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Five

My parents squeezed me as I left, dragging a suitcase behind me and placed it in the boot of my dad's travelling car. a.k.a the ford focus he uses when our cars don'[t have room.

I got inside the car, my stomach filling with butterflies from the nerves and I had a feeling of wanting to throw up my breakfast.

"Excited son?" My dad smiled at me from the drivers seat and I shrugged my shoulders, bored, "Just wanna get there, get in, meet this family, go to my room and sleep." I groaned, my head pulsing faintly. I still had this headache and it hurt like a mother.

My dad looked at me and I thought he was gonna tear up. "Now son. This is a big step. Be good. I don't want you to annoy your landlady." I rolled my eyes and turned to look out of the window, turnign my ipod on and pushing the wireless buds into my ears.

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The car pulled into a small tar driveway infront of a small garage. The house was quite secluded yet near to school and was extremely basic. I got out the car and my dad pulled me into a man hug which I returned.

I grabbed my bag from the back and walked up the front path, waving bye to my dad who mouthed he would bring my car over and that my mail would come to this address.

I nodded then stepped up the 3 stairs to the door.

The front garden was tiny and was just grass. It had been trimmed neatly but apart from that it was a mess. I noticed a large slowworm curled up in an empty plant pot and there were stones everywhere. as if someone was doing something then decided to gve up.

I turned and rang the door bell, pulling my suitcase next to me.

The first thing I heard was a dog barking and someone telling it to shut up.

I rang the door bell again "Alright! I'm coming!" A voice shouted, muffled by the door. I recognised it somehow. but either this person or her daughter went to my school so it might've been from there.

The door opened and a dog jumped out, knocking me down, it started to lick me as I tried to push it off. It was a large chocolate lab with massive baby blue eyes.

"Cocoa off." The dog was pulled gently by the collar off me and I started to wipe the slime from my face.

"Sorry about him, hi i'm.... HOLY SHIT! What the hell are you doing here. How did you find this place." The person definately wasn't an adult so that must mean she was the daughter that was my age.

"Wha?" I got up and came face to face with a girl.

Flaming red locks were tied up in a ponytail, large glasses covered her eyes and she was wearing sweatpants and a jumper.

"Liesma?" I jumped back and looked at her, she had a hand on the head of the dog which was now sitting patiently, it's tongue hanging out of the side of it's mouth.

"No shit douche, now what are you doing here?" She snapped, her voice still disguised. Well at least she was talking.

"Umm. Unless I have the wrong address then I'm meant to be living here. I'm renting a room?" One of Liesma's eyebrows rose as she folded her arms.

"Hmmm. Show me the papers then I'll believe you." I sighed and pushed my hand into my jeans pocket, pulling out the papers. 

She took them and held them up. "No,no,no,no,no,no,no,no." She muttered under her breath but I could still hear her.

"I can hear you you know." She just raised her head from the papers then looked back down again.

She sighed and chewed her lip. "come on Liesma. You either send this dick away and try and find a new tenant which might be impossible or let him stay here and get the money you need." She whispered to herself, thinking outloud.