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Tanner

Moving was not something I wanted to do my senior year. I expected me and my best friends to get into trouble, join in on the senior prank, and scare the freshman for our second and final year of being upperclassmen.

But alas, Dad got a new job and we moved. I didn't want to, I almost stayed as I was shy of my birthday by two months, but since the world shut down, I had to leave with them. Mom didn't want to chance me getting it.

"Susie!" I yelled from my room.

"What do you want?" she groaned as she walked in.

"With that attitude? Nothing but I'm bored." I frowned.

She gave me a glare. Taking her hair down, she threw her hair tie at me before walking away. I groaned as I found myself in the backyard again.

I found a hole in the fence to peek through. Maybe I could see her again. The girl that sat on the chair with her feet lifted, music playing loudly. The irritating girl who was rude and yet found a second to talk to me. She had been the first person I talked to when we moved in and it made me interested. I wanted a diversion from the current affair of the world.

When I didn't find her, I turned to walk back inside. She was always sitting outside. I wondered if we would have gone to the same school. Shaking the thoughts off, I went to the kitchen and found the pizza.

"Mom?" I mumbled out with a slice in my mouth as I closed the box.

"Yeah?"

"When are we going-"

"We aren't going out. You are staying here, me and your father will go out."

"So I'm stuck in the house with Susie? Great." I knew she caught my sarcasm.

"She's stuck too but she's not complaining." Mom rested her hands on her hips.

"So, she's a girl. I'm a guy, I want out and I don't do makeup to keep me occupied or play dress-up," I said as I swallowed the last bite.

"Find something to do."

"But-"

"Listen to your mother, Tanner."

I turned to see my dad walk out of the bathroom. I rolled my eyes and brushed passed him to go back inside my room.

I grabbed my phone and checked it for new messages. Nothing. I decided to play video games to pass the time seeing there was nothing fun.

"We'll be back, don't leave."

"And where would I go?" I grumbled.

Once I heard the door close, I walked into Susie's room. She was on her laptop so I walked in more to see what she was doing.

"Get out, I didn't say you were allowed in."

"Oh well, I'm bored. What are you doing?"

"I'm calling my friends because they're bored too. You should try it sometime."

"You were always rude," Tracy laughed.

"It's not my fault. He's just easy to be rude to."

"How did you like the move Tan?" Leslie questioned with a bit of timidness.

"Little Les, it wasn't fun. How have you been?"

Leslie was younger than us but she was cute. We messed around for a while but we moved and that's put us at a distance. She had been eyeing Ian, another friend, for a while so I figured it was also a good time to talk less. I was just having fun anyway, I didn't want anything serious.

Being serious led to commitment and I didn't find any fun in that.

"Stop flirting in front of me!"

"It's harmless!"

"Out, go talk to your friends," she said as she got up and pushed me until I got out. She knew I didn't really have any.

Scoffing, I decided to just walk back outside. Simply to see if the mystery girl had come out yet.