The house is all packed up, I left about an hour before the removal van was due to leave so that I can be at the new property first. Mum and dad have stayed behind for a few hours, to make sure that nothing is missed or hidden away where we don't remember. I think mum wants to give the place a good cleaning as well just before they leave. To be fair, there are a LOT of 'dog' hairs all over the place.
I am sat in Reading service station having a break with a hot chocolate and a sausage roll while enjoying the sunshine. It's been pretty chilly lately but today is decent enough that I only have a t-shirt on my top half.
My car is full of items that neither myself nor the rents wanted to trust with the removal company. I'll stash those in the annex while waiting for everyone to catch up. Nothing dodgy, just werewolf family stuff like genealogy books, cast iron manacles and the family baking recipes handed down for generations.
It doesn't sound like a lot but my car is filled to the brim with them. The Genealogy books take up the entire back seat. The manacles are hidden in the boot with the recipes on top of them. Yeah I know, who has family recipes anymore? We're old fashioned it seems and I'm glad of it. Mums meat pie is the freaking best! She's tried to teach me but I do not have cookery fingers. The best she can hope for is that my future wife is good enough that mum teaches her instead.
The manacles aren't for containing werewolves either, they're just some kinky sex thing my parents like. I didn't really want to ask too much, straights do some odd things during sex, plus its my parents. We might be way more open than non Were families but we're not that open.
Anywho, I think I'll grab another drink for the road and get going. There is still a couple of hours left to travel and I want to get there and chill already.
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I reached Coleford about an hour ago and spied a butchers on my way through so turned around and parked up. I figure everyone is going to be super hungry when they get here so grabbed six steaks a few pounds of sausages and some lamb chops.
Really glad I bought extra as the Alpha was waiting at our new house when I pulled up. Dad had told them how far out I was and she came to meet me. Now normally when you enter an area someone protects, its polite to give a thank you gift on your first meeting. I had expected this to be something mum or dad would do once they got here.
No such luck, with her standing in front of the house in full view of my car, neither of us could have missed the other. I stepped out of the car and left everything except the excessive bag of meat where it was. I invited her in even though she had the keys, protocol and all that, before laying the meat out on the kitchen counter. She could have taken it all as was her right but thankfully for our bellies she only took two steaks and some of the sausages.
Once the bravado crap was out the way she was actually really nice. She requested that I keep the meat in the pantry where it was coldest until she left and then we looked around the house together. Miss Carla Smith is her name and is ex-military, which shows. The woman is seriously built. She has a partner but doesn't want to marry as it could affect the Werewolf dynamics. She says he's fine with that but I think most guys would feel rather emancipated by it personally.
I called dad and found out that the removal van had left later than expected so was still at least another hour behind me. It's all good, gave me time to unpack the car and have a look around. Carla kindly helped as knowing the sensitive nature of some of the items wanted them safe just as much as I did. She thankfully didn't comment on the manacles though I am sure that I saw a smirk briefly.
The annex is pretty damned cool if I'm honest. It's basically just a small house but has a good-sized bedroom with a walk-in closet, bathroom, lounge and separate kitchen. I don't think I've ever had so much space to myself. Its all bare at the moment as I had very little furniture of my own having only lived in house shares before. Carla is going to have a couple of the female Weres that live locally to pop round in the morning and take me furniture shopping. It'll be super weird to meet so many in such a short time but I am looking forward to it. Whole new chapter and all that.
Carla did admit that it was to also make sure that if there was any awkward incidences then I would have a Were around at all times that could help. Thankfully she understands that while I love my family, I also don't want to be in each other's hair all the time. We all need space while also being close. It's a weird difficult balance to figure out.
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Removal van is finally unloaded and our stuff mostly dumped in the right rooms. My parents turned up for the last 15 minutes of the manual labour, typical.
While I brought a fair few items there wasn't any point in unpacking until I go shopping tomorrow. I don't have a wardrobe for my clothes, TV unit to put my TV and multiple games consoles nor a couch or fridge. I pretty much just have a load of tech, some clothes and food. I have to sleep on my parents couch tonight and hope I can pick up a bed and mattress tomorrow. There has to be an Argos or something similar around here somewhere.
We spent the last few of hours of the day eating and making up the bed and couch. I am absolutely knackered but know anything we don't do today still has to be done tomorrow or the day after. Nothing I can do about my stuff for now but hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to make the annex more homely.