As soon as I closed the door, I could hear Ashton laughing. "Lexi! You can have the bigger room!" Something wasn't right. Why would Ashton let me have the bigger bedroom?
"Why? What's wrong with it?" I ran up the stairs as fast as I could. Ashton was standing in the doorway with his mouth wide open. The room was the brightest shade of pink anyone could ever imagine. "Damn!"
"Uh huh."
"Pick your rooms so the movers can bring you your stuff," I heard my mom yell. Ashton grabbed his bag and headed over to the room over. He opened the door and all I could see was dark red walls, my favorite color.
"You know you can always paint the walls." He smiled at his new room and looked at me with a hint of evil in his eye.
"Nah." Ugh! He's such an ass! I thought to myself.
"Lexi!" Phoenix came running to me with a piece of paper. "put your name on this and hang it on the door to the people know where to put your stuff." She handed me the paper and a pink marker.
"What is with pink today?" I asked myself. Phoenix gave me a confused look. She wrote my name for me and took a tack out of her pocket and put it on my door.
She grabbed my hand and dragged me down the stairs. "Come on! We're going look around the neighborhood. Dad already got our bikes. Ashton! You coming?"
"Going where?"
"Ride bikes."
"Um. Okay?" Phoenix took another piece of paper and wrote Ashton's name, but in blue, then she put it on his door.
"Let's go!" She dropped all her stuff and grabbed Ashton's hand, and then started running down the stairs.
"Bikes are out back," my mom yelled.
"Thanks!"
As soon as we got out the door, Phoenix started fixing her hair and her dress. "You have your phone, right?"
Ashton and I looked at each other confused. "Yeah…" we said in unison.
"Okay. Let's go walk around, instead. I don't want to mess up my hair." I started laughing.
Phoenix stood in the middle of Ashton and I. "That girl next door was pretty hot," Ashton said.
"All of those guys were sexy," I told him.
"I call dibs!" Phoenix yelled.
"On which one?"
"All of them."
"Well that's not fair."
"Fine. You can have dibs when you're at school, but when you're here, I do."
"Okay?" Just then, Phoenix started walking slower. Ashton and I passed her up. "What are you doing?"
"You have to walk slowly in front of their house. They might see us and come out."
"You're a retard. Let's go," Ashton said. I heard a door crack open and then shut close again. I looked past Ashton at the girl that was walking towards us. Ashton did, too. "Good thinking," He whispered to Phoenix. She smiled her big, cheesy smile at him and then stuck out her tongue.
"Hey!" she yelled. "I'm Megan. Are you our new neighbors?"
"Yeah," Ashton said before I could get anything out. "I'm Ashton." He held out his hand to her and she shook it without a second thought. Phoenix started tugging on his shirt. He looked at her with an aggravated look. "And this is my little sister Phoenix."
"You're really pretty."
"Thank you. So are you." She looked toward me and smiled. "And you must be Lexi." I gave her a weird look. "Doug was talking about you."
"Who?" I knew exactly who she was talking about. Ashton gave me a dumb look.
"The hot guy from this morning? You know the one with the really bad fake gangster accent?" Phoenix crossed her arms as she said it.
"Oh that guy," I said as if I just realized.
"Yeah," Megan said. It grew silent for a couple minutes. "Well, I'm new here, too. I'm just staying with these guys for a couple years until I finish high school. I could show you around the school on Monday, if you'd like?"
"Really? That'd be awesome," I said.
"No problem. I guess I'll see you on Monday."
"I guess so," Ashton said with a smile on his face. He makes it so obvious that he's jumping up and down inside.
"Okay then. Bye," she said as she backed away toward her house.
"She's nice," Phoenix said as she started walking down the street again. I laughed as I followed her. I glanced back towards the house. I could see the outline of two faces watching us; Doug and someone else. He looked about Phoenix's age. I guess that was Ian. I stopped and faced the window with a hand on my hip. The two faces vanished.