The day the earth stood still

The Newgirl on Gardina Street- Garret

Three doors down was a girl I'd never seen.

She had shoulder length auburn hair, and piercing blue eyes. Judging by the ten Panic! At the Disco and Fall out Boy bracelets, she was in to punk rock.

She must've been new in the neighborhood, guessing by the moving van, and the furniture in the drive...

Stupid, stupid! Obviously she's new and obviously she's super cute but I need to focus on the task at hand, writing this college letter.

Sadly I have no clue how to start it. I put my fingers on my he keys of my laptop and begin to type.

"Hello my name is Garret and I want..."

No... I glance over at that girl.

No... I turn back to my laptop, deleting the previous sentence and starting over.

"Writing and reading are this guys passions..."

No!

I look over again and see the mystery woman picking up pots and boxes of flowers. All kinds: Lilies, hydrangeas, sunflowers, daffodils, and some other weird plants?

I can't take this anymore, I need to find out who this girl is!

I start down the stairs, trip over the sixth step, it's kinda broken.

I've been meaning to fix that...

The door is in sight when I crash into my mom. "And just where do you think your going sir?"

"Um..." I pause ,trying to think of a good excuse,"I... uh... we ran out of shampoo!"

My mom just stood there with a strange look on her face. I scratched the back of my head, I must've looked like a clown.

"Okay. Go get your 'shampoo'", she made a quotation motion with her fingers.

I gave her a kiss on the cheek and sprinted out the door. The door closed behind me I looked over at the house with the moving van, and I saw the mystery girl...walking in the door!

Damn it! I missed my chance! Stupid stairs!

Had I not tripped I could have met the strange beautiful girl three doors down! Wait, hold the fliping phone, did she just... no she couldn't have... did she just... she did!

She opened her door once more just to wave at me. Yes, yes, yes! I run to her house jump over a chair and run past more flowers. I get to her door, I knock four times. She opens the door slowly, and I get butterflies.

When she opens it all the way I nervously say, "H...hey." Oh my god why is this so hard? "I... I'm Garret, I live a little down the block and I think that your really pretty and I... wait no I meant..."

She giggles a little, "Hello garret,I'm Audrey".

Audrey... She is probably the prettiest thing I've seen and heard all day.

I walk back to my house, open the door, close it behind me and sink to the floor with a stupid smile. Audrey...