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Stoneless Attraction

Sunday is everyone's favorite day...

By Fantasy StoriesPublished 6 years ago 5 min read
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April 15

Sunday is everyone's favorite day. Well, besides Friday of course.

I, being like most teenagers, was laying on the couch staring at the ceiling, with no plans on moving anytime soon. That was my plan, until the sound of a deafening roar from outside interrupted the peaceful sound of quietness.

"Mom?" I said, sitting up from the couch.

"Yes?" she said as she descended the stairs.

"What is that sound?" I asked, looking as annoyed as ever.

"I heard a family will be moving there. Two boys and their father." Her voice was calm, unlike mine when I spoke my next words as I looked out the window

"Wait, isn't that the house that Lucy used to live in?"

Lucy was my best friend, who had recently moved from the state of California. We still talked on the phone, but we've been too busy to talk at all this week.

The rest of the conversation was kind of a blur, not because I didn't care, but because I was too busy looking at the two guys, not boys. They looked to be around my age, and who I guessed was their father. They took out all of the boxes and put them in the garage. When they finished, they went inside the garage and closed it.

I snapped back into reality.

"Danny?" Danny was my older brother. He was a 17-year-old senior, soon to be 18. While I was 16.

He came out from the kitchen with a slice cheese dangling from his mouth, while holding bread in his other two hands. I swear, sometimes he's the biggest doofus in this entire universe.

"What?" e said struggling to put the cheese on the bread.

"Did you know about this?" I pointed to the window, where the moving truck still was.

He moved closer to the window two see what I was pointing at.

"Oh. That? Yeah, I did. Chris told me." Great, so did everybody except me know about this?

"Ok," I said, a million thoughts spinning in my mind. After a minute of thought I realized that I hadn't spoken in a while. "How was your grilled cheese?" I smiled looking at him chew the last of the grilled cheese.

"Amazing." He said with a mouthful

"Good." I smiled.

"I gotta go, so, anything else you want?" he said as he headed up the stairs.

"Nope. All good, thanks." I watched him go all the way up and disappear through his room door.

After a couple of hours of trying to rest and not achieving any, I'd decided to make something for the "lovely" new neighbors, not that I knew that they weren't nice.

"Mom, I made some dessert for the new neighbors. Can you come take it with me?" She came down from the stairs looking at me like she'd just seen a ghost. "Mom? Are you coming or not?"

"Yes I'm coming with you, Nicky. I'm just, well, surprised that you did this." She grabbed her cell and put it in her back pocket then we both went out the door and headed for the new neighbors' house.

I knocked on the door while my mom held the brownies. On the second knock, my mom and I heard the lock turn. Then someone opened the door. A man around his late forties stood in front of me and my mom. He raised an eyebrow in question.

"Hey, we live across the street. We wanted to bring you a welcome gift," said my mom moving in beside me. Just then I realized the two guys moving in beside their father as my mother handed him the brownies.

One of them came outside, smiling, and extended his hand to my mom, "Hey, Mrs...?"

"It's okay, you can call me, Lisa," she said as she shook his hand. "So polite." She sounded enchanted, for God's sake. He looked at me like he could see through me. It was creepy as hell, except he didn't look creepy at all. He was hot. He had lean muscles going up his arms and he was wearing the same thing he was wearing when he got off the truck. A blue tank top and some dark sweatpants.

He just smiled and leaned on the wall across from me. He looked at me still smiling. "Hey." He sounded cocky now.

"Hey," I said back.

"Are you always this quiet? Or is it just with me?" He moved in beside me and leaned on the wall that I had been leaning on since my mom and I had gotten here, and a chill ran down my spine.

"No," I shot back.

He grabbed a lock of my curly brown hair and twirled it around his finger. "No to which question?" he asked, leaning into my ear at the same time that I jerked away from him.

"Both." He started to walk towards me again and I held out my hand in a means to tell him to stop. He didn't. Instead he kept walking until his chest hit my hand. "Back off!"

"You're not scared, are you?"

I walked to where my mom stood. "Mom we need to leave, now," I said, grabbing her arm and pulling her towards our house. The faster we left the better. This guy was starting to creep me out.

"Why, Nicky? Is there something wrong?"

"No, but it's getting late and I have school tomorrow," I said, still pulling her.

"Okay." She looked back at the man of the house and said goodbye. Then we were on our marry way back home. Once we got there I went to the kitchen for a drink.

"What the hell was his problem? He's probably one of those super douchy guys, Nicky," I told myself.

"Hey, you okay? You look pale," said a voice coming from the hall. I turned around and Danny was standing right there smiling. He could be so annoying sometimes.

"Yeah. I'm fine. Just the guy over there was creeping me out."

"How?" He was full on mocking me now.

"He was creepy," I said back as I walked around him and went up the stairs and into my room.

It was late so I went to bed quickly and fell asleep just as fast.

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