Darko's Adopted Kid (Adopted by Dawko) ★

★ CHAPTER 8 - Painting! ★

(AK'S POV)

We went shopping yesterday but Lewis was acting a little odd… I'm not sure what was wrong but he seemed nervous the entire time. It's okay! Today we are painting my room! I've never painted a room before but Lewis said he knows how and is great at it! I am painting the walls a nice light purple colour, purple is my favorite colour!

We had breakfast, Lewis really loves tea and crumpets! I do too but I've never seen someone so attached to them. I love him! He's an amazing dad!

I'm excited to paint and decorate my bedroom. I got a fox lamp and a FNAF poster, it was the last poster they had so I got quite lucky! Lewis seemed to like it too which makes sense because he’s a FNAF addict basically! I was gonna get more stuff but I didn't feel like it yesterday. Oh well, I’m sure Lewis won’t mind taking me to the shops again!

At my old house before… my parent died… my bedroom was amazing. Hopefully I can make my new one seem a little bit more like home…! I really miss my parent… I like to imagine they sent Lewis for me because they knew I wouldn’t be able to cope with things on my own… The people at the adoption center were really kind and always there to support me and the other kids but I still couldn’t help but feel this emptiness in a way. But now? I feel loved. I feel so loved even if it’s only been a few days since getting adopted and meeting Lewis in general. Compared to the months I spent at that place. I really miss Cindy and Blake but I’m sure I can get in contact with them again eventually, I really hope they’re doing well!

When we finished breakfast, Lewis said he’d be right back and he went into his room to grab a bottle of eyedrops. I never knew he wore contacts but hey, you learn something everyday! He also brought a cup of tea with him, I swear he’s on his third or fourth cup already. He came back into the living room where I was sitting and he had changed into a plain t-shirt.

“You wanna paint now? I changed my clothes in case I get paint on me. You might wanna do the same too.” He said, sitting down next to me on the sofa.

“Sure! But I… I don’t really have many clothes.”

“Ah! No worries, kiddo, you could just wear some sort of apron and I’ll tie it really good or something to make sure you’re covered. Also, we can go shopping again to get you more clothes if you’d like.”

“That’d be nice! I was gonna ask if we could go shopping again this week so I could get more room decorations so yeah!”

“Great!”

We got up from the sofa and grabbed the paint from the car. We went into my room and prepared by moving and taking everything out first, thankfully I haven’t completely settled in yet so it was fairly easy. Lewis opened the can of paint and gave me a paint brush and we started painting the walls the nice light purple colour I had picked out. Lewis really is good at this! Painting is very fun. We proceeded to have a bit of a paint fight and I ended up painting his white shirt purple and getting paint on his face and accidentally getting it into his mouth because I knocked him onto the floor. Well, more like he fell. I don’t have the strength to push a grown man onto the floor unfortunately but maybe one day!

When we finished painting, we got cleaned up and ate dinner, discussing plans for the week. Apparently there was gonna be a storm during the night and I really don’t like storms, they scare me… But it’ll be okay with Lewis around! I hope. Because the paint in my room was drying, I couldn’t sleep in there so I told Lewis I would sleep on the sofa but he insisted that I sleep in his bed instead and that he’ll sleep on the sofa. I felt a little bad but if he says so then alright!

I got changed and he tucked me into bed. He has a Totoro plushie and it’s really cute! I asked if I could hold it and he said yes. It can guard me if we get a storm! I’m really not looking forward to that…

He left the room, turning off the lights and shutting the door. It was dark and I closed my eyes, drifting off to sleep.