Reaching for Happiness

Chapter 25

Tuesday morning came pretty quickly. Me and Aston had been looking online at houses, and there were quite a few we were looking at over the next three days. Aston was staying here for the next few days, to make things easier.

'Ast.. Are you ready?' I asked, walking up to my bedroom.

'Nearly!' I heard him shout back. I pushed open my door to see him stood in his boxers, playing with his hair in front of the mirror.

'Ast, come on! We're leaving in five minutes! You need to get dressed!' I told him.

'I know you prefer me dressed like this' he grinned.

'You're right, I do, but you can't go out in public like that' I giggled, before heading back downstairs. He was downstairs just in time, so we headed off to the first house we were looking at.

As we pulled up outside the house, a woman came outside to greet us.

'Mr Merrygold?' she asked Aston.

'Yes, that's me' he smiled

'Pleasure to meet you. I'm Georgina, and I'm going to be showing you around this house today, and the future houses you will be looking at over the next few days' she smiled.

'Nice to meet you Georgina. But please, call me Aston. This is my girlfriend Chloe' he smiled.

'Nice to meet you too' she said. She escorted us into the house, and started explaining about all the rooms and about how they were designed. I couldn't care less though, as long as they looked nice, they were fine. This house was nice, but I couldn't imagine myself living here.

We looked at two more houses that day, five on Wednesday, and we had four to look at on Thursday. After we'd looked at the third house on Thursday, I thought we'd never end up finding a perfect place to live. As we pulled up outside the final house, my jaw dropped. The house was beautiful. It was a Tudor style house, and brand new. It was located on a quiet road where there would be no disturbances. There were five large bedrooms, a huge kitchen, dining room and lounge, three bathrooms, a study, a MASSIVE garden and a double garage. It was perfect. After we looked round, I loved it even more. I don't know why we would need five bedrooms, right now, anyway.. but I could just imagine me and Aston living here as old people, married with little grandchildren running round in the garden. I wasn't listening to what Georgina was saying, but my ears pricked up when she told us the price. My jaw dropped, again.

'Well, I love it. And I can tell you do too Chloe' he smiled at me.

'Yeah, I do, but we couldn't afford that!'

'Chloe, I'm in the biggest boyband on the UK.. I can afford this, trust me'

'But we're going halves with this. No way am I letting you pay for anymore than 50%'

'Chloe, chill! If you're really that bothered about paying half, pay me back some other time'

'Are you sure?'

'Of course I am' he smiled.

'Okay then..'

'I'll just go get some forms for you to sign, then once you have a check for it, this place is officially yours' Georgina smiled.

'Okay' Aston smiled back. We got back in the car, and drove home. I was buzzing about this.. The house was perfect. Amazing. I couldn't believe it.