Downtown Idea

44. New Houses

You know that feeling you get on Christmas Morning, no matter your age. That's the feeling that I get every time I wake up in my stunning new Los Angeles house. Of course I didn't just let Ashton buy me a house.

"You realize that this is too much." I said putting a box on the table. Ashton rolled his eyes and shook his head.

"But it's not." He said. He put a pot of coffee on. We both knew this was gonna be a long night. I was glad he had given up on the single-serve coffee maker thing. I half expected me to see one when he lead me in the kitchen. Imagine my delight when there was a cute green coffee maker on the counter.

"I'm gonna have to give you a key or something." I said shaking my head as I pulled some books out of the box. It was a little bothersome at the lack of things that I have left after two moves. I was glad there was furniture when I got the house too. But I also felt worse when I remembered how much money furniture costs.

"I already have a key." He laughed. I stopped what I was doing a frowned.

"Really?" I asked, "Wow, then I don't have to get you anything." I shrugged. He put a mug on the counter and stared at me.

"Oh?" he asked casually. He slowly walked towards me. After a minute of him literally chasing me around my house he caught me around the waist. He had been shouting that he was going to "bite my face" if he caught me. And he wasn't lying. Biting lead to kissing, and nothing more happened because my phone started ringing, "I will break your phone." He said. I rolled my eyes and answered it.

"Hey, Zoe, so Bean Boy is coming and once I'm dropped at the hospital Dad is gonna drop the kids at yours. That's just the three. We'll send updates. Thanks." It was Reece. At least she said Hi now.

"Okay, so the kids are staying here during the birthing apparently." I said sighing. Ashton made a face.

"All three?" He asked. I nodded. "I'll hide the breakables." He said getting up. I nodded and looked in my fridge.

"Okay but what do kids eat?" I asked, "I don't know how to cook and I ran out of nuggets yesterday when we had that contest." I heard him yell a 'drat' loudly from the other room. I rolled my eyes again and walked into the spare bedrooms. I shook my head some more as I tried to make them feel homey. The only bedroom that's set up is mine because both of my siblings live in LA so I don't have a room for each of them like I used to.

After about 20 minutes I heard the door open. It was Dad with the Jack, Chloe, and Lola. Immediately Jack sat down on the couch and started play with his phone, Chloe sat down next to him with her arms cross and Lola was turning on the TV. I glanced at Ashton and sighed.

"Hey, guys, wanna play a game?" He asked walking slowly toward them. Jack looked up and glared.

"We aren't children." He said, "Well. I'm not a child." He glanced back and forth between his sisters on either side of him.

"What's up guys." I said sitting down and watching cartoons with them. I looked up at Ashton and gestured for him to sit down.

"Nothing." Lola said putting the remote on the coffee table. She curled up against me making me literally the most happy person in the room. I was afraid she didn't like me anymore like she used to. It had really been so long.

"Did you guys realize you're about to be Aunts and Uncle?" I asked, "Because it's pretty crazy. Most people aren't younger than 12." I chuckled.

"Thirteen." Jack grumbled, "do you have any snacks?" He asked. He wasn't very pleasant. I shrugged.

"Help yourself." I knew I didn't have much but I also knew that he was always a hungry boy. We McClaggen's always were big eaters. He got up and walked into the kitchen. I didn't really hear from him after a while.