Deep In The Ocean

Chapter 13

Flo's POV

When I got home from the pier I went clothes shopping and the pain had gone from my hip but I wanted to see what happened. I opened the door to my dull grubby apartment " oh, I thought it would be ... nicer" I said as I found the lights switch and turned it on. The lights binged on and I had a look around. The kitchen and living room where in the same space when you walk in with a half a wall separating them, when you walk down a small hallway there was a door on your left that lead into a small bedroom with yellowish half up and half down wallpaper with a double bed, an empty small closet and a full mirror. On the right off the hallway there was a door that lead you to a bathroom that had a toilet, a sink, a bath shower thing and a empty shelve for toiletries. At the back end of the hall there was a small broom closet. I ran into my bedroom and lifted up my dress to have a look at my hip and to my amazement the was a sign, 3 squiggle lines that looked like waves. That was differently not there before I left. I was really tired so I went to bed. The next day Noah went shopping with me and I got a gold iPhone 5 and he went decor shopping with me and went grocery shopping and I kinda forgot the mark on my hip. Noah stayed for dinner that night and our relationship started to grow. The next day. I got up and had breakfast (Cheerios) and got ready. I put on my LA tank top bleached denim shorts and baby pink vans and left my hair down with my mom's mother of pearl hair pin pinning back the front of my hair. While I was sitting on the couch watching tv and discovering what social media was my phone binged, it was a text from: Noah❤ hi flo do u wanna work on your apartment ? I immediately responded: sure, how bout 4? He texted back : sure see you then. We were going to put up the floral wallpaper on the wall were my bed is in my bedroom and paint the rest baby pink, mint paint for the living room and put up pictures. I heard footsteps down the stairs outside my door and then in the hall outside my door followed my 3 knocks. I glimpsed at the time on my phone it was 3:52 I just learned Noah was very punctual. I got up and answered the door not to my surprise it was Noah." Hi" he said with a smile " come in" I said as he then stepped out from the hall and into my living room." Are you settling in okay?" He said clearly trying to make conversation I thought we were past that stage. "Ya, shall we start" I said "... sure" he said I think he was about to say something but I cut him off. I lead him down to the closet at the end of the hall and opened the door. The was the paint and stuff in side. I then realised that he had a bag in his hand he saw me looking at the bag and said " I figured that we would need something to protect the floor when we are painting the walls so I brought some old bed sheets and we would use a hammer and nails to hang the pictures so I brought my da..." He trailed off " that was very thoughtful" of you I said as I kissed his cheek. He put the bag down a helped me carry the paint, wallpaper and pictures out of the closet and into the living room. Then we started. We pulled off the gross yellow wallpaper in my bedroom and painted it baby pink, painted the living area mint with one wall of floral wallpaper, we painted the hallway and kitchen white and we hung the pictures on the wall. When we were done he handed me the bag and inside it was a pink fluffy rug and blue into mint ombré phone case " I got you the rug as you house warming present and the cover coz I figured you could use it but I you don't like it I can" I cut him short by kissing his lips passionately and to my surprise he kisses me back. After we both broke away he asked "do you wanna come to my house for dinner?" " sure thanks" I replied as I grabbed my bag and Noah took the bag he brought with the sheets and hammer and his keys and we left for his house. On the way there he asked " Flo?" "Yes Noah?' "Do you have a job?" " No, I just moved here but I am looking for one" " I work at the pier and there is and opening at the ringtoss stall the girl who worked there moved away maybe I could get you the job" " thanks Noah" I said with a big smile " Flo?" "Yes, Noah? " Where did you move from" I froze " um....well...um" I stuttered.