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Chapter 2: Connecting
Lillian
Today was like every ordinary day. Although today there was one exception. I met him. The boy that lives across the road. Sirius. I'd seen him before but I'd never talked to him. Today was different though. He came up to me and said hi and introduced himself. No pun intended but he didn't look serious. In fact he looked the opposite.
I can't believe he didn't know what basketball was! I taught him though and seemed to enjoy it in the end though. At the end of the day though, I was sure glad I met him. He seemed to run off in a hurry though, to get home. Maybe he thought it was weird holding my hand. Quite sad though, I coz I kind of liked it.
Its now the next day. He said he probably wouldn't be able to see me today but I'm waiting for him anyway. I hear the door bell ring and I go downstairs to answer it. I open the door and Sirius is standing there with a big bruise covering his right eye.
"Sirius, what happened," I exclaim. He mutters something I don't quite catch and I get the feeling that now's not the appropriate time to ask.
"Who is it Lilly?" Mum yells out from the kitchen
"Just my friend Sirius from across the road," I say "Would you like to come upstairs to my room" Sirius nods his head. I lead him upstairs to my room.
"Are you alright?" I ask him again.
"Yeah," he says softly but he's not very convincing.
"You want to tell me about it" I say
"Not really," he says
"No problem," I say. We sit on opposite sides of my bed and we talk. He tells me about his awful cousins and I tell him about my father leaving my mother when I was 3.
By the time he goes home, around the time the sun is setting, when my bedroom is bathed in a glow of pinkish light, I feel that we have come a lot closer in the short few hours in my bedroom. Although he didn't tell me where he got that nasty bruise, I know a lot more then I did yesterday.