CHAPTER 5

We are at Peter's place, everyone was looking for a clubhouse online when I found the perfect place, and I hope the guys would also love it. The inside was a little run down but it's nothing that couldn't be fixed.

"Guys, I think I have found the perfect place but you guys are gonna have to keep an open mind " I said, they were around me now when I showed them the picture of the place I found.

They were all silent looking at the place. "So what do you think? It's OK if you guys don't like it, it ours so we must all love the place we gonna get."

"I love it" Mike said.

"Me too" followed by Peter. Jake and Lou nodded their head. I was excited. We have finally gotten our place.

"Are you all sure, we can always keep looking". I said.

"No, it's perfect " Lou said and I smiled.

"Well, what we waiting for, let's go buy our place". Jake said shouting. We all laughed and left the house.

We rode to meet the realtor to sign the papers on our bikes, this time Jake got there before us all.

"I finally won.. Yes!!! " he said.

We all smiled

"Don't get used to it" I told him. The others laughed.

After about five minutes, the realtor drove into the parking lot. She is a pretty lady, corporately dressed in red pencil tight skirt, a white loose chefon shirt paired with red high heels. She looked simple but very pretty and I am sure the guys were drooling already. She was holding the papers in her hands.

Mike is the only one among us that as turned 18 so he was the one who signed the paper but he wrote all of our names on the papers. Making it all of ours. After the realtor left, we opened the door and walked in. The odour from the inside was so strong that it made our eyes water and the dust was crazy, it covered everywhere. Even with everything, we fell in love with the place again.

We all just started laughing because it's ours and we had loads of work to do to turn the place around. We decided to come prepared during the weekend so we would have all the time to ourselves to clean up.

The week went by smoothly with no news or disturbance, the guys and I hung out every day. When we had a chance, we got cleaning supplies like gloves, masks, overalls and coveralls, dustbin nylons, boxes, etc. We also got paints so as to repaint the walls. We got woods and saws and sandpapers too because the guys didn't want to employ people to do the woodwork. They want to do everything themselves. Men and their egos though. I mean what's wrong with a professional doing the job.

On Saturday morning my phone rang, picking it up I saw it was Lou calling and the time says 4:45am. The hell. Why the fuck is he calling me this early.

"Hello"

"Hi, did I wake you up? " I could hear Lou's voice sounding chirpy and awake.

"The hell are you calling me for " I groaned.

"Someone's not a morning person" he replied.

"What do you want?" I snapped.

"Well the guys and I are going to the house, meet us there in fifteen minutes, so we start early and get far today."

"Sure, meet you in fifteen, bye" I said

"Bye" he replied.

After the call, I groaned loudly and almost wanted to scream. I stood up, took my shower and wore a deep blue jeans and a black plain t-shirt with a black vans. Finished my look with my hand beads, put my lip balm and tied my hair in a messy bun. I went downstairs to the kitchen and made myself a Nutella sandwich. I can never get enough of Nutella. I wrote a note to mum on a post it and left it on the fridge.

I went to the garage and decided to drive my car today instead of my bike, I wasn't awake enough for the cold breeze that would hit my face on the bike.

I got to the house 30 mins after, the guys bike were parked outside and I could already hear the sound of them working inside. Walking into the door, Mike was cutting the woods into small sizes, Jake was repainting one part of the wall, Lou was clearing the floor of any thing that we couldn't use anymore while Peter was nailing some of the woods Mike was cutting together. From the look of it, they were making a staircase or something.

"Hello" I greeted. They all looked up at me. I smiled at them, and handed each of them coffee, I got from Starbucks on my way here. Coffee is the best way to start the day.

"Thank you " Jake said.

"Took you long enough to get here" Lou said rolling his eyes. He then sighed after drinking his coffee. I laughed at his reaction.

"Thanks" Mike and Pete said together.

So, what should I do? I thought to myself. I deciding to join Lou in clearing the floor.

2 hours later, the floor was clear. I joined Jake in painting the walls. Mike was making partitions at one side that would be a bedroom. Lou was in the bathroom making stalls in it. The guys had bought toilet seats before and urinals, since they don't know anything about plumbing, they just replaced the bad ones with good ones, the sinks also. Peter was fixing the kitchen cupboards that they had gotten.

I decided to order Chinese food since we were all tired already, we have been working none stop for 2 hours. We all sat on paint buckets and ate, gisting as well. After eating, we all went back to work again, wanting to finish most of it today.

3 hours more and we were half way done, we had finished painting the living area, the kitchen area since Pete was done with all the shelves. The bedroom partition Mike was working on was also done, it was painted as well. We had gone far, the living area was done with, the kitchen area too as well as the toilet Lou was doing. Now what remained was the staircase, and the upper part. We decided to use strong woods and the pillars to hold the upper part.

It was evening now, around 8, the windows had been sealed shut and the air conditioner had been put in. The upper deck was finished and painted and we were all famished. We decided to go to Jake's house to sleep because it was closer. I texted mom telling her I wouldn't be home tonight buy would be at Jake's and she was cool with it.

At Jake's house, we all took our bath, his parent were already asleep and we were in his basement. After ordering in, we decided to watch TV. We all wanted to watch something different.

"I have an idea on how we can choose " I said loudly so I could be heard over all the noise. I had their attention now.

"We're listening" Mike said.

"We would all write the name of the movie we wanna watch in a piece of paper and put it in the middle and Lou would pick since he said he is ok with whatever we all decide on." they were listening intently so I decided to continue. "The film that Lou chooses is the one we are gonna watch, no matter what. Agreed?"

"Yes!" they shouted.

We all wrote the movie we wanted to watch, I wanted to watch Saw 7, Mike wanted to watch Conjured while Pete wanted to watch Obsessed. All horror. We squeezed the paper and dropped it in a hat we found on the floor. Lou shook the hat very well before picking one.

He took his time to open the paper. "Drum roll please" he said dramatically. Jake drummed.

"The movie we are gonna watch today is............" he trailed, leaving us in the suspense. I rolled my eyes, so did Mike. "Conjured!!!!!" he shouted. "Yes!!!!" Mike said then bowed down saying "Thank you, thank you". Before fist bumping the air.

"No!!!!!!" Peter shouted falling in his knees and looking up. These boys are so dramatic.

The movie was placed in and we all sat down to watch. With our pop corn and drinks, we all snuggled together on the couch stretching our legs on the coffee table and covering ourselves with one big duvet.

This is gonna be a good night.