#WIPpet Wednesday - Reunions (Dan and Adele - The Moving Game) #amwriting

WIPpet numbers for 1st February, 2017:
1+17=18 (short) paragraphs from Reunions

The current word count is…201,639. :o

WIPpet Context:
This is (I think) my first ever snippet featuring Dan and Adele. Dan is Andy’s younger brother (by one year), and Adele is Shaunna’s best friend. They are part of The Circle—the group of friends at the centre of the Hiding Behind The Couch books.
When I first started writing, I’d intended for Josh and Dan to be the two main characters, but they brought all their mates along, which is why the books are so long. That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.

Dan and Adele get a lot less page time than the others, which is, perhaps, because they’re a very private couple. They’ve also been together on and off since they were in primary school, and they bicker. A lot. As you’ll see. :)

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“Adele?” Dan slammed the drawer shut and opened another, established that one was also empty and gave the dresser a kick.

“Yes, sweetie?” She appeared in the bedroom doorway. She was wrapping a glass bowl in packing paper.

“Where the hell’s my electric razor?”

Adele’s eyes rolled from side to side as she visualised the boxes lined up in the living room. “This end, under the window.”

Dan grunted and followed her through to the living room. She continued onwards to the kitchen, leaving him to find his razor for himself. But first, he had to find the right box. “Adele?”

“What?”

“There’re three boxes under the window. Which one?”

“You can read, can’t you?”

Dan bit back his retort and edged his way along the rows of heavily reinforced cardboard boxes, each one bearing a large white label designating the room in their new house for which it was destined. Given they were moving from a two-bedroom flat with a reception-living-dining room, bathroom and kitchen to a five-bedroom house with two en-suites, a separate bathroom, wetroom, living room, dining room, utility room, kitchen, conservatory and basement, the labels made about as much sense to him as knitting patterns.

Accordingly, the three boxes under the window were destined for three different locations: the master bedroom, the basement and…

“Grooming room? What the… Adele?”

“Agh!” The garbled shriek was followed by a loud bang, and then Adele forcefully zigzagged her way through the box maze to reach him. “This one.” She bent to untape the lid of the box marked ‘grooming room’. “Why are you shaving now anyway? The removal lorry will be here in half an hour, I still need to pack up the rest of the kitchen, and your junk is still all over the table. I mean, it’s not as if you’re going anywhere, is it?”

“Unfortunately,” Dan muttered under his breath.

“Hm?” Adele had heard him perfectly, but Dan would not be drawn today. The house purchase had finalised two weeks ago, which was when Adele had decided she wanted to move before Christmas. Dan had laughed and told her there was no way, and she’d taken it as a challenge. Three days ’til Christmas, and they were packing up the flat.

“We can always hire a van tomorrow,” Dan suggested.

“Why?”

“For anything that’s not ready when the remov—”

Adele stood to her full five foot two and said with slow, threatening deliberation, “Everything is going today.” She tilted her head to one side, smiled—“OK, sweetie?”—and thrust his razor at him.

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Thanks for reading
Deb x