Chapter two, I'm….

"okay cya in a min then" and ivy smiled and took cookie next door, nic waved and carried on home, to drop mipsy off.

Ivy went in, it smelled like roast chicken and veg (yum!) she went to the kitchen where her mum was cooking, ivy had been right roast chicken and veg. Her mum was just cutting up the veg. Ivy noticed there seemed to be a lot of food for just the four of them,

"mum? What's all the food for.." picking up a fresh carrot slice and eating it "mum?"

"oh, ivy could you pass me the collie please?"

"yeh, but what's all the food for?, are you trying to solve world hunger or somin" as she passed her mum the collie.

"no silly, next door are coming to dinner, as they haven't been to the shops they've got no food, your father invited them" her mum replied,

"oh ok"

"and nic's mum and sister are coming to, so they can meet them"

"great!, does that mean nic can come" she asked enthusiastically,

"of course, though don't go leaving her little sister out like last time"

"ok, ok can nic stay over then as well?" she asked smiling,

"yes ok, and you can invite Natalie as well"

"who?"

"Natalie from next door, she's your age and very nice, she'll be back in a minute she went to get another dish from their house." and at that a girl walked into the kitchen holding a large dish and smiling at ivy's mum,

"I got it, it's a lot bigger so we can put twice as much on it"

"Natalie, this is my daughter ivy"

"oh" she looked at ivy, put down the dish, wiped her hands down her sides and shook ivy's hand "nice to meet you, your mum was telling me about you earlier",

"nice to meet you too" ivy smiled, she looks nice. she thought to herself. "you can meet my best mate nic in a min she's coming up to help."

"great I have a friend already" and Natalie gave a huge smile. At that someone called from the front door,

"hello, ivy are you coming to help?" it was nic, just in time to meet Natalie,

"yeh I'll be right there" turned to Nat "come on, we'll have fun" Nat then looked at ivy's mum,

"but I said I'd help your mum ivy"

"you go have fun, all three of you can help me later"

"ok" the two girls said in unison, "I'll send mum round to help, all she's doing at the moment is shouting at dad and rob" and Nat giggled,

"that would be wise if she's getting angry"

"ok, I'll send her round" and with that the two girls ran to the door, where nic was waiting for them,

"hey ivy, and who's this, got a new best friend well I never" and she folded her arms and smiled,

"haha" ivy then hit nic on the arm lightly, and they both burst into laughter.

"this….is….Natalie" ivy spoke in-between laughs,

"nice….to…meet…you" nic replied.

"you two are made.."

"yep" they said together.

"..and my friends call me Nat" Natalie continued, and starting to laugh as well. It took a while for them all to stop, they started to walk towards the house next door, now Nat's house

"whose rob by the way?" ivy asked

"my twin" Nat replied

"you're a twin, wicked" nic said and ivy and nic both smiled. And went to the back of the truck that sat outside,

"comon, we can take some of my stuff up to my room" Nat said as they reached the truck and pulled out a box with "Nat's stuff" written on the side in red marker. "help me find the rest, I've got four, one's upstairs already"

"okay"

"sure" and they climbed in amongst the boxes to find the rest of nat's stuff, when they found all of her stuff, they headed inside where there was a lot of shouting.

"NO, NO NOT THERE, THERE!" they herd being shouted from somewhere in the house.

Natalie's house was completely backwards from ivy's house, the door was the in the middle, the stair were the wrong way round (so when you came you couldn't see them), there was no hall you went straight into the living room, and the kitchen was through to glass doors,

But ivy already had been in this house before it used to belong to her old friend now pen-pal Monika ivy had always liked It, because it was so different to all the others, Monika's mum and dad where architects and had changed the house a long time ago, ivy remembered that it had taken two years to become what it was today. Monika was always around her house and having dinner, because of the house. Ivy smiled at the thought of her nic and Monika laying and sitting on the rug that used to be in the corner in front of the TV, it was Monika's birthday and it was 11:00 at night because her parents said they could stay up as a treat, they had all sorts of food and it was so much fun ivy had never forgotten it, and vowed never to forget it. Monika had to move back to Italy because her parents business was out there. that was a sad day for everyone when she left, and the three girls promised to stay in touch and visit each other as much as possible, and they still had that connection today.

" you ok guys?" nat asked the two girls,

"yeh where fine" ivy said as she was knocked back into reality, "yeh an old friend of ours used to live here that's all" she replied with a smile,

"well now a new friend lives here" said nic with a big smile and all three girls smiled at each other and headed for the stairs,

"oh I best tell my mum to go round yours.."
"okay we know where we're going we'll meet you up stairs, k?" ivy cut in,

"good idea" nat smiled and ran off leaving the box she was carrying behind.

Ivy and nic walked up the stairs, and straight into there old friends room, which had a box on a bed saying "nat's stuff" on it, nat had Monika's old room.