Once upon a summer|Joshifer

Chapter 5

The neighbours are here.
Oh.
No.
I scramble to my feet and hide the Cheetos behind a pillow but I have no time to wash my hands.
The door swings open to reveal a short lady with blonde hair holding a bottle of wine, behind her stands a boy younger than me with a box of chocolates and theres someone behind him but I can't see him properly.

"Hello! Welcome! Call me karen, come in, come in" mom gets a bit too excited when meeting new people

"Hello karen, lovely to meet you! Im Michele, this is conner and Josh" Michele and mom shake hands and mom then points to me.

"Hi boys! This is Jennifer, I'm sure you'll get along. Why don't you make your selves comfortable whilst I bring Gary." And she leaves me alone, stranded with these strangers

"Umm hi, I'm Jennifer"
They already know that dumbo.
"Oh sorry, you already know that, silly me!"
As I'm stumbling with my words, one of the boys, supposedly Josh laughs and finally steps into house. I can see him clearly now and he looks extremely familiar...and then I see it.
He's the boy from the party!

"You!" I almost scream aloud from shock "You are my neighbour!?"

"Well it looks like it" Josh shrugs and Michele butts in,
"Oh you two know each other? How lovely!"

"Umm actually, my mistake! You just look like someone I know...sorry about that"
I quickly save myself and Josh gives me a knowing look, he remembers me too.
"Well nice to meet you then..." He holds out his hand for me to shake but I'm too flabbergasted to move, I've got cheeto hands!
"Um......aaachoooo" I quickly fake a sneeze.
Smooth i think to myself
"Sorry I better not...I need a tissue." And thats how I cleverly avoid his handshake, Jen style. Mom then comes back with dad and suggests we go upstairs to my room. I lead them up the stairs and point to my room
"Make yourselves comfortable, I'm just going to the toilet."
When I return to my room I find Josh gazing out of the window and Connor turning round and round on my desk chair. Josh looks up at me with those hazel eyes and says
"Nice room, I can see mine from here"
His muscles are defined under his t-shirt and he stares at me expectantly...with those hazel eyes. I force myself to look away as I'm being very pathetic.
"Really, where?" I move to stand next to him and he points to his room. Of course I know which room he's talking about.

The one opposite mine.
The first thing I see when I wake up.

"Well my view is going to be just great(!)" I say sarcastically. Josh raises his eyebrows and chuckles. In the corner, Conner's looking enthusiastically through my xbox games
"You play Fifa? Cool! And whats this, Blackops! You're cooler than I thought Jenny!"
I laugh at his enthusiasm
"First of all, thank you. second of all, I absolutely HATE the nickname Jenny. And thirdly, If we ever play Fifa together, I will kick your ass."

"Oh really JENNY? Lets see about that! You should pop round tomorrow for some Fifa and if you lose, you have to help me set up my new room."

"And if you lose, you owe me a pack of Cheetos. Deal? Oh and pizza"

"Deal" Connor grins

The rest of the afternoon goes by surprisingly quickly, the ice also breaks between us pretty quickly and no one's awkward anymore. We talk about school and stuff. Josh just graduated, just like me and conner has just finished sophomore year. At one point in the conversation, Conner goes to the toilet so I'm left alone with Josh.
He suddenly turns to me with clear embarrassment on his face
"Look, I'm really sorry about your dress at the party...I hope I didn't ruin it."

"Are you seriously worrying about that? Don't worry its completely fine and i'm sorry too I guess, for acting like a jerk." I give him a forgiving smile and he stares at me for what seems like forever. We both then randomly erupt in laughter until theres tears in my eyes and Josh is lying on the floor, looking hysterical.
"You guys are so weird..." Conner appears in the doorway with a confused look on his face "Anyway weirdos, it's time to leave. See you tomorrow Jen"

"Oh I wish you didn't have to leave!" I whine.

"Don't worry," says Josh "we have all summer."

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I sit on my comfy bed with stripy patterned covers and slip into my pyjamas. I'm just about to go to bed when a light outside catches my eye.

Josh's room.

I don't notice myself staring at his room but when he notices me, heat creeps up to my face.
Oh shit... I must look like such a freak

He waves and gives me a 'one minute' sign with his hand. A few seconds later he emerges with a pen and notepad, scribbles something down and then sticks it to the window.

0772584433

Looks like my summer has just begun...

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AUTHORS NOTE

Ok guys for those of you who don't know, Josh and Jen have both finished senior year so they've both graduated, Josh is 18 and Jen is about to turn 18.
Connor has just finished sophomore year so he is 16.