Black Butler: The Clock Strikes Twelve: (Ronald Knox)(Book Three in The Troubled Waters Series)

Deaths Mother Dearest

Elanora P.O.V

"Okay so for this house we, have a lovely four bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms, The master Bedroom has a door sized windows, that open, for a lovely airy feel, lovely for the warm summer nights." The estate agent said... Walking me and Ronald around the top floor of the house we were currently looking in. It was massive!

The estate agent opened the door and showed us into the two adjoining bedrooms.

"Perfect, if you're looking to have children in the future. It does need some work..."

The walls were yellow.... Not painted yellow, but stained yellow, by the previous owner.. who was a smoker....

When looking in the bathrooms, the sinks needed replacing as they were old and filthy... Horribly filthy.

The floorboards needed to be changed too.... But that wasn't an issue, we had been saving everywhere we could for months and finally the pennies added up! Combining their savings from the past couple of months, not including life savings or the cost of the house. A combined effort of eating in, not spending it on alcohol or at parties... Much to Ronald's despair and the over time...

Had added up to a huge £9859!

Turns out Ronald's habit of social drinking, was an expensive one.

Surely that should be enough to cover most of the repairs and get in the furniture!?

As we went into the master bedroom, we were both taken a back.The room was massive, beautifully kept and was almost brand new.. we could move our stuff in almost instantly! If we bought it that is....

The bathroom was just as nice! It had been stripped empty, sure. But we planned to get a whole new set for it! Hopefully...

We went back down the stairs and to the kitchen. By the look doorway we thought it was going to be small and our faces dropped from disappointment, only to rise in surprise, when we saw it was a very nice open kitchen, with a dining room on the end!

Sure the cupboards needed to be changed and so on, but it looked worth it! But with everything too good to be true there had to be one down side, and that was probably the price.

"So now you've had a look around what do you think?" The agent asked, smiling sweetly. It was obviously put on.

Me and Ronald looked at each other for a moment, both smiling. It even had an extra room for the library!

One thing was clear. We wanted that house!

"It's great!"

"Bloody Huge." Ronald said.

"How much do you think this house will cost?" He asked.

We both looked at each other for a moment. It had to be well out of our budget! There was no way it was under 300,000.

"Over our budget that's for sure!" Ronald laughed.

"Actually this is priced at £245,000. " The real estate agent said.