CHAPTER 4 "THE NEW HOUSE"

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As they each got a cart with all of their things they walked out, but just as they got past the metal detecter's, Angela stopped walking and dropped her things. She did this when she saw a japanesse girl arguing with some gaurd to let her pass becuase she needed to find her friend. It was Roxanna. Angela had met Roxanna when her and her famil lived in Crowley.

"Ro?" Apparently Angela said this loud enough for her to hear becuase she stopped in mid-sentence. Slowly she turned to face Angela and her family. Angela was still just stareing at her, until she ran at her and hugged her. "Hey Angela." "Hey, you don't have a squeaky voice anymore." "Ofcourse not, I'm 17 now." She laughed as Lucy, Mark, and Tino came with their carts.

"Hi. You must be Lucy," said Roxanna holding out her hand to Lucy. "Yes. And this is Tino," said Lucy pointing to Tino well shaking Roxanna's hand, " and I think you remember Mark." "Yes I do but faintly after all I only got small glances when Angela would point him out." "Hi. I remember you from a very bad picture that Angela took." "Hey, it was a good picture. Those Wal-Mart assholes just didn't develpope it right. That reminds me I need a picture of you", said Angela pointing to Roxanna. "I'll give you one of my old school pictures." "Thanks." "Welcome."

"So what are you doing here?'' "Your mom asked me to come for you guys and help you move in, which means I already know what your place looks like. Well, actually, your moms boss wanted me to help you guys move in but your mom asked me to come pick you up." "My moms boss?" "Remember Angela, I never told you what company I would be working for. It's your friends dad." "Hu?" "My dad has his own company here in Tokyo." "So then you moved back to, um, I mean here?" "Yup. And then my dad began his own company. So, now, here I am." Angela smiled. They finally decided to leave the airport. Everyone put all their stuff in Roxanna's trunk. And it all fit. "Wow Ro, what a great car." "Thanks, I thought you'd like it. At first we were a little bit bankrupt, but after every thing started pulling together, the money sort of just came rolling in. Oh, and don't call me Ro. I had a bitch of a time trying to get to stop in school, now I see you again and you still call me that? I mean, come on." "Ok, fine. u don't have to be so mean. Anyways, cool. And what exactly is your dads company?" "It's a warehouse, and I'm a desinger. We do jeans, and some other stuff but mainly jeans." "Cool." "That just happens to be our moms expertece," said Mark.

It was a long ride from the airport to the house. It wasn't quiet though Angela and Roxanna were catching up.

When they finally arrived at their new house everyone got out and stared at it in awe.

"Yeah my dad wanted to get you one of the best houses in this neighborhood." "You mean its ours? We arn't renting?" "Yup. Its yours." It was a huge house with 4 bedrooms and connecting balconies on the top floor. There was 1 bedroom on the bottom floor, a huge living room, a slightly smaller kitchen, and a bathroom in each of the bedrooms on the topfloor. There was a small patio on the bottom floor bedroom. "Ok, so I get the master bedroom, and you 3 go and pick out your rooms." "Lucy, your bedroom is the one on the bottom floor then." When Roxanna said that Lucy looked a bit sad but just pushed away the thought. "A bit depressing but no problem. I'll have alot of privacy." "Thats the spirit Lucy."

Lucy smiled and got her stuff out of the trunk. Angela chosse the biggest room on the 2nd floor. Next to her room is a really big bathroom. It hasd a bathtub, a toilett (duh), and a shower. "Wow, isn't this place great? I love it." "Yeah, its amazing. When do we get the phone hooked up," asked Mark. "Well, we'll go out, buy a phone then go to a pay-phone, call and tell them we want our phone hooked up." "There are phone jacks in every room. Except the bathrooms, of course." Angela immetdiately liked it, but Mark and Tino had a bit of trouble. Lucy really liked it too. "So Roxy, give me your phone number and tell me where you live." "Well you already have my cell number and I live about 10 miles away from here. Sorry."

Roxanna said this because right away Angela made a small frown. "Its ok." "Well, I'm gonna go to my house, pick up some mats for you guys to sleep on; I hope you don't mind." "No not at all." "Ok." Roxanna got in her car and left.

Everyone started taking all there stuff in, and sowly unpacking. They didn't really have anything since they couldn't take every thing on the plane with them. That was pretty much what the 5,000 Japanesse dollars was for, furniture. When everyone was done they all went to the Living room which had a big square in the middle. "I think its for a table. I remember something like it on 'R.O.D'. Remember, Nenene's apartment?" Angela was right when she said that. None of them had been in the back nor seen any neighbors.

Ding Dong

"Roxanna did say 10 miles, right," asked Mark. Angela nodded. "I'll get it," said Angela getting up from where she was sitting. As she went to go and get the door she noticed a shrine down the street.

"Hello?" "Yes, hi. I'm Natsuki, I live next door to you." "Oh. Hi. I'm Angela. As you can tell I barely moved in here." "Yes I can see. Well I just wanted to welcome you to the neighbor hood." "Oh, thank you. I don't mean to be rude or anything, but are you for real, or did your mom or dad make you come do this?'' "Why do ask?" "Well where ever we have lived nobody had ever come to welcome us." "Angela, who is it," asked Mark as he walked to the door. He saw Natsuki and put out his hand. "Hi. I'm Mark. Angela's older brother." "Hi." ''Would you like to come in Natsuki? Although we don't really have anywhere to sit like chairs or a couch or sofa." "No problem, and yes I would be delighted to come in." As Natsuki stepped in Tino came running in. "Hey Angela, who's this?" "This is Natsuki, she lives next door." "Oh, well hello. Nice to meet you." "The pleasure is all mine. Whats your name little one?'', she asked while bending down. ''I'm Tino. I'm 9 years old, and my birthday is September 15." "Damn Tino, why don't you tell her you blood type while your at it." "Its ok. I like Virgo's. Lets see, your 9 so then you were born in 2001, right? And if thats right, then your a Dragon. Am I right?'' "Yup. Your right." "Cool." "Well, I'll go get our mom so you can meet her too," said Angela. "Ok. I'd like that," replied Natsuki. "We'll be waiting in the living room," said Mark. "Ok. I'll be right back."

As Angela went to find her mom she noticed a glow coming from that shrine down the street.

"Hey Angela. Whats up?" "Oh hey. We have some company, and she would like to meet you. Her names Natsuki." "Ok then, lets go." Lucy got up and left for the living room. Angela had found her mom reading another Anne Rice book. When she was walking back to the living room she noticed another glow come from the shrine. When Angela got to the living room Lucy was sitting next to Natsuki in the big square in the living room.

"So Natsuki how old are you?" "I'm 17. I still go to high school." ''Really? Us too. Except Mark is older than me. By one year anyways." "So then that means you'll be going to my school." "Yup." "Great, when do you guys start?" "Monday,"said Mark and Angela in unison. "Great on Monday I'll come and pick you up to walk with you guys." "Thats very kind of you but I have to take my kids so I can sign them up. But thank you." "No Problem, um, Lucy, right?" "Yes." Ring Ring "Oh thats my cell phone. Hold on please." Everyone nodded as Natsuki got up and went to the kitchen.

"She's really nice", said Tino. "Yeah. I agree", said Lucy. "Hey have you guys noticed that shrine down the street?'' It was Angela who asked this. "Kinda off the topic, don't you think sweety?" Mark said this sarcastically. Angela paid no attention to him. "No," said Lucy and Tino together. Angela just shruged away the thought.

"Um, sorry. It was my mom she just wanted to know where I was and that its time for dinner so I gotta go." "Ok. It was really nice meeting you." "Likewise. Well, mabye I'll see you guys again tomorrow. Well bye." "Bye." "Bye Natsuki. And thanks for coming over." "No problem."

A little while had passed and soon enough Roxanna had come back.

"Hey guys. Here are those mats I told you about. Where's Tino?" "He's in his room taking another nap." "Damn. He sure sleeps alot." "Yup. I don't know why though. He never used to be that way in El Paso." "Yeah hu?" "We don't have electricity yet, do we?" "Hu? You've been here for about 3 hours, and you still don't know whether or not you have electricty?" "Yeah well, we've been reading." "Wow, you really haven't changed, have you." Angela shook her head. "Although I have gotten alot better at alot of things. For instence math, and P.E. Hell, I even joined a sport." "Really which one?" "Soccer." "Thats good. You always liked playing it. Except when Coach Dedmon was there, coaching us." "Yeah, I know. We all hated her." ''Glad I never had the horrible luck of meeting her," said Mark grinning. "Well no you don't have electricity yet. Here I'll go ahead and call them, Tell them to put your electricity on. But first, here are your mats." "Thanks Ro." Roxanna only nodded as she started dialing the phone number for the electricity company. "OK. But what about Tino's?" "I'll go ahead and take it to his room," said Mark.

Everyone grabed a mat and started taking them to there rooms. As Angela and Mark were walking to their rooms, Angela noticed another glow come from the shrine.

"Please don't tell me you didn't notice that." "Hmm. Notice What?" "The shrine. There was another glow coming from it." "Sorry Angela. I didn't see anything." "Ugh. It's ok."

Angela was a bit upset but she didn't put to much thought into it. She always knew she was different from most people. Ever since she was a little girl on Thanksgiving or Christmas and be playing in her grandma's hall way late at night while everyone else were inside. She always used to play with the gosts in her grandma's house. But as she got older they stopped coming to her. She kind of missed them, but she still would sense other presence's around her. No matter where she was. And as she got older throughout the years she started seeing and hearing them. She just asumed that this was one of those things and just continued up the stairs. When everyone finished up they went down stairs to find Roxanna arguing with somone from the electric company.

"No. They barely moved in today. Yes it's an old house. The last people to live here? Um, I think it was the Oshikawa's. Yeah, remember they had 3 kids and a dog. What do you mean you don't have an old listing of them? They lived here about 2 years ago. Ok. You found it? Its about time. In the back?'' As Roxanna said this she started walking out the little patio of the living room.

"Wow, she sure takes her job seriously," said Lucy. "This isn't her job. And besides, she's kinda always been like this. It's actually kinda scary." "Yeah," agreed Mark. "So this isn't her job?" "Nope. Last time I talked to her through the internet, she said she was working at a McDonalds." "Really. Cool. Mabye she can get us free food." "Shut up Mark. She's not gonna get us free food. She might get me some, but not you guys." Angela started laughing abit when she said that.

"Ok guys, you have electricity now. Well I gotta go. It's already gonna be six o'clock and I need to get some food. But first lets go to a store and get you guys some food. That reminds me." Roxanna started walking to the kitchen. She went to the sink and turned the knob. After she did this, water came out of the faucet. "Good I guess the electricity is the only thing my dad didn't take care of. Unless." Roxanna walked to the stove and turned the knob for the front right, and fire came out. "Good, now all thats left is the phone but you guys don't have any yet do you?" They all shook their heads. "Ok then. Lets go to Wal-Mart." "But wait. What about Tino? He's still asleep." "I'll stay here with him. You guys go ahead and go without me." "Ok Angela. Are you sure? I can just go in and wake him up." "I'm sure mom, just go. I'll be fine." "Ok then. We'll be back in a little while." "Ok. See you later." And with that they left.

Angela read a bit more, Tino woke and eventually Mark, Lucy, and Roxanna got back. They put all the stuff away and everything went well.

Hi guys! How do you like this story so far? It's gonna be going pretty fucking slow. I don't really know how to end it. But maybe, if there's any thoughts, you can either e-mail me at or just send me a review. I prefer the review. Well, bye.

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