gold love | shyan

𓆉 chapter two: the neighbor 𓆉

"Uh, Shane." Shane answered, almost taken aback at Sara's energy.

His mother came up behind him and smiled, "Oh, you must be Sara. Are your parents going to be here soon?"

"Yeah," she said, "They're on their way!"

"Alright, then. Shane, why don't you take Sara up to your room?" Shane's mother returned to what she was cooking, and Shane turned back to Sara. They stared at each other for a moment before Shane blinked and stepped aside, letting Sara into the house.

"C'mon," he said, "my room's upstairs." Sara smiled wide and silently followed him to his room.

When they got there, Sara looked around at all his items and posters and tokens around his room with wide, interested eyes. "Wow, your room's really cool," she remarked, "Do you live here year-round?"

Shane shook his head. "Nah, my family just comes here every summer. It's nice, I guess." He stared out of the window. The sky was cloudy. It looked like it was going to rain.

"You guess?" Sara exclaimed. "My family just moved, and we're gonna live here year-round!" She sounded proud of this fact. "We moved from California, and it's nice there and stuff, but honestly, the Cape is so cool!"

"Southern California?"

"Yup! Los Angeles, to be specific."

Shane hummed. "I've been there a couple times. It's nice."

"Isn't it?" Sara agreed, "But I like the Cape much more. I like the vibes."

Shane held back a laugh, he didn't want to be rude. "The.. the vibes?"

"You heard me! I just like the feeling of being in a place like this gives me. I don't know how to describe it, it's just nice."

"I guess you can always appreciate that salty breeze," Shane supposed, and Sara nodded in agreement.

"Exactly." The two of them sat in comfortable silence for a moment before Sara spoke again. "So... what do you like to do?"

"Like, as in my hobbies?" Sara nodded. "Well... I like to sing sometimes, I guess. I love horror movies, and I love hotdogs and popcorn? But those aren't really hobbies. I play the ukulele sometimes, so that's fun. Oh!" He added, "And I like to swim."

Sara smiled. "I like to draw."

"Oh? What do you draw?" Shane asked.

Sara shrugged. "My style is a little different, I dunno. Kinda surrealist? Other times I just draw characters from movies I like." She smiled at him. It was a nice smile. Shane decided that he quite liked Sara Rubin.

"So, how was your day? Since you got here." Sara continued, trying to keep the conversation going.

"Well, we just got here this afternoon, but so far it's been pretty good." Shane answered. He thought about Ryan. His pretty face and his ridiculous, beautiful tail. He could hear Sara talking, but at this point all he could concentrate on was his encounter with the merman. Ryan, Ryan, Ryan. Shane couldn't wait until he saw Ryan again.

"Shane?" Shane blinked to see that Sara was waving a hand in front of his face.

He startled and felt his cheeks get warm. "Sorry, I was thinking," He mumbled, embarrassed.

Sara hummed. "What about?" She asked.

"Uh... it's kinda... secret." Shane looked anywhere but into Sara's eyes.

"Well, we're gonna be friends, right?" Sara asked. Shane hesitated for a moment, then nodded. They were gonna be next-door neighbors for the whole summer, right? And Sara seemed nice. Being friends couldn't hurt. "And friends tell each other all their secrets, right?" She was raising her eyebrows teasingly at Shane, and Shane finally sighed and caved.