An Unexpected Adventure (LARRY STYLINSON)

CHAPTER 4

Early the next morning, Sandy wakes and looks at the clock it is 5:30 am and knows she need to get up and start on getting everything ready for Harry.  She gets up and goes to get changed when she noticed that someone was asleep in the recliner in her room. As she gets closer she sees that it is George and she walks over and wakes him. George looks up at her and asks her what time is it and she says its about a quarter to six. She asks him why he is sleeping in her room and he said he was worried she would do something last night after what happened. It touched her heart to see someone caring about how she felt again. (Don't get her wrong, she had a lot of friends who cared about her, but it was nice to have a male care as much as he seemed to.) Sandy told him that she was fixing to go wake him up so that he could help her set up this for Harry. She left George so that she could go and get dressed.  Once she walked out of the bathroom, George asked if he could use her bathroom so he could freshen up and she said that's fine. She walked out and went to the kitchen and started a pot of coffee, so that when the others woke up there would be coffee made. George came out a few minutes later and joined her in the kitchen and asked her what was first on the agenda. She looked at him and said we need to go out to the garage and get the portable fireplace and get it set up on the gazebo. As they left out of the house, she grabbed a couple of blankets to set them up on the floor so that Harry and Louis wouldn't have to sit on the cold ground. Sandy and George started to walk out to the garage and he asked her if she was doing okay and she said better than yesterday.  They reached the garage and went in a Sandy showed him what to grab.  They left out and headed to the gazebo to start setting up. She told him to put it toward the back so that there would be more room for the boys to sit down on the floor.  She put the blankets down and walked over behind the garage and grabbed some wood to start the fire. When she got back, she asked George to go in the house and look in the pantry and grab a fire starter log and a lighter.  He left and came back with what she asked for and he asked if she needed any help getting the fire ready and she declined the offer.  The next thing that they did was sit a couple cushions on the ground and covered them with one of the blankets. Sandy said let's go in for a few minutes so they could warm up a little. Once they went in, she went to her room and came out with some Christmas lights that she had planned on hanging around the poles. George said before we go back outside to work on this some more let's grab a cup of coffee, she went in the cabinet and grabbed two travel mugs so that maybe their coffee would stay a little warm.  They made their coffee and went back out. Upon returning, Sandy went about stringing the lights around and asked George to go to the garage and grab an extension cord. They got that set up and went back inside, about that time some of the others were coming out of their rooms with a strange look on their faces and asked what they were doing up so early and Sandy said she was doing something important and needed George's help, they said okay. She asked them if they were hungry, they said a little and she went in and started to cook breakfast.  She asked them to go get the others up while she finished up in the kitchen and they left to get them up for breakfast. 

When everyone came out, on the table there was bacon, sausage, eggs, biscuits, gravy, and pancakes; they all looked at her with awe.  She said enjoy breakfast, they told her she was going to be joining them for breakfast because she didn't eat anything yesterday. They all sat around the table and started eating, when they were done everyone helped clear the table. Sandy told them to go sit in the living room and watch tv, play games, or watch a movie, but she asked Harry to help her. He said okay, because he needed to talk to her anyway about later.  Everyone else went into the living and were discussing what they were going to do, they decided to watch a movie. Sandy and Harry made sure no one else was in the kitchen and she asked him what kind of things that he would like to take out to the gazebo for his little surprise. He looked at her and said I don't know, I've never done anything like this and I'm really nervous. She told him she could make some chocolate covered strawberries, some sandwiches, and put a bottle of wine in a basket for him, he said that sounded great.  Harry went in the living room and cuddled up with Louis; Louis asked Harry asked if everything was okay because he looked like he was going to be sick. Harry said I'm fine, just had a lot on his mind at the moment and Louis said you know you can always talk to me and Harry said this is something that he couldn't help with at the moment, but would be able to help with in a little while.

Sandy got everything in the basket and asked George to come to the kitchen for a moment and so he got up and came in asked how he could help. She told him that he needed to occupy the boys so she could sneak out and finish getting things set up for Harry. He got the boys occupied and she slipped out the door and headed to the gazebo to set up the romantic picnic. She came back in and asked Harry to come with her for a minute, he got up and followed her down the hall a little bit. He asked her if everything was ready and she said just about, she needed to get the ring and get it put out there so he wouldn't have to sneak back out of the living room to get it and make Louis more upset. He went in the room him and Louis was sharing and grabbed the ring and gave it to Sandy. She told Harry that when so got back in the house, everything would be completely ready and then he could take Louis out there; she told Harry that she would put the ring in the bottom of the basket and not let Louis look in there. They went back to the living room and told the others that she had to go out to the garage for a minute and would be right back.

When she returned, she gave Harry a wink and sat down with the others in the living room. Then Harry asked Louis if he could follow him because he really needed to talk to him. They headed to the door and grabbed their jackets and headed outside.