Happily (h.s)

My P.O.V

Tree's zooming past the window. We drove down a dirt road with pouring down rain. I took a look at the clock, 2am. We've been driving all night. We were moving out to the state of New York due to my step fathers work. I would give anything to be in Ohio. God save me now. I could tell my mom had been crying by the reflection in the window. I knew she thought I was asleep because she embraced her embarrassing obsession of gospel music. So I just turned my head phones up a notch. My little brother asleep next to me with his Nintendo DS still in his hands. Gotta love that 12 year old freak. As we continued driving down the road, we pasted a house with someone standing in the front yard. It was a young man, maybe fresh out of high school. His head hung as he kept a solid gaze at the over grown grass filling his yard. He was standing in the rain with another older man. They were the only one's awake on this street, so it had seemed. The older man looked furious. You could tell he was yelling by how he articulated his words and spit fire into the younger boys face. The younger man showed no expressions. He continued to stare blankly at the ground. All of a sudden, the older man back handed him, then proceeded to go back into the house and leave him in the dark. The younger man had dark brown curls that covered his eyes. He wore a white t-shirt that was practically see through from the rain. My mom pulled into the house next to his. I didn't know what to think but if it was trouble, I surely didn't want to be apart of it. My mom opened her door and light filled the car.

"Let's get inside, it's late and I'm tired of driving." She sniffled. I closed the door loudly gettin out of the car, and the neighbor boy drew his attention to us.

My mom interrupted my thoughts by shoving boxes in my face. "Take these inside..i'll be inside in a minute." I obeyed her request and the boy watched my every move. When I entered the house, he directed his attention back to the ground. I flipped on a switch and no lights came on. Really? Stuck in an old creepy house with no electricity? I walked around in the darkness into the only room in the house that had furniture so far. There was a queen sized mattress the 3 of us grown sized people would have to share for the night. I dreaded it because Ben was a bed hog.

"The electric guy will be here tomorrow to fix these lights." I jumped not expecting my mom to be in here so quickly. She set Ben's sleeping body on the bed then crawled in next to him. He held onto that DS like he'd never see it again. I crawled in bed as well on the other side of him. I wasn't tired yet. I was too full of curiosity of what this town had to offer us. So I just laid there and stared at the motionless fan. My mom broke the silence, sensing I was uncomfortable.  "So what's the first thing you wanna do while we're here?"

I propped myself up on my arm, "How about pack everything back up and go home?"

She grabbed my hand and squeezed it. She knew it was hard us kids. This was the 5th time we've had to move in the past 2 years because of Jason, my step fathers, job. I was so over being the new girl. "Don't worry, sweetie. Everything will turn out the way it's supposed to."

I faked a smile then rolled over and faced the wall, forcing myself to sleep through the night no matter how hard it was.

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"So where's your sister?" I was awoken by a strong echoing voice. Not birds and warm sunlight in my eyes. I glanced out the window before moving and saw no sunlight. Just a grey, smog filled sky.

"Oh..she's asleep..she likes sleeping a lot."

Who is he talking too? I quickly sat up but loosened up when I remembered the electrician was coming today.

"Can I go get her?'

"I don't know..she yells at me when I try to wake her up."

"I don't care...she can yell and scream at me all she wants." He said with a sexual tone to his voice. I don't think the electric guy would be trying to talk dirty to me.

"Well then go right on ahead she's back there." Ben had just given a stranger permission to waltz around our house? What an idiot! I heard loud footsteps on the wood flooring. I panicked and went back under the covers. The footsteps became muffled when they hit the carpet of the bedroom but you could feel the presence of someone there. I could feel the presence of someone behind me. The bed shifted to my left as more weight was added onto the bed. Too close for comfort. My brother is 12 years old, you would think by now he'd know what 'stranger danger' means. Especially in a new town? I wouldn't dare move, my heart was beating so fast. What was he doing? It felt like an eternity passed but really it was likely only 20 seconds at the most. When I realized he hadn't moved I knew it was time to take action. I spun around and knocked him right in the mouth, causing his head to do a little jerk backward. "Who the hell are you?!"

"Fuck!" He yelped, revealing a strong English accent. I still couldn't see his face as his hands were covering it. When he finally removed them from his face, I had noticed he had the most intensely beautiful green eyes I had ever seen. Also that his lip was bleeding. Barely, but still bleeding.

"You're stronger than you look, little girl."

"Yeah, and there's more where that came from if you think you're gonna keep crawling into bed with me! Now answer the damn question; who are you!?"

"I'm the neighbor." He exclaimed as he kept one hand on his lip, surprised by my response. With the other hand he pointed out the window to his house. I remembered our encounter the night before.

"Yeah I saw you yesterday...well .. last night."

"Yeah baby, I saw you last night too, In my dreams." He said with a wink.

I rolled my eyes, "That's..great.." I replied and walked out of the room gesturing to follow. "You know, I didn't actually catch your name?" I turned around to see him just staring at me blankly. I crossed my arms. "Hello??" He opened his mouth to say something but he stopped as he saw my parents pulling in the driveway.

"I gotta go..i'll see you later, love." He smirked and darted towards the back door.

"Where did Harry go?" Ben appeared infront of me.

"Harry?"

"Yeah that guy you were just talking to."

This guy was very mysterious , maybe i'll see him again. By the way he said it, I'll definitely see him again.

(A/N) : ayyyyyo it's Chloe once again with another story. And tbh I kinda like this one better. I have it written on paper so i'll post it frequently when I have a chance too. I hope you like it (((((-: