Chapter 166: Please Don’t Wake
When she had come up with the idea of the list. Emily had fully expected the two of them to at least have a few similar points in the lists that they wrote down. But looking down at Derek’s list, she had to admit the eeriness was something else. It was unnerving.
The points might have been written down, using different words, but they all boiled down to meaning the same thing. It was almost as though she and Derek had been sitting side by side while writing their list, both of them leaning over from time to time to copy from one another and then edit a point, and make it seem as though it were their own.
She looked from Derek’s list over to him. He too seemed to be having the same reaction that she was, upon reading what Emily had written. His attention going from the list in his hands to Emily, Derek spoke up.
"We seem to have similar thoughts when it comes to the things that we are comfortable with," He said, gesturing to her list, and Emily nodded. "Whatever needs to be added, we can do so in the future, but for now I am satisfied with everything," She told him.
"Shall we go upstairs and see how this works out?" She said it easily enough, but even as the words made their way past her lips, Emily felt her heart rate pick up. Finally, finally, this was it. They were going to do it.
Taking a deep breath, she grabbed her bag and followed Derek upstairs. As expected, the ocean theme carried on even in Derek’s room. The walls were white, the sheets were white, the blankets, however, were a cool blue, and draped over one corner of the bed. It was warm enough that Emily doubted that they would be needing them. But she could still appreciate how they added to the beauty of the overall room. But that was not what her attention was fixed on. Sure the decorations and the covers were eye-catching. But what really had her attention was the centerpiece of the whole room...the bed.
It was huge. She was pretty sure that ten Emily Molsons could fit comfortably in the mammoth thing.
Not only was it huge, the lights in the room were arranged in such a way that they fell upon the bed in a way that made it stand out against everything else. And even the headboard, something that was normally easy to dismiss when it came to other beds, was different.
Derek’s headboard was not the usual one that went flush against the wall and was vertical. No, this headboard was something else. Emily had no idea if it was made of actual bamboo. Or if it was wood that had been made to look like bamboo. But either way the light brown structure was stunning. It rose up from the bed, going vertical for a bit before curving down slightly, giving the illusion of a canopy. Emily was pretty certain that if she woke up to that every day, she would be confused for a few seconds, thinking that she was staring at the base of a real tree.
And to add to that illusion, there were plants on either side of the bed. Huge green things that Emily had never seen in her life. Moving over before she could think better of it. Emily reached out, and touched a single leaf. She gasped, taking a step back. Wow! It was real! An actual living plant, a healthy one too by the looks of it. Somehow she had expected it to be fake, but the fact that it was real made the whole thing even better.