Travel || b.s. {ON HOLD}

Two: Arriving

"Ella"

"Ella"

"Ella!"

"ELLA BROOKE HILL"

I finally zoned back into my mum when she used my full name, she only ever did that when she was getting angry and I wanted to avoid an argument with my mother as much as possible.

I had been in the car for 2 long, painful hours with my mum, dad, my twin sister Tammy and my 14 year old brother Jasper, although after the first 10 minutes I had put my earphones in and started listening to music, or as my mum calls it 'annoying unwanted noise'.

"Yes mum?"

"We're stopping for petrol, we'll be there in around an hour and a half"

"Okay mum, i'm looking forward to seeing the new house'"

We used to live in Liverpool to be nearer my dads parents, but they passed away a few years back, so now we, meaning my parents, had decided to move to where my mums parents live in Birmingham.

I love my grandparents and everything, but what family moves house and starts their life all over again just to see 2 people.

After an hour and a half we finally reached our new house, it was in a friendly looking area and the house itself looking quite cozy and inviting, the garden was full of colourful flowers and old rusty gnomes, there was a rocky path that led up to the black door and a little arch that sloped slightly to the left.

As we all walked inside all you could hear was little gasps from various family members as they saw the view that we now called our home.

The walls were painted a light blue colour and all of the furniture was pure white, the stairs were wooden with a thin red carpet down the middle, with paintings of different famous landmarks from around the world that were in the hallway. I walked into the room to the left of me to discover a large living area. In the middle of the room, there was a glass coffee table that had a small note that read 'Welcome' , as well as two large brown leather sofas, either side of the coffee table and a small brown leather sofa facing the large plasma screen tv that hung on the wall. Behind the left sofa, there was a wide window, which let in the majority of the light. After I browsed the enormous living area, I walked back into the hallway, and through the door opposite me, which took me into a games room, which consisted of a pool table, a huge 'u' shaped sofa, another plasma screen tv and a stand which had cute little clay ornaments, sweet smelling candles, dvds and several books on it. Also downstairs, there was a office, downstairs toilet and the kitchen.

After I had finished exploring the downstairs of the house, I slowly wondered upstairs where I found 4 bedrooms, which my dad had told me would soon belong to my parents, brother, sister and the spare room. Also, there was a large clean bathroom.

"Dad, where am I supposed to be sleeping?" I asked, curious.

"Try the next floor, love" He replied with a goofy smile plastered on his face.

I quickly sprinted to the next floor and gawped around the bedroom in awe.

The walls were a baby pink, although there was one black feature wall that had cream and pink vines and flowers running along it. In the middle of the feature wall there was a giant double bed and either side of the bed there were two small bedside tables which each had a plain cream lamp and three drawers. At the end of the grand bed was a cream love-seat paired with baby pink cushions. Across from the love-seat was a flat screen tv, held by a glass cabinet which already had all of my favourite dvds stacked on the bottom shelf. At the opposite side of the stairs were two doors, as I walked into the first door I discovered it was an en suite bathroom with a hot tub style bath in the right hand corner. A few minutes later I walked out of the first door and into the second, wondering what else I could possibly need in my perfect new bedroom. As I walked in, my eyes widened.....