's still a whole lot more to see. Basement or bedrooms?"
"Basement."
"Bedrooms." Austin and I looked at each other as we spoke in unison. "Fine, lets go see the basement."
She led us down back towards the foyer but we stopped short at the staircase that led downstairs. It was another beautifully decorated room, that actually looked a little small for what Denise had led us to believe. I looked around and did notice there were some doors.
"So, I can see by the look on your face Ally this isn't what you were expecting." I nodded my head.
"I mean you said an amazing basement and this is nice but it's just kinda small…" I trailed off looking to Austin for his impression.
"Well, Allyson." He smiled giving me that all knowing look and I sighed. "If you didn't notice...there are doors and this is a completely finished basement, which means…"
"There's more to see." I finished, knowing he had me.
"Good job Austin." Denise beamed, knowing she did good with this house, so far. "So, this is the main sitting area but through these doors we have a fully furnished theater room."
I smiled as I watched Austin's eyes light up as we walked through the door. He was in heaven, and this was gonna be his man cave, no question about it. Off the theater room there was good sized storage room that would act as an attic type space. Back in the main basement area there was half bath and another small room that I would have called the boiler room. We walked back up the stairs and up the staircase that led to the second floor. We saw three nicely sized bedrooms, the laundry room and a full bath before walking back towards the staircase but continuing past it through double doors.
"And this would be the master suite. King sized bed, one walk in closet is here." She motioned to the closet next to the bathroom door. "And the other is in your bathroom, which is fit with a walk in stall shower, jet pool bathtub and double vanity."
We finished up the tour and returned to foyer to say our goodbyes. As we walked back to the car, Austin's hand found the small of my back and he steered me down the sidewalk instead of to the car.
"Lets take a walk." He said as he kissed my head and took my hand.
"I really liked this house." I said, leaning against him as I walked.
"I did too, but it's kinda on the bigger side of what we were looking for and on the higher end of our budget."
"But, still in our budget." I pointed out.
"And, maybe the extra room isn't a bad thing...in the future?" He said, sounding unsure.
"Maybe." I smiled up at him, future talk was something Austin didn't do a lot. "Would you like a big family?"
"Yeah, 3 or 4 kids maybe." His arm came around my shoulders and I nestled into his side. "You?"
"About the same, I've always wanted a family being an only child I want my kids to have siblings."
He stopped walking and looked at me, studying me for what felt like years. He smiled after a little while and leaned down and placed a sweet, deep kiss on my lips.
"Lets buy the house."
"Really? Are you sure, we shouldn't think it over more?" I said, feeling like I was having cold feet, which was new.
"Yes, really. I love this house, you love this house. It has everything we asked for, lets do it. Lets take the leap."
"O...ok" I said, finally smiling back at him.
"Really?" He said, making sure.
"Really."
Austin scooped me up in his arms and twirled me around. Kissing my lips furiously with passion and love and adoration. After we finally pulled apart he pulled me by the hand back towards the house, just as Denise was locking up.
"We'll take it." Austin called and her face lit up.
"Really?" She asked, sounding surprised.
"Really." I said before Austin could answer. "How soon can we close?"
"Hopefully today, follow me back to my office and we'll talk numbers."
"We bought a house." I said that night laying in bed with Austin.
"We did." He kissed my head before snuggling closer. "Move in day is next week, I can most likely get off. You said your leaving most of your furniture with your apartment right?" I nodded against his chest. "So, that means we don't have to worry about that since our home is fully furnished."
"I like that, our home." I looked up at him, feeling an abundance of happiness come over me.
"I like it too. I can't wait to start a future with you there."
"I love when you talk future to me." I joked, kissing his lips.
"Hm" He sounded surprised.
"What?" I asked looking up at him.
"You like when I talk 'future' to you?"
"Yeah, well you said you don't really do relationships and you've never really been in a long term one so I try to stay away from the topic because I don't wanna scare you away or anything, so when you bring it up it's just so exciting."
"Als, I know I said that stuff but with you it's different. I can see a future with you, so if you want to talk future with me don't be afraid to speak up. I'm not gonna go run and hide at the mention of marriage or kids. I think that's pretty clear as I'm the one that brought it up today."
"Ok, well since we are on the topic…"
"Now lets not get carried away, you can't ask questions like when or how or anything like that. I won't answer those but I will tell you that I have been thinking about it."
I knew that was the end of the conversation and I wasn't going to push it because frankly I had been thinking about it too. I had been thinking that I was only getting older and that my prime wasn't going to last forever. I didn't want to be an old mom but at the time I thought that, I was single with no one even in my sights. Now, I was a homeowner with the most amazing man, the one I thought was only possible in my dreams and he was thinking about marriage and our future too. I should be content with that, I was content with that.
Ok so this is barely edited, like AT ALL! But I wanted to get it out to you guys ASAP, my life has been crazy once again with the excuses I know but Im so thankful for all that are still following along and I have already started the next chapter so enjoy this one and the next one should be out soon! Keep those reviews coming though so I know people still are interested in my story, Id hate to keep writing if it has hit a dead end. XOXOX