Reinvent Love

Color meets the gray scale

Addy and I walked down the sidewalk with me holding two laundry bags and her with two laundry bins. Since we had to leave for a week to go to her family's house laundry needed to be done. All the clothes from our previous trip and anything else, so basically about half the clothes we owned. When going to college, you really can only bring about 3 or 4 weeks worth of clothing.

We got to the laundry mat and put our clothes in the washer. Many many quarters later and it turned on. I really wish you could pay with paper money rather than spending 10 minutes inserting what felt like 100 coins.

"Ok wanna go back to the apartment and come back here in 30 minutes or so?" Addy said, raising her voice over the multiple washers running.

"Adeline, we are staying here for the 30 minute duration of the washer and 30 minute duration of the dryer because once I saw some kid open a washer that wasn't done, take a singular sock, and then leave. I don't if it was his clothes or not but I rather not have my socks stolen" I said very seriously.

Addy started to laugh, the rewarding sound muffled by the loud machines. " Ok we're staying here" She said.

" Thank you" I said.

" So what do you want to talk about?" She asked.

" Um I don't know, I guess tell me a bit about your family, since i'll be with them for a week." I said, while speaking I made my way over to the bench and Addy joined me.

" Well, you heard about Emma, by the way with her it's either like powerade is in her bloodstream or like she got in to the medicine cabinet and chugged nyquil," She said. I laughed quietly and couldn't even hear myself.

" My parents are Lisa and James, my mom is very friendly and will start conversing over towels with you somehow, and my dad will probably just say hi and ask you about your entire life story" She explained. Some other person walked in and got their laundry. I watched them out of the corner of my eye.

" Then there's my cousins, oh boy my cousins. I'm one of the oldest out of all of mine so quite a few elementary kids will be running around christmas morning. There's Robin, he's my favorite, he's 7. Then We have his brother Rori who's 5. Those are my aunt Jodi's kids, She's my Dad's sister and her husband's name is David. Then there's Demi, short for Demitri, She's 12 I think and has twin siblings Erin and Gemini who we can Gemi for short who are both 9. They're my aunt Jadyn's kids and she has her wife Julie. They're my favorite aunts 'cause duh gay. Hm who else, oh there's Chase and Eric, they're brothers and somewhere close to may age. Like, 16 or 17, somewhere around there. I think that's it, oh and they're my mom's brothers kids. His wife is Ashley. Now that's it." Addy ranted on.

"Wow" I responded. There was a moment of silence before I got up and put the clothes that were in the washer into a dryer. The dimly lit room messed with your eyes making everything look like a hazy shade of yellow. It was quite a depressing place. Dirt was in the crevices between the tiles and puddles were all around. The lights flickered once in awhile. Music played quietly in the background.Untouched claw machines with cheap looking toys were placed against the wall in a small room to the side. After doing so I joined Addy back on the bench. She tapped her foot with her legs somewhat spread out but not drastically. I could tell she was kinda bored or something was on her mind. Her head rested upon her hands as she bounced up and down.

"Something on your mind?" I asked her.

"Yes" She said. Her tone seemed uneasy.

"What is it?" I asked her.

"If i'm going to be quite honest, I really love you, like, really a lot. And the farthest we've gone is like kissing and such.And I really feel like I want to be on a more intimate level with you but at the same time I don't. I'm really conflicted and whenever I think the time is right I feel weird about going about such actions because it's never been brought up before. I don't know if it's too soon or it's been too long or what. I just really freakin love you" She said quickly. She sighed heavily and retreated into herself.