Chapter 3

It was him. The guy that knocked on the door for direction. He slowly walked towards me and said "hi, I'm Julian," so then I said "hi, I'm Katie, di..did you find your way home?"

"yeh, thanks to you I did" he said. And then mum came towards me with a confused expression on her face. "Katie, honey, how do you know him?" mum asked me.

"well, today they ,well they knocked on the door for directions, and I helped them out." I said.

"well anyway this is Julian's mother Julie and this is Julian's little brother Jake. Well, me and Julie used to be best friends in secondary school, but then Julie had to move because her father had a new job, but we always stayed in touch. And only a couple of days ago they moved to this area. Right you people must be starving, because I know that I am." Said mum and then we all went to the dinning room and I helped mum bring all the food in and set it on the table. Me and Joe sat at one side of the table and Julian and Jake sat right opposite us. And the two parents sat on the two ends of the table and mum started to serve us all. Through out dinner we didn't say much except Julie and mum. But when ever I looked up at Julian or Jake I kept meeting Julian's eyes and it made me blush, that I thought I shouldn't look up any more. And after dinner was over mum said "Katie, honey, why don't you show Jake and Julian around the house, and I'll clear this up" and I just replied by saying "sure, mum."

I showed them round the whole house and the last room I went to was mines. Jake and Julian stood in one place and looked around the room. Then Julian said "nice room", and I replied back saying "thanks."

Then I said "why don't you lot sit down and I'll get us a glass of drink."

I went down stairs and got four glasses of Coca-Cola on a tray and went back up. When I entered my room I found Julian, Jake and Joe all sitting at the end of the bed, and I had a sudden feeling that the springs on that side of the beds might come out. But I didn't say anything but just offered them all a glass of drink and the last glass was left for me. I put the tray back and sat at the computer chair. For a couple of seconds or so the room was just totally silence. Then I thought that maybe I could on the computer and play a nice music. I was just about to open my mouth and say 'do any of you listen to music' but before I could say it Joe stood up and said "come on Jake lets go to my room and play with my toys. And off they went leaving me and Julian on our own. So I switched the computer on and played a pop song. Then I went over to my draw and got out a pack of cards and then asked Julian if he wanted to play and he said 'yes'. I went over to the bed and sat down opposite Julian. I took the cards out and looked up and saw that Julian had taken off his top and had a vest left. Then he looked up at me and said "can you like, please open your window because it's quite hot in here", so with out saying anything, I got up and went over to the window and opened it, I felt the cool breeze come in and hit me. It made me shiver. When I turned around I saw Julian staring at me and I looked away. I slowly worked towards the bed and sat down back to were I was sitting before opposite Julian. I opened my mouth to say something but nothing came out so I just closed my mouth.

And then Julian said "Katie, if you don't mind, can I ask you a question"

"sure" I said.

"how old are you?"

"16"

"when's your birthday"

"31 august" I muttered in a low voice. And then he asked me if I had a boyfriend. And I lied and said no.

And then I asked if I could ask him some questions and he said 'yeah'.

"Julian, how old are you?"

"I'm 27. I know that I'm old but you have to admit it yourself, that I look really young and sexyyy" he replied back and I started giggling.

"indeed you are very sexyyy. But really, how old are you" I said again.

"17" he replied.

"you got a girlfriend then" I said.

"no" he said.

I don't know why but suddenly I felt strange, being in a room alone with Julian.