Stuck with him

8. Starting the renovations

After Tom and I bought food and everything a kitchen could need as soon as we got home, I wanted to start right away at getting my room ready to paint. Tom wanted to help me tape everything and start painting.

"Nice colour."

"Thanks!"

"So where do we start?" Tom asked

"You know you don't have to help right?"

"Yeah, but I want to."

Tom started to paint the back wall of my room first while I painted the front one. As I carefully used the roller to paint, I heard Tom laugh.

"What?" I said as I turned around and looked at him "what did you do?"

"Do you like that shirt?" He asked

"Yeah, why?"

"You may wanna wash it."

"Tom! What did you do?!" I yelled as I ran to a mirror and saw a giant splatter of paint on the back of my shirt. "Boy, you did not!" I heard Tom burst out laughing. I ran back to the room and grabbed my roller and splattered Tom with paint.

"Touché." He looked at me and laughed again "wait you've only done half of the wall?"

"How have you finished it already and it looks so good!?"

"I guess I'm just a good painter."

"You're doing the rest I'm showering." I walked out of the room leaving Tom to keep working.

"Brooklyn! Get out of the shower you've been in there forever!"

In a huff I turned off the shower wrapped a towel around me and burst out of the bathroom and looked at Tom who was now red as a tomato.

"I was not in there for forever just 15 minutes!" I argued, "why are you so quiet now!?"

I quickly realised the answer to my question.

"I am so sorry!" I squeaked as I sprinted back into the bathroom. I quickly changed into a pair of black tracksuit pants and a white silky crop top. I ran out and grabbed my phone quickly to embarrassed to face tom. My phone rang suddenly, and I immediately picked it up.

"Lia?" I answered

"Not Lia! Josh!"

"Oh! Hey Josh!"

"How much do you miss me?"

"Josh, I miss you a lot of course."

"Good! You better!"

"Ok, little bro what do you want?"

"I just wanted to warn you mum wants to see you!"

"Why? What did you do!?"

"Oh nothing, she just misses you." He answered sarcastically "not that the fact that you and the guy in the airport are all over the news!"

"Why would we be on the news?"

"I don't know!"

"Uh oh, I'll call you back." I hung up and ran downstairs at the speed of light turning on the tv, "Tom!"

"Um...what?"

"Everyone knows."

"Knows what?" As soon as he said that you heard his feet come to a halt, "that was fast."

"So does that mean we have to start acting like we're..."

"Dating. Yeah." He smirked "I mean I've already seen you in a."

"Shut up!" I covered his mouth as he burst out laughing at my embarrassment.