Man! A New Neighbor....
Jenna picked up the newspaper on the lawn and walked back into the house. She was the only person living in the two-part-townhouse. Gidget, her little two-year-old Chihuahua, skipped over to her feet as she sat at the kitchen table. Sensing it to be to quiet in the house, Jenna turned on her CD player to the soft sounds of her favorite group, Journey.
Relaxing on the recliner, she unfolded the newspaper to reveal the ‘Backstreet Babies’ on the front cover. God! Everything is all about Backstreet this and Backstreet that! I mean come on! What’s up with these five guys that are richer than the president is and are from this very town of Orlando? I’m sick of it! Okay, so maybe I don’t know what they are all about because all I listen to is Rock and Alternative, but everywhere I go it’s all about what these dumb-ass Backstreet Babies are doing! Jenna thought as she tossed the paper to a side table. Of course she wasn’t in the reading mood, so she took Gidget for a walk.
Jenna walked back down the block and noticed something different about her townhouse. There was a moving van and a black Prowler in the drive to the 3-car garage. Gidget got very excited and started to pull on the leash because she heard multiple dogs barking inside. For the 2 months I’ve lived here the peace was perfect! Now I probably get some nosy neighbor and noisy dogs. This sucks! Jenna sighed in disgust and quickly went inside hoping to not get noticed by the neighbor or neighbors.
Inside, Jenna picked up the newspaper to throw away when the guy that was supposed to be moving in next door, walked by her window, to the moving men. She glanced at him then put her head down towards the paper. Her eyes focused on the blonde in the group. She must have looked from the guy outside to the picture in the paper at least ten times to figure out if it was the same guy. Convincing herself it wasn’t the blonde from Backstreet she through the paper in the wastebasket.
About 9 at night there was a knock on the window separation on the side of the living room. (You know, that window in the kitchen on I Love Lucy) Jenna jumped and Gidget started barking. Jenna put down the remote to the CD player and walked over to the wall. She unlatched the wooden blinds to face a tall guy with a very blonde head of hair. Showing no enthusiasm, she then unclipped the small layer of a glass window.
“Hi, I’m Nick.” Nick held out his hand.
“Hi, I’m not amused.” Nick looked at her questionably and put his hand back in his pocket.
“I’m your new, next door neighbor.”
“Oh, great!” Jenna sarcastically remarked leaning against the wall facing the other way.
Nick looked disappointed that she wasn’t being so nice. “Well, um… hey your dog’s cute. It looks just like one of my friend’s.”
“Your friend is a dog?” Jenna looked back at him with a smart-ass expression.
“Um… no…”
“Aw, darn, to bad. That’d be cool if you were best friends with a canine. It seems like you already have the rolling around in mud quality.” Jenna remarked, referring to the mud stains on his jeans.
“Okay… is that Open Arms playing on the radio?”
“Yeah…”
“Do you think you could turn it up? I love that song.”
“Well in that case I should turn it off.”
Nick couldn’t take this ignorance any longer; he had to speak up for himself. “Okay I don’t know what crawled up your ass, but what did I ever do to you? Nothing, because I just moved in today.”
“You moved in. That is the problem right there. Now, I’ll be going back to my own little world here, without you in it. Goodbye.” Jenna shut the window in his face and turned out of the room and went up the stairs. She didn’t care to talk to anyone.
Chapter 2
