"Josie, sweetie, there you are." Jill smiled as Josie walked down the stairs.
"Don't call me sweetie." Josie grumbled as she heard her father laughing from the entrance way.
"Okay..." Jill paused slowly to brush her hair back out of her eyes. "Anyway, there's someone I want you to meet." Jill smiled as her father came walking into the room, followed by a teenaged boy. He was tall with chestnut hair, just like Jillian. Josie frowned and looked at them expectantly. "Josie, this is my son Nathan." Jillian offered as Nathan stuck his hand out in welcome. Looking to her father, Josie stuck her hand out and shook his briefly.
"So, how do you like Newcastle so far?" Nathan asked in a thick Australian drawl.
"I haven't seen much of it." She said quietly, fighting the urge to be rude to him.
"Hey mate, where should I put these?" Another young man called as he walked into the room. Josie gasped when she recognized him. He was also tall, with spiky black hair and lightly tanned skin.
"Oh, Josie this is my best mate Ben. Ben this is Josie." Nathan introduced them as Ben turned a shade of crimson. She immediately recognized him from the airport earlier today.
"Nice to meet you." She said flatly as Ben nodded, still holding onto a pair of surfboards.
"Well, I really have a lot of unpacking to do." Josie said, suddenly self conscious. "It was nice meeting you two." She mumbled, rushing back up the stairs, and closing her bedroom door behind her.
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