My Light (Danisnotonfire / Dan Howell fanfic) [EDITING]

34- Dan- Decorating

I finally find a ladder. I've been looking for one for at least an hour. Today, we are decorating Ellie's room. I carry it into the room that we want her room to be. It's the one next to our bedroom and two rooms away from Phil. Blossom has set on opening the cans. She has opened the pinks and is working on one of the reds. I put the ladder down and help her.
"There." I say as we finish opening the final can.
"Thanks!" Bo kisses me and jumps up. She grabs a camera and sets it on a window sill, facing the wall we are painting now.
"Should we do this wall red?" I suggest.
"Yeah, okay." Blossom pours a bit of paint into a tray and dips her roller in it. I do the same in a different tray.

"Done!" We sigh and look at the wall. We high five and move the camera to face a different wall. This wall will be pink.
"Ah, Dan? Can you rub my back a bit?" Blossom asks, putting down the roller.
"Sure." I massage her back and she sighs with relief.
"Thanks." She turns around and I take the chance to steal a kiss.

After finishing the wall, Blossom takes the smaller paints and arranges them into the rainbow colours.
"I took art in school, and came out with a pretty good grade." She says. Bo dips her brush into the red and drags it in a curve across the- now dry- paint. She goes over it a few times before doing the same with the orange. I decide to start on another red wall. I glance over my shoulder and see how Bo is doing. She is on the blue, and it looks amazing! Obviously now I can tell it is a rainbow.
"We should put the cot there." I say.
"Yeah, that'll be cute." Bo agrees.

About an hour later, we finish painting the walls.
"Let's have a break." Blossom sighs. I kiss her lips and nod.
"Do you want anything to eat?" I ask while cuddling her.
"Fruit salad please, Bear." I grin at her and run to the kitchen.

After finishing the fruit salad, Phil and I start moving in the boxes of furniture.
"Thanks." I say as we finish.
"No problem!" Phil cheers before going back to his room.
"Dan, I have my next ultrasound tomorrow, do you wanna come?" Blossom asks me.
"Definitely!" I say, kissing her forehead. "What do you want to get started on?"
"The cot?"
"Sure, where's the instructions?" I ask, positioning the camera.
"Here." I turn the camera on.
"We are now onto building the stuff. First off, the cot." I take the sheet. "Unpack all the items from the box, and lay them out on a carpeted surface, done." I confirm, looking at the many pieces of wood on the floor. "Lay out all the hardware, and check the list to see what is required." Blossom tips a packet onto the floor and I get the stuff on the list. "Next, take one cot end, and place it against the base." I set the sheet on the ground and help Bo lift the cot piece.
"Thanks." She says gratefully.
"Your welcome, Tiger." I kiss her nose. I pick up the instructions. "Insert a bolt through the cot end, and a barrel nut into the base hole." I find the nails and nuts and put them into the right place, the tightening them. And then I do the same on the other side. We pick up the other end piece and do exactly the same.
"It's looking not like a failure so far!" Bo announces. I laugh and read the next instruction.
"Take the sides. Do they mean this?" I ask, lifting up the long grooved piece of wood.
"Do you see any other piece of wood left?" Bo laughs.
"True." I laugh. We fix the side of the cot onto the main body. I suddenly come up with a really dirty thought. "Blossom, when you have Ellie, will your vagina and my penis be like the screws and the holes in the wood?" I whisper. (It sounded better in my head...)
"Ewww, I hope not!" Blossom cringes and laughs. I laugh with her.
"Okay, anyway, this one is the side that you can drop so we can get Ellie out." I line up the plastic slider to the plastic clip and Blossom pulls up so it slide in easily. (That sounds dirty...)
"Well that was easy!" Bo sighs. I screw a 'button' into the side of the wood so that the slider won't break.
"Tip the cot over to attach the wheels, crap, how on earth are we gonna do that?" I carefully tip the cot towards me and set it onto the ground. "Oh, that was easy..." I say, quite embarrassed. Blossom laughs. I start screwing the wheels in.
"Dan, where do you think would be the best option to give birth to Ellie, at home or hospital."
"I don't know, where we're you born?" I ask, moving onto the next wheel.
"At home, in a bath, but still at home." Bo chuckles.
"Where would you feel more comfortable?"
"Probably here, let the doctors come to us." She says.
"If that's what you want to do, lets do it!" I finish the wheels and tip the cot back up. Blossom puts the mattress, the waterproof mat and the blanket in.
"Adorable." She sighs. "Ohhh! Stay here!" She walks out of the room. A few minutes later, she comes back with a box. She sets the box down and opens it. "I may have snuck into my old house and got some of my old teddies. Oh, and your mum gave me some of yours too. And I maybe got some new ones that I thought were cute when I went out with Bex." Bo confesses.
"Ok, let see them." Blossom opens the box to reveal about 12 teddies, I recognise 3.
"Those are yours, those are mine, and those are the new ones." She points out the sections.
"Great!" I scoop up an armful and put them around the cot. Blossom puts the ones she has in the cot as well. I put my arm around her waist and kiss her cheek.

Luckily, the cradle and the changing table were already made. We just made the small wardrobe. There are chest-of-draws already in there. We have folded up and put away her clothes and have put everything in place. The pram is in a cupboard downstairs, out of the way so I don't fall over it.