This Time

After nearly two days of driving non-stop with each of us taking a turn we were finally at our new home. I couldn’t wait to get inside and get everything settled in as I turned into the drive way and neither could Ella because as soon as I put the truck in park she jumped out and ran straight inside. I laughed and hopped out of the car myself walking over towards the passenger side and opened the door to wake up Duane.

“Duane Lee wake up” I sing-sang trying to wake my little brother up. He grumbled and brushed me off and turned in the seat.

“Fine don’t wake up but just so you know Ella is already in the house and is claiming the bedroom that is in the basement saying that she is going to be the one that is going to have a floor all to herself because she deserves it” I said to him walking away and counting down to five. I didn’t even get to one as Duane Lee speed past me trying to get to the room that he had claimed because he said he needed an escape from all the estrogen that was going to be in the house.

I laughed as I closed the door to the truck and walked into the house that my parents had helped the three of us get. It was a beautiful place minutes away from the beach and so spacious. I knew the instant that I saw a picture of it that I had to have this house; it was like it was made for the three of us to live in. I walked up the stairs and into the master bedroom that Ella and Duane pushed me to have and just took a seat on the floor.

“I need to go furniture shopping tomorrow for a bed frame” I said to Ella as she walked into the room and sat on the floor with me.

“Let’s go” she smiled widely. She loves to shop no matter what we were shopping for she always came home with like truck load of things.

“All I need is a bed frame El that’s it because I brought/shipped all my other furniture”

“I know that but we could always use some more home decorations in here” she smiled.

“El we haven’t even moved all of our other stuff in and unpacked them and your already thinking about buying more things for this house” I laughed at my best friends. It always amazed me on how much she could shop because I always got fed up after a couple of house but she could go on for days.

“Well then let’s unpack then” she grinned standing up and pulling me up with her before heading back outside to the truck.

“Finally what took you both so long? We have ton’s to unpack here” Duane complained opening the back door.

I shook my head and took a deep breath looking at all of the things that we had to lug into the house. I was already dreading unpacking everything and we haven’t even moved anything inside yet. One by one we started to unload everything and place it into their respective rooms inside the house. We had been going at this for a few hours before the movers had came by with the rest of our things and started to move those into the house as well.

“Where would you like this miss?” The mover asked me carrying one of my dressers with his partner.

“Oh in the master bedroom please” I said to him pointing the way. He nodded and started to make his way up the stairs. It was nearing eight o’clock at night and the movers were just moving my furniture in since they had already brought in Duane’s and Ella’s inside. They even helped us move in the last of the boxes that we had in the truck once all the furniture was moved in. By the time they were done Duane had their money ready for them and Ella and I had gotten them all something to eat as a thank you. They welcomed us into our new home and took off.

“Can you believe it, all of our things is finally moved in! It’s official we now live here in Huntington Beach Cali-freaking-fornia” Ella squealed as she plopped onto the couch in our living room.

“Yes and now you can finally get tan Ella because quite frankly the pale look isn’t working for you” Duane grinned sitting next to her. Ella turned and looked at Duane with a socked expression on her face. It didn’t take long before the two of them were wrestling on the floor, Ella was trying to make Duane take what he said back and Duane was laughing trying to get Ella off of him. I laughed at the both of them and shook my head as I walked away.

“Welcome Home Jazmine” I said quietly to myself as I walked upstairs and into my bedroom. I couldn’t stand contemplating going to bed with all these packed boxes scattered throughout my room. So I grabbed a pair of scissors and started to open a few boxes putting the contents away where they belonged inside the room. I unpacked a few boxes before a yawn passed through my lips and I couldn’t keep my eyelids open anymore. Thankfully I had opened a box that had all of my linens inside so I had something to sleep on other than a bare bed. I fixed the bed, took off my pants and walked over towards the door closing it before turning off the lights and walking back and crawling into my bed. It had been a long day and as soon as my head had hit the pillow I was knocked out and peacefully dreaming.