The life next door

I stood there wondering why I had chosen to stay on my roof with him all those nights. Why had I let him root himself so deeply into me? There was nothing him and I needed or could gain from each other, and there was no way my mother would let him and I be closer than an occasional public conversation or walk home. She would have shot him and I both if she knew we had grown fond of each other on her very roof. I took in a deep breath, letting it out still amassed in the warmth of his gaze. He breathed calmly, turning his body more towards me, no longer pretending to show interest in the conversation his mother and the school's principal were attempting to have with him.

He took one slow, almost painful, step towards me before hovering. As if he had been asking my permission, he began again once I took steps towards him. The people around us faded from chaos to posthumous silence.
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Deandra "Dean" Day would have preferred that her last few months of the school year fly by quickly. She was tired of the disparaging school and downtrodden life. She would much rather spend her time on an adventure than cooped up in the small town school. Unfortunately she couldn't afford to quit, not with the chances of getting low grades - after all, a scholarship was her ticket out of the small town. But when Alastar Summers moves in next door Dean winds up with an adventure and possibly the key to her future.