Since most of what she was moving would be boxes, she hadn’t thought it necessary to rent a moving truck. Shefigured that between her car, Avian’s, and Elias’, they could get everything packed inside. However, Lorenzo letting them borrow his truck was appreciated.
“I’ll have to do something nice for him,” Eri said.
“Bring him any baked goods, and he’ll be putty in your hands.”
She hummed. “What about his son? What do I have to do for him to be putty in my hands?”
Elias smirked at her. “Who said I wasn’t already, Amate?”
She smiled at him, shaking her head playfully. “Good to know, baby.”
They finished their lunch, packed the trash into the backpack, and Elias pulled her to lie with him. As they watched the clouds, Eri couldn’t help but feel a sense of calm.
26
“Thank you,” Eri said as Marco brought in the last box.
She’d packed everything over the week, and it hadn’t taken them long to get her moved. Now, all she needed to do was unpack. Since she’d met the delivery people for her bedroom furniture yesterday, she’d spent a couple of hours cleaning the apartment. Eri knew that the complex had someone clean it, but if she did it herself, it would be to her standards.
“I’m starving,” Avian announced from where she sat on a windowsill.
“Same,” Eri agreed.
“You sure? Because I had my dic—” Marco started.
“Could have sworn I filled you up—” Elias began simultaneously.
“Be quiet,” Eri demanded, cutting them off.
“Both of you. We didn’t ask you that,” Avian added, and both men laughed. “What time are your first tattoos today?”
Marco looked at his phone. “Two and a half hours.”
“Same,” Elias said.
“Then the two of you can take Lorenzo’s truck back to him and bring us food,” Eri informed.
“Ah, yours is bossy too,” Marco joked.
“She tries to be,” Elias responded with a smirk.
“Get going, or I’ll show you bossy,” she threatened her boyfriend playfully with narrowed eyes.
“And I’m not bossy,” Avian countered.
“Of course not, Micio.”
“Call me if you need me to pick up something else, Amate,” Elias said before kissing her temple, and the two men headed out the door.
“Lock the door,” they threw over their shoulders simultaneously.
Eri locked the deadbolt and turned around to find Avian heading into her bedroom. “Come on. We can start putting your clothes away while we wait.”
Putting her clothes away would be easy. Anything that had been on hangers in her closet was left on hangers, and she’d gotten dry cleaning bags to put over them. Currently, they were all across her bed. The master closet was bigger than the one in her campus apartment, and with more room, she could rearrange it differently.
They worked in comfortable silence for a while, and it was only when they’d gotten everything put away in the closet and moved to the dresser that Eri broke it.
“Do you remember when you told me that if I told Elias about what happened, he wouldn’t look at me differently?”
