Soul Mates

Chapter 3

After hours of riding in complete silence, Jack was more than glad to see the new house come into view. Adalynn may have spoken to him long enough to argue with him about the move, but she had gone back to silence after that. She hadn't even asked to stop and pee.

Adalynn couldn't believe her eyes. The house was giant! An asphalt drive way led to a concrete pad that circled a small garden of flowers. The house itself was gray with tan stone accents across the bottom of the house. A walkway of red bricks led to the front door and to a fenced in backyard. It was a white, two story house, with gray shutters and a large wrap around porch.

Ada grabbed a couple of bags, and made her way up the stairs behind her father, who was working to unlock the door. The front door led straight into the living room with an open floor plan into the dining room and kitchen. A breakfast bar separated the kitchen from the dining room with a large island in the center of the kitchen. The walls were a simple white with the floors a stunning dark gray hardwood. All of the furnishings from their old house had already been sent to and placed in the new house.

Directly to the left of the door was a staircase leading to the second floor, which Adalynn wasted no time climbing. Upstairs, there were three open doors. One lead to Jack's room at the end of the hall, the middle door opened up into a guest room that Jack had already turned into a home office. The third door, closest to the stairs was Ada's room.

It was large, with her queen sized bed already in the middle of the room and her desk, dresser, and night stand scattered around the room against walls and in corners. Ada's favorite part of the room? The small reading nook in the corner. The walls had narrowed in that corner to create a sort of enclosed area for the window seat. It sort of reminded Ada of the window seat in Emily Fields' room from Pretty Little Liars. Her bookshelves had already been place and a window seat directly in the middle of the two shelves. 

Adalynn's extensive collection of books would never fit on the two shelves, but she was already planning on guilting Jack into purchasing another one, and allowing her to fill it with even more books. Maybe moving across the country wouldn't be too bad if Ada could use his guilt to get what she wanted.

On the left side of the room was a closet, and the right side a bathroom that was shared between Ada and Jack's office. Ada dropped the bags on her bed, and spun on her heel to exit the room.

Jack stood in the doorway, watching as Ada absorbed everything in the room. He had tried his best to make her happy, but nowadays he wasn't always one hundred percent sure how to do that. When she finally turned towards the door, he spoke to her. "I hope you like this room. I figured you would with the window seat, but the other room has a balcony if you prefer it."  

Honestly, it wasn't super difficult to decide which his little girl would like more. Ada had always wanted a reading nook, so  it made perfect sense for that to be her room. Jack knew she gave zero f***s about the balcony or the view of the forest that bordered their backyard. 

"No, this is fine. But, I do want to decorate, and put up another book shelf like across from the other two in the corner." Adalynn knew it would take little persuasion for Jack to do as she asked. After all he was trying to apologize for the way things had happened the past few weeks.

"Okay. I'll take you to town. Now if you want, and you can work on decorating tonight and tomorrow."

It was too f*****g easy to get her way, like she was some sort of Goddess and Jack was but a mere peasant.

Ada nodded, then strutted out the door and back downstairs. She didn't say another word the entire ten minute trip to the store, or while she browsed. Jack was content enough letting Ada do as she pleased for the rest of the day, but soon he would be forced to confront the now strained relationship with his daughter. It was not a conversation he was looking forward to.

A group of rowdy teenage boys, probably no older than Jack's daughter appeared at the end of the aisle. They appeared to be looking at candles, which is a strange purchase for a group of very masculine guys to be making.

The two shorter boys seemed to be picking at the tallest one. Clearly making jokes, and pointing something out before falling into uncontrollable fits of laughter. Even though the guys appeared harmless enough, a feeling of unease washed over Jack, pushing him to get his daughter as far from that group as possible.

Adalynn glanced away from the display that currently had her attention and towards her father. He had an uneasy look on his face as he glanced over his shoulder to the group of guys. Ada's eyes met the eyes of the tallest one in the group. Everything around her seemed to stop, all the noise disappeared, all she could see was him. 

Jack watched helplessly as his daughter stared at the boy. She practically had hearts in her eyes as she stared, unblinkingly, into his eyes.

After what felt like hours, but was simply mere seconds, Ada broke out of the spell that she had fallen under. She blinked and shook off the trance those bright blue eyes put her in. Even now, she could still sense them drifting over her, watching her. It was an unnerving feeling.

Adalynn did the only thing she knew to do, drag Jack away from that aisle and towards the book display. Something deep in her gut told her that wouldn't be the last time she saw those blue eyes. Ada just knew something monumental had just happened, she just didn't know what yet.