Blackthorne, Gallagher & Royal?

Chapter 22 - Moving

Rebecca's POV

So today is moving day for the platoon. It is going to be a long day with all we have to get accomplished, but by the end of the day I will no longer be in a building on my own. No more having to have one of the boys walk me back as they are worried that one of the other units is going to mess with me just to prove the point that I should not be on this compound. Life is also going to get more complicated as I will be in the same space as 12 guys, this is going to be interesting, especially this first week as we figure out a rhythm as to how things are going to work.

At this point I should probably get moving and ready for the day as the guys will be here any second now so that we can get started on this move. I hope Ethan was able to find me a laundry basket otherwise this move is going to be interesting. I don't have that many things at this point, but I have enough to make this interesting without something to carry more than an armload at a time. Most of my stuff is clothes and stuff for my dance classes like shoes and hair stuff, so it is small but hard to carry a lot of it at a time.

Once I am done getting dressed and ready for the day, there is a knock on the door. I go to open it and find four of my unit mates – Grant, Chris, Liam, and Andrew – outside ready to start helping me move.

"Morning Rebecca," Grant greets me. "Ethan said to give this to you, that you would know what to do with it."

"Thanks Grant. That is exactly what I needed. Let's get this packed up and moved so that we can get on to all you guys' stuff," I reply.

All the boys enter my room with their laundry baskets and we get to work packing my stuff up so that it can be moved.

Once everything is packed up, Liam asks me if we need to move the bed as well. I tell him that I think that we do but we should get my stuff moved first as we can always just move one of the extra bunks from the main room into my space for the night and that getting their stuff moved is more important. With that everyone grabs a laundry basket and we take it to the new building.

As we are walking, we get some strange looks but other than that we are left alone to get our work done. When we get to the building, some of the other boys are in the space getting their stuff moved and claiming space for themselves. With all the movement it is a little harder to get my stuff to my room. Once I get into my room, I notice that there are 2 bunkbeds and 4 chests along the far wall of my room as well as a queen size bed, desk, and dresser set already set up in the space for me to use with a note on top of the desk that says, "Enjoy the new furniture. You can rearrange the room however you would like, but the bunkbeds and chests must stay in the room."

"So, Rebecca, where would you like us to put your stuff?" Andrew asks me. "We can rearrange the room right now or we can leave everything in the laundry baskets and you can move the furniture later."

"If it is okay with all of you, I think I know how I want all of the furniture arranged."

The boys all nod that we can move the furniture now so I direct them to leave the bunkbeds on the opposite side of the room in the corner and have them move the bed, desk, and dresser to the other side of the room, and the door, so that if there ever is someone staying with me they are on the other side of the room and I will not have to interact with them if I don't want to.

After we get my furniture moved to where I want it, we leave my stuff on my bed to put away later and go to help the other boys get their stuff moved in.

It takes the rest of the day, but we get everyone's stuff moved into the new building, all that is left is to get everything organized how we want it. Because it took all day to get moved in, we only have tomorrow to get used to how things are now and to get a plan set up for when visitor come. I'm almost positive that throughout the day while they were moving stuff Zach and Ethan were thinking of ideas for keeping me safe and hidden from visitors, and that tomorrow will go just fine.