The Guy Next Door
Chapter 10
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"Hmm how about we ask our parents what they think would should do deal?" I asked. "Deal." Troy said in response. "Good." I smiled. The rest of the school day went by fast, after school Troy and I went home together and got our parents together, as they all had the day off today. "So mom and dad, Mr. and Mrs. Bolton, Troy and I need some advice." Our parents looked at each other with a suspicion." "Okay….and what is it you two need advice on?" My mother asked. "Well you see there is this project at school…" Both of our parents sighed in relief. "What did you guys think we needed advice on?" Troy asked, raising an eyebrow. I nodded in agreement, and then we both look at our parents. "That doesn't matter son, any way continue Gabriella." Troy's dad said. We shrugged it off and I continued. "It's for our child development class, at the end this week; we are being given a mechanical baby that we need to care for during the spring break. We must feed it, change its diaper, put it to sleep and give it as much attention as possible. There will be a device on the baby which will send reports to our teacher about how we are doing." "Alright, then what is the advice you want?" My dad asked. "Let me finish please. Our teacher said we have to do this as partners so we wither can live together for the week or just take turns with the baby and meet up during the project. Which do you think would be better?" I finished. Our parents mumbled against each other discussing it, but in a way so Troy and I couldn't hear. Troy's mom was the one to speak next. "Well we discussed it and we all think it would be best to live together for that week." Troy and I were about to respond when his mom put a hand up to stop us. "However, we think this should be a full learning experience…" Troy and I exchanged confused glances. "You two will go live the apartment we own…" I forgot that Troy's parents were rich so they owned a lot of property. "The people who last live there moved out and before renting it out again we wanted to remodel it which we just recently finished so everything is brand new and no one lives in the upstairs apartment either as we are about to remodel that one as well. This way you two will learn everything in this week project of yours. You will learn what it is like to have family, your own place to live which you have to keep tidy and stocked with food, it will also help teach you a grand amount of responsibility. The downstairs apartment is the biggest, and with the remodeling we did there is also now an extra room which you guys can turn into a nursery for the time being." My mom stepped in the explanation. "Also we still have Isabella's old crib and diaper changing station so we can give you that since it's still in good shape but you will also have to restock those as well. You will get the full experience of having a baby." Our moms nodded and smiled at one another. Troy and I just sat there in silence not believing what we had just heard.
After we thought about it for an hour Troy and I agreed to what our parents said and they told us to pack our things and get to the apartment so we could get it all set up before we get the baby on Friday. It was Tuesday so that gave us two and half days to set up. We packed our things then went over to the apartment which was actually on one of the nice sides of town in a very safe neighborhood. My parents brought over the stuff for the nursery and Troy's parents gave Troy some money to help get us started. Then our parents left, not to be seen again until our project was over. "This is going to be interesting." I thought.
The apartment was actually very nice and a very good size to, it was big enough to be a small house. You wouldn't even believe it's an apartment once you saw it. The new renovations were amazing as well. IN order to get into the apartment you had to go through one door and through a nice little closed in porch which had a swinging chair that could seat about three off to the right and to your left were two regular porch chairs with cushions and a table in front of them. Then you went through the second dorr which brought you into the house. There was a small rectangular tile patch where you could leave your shoes and hang up coats, then you immediately stepped onto a very soft and thick carpet that was a nice tan color which was where the living room was set up off to your left as you had a beautiful marble fire place to your right and a couple of chairs in front of it with a small side table in between them. The marble of the fireplace was a crème color with some light brown specks throughout it. In the living room there was a black leather sectional couch which had a huge place to the left of it where you could lay down or just sit up and put your feet up with regular sized seating from there around to the right side. There was a total of nine seating places (which included the big seat) with two cup holders after the big section, and then two cup holders after every three seats, for the last two seats there was two cup holders after the last place. There were also some nice decorative pillows which were the same crème color as the fire place and a black trim around it with tassels on all four corners. There were about two of those pillows sat up in the big section of the couch, two at each of the two corners. So the sectional was like an E but instead of the middle line there would be a line coming down from the end of the top line of the E, the end that is not the corner. It was pretty big. Then there was a crème colored coffee table that had glass as its top part, and huge flat screen television in front of the coffee table on the wall. The walls in the room were like a pale shade of yellow which was very subtle and gave the room a cozy feeling. As you went straight ahead you went into the dining room which, to the right, had a nice cherry wood floor, with a chair wood table and black leather cushioned chairs that had metal legs and nice cherry red table cloth on the table. To the left there was a desk in the corner with a computer and a black spinning chair. As you continued forward you went into the kitchen which had a black tiled floor, with dark brown, black marble topped counters, dark brown cupboards, a stainless steel fridge, stove, sink and dish washer. The counters were all connected in the same shape as the couch. It was beautiful. As you continued back you were in a small laundry room that had a black washer and dryer, one of the connected ones with the washer on bottom and dryer on top, and white tiled floor. There was also a door to the backyard in there as well. Back in the living room, to the left of the fire place with the same carpeting was a hallway that led to the bedrooms and bathroom. There was a bathroom at the end of the hall which had light blue walls and a sand colored tiling. The toilet, sink, and shower/bathtub were all white and the shower/bathtub had a shower curtain which was light blue and at the bottom had a sand picture with starfish and beach toys in it. I guess it had a beach theme, but I loved it, it was very calming. There was a mirror above the sink with two small lights on either side of it and then one light in the middle of the white ceiling above. To the right and left of the bathroom were the master bedroom and the spare bedroom which in our case would be used as a nursery. The nursery had white carpeting with the same texture as the carpet in the hallway and living area. The walls were a light pinkish, purplish color which had a ceiling fan as the lighting for the room. It had no furniture until we put the baby stuff in it. As for the master bedroom there was another whit carpet with the same texture as the others, and lavender colored walls. There was a king sized bed with a light grey bed frame which had a cushioned headboard and white bed sheets with a periwinkle colored comforter and pillow cases over the pillows. There were light grey night stands on both sides of the bed which had two white drawers each that had dark brown nobs. On each night stand were black lamps. There were also a few lights around the ceiling of the room, about two on each side. There was a dresser against the wall in front of the bed which matched the look of the night stands. There were about six drawers on each side of it and above it was another flat screen hanging on the wall. To the right of the dresser and TV was the master bath. Inside was a white tiled floor with a long dark brown bathroom cabinet which had the same black marble top as the cabinets in the kitchen did. There was a white round sink on either side of the cabinet with two spaces in between to put our things. Above it was a mirror which took up the whole wall behind the cabinets. Off in the right corner was a white whirlpool tub/shower, that looked fun, I couldn't wait to take a bath in that with the jets and everything. It's like your own personal Jacuzzi or hot tub that you can bathe in. Then to the left of the tub was a white toilet which had a little closet across from it that you could keep your bathroom things such as soaps, towels, toilet paper and all of that. All in all, the apartment was just magnificent. It's a perfect place for a small family or to even live in by yourself. I wouldn't mind living here full time, not that it would happen of course, but hey a girl can dream can't she?
By the time Troy and I had gotten there, unpacked, set up the nursery, and settled ourselves in, it was pretty late so we decided to go to bed. Since we had stopped for dinner before coming to the apartment and since we both had already showered earlier in the day we decided to wait on buying all our supplies as we could easily eat breakfast at school the next morning. "So Gabriella, how do you want to do this?" I looked at him confused. "What do you mean?" I asked. "I mean what do you want to do about the sleeping arrangements?" "Oh." To be honest I hadn't really thought about that. There were only two bedrooms in the house and one was a nursery so there was no extra bed. "Well your parents own the place so technically you do to, so you can take the bed and I will sleep out on the sofa. Since I really don't want either of us to sleep on the floor." He shook his head. "No, no. You're the girl so you can take the bed, I'll sleep on the sofa." I bit my lip. "You sure?" I asked. He nodded. "Positive." "Okay well then good night Troy, I will see you in the morning. "Night Gabriella." Troy got the extra pillows and blanket he had brought and made himself comfy on the couch to go to sleep. I headed for the bedroom and got myself ready for bed then crawled in under the blankets. This bed was so huge, I felt like a little kid laying in it. It was kind of lonely being in such a big room, lying in such a big bed, by yourself. I turned the lamp I had on, off then turned over and tried going to sleep. I tossed and turned a few times not being able to get comfy but after about an hour or so I finally succeeded and fell fast asleep.
So not much going on in this chapter I know, and I apologize but it was basically just meant for you to find out what Troy and Gabriella were going to decide to do for their project and to introduce the apartment to you so you guys can visualize what it looks like, so that way if Gabriella or Troy goes into any of the rooms then you can picture what it looks like and sort of see what they see, as if you were there yourself. That is my goal at least. So I'm hoping I succeed and if not then oh well, I guess it will have been worth the try. Anyway, I promise there will be more going on in the next chapter! R&R please!