The House by the Lake

oChapter 4

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Around Midnight we got to the new house it looked eerie at night. "Okay Nalea get your shit and lets go get settled for the night" she said with nasty attitude. "Okay whatever" I mumbled hatefully. I grab my bags and head up the steep staircase that leads to the front of the house. When I get there the door is already open. "Mom?" I yelled off in the direction of the car. She walked up behind me about 5 minutes later. "What do you want?" She snapped at me. "Well as you can clearly see the front door is wide open, is there someone already here?" I ask. "Well maybe the lan-" she says quietly before a strange looking person comes out of the house. "Hello! Welcome to this lovely home!" He says with a bitter cheerful tone. "And who are you?" My mother asks. "Well my name is Frederick Brown, you can call me Mr.Freddie, I am your landlord" He says more directed towards me "Well what are you two waiting for go on in and get settled in you both have a big day tomorrow I assume" he says with a nasty smile. "Thank you Frederick have a good night" my mother says with a genuine smile.

While my mother and Mr.Freddie were talking I went inside to check out what room I wanted to sleep in. When I found my room I started unpacking and setting up my room when he walked in. "Hey, Welcome to the neighborhood!" He says sweetly "Who are you and why are you in my house?" I ask hatefully "Oh I'm sorry, I live down the block. I wanted to introduce myself since we will be going to the same school" He smiles and brushes back his hair "I didn't mean to intrude or anything sorry for bothering you" He says "No its fine you just startled me a bit" I smile and tuck my hair behind my ear and smiles. "You're beautiful, you know that?" He says while looking into my eyes. I blush and look away from him. "Why are you here? You don't even know anything about me, not even my name." I say a little more hatefuly then I intended "You're right I don't know your name what is your name beautiful?" He says with a smile. I blush and mumble"My name is Nalea" He smiles and walks towards my doorway "It was nice chatting with you Nalea, I hope we can chat again soon." He smiles "Well what is your name then?" He laughs and says as he walks out of my room "My name is Matthew" and just like that he was gone and I was back to unpacking.

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Around 2am I was completely unpacked and ready to sleep, since I do have school in the morning. "New School, New Teachers, New Friends... What could get worse?" I say and fall on to my bed "Hey Nalea can I talk to you about something?" My mom asks as she walks into my room "Yeah, Whats up?" I say as I sit up "Well I wanted to apologize about earlier. I didn't mean to hit you I should have handled thay differently.I know its been a bit hard for us since your father 'went away', I shouldn't have handled like that. Do you forgive me?" She asked. She looked so sincere I was shocked that she was apologizing. "Yes, I forgive you mom. No ones noticed it so far" I smile slightly. She laughs a little "Yes well you have school tomorrow so you better get to bed I'll see you tomorrow. Sleep well" She smiles and walks out of my room. "Well that was creepy" I mumble to myself. "First, this boy matthew came into our house and popped up in my room, and now my mom is being nice to me" I say :"Is the whole world ending?" I shout and fall back on to my bed and slowly fall into an uneasy sleep.