The Girl of Colours (Book TWO)

The Pillow Fort

(This is flat is Clara's flat, only before Clara moves in. That will occur later on, my lovelies :) xxx)

"Hey,come on in." I smiled as I opened the door, seeing Clara stood there, looking gorgeous in a pair of skinny jeans, a long blue shirt and a pair of plain black heels, her silky brown hair loose around her shoulders. "But, there is a now shoe rule in my flat, it's new carpet, and it is the fluffiest thing alive."

She slipped off the heels, and I saw little silver toe nails, digging into my new purple carpet, and her face lit up with how soft it really was. Thank you, Carpet Right "OK, where did you get your carpet?"

I tapped my nose. "Secret that you can find out about in town. But, welcome to my new flat, paid for by Nintendo. They owe me a lot after I powered their company for a year." I smiled, showing her through to the kitchen. "You don't mind us not going out for a date, do you? I'm not great around masses of people, I tend to start electrical fires."

"No, it's fine, really." Clara smiled, brushing her hair off her face. "I prefer a nice night in myself, just curled with a book. Think that we could just eat and then chat with a glass of wine?"

"You read my mind." I grinned, handing her a glass of red wine. "But, I don't have a dining room table, or a sofa yet. But what I do have, is pillows."

Her eyes widened. "You didn't."

"I did." I laughed, taking her hand and pulled her into my living room, or currently, an amazing pillow fort with duvets, pillows, fairy lights and nibbles. With my laptop ready and waiting with Netflix. "Isn't this basically Netflix and Chill though? Minus the sex?" Sex was too soon, we didn't need sex, we just needed Netflix and duvets.

She shrugged. "To me, Netflix and Chill is exactly what you have set up. The only thing missing is onesie-" Clara cut of when she saw the owl and pussy cat onesies I'd laid out, having found them in a comic book shop. I was a geek, don't judge me. "You really did think of everything that cute couples do on Tumblr."

I shook my head. "You overestimate me. All of this came from Tumblr gorgeous. The onesies were just a joke, though I will wear them in the future, we don't have to wear them now."

Clara smirked at me. "Maybe we'll end up in one later." Just one? "But it's a bit warm right now. What are we watching?"

"I'm torn between something scary, like Stitches, about a killer clown, or, something really cute and sappy, like Toy Story 3." I saw the look on her face. "We're watching Toy Story, aren't we? Do you know how many times I watched that film when I was little?"

"If you watched that film the amount of times I have watched Howls Moving Castle, then I'll be impressed." I had to marry this girl. She knew my favourite film, and it was Studio Ghibli, and she'd watched it religiously.

So we got under the duvets, soft and fluffy, and my jasmine incense made the room smell amazing, and I started the film, nibbling the bits and pieces that I'd put in bowls, and the wine was between us, but after a while Clara moved it to sit closer to me, and we ended up just cuddling. "I think we should talk too. Ask questions." 

"OK, what do you want to know?" I asked softly, pausing the film to look at her. "Because I'm good telling you everything."

"How long have you been travelling with your gramps?"

"Not that long, actually. My mum used to travel, but she gave it up to get married, and when she had Lyrica, she tried to stop altogether."

She frowned a little. "Not when she had you?"

I shook my head. "I was adopted. I'm alien, remember? Next question, my turn. When are you going to go travelling, like you were going to with the book?"