Why Won't This Arrogant Jerk Leave Me Alone?

Redecorating

Chapter 32:

Nate’s POV

    I woke up a little before Carrie, which is a good thing because I need to make a plan to get her parents here and her to talk to them about everything. My choices are; 1. Get their number off her phone and call them. 2. Have her call them. Alternatively, 3. Wait for them to call or come home.
   
    I think I’m going to do the 2nd one. I don’t want to go behind her back and call them, because that would just make her mad. I just have to figure out a way to tell her. I think I’m going to do it after breakfast, so that way I know she is fully awake. I got up from my bed slowly, making sure not to wake her up and slipped out into the hallway, but grabbed my phone.

    We came home late last night, so I won’t be surprised if she doesn’t wake up for another hour. We decided to skip school today, again. Well, if that’s the case then I’m going to go and get something for breakfast at the store. I walked down the hall and went to our main bathroom, and hopped in the shower. Once I got out of the shower I grabbed a towel and quietly walked back into my room and grabbed a clean pair of clothes. I slipped back out without waking her up, went back to the bathroom, and changed. I was out the door under 10 minutes. That’s a good thing about being a guy. I made sure my wallet and phone were in my pants when I got in the car and checked for my keys, pulled them out, and started the car up.

    I made it to Walmart in 5 minutes. I walked into the store and headed towards the food side. I grabbed a cart and picked up a bunch of food. I was in there for about 30 minutes before I was all checked out and packed up in my car heading back to my house. I opened the front door before jogging back to my car and opened the trunk. I grabbed a whole bunch of bags, almost all, because I didn’t want to make 2 trips. But, it looks like I’ll have to. I took them in the house and set them on the counter then ran back out and got the rest.

    I put away all the groceries but kept out the bread, butter, bacon, eggs, strawberries, and orange juice. You can tell I’m hungry because I just want everything I bought. Well, I didn’t buy it with my own money. I kind of did. My parents give me an allowance every week, even though they are still on vacation. So technically it’s their money. I sighed and turned on the skillet. While that heated up I checked the time and it said 11:29 a.m. Carrie should be waking up in about 20-30 minutes. I grabbed two plates out of the cabinet and set them on the table. Then, I grabbed forks and knives and set them down. There, now all I need to do is cook the food, and pour the juice. I put the bacon in the skillet and let that cook while I took out a cutting knife with a cutting board.

    I set those on the table and grabbed the strawberries rinsing them off. I started to cut the strawberries and put them in a little bowl. Okay that is done. I turned around and flipped the bacon seeing that it was almost done. I turned down the skillet so that way it could simmer, so the bacon wouldn’t be burnt. Once the bacon was done, I put the toast in the toaster, took out the bacon, and replaced it with eggs. The eggs only took a couple of minutes. I put all the food on the table, and poured the orange juice as soon as Carrie came into the kitchen. She rubbed her eyes and let out a huge gasp.

“What. Why? Why did you do this?” She asked surprised.

“I was hungry.” I said shrugging.

    She laughed and shook her head. I walked over her and whispered a ‘Good morning.’ then kissed her on her lips. It was a short one though because I was hungry. I walked her over to the table and let her sit down. I then walked over to my chair and sat down.

“Dig in!” I said before doing exactly what I said.

    She giggled and started to make her plate too. My phone vibrated on the table and I looked and seen it was from Jake.

To: Me
From: Jake

It’s Carries Birthday tomorrow. Ally just told me. In addition, why aren’t you at school?

    I put down my fork and answered back.

To: Jake
From: Me

What?! And we went somewhere last night and didn’t get back till late, so we decided to skip.

    I looked up at Carrie who was eating a piece of bacon.

“When were you going to tell me your birthday was tomorrow?!” I asked.

“Uh.. How did you find out about that?” She asked shocked.

“Ally told Jake, then Jake told me. Now why didn’t you tell me? I know you’re parents couldn’t make it, but I didn’t know it was this soon.” I asked again.

“Exactly my parents aren’t coming. I didn’t want to celebrate it this year.” She mumbled.

“I’m sorry Sweetheart that they aren’t coming. But, I think we should still celebrate it.” I said softly.

“I don’t want a huge birthday party though.” She said.

“We’ll just go out, or stay in. Just  you and me.” I answered.

“That sounds good.” Carrie said smiling softly.

“Okay.” I said smiling back.

    She didn’t answer we just kept on eating in comfortable silence. Once we were both done, I cleaned up the kitchen, with Carrie’s help. We went into the living room and started to watch TV. I got an idea that we were supposed to do a couple days ago.

“Hey want to redecorate you house?” I asked.

“I completely forgot about that! Yes!” She said squealing.

“Okay. Let’s go to the store.” I said before pulling both of us up.

“I have to go by my house and change.” She said walking out the door with me.

“Okay.” I said while opening her door for her, then walked to the driver’s side and got in.

    Less than 5 minutes later we were pulling up to her house. We both hopped out of the car and ran up the driveway and to the door. She pulled out her keys and opened the door. I walked in behind her, shutting the door, then walked up the stairs. I sat on her bed while she got dressed. Once she was done she grabbed her purse and keys and we left. We got in the car and started to drive away.

“Where do you want to go first?” I asked.

“Well, I’m not going to change a lot of furniture, probably just little things like: color schemes, pillows, and pictures. So first let’s go to the furniture store. They usually have pillows and pictures we can buy.” She said thinking.

“The one by Lowes?” I asked.

“Yeah, so that way we can go there after.” Carrie said.

“Okay.” I said before speeding up.

    It took us about 10 minutes to get there since she doesn’t live that far away. We got out of the car and connected our hands. Walking in the Furniture store the aroma of that brand new smell you get smelling something unused. Kind of like a car. She immediately went to this one painting. It was of a girl dancing, it was beautiful. I’m not really good at explaining, but it had multiple colors and the girl was probably 6 or 7.

“You want that one?” I asked.

“Duh. I’m putting this one in my room. I almost forgot that I’m doing that room too.” She said smiling.

    She checked the price tag and it was surprisingly not a lot of money. She took it off the wall and looked around the store. Her eyes lit up as soon as she seen this grey loveseat. She immediately started to walk over to it.

“I know I said I wasn’t going to buy any furniture, but I love this couch! It would look really good in the living room!” She said running her hand down the soft couch.

“Where though?” I asked confused.

“It sit where the recliner is,” She said looking at the price tag, “And look! It’s only $150! That’s freaking cheap for one! I’m getting it!” She said looking at me.

“Okay!” I said holding up my hands up to mock surrender.

    She just laughed and called the worker over to tell them she wanted that couch. After that was taken care of she moved away from the couch and started to look around for pillows. A pair actually spotted my eye. They were blue, white, and grey. They would match the love seat perfectly.

“How about those for the love seat?” I asked.

“Oh my gosh yes!” She said picking one up.

    The price tag said $25 for both. Man, I might just have to come here when I want to redecorate my room. Either they are going out of business and want everything gone, or everything is cheap.

“Okay, so now the only things I need to get is a couple more pictures, and some vases to put flowers in.” Carrie said.

“Alright.” I said sighing.

*1 hour later*

“Are you finally ready?” I complained, groaning.

“Yes. Stop whining. It didn’t take that long.” She said carrying all her stuff up to the counter.

“It was an hour!” I almost yelled.

“Really?” She said shocked, while the worker rang everything up.

“YES!” I said.

“Oh wow.” Carrie shrugged then turned around.

“The total is $307.29.” The cashier said.

    Carrie pulled out her credit card and swiped it. Next thing you know Carrie and I are hauling a whole bunch of stuff outside. They told us that our love seat would be delivered by this evening. So far, she has gotten five pictures, four pillows, a love seat, and I think four vases. Next, we have to go get paint. Yippee… Not. We put all of the stuff in the trunk and walked over to Lowes. Basically all the stuff we got was multicolored. Anything but just white except two vases. That way those 2 vases would go with anything.

“What color should we do for the living room?” Carrie asked looking at the wall of colors.

“Well, since the love seat is grey, the vase is white, and the pillows have blue in them. We should get a blue. Not too bright or dark though.” I said thinking.

“It feels like we are picking out color schemes for our house.” She said.

“Well will be soon.” I said winking then wrapped my arms around her waist, resting my head on her shoulder.

“I like that one,” I continued pointing to the seaside blue, “It’s soft but not too soft.”

“I like it too.” She smiled softly before reaching out and grabbed it.

“One color down, 2 more to go.” I whispered.

“That’s right. Okay, next is my room.” Carrie said biting her lip, concentrating.

“Okay, so your comforter is white, so we don’t have to worry about that. Plus, that painting you bought has all the colors in it.” I said helping her.

“Alright. I think I’m going to go with a medium purple. That way it makes the room kind of pop, but at the same time not too much.” She said seeming proud of herself and grabbed that color too.

“Now it’s the kitchen.” I whispered in her ear.
“Well they say to paint your kitchen your favorite food. And I don’t really have a favorite food. But, I think I might want to paint it a light brown, like a cappuccino color to match the living room.” She said pointing to the color.

“Okay. We’re all done! All we have to do now is get the paint mixed and plenty of each one to make sure we have enough.” I said pulling her to the paint mixing person.

*1 hour later*

    We pulled up to the house excited. I could feel the happiness radiating off of Carrie. I smiled and hopped out of my car popping the trunk. I tried to grab most of it so that way she wouldn’t have to carry a lot. Carrie unlocked the door before she went back to the car to get stuff. I walked into the house and set all the paint down hardwood floors. I went back and got the painters tape and some sheets we bought so we wouldn’t get the paint all over her furniture and floors. We didn’t have to buy any paint brushes or anything because she had bought some earlier when she was first going to do it.  Carrie came in with the pillows and vases all in her hands. I went back out and grabbed all the pictures/paintings and set  them down by the paint.

“You ready to move things?” I asked.

“Yes!” She said jumping up and down.

    This is going to be a long day. We have to move all the furniture so it won’t get hit by paint. But, at least we don’t have to take anything down because there wasn’t anything on the walls.

“I’m going to go change into something old.” She said before running upstairs.


    I looked down at my clothes and shrugged, today was a good day not to wear any new clothes. I’m glad I didn’t. Carrie came trotting down the steps with a big grin on her face.

“Ready?” She asked.

“More ready than I’ll ever be.” I sighed.

    Here goes nothing.

   
   

    I hope you liked this chapter!(: I know I haven’t updating in forever, but school started last week, and it’s going to start getting crazy! Next chapter will have the redecorating, her birthday in it, and then probably just the epilogue! This chapter was kind of boring, but I was having major writer’s block! Haha, thank you for the many votes and reads! Remember, more votes there are, the faster I’ll update. (: Thank you for the +33k reads and +750 votes! Love you guys!

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