Life-Times Apart

Ch. 14 Memories and Famlies

AN:// So... I'm a horrible updater, but I have no inspiration to write now a days. I have chronic migraines, and school started a few weeks ago and I have a Medical Term class that it friking insane but amazing, and let's not even get into my home life. But I received a very amazing message in my inbox that made me get off my ass and write, so I re-read through this chapter and it was crap, so I edited more than half of it, and even though it's not what I was originally going for, it's something and it's not too bad.

  The girls ended up NOT sharing a room. Hannah wanted some alone time to think about Kol, and Levi really didn't care. She went with Hannah to the door on the left, and it turned out to be a master bedroom. The walls were a cream color with a golden trim, the windows had sheer white curtains, one on either side of the bed. The bed was directly across from the door in the center of the room. To the right there was an oak dresser and mirrors were all along the right wall. To the left, in the corner, stood a tall jewelry box, and on the left wall there was a door that came to a private bathroom.

There was a shower AND a tub, and His and Hers sink set, and it was all tile floors and counter tops with white walls. Pristine and beautiful. Levi could help but run her fingers over the personal items in the bathroom. A bar of men's soap that smelt like lemons and pine, lavender bath salt, and a set of children's toys. Duckies and wind up frogs and dolls.

"These must have been the little girls." Hannah had whispered in awe.

"Yeah, or she's had other children staying here." Levi retorted. After that they went to Levi's room.

She walked in and immediately she was hit with the smell she associates with the sun. A warm sort of honeysuckle bonfire kind of scent. The room had brown walls, black trim and a small full sized bed in the middle of the room across from the door.

The bed, where she is laying right now, has a white comforter with large brown and light blue dots. The pillow, currently under her head, has the same pattern. If you're facing the bed from the door, to the left is a tall dresser, and a shorter dresser with a large mirror. To the right, is another window and bench. It has a different view than the other window. There is a waterfall in the distance, just a line as thick as a pencil from where the window is. Tree tops are the majority of her view, but it's nice. There's a bench there too.

Hannah left when Levi plopped on the bed, declaring that it looked like a child's bedroom and she desperately needed a nap. Levi though, she felt an odd connection to the room. She still does, as she stands and walks over to the dresser on her right. Her finger skims over the wood and then the mirror. On the wall, right of where she stands (but left if your facing he bed) is another door, brown like the walls with black trim still. It's another bathroom. To the right of the door is a bath tub, and straight across is the counter. To the right of that is the toilet, and under the sink, are more toys.

'It's the room of a little girl.' Celeste tells her. Levi nods.

'It's the room of my dreams.' Levi tells her. Small, AND spacious. A little cluttered, yet homey. The window though. That window is just... that's it. That's what makes the room. It has a large heavy black curtain, and Levi wonders why. All the other curtains throughout the house have been sheer, but in here.... it's not.

'It was so no one could look in here and see her. See the little girl.' Celeste tells her, and she nods. She runs her fingers over the wood on the smaller dresser again. Her nail catches on something, and she pulls harder and harder. There's a small split in the wood, and something is sticking out of it.

She tries to grip it with her finger nails, but it's too in there. It's also too small to grip with her fingers. She pulls out the top drawer, well, she TRIES to, but it gets stuck. She looks in the drawer, and finds that the thing jammed in the top of the dresser, goes all the way through. She sticks her hand in and pulls. With a ripping sound it comes free, with a corner still stuck between the wood in the top of the dresser. Turning it up, Levi realizes it's a picture. And not just any picture, it's almost like a painting.