A/N- What you've all been waiting for! Paragraph 3! And thank you u everyone for the reviews I really appreciate them! Arigatou gozaimashita!
Chapter 3- The House
About 5 months ago some family moved in across the road from us and everyone hears strange noises from their house at night but has never seen the family. It's quite a big house as well. So now everyone thinks our street is either haunted or cursed and stays away from it.
But anyway I didn't take much notice until I recognized the brown hair tied up, orange headphones, white shirt, green pants and those slippers. When this registered I turned on the side and I skidded to a stop.
Yoh stopped walking from the noise and I held my breath as he turned his head to the side a little but didn't see me and carried on walking.
OMG! What should I do? I thought, If I try to race ahead of him he'll see me for sure, if I stay here he'll look around at some time and see me for sure, and if I just carry on with all the noise he'll see me for sure!
I started looking around for inspiration. My heart leapt when I spotted something. I dived into a clump of bushes in some guy's front garden.
The rustle caused Yoh to stop and turn around. But he just shrugged seeing no one there and carried on walking.
This was a stroke of genius! I thought to myself, grinning in triumph, I'll just wait here till he goes!
But what I was standing on didn't feel quite right all of a sudden. I looked down and saw that I was standing on a flat rock balancing on something and it was now tilting to one side. Before I could do anything about it, it slipped from under my feet and I fell backwards. I heard a soft 'meow' and a cat walked straight over me as if I wasn't there. I was about to get up but froze as I realized with all the noise, Yoh could have heard!
"Uh…are you ok?" I heard a voice say.
I sat up and saw Yoh staring at me with an expression of amused concern.
"Um, yeh I was just uh…" my brain was whizzing through all sorts of excuses, all pathetic. But before I could think of a suitable one, he took my hand and helped me up. I brushed myself off and we started walking with a nervous silence although he looked as calm as ever.
"So you live around here?' I asked.
"Yeh. I live at that house. Right there." He pointed. It was the creepy house everyone hears noises from! 'The Haunted Mansion' everyone at school calls it.
My mouth dropped.
"You live there!" I said, shocked, "Don't you hear uh…noises at night?"
Yoh just smiled.
"You know," he said changing the subject, "I'd ask you what you were doing in the garden back there but I don't think you'd tell me."
"Yeh," I smiled.
I was almost at my house.
"Well I live across the road from you," I said, "How come no one's seen any of you for 5 months?"
"We're…a busy family." He replied.
That didn't satisfy me but I didn't ask any more questions. Interesting, I thought to myself, Very interesting.
"Well uh…I guess I'll see you later then." I said.
"Yeh. I guess so. Bye Karuri."
I think I melted right there. I had just enough energy to say bye and keep my legs moving but my mind was somewhere else. Wow he said my name!
A/N- Sorry its so short. Bows several timesSumimasen! I was really busy but I PROMISE I'll try to make the next ones longer!