The Boy Next Door

Prologue

For as long as Pidge could remember, old Mrs. Marilyn had lived next door.

Well, for five years anyways.

Mrs. Marilyn was a nice lady, she had a garden full of daisies that she would tend to everyday. She would also have tea around noon, always inviting Pidge and her older brother Matt over. Matt, being the sweet but secretly annoying person he was, always tried to act like he didn't want to bother her. Pidge knew better than that, she knew that he adored the cakes she made that were freshly out of the oven.

She was very friendly towards the Holt family, never once having a complain about the two children. She didn't even complain when BaeBae, their new puppy, had managed to dig up some of her daisies. She had laughed it off and told them that she was planning on fixing her garden anyways.

Needless to say, when she moved away Pidge was very disappointed. At first she had only liked the old lady because she made mean peanut butter cookies, but then she had become used to hearing a greeting every time she passed by the house and had grown to appreciate her elderly neighbor.

Matt was upset when he learned that she had moved away, sulking alongside Pidge as they watch the moving men finish taking out everything that belonged to old Mrs. Marilyn.

The house stood empty for about two months, with families and sometimes single couples visiting the home. Pidge would glare at them from her bedroom window which faced a room in her neighbors house, sometimes scaring the people that would walk into the room only to see a small child glaring back at them from the house next door.

As a result, the house wasn't sold for many months.

Suddenly, there were no more visits. No more people touring the house.

Pidge was pleased, believing that she had scared off the people trying to take her neighbor's home. That is, until a moving truck pulled up to the front of the house one sunny July morning.

She screamed, making Matt rush into her room. "Katie?!"

"WHO'S THAT?"

He looked towards the direction where her finger was pointing before he grinned. "Sweet, the new neighbors are here! C'mon Katie!"

The mentioned girl only glared as Matt walked down the stairs, grudgingly putting on a pair of shoes before walking out in her pajamas.

She squinted, trying to get a better view from behind the bushes before Matt rolled his eyes and pulled her up by the arm. "Hey!"

"You don't have to hide behind a bush, Katie. They're not gonna bite."

"What if they're vampires that are gonna suck our blood while we sleep?"

Matt laughed. "As if! We have enough garlic to ward them off, so don't worry. Come on, I think there's someone my age!"

He pulled her along, the five year old girl groaning at having to meet the new neighbors.
They skid to a halt as two boys got out of a car, the tallest one immediately spotting them before he waved at them, a smile on his face.

What caught Pidge's attention was the boy next to him. He was shorter, obviously the youngest out of the two.

She pouted. Why couldn't there be any girls? She was stuck with two new boys as her neighbors. Ew.

The shortest one raised his brow, looking at her with a tilted head. The first words he said would always resound in her heart.

"You're so short!"
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(A/N: Wellllll here's the first part to my Kidge neighbor au! Hope you liked it so far.)