RPOV

I sighed inwardly as I walked through the hallways of the building. Today my family moved from Virginia to Chicago. This was the last move and then I'll be off to college. It is the summer and when school starts up I'll turn 15 in October and a sophomore. I looked down at my black high tops and jean short shorts as I made my way down the abandoned hallways. I tied my long dark brown hair into a ponytail and proceeded.

Then I saw this little kid with spiked brown hair and pale complexion walk down the hallway. He stopped for a second and said, "Are you new here?" while gesturing to me. I nodded slowly. "Cool, what's your name?"

"Raven, I moved here from Virginia today." He smiled excitedly.

"Finally a pretty girl that's my type. Got to show Ty," he yelled as he grabbed my hand and yanked me down the hallway. He was way stronger than I expected. He took me two floors below mine and rushed to an apartment. When he stopped I saw a boy about my age that was light skinned and had black curly hair and a radiating smile with dimples texting on his phone. Very cute, I thought.

"Hey little dude, what are so excited about?" he asked without taking his eyes of the phone.

"I found the new girl in the hallway. I hate to brag, but she is a total ten," the little boy said teasingly.

"Well I will be the judge of- whoa, you really weren't kidding when you said she was a ten," the guy said as he finally looked up from his phone and stared at me. I gulped nervously and felt warmth come to my cheeks. He made his way over to me and held out his hand. "Ty Blue, nice to meet you," he said with twinkling eyes. I slowly shook his hand.

"Raven Martinez, same to you," I said while smiling lightly. Our eyes met and I lost myself in his soft brown ones until the little boy cleared his throat.

"Flynn Jones, down here. Ty, stop trying to steal my girl," he said while wrapping a protective arm around my waist. I looked down at him and unwrapped him from me.

"I'm not anybody's girl."

"Oh you will be because I'm just so adorable. Now Ty, did you make me my bacon?" he asked. Ty pointed for the kitchen and Flynn sprinted for it. I looked down to see that Ty never did let go of my hand. He noticed this too and suddenly dropped it.

"I-I should probably head to my apartment so, um, bye," I said quickly before trying to exit. A strong firm hand grabbed my arm lightly a pulled me back. I looked at Ty felt warmth spread my cheeks.

"Do you absolutely have to go?"

"No."

He then smiled and said, "My friend Deuce is on his way so he can take care of Flynn, so why don't I show you around?" I was about to answer when Deuce came walking into the apartment. "See there's Deuce."

"Okay, let's go," I said. He grabbed my hand and lead me to the door while yelling back to Deuce, "Hey Deuce, you're staying here with Flynn." The last thing I heard was a shrieked, "WHAT?"

Ty and I left the building laughing and once it died down we looked at our hands disconnected from each other. He cleared his throat and said, "Well, um, do you want me to show you something really cool."

I nodded my head and I followed him for a couple blocks until we reached this studio. It was lit up and flashy and so amazing. "What's this place?" I asked in awe.

We walked further until I saw a lit up dance floor with teenagers dancing magnificently on it. "This is Shake It Up! Chicago. Do you see that tall light skinned girl with brown hair dancing next to the redhead?"

"Yeah."

"That's my sister Rocky and the red head is CeCe."

I scanned the dance floor until I saw two people in bizarre be twinkled outfits. "Who are the two blond people in the crazy clothes?" I asked curiously. I studied Ty's face carefully and could see he was tense.

"That is Gunter and Tinka. They are the Hessenheffer's," he said with a strained voice. I raised an eyebrow, but decided that I shouldn't really ask him.

I scanned the entire room and my gaze stopped at the man looking at himself in the mirror. "Who's that?"

"Gary Wilde, the host of the show. He's just being as egotistical as ever," Ty said chuckling. Then the dancers stopped dancing and the brunette and red head came over to us.

"Hey Ty, who is this?" Rocky asked.

Ty gestured to me. "This is Raven, she just moved here to our building. I just thought I'd show her around."

Rocky and CeCe shot Ty a look, but quickly recovered and shook my hand eagerly. "Well I'm CeCe and this is Rocky. Welcome to Chicago. We have something important to tell Ty, excuse us one moment," CeCe said as she and Rocky dragged Ty out of an ear-shot. I looked over and saw Tinka look at me rudely in disgust. What have I done to her?

Rocky, CeCe, and Ty all came back and Ty grabbed my hand and said, "Thanks for the talk, see you both later." Ty then walked me to the apartments and stopped at the building door. "Hey, do you want to go get some pizza tomorrow?"

I raised my eyebrow suspiciously. "You know taking someone over and over again to different places and you both enjoy it might sound like a date?"

"So what if it is?"

"Is this your cool way of saying you're taking me on a friend date?"

"I'll let you decide."

"Well then yes, but this doesn't mean we are more than friends or anything."

"Can't a good looking guy take the new girl out without being accused anymore?"

I chuckled slightly, "Maybe. And that's a yes to the pizza."