This is where you will be staying
He said pushing open a door. I walked into the room
but it was pitch black. Putting my hand on the wall, I searched for the light switch. Cole and I found it at the same time. The contact was electric and I pulled my hand back in shock when our fingers touched. He chuckled and I was glad that the darkness covered my blush. When Cole turned on the lights and a warm glow lit up the room, I forgot my embarrassment and gasped in awe.
Every inch of the walls had been painted in vivid colors. A mural of a tropical rainforest started on one end of the room and by the time it had wrapped around to the other side it had transformed into an ocean filled with sea creatures. One side of the ceiling had been painted to look like the night sky, which faded into day on the other. Even the wooden panels on the ceiling fan had been decorated. I stood, mouth open, and gaped at my new room. cm ดูดไขมัน
"I hope you don't mind it. Nathan ran out of furniture and walls to paint on, so my mom finally surrendered her guest room." He scratched the back of his head looking embarrassed.
"Oh my god, I love it!" I said truthfully. My new room was probably the first thing that I actually loved about Colorado. Cole smiled a slow cocky grin that made me want to squirm. He still had no shirt on and I purposely kept my gaze glued to his face so I wouldn't stare. How was I ever going to live with this boy who looked like a Greek God?
"Well that's good, because his work is all over the ranch. If he's not painting, he's not happy," he said.
It took us a few trips to get my luggage inside. Everyone else had disappeared quickly, so no one else was there to help. I started unpacking, and Cole leaned against the doorway and watched me work. First I took out my laptop and set it on the desk, which was painted in brilliant colors. Then I pulled out a handful of photographs. For a moment I considered asking Cole for some tape so I could put them up, but as I looked down at a picture of my sister I knew that I wouldn't be able to handle seeing my family's smiling faces. Instead, I slipped them back into the front pocket of my backpack. Next, I unzipped my largest suitcase and started to put my clothes in the dresser that was painted to match the desk. I decided to unpack my undergarments when Cole wasn't staring at me.
"So you're a big sports person, huh?" he asked when I piled all my hockey gear in one of the corners. ดูดไขมัน
"Yeah, I'm not really a girlie-girl." As the words left my mouth, doubtful thoughts swirled in my head. Should I have said that? Would Cole make fun of me? You shouldn't care, I told myself silently.7—
Cole just laughed. "Really?" he asked raising an eyebrow, "because you sure pack like one."
My face turned a bright shade of red, and I had to contain myself from yelling at him. Of course I packed a lot. I was being forced to move across the country because I had no home anymore!
"Well anyways," he continued, "when you're done you can head down to the kitchen. It's almost dinner time, which is one of the best parts of the day. My mom always cooks something good and we all eat together."
He smirked at me one last time before turning to leave. When he disappeared around the corner, I collapsed on my new bed and sighed. I had survived my first encounter with the Walter boys. I didn't feel up to round two, but then my stomach growled, so I changed out of my wet clothes before reluctantly heading off to my second encounter with the Walter boys.
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Katherine's kitchen was a sight I had never seen before. The place was loud and chaotic, but warm and cozy at the same time. It was the opposite of my mother's clean-tiled, sparkling steel, half a million dollar kitchen. At home I felt like the kitchen was just there to look pretty and if I made a mess, I was in big trouble. This kitchen on the other hand looked lived in and I liked it. an
When I walked in she was standing at the stove stirring a pot of something boiling, and shouting orders at Danny and Isaac who were helping her. Three dogs were running around the room chasing each other, making it hard for everyone who was trying to help set up the table for dinner. George almost dropped the salad bowl when he tripped over a dog that ran right in between his legs.
Zack and Benny were sitting on the floor three feet apart playing with toy trucks. They drove them around on the ground and then rammed them together yelling "BOOM!" at the top of their lungs. A deafening cheer erupted from the den that was connected to the kitchen and I turned to see the rest of the guys watching a baseball game on TV. My eyes instantly found Cole, who jumped up out of his seat, pounding his fist into the air.
"Stop staring," said Lee as he rode his skateboard into the kitchen from behind me. Quickly, I turned away from the den, embarrassed that he had caught me watching his cousin.
"Lee! How many times do I have to tell you not to ride your board in the house?" scolded Katherine as he crashed into one of the kitchen chairs, knocking it over. It fell on Benny's head and he immediately started screaming bloody murder.
"Only a thousand times more Aunt Kathy," he said before picking up his little cousin to see if he was okay. 1_71_0
I rubbed my temples trying to make my headache go away. This place was chaos. And then in the midst of it all was Nathan. He was sitting at the kitchen table sketching in a notebook. I wondered how he could concentrate with everything going on around him. Nathan's artistic hand had definitely taken part in decorating the kitchen. All of the walls had been painted to be one huge mural of a vineyard and almost every chair around the table was a different color.
"Oh, hello Jackie!" said Katherine, fi-nally noticing me. She was straining the water out of the noodles that had been cooking. On the counter next to her was an economy size jar of spaghetti sauce. "I'm so glad you didn't get lost on your way to the kitchen—this place is so huge and your room is the furthest away. I asked Cole to go get you about ten minutes ago, but it looks like he got wrapped up in the game." She smiled at me and I went over to help her. ดูดไขมันต้นขา
"It's okay. It wasn't very hard to find. I just followed all the noise," I said, popping the lid off the jar. Katherine laughed, took the jar from me and emptied it over the noodles.
"Yes it's always loud in here. That's what happens when you have twelve kids." She paused for a moment and gave me a small smile. "Well I guess thirteen now."
I looked at my feet and whispered, "Thanks Mrs. Walter."
"Anything for you dear and please stop calling me that. I'm Katherine," she said and pulled me into a hug.
"Boys!" bellowed George. "Grub's on the table. Turn that stupid thing off."
Katherine let me go, grabbed the bowl of spaghetti and set it next to the other dishes of steaming food. I followed her over to the table and sat down in the nearest chair.
"Hey you can't sit there!" said one of the older twins, but I couldn't remember either of their names.
"Sorry," I said sliding into the next chair.
"Hey you can't sit there either. That's my chair," said the other twin.
"Boys, why don't one of you go get a chair from the dining room and bring it in here for Jackie to sit on?" asked George. One of the twins looked like he was about to protest and then his double elbowed him in the side.
"Okay Dad, be right back," he said smiling sweetly.
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A minute later he came back in dragging a chair behind him. After it was pushed up to the table I sat down and George began grace. About halfway through his prayer I felt something moving on my leg. Reaching beneath the table, I grabbed something thin and smooth. When I pulled it up, I screamed and flung the yellow snake away from me. The table burst into chaos.
"Snake!" roared Benny as he jumped away from his seat. As he did so, he stepped on one of the dogs. The poor thing yelped and launched itself away from him. Alex, who had pushed away from the table in shock, tripped over the wild dog and crashed Danny who was sitting next to him. George tried to calm a screaming Benny down, but instead slipped in a puddle of milk which had somehow spilled onto the floor in all the frenzy. As he fell George grabbed the tablecloth in an attempt to regain his balance, but instead he brought all of dinner down with him. When the bowl of spaghetti hit the ground, it flew in every direction and covered us all with tomato sauce. L
"Jordan!" George bellowed at his son. "You are beyond grounded!"
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