Chapter 1
As Bree Hodge was peacefully sitting outside her lovely home filled with colour and flowers, a dull moving van with a big red stripe painted on the side drove past her house. She was quite surprised. She has never seen a moving van with a red stripe painted on the side of it in the neighbourhood. They pulled up out the front of her house, blocking all the sun. Bree got up. She put her unreplaceable china on her little table beside her and went to greet the new neighbours. She walked over to them.
"Hello. My name is Bree Hodge and I live next door."
"Oh Hi…My name is Charli and this is my son William."
Suddenly a dog jumped out of the car and ran up to Bree. "Oh hello little puppy." Bree examined the dog. Suddenly it jumped up onto her new dress. "Oh oh no."
She fell onto the ground. "Vandergraaf! Get of her!" shouted the new neighbour Charli. The dog pulled away. Bree got up with some help from William. "I'm so sorry about that", Charli said. "This is why we moved. The dog trashed the entire neighbourhood. They complained for us to move otherwise we would have to put him down. But we couldn't do that to him", said Charli playing with Vandergraafs ear. Vandergraaf pulled away and ran off. "Oh", said Bree, surprised that they would move for such a silly reason. "Well I better get back to my…ah…knitting and let you unpack", said Bree. "See you around", said William smiling at her suggestively. "See you", said Bree walking away. As she was walking she couldn't help overhearing their conversation. "William", whispered Charli. "I don't want you interacting with her anymore. You know what happened last time. We don't want that to happen again. We're already paying tonnes of child support and your only 15. Leave her alone." Charli walked back into their new home leaving William to unpack some things. Bree wondered to herself what that was all about.
She was just about to go up her steps when Vandergraaf ran fast back to the new neighbours. She looked at her China. It was smashed. "Grr", complained Bree. I guess there's more important things in life than China, she thought as she cleared it up.