From Ashes We Rise

Chapter Seven

      The girls walked in and William followed, they both stopped and looked around. William smiled and looked towards them.

      "Do you like it?" He asks the girls. Margaret nods her head happily.

      "We love it!" Gemma smiles and hugs William.

      "I've never had an actual home before." Margaret states and joins there hug, soon enough it was just one big, happy, group hug.

      Eventually they all break contact and William gives them a tour of the house. He started off by showing them the kitchen that had an island and a small pantry with other obvious kitchen things, Then they went to the living room which was a fair size and had a large couch with a TV on the wall and casual decorations here and there, Next he showed the girls where the down stairs bathroom was, it was cozy. Not to big and not to small. William then led the girls to a small room, it was his office that he did taxes, paid bills, etc... Next was the upstairs. There was three doors. The girls guessed that one was a bathroom and the other two were bedrooms, they guessed correctly. William pointed to one door.

      "That's my room, don't go in there unless given permission or asked to." He said, both girls nodded understanding the situation.

      William then took them to another door, it was the bathroom. This bathroom was bigger than the one downstairs, it had a Jacuzzi tub, a double sink, a toilet (obviously), a huge mirror, and finally just some towels hanging up.

      "This is the master bathroom."

      "Woah." Margaret says. Gemma knew that her friend would be spending a lot of time in here.

      William walked to the last door in the hallway, both girls following suit. He opened the door slowly. In the room stood two beds against different sides of the wall, two dressers, a vanity mirror, a giant circle carpet in the middle of the floor, and another door leading somewhere, next to that door was a closet. The girls stood there in shock.

      "This-" He pauses for affect. "Is your room." William finishes. Margaret's jaw dropped.

      'How does a bartenders job pay for all this?' Gemma asks in her head. Margaret slapped her arm indicating to be grateful, which she was. All of them walked into the room. Margaret and Gemma each ran to one side of the room claiming a bed. William chuckled.

      "Of course you two will get to go shopping for room decor and clothes. Spice up your living style, put a little poof into it." William says using funny hand motions when saying 'Spice' and 'Poof'.

      "Did you just say Spice?" Margaret asks laughing.

      "And poof?" Gemma asks with tears forming in her eyes from all the laughing.

      "Yeah. I guess I did." William starts to laugh with them. After a few minutes of dying everyone calmed down.

      "I'll be down stairs making dinner if you two need anything you'll know where I'll be." William smiled and left the room and walked down the stairs towards the kitchen. The girls look at each other.

      "He does realize we have nothing to put away right?" Margaret asks chuckling slightly. Gemma looks at her and they both start laughing again. Everything the girls had was lost in the fire. Gemma walks over to her bed and sits on the edge of the mattress smoothing her hand over the soft covers and gazing at the bedside table and the different wood designs that are on it. Gemma soon gets pulled out of her thoughts when she sees a pillow hurdling towards her. She quickly shoots her arms out and closes her eyes shut preparing for impact but it never comes.

      Opening one eye she gives the frozen pillow a questioning look. 'Oh yeah.' Gemma thinks to herself smirking. Margaret sits on her own bed waiting to see what Gemma will do. Gemma raises one hand and waves it in a forward motion, soon enough the pillow is flying back towards Margaret and hits her straight in the face. Margaret flies backwards onto her bed and groans.

      "Ow... what was with that force?" Margaret mumbles throwing the pillow of her body.

      "I don't know, I guess I still don't know the full strength of this 'power' yet." Gemma answers truthfully. Margaret nods but is thrown off by her stomach making an non-human noise. She looks down at her stomach and grimaces.

      "Wow. was that you?" Gemma asks bewildered.

      "I- uh I guess so.." Margaret makes a face as if she's debating all her life decisions. Gemma laughs and looks at her friend then at the door. She sniffs the air and smells something she has never smelled before.

      "Do you wanna go see what William is making for dinner? I can smell it and it smells amazing." Margaret could swear she saw drool coming from Gemma's mouth and smiled.

      "Yeah sure." Margaret says and starts to get up, Gemma following her actions and walking towards their door. The two girls walk down the hallway and make their way to the top of the stairs. Margaret starts to carefully walk down them knowing that she herself is a very clumsy person. Gemma on the other hand heaved herself onto the railing of the stairs placing one leg on each and slid herself down to the bottom of the stairs.

      Margaret just stands on the middle of the staircase with her jaw dropped.

      "You are just full of surprises." She shakes her head and finishes the trip downstairs. The two girls find the way to the kitchen and stand by the island pulling out a chair and they each sit down. William hears them sit down and turns to face them.

      "Well hello there girls." He smiles.

      "Hello." Margaret and Gemma answer at the same time. They both start to giggle quietly. 'That wasn't creepy at all...' William thinks to himself.

     "I'm almost done making dinner, we're having meatloaf." William says walking to the oven and opening it to reveal a beautiful looking piece of meat. He puts on some oven mitts and takes the loaf out of the oven placing it on the counter top.  You could see the steam coming from the meat.

       "It looks so good." Gemma drools.

       "And it tastes even better." William adds.

      William goes to the cupboard and grabs three plates placing one in front of each girl and setting his aside. He then cuts the loaf and places a piece on each plate.

~ Time Skip after dinner ~

      Margaret gets up and walks over to the sink rinsing her plate off and setting it into the dishwasher. Gemma and William had already made there way to the living room to set up a movie. After Margret was finished up in the kitchen she joined the other two in the living room.

      "What are we watching?" Margaret asks plopping herself down on the couch.

      "This movie about a monkey ape thing that is actually really smart and decides to lead other monkey ape things into war with the humans." Gemma says fully fascinated in the movie.

      "Sounds stupid.. I'm into it!" Margaret smiles. Gemma looks over at William in his chair and sees that he's already asleep.

      A couple hours have gone by and Gemma had fallen asleep but Margaret was watching a movie called "Freaky Friday." To her it instantly became one of her favorite movies. Margaret soon started to snuggle deeper into the warmth of a blanket she grabbed off the back of the couch not to long ago. She closes her eyes and slowly drifts off into a deep sleep.