Unexpectedly

Officially Unpacking

I wake up the sun in my view. I look at the time to see that it's half past nine. "Shit!" I think as I run to get ready. I hope in the shower and decide against washing my hair to cut time. I get out and quickly dress, I decide upon exercise pants and a shirt. I pull hair my into a ponytail and apply mascara. I finish at five of and grab a granola bar.

I hear a knock on my door and smile, I greet Robin, "Good morning!"

"Good morning m'lady, I am at your service." He smiles and shows his dimples. He walks in and takes a big look around, "Where are we to start?"

"I guess we're can start in the living room. That's gonna take the longest, and I'd rather get that over with." I say leading him to the room.

"You have nothing unpacked in here?" He asks.

"Only the top priority stuff is." I shrug.

"Only the couch? How much work did you get done with Emma?" He laughs.

"Uh, we unpacked most of my bedroom stuff, and went shopping for a new bed and sheets." I say.

"So you guys went shopping when you should've been unpacking?"

"It was her idea!" I blame Emma and giggle a little.

"How much do we have to unpack?" He questions.

"The living room and kitchen, then I have to put together the coffee table and bed frame. Also, .you two shelves for books. I need to finish unpacking the rest of my clothes."

"How long have you been living here?" He adds.

"Two and a half months." I say with shame.

"Jesus Regina. How come this hasn't been done?"

"I didn't have the time. I've been focusing on work." I say walking over to one of many boxes.

"Work doesn't take up that much time." He says opening up another box that's filled with who knows what. "Why did you have to move?"

"It's his house. He didn't want to add me on the papers." I say while looking through the box. "This belongs in my room." I note and take it there.

I come back and see him hanging my decor.  "Might as well start with the fun stuff." He says which make me smile. After hanging the decor, we start assembling my book shelves.

"These instructions are confusing!" I whine and throw the booklet down.

"Here, let me see." He says, I pick it up and hand it to him. It gets working on it and puts me on handing him screws duty.

Two hours into the living room, it finally looks like someone lives here. We made piles of stuff to donate that was useless for me.
"I'm getting hungry." I say sitting on to the couch, "I'm ordering pizza." I grab my phone off of my new coffee table, "What do you want?" I ask Robin.

"Pepperoni pizza please." He smiles, "I'm going to use the restroom, I'll be right back." I nod and call the pizza place and put our order in.

Robin walks back in, "Do you wanna start the kitchen while waiting for the pizza?"

"Yeah." We walk into the kitchen.

"It's... really small." He says

"It is." I agree.

"Are these boxes everything for your kitchen?" He points to the boxes on the counter.

"Yep. I didn't take all the kitchenware. I left him most of it." I shrug opening a box filled with cups and mugs. I start putting them into a cupboard next to where Robin is placing plates.

"Pizza!" Robin says coming back into the one kitchen. 

"Why couldn't I pay for the pizza?" I say putting my hands on my hips.

"Because I wanted to." He smiles and sticks his tongue out at me.

"But your helping unpack, it could've been a small way to say thank you." I huff playfully.

"Just a thank you would suffice." He walks up to me and pulls me in.

"Thank you." I smile and peck his lips.

"One more." He smiles and pulls me into a deeper kiss that I find my self enjoying a little too much. God, I feel like a teenager again.

"Alright Sparky, I'm hungry." I say leaving his arms and grabbing a slice of pizza. He let's out a silent  laugh and gets himself pizza too.

"What would you like to drink?" I ask opening the fridge.

"Anything is fine."

"Good, cause all I have is the rest of this wine." I smile grabbing it.

"Wine and pizza, great combination."  He says.

"I know right?" I grab glasses and pour us some. "I really need to hit the store later today." I hate being adulting.

"I know how you feel." We eat out pizza in silence and get back to working on the kitchen. 

"We are almost done! WHOOP WHOOP!" Robin cheers. I laugh at his child like manner.

"We are. Thank you again, for helping." I smile.

"You're welcome lovely, let's go put your bed frame together and then we can get you to the grocery store." He smiles and wraps an arm around my shoulders. We walk into my bedroom. 

"This is a nice room. You and Emma did a good job." He says.

"Yeah, she's a good help most the time.

"It sucks that you had to get a new bed."

"Yeah, but I got to choose what I wanted." I smile.

"That's a plus." Once again he starts to put it together while I hand him the parts.

"You make it look so easy. If I was doing it, it'd take hours to do." I say.

"Haha, maybe not hours. You'd get it in maybe an hour and half, with your persistence." He looks at me and gives a dorky smile.

"You're too cute." I say.

"Why thank you, m'lady." He kisses my cheek and we put the bed onto the frame.

"I love this bed!" I say and lay down on it, "So comfortable! Here come try it out." I pull him onto the bed.

"Yes, it is very nice." He agrees, "Ready for the store?"

"No, I wanna take a nap. I'm sleepy." I say grabbing my blanket.

"Alright, I'll let you be." He starts to get up but I grab his hand.

"Can you stay a little while?" I ask quietly.

"Yeah." He crawls under the blanket and wraps me into his arms. I nuzzle into his chest and fall asleep in his embrace. He's so warm and comforting. I feel secure in his arms. I really like Robin, he has a big heart and a lot of passion. He's expressive and honest. He looks at the world different than most and I admire his thinking. Falling asleep in his arms feels natural, it feels like it's supposed to happen.