He runs to her, finding her standing by his car. “Allison, you didn’t have to leave”
“What are you talking about?”
“Natasha and I, were not an item” Allison gives Ethan a blank stare.
“Ok….” She said in a weird voice. “I mean, that’s you’re business not mine.” Ethan realized that she’s right. He doesn’t need to explain anything to her. Gosh, he’s acting like a dumb ass.
Allison did not know why but when Natasha had grabbed Ethan, her heart started to race and she felt a sense of possessiveness. She wondered why? But she did not feel in the mood to watch the show that Natasha was giving Ethan. So, she left them. But as she waked out, Allison couldn’t not help feel the bitterness that radiated through her. As she stands by the she sees Ethan runs to her. She didn’t know why, but she felt a relief when he told her that he and Natasha weren’t something great. But she didn’t admit it to herself or to him. “c’mon lets go” she tells him and he surprisingly takes her bags from her shoulder but as he does such action their heads touch, forcing them to look into each other’s eyes. She sees Ethan lick his lips and her knees tremble. But as quickly they had done such action is as quickly they moved away from each other.
Allison opens the door of the blue Jeep and Ethan followed. He places the car into acceleration and leaves the school courtyard.
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As Ethan drove Allison could not help but notice that he was going in her house’s direction. But she let it go, but when enters her neighborhood, she started to panic. He lives in Pinewood? Are you kidding me? But when he parks just only a street away from her house she almost has a heart attack. He looks at her with a smile. “When did you live here?” she asks him in the calmest manner. But he looks at her with a confused smile.
“Since forever…." he says sarcastically. " Now c’mon; let’s start this project." Ethan’s house is amazing. It’s one of the mansions that stand tall in Pinewood. His ancient cream colored house is beautiful and extravagant in everyway. Clean cut grass. Flowers perfectly trim, trees aligned. When the gate open, Ethan quickly parks the car and steps out, Allison follows. “Why are you so surprise that I live in this neighborhood reef?” Ethan asks her, with a skeptical look. Allison couldn’t help but give out a small laugh, her dark curls falling over her eyes.
“Well, because I live in this neighborhood” she explains
“No Fucking way!” he exclaims. “That’s not possible I know every kid in Pinewood. We all hang out together; even if we don’t go to the same school.”
“Well, you don’t know them all. Or maybe you only hang out with the cool kids” Allison jokes.
“Are you kidding? Every kid that lives in Pinewood is cool!” he beams as they walk inside the mansion. “It’s Pinewood!”
“Oh, does that make me cool?” Allison teases, and Ethan looks at her with a smile that makes her knees tremble.
“You just might be Reef. You just might be!” Allison could do nothing let out a laugh.
“You have a beautiful house by the way.”
“Thanks, but you never told me. Where exactly is your house?”
“Two blocks down” she answers him simply. “You see that very big gray house on 104th?”
“Oh my God, that your place?” he ask in astonishment. "That place is freacking amazing, it should have its own zip code" he jokes.
“No! but if you go three house down, you’ll see it.”
“I think I know that house. It kind of look modern but vintage right? White and black?”
“Yup! That’s the one. Not as big and extravagent as yours but you know"
"Well that makes things easier. I still can’t believe you’ve live right down the street from me Reef. And now that you know, I think I’m going have to put bars on my window so you don’t rape me one of those nights” Allison gasps at his claim. He is just so egotistical. Seriously, if she had to rape anyone, why in the world does it have to be him? She rolls her eyes at his comment. Ethan sees her action and quickly retaliates. “Shish Reef, take a joke will you?” knowing that she might just have taken it too seriously. She hears herself say a little
“Sorry” so low, she didn’t even thin Ethan heard and hopefully he didn’t. But she feels her hands and instantly her skin electrify. Oh God. She thinks to herself. This cannot be happening! But she let him guide her to a great long stairs and they walk up until they reach an infinity hallway. “This is a palace, don’t you get lost” Ethan simply laughs at her comment.
“Naw, I think after seventeen years I can manage” His hands still hold on too hers as he stops in front of dark wooden door with a with a gold ornamented lock. When Ethan opens the door, Allison finds herself surprised by the decoration. She expected playboy bunny poster, instead she found a great yellow canvas, that contains a bright dimming sunset and a cherry blossom tree that came from the side of the canvas, allowing the viewer to envoy both the tree and the sunset. Instead Maxim magazine, she saw the scientific journal, and what really surprised her was all the pictures he took with what seems to be maybe small cousins or nephews and nieces. At the top of his nightstand was a family but Ally concluded that was a younger Ethan, holding a younger child while his parents stood in the back with Ethan’s brother on the dad’s arm. “I thought it was only the two of you” Allison ask but she regretted the question as quickly as she had said it.
“it is” Ethan looks at her with a somber look in his eyes. “My parents and Emilee died in car crash” Allison was blown-away. They had died. All the time
“I’m so sorry Ethan, I didn’t mean to pry. Sorry”
“It’s ok” He says softly while taking her hand and crossing the second section of his room and dragging her to the big black leather couch. “Now, what do you say we start of this project?”
