Rose Tyler moves to Broadchurch

Chapter 8

They had a few drinks to celebrate not only deciding to rent a house together but the fact they had accepted each other. Only a few short days ago, neither of them could have believed they would be able to move on with their lives. Alec had been right, they had both been alone roughly the same amount of time. So Alec went to get his things to save time in the morning and they spent the night together again with more or less the same as they had been doing. They both fell asleep and it was the first night Rose didn't drift off thinking about John.

Wednesday morning, Rose was awake before Alec and wasn't sure what had woken her. Maybe it was because it was the first time in over two years she had slept properly without the dreams and the guilt. She was laid over Alec, a feeling she really liked and she woke him as she tried to move and so she murmured a quick "Sorry."

The alarm on Alec's mobile sounded and so she grabbed his phone but it was different to hers and she couldn't stop it. She handed it to him with a miffed look on her face saying that she couldn't do it and Alec thought it was amusing saying since she was younger than him so she should be more technically minded than he was and after turning it off, pulled her back onto him and kissed her. Rose just sat up on him and he gently rubbed his hands down her thighs then remembered she was wearing nothing underneath and moved his hand inwards, just enough to make her smile.

She moved over to let him get out of bed and told him she'd be disappointed if he was so fast at changing his shorts again so he obliged by taking it more slowly as she sat and watched him take his time over them, first taking the ones he was wearing down and turning around to get his clean one's which he'd put on the chair then turning back and slowly putting his clean ones on. Rose was now smiling and wishing she could finally overcome her fear of being with another man. She was beginning to question why she was still holding back. Men like Alec didn't come along every day, especially now she had seen him naked.

She waited until he went into the bathroom and got out of bed, knocked on the bathroom door and told him to hurry as she suddenly realised she was desperate to use the loo and hoped he wouldn't be long. It was five minutes before he cracked the door open slightly and asked why. Standing crossed legged in front of the man she was thinking of sharing a house with and eventually giving in to him was not an ideal way to start so she just pointed to the loo and squeezed past him. As she passed, he pinched her which made her worse and said she was the one that was a grump this morning. She retaliated when she came back out by trying to make a mark on his neck which he only just managed to stop. It made her want to bite his neck even more and said she'd get him later.

They went for breakfast, Alec managing by a narrow margin to get away with a bite mark and Rose said she'd meet him at noon to go sign for the house and would if ask the agent if he needed to go through the usual checks. If so, they agreed Rose would just sign and have his name added later to avoid delays. They both told Becca they were moving out and she gave them a knowing look as if she had already suspected something of the sort but not quite so fast. Rose had initially booked for a week with the option for longer since it wasn't really the busy season but Becca had held Alec's room for him while he was in hospital and he had become a permanent fixture. Still, she said it wasn't a problem and could easily fill the rooms. Rose went back to her room to ring her mother with the good news she had found a house to rent, right by the sea and that she had decided to share with someone to keep the costs down. She wasn't ready to tell her that the person she was sharing with was Alec, just that she was going to look for someone after she moved in. Her mother said it would be the perfect opportunity for her to come for a visit but Rose persuaded her to wait for the Easter holidays before she came down to give her time to get sorted and to prepare Alec to meet her.

Then Rose looked up removal companies on the internet and since she had left the key to the storage unit at the actual place, all she had to do was contact them when she had chosen who to do the job and when. That depended on how soon she could get the keys but maybe they could be moved in by the weekend. She stopped for a moment and realised, this was all part of moving on altogether and she was actually moving in with Alec, the man who she had only met a few days ago but was certain that was what she wanted to do. Now she thought about it, it had been the same with John. She had fallen in love with him so fast but because she was so young, had been forced to be just friends with him but she knew already that she had loved him and could tell he loved her. This time she was older with only one thing holding her back and it wasn't Alec, it was her. Her fear of being with another man like she had been with John. She made her mind up she was going to get over this once and for all. She was going to tell Alec tonight that the first night they spent in their new house she would be with him completely, no holding back. She needed to give herself a kick start.