Spencer's POV
"I heard she's a mute and…"
That's my friend Aiden, his talking about the teenage girl of the family of four that moved in the house next door to me last week. Since I haven't the pleasure of introducing myself do to the black bracelet around my ankle, Aiden's been telling me the latest about the happenings around town. I've been on house a rest for three weeks now for trespassing and vandalizing an abandon house; I can't wait to get off next week. But anyways I've been sitting on my front porch watching them come in leave since they moved in.
"Hello! Are you listening to me?" I look over at Aiden and I can tell he knows I haven't heard a word he said.
"No. So what's her name?" He smiles and shakes his head at me, then nods in her direction. She's getting in the back seat of a SUV.
"Ashley Davies. She's seventeen and that's all I know, oh and that she's a mute."
"You don't know that. You just heard that she a mute." I say but I think his right I haven't heard or seen her lips move since they moved in. Aiden gets up in start walking down the front steps.
"Whatever, I got to go but I'll stop by tomorrow." Is the last thing he yells over his shoulder before getting in his car and drives away.
I sit on the porch a little while longer before my sister comes to the door and tells me to do my dishes. I go in do the dishes then take a nap all with Ashley on my mind.
Ashley's POV
It's 11 at night and I'm seating on the back porch thinking when I hear footsteps. I look over into the neighbor's yard and see a slender figure making its way through their backyard, before stopping and looking my way. It's the girl from the porch, she's always on the porch just watching cars go by or sometimes I see her watching me and every now and then someone is keeping her company. But I haven't seen her in the last couple of days.
"Hey." I'm brought out of my thoughts by her voice. I look up in we lock eyes.
I don't say anything or move as she starts to make her way down the steps of her house and over the fence that separates her house from mine. She doesn't wait for me to offer her a seat. She just flops down next to me on the porch. She looks over at me in smiles; I just look down at my hands that are occupying my lap.
"So… I haven't had I chance to introduce myself, I'm Spencer. You're Ashley right?" I just nod my head yes and she continues. "Well Ashley it's nice to meet you." I don't say anything. I think she now's by now that I'm not going to so she doesn't say anything else, and we just sits there swaying our feet side to side off the porch enjoying the silence.
We've been sitting for about five minutes when my back door opens in my brother walks out. He looks from Spencer to me then back to Spencer. He offers her his hand to shake, she takes it. "Hi I'm Shane."
"Spencer." She says letting go of his hand.
"I know she hasn't told you so this freak here is my sister Ashley." He says patting my head like a dog.
I hate him.
Spencer looks at me while talking to him. "I know who she is, and you shouldn't call your sister a freak."
At that I look up at her and she smile at me. Shane shakes his head no. "Why I just call em how I see em. And she," He points at me. "Sister or not is a freak, she hasn't said a word in a year, so don't waste your time."He sighs. "Hell you wouldn't even know her name unless someone tell you, cause she sure the hell isn't."
Spencer scoots off the porch and looks up to Shane who is leaning back against the house. "That doesn't make her a freak, maybe she just doesn't won't to talk to you."
I haven't said a word to her and she's defending me I like her already.
"Whatever." Is his only reply before he retreats back into the house, I look at Spencer and she smile.
"Well Ashley, thanks for the chat," That causes me to smile for the first time at her. "But I have to be going, so I'll see you." Then she climbs back over the fence into her yard in enters her house.
I get up and go into the house to get ready for bed with Spencer on my mind and no doubt she'll be invading my dreams tonight.