Chapter 7

I'm bludging alot latly cuz my step dad is home from work which means more time to write and another computer to type it on so faster updates, ahh the beauty of holidays

Oh btw BOLD stuff is thoughts if you didn't already know


THAT NIGHT

Tommy had spent all afternoon getting the stuff ready for his house warming BBQ thingy. He had invites for the street but decided against handing them out after he saw them staring out thier window every time he walked to the corner shop or even to his mailbox. at around 6pm when the place was ready


When tommy glanced around the street he relized that there wasn't any eyes staring at him from behind slightly cracked curtains, not that this bothered him, heck he loved that he finally could walk to his drive way without being watched like he was the most facinating thing in the universe, but he thought it was very uncommon and on a second glance he saw that everyone in the street had locked up there homes, everyone except the young girls. Was there some neighbourhood meeting that his missed the memo for? Tommy leaned against the fence and waited for everyone to arrive.

WITH JUDE

Jude had been looking out her bedroom window and into what she assumed was the new guys bedroom, when she heard someone knocking on her side door. By the time she had gotten to the hall the guest had knocked another 5 times.

"Gosh I'm coming, don't get your grundies in a bunch"Jude shouted as she neared the door.

When she opened the door she as shocked to see that there was all the grannies from the other side of the street and a few from her side all lined up along her house. Wow I think this is the only time that i have used grundies at an appropriate time

" Hello Jude sweetie, your father gave us presmission to hold a neighbourhood watch meeting here because the hall is all booked out and none of our houses are quite big enough to house us all." the spokes grannie, Mrs Curby, asked in her sweetest voice

"Uh ok, um come in then" Jude said wondering why on earth her father had aggreed to having 10 or so old grannies over.

As the time went by Jude was getting more bored by the second and if she had to hear about the music coming from a certain someones house once more she was going to scream, then they could complain about the noise coming from that certain someones house. At around 8.10 Jude was ready to scream, punch and cry similtainusy(sp?). They had been here since 6.30 and Jude had just found out that these meetings usually go until 8.45pm and thats if they didn't have many topics to discuss. but not tonight, no tonight they had 2 A4 pages full of topics of discuss and so far had only brushed upon half a page. Needless to say it was going to be a long night.

"I'm going to go get a drink" Jude said politly and flashed a fake smile as she got up.

"Oh may I bother you for a coffee please Jude" asked Mrs Whittler, who was a bit upset that Jude had interupted her whining about how her grandchildren never visit her anymore.

"Sure, I remeber how you like it" Jude said as she walked into the kitchen No wonder they never visit you.

From her kitchen window Jude could see the lounge of the new guys house. Ohh how she wished that she was there having fun with strangers than in here pratically asleep with people she'd rather not know. Sure they were sweet but hey one hour let alone nearly two with old nagging non related people was more than enough for this week thank you .She would much rather the morning "Hello's'' or "how are you".

She was really starting to focus on next door when the kettle boiled, she made the coffee and reluctantly went back into the lounge were they were all sitting in a circle, what were they in pre school?

As she sat down they started on another topic when the music was turned up next door, it was now loud enough for them to faintly hear it in Jude's lounge room.

"Ahhh how about we just skip to the last topic for the night the rest can wait till next month" Mrs Curby said.

Everyone agreed so she continued.

"As you all have noticed, we have a new member of this street, I dont know if any of you have met him yet but I have observed that everytime he goes outside he get very jumpy and looks as though he is very on edge."

In response she got alot of " I have noticed that too" and "yes I know" pretty soon eveyone had left a comment and were looking at Jude waiting for a comment.

"Uhh well I haven't actually seen him yet, I wouldn't even have known that there was someone there if it wasn't for the moving truck last week and the music tonight. He keeps all the curtains drawn" OK so maybe the last part was a lie but they dont know that do they? no, they are all drawn at the front of the house no where else, tho I dont blame him, me and dad do the same thing

"What was that Jude dear, I couldnt hear you over that flamin noise next door, its very loud, someone should go over there and get them to turn it down" Mrs Whittler said and once again all eyes were on Jude

" You want me to go crash his party and tell him to turn his music off?" Jude asked in disbelief

"Oh thank-you so much for volunteering sweetie, make sure to see if there are any suspicious objects lying around would you?" Mrs Curby said while pushing Jude out of the lounge room. Jude was about to protest when she saw that they were all coming out to see to it that she actually did it. Within the next two minutes Jude was walking down the new guys walkway and knocking on his front door.

When the door was opened a dark coloured guy answered the door

"Uh Hi, Um I was wondering if I could speak to the home owner" She asked figiting with her shirt hem. The guy dissapeared around the corner, leaving the door open, Jude took this opportunity to look around the house, who ever owned this place definatly had money everything looked pricey. She was still looking around when she saw the guy from before enter the room again. He was looking over his shoulder saying " I think she want to see cookies or something" then shrugged and returned to his spot on the couch. The next thing she heard was" He's coming".

Shorty after he returned, Jude figured that nobody was coming so she turned around and was about to walk away when she heard a mans voice, she turned around and was shocked to see who it was

"Harrison? What are you doing here?" He asked shocked that she was actually at his house

"Well Mr Quincy, I came over because the wonderful old ladies from the street have been over my house since 6.30 voicing their opinions on how the street could be better and the noise from your little...uh i think they used 'shindig' was added to their list. " She said nervously in one breath

He looked her and smirked at how nervous she was.

"SO they want me to turn it down? is that what they want"

"Uh yeah I'm pretty sure thats what they want, well that and they want to know if your some kind of criminal" She responded this time with confidence

"Criminal?" He asked with a smirk

"Yep they said to look around for 'suspiciuos objects'She said''...hmmm from what I saw there arn't any"She finished while taking another glance around the house

"You know you have to give the 'wonderful old ladies' the securtiy of knowing I'm not dangerous so if you want to look around you can or if you want the house tour I'd be glad to give it to you." He said getting up close for the second time that day "I'll let in on a secret... upstairs is the best" he whispered in her ear, then backed away.

Jude laughed then said " Quincy, just turn down the music before they beat you with their canes." and then began to walk down the walkway leaving Tommy standing there. Just as she got to end of the path she yelled " And I have seen at least one room of upstairs, and I gotta ask is your bed as comfy as it looks?

Although he was used to being talk to like this Tommy didn't expect to hear it from Jude, but he sure as hell wasn't complaining

"If you took the tour I'd show you just how comfy it can, even during rough times" He said with a very big smirk

Tommy could have sworn he saw Jude blush when he said that but pretended that he didn't see.

He watched her as she looked as though she was actually contemplating his offer.

"hmm sounds tempting but, maybe another time, Mr Teacher Guy, Cya in English tommorow"

Jude walked back to her house thinknig OHMIGOSH did i really just say that to Mr Qunicy, crap why does he have to be so cute damn it. Stupid Jude" Jude began to hit her head as she walked into the garage, everyone looked at her like she was crazy but soon heard the music go down. They said there good-byes and all cleared out of the yard talking about how Jude was going mental.

Jude didnt care. All she wanted to do was watch a movie so she went to her bedroom changed into her PJ's and sat down on the couch, thinking about todays events and even found herself beginning to think that maybe just maybe Tommy Quincy actually liked her. He never talked to the other girls like that did he? No she would have noticed, after all when she wasn't looking him up on the net in English she was watching him from across the room, yes she was watching him but hey you would to if the oppurtuinity arose, wouldn't you?

Eventually Jude fell asleep on the couch.

EARLIER WITH TOMMY

As Jude walked down his footpath, Tommy stood there thinking about the event that just went down.

Well that was uhh something, wow so it was Jude who lives next door, and ahhh now i know why I could walk outside without the surveliance poor Jude. How has she seen my bed? hmm I wonder if she was really thinknig about taking me up on my offer to give her a tour... the things we could do... No bad Tommy, you shouldn't be thinking about a student like this... Well if you thing about it I'm not a teacher, yet, which makes her not really a student yet right? No dont be stupid I'm still an aurthority pesron. ARRRRH I should like a girl that is 6 years younger than me ARRRG but age doesn't matter..Danmnit I need to talk to Kwest...

Tommy walked back inside found Kwest his cousin and went out the back to talk to him.

After an hour Tommy found himself hating Kwest who was sitting there saying forget her, yadda yadda. Him and Kwest got up as Kwest was about to leave the party, but then Kwest said something tat suprised Tommy to say the least "If you think she's worth it , do it" then he left.

Tommy walked upstair and had a shower.

WITH JUDE

Jude had woken up from the uncomfortable position on the couch she was in, and decided her bed was much more comfy, so she got up and walked into her bedroom. Before she went to bed she went to go open up her window and saw that a certain teacher guy had his light on.She stood there looking at the room for a good 2 minutes when a door opened and Tommy emerged from his bathroom wearing only boxers. All Jude could do as stare. He's even hotter with barly anything on.

Tommy felt a pair of eyes on him and turned to look out his window to see Jude starig at him. He smile and waved at her, although it took her a few seconds to even realising her was waving at her, Jude returned the wave then turned around went to her bed and went to sleep with sweet dreams of tommy. Tommy walked over to his bed and fell back on it and he to went to sleep with dreams of his new student/neighbour


Ok I'm a little bit stuck with Chapter 8 so it might take a few days to get up

Kayla