My Annoying Neighbour

Chapter 12: Getting Along

I walked over to Josh's place already feeling annoyed. I'd much rather do the 10 pages of homework I had. That's how much I hate Josh. I knocked on the front door and Anne immediately opened the door.

"Hey Sophie." Anne said with a wide smile.

"Hey Anne. How are you?" I said smiling back.

"I'm great thanks. Are you here to work on the project with Josh?"

"Yes."

"Okay, he's in the living room. Follow me."

"Your home is very beautiful. I love these paintings on the wall." I said, admiring the artwork. No ways I'd be able to do that.

........

Already an hour in and I'm feeling really hungry. I wanted to ask Anne where the kitchen was, but I didn't even know where she was. Guess I'll just have to ask...him.

"Hey, which way to your kitchen?" I said really fast.

"Follow me." Josh said.

When we arrived in the kitchen, Josh opened up the pantry and said I could pick whatever snacks I wanted... except the Oreos. Josh waited for me to pick something and we both went back to the living room.

"What's this?" I asked, looking at a photo.

"Nothing." Josh said really fast while trying to hide the picture.

"It's a baby photo of you, isn't it?" I said sort of laughing."Aww, you had such chubby cheeks." I said.

"Hey, you have to admit, I was a cute baby back then." Josh said defending himself.

"Whatever helps you sleep at night." I said patting him on the head.

"What's that supposed to mean." Josh said while pushing my hand away(not in a rude way).

"Look it up." is all I said.

Woah. Josh and I were actually getting along. I'm hallucinating, right? There's no way Josh is... nice.

..........

"So, how is the project going?" my mom asked during dinner time.

"It's going good." I said.

"Just good?" my dad asked.

"Yes dad, just good."

"What are you guys working on?" my mom asked.

"A project."

"Well, I know that. I mean like what's going to be in your project?"

"Chemistry."

"Sophie-

"Look mom, I don't feel like talking about the project, okay?"

"Okay." my mom said.

"By the way, there's this party tomorrow and I really want to go... I mean, I'd really like to go. Can I go?"

"Of course. Where's the party going to be?" my mom asked.

"It's at Max's place."

"Oh ok, that's not too far from here."

"Also, another thing-

"You want to go to Hailey's house and get ready there?"

"Yes please."

"Okay."

I finished my dinner and headed to my bedroom to finish up my remaining homework. When I switched on my phone to put some music on, I had a missed message from...Josh? I clicked on the message and my blood started boiling. The message said:

"Just so you know, I hate you."

What the? I'm confused. He was fine this afternoon.

"You seemed to be fine with me earlier today."

He immediately replied back and said:

"My mom was in the house idiot."

Wow. Here I thought we were actually getting along and this year would actually go along just fine. Now I'm stuck with this jerk. Great.