Kayleigh shuffled to her front door, and rang the bell. Nothing. All the lights were off, and she rang it again. She put her hands in her pockets for warmth as she heard the shuffling of her "mum's" slippers. The door creaked open and she was met with accusing eyes looking out though mop of bed-head.
"What do you think you're doing?" Came through the open door, in a harsh whisper, Kayleigh pushed her way in, "Waking people up at this time in the night?" Her "mum" closed the door, and looked angrily at Kayleigh as if she were a stranger.
Kayleigh felt annoyed, but her quiet nature had come back over her, and she couldn't face a fight.
"Sorry," She mumbled under her breath and walking quickly to her bedroom. She heard her "mum" muttering and shuffling back to her own.
She pulled her blanket over her in the dark. Her curtain's were open and a thin light from the moon and stars illuminated her room into jumpy shadows and highlights. Slowly she coasted into light sleep, only to awake sharply. She sat up the thin blanket falling to cover her legs only. The room was silent, and empty. She held the edge of her blanket and brought it up to her shoulder, and with her other hand she pulled the other corner to wrap it around herself.
She tiptoed to the door and pulled it open ever so slightly. She saw nothing in the darkened hall, suddenly a noise made her turn on the spot. She stood by her door, looking through her window. She blinked in surprise as a small rock hit the glass.
With one hand she kept the blanket around her, and with the other she climbed onto her bed and reached for the window latch. She did this in a kind of daze; she didn't really know anyone that well at school, she was kind of a loner, and someone was trying to get her attention in the middle of the night? It was very mysteriously romantic, and the kind of thing she daydreamed about, but never actually expected to happen. Had she been thinking at that moment, she might have suspected a cruel joke on the other side of the window. But then again, seeing as she was practically invisible, that might have been equally unlikely.
She pushed the window out on it's hinge, and the cold air rustled her curtains, and made her take a sharp breath. She looked over the edge, and, not in her wildest dreams she have imagined this could actually happen, a boy stood there. An actual boy. A good-looking well muscled, boy, with blonde tousled hair. He smiled up at her, she looked dumbly back. Her first coherent thought was that he must be at the wrong house. His smile was replaced with a look of confusion, and he waved in her eye line, trying to get her attention.
"Hey," he whispered, "Hey, Kayleigh, right?" So he wasn't at the wrong house. She nodded, and managed to close her mouth. He gestured her towards him. She took a deep breath and tried to think. He could be dangerous, he knew her name, yet she'd never seen him before, not at school not anywhere. Yet here he was, this gorgeous boy, calling her name in the middle of the night. She bit her lip, and with pain shook her head. He looked dismayed, genuinely dismayed. It was incredible! "Listen, I just need to talk to you, can't very well do that from down here can I?" He had a slight Australian accent to match his tanned skin, blonde hair and blue eyes. She pulled the window closed, and hesitated for three full seconds. And finally she grabbed her boots, and thicker hoodie, pulling them on as quietly as she could going down the stairs. This was totally reckless, but how much harm could it be to talk a cute boy, seven yards from her own house? Plus interesting things like this, never happened to Kayleigh. She took a key to the front door this time before leaving, and pulled the latch slowly so as not make any sound, and crept out the house.
And there he was. He smiled dreamily as he saw her. "I, am very happy to see you," She had to catch herself from falling into the stereotypical school girl swooning nervously in front a cute boy. Instead she tried to eye him suspiciously. She still, of course, had no idea who he was.
"Who are you?"
"I'm Ethan."