A New Beginning - currently being edited!

Chapter Four

A week had passed and I'd managed to get used to my surroundings here in Melbourne and roughly had an idea of which streets in my local area led to where. A gap in my white curtains had woken me as the rising sun shone on my eyelids, I gazed at the bedside table and stared at the clock, it was only 6.30am, I groaned and threw myself over, covering my face with a pillow. I decided I'd give myself another hour of sleep and then get up and get ready as some of my possessions from England were due to arrive today- I'd received a confirmation letter in the post two days ago. 

When my alarm went off much to my dismay, I dragged myself from the comfort of my bed and stalked towards the bathroom to have a quick rinse, wash my hair and brush my teeth. I pulled on some plain leggings and rolled the bottoms of them up a bit above my ankle and pulled on a flowing strappy  sky blue top when I re-entered my bedroom. I then tied my wet hair on my head and proceeded downstairs to make some coffee.

To pass the time, I flicked on the TV in the lounge room which was open plan so I could see it clearly from the kitchen and began to watch the Australian version of Daybreak as I couldn't be bothered scrolling through the various channels. 

By the time noon approached, I was just about ready to begin preparing some lunch when a knock on the door sounded through the lounge, I excitedly hopped up and ran to answer the door. "Are you miss Amelia Grace Lake?" A man asked, reading off a clipboard that he held in front of him.

"That's me" I spoke. He nodded and checked the list before continuing back towards the lorry which was filled with my possessions, three man began carrying in objects like my sofa and I went to collect the large filled cardboard boxes.

“Want a hand?” Beau said walking off his lawn and approaching me at the van full of my arrivals, I nodded and handed him a box which was slightly too heavy for me to be certain that I could make it to the front door without dropping it.

“Thank you" I sighed in relief, grabbing another box and following him walking back towards the house. "Why were you just standing outside your house?" I laughed setting the box down on the kitchen island. "Yeah, just place the sofa there, that's fine" I cut my conversation with Beau and nodded towards the men who were unsure of where to place the seat.

"I'm locked out" Beau laughed as I diverted my attention back to him. "Mum, Jai and Luke must've gone out while I was at the gym this morning" he shrugged.

“Why didn't you just come over here?” I asked, shaking my head at his foolishness as I returned to the van and we each grabbed another box each, I was happy to see that things were finally falling into place and that everything was moving forward now.

“Well I didn’t know if your parents would be bothered and considering I've never met them, I thought it would be best if I didn't just invite myself over" he smiled up at me but my smile faded and I shook my head. I could feel my eyes instantly begin to fill up, but I refused to let myself cry, not in front of Beau. I shook it off and continued collecting my possessions.

Within the hour, all of the boxes were unloaded and my car had also arrived and was parked neatlt on my drive, I smiled proudly. I'd done this, me. I'd done this myself. “Do you want me to help you get some things unpacked? I’m pretty good at DIY if anything needs building.” Beau looked around at the scattered boxes and gave me an overly cheesy smile.

“Well knock yourself out, there’s 2 wardrobes, 2 sets of drawers, a table, chairs and a coffee table,  the other little bits I’m sure I’ll manage with when I’m sorted” I laughed, grabbing a knife from the drawer and slicing through one of the taped up boxes.

“Well then, I’ll start with the coffee table so I can stay down here with you” he winked at me in a sarcastic manner and I rolled my eyes at him, continuing to open the box and unload the items, putting them in piles of which room in the house the belonged in. 

“Are you sure your dad won’t feel like I’m interfering with anything?” Beau asked. "I don't want to intrude or take away his status" Beau laughed, I shot my eyes to the ground. I couldn’t bring myself explain that I didn't even know who my Dad was and that I had no-one and I was completely alone, so I just quietly shook my head and continued to rip the next box open.

My heart shattered as I looked at the first thing lying on the pile of belongings in the box, I  picked out the photo frame and held it securely in my hands. I tried, but I couldn't keep the sobs back, they escaped my lips and tears fell uncontrollably from my eyes, my knees suddenly became weak and I sank to the floor, feeling my heart shatter even more. 

“Woah, woah, what's wrong?” Beau shouted frantically, dropping the screwdriver which he held in his hand to the floor and running to my side, sinking down to the floor with my and trying his best to soothe me,

I guess I had no excuses now, it was time to tell Beau why he'd never met my parents. “This is me and my mum, this picture was taken before she got diagnosed, she was so beautiful” I said fighting to calm to cries so I could make sense when I was speaking, Beau pulled me into his chest and hugged me tight, it was the first time he'd ever hugged me. 

“Was?” he said, his voice soft and caring as he stroked his finger gently down my face, I took a minute and tried to calm myself before sitting up and leaning against the cupboard doors..

“Yeah" I sighed, wiping my tears away "Unfortunately, 5 months ago she lost her battle with breast cancer only 6 months after her diagnosis” My voice was high pitched and was slowly cracking as I fought to stop myself from crying further. .

“I’m so sorry, I didn't know" he soothed, taking me back in his arms and rocking me back and forth. “So who do you live here with?” he asked softly, trying to make sense of it all. I hoped he wouldn't ask this question, I didn't want him to find out how fucked up my life was. 

“No-one, Beau" I whispered into his chest, not wanting to have to admit it. "I have no-one, my Dad didn't want anything to do with me he left as soon as he found out that my Mum was pregnant, therefore his family wanted nothing to do with me or my Mum after that either. Also, my Mum was an only child so I have no aunties, uncles or cousins, I only had her  and my grandparents but they both passed away naturally" I let out a weak sob into Beau's chest, it felt good releasing this and opening up to someone, but I was scared that I'd opened up too much.

“Amelia, I'm so so so sorry" he sighed sympathetically, planting a simple kiss on the top of my head, to him the gesture meant nothing, but to me it meant everything, no-one had ever cared like this before.  “My dad walked out on us too” he admitted.

“I'm sorry, that must've been hard” I managed to say through desperate breaths for oxygen which I'd used crying so heavily. 

“Yeah, it was, but I have my Mum" he spoke. "And so do you, come over tonight and meet her, I'm sure she'd love to have a girl around the house, plus don't say you don't have anyone, you have us boys, Luke, Jai, Skip, James and I, we'll always be here" I'd never heard such heartfelt words from any other male bar my grandfather before this, even ex boyfriends had never shown such care.

I threw my arms around him and pulled him tight, "You don't know how much that means to me Beau, thank you so much for letting me open up to you and listening, I'm sorry for being so fucked up" I never in a million years expected someone I'd just met to be so understanding.