Junie - JJ Maybank

16

I climb out of Sarah's car and look at the gigantic house in front of me.

Tanneyhill... The kookiest house on the island, founded by Denmark Tanney...

I walk around the car to John B and I stand by him for a second. The two of us gawk at the house. The only other time we've been here is when we ran from DCFS, but neither of us got to get a good look at the house.

"Hey John B, Emery," I look over to see Ward walking down the porch towards us, "welcome to Tanneyhill."

We walk towards him and meet him in the middle. Rose is standing next to him.

"This is my wife Rose." Ward tells us.

Me and John B both greet her and she speaks, "I am so happy that you two are staying here with us."

John B nods and smiles, "thank you for letting us."

I can hardly form any words. I wish we could just stay at the chateau...

Ward and Rose lead us into the house. Ward takes us down a hallway that has two doors on one side and one door on the other. There are paintings hung up along the wall and a big mirror is on the wall at the end of the hall.

Ward stops at the first door then opens it, "John B, this will be your room."

"Wow," John B says and I gawk at how big the room is.

There is a queen size bed against one wall with an armoire on the wall next to it. One of the walls is all windows and the opposite wall has a big painting on it.

"You can decorate it however you like," Rose says.

"Yes... posters, paintings, plants, whatever," Ward tells him.

John B nods, "this is amazing, thank you."

They say you're welcome then we all walk out of the room.

They go into the room next to it and it is the same size as John B's... maybe even a little bigger.

"This will be your room," Rose tells me.

"Holy shi-" I start but John B quickly smacks my side and makes me stop talking. "This is awesome," I tell Rose and Ward.

It is similar to John B's room. There is a light brown wood bed frame. Across from the bed is a dresser with the same wood as the bed frame and a mirror is set on top of it. The wall the bed is on has a wall trim a few feet up and the wall above it is a dark olive green color.

"Again, you can decorate it however you'd like. This was one of our guest rooms and it doesn't really have much... personality," Ward trails off when he sees Rose giving him an annoyed look, "sorry honey."

Rose nods him off then turns to me, "we can get whatever you would like to decorate."

"This is amazing... thank you." I tell them.

Ward says of course and Rose pulls me into a hug.

"Welcome home," she tells me when we pull away.

Ward and Rose tell us that they will give us some time to settle in then we will go over the house rules.

Everyone leaves the room and I am left alone in my new kooky room.
I can't get over the fact that I am living in a house like this. I always told people when I was younger that I was gonna be a kook someday. But as time went on, that dream slowly started to go away.

After I have finished taking in everything that has happened, I go into John B's room.

Him and Sarah are sitting on his bed kissing. They pull away when they realize that I walked in.