Serendipity

c h a p t e r t w o

I get into the building, my hands are sweating, I'm sweating.

After all the controls I start heading to the place where the shops are.

There's a woman with a piece of paper with the name "Catherine" written on it.

"She really took a lot of time to do it." I mutter so no one can hear me.

I start walking straight to where she is standing with the paper. She looks young, well, she is 40 but she looks younger then my mother and my mother is 35. She had me when she was 18 and my father was 20. Sarah, my aunt has blonde hair and green eyes she's really pretty. Her clothes are dirty, there's dry paint on her shirt, ¿Did she succeed as an artist? It could be. Suddenly she looks at me in the eyes and starts walking so I stop walking.

She stops in front of me and I can see tears in her eyes. She's dramatic as fuck.

"Catherine, I missed you. Come here." She says with a wide smile and opening her arms. I don't know if I should hug her, I don't like people touching me neither touching people. But I do an effort and hug her.

I know she's probably thinking something like where's the happy Catherine, and I understand because I haven't smile since the little kid left. But even if she thinks so she doesn't say anything. We pull apart but she's grabbing my arms still. She looks at me like she's analyzing me.

"You've grown a lot, Catherine! And that hair looks beautiful, well, you look beautiful!" she says admiring me.

"Thank you, Sarah. You look good too."

"Now let's go we have to go home before the dark wraps us. Give me the bag."

I give her the bag and start following her.

We arrive at a parking and Sarah starts going towards a car, a pretty car I must say. When we're closer I look at the car and it's a Tesla. What the fuck? How does she have money for a Tesla?

I didn't realize I stopped walking, I was surprised.

"Is everything okay?"

"Huh yes, sure." I tell her. I start walking again.

She opens the car and takes my suitcase and put it inside the car. I get into the passenger seat while she does that. I have never been in a Tesla before, my parents have a lot of money but we had a Mercedes-benz CLA 250.

"Do you like the car, Catherine?"

"Can I ask you something, Sarah?" I ask her.

"You are already doing it. Call me aunt."

"How did you afford this car?"

"Oh Catherine you shouldn't ask things like that. But you will see when we get home."

I nod and she starts driving. We are in silence. A beautiful silence, I don't really enjoy talking. She looks at me and then she looks at the road and repeats the same movement 2 more times.

"And Catherine how are you? I know this is a hard situation and that you probably already miss your parents and your brother but how do you feel?" She doesn't look at me anytime while saying this.

"I'm fine. I'm going to sleep I'm really tired."

I can see she nods and I take my phone and earphones and put Somebody Else by The 1975 and make myself comfortable in the seat. I lay my head in the window, close my eyes and try to sleep.

Suddenly, someone's touching my shoulder. I take one of my earphones off and stop Afraid by The Neighbourhood.

I look at Sarah and she says. "Come on we're at my house."

I look around and I see a huge white house. I put the phone inside the bag and get off the car, closing the door behind me, still shocked. I see Sarah taking my suitcase so I go take it, I don't want to disturb.

"Don't worry, Catherine." Then she points at the huge house. "This is my home, sweetie." Then she starts walking and once she's in front of the door takes keys from her pocket. "Are you going to come?"

I didn't realize I was standing there. She might thing I'm stupid, well I don't care. I go beside her. She then opens the door and we enter. But we don't get into the house, in front of me there's a big garden and a pool and then the house. I follow her to the door of the house and then we got in.

I'm really nervous, my hands sweating like crazy. There are a lot of paintings on the walls.

"Come with me, I'm going to show you your new room." I follow her to a stairs. We go upstairs and there are 3 doors. "This is your own floor; the door in front of us is where your bedroom is. The door in our right is where the toilet and bath is. The other room is a study for you."

"Thank you, Sarah." I follow her to the door where the room is. She opens the door and I see a big room. There's a bed, two closets, two wardrobes and a little table attached to the wall. There's also a big window. Sarah leaves the suitcase beside the bed.

"Make yourself comfortable. Caleb and Harry are in the grocery store the will be here in less than half an hour. I will call you to come down and meet them." She turns around and leaves. I can hear her footsteps leaving and then going downstairs.

I close the door and start packing off. I put the 2 shirts, 2 jeans, 1skirt, 2 leggings and 3 tank tops in one of the wardrobes. Then I put 2 sweatshirts and the other wardrobe. That's all the clothes I have. I didn't have enough space to put a lot of clothes so I took my favorite clothes. Then I also take all the underwear (which is not a lot) and 2 sports bra and put them in the same wardrobe as the sweatshirts one.

I sigh while taking the hairbrush, the makeup bag, the toothbrush and the toothpaste. Some face creams, a perfume and a deodorant.

I go to the bathroom and all I can say is wow, there's a little Jacuzzi, a shower, a toiler and a big mirror with a big sink furniture. I go back to my room and take everything to put in the bathroom.

I realize the mirror is one of those cabinet mirror so I decide to put the makeup and the toothbrush and toothpaste inside alongside the face creams. I put the perfume, deodorant and the hairbrush on top of the furniture so it's easier to take them whenever I need. I open one of the doors of the furniture and I see some towels. There's also a hand towel. I wash my hands with the soap that was there.

I go back to the bedroom, take the bag and put all the pictures all over the room. Pictures with my parents, with Liam and with all the friends I left back in Portland.

I sigh. "Everything's going to be okay." I take the phone and lay down on the bed with it. Neither my parents nor Liam have sent me anything.

And then I can hear a door opening. Caleb and Harry may have arrived.

"Catherine come down!" That's Sarah screaming. I put my phone down,m get up and go downstairs.