As Alexandra got ready to go to the neighbors house that her mom told her to go to and to go and dog sit at, she found her sister sleeping on the couch which was very unusual because she was always sleeping in her room she found that the tv was on but it was on mute she knew her mom would deal with this so she just left her lying there, she told her mom she was going and then she left the house, the weather was really warm she liked the weather like this she noticed that the neighborhood was quite large and the houses were quite big, just like theirs ,when she finally got to the neighbors house she had a lot of newfound anxiety but it was already to late to turn back now she told herself so she knocked on the door and the door open with a teen looking just about the same age as her she had blue eyes and blond hair but the ends were turquoise she was wearing a t shirt and some shorts and then when she smiled she noticed she had braces on "hello I'm Ava nice to meet you" " hi I'm Alexandra some people call me Alex" " nice to meet you, you can come in I don't mean to be rude" " oh yeah" Alexandra said with a shy laugh when she entered the house it was a bit bigger than their house but they had pets so it's was obvious, a lady emerged from the kitchen and she immediately smiled as she saw Alexandra "oh my goodness hello I'm Penelope i have heard so much nice things about you as you can see this is my youngest daughter Ava and I have an older son but he's in college but he'll be coming back next week he has to finish some tests and all that stuff I'll bring the dogs down so you can meet them but they might be sleeping so it'll take a while and I can't be in these clothes forever ecspcially with a guest around so I'm gonna change and I'll bring he dogs down in a few in the meantime you can make conversation with my daughter" as soon as she went upstairs Ava motioned for Alexandra to sit down on the couch as she did Ava asked " so how do you like California so far?" "oh it's nice it's super hot over hear I'm kinda not used to it but I like my new house and the neighborhood and you guys seem very friendly and that's nice so" " that's good it gets really hot in the summer more than it does during November and December usually but sometimes there will be a heatwave for a week or so but it's not so bad" "oh that's good to know" " do you have any friends that you still talk to from wait we're did you come from again I'm so sorry I didn't even ask" " I came from Connecticut,new haven, and um a lot of the people I was friends with we're not friends anymore just some complications I guess but I'll make some new friends here of course starting with you" " Yeah of course I'm sorry to hear that I shouldn't have asked um I have some friends that I'm sure you would get along with" " oh okay that's nice to know thank you" " no problem it was my fault anyways, and about the dogs they aren't too huge and they don't bark much so you'll be fine and my mom is working a lot and I take art classes so no one really is there to watch the dogs and my dad has gone on a business trip he won't be back till August sadly but you'll see him eventually I think you'll like him" " oh thats good I didn't know you took art classes that's cool I can't draw for anything" Alexandra laughs "oh yeah I love art it's kinda my passion but I don't really think there's such this as a bad drawer it's just the way they know best to perceive it on paper" " ha yeah I guess so" after that Penelope brings the dogs downstairs "it's great to see that you guys have been talking well these are our two dogs max and Luna max is a Crocker spaniel and Luna is a golden retriever I think you'll enjoy them very much" the dogs immediately run outside and start barking "shh shhhhhh be quiet you two" Penelope says "I'm so sorry they usually never get like this, Ava knows this as well" " yeah I know she told me it's fine" "do you girls want to walk the dogs ?" Penelope asks "I wouldn't mind" Alexandra says "of course" Ava says, a couple minutes later they are walking the dogs and then they see two girls in crop tops taking selfies at a bench "oh my gosh no no" Ava says "what happened?" "You see those two girls by the bench they are going to try to make friends with you no matter how nice they may seem to you trust me don't be friends with them they'll turn you into a piece of crap before high school starts please believe me when I tell you this I used to be really good friends and then they just- it's not something I like to talk about but just please believe me" " oh don't worry I won't make a mistake with friends again or at least Ill try not to" " that's good" they stop and rest to get some ice cream and they are laughing because of some joke that they made about a post Alexandra saw on Instagram, they almost drop their ice cream, they start walking back home and it's getting late so they walk home quickly they noticed the girls from before but this time they're heading their way " hi it's nice to meet you I'm Hazel I heard that your new here" one of them says " Yeah" Alexandra says "and I'm Claire nice to meet you" "like wise" Alexandra says "cmon we should really get going" Ava says, "oh what a nice suprise it's you" the girl with the orange hair says she said her name was hazel "yeah it's really nice to see that your trying to get with this new girl now too it's really pathetic you should stop before she realizes that not only are you a stalker but a gay one too it's just sad" the other girl she has black hair with glasses on she said her name was Claire "I don't really think that's true so if you don't mind please don't ruin my experience here so please get going it's getting late" "yeah we'll talk to you on the flip side bye and you should really believe us ask her for yourself even we were just trying to warn you because she tried getting with us too it was soo weird and scary bro I thought I wasn't gonna be stopped getting chased after by her well anyways bye" they say with a friendly wave and almost what seems like a chuckle and Ava shirt is nearly soaked with the tears from her eyes Alexandra didn't notice this until they left "I don't believe them okay" " please are you okay hey Ava it's fine I told you I don't believe them" " no it's just that half of what they said is true they wouldn't lie I know that, it's just that I didn't want you to think that I was weird or something" " like what? You being gay or the stalker part I honestly don't care Ava you seem like a really nice person to me I wouldn't care about any of that crap because your really nice and I know that your a good person now tell me all the truth okay?" " of course I'm so sorry, so in 6th grade I came out as bisexual which I still am and I told them they were the only people that knew of course and they didn't care but then I lost some friends and so I just started hanging out with them a lot they said to stop being so 'clingy' which is what they called it and I said I would but I got so bored so one day I told them if I could come over to to one of their houses and the girl you know the one named Hailey?, yeah Claire was there and they didn't know when I was coming so I went to their bedroom and I heard them say this, oh my goodness we better leave quickly before Ava comes she's so weird I'm sure she likes us now I swear I saw her talking to one of her friends that she said is not her friend anymore ugh my gosh I hope she doesn't like us or something, which Alexandra I never ever did they just assumed the whole thing as drastic as they were, so they were getting ready to leave and they open the door and saw me they New I heard them so they gave me the dirtiest look and got uncomfortable then they left the house I went home crying that night and ever since then I've never been friends with them I'm so sorry you had to see me cry like that I just don't like them and on top of that they told everyone in 7th grade what had happened so I had like no friends until I made some friends in my art classes that I had started taking and that was it" Alexandra gave her a big hug and whispered "it's gonna be okay Ava as long as I got you nothing will happen to you I promise" after that they went to Ava's house and they just both fell asleep on the couch because it was a long day they didn't really have nothing much else to say to each other than what was already said and that was enough.
