So I pretty much wrote this because I was hella bored…

I own all of these characters so no one should steal these…

Sorry if I'm a bad writer… not my fault…

And I'm also sorry if the story takes too long to get started… :D

"There was nothing remote or mysterious here- only something private.

The only secret was the ancient communication between two people."

-Eudora Welty (1909-2001)

American Writer

I sighed when I read this in my Literature book at school. I never quite understood what Eudora Welty meant. Never been in love, I've seen lots of girls, my age, in love. I get it, I'm only 16 and I have my whole life ahead of me. Though it didn't really seem I was living a normal 16 year old life. Most girls were in love or partying the night away. I never really had any friends in Jersey to do stuff like that.

Then the bell rang, everybody in the class seemed too scattered with their books and run out of the classroom. As normal I was the last one out. Luckily school was out for the day and it was only August.

I had shoved everything back into my locker, grabbed my homework, and started on my way home. I didn't live that "far" from the high school, though I had to take a city bus sometimes. Jersey isn't as safe as you think it is.

While waiting for the bus, there were several other people waiting, too. One was my half-brother, Chris with me. My mom had walked out of our lives when I was five. My father got remarried and yadda yadda. I have an older brother about a year older than me, Ryan. We've always been close until he decided to live with my grandfather about 2 years ago. I got to see him often, though he and grandpa live in Alaska. Anyways, at the bus stop there was also African-American in a business suit, talking in his Bluetooth about "big business" plans. The last passenger waiting was an older lady with her pug, who wouldn't stop barking. The lady tried to hush the pug but seemed to fail. The dog's barking was giving me a headache so I turned around to the pup and went, "Hush." And suddenly the pug hushed. The lady looked at me shocked.

"Pacey has never listened to anybody before, mostly me. You must be something special if my little Pacey hushed to you and no one else." She then winked at me and went back to kissing her dog. Yuck!

Just then the bus arrived in front of us, everybody climb abroad the bus and started off. The whole ride there I was getting an annoying headache! The closest the bus could take us was on a corner by a pet shop. Then I would walk about half a block past a private property then "BAM!" there's my house. I never really knew why there was a private property there, never really was anyone ever on that property.

Then the bus had stop on the corner of the pet shop, Chris and I got off the bus and started walking past the pet shop towards the private property.

Then my retarded and stupid half-brother Chris went through a broken part of the fence onto the private property.

"Chris, what the hell are you doing?" I yelled at him, "You're gonna get in trouble."

"Like anyone even lives on this property. Come on, Eve. It's a shortcut home." He said.

I sighed and went through the fence and started following Chris through the property. I was ignoring Chris talking about how he found the shortcut and how smart he was.

There was a burned building on the property, nothing special about it for being private. I don't know maybe police would be freaked if they found teenagers partying in a burned building.

We were almost past the burned building when three not so happy looking pit-bulls popped around the corner.

"So Chris, did you know that there were three angry pit-bulls when you found this 'shortcut'?"

All Chris was doing was mumbling and stayed there frozen.

Then the three pit-bulls started charging towards Chris and I, with disgusting drool all over their mouths.

I told Chris to run but he was still frozen from shock. I didn't know what to do but yell, "SIT!"

The three dogs stopped in their tracks and sat. I stood there amazed that the three angry pit-bulls actually sat. They were sitting there wining until I said, "Go home!" and pointed my finger towards the building and they ran off with their tails in between their legs.

I looked at Chris and said, "Not listening to you again about shortcuts, EVER!" and started walking home and Chris followed.

"How'd you do that?" he finally said as we got to the front door of the house.

I turned to him and said, "I said the word 'sit' and then the other words 'Go home!'" I then turned and opened the door to the house and walked up towards my room. I was starting to get a big pounding headache.

I met my dad halfway up the steps, "How was school?" he asked.

"School." I said as I walked pass him into my room. I then heard my dad asking Chris the same question.

I went towards my desk, blasted up my stereo and started working on my homework.

So I hope you liked it… again sorry if the story takes too long… next chapter will be up sooner that you think. 0.0