The day ended and soon enough everyone was on their way home. Zack and the others were no where in site, so Dawn walked home alone. As soon as she got home she went straight to her homework. She didn't like it or anything, in fact she rarely did her homework until after 9 at her old house. But she really wanted to get it out of the way tonight.

Once she finished she went to have a shower. As great as the day was, it was also really stressful. She got yelled at a teacher because she said "yeah?" instead of here for attendence and got talked to by the principal because her locker was "too messy" just beause one book fell out. Not to mention the students. Most of them were really nice, but some of the ones that the rest of the school considered sluts, were insanely mean. All she wanted to do was relax.

When she was finished in the shower she changed into her pajamas and brought a couple of dvds up to her room. After the first movie she got bored and looked at the clock. It was only 7. That meant she could still go for a walk around her street. She just moved in 3 days ago, and so far those 3 days were spent on unpacking. She was looking forward to exploring her neighbourhood.

She quickly changed into the clothes she had on earlier. She yelled to her mom that she was going out and left the house. Dawn could see a park up the street on a hill. That looks like a good place to start, she thought as she began to walk.

Meanwhile

Zach had wanted to walk home with Dawn, but he couldn't get rid of Freddy. He knew if he said anything about it Freddy would want to come. So he let Freddy drag him to a smoothie place close to Dawn's house (but they didn't know that yet). They had been there only about 15 minutes when Freddy suddenly said "Gotta go!" and ran out the door.

Freddy had seen Dawn walking up to the park. He didn't have any sort of ride, so he had to jog. She was pretty far ahead of him so she would get there at least 10 minutes before he did.

Dawn sat down on one of the swings. She began to rock back and forth, never lifting her feet off of the ground. She sat there for a few minutes thinking. She heard someone walking behind her and turned around. Freddy was walked up and sat down on the swing beside her.

"Hey," he said smiling. He began to swing. Before Dawn could say hi back he said "bet you can't go higher than me." He had a funny little smirk on his face. "Oh yeah?" Dawn said as she began to swing as well. They pumped their legs as hard as they could until they were both as high as they could go. It was too difficult to decide who was higher.

"Fine," Freddy said. "Lets both jump off at the very top and see who gets farther. I'll go first." He jumped off and landed on his chest on the ground. "Ouch!" Dawn said laughing, still swinging. "You try then," Freddy said sitting up facing the swingset. Dawn waited until she was as high as she could get and jumped. She flew into the air. She landed on her feet but then fell back laughing. As Freddy crawled over to her he couldn't help smiling."Never again!" she said still laughing.

"So where did you used to live?" Freddy asked once they had both clamed down. They still hadn't moved from their places, Dawn laying on her back and Freddy sitting beside her. "Westport," she replied looking up at the sky which was slowly getting darker. "I doubt you've heard of it. It takes at least 2 days to drive there from here." "No I haven't heard of it. You miss it much?" he said. "Yeah, I guess," she replied. "I mean I don't miss the actual town, just the people in it. Like all my friends for example." "Anyone else?" he was trying to find out if she had a boyfriend but he thought if he asked staight out he'd sound desperate. "Yeah. Matt. We were going out for a pretty long time. In fact we haven't actually broken up," Dawn said. She looked at Freddy, who suddenly shifted his gaze towards the ground. "But it didn't feel like we were going out anymore. We became more of best friends. I mean if we ever kissed eachother it would always be on the cheek. I just thought if we did break up, it would ruin our friendship. And I didn't want that. I mean he was my best friend you know?"

Freddy looked up. Dawn was still looking at him. He don't know what made him do it. He leaned over and put his arms on the ground on either side of her and kissed her. It took a second for Dawn to realize what was happening, but when she did and put her arms around his neck and kissed him back. When they finally broke apart Freddy could see that Dawn was smiling. That was a good sign. "Go out with me?" Freddy asked. "Duh!" Dawn said laughing as she kissed him again.

As soon as Zach had seen Freddy lean over Dawn, he left. He knew what Freddy was going to do so why sit and watch? He could feel the anger bubbling inside of him. Freddy was supposed to be his best friend. Zach didn't end up liking too many people, but whenever he did his friends could always notice. Freddy knew he liked Dawn and he went for her anyway...