~Dora's POV~

The next few days were pretty much all the same, go to school, go to lesson, come home, do homework, call my parents, repeat. Of course wotha few mishaps here and there, I'm not perfect. For example, I got caught in the bus doors by my bag and then got driven away while hanging from the bus, I was lucky Diego and Sammy saw and chased after the bus to get the driver to stop.

During lunch I would often eat this thing in the cafeteria, that Randy told me was called 'mac n' cheese'. In my opinion its the best meal in the school. But once again the food here isn't great. The food in survival packs is better than ninety percent of all the food here. And that stuff isn't great.

Anyway, the first week of school for me wasn't too exciting, well that was until Friday.

"OK class, before you leave for the weekend, I'm setting you a project to do with an assigned partner, that you will then need to present to the class on Thursday the 12th of December, anyone who fails to complete this project will not be able to attend the school dance." the teacher said. Before telling everyone there partners fro the project. I was really lucky and got paired with Randy, but others were not so lucky, Diego, for example, was paired with Sammy, he claimed hated her but something tells me deep down he actually has an attraction for her.

Everyone got up and sat with there pairs so we could be given our assignments. No one in the class was given the same assignment so groups couldn't cheat off each other and get answers and/or ideas. "H-hey Dora" Randy stuttered, I can't lie, his stutter is kinda cute. I might sit with Randy alot but I don't know much about him, we don't really talk that much, we more just sit and eat in silence or if we do talk it's about constellations or astronomy since it's all we really know about each other.

"Hi Randy," I reply in a normal chipper tone. Maybe I could learn more about him during this project.

The teacher set a peice of paper - with our question/topic on it - in front of us. 'physical attraction' was our topic. I know alot about attraction in animals and wildlife, but not so much in humans, I mean I haven't been around anyone my age up until a week ago so that's probably why. Maybe Randy knows about attraction in humans.

The bell rang and most of the class said goodbye and left. Me and Randy packed up a bit slower than the rest of the class and didn't rush to leave, "Hey, do you wanna come to mine to start on the project tonight?" Randy asked, blushing madly, I don't get why he was so nervous, it's only me, I'm not that scary, am I.

"of course" I replied, smiling like always.

"OK, come on, let's go," Randy said "Oh and you might want to let your parents know your coming" Randy added, he didn't know I live with Diego and my tios and abuleita.

"I don't live with my parents, they still live in the jungle, I moved here to live with my cousin Diego, and his parents" I explain, clearing things up a bit.

"oh, sorry" Randy apologised, he didn't need to it was an easy mistake to make.

"don't apologise, it's an easy mistake to make" I quickly say. "come on let's go, we'll miss the bus"

"Dora, I'll drive us. My house is a bit too far away for me to get the bus, so I have to drive." Randy explained, Randy can drive, well I guess we've both learned something about each other today.

I call my tia sabrina and let her know I'm going to Randy's for a school add, she teased me a bit about going round a boys house but said it was fine.

The car ride to Randy's house was silent. But it wasn't an awkward silence, at least not for me. I spent the whole journey watching Randy drive. He looked so different when driving, usually he looked nervous and scared, but he seemed like I completely different person, he looked confident.

He clearly knew how to drive well and has driven these roads many times. We stop at my Tios house so I can grab a change of clothes then we finish the journey to Randy's house.

His house was in the more rural part of the city close to the country. He lived around half an hour away from school which isn't too far to travel.

We enter his house and are immediately greeted by his parents.

"Randy, there you are, what took you so long,?" his mother asked her son before turning to me and then back to Randy and saying "oh, you brought a friend home, why didn't you tell me, I would've made you two a snack"

"It's OK mom, this is Dora, she's here so we can work on a school project." Randy explained. His parents seemed really nice.

"OK well, Randy, show Dora around the house and you can work on your project in your room" his mother explained, "your father and I are gonna go out soon and wont be back till later tonight so you two can order take out, there's money on the table, see ya later" she said before her and Randy's father walked out the door.

~Randy's POV~

After my parents the the house, I showed Dora around, she seemed really happy like always, I guess that's just her, always happy. Sometimes I wonder if she's always happy because she trying to hide something that hurts her or if she is just always genuinely happy.

We entered my room and began discussing what we could do for our project.

"Physical Attraction" Dora said trying to figure out what we should do, "How are we gonna do that"

"I don't know, if it was on astrology it would be easy but it's not."

"wait that's a good idea," Dora said, I had no clue what she was talking about but I'll go with it.

"what do you mean?" I asked.

"I mean we could do our project on attraction between people who were born on different astrological star signs, ya know the zodic" she explained, "there's no way the day someone was born on has any impact of who they are compatable with but it'll still be interesting and we can add in astrology to our project" I was amazed, this girl was able to take a topic that neither of us new much about and was able to throw in a subject that both of us knew loads about.

We worked for a while doing research, writing notes and planning how we will present it, which we agreed Dora would do most of that talking, my stutter will get in the way. It got to around 6 and both of us were getting hungry so we ordered a pizza and watched a movie for the rest of the evening, the food got here about 25 minutes into the film and we both pounced like cats on the pizza when we got to my room, we were both starving and hadn't eaten since lunch.

When we finished the film we sat there for a while in silence, I was a blushing mess, I could already tell, I don't know why though, I like dora yeah. She's the first person who ever treated me like a human but would I go as far as to say I have a crush on her, no, well maybe, but maybe this is just what friendship feels like.

I look towards the window, it was dark out. I got an idea.

"Dora," I say trying to get her attention, she looked towards me so I continued, " do you wanna go star gazing?" I ask, I know we should be doing work but we have all weekend if we need it, and some of next week so I'm sure it'll be fine. She just smiled and nodded her head.

I grab a picnic blanket, a hoodie and my telescope, I give the hoodie to dora for her to wear as she forgot to bring one and it's beginning to get cold out and grabbed her hand and lead her outside, where I set up the telescope and layed the picnic blanket down for us to sit on.

For a while we used the telescope to find planets and constellations and certain stars, I was amazed at how much she knew. But after a while we just layed down, side by side, and looked at the sky. It was a beautiful clear night out and the stars were shining as bright as ever. The good thing about not living in the middle of the city is the air is less polluted out here and there are less lights so you can see the stars better, maybe that is why I'm the only one to like astrology so much aside from Dora.

We layed there watching the stars for hours before I felt weight on my shoulder. She had fallen asleep, I can't blame her, it's really calming in the starlight, it's hard not to fall asleep. I put my arm around her to keep her warm.

I see a shooting star. Make a wish.

I know my wish will never come true but, who knows.

I pick up the sleeping girl and take her inside to my room. She's still wearing my hoodie. It's really big on her but she looks adorable. I lay her down on my bed I don't want to wake her up. I grab her phone and call her aunt, and let her know that Dora has fallen asleep and see if it's OK for her to stay the night and I drop her home in the morning. Sabrina says it's fine and says to have a nice night.

I walk up to my bed and see a still sleeping Dora laying on my bed, she is really adorable sleeping there, I stroke her cheek, I really wanna kiss her goodnight but decide against it realising that would be weird, and just said goodnight instead, and walked away. At that moment, she woke up slightly and grabbed my wrist told me in a sleepy voice to stay with her. This felt wrong to me, like I shouldn't do it cause she doesn't like me like that, but I wanted to. I crawled into my bed and dora snuggled into my side as if I were a Teddy bear, she was adorable. I wrapped my arm around her and drifted off into the peacefulness of sleep.

Authoyrs note: wow, that was a long chapter (1800 words) . Thank you if you made it through this. This chapter was very off the script, I just wanted dora and Randy to spend some time together before the dance