Life After Death (On Hold)

Chapter 2

"I don't know... I still think it's too big." I liked my lips and spun round taking in what the room had to offer.

"But look, we could have a living room here looking out onto the streets. And-and a kitchen right here and over there we can put up a shelf and have it so its like a bedroom overlooking the whole loft. Cant you see it? It looks AMAZING?" He walked around the apartment while trying to show me what would be where. I could envision it all. Everything he said, planning it all out made me smile. It felt good when he planned our future. He walked up behind me and wrapped his arms around my waist. I clung on to them and rested my head on his chest. We looked out the window and watched the people down below us walk around.

"I still don't know, it's still a lot of space for just the two of us?" He tilted his head and looked at me with narrowed eyes.

"Well will it just be the two of us for the rest of our lives. We could have fantastic memories, with not just the two of us but maybe three or four of us?" I pulled out of the hug, turned to look at him and folded my arms.

"And how do you know this? Was I ever included in this decision or did you just go off and decide this with someone else? Just like you decided on buying this apartment!" I raised an eyebrow at him. "Well I'm waiting..."

"No, it wasn't decided without you, you just can't remember because you had just finished a bottle of vodka and it was you that told me that you wanted us to have seven kids and become the Von Trapp family! So don't blame that idea on me!" I could feel the blood rushing to my cheeks making me blush. I covered my face with my hands, which had my knitted royal blue jumper enveloping them. He walked over and pulled them away and gently kissed me. Holding my hands in the air, just beside my face, he looked deep into my eyes.

"Okay," I said nodding my head. He looked at me with confusion and then let go of my hands.

"Okay what?" I watched him trying to figure out what I meant, leaving it a minute to see if he would catch on to what I was saying. After a while I realised that there was no hope of him understanding what I was talking about and decide to expand.

"Okay, we can get the apartment." His eyes widened and a smile stretched across his face.

"Are you sure?" He looked at me waiting for my response, probably expecting it to be bad.

"Yes, I am sure we can get the apartment." The smile on his face widened and he picked me up off of the ground spinning me around.

"Andi, thank you, thank you, thank you!" He put me down, holding on the the top of my arms. He leaned down his head before kissing me again.

"You don't need to be so happy yet, we still need to sign the papers and make a deposit and see if that other couple want it." I flung my arms about trying to make it seem more exaggerated. He rubbed the back of his neck and pulled in a breath through his teeth, loud enough for me to hear. "What?" I asked him waiting for a response but only getting silence. "What aren't you telling me?" Still nothing. His beautiful green eyes looked deep in mine in apology. "Si, what did you do?" He rubbed the back of his neck again and opened his mouth to speak.

"Well you see the thing is..." I glared at him, with my arms folded, waiting for him to finish the sentence. "I already bought the apartment two weeks ago and it was kind of down to you to decide if we kept it or not." I shook my head, looking at the ground and smiling. "I was going to sell it if you said no but I was really hoping you would say that we could keep it and that way I wouldn't have to tell you." I lifted my head to look at him. I put on my angry face trying to cover the fact that this was all really funny if you thought about it.

"But you did tell me. Why would you do that if I said we could 'buy' it?" I put quotation marks around 'buy'. He blushed and filled the space between us.

"You see, I just can't keep secrets from you. You have this thing, this-this power(!)," he said flinging his hands in the air. "It's like a truth spell that you can cast on people so that they can never lie to you or keep secrets from you." He put his hands on my waist and pressed his forehead against mine. "But for me... it's a love spell."

I pulled back the covers and sat in the bed. I loved our bed. I sat the salt&butter popcorn along with two tangerines on the space beside me. I pulled the covers over me and arrayed the pillows for support and also cuddliness. I hit the play button on the DVD remote and sat the bowl of popcorn on my lap. As the adverts started I looked down over the banister to make sure I closed the curtains at the far side of the loft and turned out all the lights. When I knew everything was fine, I lay back and let the movie begin.

It wasn't long before the popcorn was finished and I had moved on to the tangerines. They were always so sweet and juicy. I peeled the skin but my eyes still fixated on the TV screen. After realizing that I had peeled off all of the skin and was now digging my finger straight into the tangerine, I broke it apart and eat it bit by bit. Some, I pulled the kind of transparent skin off of it and eat all the bits on the inside then put the nearly transparent skin, with all the rest of the rubbish I had to take, to the kitchen.

I walked back up the metal stairs leading to the bed when I realized I should apologize to Julie for being so nasty. It wasn't my fault I was still mourning, I loved that man more than life it's self and he had been taken away from me in the blink of an eye. I pulled my phone out of my light purplish/lilac housecoat and pressed call. I reached the landing and it was just ringing out so I hung up and put the phone in charge. My OCD started to kick in when I saw the mess I had made of the bed. I picked up the pink and green covers by the two bottom corners and lay it down on the bed so it was laying flat. I then arranged the pillows making sure Simons were on his side and vice versa. I crawled back under the covers and pressed play on the remote, letting the movie continue.

"Naked blonde walks into a bar with a poodle under one arm, and a two-foot salami under the other. The bartender says, I guess you won't be needing a drink. Naked lady says..." [The ceiling gives way and Bender falls through.]

"Oh, shi-it!" I laughed to myself and opened my second tangerine, peeling away the skin and still watching the TV just the same as I did with the first one.

I remembered the time that me and Simon first saw this movie. We were sitting in the living room watching the end credits of Stand By Me when he turned round to me and asked "Have you, Andi Jones, ever seen The Breakfast Club?" I told him I hadn't and he wasn't sure if he wanted to be exited or angry with me. After about twenty minutes on how this movie was the best movie ever, we went to the shop to see if we could find it. Unfortunately we didn't and we had to order it online. Luckily it only took three days for us to get it because if it had came any later I'm sure he would have had a fit .I had came home from work and Simon had the DVD player set up waiting for me with set out sweets, crisps, drinks, popcorn and chocolate. After watching it I decide to tell him it was the best film ever just so my honest opinion didn't upset him.

It did eventually become my favourite movie but we never got to watch it together when it did.

I listened to the the end song 'Don't You Forget About Me' by Simple Minds, singing along as I put my rubbish on to the draws so I could take it to the bin in the morning. After turning off the TV at the wall, I checked my phone, reading the time; 23:17. I had work tomorrow, which I was dreading because of everyone constantly giving e sympathy, which I didn't need, so I set my little blue alarm clock, blew a kiss to Simon and went to bed.