A Reason to Live (Jensen Ackles)

Chapter 11

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I helped clean off the table and once we were done, I was told the plan for today. Danneel was going to watch Justice all day. However, Jensen and I were going to get to work on my room. 

Jensen had all of the things from my house, the stuff that had been in storage, and had it sent here. So, the first thing I was going to do was go through it. 

I went upstairs to my temporary room and got dressed in some work clothes. An old pair of shorts, a faded t-shirt, and I put my hair up as well. 

When I went back downstairs Jensen was bringing boxes into the house and setting them in the living room. I slipped on my shoes and helped in bring in the rest. With the two of us working, it only took about ten more minutes. 

Once that was done, I sat down in front of the boxes and opened one. There were three empty boxes sitting out. One was for trash, one was for items I wanted to keep, and one was for items I wanted to donate. 

Jensen and I created a system. I would look through the boxes, one item at a time, and he would put it in the box it belonged. It took us about forty-five minutes to sort through all of the boxes. 

I mostly kept all of the photos, knickknacks that meant a lot to my family, and other stuff like that. There was a whole box of movies, so we went through the ones that they already had and kept all of the ones they didn't. All of the books I had bought throughout the years had been in tact. I found my clarinet and my laptop in a box. I was surprised that they weren't broken or taken. My art folder was in perfect condition. 

My mom liked to scrapbook and I picked up her artsy tendencies. I couldn't draw, but I liked the feeling of it, so I used stencils to create pictures. I mostly just took someone's name, whether it be a character or a real person, and put it in the middle of a regular piece of white paper. Then I would draw symbols in the corners of the paper, usually their age at the time and something else about them. Lastly, I would put four hearts in the leftover space and randomly place small circles there as well. Once all of the stencil work was done, I would use markers to color everything in. 

(A/N- I actually do this and I was thinking about making a book to put them all in. Maybe take requests as well. What do ya think?) 

In the same box, I also found all of my art supplies. My markers, stencils, ruler, and pencils. Last but not least, my POP! Figures were in a small box. 

The rest of the stuff was separated between the trash and donate boxes, based on whether or not we thought other people would want it. 

Now that we had stock of what I had, Jensen was going to take me shopping like he had said he would. 

Before we left I changed into something more suited to being in public. 

Once we were ready, we hopped into the car. 

First, we went to a store to buy paint for the wall. After looking through a lot of colors I decided on using my favorite color to paint the walls. A shade of yellow. When I pulled the shade I wanted of off the shelf, Jensen looked surprised. It was actually pretty hilarious. 

"Why yellow?" he asked. 

"It's my favorite color." 

"Really? You're the first person I've met who's favorite color is yellow." 

(A/N- What's your favorite color? Do you know anyone whose favorite is yellow?) 

"I hear that a lot." 

After paying for the paint and anything else we might need to paint the room, we put it in the trunk and headed to a furniture store. 

I picked out the cheapest bed frame that I could find in black. It was just a simple wood frame with a headboard. The frame touched the floor so there was no space for stuff underneath of the bed. Jensen picked out a mattress for me and I picked out a black comforter and it came with two pillow cases and sheets. I also grabbed two pillows. 

Then we checked out the bedside tables. I decided on a small one that was black. It had a simple drawer and beneath that was rest was a cabinet. I grabbed out a small touch lamp to put on it and then we looked at shelves. 

 I chose a tan bookshelf that was made of wood but it was not already built, so we were gonna build it ourselves. I also picked out a couple of wall shelves for knick knack and pictures. 

I needed a dresser and as soon as I saw one, I knew I needed it. There was a tall dresser that was painted in yellow with black handles. 

Lastly, I wanted a desk. I decided on a tan desk that was a lighter shade than the bookshelf. It was small, but I didn't need anything bigger. There was the usual hole for a chair to go in, beside the hole there were three drawers and above the hole was another small drawer. 

To go with the desk, I had to get a computer chair so I chose the most simple one they had. It was a black fabric and it didn't even have arm rests. 

Jensen asked me if I wanted a TV, but I told him that I had my laptop and what we were already getting was far too much. 

With everything picked out, someone rang all of it up. I immediately cringed at the outrageous price of everything together, but Jensen just swiped a card like it was nothing. 

"Don't worry about prices. This is nothing," he said. 

I still felt bad but knew he was right, so I shyly nodded. 

I wasn't used to all of this, it was different. I had always needed to check prices. I had barely been able to buy a twenty dollar pair of jeans. Most of my clothes were from Walmart's clearance sections. 

The store's manager told us that when we were ready we could just call and have everything delivered to the house. They would also help us bring it in. 

Since this store was strictly furniture, we headed to one last store to buy all of the small decoration like things I wanted.

To Be Continued...

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