Kim's POV:

Waking up to the bright sunshine flashing through the half closed blinds and the sweet smell of pancakes, I sat up and looked at my almost completely unpacked bedroom. It's been about a week since my mom and I packed up our stuff and moved from Nashville to Seaford. My mom is now a nurse at one of the best hospitals in Seaford thanks to her friend who got her the job. Of course I didn't want to move away from my friends but if it meant helping my mom I was all for it. It's always been the 2 of us and we have always been really close. She's like my best friend I can tell everything to. My dad left when I was about 3 so I barely even remember him. I get up and decide to get dressed before we start the day. I throw on a pair of jean short shorts, a white crop top and a blue denim button down shirt leaving it unbuttoned and rolling the sleeves halfway up my arm. I threw my hair up in a messy bun leaving a few hairs dangling and put on my glasses. I walked down the hallway of our new house and can hear my mom on the phone. I look over to see Sophie (our 1 year old German Shepard) laying on her new bed like we didn't just make a huge change in our life.

"Hey sweetie how'd you sleep?" my mom asked handing me some pancakes and syrup.

"Really good actually. I have most of my stuff unpacked. I've just got to finish the rest of it today. Did you sleep ok?" I asked stuffing my face with pancakes.

"I slept pretty good as well. I think this is going to be good for us sweetie. Let's just hope we get this all unpacked before you start school and I start work." she said worriedly looking at the few boxes in the living room.

"We will get it done mom, ok. We have a week before school starts." I said putting my dish in the dish washer and moving toward the boxes. As the hours ticked by the amount of boxes decreased and so did the mess. Since it was only me and my mom we didn't have much to unpack.

"Kim can you go get the box of toys and treats out of the car for Sophie? She just chewed up one of my shoes." she yelled from her bedroom. Well Sophie is still a puppy what did mom expect. Just then I see Sophie run out of moms room and looked at me with her ears up. She must have heard treat.

"Sure. Sophie you wanna come with?" I said opening the front door. Sophie knows she can only go out front if we are out there. She always stays right next to us and never goes toward the street. When Sophie notices the box of toys and treats she starts barking and wagging her tail. I close the back of the car and go to walk in. I see a white 2 door truck coming down the street and a brown haired teen driving. He looks at me and smiles while turning into the house next door to us. I quickly make a run for the house trying not to make a fool of myself.

Paw are finally on our last box in the entire house and it's only 5:30. It was a nice day out so we left the windows and the front door open. The last box we unpacked was stuff that went in the guest bedroom so while my mom stayed in the living room and swept I went to the guest room and finished things up. I could hear my mom talking to someone and Sophie barking. As I was leaving the room Sophie came running and gave me an odd look. I was about to say something when my mom beat me to it.

"Kimberly could you come here please" I hated when she called me that. I either did something wrong or Sophie tore something up.

"Mom I told you not to call me that." I said walking into the living room with Sophie by my side. I saw 2 men turn around and look at me.

"Oh sorry sweetie I forgot. These are our neighbors from the house next door." with saying that I realized the younger guy was the one from the white truck. He's even more attractive up close.

"Hi I'm Jeff and this is my son Jack." he muttered as I shook his hand.

"Hi I'm Kim. Nice to meet you" I said to the both of them as I shook Jacks hand. Not going to lie I did feel an instant connection when we touched. It was like a spark that went threw my entire body.

"Would you guys like to join us for some drinks?" my mom asked politely breaking me out of my...whatever you want to call what that was. I let go of jacks hand and look down blushing. He must have noticed because when I looked at him he smiled shyly as well and looked at the floor stuffing his hands in his pockets. We all sat outside on the patio sipping our drinks.

"So where did you guys move here from?" Jeff asked

"We moved from Nashville because of work. Kim will be attending Seaford High next week. She will be a Junior." my mom explained

"That's where my son goes and will be a junior as well. It's an amazing school. I'm sure he would be happy to show you around Kim" he said putting a hand on Jacks shoulder smiling.

"I would love to" he smiled sweetly at me. A smile grew on my face as I looked down at my drink in my hand. I could feel my cheeks getting warm as I excused myself.

"I'm going to get another drink would anyone like another one?" I said standing up quickly so nobody would notice.

"Could you get Jeff and I another drink? Would you guys like to stay for dinner? Kim and I were just about to make pasta."

"Sure we would love to"

"I can help you with that" Jack said getting up from his seat following me to the kitchen.

I quickly grabbed 2 more beers out of the fridge and ran them out to my mom. Walking into the kitchen setting my glasses down I see Jack petting Sophie as she licks him on his face. He looks so cute with Sophie. Did I just say that? He catches me starring and stands up and smiles. Sophie runs over licking my hand as I pat her head and wash my hands.

"So how do you like Seaford so far?" he asked washing his hands.

"Well I haven't really been out a lot since I've been unpacking but it looks pretty. As soon as I get my car in 2 weeks I will be able to go more places after school. But right now I'm starting to like it here."

"Well we will have to change that. Before school starts if you want we can hang out and I can show you around a little" he said drying his hands smiling.

"Sure I'd like that." I smiled and bit the corner of my lip. After dinner I was washing the dishes while Jack was drying them and our parents were talking about work outside. "you really don't have to help you know.

"That's ok we are almost done anyway." he smiled. I don't know why but when I'm around him I feel butterflies and we already act like we have been friends for years. I playfully flicked water at him. Sophie started crying letting me know she had to go to the bathroom. I walked over to the front door with Jack and Sophie following me and opened it. Just then Sophie took off running to the empty lot next door that were covered in trees. I immediately started running after here with Jack close behind calling her name. After what felt like forever we finally found her sitting on a rock looking down at the valley.

"Sophie! You know better then to run away like that." she just looked at me and then back at the valley and layed on the rock. "Wow this is beautiful" I whispered climbing up on the sort of tall rock along with Jack. We both sat in a comfortable silence watching the sun set before Jack spoke.

"Wow. I never knew this was here" saying as he looked over at Sophi as she wagged here tail. We sat there for 10 minutes just enjoying the view and each others company. "We should probably get going before it gets too dark to get back. Here let me help you." he quickly stood up and got Sophie down and jumped off the rock turning to me holding his hands out. I scooted over to the edge and swung my feet ov the side. Not seeing the small branch in front of me, I got too close and it catches the side of my cheek. Sophie quickly noticed and immediately started whimpering and pacing. Ignoring it I used my hands to push myself off the rock, when Jack gently put his hands on each side of my hips helping me down. And of course im wearing a crop top and part of my blue denim shirt is bunched so his hands touch part of my bare skin at my hips. He puts me down on the ground removing his hands and right when he does that Sophie runs over to me and starts jumping up and down licking me to see if I'm ok. She jumps up and her front paws push off my back causing me to fall straight toward Jack who places his hands back on my hips and my hands go to his chest to balance myself. He stands me up straight. I look at Sophie with a stern look and she stops immediately. "You ok? Wait Kim what happened to your cheek?"

"What? Nothing it's just a scratch."

"Kim you're bleeding. Let me see" he removed one of his hands from my one hip and brought it up to the side of my cheek examining the scratch. I couldn't even think about the pain at this moment in time. All I could think of was how close we were. How I could feel his breath on me and that he still hand his other hand on my hip to 'support me' even though I could stand on my own but hey I wasn't complaining. I was brought back to reality when his thumb moved across the scratch moving the blood causing me to wince in pain. And randomly my hand flys up and wraps around his wrist.

"Sorry, does that hurt?" he asked worriedly.

"Yeah it just stings a little I will be fine" laughing lightly looking him dead in the eyes as my smile began to slowly fade.

"Ok you just need to clean it so it doesn't get infected" he whispered looking down at me keeping his one hand on my cheek with my hand around his wrist and his other hand on my hip.

"Ok" I whispered not even caring that we had just met a few hours ago and we are already this close and touching. All he did was let out a little chuckle and removed both hands letting them fall to his sides. We walked back to the house in silence as our parents waited out front. We said our goodbyes and Jack said he would talk to me tomorrow about going somewhere. Going inside my mom was the first to speak.

"So where did you and Jack go?" she asked raising one eyebrow

"In the lot over there. Sophie took off into there and we went to get her and she led us to this really cool lookout spot."

"Well that's nice. Where are you and Jack going to tomorrow?"

"Not sure yet. He's just going to show me around Seaford." I said smiling

"Sounds like fun. You guys seem to get along great. His dad told me a lot about him and that he's single!" she said winking at me. "Don't you think you guys would make a cute couple? I think so"

"Goodnight mom" I said smiling as I walked into my room and got ready for bed. We will see how tomorrow goes. I'm hoping really good.

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