The Boy Across the Street [SEQUEL IS OUT]

Chapter 2: The Middle of No Where

"Where are we?" My confused little brother asked, rubbing his eyes.

My poor little sister, Ellie was bawling her eyes out, so very confused at what was going on.

"Shh, shh. Ellie its ok honeybee." My mother whispered in a very reassuring voice to my baby sister while tickling her little toes. "Isaac, why would you do that? Did you not see all of our children where sleeping." My mother said, scolding my father.

"Sorry, Darcy." My father said, giving my mother a quick peck on the lips. "Lets get inside. I'm tired after driving almost 5 hours."

"Same, same." I murmured. Just as I said that, 2 moving trucks pulled up behind us.

"Ahh, here they are." My mother said.

I climbed out of the car and walked to the side facing the left side which was the one I could lean against at stare at my brand new home. Wow. Boy of boy was it a dream. It reminded me of a beach house. It had a huge wrap around porch for both floors, white singles, huge windows. It really truly was a dream. 

I watched all the movers help unpack everything and my parents were both telling them where everything went. It seemed to go 20x sped up. I just leaned against my car taking in my surroundings. There were no houses in sight, well there was one. Right across the road. They had a similar house but they had brown shingles instead of white ones. I saw 2 cars in their driveway. Both Mercedes. A white, car version then a black, mini van, car thing. I am not very good at describing what cars look like so hey! Leave me alone. Their house was dark only the porch lights were on around their wrap around porch. Then I saw a light flick on inside. Then I heard a door creek open. I saw a figure step onto the second floor's porch. I saw them in a shadow and I couldn't tell whether it was a guy or a girl. I decided to leave it alone. I'm sure my mother would make us all go over there are meet them or maybe they would come over here and say hi. I just knew one thing. I wanted to meet them. I was so curious about them.

After a while I got bored of staring. I decided to take Benjy and Ellie to the lake behind my house. I let Benjy run a little ahead and even let Ellie walk herself. She had just learned to walk 2 weeks ago so she wasn't that good but the ground was pretty flat so I thought she would be ok. 

Boy what I wrong. She fell down and started wailing. She started saying "uppy, uppy!" Through tears. I grabbed her and carried her down to the lake, beach thing, Benjy trailing not too far behind me now.

"Wow, is this ever beautiful." I said to myself.

"Yeah! It is so pretty! I want to be married out here!" I heard Benjy scream next to me.

"Woah, slow down, kid. You're 6 and you want to get married?" I asked.

"Yuppie! I have a fiancée, or whatever they're called!" He started yelling again.

"Shh, Benjy." I said, pointing to a sleepy looking baby.

"Ohh! Ok." He said, lowering his voice, only slightly.

"Better than nothing." I said murmuring to myself again. "So who's this girl?" I asked.

"OH! Her name is Harper." He shouted.

"Benjamin. Do you not see Ellie right here. About to pass out? Do you want her to start screaming?" I scolded Benjy.

"Sowwy." He said, in his baby voice, making me feel a bit bad.

"It's ok. Just. Not so loud." I said, whispering.

"Ohh.. So like this?" He said, whispering even more quietly than I had.

"Good. So Harper? I think I recognize that name. She has been over. I mean at our old house, hasn't she?"

"Yeah!"

"Sh. Soo. You're engaged?" I asked.

"Well. I want to be. She is just so pretty and nice. We always play a chase for a kiss! It's so fun. All the boys chase her for a kiss and I always win." He said, quite proudly.

"Wow." I said quite shocked that my brother has kissed a girl and I haven't even gotten a boyfriend yet. "You're quite the romantic, little man." I said, crouching down and pulling him in for a half hug since little Ellie had fallen asleep in my arms.

"I wanna see Mommy." He said.

"Alright, lets go. I need to get Ellie's transportable crib anyways." He grabbed my free hand and started pulling me to the car.

"Mommy! Mommy!" He screeched, running and jumping into her arms as if he had been gone for 2 years.

"Benjy, Benjy!" She screeched back, mimicking him.

"What are we going to do with those two lovebirds?" My father asked in a serious tone, coming up behind me with Ellie's portable crib.

"I don't know Dad. I really don't know." I replied in an equally serious tone, sighing. Then we both burst out laughing from our seriousness. Is that even a word? I don't know. I really don't even have a guess.

"Here you are. You don't have to hold our 3000 pound baby any longer." My dad said, chuckling.

"Yes father, because Ellie definitely weighs 3000 pounds." I said laughing, then we both burst out laughing as I put Ellie into her crib. My Mom and Benjy both started staring at us as if we were mental and had just broken free of a hospital. As if, they were both just nuzzling each other's noses. Just then, the passenger seat window rolled down.

"Will y'all be quiet? I am trying to sleep in here!" Oliver yelled at all of us and then the window went back up.

Wow how is Ellie still sleeping? We're being so loud! I don't want to wake our neighbours either.

A few hours later everything is inside the house and the movers are pulling out of our gigantesque driveway. I check the time. Wow, it's only 9. I guess Ellie would be waking up in the middle of the night.. Hopefully my room isn't too close to hers..

Oliver is finally awake and helping Dad move the portable crib with a sleeping Ellie, inside of our new house. I watched as they struggled for a few minutes and giggle a few times but I was getting really tired. I decided to head inside the house since all I could see was from outside. I walked up our long front entryway, away from our huge GMC and stepped into what was supposed to be my home.

"Holy.." I murmured, under my breath.