Bright and Peyton were sitting on a bench near the flagpole waiting for
Ephram to arrive. Bright was glad to have a little time alone with Peyton.
The two were talking about movies together, they shared pretty similiar
tastes. They were talking about Johnny Depp and competing with each other
to see who had seen the most of his movies.
"Benny and Joon," Peyton said. Benny and Joon was one of her favorites.
"Seen it," Bright responded quickly. He had seen it, at least he thought.
He'd seen a lot of movies with old girlfriends but he never really payed
attention to the movie.
"Pirates of the Carribean," Peyton asked trying to be serious about it.
"Duh," Bright loved this so much, she was adorable.
"Hmmmm.....Edward Scissorhands?" she asked looking in his eyes playfully.
"Yup," he actually hadn't seen it but he couldn't admit to not seeing it,
it would ruin Peyton's game. It was then that Ephram chose to arrive.
Peyton looked up from Bright at Ephram and waved for him to come over. He
stood in front of the bench, hands in pockets.
"So, where to?" he asked.
"You know what we could do...." Peyton ventured, "we could move all of my
stuff in." Bright grinned,
"All right, Ephram you up for it?" Bright asked looking up at him. Ephram
nodded.
"Sounds cool....and maybe after we could see a movie," Ephram said taking
his hands out of his pockets and crossing his arms.
"Ok, let's go," Peyton said standing up. Bright and Ephram followed
Peyton's lead. They had been walking for a good 20 minutes joking and
talking all the way. When Peyton began to realize that it shouldn't be
taking this long, and she had become lost when trying to go to her own
house. She didn't know how to tell Bright and Ephram this. The two were
talking and laughing together, she interuppted their conversation.
"I think we're lost," she said slowly to them, trying to keep calm. Bright
tried to hold back his laughter but was unsuccessful.
"You got lost when trying to find your house?" Bright asked. Peyton
smiled, it was pretty funny.
"Yes," she said putting her hand to her forehead laughing. Ephram spoke
up,
"Do you know what your address is?" Peyton strained to remember, she had
stopped laughing by then.
"567 Mountain Drive," she said looking at Ephram expectantly. Ephram and
Bright smiled, they knew exactly where that was.
"Peyton," Bright said grinning from cheek to cheek, "your my new neighbor."
Bright should have thought of this before, how could he not have, his
parents had told him just that morning that the new people from the city
were had just moved in. Peyton looked suprised, that was cool, then she
thought about it again, and was not as happy with what she had come to
realize while Bright lived their so did Amy. And Peyton hated that girl.
Peyton had had last period with Amy and the whole time Amy was staring
across the room at her with her, it frightened Peyton. Ephram interupted a
short lasting silence,
"ok then, we are really going the wrong way."
"Yea," Bright continued, "I think I'll lead the way now." And Ephram and
Bright turned around and walked in the exact oposite direction, and Peyton
followed. When they got to Peyton's house they saw that Dr. Abbot had
already stopped by to introduce himself to Peyton's dad. He was just
leaving as they came up.
"Hey Bright," he said looking at the three with a cocked head. For some
reason he looked worried, then again he looked puzzled and worried a lot.
"Hey Dad," Bright said smiling, "This is Peyton, our next door neighboor."
Dr. Abbot (what is his first name???) smiled and slowly reached out to
Peyton to shake her hand.
"Nice to meet you Peyton," he said looking at her, he then looked over at
Bright, "Remember dinner is at 6, be home by 6."
"K dad," Bright said cooly. Dr. Abbot left to go into his house, and
Peyton entered her new home followed by Bright and then Ephram.
"Dad!?!?" Peyton called. Her dad walked down the steps towards them, he
looked happy and suprised when he saw Peyton had brought guests. She had
already made friends, he knew she would fit right in.
"Hey sweetie," he said while looking over Bright and Ephram.
"This is Bright," she said motioning to Bright, "And this is Ephram," she
said motioning to Ephram. "And this," motioning at her dad, "is my dad,"
she said looking back at Bright and Ephram smiling.
"Nice to meet you boys," her dad said in a friendly voice.
"They're here to help us move our stuff," Peyton said looking at her Dad.
"Oh," he paused, "then it's really nice to meet you guys." They worked for
the next hour and a half bringing stuff in and moving it around, talking
the whole time. Peyton asked if they wanted to see the movie but Bright
declined, regret clear on his face, because of his dad's warning, and
Ephram too because he had to babysit his sister Delia.
"Oh well," she said smiling, "maybe some other time." Bright's face lit
up,
"I'm free Friday, we could see secret window," he said happily.
"Cool with me," Ephram said, he had been wanting to see that movie, he
begged Madison to see it with him but she thought it too scary.
"Yea, cool," Peyton said looking at Bright nodding sligtly. They then
left, Peyton was watching them leave through the window.
