The Boy Next Door

dinner and new plans

hey guysss

i was just checking wattpad notification while brushing my teeth (classy) with an electric toothbrush and it hit the roof of my mouth, which hurt and I dropped it on my bed and the toothbrush kept spinning and now there's toothpaste all over my bed and laptop. *smooth*  (ebony's clumsiness doesn't come from nowhere, guys...)

i haven't been writing much because i've been working on applications for private high schools that i want to go to next year alll day yesterday and all day today... i'd rather be writing tbh, but i reallly want to go to a new school next year bc i hate my school so, so, so much

x -e

It's Saturday evening, I'm almost all better. I haven't fully recovered, I have a stuffy nose, but that's it. I did school with the LeBlancs yesterday. I was really happy to hang out with them, even though it had only been a few days, I had missed them so much.

I'm heading over to the LeBlancs for dinner. Joey has an appointment to get his eyes checked because he's been complaining he can't see things well lately and it's gotten bad enough for Mum and Dad to want to take him to see if he needs glasses. Hayley's ecstatic that Joey might need glasses like her, and she really wants him to get pink frames like she has. The cute thing is he's seriously considering it because he wants him and Hayley to be "twinsies," but when he says it he pronounces it in an American accent like Hayley so it sounds more like, "twinzayyysss." It makes Caleb and I laugh so hard, and he laughs even more when I do it.

Mum, Dad, and Joey just left to the eye doctor and I'm getting ready to go over for dinner. I get up from my bed look at myself in the mirror. I look like I just rolled out of bed, because I kinda just did. I had a lazy day today, filled with reading and Netflix. But this resulted in dark circles under my eyes, and there's legit cheez-it crumbs on my sweatshirt. "Cute, Ebony..." I mutter sarcastically. I take off the oversized hoodie and replace it with a gray button up collared shirt with lavender polka dots, and then realize it looks really plain. So I throw a light purple sweater over it. Caleb picked it out when we were shopping over the summer. He thought it looked cute with my eyes. Then I fix it so the shirt's collar is showing over the neck of the sweater. Classy and cute, perfect. I replace my sweatpants with jeans and my fuzzy socks with booties. Then I wash my face and basically throw some powder at my face and call it good. I spray a bit of dried shampoo in my pixie cut, (that I'm actually growing to like believe it or not!) And I'm out the door.

I don't need to ring the doorbell at the LeBlancs anymore, I rang it the yesterday morning when I was heading over for school and when Katie came to get the door she told me there was no reason for me not to feel comfortable enough to just walk in, and gave me a hug. I pull open the front door and before I can even yell "I'm here," Annie runs in at the speed of a bullet and screams, "EBBY'S HERE!!!"

"Hey A," I say to her.

"C'mon, we're about to eat dinner!" Says Annie, pulling me to the kitchen.

It smells incredible, Katie's making one of her delicious meals for us. Hayley's sitting at the table, she smiles and runs up to give me a hug. "Hey there, Ebby!" Says Billy.

"Hey," I say. "It smells wonderful in here!"

"That's because I'm making pork chops, the ones with the mustard seeds and pears, you favorite!" Says Katie, coming over and giving me a hug, then making me try a bit of her sauce, that is brilliant like I knew it would be.

A familiar voice echos through the hallway on the way to the kitchen. "Mom can I clean my room later I-" Says Caleb as he comes up from his room, just as I sneeze. He stops when he sees me and a smile spreads across his face.