Take Her to HeVan (Nephilim Book 6) (34 page)

“Yeah, but we’re going to need a lot of help if we’re going to make my bedroom look like this before dad brings mom home from the hospital,” said Steven.

“I know, let’s call Uncle Matt. He’s in the FBI, he’s used to being woken up at all hours. And he’ll be willing to help,” answered Aaron.

With a plan in mind and too keyed up to go back to sleep, they decided to give Uncle Matt a little more sleep time by dressing and moving all the furniture out of Steve’s room first. It wasn’t hard, they were both big for their ages and had strong bodies from years of sports. The hard thing was staying quiet and not waking their younger brothers. They would want to help and would just get in the way.

“I bet Aunt Carrie would take the bros to IHop for breakfast if we asked her. Then we would be able to get more done,” said Steven as he helped his brother shift his mattress.

“Good idea, Steve, she always likes spending time with us.” Aunt Carrie and Uncle Matt didn’t have any kids of their own, but they’d always enjoyed spending time with what they called Doug and Luce’s menagerie.

In order to save space they put their two twin beds back together as bunk beds again. Mom and Dad had said they could have full sized beds when the extension was finished. For now though they were making do with their old beds and dressers. Steven didn’t think the baby would have hang up clothes so he left his closet alone. When they were done, his room was empty. Aaron got the spackle and the two of them got to work filling the holes left over from where his posters and pictures had hung on the walls.

Aaron was thinking about all the stuff they were going to need to buy, bedding, curtains, a rug for the floor and a few other things. With the closet being so small there hadn’t been room for a chair, but the magazine picture had a rocking chair too. He knew more than Steve how much all this stuff was probably going to cost. He’d been mowing lawns in the summers and shoveling snow in the winters for the last four years, saving for a car when he got his license. He was already planning to empty his savings as soon as the bank opened in the morning. Until then, they could at least put a coat of white primer over the current paint. Steven’s room was currently dark blue, so they both knew more than one coat of paint was going to be needed.

By six a.m. they’d done all they could with what was on hand at the house. The rest would have to wait until they could get to the stores. The hardware store was open early for contractors so they could get the paint and a lot of the other stuff first. The final touches would have to wait until after ten. Both boys were confident they’d have the room finished before their dad brought their mom and little Laura home.

Uncle Matt wasn’t too thrilled about being woken up at six in the morning but after Aaron explained the situation, and the fact that both boys had been up for over three hours already, he willingly went along with the plan. Waking his wife, they got up and made plans to help with the welcome home of Laura Donahue.

Everything went as planned. When their dad called around seven to check in, Aaron went ahead and told him what they were doing. Having dad in on the plan made sure their mom didn’t come home until they were ready for the big reveal. Listening to his eldest explain what he and he brother had cooked up and how much they had already accomplished, Doug Donahue nearly burst with love and pride in his family. He rubbed his chest with tears in his eyes as he hung up the phone.

Aunt Carrie had a friend that was a painter so she called her up and cajoled her into coming over to the house and helping with the floral mural for one wall in the room. By the time their dad pulled his car into the driveway a little after one that afternoon, the room was dry and all the furniture was loaded. Uncle Matt had ridden hard on the younger ‘helpers’ while Aunt Carrie had taken Aaron and Steven to the store to spend his car money on the extras needed to make his sister’s room perfect. A rug, a lamp, sheets, and bedding plus a crowd of stuffed animals and dolls later, her room looked like girly heaven.

Carrie gave herself a mental shake. She saw what these big strapping boys were doing and only hoped Laura didn’t turn into a tomboy. She didn’t think her brothers would like that. They obviously had already decided the type of sister they were going to have. All she knew was it was going to be a hoot watching that baby girl wrap them all around her tiny fingers.

The homecoming was all Aaron and Steve expected. Their mom cried when she saw what they had done. By now they had learned the difference between happy and sad tears. They all fussed over Laura, even Evan, who’d been superseded as the baby of the family, was happy to see her and spent almost an hour making faces as he tried to get her to smile.

Unbeknownst to the Donahue family, this one little girl was going to forever change their lives.

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