To be Seen or Heard

Chapter Five: Goodbye House (pt1)

It was kinda weird to run in the hallways of my own home... it looked almost just like it had been that fateful morning when everything went bad. Some clutter was still in the hallway, and used clothes were thrown on the floor, but now most of the drawers had been left hastily open- and there were things left out that hadn't been there before.

Isabella and I didn't waste any time before storming through our bedroom. I dumped half of our underwear drawer inside my backpack, making sure to grab our thicker socks before starting to stuff some of our undershirts in there as well. Isabella was already rifling through our closet and pulling the sweaters that were in the back off their hangers.

"Let's use my suitcases!" Alexander panted as he dragged in the suitcases he and Andres had used to come here. He had removed the contents of his missing brother's so it was empty and ready to be filled. He didn't hesitate before starting to help Isabella pack some of our jeans and sweatpants inside the suitcase.

"I'm gonna go grab some of Camila's clothes- I think there's a duffel bag in Papí's closet!" I gasped out as the memory came to me.

I practically tripped into my parent's room before tearing through their closet until I dragged out the three black duffel bags that they owned. I unzipped one before dumping my mother's entire underwear drawer inside before tossing jeans, sweaters, tank tops, a pajama set, her sandals, and long-sleeved shirts in there as well. It was a bit weird packing away shoes -especially for someone else- but I chose to stuff her hiking boots and running shoes... there was a little more space in the bag, so I ran out into the hallway where the big closet with all our winter gear was.

I pulled off my mother's heavy jacket, mine, Isabella's, my dad's, Camila's, one of the spares, and the smaller baby-sized ones for Olivia and Eva. I was able to stuff three of them in my mom's bag before squishing the other ones in one of the other bags. Since Mom's bag was full, I dragged it into the hallway before tossing it down the stairs so that someone already on the first floor could start bringing it to the RV.

Alexander nodded at me when I bumped into him in the hallway, before he tossed the full bags of things he'd packed with Isabella down the stairs as well. He helped me stuff the two bags with Camila's, Olivia's and Eva's clothes. One bag was just for their collective stuff before I started collecting all the diapers from the nursery room.

There were unopened packs that I just tossed down the stairs without thinking about too much, but the baby powder, wet wipes, baby thermometer, blankets, the spare breast pump had been bemoaning about for weeks, and Mamí's kangaroo were all tightly stuffed into the duffel bag with winter coats. Alexander had to pick me up so that we could reach the string for the attic stairs, I was the one to go up there and throw down the sleeping bags, lanterns, big beach towels, and the three tents since Alexander didn't know where any of that stuff was. I even opened up the box with the winter hats, gloves and scarves before grabbing a couple and tossing them down as well.

"I found our old school bags!" Isabella panted after she helped us dump the bags downstairs, "Let's grab some more clothes."

"Can I get one for the bathroom stuff?" Alexander wiped his brow.

Isabella bobbed her head as she led us to the closet where she'd pulled out some of our old bag backs. Alexander grabbed the biggest one before hightailing it to the bathroom. "Don't forget Mamí's private bathroom!" I called out to his retreating back before grabbing two of the bags for myself and sprinting towards my room.

"I forgot to pack shoes..." Isabella gasped as she fell to her knees in front of our closet.

"Grab our boots! The winter and rain ones... sneakers too!" I instructed her as rifled through our drawers to find our thermal underclothes, I'd found Camila's old ones in her room, so I knew we had to have them. There! I stuffed some shorts and leggings into the bags too, before looking around my room. I grabbed my tiny blue puppy from my bed and stuffed her into the bag as well before grabbing Isabella's Teddy, our DS and Gameboy had been abandoned on the side table... I shrugged my shoulders before packing them, the games and chargers in there as well. We'd be spending a lot of time in the RV, we were bound to get bored sometime.