UnderCover at Home

Starting New

        Waking up in my bed feels great but waking up in a new house is quite strange and not as quiet.  Yelling coming from down stairs is what woke me from my peaceful sleep.  I looked at my phone to see the time, 10:35 a.m.  I rolled over intending to go back to sleep but the yelling got louder. 

        "Mom, why does she have to live with us, doesn't she have friends she can live with?"

        "Trent why are you so against it, you and Claire are the same age. I would think you would be excited?" 

        "Why would I be excited about a random girl coming to live with us, when she takes Ben's room and you make him move into my room? I have no privacy!"

        I was sick and tired of this kid already and I hadn't even met him yet.

        "We are building another room for you, it's only a few weeks Trent, you can deal with it till then"

        "That's not the point, none of the living situations would have had to change if she would have just stayed in Australia, I mean what do we even know about her?"

        Okay I can't take this anymore, I roll out of bed, grab a sweater and sweats because it's cold and open my door.  I follow the yelling to the kitchen, I will admit from the back of Trent, he is a very cute guy but I'm to pissed, I leaned back against the wall and folded my arms over my chest

        "Why don't you tell us how you really feel?" I said satcastically.

        Trent and Martha both jumped and turned to look at me.  Trent face went blank but Marths's held sympathy.  "How much did you hear Claire?" she asked.

        "All of it, but in my defense I heard it from my room" Then I turned to Trent "FYI, this wasn't my choice, my parents have a hard job and wanted to keep me safe and they believe your parents can do that and I trust my parents, so I'm trying to make the best out of the situation, plus I'm the one in a foreign place, with no friends or family, so maybe you should get over what ever you have against me, till you actually get to know me." 

        Trents face especially his eye where filled with sorrow but I didn't want to hear it so I looked over at Martha "Can I have some cereal?" I asked.  She gave Trent a pointed look but nodded and showed me around the kitchen, so I knew where everything is.  "I'm sorry about Trent, he's just not used having another gitl in the house"

        "It's not that big of a deal, I know how teenage boys are, I went to school with like 200 of them"  We laughed at that and talked for a while until she had to leave for an appointment.  I finished my lucky charms, I had been eating and then headed back up to my new bedroom.  Trent's door was shut and I could hear Neon Trees "Sleeping with a Friend" playing.  I shut my door and unpacked my laptop and Ipod.  I went over to my new desk and sat down.  I checked twitter and facebook but there wasn't much new and none of my friends had messaged me.  So I went onto itunes.  "Payback is a bitch" I whispered before I turned on my Ipod.  I scanned through it till I founde the app I was looking for.  I clicked the app pointing it at trent's room and the music shut off immediately.  Then I scrolled through my itunes and found a song he would hate.  "Parachute" by Laura Marano sounded perfect, so I clicked it and it started playing in Trent's room.  I turn it up really loud, then lean back to watch the show. 

        "Trent turn that stupid music off"

        "I'm trying but it's not working, I don't even have this song Ben"

        "How is it playing then?"

        "That's what I'm trying to figure out, you dork!"

        I was laughing so hard at this pont but I felt like I was even enough so I turned my itunes off.  The room went silent.

        "Dude how did you turn it off?" Ben asked Trent.

        "I don't know, it just stopped playing" I turned off the ipod app so they could listen to there own music and shut my laptop.  A few seconds later the black eye peas came on in Trent and Ben's room.  I decided to check out the town, so I switched my sweater for a t-shirt that read "New Town, Same World" but left my sweats on.  i looked through one of my duffle bags for my high tops.  then I grabbed my skateboard and headed to my door.  My hair is naturally wavy so I left it hanging down my back.  Ben and trent were coming out of there room laughing when I opened my door.  They both halt in there tracks and look at me.  Trent gave me a nervous look

         "So this isthe oh so famous priness, that took my room" Ben said.

        "Princess? definately not but taking your room? yeah sorry about that, I didn't know that was what they were doing."

        "ehh, it's okay, I can annoy Trent more now"

        "yay me!" Trent finally spoke.  the way his face lit up.  I finally saw how cute he is.  He has these brilliant blue eyes amd this cute lopsided smile with shaggy brown hair.  I didn't realize I wa staring (and probably had a huge grin on my face.)  till he looked at me nervously like I had been caught and he ws uncomfortable.

        Ben asks, "So we're going to play wii in the basement, would you like to join?"

        "Thanks for the offer but I think I'm going to skateboard into town and check it out."

        Ben's eyes got really wide, "you know how to skateboard like trent?" he asked.

        Trent eyes held amusement but didn't say anything. "Yeah, I have been skating since I was 7." 

        Ben turns to Trent "hey, can we play wii later and go show Claire around town, I really want to see her on a skateboard." Trent didn't look very happy about that.

        "Ben, Claire probably has better things to do then have us follow her around" Ben looked unfased by his shortness but me on the other hand was angry.

        "oh come on Trent, she doesn't know this town at all, we should be good host and show her around."  They kept bickering back and forth so I finally stepped in, I mean why does Trent not want to hangout with me now?

        "Um excuse me you guys" They both stopped talking and looked at me. "Ben I would love for you to come, if you wanted to show me around."

        Ben smiled at ne," Sweet! let me grab my shoes and wallet"  then he ran off to his room leaving Trent and I standing awkwardly in the hallway.

        "Can you tell your mom we went to town?" I asked.

        "Yeah, I guess, does this mean you only want Ben to go with you?"

        What kind of question is that, Trent is one confusing guy.  First, he's angry at me, then annoyed and now upset for no reason at all. 

        "Well, you have kind of made it clear you don't want anything to do with me."