Right Time, Right Place

Part 9

3 months later...

Amelia's POV:

I wake up to the smell of coffee and open my eyes. Owen is standing there with a tray of food for me. "What a way to wake up!" I smile and take the tray from him.

He sits down next to me and puts his arm around me.

"How does it feel to be walking around again?" I ask him

He smiles big, "It is great. I am finally starting to feel like myself again. My leg feels great, my arm feels great. My brain isn't bleeding and I've got the best girlfriend in the entire world."

I grin. Lately Owen and I really have been connecting like we did when we dated before. It feels amazing. Today we are actually going to start going toward the next step, which sounds crazy but it will help us.

He steals a strip of my bacon then starts talking again, "So are you excited to go house hunting today?"

I smile, "Yes I am. People are going to think we are crazy for doing this already but I can't wait."

He shrugs, "Who cares what other people think. We need our own place, where I can have more room to put my clothes. And we obviously can't live with my mom." We both laugh as we finish eating.

I stand up and walk over to the bathroom, I glance at Owen and smirk, "Shower?"

He jumps up and picks me up and shuts the bathroom door.

We both get out the shower and wrap up in towels. I walk out to my closet and find an outfit.

"How many houses do we have to look at?" Owen asks me as he finishes putting on his shirt.

"Well we have 3 that our realtor is showing us today, if we don't find one we like then we have to look for others. But he says he has 3 really nice ones."

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"Owen look at this yard!" I turn around and smile at him as he comes up and puts his hand on my back.

"It's great. I could build us a bigger deck too, and there is a hot tub."

This is the last house, the first two were alright but this one I think, is the one.

Our realtor Sam walks back in, "Well what do you think? I will give you guys some alone time in here to think. I will be outside if you need me!"

I hold Owen's hand as we both look around the empty house. He looks down at me, "What do you think Mel?"

"I really love it Owen. There is 5 rooms, a big yard, finished basement, the master bedroom is huge, kind of closed off from the rest of the neighborhood. I think this is it."

He smiles at me, "This is definitely it. We are buying a house" He picks me up and spins me around and I laugh.

"We are buying a house" I smile. It does not feel real yet.

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We took the week off to get things moved in. We have movers helping us as well. I walk into the master bedroom where Owen is trying to put the bed frame together in the midst of boxes everywhere filled with my clothes.

"How is it going?" I ask him

He sighs, "I will be honest with you, not well." We both laugh and I kneel beside him.

Owen's POV:

Our mattress is laying on the ground beside the not-yet-put-together frame. I pick Amelia up and lay her down on the mattress.

I kiss her neck and she tries to push me off, "Owen we can't"

"Why not? This bed frame is making me rather frustrated I need to relax" I hold onto her and kiss her.

"There is movers downstairs!" She laughs trying to get away from me.

"Well just be quiet, they won't know" She looks at me and finally agrees with me. We make it quick and I hand her her clothes back at the end.

"Let's get back to work" I give her a quick kiss and go back to building the frame. She walks back downstairs to help the movers.

After a long few hours, everything gets in the house and it just needs organized. We both collapse onto the couch.

"Who thought buying a house could be this much work!" I yawn.

Amelia laughs and puts her head on my shoulder, "It is indeed a lot, I am exhausted."

I nod, "Hey I forgot to tell you. Megan and Nathan are being discharged tomorrow."

Amelia hugs me, "Owen that's great! Your mom is probably so happy."

I smile and hug her back, "Yeah mom is thrilled. Which brings me to my next bit of news. My mom uhm wants to have dinner here with everyone."

Amelia widens her eyes and we both look around the house, "Owen! This house is still a wreck!" She puts her hand on her head and sighs.

I pull her into my lap, "Hey, hey do not get all stressed on me. We can do this by tomorrow night." I move her hair out of her face and kiss her forehead. "When you go to sleep tonight I will stay up longer and get some work done down here."

She shakes her head, "No we are staying up together."

I smile at her, "Let's get moving then"

We get the entire downstairs of the house put together in about 3 hours, then it is time to move upstairs. We finish setting up our room and put a few things in the other bedrooms. There is one other bedroom set up as a guest room, but currently all the other rooms are empty. By the time we finish setting everything up it is 3:00 AM. We both collapse on the bed.

Amelia looks at me, "We could have sex right now, but I am way too tired."

I laugh and nod, "Never thought I would hear those words coming for your mouth, but I am too tired too. Let's just cuddle and go to sleep."

"Perfect" she says as she curls into me and we both fall asleep immediately.