Dangerous feelings

Chapter 24

"Seriously, Noah could have written better instructions than whoever made this heap of shit!" Emily groaned as she threw the screwdriver she had been holding across the room before pouting and crossing her arms like a child.

"Even Hanna could have" Spencer muttered under her breath in agreement as she put her own screwdriver down beside her.

"Hanna is right here! And she is also only two pages away from completing the chest of drawers!" Hanna replied as she stuck her tongue out at the struggling brunettes. "And by herself might she add"

"Stop talking in third person, we get it!" Spencer replied as she flipped frustratedly through the pages of the instruction book she had on her lap.

Emily had wanted to finish the nursery before Alison returned home however it was looking less likely with every piece of equipment that was being thrown across the room in anger. Aria had taken Alison and Noah out for lunch in Philadelphia as a distraction but they were quickly running out of time and as Hanna had pointed out, she was the only one close to completing her piece of furniture.

Spencer and Emily were both building a crib each whilst Hanna was building a chest of drawers and they still had another set of drawers, the changing table and rocking chairs to build. With them expecting twins they needed two of everything and having only three of them to build it all was definitely a struggle. Emily had finished painting the room in a cream colour with a light grey feature wall earlier in the week but the room was far from being finished.

All the items could have been delivered ready built but Emily had decided that she needed to be the one to build everything as a way of proving she could provide for her future girls. So here they were trying to figure out the instructions for the flat pack furniture that had arrived yesterday afternoon but not making any real headway. The moment the delivery driver had pulled away Emily had phoned up her friends and arranged for them to help her out the next day. They had all been more than happy to lend a hand and all three of them had been very present in Emily, Alison and Noah's lives recently, more than usual that is.

"I'm taking a break from this" Emily said with a huff and she walked over to the set of curtains Alison had purchased and began to put the hooks on them ready to hang.

Although she was taking a break from building the crib she couldn't walk away from the room completely, there was so much to do. After hanging the curtains Emily realised that everything else that was left to do depended on the furniture being built, the bedding and accessories could only be placed once that was complete.

"Done! Now move over bitches" Hanna yelled triumphantly before pushing Spencer to the side and taking her place in front of the instruction manual for one of the cribs.

Two hours later and a phone call to Aria to delay Alison further and Emily, Spencer and Hanna collapsed in a heap together in the centre of the nursery. They breathed out sighs of relief as they took in all of their hard work. With Hanna's direction and surprising skill at building flatpack the three of them had managed to work together on the last items and get them finished with a lot more ease than previously.

The bedding was fitted and placed in the cribs, there were abc bricks on top of one of the dressing units and two pink teddies on top of the other. The dressing units each had two photo frames on them as well, one containing the individual twins sonogram and one that was empty, awaiting a photo once the twins were born. Two children's mobiles hung above each of the cribs ready to help the babies peacefully drift off to sleep when they arrived. The only thing left to do was to hang the girls names spelt out with wooden letters on the wall above either crib but that wouldn't be happening until Alison and Emily actually decided on the girls names.