The next morning I had to re-shower and change the sheets, it was nice to have the day. I thought of an idea and dressed quickly, throwing on some really old jeans and an old tank top. I fed my cat and then walked down to see if Lucy needed any help unpacking. All the bikes where there, I smiled. I skipped up the stairs and knocked on the door, in a few minutes I heard someone running into the hall. When the door opened, Sam's face appeared, "Oh, Hello, Sage." I smiled, "Hi, Sam." He hesitated before opening the door all the way, "Would you like to come in?" I nodded and walked inside. It was really dark in here for this early, "is everyone still in bed?" He nodded and rubbed the back of his head, "What do you want to do?" I looked around the house, there were still lots of boxes that needed unpacking, "Well, I'm off today and am really bored. I thought you guys might want some help with unpacking." Sam scrunched his eyebrows, "Well, my mom does ask for help with it…" I smiled, "But it never happens?" He laughed, "Yeah, we all hate doing that kind of stuff." I laughed, "Well, I'll do it. Which room should I start with?" I raised my hands and pointed back and forth between the living room and kitchen. He pointed in the kitchen, "Let's finish in there first. We all use it." I nodded and walked in, dishes were piled up and the floor was way dirtier than I remembered. I tossed Sam a towel and showed him how to dust properly. I started washing down the cabinets and finished putting all the pots and pans away. I swept and mopped, the tile pattern now bright and noticeable with blue diamonds. I started a list of things that seemed to be missing so Lucy could replace them if needed. All the boxes seemed pretty organized, so it wasn't hard to figure out how to decorate the walls of the kitchen with the things in them. It didn't take too long before we were done with the room.
Sam nodded his approval and leaned down on the back of a chair, "Now what." I looked at him and pointed towards the living room, he sighed, "might as well, I guess." I laughed and plugged in a radio I had found, "How about some tunes." He smiled, "Sure, but what about the others? They won't be up for a while." I shrugged, "Not our problem." One of Duran-Duran's song started and I turned the music up accordingly. Sam grabbed a new towel and I did the same, showing him how to attach it to something with a handle to get up high on the walls and in the light fixtures. Some of the wall was faded and I sent him down to see if the previous owners had left any of the paint. Together we repainted that wall and unloaded the boxes. There were lots of photos of Lucy and her sons but not a lot of the others. "Sam?" He looked at me while putting a light bulb in a lamp. "Where are all the photos of Max and his family from before he met your mom?" Sam hesitated, "I'm not sure, maybe he just didn't take any." I looked at the photos as we hung them up, "Well, we should get some of them now and hang them up. It looks a bit favorited in here." He laughed noticing it as well. I took the curtains down and went outside to hang them on the line, "This is how they used to clean them before fancy places in town overcharged." I grabbed a stick and started to beat the dust off. Sam grabbed one and joined me; accidently hitting my hand, "Hey!" A stick fight proceeded all over the yard. No one really won but we were out of breath by the end and we decided it was time to eat lunch. After we hung the curtains back up I checked the fridge… it was empty, "Well, take out?" He nodded and picked up the phone, "What do you want?" I thought about it, "There is a new pizza place in town." He chucked the phone at me, "You order then, I don't know that number." I grimaced playfully as I dialed the number. When the other end of the line picked up I panicked, "yes I'd like to order a delivery." I looked over at Sam, who had written on a piece of paper what he wanted me to order. All in all we ordered 4 pizzas and two order of breadsticks. That way when sleepy heads woke up they could eat. With pizza on the way I motioned to the one other room on the downstairs floor, "let's hit that one." Sam nodded and opened it up, it was dusty as hell and I ran to open the windows. It was a laundry room, with no washer and dryer. "Well…Let's wait til the pizza gets here and then you grab your mom's credit card, with permission, and we can go shopping for some laundry supplies…and food?" After we ate I realized how late it actually was, "Well, we could just watch some tv till those lazy bums get up. Then we could all just go shopping together" he immediately flopped down on the couch, "good, I'm pooped." I hopped on the couch myself, "I see a recurring issue here." There was no TV, "where are all the modern day appliances." He laughed and pointed at his brain, "comic's man, that's why I bought so many. We left our TV back in Santa Carla."
We sat there and talked about all our old friends and how he wasn't really looking forward to school or anything. I understood, I never was one for school either. I heard some commotion coming from the hall when hands clasped themselves around my face obscuring my vision, "Guess who?" I laughed, "Paul!" He sighed, "Damn it, how did you know?" I shrugged apologetically. David came and pushed me up slightly to sit behind me and I leaned back against him, I guess we were a couple now…at least that is the vibe I was getting. I smiled leaning my head back to look at him, "Good evening sleepy head." He chuckled and leaned down to kiss me softly on the forehead, "Good evening." Before he could kiss me again on the lips, Dwayne came and sat down on my and Sam's legs, "So what's the plan for tonight guys." I started to answer but was interrupted by Lucy, "Oh my goodness, who did all the cleaning? It looks so good!" Sam smiled and raised his hand, "I helped, but it was Sage's idea." David squeezed my side causing me to shriek and kick Dwayne in the butt. David was laughing hysterically, "Hey that's not funny man." Dwayne said rubbing his ass, "She could have kicked something else." We all laughed at that. Sam looked at me before asking his mom, "Hey, mom. Sage has also volunteered to help us pick out a laundry machine and TV…plus groceries." Lucy looked over joyed, "How lovely, let's all go. It'll be good for us to spend some quality time together." I nodded getting up and stretching, "I have to run home for a few minutes but I'll be back in a jiffy." David walked out after me, "You know, you didn't have to come over and clean today." I shrugged, "I was bored, didn't have anything else to do and its just neighborly." He pulled me in for a hug and kissed me deeply. I smiled as he parted from me, "I'll be back in a few." I turned and headed home. I changed my pad and then grabbed my purse for a night of extremely boring shopping.
When I got back they were all waiting outside, "To the mall, sir knight." I said getting on behind David. I could see Lucy and max kissing in the car and chuckled. When we got there I mentioned that sears was the only one that had any good deals on appliances and so to sears we went. Sam picked out a Tv for the living room and then everyone started to pick one out for their bedrooms without blinking an eye. I did blink, that's a lot of dough to spend, but they did it like it was nothing. While we were looking at TV's Lucy went to pick out a washer and dryer. David held my hand, me still in my cleaning clothes and him in his dark, sexy clothes. I loved the way he looked in that coat and apparently so did a few others. I could over hear them talking about how it was a waste that he was with me. I rolled my eyes, David must have heard them too, because he smirked over at them and then pulled me in for a long, deep kiss. His face was still in deep thought about it after we parted. I blushed and looked back at the TV's. David chuckled, "Should I get one?" I laughed, "I don't know, do you want one. Do you even watch TV?" He nodded, "Yeah sometimes, maybe you'll want to watch some when you spend the night, one night." I blushed even more. He noticed and smirked. He picked a decent sized one and loaded it onto the cart for the delivery man. I watched as Marko put a sound system on the cart. David put his arm around me and I asked, "So are you guys, like, rich?" Paul laughed, "Well, yeah, its old money. Max is pretty damn loaded." I nodded, "So do you all have your own room?" Dwayne answered this time, "Yes thank god, we asked for that specifically when we found out we were moving." David leaned down to my ear, "If you want anything don't be afraid to ask. Money really is no object." I nodded again, it was weird having that actually said to you outside of a movie scene.
I walked over to the shelfs and bins area to find laundry baskets, and laundry hampers. I grabbed one for everyone, well I assumed Michael and star shared a room and that Lucy and max shared as well. I walked back to the cart and threw them on there. David raised an eyebrow, "You can get something fun." I laughed, "Well, laundry needs to be done a certain way and I figured a system with this many people would help out." He shook his head and walked over to Max, they talked about something and then he came back over. Soon everyone was done and Max spent a little bit of extra money to have it all delivered tonight. So we rushed through the grocery store grabbing food, snacks and household supplies. By the time we got back to the house everything was on the porch. I left the guys to do the unpacking and made sure to have them set up the washer and dryer first. With Lucy's permission I went to work cleaning that room completely up. She helped of course, and when done she loved the idea I had come up with about the baskets. We called everyone into the laundry room and she let me give the speech, "So you are all old enough to be doing your own damn laundry, but Lucy still wants to do the motherly thing, which is cool. To help her out, here is how this is going to work." I gave them each a basket of a certain color, and then placed a second one of that color on the far counter. "The basket in your hand will be filled with your dirty clothes and brought down on Mondays and Fridays. You will separate each item into the appropriately marked bin lining this wall here: whites, lights, darks, jeans and sheets." Then I pointed to the empty basket. "You will then grab the basket of the same color as the one in your hand and take it back up to your room, since it will have YOUR clean clothes in it. Leave the empty basket in its place." I waited a few minutes, "you all understand?" They nodded and then I walked out of the room, "Good! I'm hungry." I heard laughter and Marko asking Paul, "So like what if I don't know what basket to put it in?" I didn't hear the response but I'm sure it was funny.