We were sitting around the table that night, eating a casserole that Abby had cooked. She actually had a lot of culinary experience for someone her age, having had to look after Nicole when Daniel had to work late. She had been working on it when we arrived and it had now been brought to a point where we could eat it. I had set the table and we were all waiting on Abby to move the dish containing the casserole over to the table. Abby placed the casserole dish in the middle of the table.

"Emma, can you serve us?" Abby asked.

"Sure." I said, holding my hand out to take Nicole's plate as she was to my right. She handed me the plate and I scooped some of the casserole on it. I repeated the process with all of the plates, finally filling my plate up with foot. Abby had let me taste some of it before she had put it in the oven. Rachel poked at it with a fork; expecting it to move or something. "Try it. It's good." I said before taking a bite of mine. Rachel took a bite of the casserole and her face lit up. "I told you it was good."

"So something we are going to need to discuss is where to put things. Obviously," Daniel took a bite of his casserole, chewed and swallowed it. "I don't know what we're going to do with a second washer and dryer; but we can turn the finished basement into a media room with the second couch and the TV from your guys' living room. The basement has been unused since it was finished and it would be a nice place for us to be able to hang out... Or the girls can watch things downstairs and we can watch things upstairs."

"That sounds like a good idea." Mom said. "I still don't know what we're going to do with a second washer and dryer though..."

"There is enough space in the laundry room for both sets. We might be able to get them hooked up so we can use both..." Daniel smiled. "I'd have to call a plumber and see what it would take to get it hooked up."

"Sounds good." Mom said. "What have you thought about the bedroom situation?"

"Well, we have 4 bedrooms plus the master," Daniel said, taking a sip of his wine. "Each girl can have thier own room, Abby and Nicole are already in thier rooms, so the other two are up for grabs. I'll take the dining room as my home office.

"Is there enough room in there for both of our offices?" Mom asked, peering through the opening to the dining room.

"Depends on how elaborate your setup is, I think we can make it work." Daniel said, reaching for more casserole. "I'm pretty sure that the girls don't have anything that would require a lot of space."

"The main things that they have are thier beds, dressers and clothes." Mom said. "Although it might be time to add a computer into Emma's collection of things." She looked at me; I was sitting there with my mouth open, thankfully there was no food in it. I'd been wanting a computer for a while and here was mom, talking about getting me one now. "Might start needing one for stuff in the near future." Mom looked at the casserole dish. "Anyone want any more?" She asked; no one responded that they did and mom shrugged andput the last little bit on her plate.

"May Emma and I be excused?" Abby asked. Daniel and Mom looked at each other. "Who's gonna clean the table?"

"We will," Nicole and Rachel said.

"You may, Daniel said.

"Thank you," Abby said, standing. Once I was on my feet, Abby practically drug me up to where the bedrooms were. She opened the door next to her room. The walls were a light grey and this room had Daniel's office in it. "This is going to be your room when you guys move in. There is a connecting door behind that book shelf," She pointed at a book shelf on the wall that the two rooms shared. "I can't believe this is happening. I had a feeling that it would." I looked at the space, picturing what it would look like when I had made it mine. I'd like pink walls though...

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When we were back at our house, I looked around my room. I really wanted a canopy bed. I loved the way the one in Abby's room looked. Mom walked by and saw me just staring off into space.

"What's on your mind?" She asked, leaning against the door frame.

"I was thinking that I would like a canopy bed." I replied, snapping out of my daydream. "It just seems like it would fitting."

"Well," Mom said, taking a step into the room. "I want to go out tomorrow and look for a computer for you, maybe we can look at beds too. Besides, you will also need a vanity and a dresser."

"Abby showed me the room that will be mine once we move everything in. the walls are grey like these, but I want pink... Wonder if we can repaint it..." I turned to look at her. She was smiling.

"Daniel had already mentioned that possibility..." Mom said, chuckling. "So, while we are out tomorrow we are going to look at paint as well. I also want you to think of other beds that you might like, such as a day bed, that can give you storage and expand to make a bigger bed if you wanted it to. It would also give you a place to curl up and read or work on homework." Mom smiled at me.

"I don't think I'vee seen a daybed before." I said, feeling confused.

"Run down and get the iPad," Mom said, "And I'll show you what they look like." I nodded and ran down to the family room where the iPad was plugged in. I unplugged it and headed back to my room. Mom was sitting on the edge of the bed. I handed her hte iPad and sat next to her. She tapped a few times and eventually pulled up an image of a white bed, that had three sides, and three drawers in the front of it. It was situated in a little girls bedroom, she was sitting on the floor playing with a toy that we couldn't really see. The bed had pink sheets on it and it looked cute enough. Mom swiped through the images and there was one of the little girl relaxing on the bed reading a book. The bed looked like it was something that I might be able to live with.

"I like that." I said, after mom had swiped through the photos. It looked more versatile than a canopy bed would be.