After leaving the restaurant Tom escorted Sarah to his car. She was in shock at seeing the nice looking Ferrari in front of her. It was a nice vanilla color with gold Ferrari emblems and red leather seats. Sarah stood looking at the car, mouth slightly open. Wow, she thought. This car is so nice. I bet it has a quality sound system. She noticed Tom holding the car door open for her to get in. She did so full of excitement. He closed the door and laughed to himself. She's easily impressed he thought.
She laughed nervously and said as he entered the car"sorry about that I'm kind of a noob to the whole Ferrari thing even though it is just a car."
"No apology needed. I felt the same way too when I got it. I still feel the same every time I get into it. Feel free to ogle all you want" he said with a laugh.
"I don't ogle" she said narrowing her eyes at him and then smiled "I'm more of a hands on person. Do you mind if I mess with the radio?"
"By all means" he said waving his hand at the radio.
As they drove to his place of residence Tom would once in awhile steal glances at her as she discovered something new to get excited about. She seemed to be easily amused by the small functions of the car he thought. They made small talk about what was on the radio but of nothing else considering that he lived all but 15 minutes away.
They parked the car in an underground garage, walked through the lobby and into an elevator. Once they had reached the top floor, the elevator doors opened and revealed a small hallway with gold trim and vanilla walls. A little ways away from them stood double doors. Tom inserted his key and swung one side of the door open letting Sarah enter first. The place looked absolutely exquisite with its high ceiling and tall archways, white crown moldings were all around the base of the wall, the bulwark were colored in French vanilla, the floors bathed in glossy marble tile. The windows stood tall revealing all of London from where she stood.
"Beautiful" she said to no one in particular. As she looked around she noticed several different shapes of boxes stacked high like a game of Tetris. Some were labeled Kitchen, Master Bedroom, Game Room, Closet etc.
"Wow that's a lot of boxes. Exactly how many rooms are in here?" She said still looking at the towering boxes above her.
"I think about 5 not including the sitting room and bathrooms" he said with a chuckle as he saw her body stiffen slightly. "You can sit your stuff down anywhere if you like. I'm going to go change real quick, please have a look around". Then off he went leaving Sarah in the maze of boxes.
Great "she whispered "Okay I think I can deal with this after all its only…fifty boxes?" she rubbed her forehead to relieve the minor ache forming in the center. She had spent the last week unpacking and now she was stuck with the grueling task again. Well at least it wasn't her own stuff she had to look at so this might actually not be so bad. She took out a notebook and pen from her small black messenger bag and began to write out the best way as to how she would get the unpacking done. It was basically a personal check list for herself rather than a full on plan. She figured this wasn't rocket science so they could easily get this done. They would first separate the boxes according to the labels, take them to their respective rooms and then figure out what rooms each were going to take or what room they would both start first either way it didn't matter to her. She mostly preferred to work alone; she got things done faster that way.
By the time he came back Sarah was picking up different boxes and putting them into their own piles. She went for taller pile thinking she could easily reach it. She had yet to notice he was standing in the room smirking and watching her small arms just barely touching the top box. She was even standing on the tips of her toes but she just couldn't get a full grasp of the box. Taking pity on the poor girl before him he walked over to her, put his arms above her effortlessly reaching the box and set it down on the floor.
"Thanks" she said slightly embarrassed reaching for the next box this time taking full hold of it and setting it on another box.
"Yeah well I saw you were at a disadvantage and thought I would come and help" he said with a grin, hands out placing one higher than the other as a measurement of height.
Sarah rolled her eyes and walked over to a box that held her checklist. Grabbing it she turned and looked at him "So I made this little list up" she said waving it in the air. "If we sort out the boxes into piles according to their labels we can take them into the rooms they need go to and then we could each take a room and unpack or we could both tackle a room together either way works for me" He took the paper from her and quickly glanced at it.
"We can do this together that way we can get everything done much faster I'll just take the taller boxes he said reaching up his full length picking up the tallest box again I'll just put them down so you can get a better reach" he said "or I can get you foot stool to get these too? He said with a laugh he just couldn't get over how short she was.
"Well I'm glad I can make you feel taller than you are I'm sure your ego could use boost" she said walking over to the boxes piled high above her she turned to him and smiled. She picked up a box labeled kitchen and walked into the other room.
They didn't really talk much the 2 hours. Sorting through the boxes took longer than she thought. They often passed one another going from room to room but that's as far as it went until lunch time came. With all the boxes in their rightful places Tom and Sarah stood in his would be office turned game room.
"I guess we start with any box then? said Sarah standing in the middle of the room looking at her surroundings. The room was a nice midnight blue color with a huge leather couch, bookshelves, with a nice sized plasma television, the floors were polished in dark cherry wood stopping at the large double doors, and in fact it was the only room that had wooden floors like this as well as being the only room with color. The room seemed- to her- rather large it was probably about the size of her whole flat or at least about half its size.
"Since we have been working so hard how about we eat some lunch and then we'll start again" Tom said leaning against one of the double doors.
Sarah looked to him and couldn't help but notice the structure of his body and how lean and cut he was. He wasn't that tall but he was certainly taller than her 5'3 frame. His dirty blonde hair was somewhat messy but it looked good on him. His hair color was in the process of turning to its normal hair color, she could tell for there was only a small hint of platinum at the tips. Her eyes slowly moved down from his hair to his eyes. He had pretty eyes. They were alluring, from a distance they looked as if they were a stormy gray but up close they were the prettiest blue she had ever seen. It was odd the way they could go from dark to light. It was different. He had the most gorgeous smile it sent chills through her body almost making her want to giggle. She had to admit he looked really good. He wasn't a bad dresser either he was wearing a dark blue t-shirt grey washed jeans and black converse a nice relaxed look and…
Is he staring back at me?
He stood against the door way watching her look around the room. He wanted some time to get to know her so he made the suggestion to grab lunch and because he was hungry as well. Tom watched as her gaze slowly turned to him but she had yet to say anything. Odd he thought. I ask the woman a question and she just stares at me like a deer caught in the headlights. 'I'll just stare right back at her'. As he fixed his eyes on her the thought occurred to him, he had yet to look at her. He had been with her for almost three hours and he hadn't really taken in her appearance.
Her hair was the darkest brown he had ever seen one could probably consider it black. Throughout her hair were shades of burgundy going down to the tips. The length of her hair ended just below the swell of her breast. His eyes moved to her lips. They were full and pouty, the color of her lips were a shade of pink, which complimented her olive colored skin. He thought her face was pretty, gorgeous even. She had a round shaped face with a sharp defined jaw line. Just as he was about to get to her eyes an interruption came with a knock on the door.
They quickly came out of there trance with the knock vibrating throughout the place. Sarah looked down at the floor as he turned to leave. She heard the door open and muffled talk but didn't pay much attention.
How long were we standing there? She thought to herself. I must have looked stupid. I forgot what he had asked me. She stood there biting at her bottom lip. She didn't know he had come back until he spoke.
That was just the landlord" he said "so do you want to get some lunch?"
"Yeah sure what did you have in mind?" she said relieved he didn't bring up there staring contest.
Well whatever you would like? We can have burgers, Chinese food, fish and chips…" he shrugged his shoulders "anything you want I'll order it and go pick it up"
She stood there with a fist on her hip with her finger tapping on her chin in a thinking motion.
"It's not a life or death decision" he said with amusement stuffing his hands into his pockets thumbs hanging out.
"I know that" she said with a smile but with seriousness. She made her decision turned to him and said "fish and chips, with a large ice tea please."
"Alright the place isn't that far so you can feel free to make yourself at home" he said before leaving the room in moments she heard the front door shut.
She walked into the kitchen to grab her bag and headed back into the game room. She tucked her iPod in the space between her bra and her flesh seeing as how she didn't have any pockets to put it in. With music blaring on shuffle she decided she would put a few things away while he was gone. The first box she opened was full of books some she had never read before and others she had. The genres of books ranged from poetry to autobiographies she had never met any guy who read Frost or Cummings. She put these on the book shelves and began to open another box. This box contained game controllers, cords, a gaming console, as well as various video games. She closed the box and decided to let him have at it. She sat on the floor and went scrounging threw another box. Her iPod shuffled to a song she loved and she began to sing just out of habit for liking the song.
She took the contents in the box and put them out on the floor. She folded up the box and let it lean against the wall the box contained some framed pictures, she picked them up and made her way to one of the empty books shelves to place them on. Each frame she placed on the bookshelf she looked at. Some she assumed were his family or friends others were of him and Jade. She noticed how happy they looked in all their pictures she had always hoped to have a relationship like that, she thought she had a relationship like that…She decided she wasn't going to think about that now, she shook her head, she had a new life and nothing was going to derail it. She set the last frame on the shelf and turned around. She screamed and watched a body fall to the floor.