I woke up from a beautiful nap and stretched my arms to get that nasty cramp out of my arm. Something felt off. I looked around the room, no sign that Kiara was in here for at least an hour. The room was dark and I looked out in the corridor. Nothing.

The house was unusually quiet. I got out off bed and sludged down the stairs. No sign of life here either. Although there were voices outside.

That's when I remembered the neighbors. They must be helping them move in. I quickly put on my sliders and go outside to find Dad having a chat with the neighbors.

"Ah, Melody come say hello to Mr. and Mrs. Rivers!" My dad says pulling me into the circle they created.

"Nice to meet you." I flash them a smile, shaking their hands.

"Yes, so this is my fourth oldest, Melody."

"Wow, you sure do have a big family!" Mrs. Rivers cries in amazement. "We only have one and that is already hard work imagine six more Thomas!"

"A total nightmare." The adults all laugh.

"Would you like me to help with anything?"

Mrs. Rivers smiled at me. She has really nice teeth. "Yes please, my son is bringing boxes into the house, just go to the van he will give you the small ones." She pauses. "Also, my son is starting at your school tomorrow I believe he is in your grade."

"Oh, really? I did hear someone new was coming anyways so I'll make sure to make him feel welcome."

"Oh so polite thank you dear."

"No problem." I walk over to the van. I walk up the steps and seemed like no one was in it. I look around for any small boxes and caught a few at the back. I made my way down there and bent down to pick some up.

That's when I heard a wolf whistle from behind me. I whip my head around.
My eyes widen as I stare at a tall, muscular and gorgeous creature. His light brown eyes fell upon my face staring at me so intensely my belly did a backflip. His eyes captured my attention first, he had these beautiful shade of brown that gave him a piercing eye expression.

His face had a sharp jawline and his face was basically symmetrical. He was the type of the boy you look back to look at when you pass him in the streets. And then secretly stare at him again until he disappears. My eyes fell slowly to his body and I eyed his broad-shouldered, strong body build. I wonder what's under that shirt?

I need to stop staring it's starting to get creepy.

"Hey, you got some drool at the side of your mouth." He grinned. His voice was deep and husky. I quickly snap back into reality.

I roll my eyes and internally get myself together. "You wish." I scoff.

He steps closer. I step back. I see his eyes rank my body swiftly, making his way all the way to my face.

"Um, well your mom told me to help so which box should I take?" I say awkwardly, his stare making me incredibly self conscious.

He stepped closer looking at me intensely as if he was trying to figure out something. I looked away. He leaned over my head to reach for a box with one hand. I watched how his muscles flexed.

"Here you go baby doll."

About to take the box I stop and look back at him. "Yeah that's not my name."

"Well baby doll suits you better."

"We are not gonna do that."

"Oh yes we are." He leans even closer and whispers, "Whatcha gonna do baby doll."

I move away. "Why are you so annoying?" I huff.

He smiles satisfied with himself. "Here take this box."

I reach for the box but he puts it higher out of my reach and I find myself on my tip toes.

"Stop!" I huff, he was clearly making fun of the fact that he was taller than me.

His grin becoming wider by each second. I watch him intensely as he steps forward. He continued to make his way closer to me until my back hit the stack of boxes behind me. I gulp looking up at him, unable to say anything. Our eyes lock as he places both hands to rest on the boxes either side of me, trapping me in. He leans in so his body is against mine, His scent invading my nose a nice lemon smell, I shiver by the feeling of his hard chest against mine. He reaches my ear slowly, his warm breath ticking my ear lightly. "Come and get it then." He then looks back down at my face an amused expression on his face. Prick.

Finally snapping back to reality again, he move away from me giving me space to finally breath.

"Look I only here to help move boxes not talk to annoying guys who think they are all that." But the truth is he is all that. I grab the box from his handand make my way to the door.

"So I'm not attractive?" He says grinning even more. I look up at him. "You know a lot of girls are after me, they would die to be this close to me right now."

I smile sweetly and simply respond, "Well you know what they say low prices attracts a lot of customers." He looked at me clearly taken aback by my comeback. I slowly turned around for dramatic effect and walked out of the van.

"I didn't catch your name." The boy calls from behind me.

"I didn't throw it did I?"

I smiled to myself as I walked towards the house.

***

The rest of the afternoon the others came and helped apart from Levi and Sap because Levi for one tried hit Liam with a box full of glass and Sap was just making a whole mess. I didn't see that boy since he drove off somewhere to get something. Still, after an hour of the incident, am still feeling incredibly proud for getting the last talk. He was cute until he opened his mouth. But I mean Cameron is way cuter.

After all the boxes were taken out of the van, to thank us the River's invited us for dinner.

"I know it isn't much but I made this really delicious cake and it's my first time making it so I want your opinion."

"Of course we would be delighted to," Mom says sitting down in the armchair.

"Um honey I think we need to get paper plates, I put it in the kitchen." Mr. Rivers says to his wife who nods and disappeared into the kitchen.

"OK now listen up, My wife is very bad at cooking so eat with caution. " Mr. Rivers warns us.

"Oh, I'm sure it's not that bad." Mom laughs.

"Oh no, during Thanksgiving since we go to her parent's house and they have a bit of a rat problem we use her sweet potatoes as rat poison." His face was very serious. Wow, that's a little harsh.

"Cool! Does it actually work!" Dad asks.

"Greg!" Mum says shaking her head.

"Oh don't worry it does. And the ones who survive escape and never come back.!"

Mrs. Rivers comes back with plates and serves us. Just as I get my cake the boy come back.

"Teeshay! sweetie, did you deliver the last things?" He walks into the room his brown eyes scan around the room looking at how my family has taken up most of the room.

"Year I did."

"Ok come and get some cake, also have you met Melody yet, she will be in your class." I feel his gaze fall onto me.

"Oh, I did, and we had a very interesting conversation. And I'll pass for the cake. " He winked at me.

I choked on my cake. Unsure I choked because of the horror of a cake that my mouth has consumed or him.

"That's good well my daughter will make sure you feel welcome in our neighborhood and your new school., won't you Mel." Mom looks at me. She knows how sharp my tongue can be.

"Yes of course." I smile innocently to mom and then to Teeshay.

"Good!" Mrs. rivers claps her hands together and goes off into the kitchen. The moment she was out everyone spat their cake into the napkin.

The parents stay to chat a bit and I just stayed on my phone the whole time telling the group chat (Which has Mary Sol, Ali, Tokyo, and Natalie in it.) how freakin' hot my new neighbor is.

Feeling a little thirsty I go into the kitchen and see Teeshay on the barstool texting. I walk past him calmly and grab a plastic cup.

"What's up baby doll." I hear Teeshay's voice.

"That's not my name." I protest. I walk over to the island where he was sitting and pour myself some water.

"Defensive much. But hey it's ok I mean between you and me, you're pretty cute when you get feisty." he leaned in more his voice deeper and lower, "I like feisty girls." He winked at me.

I laugh. "So Teeshay, listen up, if you try making any moves on me I will chop off your balls."

"Woah calm down, I have standards anyways." He smirked. I refuse to give him a satisfying reaction.

"So you must have low standards then, that's fine I'm not the one to judge."

"Don't flatter yourself too much baby doll."

"Melody, my name is Melody." I roll my eyes.

"Continue rolling those your eyes of yours until you see your brain."

"At least I have a brain, can't say about others."

"Excuse you I am a very intellectual human being, and at least I'm actually good to look at. Can't say much about others." He said fiercely back.

"Nope you look like a chipmunk to me."

"Says the whale." He says.

"Fly." I spit back.

"Monkey."

"Seal."

We glare at each other for a few seconds. Why is he so annoying? I noticed how nice his upper body looked from a close point of view.

"Drink some water you look flustered there baby doll."

I scoff. "I'll pour this on you."

"What because I'm wearing a white top so you want to see my abs. Jeez baby doll just ask if you want."

"As if." I drink the water.

"Mhm." He returns tapping on his phone.

"So do you want me to show you around school?"

He stops to look back at me and thinks.
"Wouldn't mind you know, so maybe you can show the janitor closer and we can have some alone time."

I laugh hysterically. "You are not serious."

"Oh trust me, I am." He stares at me intensely with a serious expression on his face. Even though he was joking around I felt weird like in my tummy and my ears was heating up. I quickly broke eye contact and laughed it off.

"You know what you can figure it out yourself." I grab my phone and walk out of the kitchen. Just then my parents were finally leaving.

We said goodbye and go back home.

...

"How do you find the new boy because to me he is cute! Shame he is way younger than me." Kiara pouts as she disappears into the closet flicking through clothes.

I look up from my laptop. "Year he is alright."

"Mmm really because I saw the both of you getting on in the kitchen." She smirks at me.

"We were just talking." I protest.

"Oh come on sis who am I gonna tell. I'm actually happy that an opposite sex who is not related to you or gay is talking with you!"

I throw my one of my many pillows at her. "Shut up! I talk to boys."

She looks at me unconvinced and puts on a top. "Where are you going?"

"Somewhere."

"Where?" I demand.

She rolls her eyes. "To my friends house ok?"

"And which boyfriend is this one?"

"Tony is not my boyfriend! And before you ask yes there will be other people there." She paused reading my facial expression. "Tina, Mindy and a few other girls will be there."

"Ok then."

"Urg sometimes you act worse than mom."

"Year whatever don't come too late." She waves her hand to say she understood and crept out the door.

Two hours past and as I sat engrossed binge watching my recent fav Netflix series hugging the snacks that I secretly got from the kitchen. Every time Kiara goes out I always stay up until she arrives. Even though she is annoying as hell I cannot sleep without not knowing if she arrived home safely. That when I hear something hit my window outside.

I ignore it the first three times but then it became annoying so I walk to the window. As I draw the curtains a stone hits my window. I open the window and another stone hits the middle of my forehead.

"Ouch!" I whisper scream and see at the other end in the other house Teeshay was grinning at me.

"Hello there neighbour." He waved.

"Are you crazy, do you know what time it is and you are here throwing stones!" I say rubbing my forehead.

"You weren't even sleeping, your light was on."

"But still what the hell do you want."

"Woah calm down baby doll I just wanted to have a nice chat with you."

"Can you not have a nice chat with me tommorow, in the morning?"

"Nope. So do you want to climb over I'll give you a grand tour of my room."

"Who me? Climb over two stories? You're mad."

"I'll catch you if you fall." He pulls his window wider a if he got it all planned out.

"Who do you think you are batman?"

"Precisely." He reaches out a hand. Our houses are pretty close to each other anyways but hell no am I climbing into his bedroom. I cross my arms tightly covering my cleavage that was showing in my crop top.

"No. And stop that you might lose your balance and fall."

"What you concerned about me." He flashed me a flirtatious smile.

"No I just dont want the cops asking me questions. Waste of my time."

"I'm offended."

I smile. "Good well sweet dreams."

"I'm bored all I wanted was to talk. You are so boring." He wails like Sap when she can't eat ice cream for breakfast.

"I'm not boring." I scoff. "You know what I'll show you whose boring."

"Ooh I'm so scared." He mocks. I disappear into the closet and get out a my pillow shaped as a middle finger that Audrey secretly bought me when we went to the summer carnival. I went back to the window and threw it across and it hit Teeshay's face.

I started laughing uncontrollably at Teeshay facial expression as he read the post stick note that said suck my dick.

He quickly smiles at me. "Gladly. So should I come over instead?" I stop laughing and frown at him.

"Whatever. Go away."

"Fine your loss. And I'm keeping this pillow, idiot." He tosses the pillow somewhere in his room. "Sweet dreams baby doll." And then he closes his window.

"Dickhead." I mutter to myself and go back to my bed.