"...It happens when you least expect it"
The morning after the housewarming party I was up bright and early, so I got on with my usual routine, get up, shower, have breakfast, yada yada yada. After about 2 hours I decided to go for a walk to Mattie's and thats how I caught the end of Beth's sentence. Approaching Martha, Robbie, Tasha and Beth, I decided to speak up
"What happens?" I asked smiling standing next to Beth and Tasha
"Mr Right" Beth stated smiling at me. Beth has always been so lovely to me, She's like another mother to me, after Irene and my own mother ofcourse
"Oh yes, That's exactly what I said! They can come find us from now on" I said smiling widely at her
As everyone broke out into laughter, I saw a Moving truck, followed by a car, pull up next door
"Oh, new neighbours." Beth exclaimed
As we all watched the car pull up, the two front doors opened, and a young guy about my age with blonde hair paired with a cute smile in the full surfer boy attire stepped out
"Finally we're here" The younger boy exclaimed looking over to an older man with brown hair that was obviously his dad.
"You're the new neighbours?" Beth asked ducking under a tree while walking over
"Yeah, G'idday" The older man greeted her with a wave, meeting her half way
"My names Beth Hunter"
"Tony Holden, Nice to meet ya'"
"This is Robbie, Tasha, Martha and Noelle" Beth introduced us, each of us saying 'hi' as she said our names
"How ya' goin', this is my son Lucas"
Lucas politely said 'hi' and waved, just as a green holden pulled up
"And here's my eldest" Tony said pointing out to the green holden, A guy with short brown hair and a red shirt stepped out. In my personal opinion he was extremely attractive if I do say so myself. The Holden family were a good looking family in my opinion.
"Sorry, I got held up"
"This is Jack"
We all greeted him except for Martha, when I looked as her, she was Iess than pIeased.
"Mattie, might I just say that you have some spunky new neighbours!" Plopping down on Mattie's bed while he finished doing her hair. I sat cross legged picking up an old magazine; flipping through it
"Trust you to use the word spunky to describe someone!" She laughed
"Com'on" Beth said urging Mattie to walk faster, as the 3 of us headed down the Hunter's driveway over to the Holden's
"Why are we doing this again?" Mattie asked lagging behind as I skipped in front with Beth
"Who cares!" Shouting happily, I guess you cause say I was keen to go over to the Holden's
"Because their our new neighbours and its a nice thing to do" Beth explained
"Yeah but we're there neighbours too, what do we get?"
"The pleasure of living next to a spunky family!" I smiled widely as Beth and Mattie laugh
"You really have to stop using spunky to describe people!" Mattie exclaimed
"Com'on fella's, how long does it take to chuck on a pair of boardies?" Hearing Tony's voice, Beth knocked on the door
"Hello again" Tony smiled
"Hi, I hope we're not interrupting?" Beth questioned
"No, not at all. You just saved me from waiting for the boys actually!"
"Oh, This is my daughter, Matilda and ofcourse Noelle who you met before" Beth introduced Mattie
"Hi Matilda, Tony, Nice ta' meet ya', Noelle, nice to see you again"
"Moving's pretty hungry work so we thought we'd bring you something to tide you over" Beth said handing over the plate of muffins
"Thanks very much, thats very generous of you. Ah, come in, please"
The 3 of us each stepped into the living room that was crowded with moving box's
"I'd tell ya' to make yourself at home, but theres not much of a home to it yet"
"Hi" After hearing another voice we turned around to see Jack putting his surf board against the wall "Muffin's awesome, I'm starvin-"
"Aye, aye, get out of it" Tony said cutting his eldest son off as he went to grab a muffin
"You'll have to excuse my son, He's got the manners of a gorilla"
I gave a wide toothy smile "I don't blame ya', Beth's muffins are the best!"
Jack chuckled before grabbing himself a muffin after his dad put the plate down
"Hi, im Jack" He introduced himself to Mattie
"Matilda" She said quitely
"This is my son, Lucas" Tony said to Mattie as we all saw him walk out from the hallway with a box
At the mention of his name, he looked up and smiled lightly "Luc, this is Matilda from next door"
Immediately I saw a somewhat spark between Mattie and Lucas.
"I love your name Jack, My late husband was called Jack" Beth exclaimed looking at Jack
"Hot name for a hot guy I might add" I said brightly, not caring that he heard. Everyone in the room started laughing
"Why must you have no shame" Mattie stated to me quietly
"Mum chose it, It was her favorite!" He said clearly enjoying the muffin "You're right, thee are the best" he smiled at me
"Oh I must of missed her before" Beth exclaimed
Immediately I noticed the tension in the air, Jack looked down, while Tony looked over at Lucas who had his head down
"Ahh, No, it's just, my wife died some time ago. It's just us boys now" Tony exclaimed
"O-oh, I'm sorry" Beth stuttered obviously feeling guilty
"Oh no, there's nothing to be sorry about, you weren't to know that" Tony assured with a smile on his face
"Right well, we better leave you to it. If you need anyting,m you know where to find us" Beth smied ushing me and Mattie out the door
"Bye!" I shouted as we left
Later on at the beach I was walking up to the surf club I saw Scott and Martha standing next to Mr Stewart as e threw in a line. I walked up deciding to say high, As I got closer I started to run before jumping on Scott's back as he was clearly caught of guard not knowing who what on his back, he grabbed my leggs that were around his waist.
Scott was Mattie's edest brother, Sure he was good looking but we've always have a brother/sister relationship since Mattie was my best friend, we were really close. To be honest I used to have a crush on him but I quickly got over that
"You were speeding!" Alf exclaims while hooking on some bait to his line
"Ofcourse she was!" I said, grinning
"Jesus Elle" Scott said, realising it was just me on his back
"I was doing 60 in a 50 zone" Martha said, clearly not happy
"So, thats speeding" Alf grumbled at his niece
"Everyone does it"
"Well everyone shouldn't flammin' well do it"
A/N: I decided to split this chapter up because it was getting long. We officially meet the Holden family! I am having trouble with decided who I want to pair up my O/C with so if you have any suggestions let me know! Thanks for reading!