Mia walks over to the car where she sees the new girl still unloading boxes.
"Need a hand?"
Kayla almost jumped out of her skin.
"I'm Mia," Mia smiled and extended her hand. It seemed like she held her hand there for ages waiting for a response.
"Kayla," she reluctantly smiled back barely shaking Mia's hand
"I didn't mean to startle you," Mia said gesturing towards the boxes, "you just looked like you could use some help,"
"Oh…well that's sweet of you…but I'm fine,"
"you sure?" Mia asked
"yeah," the girl said half smiling, "besides I'm almost done,"
"Ok," Mia stood there watching the girl take things out of her car and put them on the curb. For some reason she thought this girl would be friendlier. She saw this going differently in her head.
"Well if you ever need anything I live across the way at 3307…the house with all the race cars…can't miss it,"
"Ok thanks," Kayla said barely looking up at Mia as she continued taking things out of her car.
"That was weird," Mia mumbled as she turned and walked back across the street.
Later that week…
There was a McDonalds about a mile from Kayla's new house. She had been eating there all week because she didn't know where anything else was. She decided that today she would venture past the McDonalds and explore. If she ate one more double cheeseburger she thought she would literally throw up. A half mile past the McDonalds, she noticed a small grocery store to her right.
"Anything's better than McDonalds at this point," she muttered to herself as she pulled into the small lot in front of the store.
As she got out of the car and walked towards the store, she noticed the front of it looked like a deli counter and right beside the store was a mechanics garage.
As she walked into the grocery store, she didn't see anyone.
"Hello?" she called out
She was starving and decided to wait. But after ten minutes of just sitting there on the stool, she got up and wondered over to the garage. This place seemed to be deserted too.
"Hello?" she called out again and there was no reply, "Geez…does anyone work around here?"
She noticed a really old charger towards the back of the garage. She wondered back to get a look at it.
"Wow," she whispered to herself
Just as she slid her hand over its black shiny surface, a booming voice from behind her nearly made her wet her pants.
"Who are you?" asked the deep voice
She turned around to see a large, bald muscular man standing over her. If she had to judge from the look on his face, she guessed he was going to kill her in the next few minutes.
"I'm sorry," she said removing her hands from the car, "I was just um…"
The large man folded his arms and stood there waiting for her explanation.
"I was actually looking for the person who works in the grocer next door," "Do you know them?"
"I do actually," the man said in a deep gravelly voice. She didn't know if she should be turned on or scared of it.
He walked to a door in front of the garage and yelled, "MIA!" "You got a customer,"
As she watched the slender pretty girl with long dark hair walk into the room she realized it was her neighbor.
