Two For One

Chapter 18

Things were moving at a very fast pace, but no one was particularly complaining.

Qrow, Ruby, and Yang all returned to the realtor's office the Monday after they had gone to tour homes. They were able to sign a lease for the house that they had picked out that same day, and were told by their new landlord they could start moving in on Friday.

It was a super fast turnaround, way faster than any of them could have ever imagined, but they were trying to go with it and keep up for as long as they could. They were technically still paying rent until the end of the month in their old apartment, but no one was particularly worried about losing that money anymore. They spent the week packing, looking at furniture online, and, in Yang's case, making sure she could get the whole weekend off so she could move. She was down to only working at the diner now, so it hadn't been too difficult, but it did end up being a week-long task.

When Friday morning finally rolled around, everyone was up bright and early. The Belladonnas arrived only an hour after Yang, Ruby, and Qrow had gotten up, armed with coffee and donuts for breakfast. Once they had all inhaled their food and downed their drinks, everyone set off to work on getting things moved.

Most of their furniture ended up on the curb- the futon, table and chairs, and crappy TV stand would be gone by the evening from whoever stopped to take them. The landlord had bought the old dorm furniture they used in the bedrooms from the girls, hoping that it would make the place a bit more marketable to new tenants.

Most of the belongings that got packed up into the Belladonnas' van were smaller items- clothing, photo albums, cups, plates, small kitchen appliances, cat supplies, and the decor that had once filled Ruby's bedroom, which had easily been the most decorated room in the apartment. The largest thing they were bringing with them to the new house was the TV, which wasn't even all that big to begin with.

Moving their belongings over to the new house was the easy part, which only took the morning on Friday. The rest of their weekend would be spent going between the house and furniture stores, bringing new furniture into their house, setting it up, and slowly unpacking the smaller items as the furniture that they could be stored in came in.

They had a list of items in mind- things that had to be bought in a certain order. Beds came first, both frames and mattresses. Those took up the bulk of the afternoon, as putting the frames together and moving the mattresses in took far longer than they had expected. They only had enough time to pick up some other bedroom furniture, like bedside tables and dressers, before the sun began to go down and they decided to call it quits for the day.

The combined families sat around in the empty kitchen, some on the floor, and the three younger girls sitting on the countertops. Ruby rested her head against a cabinet, leaning back gently. Yang rested her head on Blake's shoulder, the pair holding hands as they sat next to each other.

Qrow hung up his scroll with a smile, pushing it back into his pocket. "The pizza will be here in twenty."

"Oum, it is so nice to be on the other end of a pizza call for once," Yang said with a laugh. "Never again."

"That's right," Blake replied, squeezing her hand softly. "Never again."

"Thanks again for helping us today," Qrow said, looking over at the Kali and Ghira, the former resting in the arms of the latter. "And tomorrow too," he added a moment later.

Ghira smiled. "It's not a problem. We're more than happy to help."

"I'm very glad to see the three of you out of that tiny apartment," Kali added, leaning further back into her husband's arms. "Blake said it was small, but I didn't realize the entire thing was pretty much the size of our living room."