neighborly love

Chapter 7

My cousins and I've been at my moms friend's house for a week now. And, you will never guess who it is. The old lady, yea that grinch. I kinda sorta may have argued with her a couple times.. Well like everyday because she keeps defending micheal over me because hes "younger and a baby" he's old enough to spell the longest word in the dictionary he's not a baby.

Besides that, I've ran away about 2 times so far but I always come back at night time because I have nowhere else to sleep. It's currently 2:38pm. My cousins and I decided to go jump on the trampoline together. I took a step outside, my cousins had to finish eating before they could come outside, says the old lady. I already finished and didnt feel like being around her so that's why I'm already outside. She doesn't deserve my presence.

The sun was beaming onto the pavement. I immediately regret wearing leggings. I began to head over to the trampoline but I saw a boy around my age come outside the neighboring door to mine well the old lady's. I glanced over trying to look like I was interested in a tree nearby. A girl around my age followed out behind him. It was the same boy I saw a couple months ago running to the car. Except this time I could see his face.

I almost fell on the ground when my cousin micheal came and trampled over me to get to the trampoline. "Ooo are you staring at him" Micheal said with a grin on his face. I just knew he was finna do something dumb. He could never keep his mouth closed. He jumped off the trampoline "STOP what are you doing" I watched him walk over to the guy and girl eager to talk. I look down at my phone tryna pretend I wasn't listening but Micheal has a huge mouth and practically screams when he speaks so the whole world could hear him.

Micheal invited the boy over to play. Not only him but the girl behind him. I sighed. By now my other two cousins had come out to play leaving one inside the house. "This is leon and lydia" Micheals says to me and my 2 cousins as he reached our faces. Leon, that's his name. I look at leon, He had dark brown enchanting eyes. The kind you could stare at all day and get lost in, the perfect button nose. Brown straight fluffy hair and golden kissed skin.

The perfect dream boy. I turn my attention towards the girl next to him, they kinda looked the same except very different. "Are yall siblings" lydia said well I think her name was, I wasn't really paying attention to her name. I shake my head yes, and Sarah fixes my thoughts for me "Yes well no she's our cousins but the rest of us are siblings we call her our sister though" The two people in front of us shake their and say cool. Moments passed by, I was on the trampoline jumping with my 3 year old cousin.

When I heard Sarah scream "Mel come here" I glanced at my 3 year old cousin to see if she's alright before I got off she was too busy jumping. I walked over to Sarah and she was talking to Lydia. Sarah then said "This is melissa" I smiled and say "hey" I ended up talking to Lydia for hours. She was actually super nice and fun to talk to. I found out her and leon were brothers, and she even gave me her snapchat.

Although I wish I got her brothers instead I wasn't gonna complain. Somehow Micheal and Sarah got Leon's snapchat and they won't give it to me either. I was talking to Sarah about how cute Leon was and Micheal was ease dropping and said he's telling Leon tomorrow. If he does I will kill him. Anyways, it's currently 3 am and I'm telling my online friend about my crush. She's calling me Delulu for saying leon is my man but she just doesn't know true love when it's shown. I know most people think online friends are "dangerous".

But, I haven't been to school since the incident with laine and I honestly don't plan on going back this year. My grades have slipped but I again honestly don't care. School is a prison for kids. I don't need to know any of the things they 'teach' when I'm out of school. But, I'll go back next school year for sure. My eyes could barely stay open to text her back, I told her I'd take a quick nap and be back in 30 minutes. Within a few seconds I was knocked out.