Author's note: Hello people! I want to thank all of you for your reviews...and if you haven't reviewed yet then do it! I discovered that the more people let me know they like the story the more I want to post a new chapter…BUT! That's not why I'm here to talk to you my beloved readers….the reason iiiis! That I'm a complete idiot and didn't realize that Elle couldn't possibly be starting High school being 17 years old…so She's starting her sophomore year! I'm sorry for making mistakes like this…please bare with me and my cluelessness…
luv~ Leil
The days went on quickly and before I knew there were just two more weeks of summer vacations, I had spent most of my time with Jake and Mike of course, but I was still curious about the neighbors, I visited them now and then, since Rachel and I were growing to be good friends so I was already used to visit them two or three times a week at least, but there was still something alluring and just different about them all.
It was Saturday around 3 pm
"…so I was thinking we could go see what they're doing…" Jake said as Mike and I stared at the TV on their house's living room
"yeah…I don't think so" Mike said stretching a bit while I jumped over the couch and landed by his side
"Elle? You wanna go right?" Jake said looking at me.
"hmm nope, I went to the mall with Rachel and Carol yesterday "
"SO?"
" they left this morning for a camping trip" Said Grace who walked by picking a few papers from the table she had been working on all morning, Jake turned to look at her mother with wide eyes.
"Why I'm always the last one to know of this things?"
"Cuz you never ask..." I said taking the remote from Mike's hand
"…or you never listen" Mike added trying to take the remote back as I pushed him with one hand on his face.
"Do they usually leave like that? " I asked after I zapped trough a few channels and gave the remote back to Mike
"well, yeah they usually take a trip before school starts and in holydays" Grace said packing some more thing into a box.
"What are you doing? "I asked as I walked to the kitchen for a drink.
"Hm just getting ready for the new school year, I have to go get my classroom ready the next week" I nodded and walked into the kitchen to get myself some juice.
"Hmm do you want some help with that?" I said as I walked out again, Grace smiled at me while Jake and Mike stood behind her waving their arms over their heads and shaking their heads no, I blinked a couple of times looking at them.
"That would be great Elle! I just have to get some decoration done and put the materials in place so you'd help me a lot" She said with a big smile.
I had forgotten she was the art teacher in middle school and since the middle school building and the high school building where very close I could get to know the place before it was crowded with people.
I spent most of the day with Mike and Jake, we went to the mall, watched a movie and then headed back, I had talked with Grace so I'd start working with her on Monday, I went back home feeling exhausted for some reason, I greeted my dad and headed upstairs to take a shower before going to bed, as I walked by the hallway I noticed something was of in my room I looked at the window and once more there was nothing there as always I looked around everything was in place but there was still an odd feeling I looked at the window and everything was normal then I noticed that what had caught my attention was precisely that there was nothing there to begin with, so many times at night I had seen a figure there and now it wasn't there in the corner of my eye to startle me every time I looked away, I shook my head and laughed at myself, I was being silly, who would ever worry about not seeing some random shadow on the corner of their eye? I said at myself as I gathered my pijamas and headed to the bathroom. I took a quick shower and headed straight to my room, one again no shadow on the corner of my window.
I closed the black out and headed to my bed, I must be going crazy I thought while I covered my head with the blankets, I had seen that shadow daily and it didn't mean a thing but now it was gone and I felt uneasy, something was missing, I felt almost as if something was taken away from me.
Samuel POV
it was about midday, we had been in the summer house by the lake a few hours from town about 4 hours ago and I hadn't got enough will to do much more than take my bag of the car, walk to my room and lye on the bed, after staring long enough into the wooden ceiling I decided to take a walk, I had been here every year for such a long time, there wouldn't be much changes, but there was still new neighbors, the thought brought a smile to my face, I got up and started throwing things out of my bag till I found a swim suit, black with two red stripes to the left and it was long enough to cover down to my knees, I changed and walked downstairs taking a look around the living room, I found Joseph lying on a couch in the darkest corner he could find, I sighted kids this days staying in all day, I smile at the glare he send me as he saw me.
"What's up with you now?" I said opening the door
"Jealousy, that's what's up…" he said stretching on the couch as the light crawled down the floor, I moved aside as Carol dashed in soaked wet and lied by Joseph's side, I looked back at them.
"What for? You seem like a pretty lucky bastard to me" I said as I slammed the door behind me.
"Watch it Samuel, I like this house and we know it's very old so please don't go around demolishing it" I head Evan's voice and turned towards him, there sitting on a chair in the porch he looked at me over his newspaper.
"Sorry, it's just your ungrateful child pisses me of…his problems will vanish with time and jet he can't appreciate what he already has" I muttered the last words to me but I was very sure he heard me as a smile crawled to his lips.
"I'll go out for a walk" I said waving as I walked towards the lake.
"Try not to freak out he neighbors" I heard Evan's voice behind me; I smiled and raised my hand for him to se I'd got the message.
There were a couple more houses around the lake I could see there was a family, a mini-van with a boat attached to it; I sighted as I heard screams and the sound of someone running over the wooden planks, I liked that house when it was empty, quiet and lacking two little brats running around. I kept on walking towards the second house, much more quiet but I could see an old car parked in front, I discarded this one as I knew that old couple who came by every summer would be there and headed straight to my favorite, always empty house right at the edge of the lake, I jumped into the cold water of the lake leading towards that huge abandoned house, I had found a few summers back small trap door under a pier like semicircle that was right over the lake, it wasn't hard to get over the fence and inside but It was much more suspicious and I had already agreed on not freaking the neighbors, so I dived into the dark water and among the aquatic flora that became much more dense as I came closer to the house, it took me a few minutes until I got the trapdoor opened and then slide to the house through a window, the house was still as I had left it a year ago, it was old and dusty everywhere but it reminded me of my family, my old home, the tall walls, the polished floors, it was very much like them.
I walked around the living room, everything was covered with white sheets as the last time but there were still little things that had changed: there where small cracks on the olive green walls and the humidity of the lake was starting to rot the wooden floor, I walked around the house and saw something that I was certainty not expecting, there on the dusty floor were little pew prints leading to the second store of the house, I fallowed them and was guided to the source of the trial by a small noise among an box filled with some news papers.
As I approached the box a small ball of fur peaked trough the papers towards me with big yellow eyes, the kitten crawled back into the box as it saw me, I could hear him ruffle through the papers, I moved by the box and moved a few papers to find the little creature lying at a corner staring at me with wide eyes, I smiled at the little white and black bundle as I placed the paper back on top of it wan walked downstairs and took the sheet on a leather couch and lied down, a few minutes later I heard some noises upstairs and saw the little cat jumping down the stairs and staring at me as he reached the last step, its stood still as I stared, I turned back to the large window door before the couch I was seating in and heard the kittens light purr as he tried to climb the couch, I looked down at it as it stared back at me and stood on his back paws as he placed its front ones in my leg and meowed, I picked it up and placed it beside me in the couch.
For long time, I stood there as the colors outside of my little sanctuary faded into the darkness of the night, I saw Alex's figure crawling out of the trap door and coming inside with swift movements.
"What's with you and this place?" he said standing before me.
"It's so very like him…plus I found a kitty" I said as I picked up the sleeping kitten from my lap, Alex sighted and stared at me, he knew the matter was not to be discussed.
"Let's go" he said with a sight as I stood up and dragged the sheet back in place.
He jumped first into the water and looked up from me to fallow
"I'll go walking" I said showing the little cat to Alex again, he just shrugged before disappearing in the dark water, I walked to the little fence and out of the property, I walked slowly around the lake slowly with the warm bundle of fur in my hands, as I was coming near to the house I heard steps coming closer and saw Nick jumping from some bushes towards me
"Can I see it?" he said as he stood before me with wide eyes that looked at me and then to the cat.
"awwwm you're gonna keep it right?" he said with a big smile as he moved a finger towards the kitten and the little creature tried to try and catch it with it tiny paws, Nick squealed softly and scratched the kittens belly with his usual bright smile
" you can have it if you want…" I said offering the kitten to Nick who jumped slightly on his spot before taking it and carrying it like it was a newborn baby.
"Thanks! I'll take good care of it ok? " he said before turning walking towards the house, as I followed him the kitten crawled up Nick's shoulder and stared at me while we walked, it would be weird having a pet, but it was even weirder that the little animal got close to me in the first place, I was probably among the whole family the least prone to be loved by animals, that was mainly why I gave it to Nick.
He was the nature conscious one on the family, ever since I knew him animals where his thing, he knew anything and everything there was to know and even if he was a spoiled brat most of the time he was responsible when he needed to be, we walked into the house a bunch of heads turned towards us when the kitten meowed softly trying to catch a stray lock of Nicks hair while the boy just smiled in amusement as he watched.
"What's that?" Evan said staring at us
" he's a Rottweiler of course" I said as Nick just looked at Evan with puppy eyes as he knew they'll try to persuade him to leave his new pet, Evan sighted and looked at Lyla.
" don't look at me, once he gives the look I'm done " she said walking to the kitchen.
"But it's dirty and I bet it's full of tics or something!" he said looking at Nick who just pouted even more.
" that's riiight…I bet you don't want any blood sucking parasites in your house…" I said with a wide grin, Tyler, Alex and Jessica laughed, while Joy just shook her head with a tinny smile.
"What's the big deal about the pet anyway? Normal people own pets why wouldn't we?" James said over his book as he grinned at Evan that devil like smile the gray eyes man used when persuasion was needed.
"Fine…just get it checked by a vet or something…." Nick smiled and hugged the kitten softly while he went to the kitchen.
A while later Nick pulled Evan up from his chair and made him drive him to the nearest town to get anything a cat could need, I decided it was a good time as ever to get some sleep, it was around 8:30 and it was getting pretty boring down there so I just went to my room in the upper level and changed to a pair of sweat pants and lied on my bed till I feel asleep.
Elle POV
I woke up early and tried to remember what I had dreamed of, it felt weird having a dream less night, not that I remembered every dream I ever had but at least could remember random pictures or parts of my dreams every morning, today there was absolutely nothing and as much as it made me feel crazy, I knew there was something off about it.
Yaaay new chapter! I just wanted to give a little glimpse of Samuel and his family, also yaaay for unspecific places! should I keep the story in Elle's POV or alternate between characters? Should I make it a 3rd person narration? Tell me what you think! Hope you liked it!
