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Chapter 2-The Dream House

Sonny's POV

We arrive at the new house; it's in an amazing part of town. The part where Tawni lives-and Chad. I push that to the back of my mind and smile.

It's a beautiful house, like you'd see in a picture book for kids. The walls on the outside are white-washed, and there's a front garden, with a little birdbath. The little birds chirp happily and I sit down on the bench on the side. It matches the walls-white, and when I sit there, I see a couple of the birds sit on the arm of the bench next to me. I smile. This is my kind of house-tranquil, quiet, beautiful.

Me and Tawni run straight inside to see my room. Mom has already put in all the furniture, and I told her how I wanted it to be, with guidance from Tawni. I open the door and I can hear Tawni holding her breath. We soon see that Tawni's guidance really paid off-it's amazing. The wall is my second favourite colour-light purple, and it looks brilliant. The bed and furniture match the walls perfectly. We look down to see the soft, woollen carpet beneath us, and we know the room's now perfect.

"Am I good at room designing or what?" Tawni laughs, sitting on the bed and admiring the room. She's right-it looks perfect. Way better than my room that Mom organised in the apartment, but I won't say that. Instead, I smile and nod in agreement, that is, until I see a note that gets me curious:

Dear Sonny, I don't care if you never want to see me again-I understand why. What I did was wrong. I get that now. Hope you settle in to your new home well, and who knows? I live just down the street; maybe we can have a fresh start? Be friends, or maybe more…See ya round, Chad x

My heart flips, but not in a good way. How did this get here? How would Chad know where my new house is? "He's planning something." I say aloud.

"What?" Tawni asks, coming over to see the note.

"Chad," I say, "He sent me this note, and if I know Chad right, this means he's up to something…"

"Remember, Sonny." She says, "You're…"

"…Better without him, I know." I say. "I'll be fine. Chad won't get a hold of me again."

Two hours later, and my friends leave. We've had some fun, looking around. We've tried the new TV-50 inch. I think I'm in heaven. There's loads of stuff here I could only dream of in my old apartment. There's a pizza oven, a piano, my bedroom is huge and beautiful, all the other rooms are huge and beautiful, and guess what? There's a hot tub! I know, amazing, right? Now I'm living the life of luxury!

Mom has to go out too; she's taking a client out to dinner for work, so I have the dream house all to myself! I decide to let it stay that way, and watch all the movies that Mom says are too old for me, even though I'm 17. I put on a horror and scream in fear and delight at the ghosts the whole way through, before putting a pizza in the pizza oven to eat later. I put in the next scariest film I can find, when suddenly…knock, knock…knock knock!

I creep out at the noise. Who would it be? Mom won't be in for ages, and I'm not expecting anyone…maybe it's one of the ghosts from "The Last Watchman" (A/N: I made that up, not a real movie. Well, it might be, I don't know…). Knock, knock, knock! The noise comes louder, more persistent, somewhat arrogant…

BANG!

I scream at the sound, before remembering the movie. The ghosts were afraid of the light. I grab a torch, ready to shine in their dead eyes…

"Agh!" I yell, opening the door.

"Whoa!" The body says, "What's up with you? You're blinding me!"

"Oh, I'm sorry," I say, turning it off. I scan the person, I can't really see their face, they're wearing a hoodie, and the dark isn't lighting up their face. "Um, do I know you?" I ask, and the person laughs.

"You sure do," He says, taking down his hood and looking around. My horrified look turns to a horrifying look straight away, and I groan.

"Chad?"

"Sure is," He says, still looking around. "All clear!" He faces me, "Well? Will you invite me in?"

I won't break a smile. "What are you doing here?" I ask.

He sighs, "I need to apologise to you…"

"Chad," I interrupt, "I know you're sorry. But I just can't accept that. What you did, it's unforgivable!"

"C'mon, Sonny! Just let me talk!"

"No, Chad," I say, "I am sick of you're attempts to win me back."

"But, Sonny…"

It goes on like this for ages, him begging for forgiveness, me telling him it will never happen.

"Chad, I'm serious. I was 6 months ago. Just forget it!"

"But…" Chad is interrupted by a noise inside the room, and it doesn't sound too good…

Beepbeepbeepbeepbeep…

I look behind me, to see the pizza oven smoking. I look in horror as it bursts into flames.

An hour later, and the firemen have arrived. The fire is raging-and to think, this started because I wanted a pizza.

"Sonny?" I hear a shy voice behind me, and turn to see him, furious. I may say that this is because of a pizza, but this is the guy who stopped me from getting my pizza and stopping the whole fire. I guess it's not just because of the pizza.

"This is all your fault, Chad." I say, "My new house…" I turn to see my house, still inflames, the firemen trying, and failing, to put it out.

"Sonny," He sighs, "I am so sorry,"

"Chad, can't you just accept that we're over?" I yell, and leave him alone, speechless. I can't believe this is happening. I call my Mom, and tell her what happened.

"Are you OK?" She asks.

"Yeah," I lie. Well, injury-wise, I'm fine. But emotionally, I'm tearing apart.

"Well, I'm gonna have to make some arrangements." She says, "I'll stay with one of our relatives in Wisconsin until I get enough money so to buy a new house in California…"

"What about me?" I ask.

"Well, you can maybe ask one of your friends if you can stay with them…"

"But what if I can't?"

"I'm sorry," She says, "You'll have to come and move with me to Wisconsin. For a while, that is." I don't want this to be true. I can't go back to Wisconsin; I'm enjoying the show, I have good friends, I can't leave now!

I turn away from the burning house, to see the dark road nearby, and I'm sure I see a figure, looking at me sadly, before putting up the hood on his hoodie and turning away, walking down the street.

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