From Mine to Ours

Chapter 48: Newcomer

"I can't believe it's already November," Asher exclaims as he rushes to the front door with half of his coat hanging off his body and his bag swinging in his hand. "And I can't believe none of you woke me up for work!" He yells out even louder.

I chuckle and get up from the couch to help him out. After grabbing his coffee off of the kitchen counter, I meet him at the front door where he's still trying to get his coat on. "I was planning on sleeping in," I respond while helping get his arm through the sleeve. He rolls his eyes and places a peck on my cheek.

"Some of us actually have to work today,"

"Hey, with the photoshoot done and all of the meetings in between with the bosses, they practically forced me to take today off," I shrug.

"I know, I'm glad you're taking a small break, I'm just messing with you," he grabs the thermo cup from my hand and leans forwards for quick kiss. "I really do need to head out though, don't have too much fun without me," he rushes out the door and past Vivienne who's standing in front of the door.

"Sebastian has work today too, you know?" I yell out to him with a smile.

After making sure Vivienne doesn't need anything, I head back inside with shivering fingers and cold toes. Even keeping the door open for longer than five minutes has me freezing in my pajamas. Just like Asher pointed out, it really is the first week of November. Which is absolutely mind boggling to me. Only a little less than two weeks left until it's officially winter again.

Looking back into the rather quiet house, it dawns on me how if feels like last winter was just yesterday. In the span of a singular year, things changed in ways I really hadn't expected them to. I mean, dating was completely off the table for me and yet here i am living with three handsome men I can proudly call my boyfriends.

Speaking of living with them...

My feet step further into the house and my eyes flit around the open space for a while. The quiet morning is soothing and despite all of the rushing around, it's pretty calm today. Their house usually is. Their...

It's technically theirs. Nothing in here other than the clothes and other belongings in our room can really be called mine. Nothing's under my name. They've been living together, properly living together, for a while. Especially Julian and Sebastian. Yet, we never really discussed me actually 'moving in' with them. There's not really much for me to move in, but it's kind of the principle of it that's been on mind lately.

I mean, everything happened so fast in the beginning. For my safety, they let me invade their personal space for what was supposed to be a couple weeks at most. But then we started getting closer, close enough to officially try being together and ever since then, I've just been staying here with them. In their house. It's just become the norm for me to be here, but the steps from meeting to dating to moving in together got completely scattered for us. We never really talk about these things now that I think about it. Maybe I'm reading too much into things again?

Do they even want me to be living with them permanently?

"Hey, what are you doing standing out here by yourself?" Julian's soft morning voice echoes through the entry way from the staircase. I watch as he's walking down, his hair tied up in a pony tail and Sebastian's dress shirt hanging off his shoulders.

"Nothing, sorry, just got lost in thought again," I walk to the stairs to meet him at the bottom where he pulls me into his arms.

"Is everything alright?"

I nod into his chest. Communication is key. "I- um..." I pause and he pulls back to look over my expression for a moment. "I was just wondering about, well, us," I gesture between the two of us and the house as best as I could with my hands.