Pull the Plug at Midnight

Chapter 2

"Adelaide you have a friend over."

Adelaide looked up to where her mother was standing in her doorway.

"What do you mean?" She asked.

"A friend. At the door. She asked for you." Her mother picked a piece of paint off of her door as she explained.

Adelaide rolled her eyes. "I don't have any. You moved all of us away from our friends, remember?" It was stupid to say. Her family knew she didn't have any friends. But her brothers did.

Her mother sighed. "Don't. I know this has been hard for all of us but-"

Adelaide interrupted and said what her parents had told her and her brothers when they were getting into the moving truck, "'There's so much opportunity here'. That's what you guys say every single time we move." She looked out the window. It was bright outside. A bit hotter than it had been at the school yesterday.

"Adelaide, stop. I'm not getting into this argument again. You have someone at the door who would like to talk to you. You need to socialize. Either that or finish unpacking your room."

Adelaide grumbled. It was Saturday, and everyone was doing their own unpacking. Adelaide had barely even gotten started and it was already 11:00 in the morning. She absolutely hated unpacking because she did it so often. But she was bored, so the only thing she had bothered to take out was an old CD player and a bunch of the CDs she had collected over the years. Music was her passion and she felt that collecting the CDs was way more fun and interesting than just opening a music app on your phone. Everyone did that. She didn't want to talk to whoever was at the door, but she decided she would rather do that then unpack right now.

"Fine. I'll go see what they want from me." She brushed past her mom and slid down the railing to see who was at the door.

"Addy!"

Adelaide focused on who was at the door. Sonny.

Well if she had told me it was her, then I would have been down here a lot sooner, she thought. She took a longer look at the girl standing in her doorway. She was wearing a bright pink t-shirt tucked into a pair of white pants with converse on her feet. Her hair had been pulled into pigtails, and the hair that hung down went past her shoulders. Adelaide looked down at herself. She was wearing the same exact thing she was when she had met Sonny on Friday. She really needed to change sometime.

"What are you doing here?"

Sonny looked down at her feet as she put them together. "Well I live across the street from you... figured I'd come and say hi."

Adelaide smiled just a little as she brought a hand to rest on her hip. "Well hi."

Sonny brought her gaze to rest on Adelaide once more. She hadn't prepared anything to say after "hi." Adelaide could sense that she was flustered. 

"Is that it?" she asked.

Sonny searched for words as quickly as she could before Adelaide began to walk back up the stairs. 

"Ah, uh a-actually, did you want to um, hang out maybe?"

"What do you mean?"

Like uh..." Sonny looked up at the ceiling to search for suggestions as she began a list of activities they could do together. "There's an ice cream shop if you like ice cream. Or there's a sports shop. They let you play with the basketballs and stuff. Um, there's an art store, a park, and a music shop.." Before Sonny could finish giving another suggestion, Adelaide stopped her.