The light calls you home

Chapter two, part 1:Home

Chapter two : Home

In the morning they loaded up the car and dropped the key in the drop off box.

They had just an hour until they were finally to their new home. The first 20 minutes were much like it had been. No houses, no businesses. just long empty roads. 40 minutes from their destination, they passed a small town. They passed a gas station, a small grocery store, and a garage. Calling it a town may have been a reach.

The last ten minutes was all the driveway.

“Wow, this is the longest driveway I’ve ever seen” Anton laughs.

“it’s all private property” He points to the no trespassing signs littering a huge number of trees.

“Why so many?” Bella asks. Anton shrugs, equally unsure of the answer.

The trees are start to thin, and they can smell the ocean. They reach the opening of the property.

The house and lighthouse sit high up on a rocky ledge overlooking the ocean. The waves are crashing onto the ledge creating a sound that relaxes both Anton and Bella. “ We made it.” Anton said a little in awe. “ it’s beautiful!” Bella says, grabbing Antons hand.

Barley was antsy and excited, running from window to window in the back seat and whining.

Anton parks the car. Him and Bella step out of the car and are immediately hit with a cool ocean breeze. “feels like paradise”. Bella says, opening the door and releasing Barley.

Barley runs off on another sniffing tour. “He never goes far”. Anton says “I’ll bring the bags in, and we can check it out!”

Bella can tell how excited Anton is. Even though he’s trying to hold back.

“ I'll be right in, I dropped my sunglasses under the seat and I want to get them before I forget.”

“Ok, I'll just set the bags down. I wont check it out until we can do it together. “

Anton kisses her and heads for the front door.

Bella watches him walk up the ledge side and towards the house . Admiring his spirit and admittedly his butt.

Once her eye candy is out of sight. She leans into the front seat and starts to dig around for her glasses .

“Bella!”

At the unexpected sound of Anton saying her name, she jumps. Hitting her head on the under side of the dashboard. “ouch s**t! what? She says, trying to hide the irritation in her voice.

She stands up and looks around, expecting to see Anton standing there, but he’s not. I really must be losing it she thought.

With Anton all the way up at the house there’s no way she would have heard him down here.

She looks up at the house and sees Barley working his way up to the house. “Daddys boy”. She laughes. I better get moving since both the boys are inside anxiously anticipating a tour.

She shuts the door and turns. “Barley! “ she yelled out loud.She was shocked to see Barley sitting directly behind her holding his green ball . “How did you get back down here so fast, Barley. You almost gave me a heart attack!” she sighs, resigning to the fact she may infact be going a little loopy, probably lack of sleep. “well come on then, I think we’ve kept your dad waiting long enough. Let’s go explore our new home.”

Barley happily walks behind her. As they make the treck up to the house.