What Happens In Rome.... [Lgbt] [✔]

Chapter 30

Yunlan: "This is nice, don't you think?"

Lisa: "(There are so many windows, there will be sun in every room.)"

Qiqi: "(True, is very beautiful.)"

Wei: "Isn't it too far away from work? We don't have a car."

Yunlan: "We could get one, or even better we could get two much cheaper bicycles and leave everyone behind when they'll be stuck in traffic."

Lisa: "(There are two large bedrooms and a huge living-room, it will be very comfortable.)"

Qiqi: "(How is kitchen?)"

The girls exchanged a look and disappeared in the kitchen. Wei's eyes followed them. "Where are they going?"

Yunlan: "In the kitchen. If it's as good as the rest, they'll sign immediately."

Wei laughed: "Can we afford it?"

Yunlan: "I couldn't if I was alone, but the four of us can, yes."

Wei: "Then I think we have found our new home."

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That week they all gave notice that they were leaving their current apartments and signed for the new one.

The news spread quickly to Wei's hometown, but this time Mrs. Shen knew how to answer the curious questions of the various shopkeepers because Wei had told her first.

His father said that he was proud his son was making a good life for himself, and that he hoped 'the other couple' didn't cause him trouble. Wei assured him that they were all good friends.

His mother had a strange look in her eyes whenever Yunlan appeared in video call and always acted extremely politely to him, but she kept calling Qiqi 'daughter'.

Qiqi didn't call home. She wasn't ready, she said.

Yunlan sent a long formal paper letter to his parents asking for their blessings. They lived on the other side of China and there was no way they could have any interactions with Wei's parents, so he told them the truth about Wei.

He received an answer two months later, although the Chinese stamp was dated six weeks earlier. They gave him their blessings glad that he had found his own path.

They were quite relieved that he couldn't see their faces when they received his letter because they didn't know how to deal with it at first, but then they talked a lot about it.
They had always been worried about their reckless son, in the way all parents do, and they decided that they were most of all relieved that he was doing well and seemed to be happy.

Moving to the new apartment took longer than they thought. Wei and Yunlan put all their stuff in one bedroom, Qiqi and Lisa put theirs in the other one.

Since there was too much stuff, they decided that they could keep in the living-room the things that could be used by everyone, like books, movies, or Lisa's aerobics videos.

The bathroom became a wild assortment of makeup and shaving products. There were four different kinds of perfumes and four different kinds of shower gel (but this number quickly dropped to two).

They even had a white towel for Qiqi, a pink one for Lisa, a blue one for Yunlan and a green one for Wei.

They immediately bought four bicycles that would be used to go to work. They spent the first week finding the right place for all their stuff, then they started thinking about the rest.

Qiqi wanted more kitchen utensils, Yunlan wanted a tv but Wei won insisting they needed a big couch first.

In the next weeks they put their money together to fill their house with everything they needed.