The New Neighbors

Chapter 2

First Day

The next morning I heard my alarm clock blasting annoyingly beside me. I sat up still a bit dazed and shut off the alarm. I was still sitting up in bed trying to open my eyes when I remembered...THE NEW NEIGHBORS!

Was it just a dream I had or did I really see them? I quickly tore the covers off my bed and made my way towards my window. The same van was there…YES!

I couldn't wait for school to start; I wanted to see her…Miley.

After promptly getting dressed I ate some cereal and went into the living room to wait for my mom to get ready to drive me to school.

I wasn't doing much of anything except waiting impatiently, pacing the room back and forth yelling up stairs to my mom if she was ready to leave yet every few minutes.

After 10 minutes of that we finally got out of the house into the car. I looked over to Miley's house and noticed the van was gone and she must have left already. "Let's move it mom!" I said.

"What the rush anyway? You hate school!" My mom stated to me in a matter-of-fact tone.

"I just…wanna see my friends…to you know…catch up." I lied.

And she just drove.

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After thanking my mom for what seemed to be the longest ride I've ever taken, I jogged to the front doors of the school. A teacher in the front entrance told us to go down the hall until we saw the sign for the auditorium and I did just that.

When I reached the auditorium, I opened a vast door and entered. Immediately I saw my friends and I said my 'hey's but I could catch up with them later, I had to find that Miley girl. I was looking around but decided to go down one of the aisles of the place. Searching, but no luck!

"Oliver!" I heard from behind me. I turned around and saw Lilly.

"Oh hey Lilly." I greeted her.

"Were you looking for me or something? You seemed like you were looking for someone." Lilly stated.

"Um…yea…I was looking for…you." I lied.

"Hey guess what?" I said to Lilly.

"What?"

"That family across the street moved in last night."

"No way! Did you see them at all?" Lilly asked.

"A bit from the window in my bedroom, it was pretty late."

"Boys…Girls…" A man from the front who was on the stage said into the microphone.

"I'm your Principal, Principal Pal." He said. He looked a bit odd, but so far seemed to be a nice guy. His voice didn't really match his age, and his mustache looked like the one in those westerns. Plus his hair looks like a wig, but I guess were stuck with him. He told us if we had the teacher he called then you had to follow them to your homeroom. So when they said Miss. Walter's homeroom, I said bye to my friends and left.

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Miss. Walter's homeroom was on the second floor, just like almost all the other 9th grade homerooms with the exception of one or two. She told us that we were going to have so much 'fun' in homeroom and was glad she had us all 4 years!

We had to wait 10 minutes so everyone was situated, and this meant listening to Miss. Walter telling corny jokes, and saying the weirdest stuff no one cared about just to get a laugh, and if someone laughed it was just because it was how much of a fool she was making of herself.

"Alright class, let's go to our lockers!" She exclaimed after handing each one of us a slip with our locker number and combination, "I believe they are downstairs." So we all went down the staircase in search for our lockers only to find out 5 minutes later they were upstairs. So we all trudged back upstairs.

When I finally reached my locker I decided to try to open it, and it opened with ease I mean I don't even need a combination, I'm the Locker Man. So, I placed the locker combination and number slip in my jean pocket, ready to head back to homeroom, when Lilly twirled me around.

"Hey, guess who's right down the hall from ya?" Lilly asked.

"That's cool, so now we won't have to travel across the school to hang out each other's lockers."

"I made friends with this new girl in my class…Molly or something"

"Wow, what a friend you are! You can't even remember her name!" I stated.

"Well you know I don't do well with names and I forget them easily." She said back to me.

"Yea I know, you couldn't remember what your own dog's name was and ended up giving him 10 others before you remembered one."

"Shut up! Come on…I want you to meet her" And Lilly dragged my arm over to a girl at her locker. She had curly brown hair just like my new neighbor Miley, but it couldn't be, could it?

"Hey…I wanted you to meet my best friend." Lilly said, and the girl turned around and flashed a smile.

And I ended up smiling like a fool, "H-Hi I'm Oliver Oken!" I introduced myself still gazing at her.

"Miley Stewart, nice to meet you!" She replied with a southern accent audible. She stuck out her hand to shake and I went out to shake it. I couldn't believe I was holding Miley's hand, well I guess you can't say that because it's a hand shake, but to shake hands you need to hold that other person's hand, so I guess I was technically holding her hand…

"Oliver! You can let go now!" Lilly exclaimed.

I quickly released my hand and said, "sorry." As I felt my face begin to heat up.

"I th-think we might be um…neighbors." I stated. "Did you just move into your house last night on Ocean Avenue?"

"Yea we did, did my brother wake you with the car horn?" I nodded.

"That boy can never do anything right! Well we better get going to homeroom again, nice seeing you Oliver!" And Lilly and her went down the hallway and disappeared into a class room.

With Lilly now starting to be good friends with Miley that might make Miley my friend…at least she ain't an Amber or Ashley kinda of person. She's sweet, and friendly; completely nice. She's even more beautiful in the daytime. I hope we have classes together, and then talking to her would be an easy thing.

Only time will tell though, so I guess I should get to my homeroom so I can head on to those other classes to see if she is in them. I looked around the halls to find it deserted. Great, I'm late to homeroom on the first day!

A/N: Hey sorry been busy lately, but here is the second chapter! 5 reviews and I'll update ASAP:D