She pinched herself when Ian showed her to her room. She never imagined, when she left Jeremy’s apartment in Coffs that morning, that she would ever in up in a place like this. She took her time exploring the house after she unpacked her backpack and changed.
She could see that it was still in the process of being moved into. There were still boxes to be unpacked and furniture to be purchased for the different rooms. Sitting on the glider, in the garden, Melanie thought about what she would do if this was her house.
She mentally painted the walls, purchased and arranged furniture and made everything just so. “It is a place we could live happily ever after”.
