The next morning I woke up to the sun shining it my eyes. My dad’s car wasn’t there so either he didn’t come home or he left for work again. No wonder is wasn’t a very good father in beginning. I went into the bathroom and took a quick shower an threw on some jeans and a blue ¾ sleeve shirt, I put a headband in my short brown hair. And went down the stairs almost breaking my neck. The stairs being so narrow. Then I went to the 1st floor and found a note from my dad.

Alyssa, I have gone to work, here is some money for the day, Have fun. Also I hired someone from up the street to mow the lawn and try and fix something in the sink so he will be over around noon. Dad.

Well he must have some sort of good job, considering I have been left 2 20’s to me in less then 24 hours. What does he think I do, wander around and shop? I looked at the clock.

“10:54. Man I slept late, now that kid is going to be here to do the junk with some of my dad’s stuff, so that means I must have to stay here. Was that money for them? Man this is fucked up already.”

“Do you always talk to yourself?” I jumped at the voice and turned around to see the same boy that was at the park yesterday.

“Yeah, why are you here?” I said confused.

"Well, I’m the kid, doing the junk with some of your dad’s stuff.” He said smiling.

“Oh, I see” I said raising my eyebrows.

“Well don’t want to keep you from doing your work or anything,” I said looking through the cupboards.

“Don’t worry, you wont. My brother is getting everything ready, and, maybe I just might make him do it.” He sat down at the table.

“What was your name again?” I asked sitting across from him.

“And I thought you had a younger brother?”

“Taylor, and yes, I have 2 younger brothers, 3 younger sisters, and an older brother, Isaac, he is the one with me.”

“Wow, big family” I said. There was a knock on the door. I saw a taller man, he had short frizzy type brown hair. He walked in when he saw me and Taylor sitting at the table.

“Yeah, well I hate to interrupt this, but Tay, go do your job, and Hello, who might you be.” Isaac said obviously to me, considering, or hoping he already knew his brother.

“I am Alyssa, I live here, now” he walked over and shook my hand.

“Never seen you around, and since me and Tay and Zac do jobs here all the time, I think maybe I should have,”

“Not really, considering I moved in here yesterday, you might know this, but where does my dad work, if anywhere, and does he ever come home?”

“Oil Company, with my father, good place, yes, he does, and why don’t you know this?”

“Because I don’t know my father, I moved from my mother’s in Ohio.”

“Wow, big move, why did you move, if you don’t mind me asking?” He looked at me.

“Well, I kinda do mind, personal issues” He looked taken back by my comment.

“Sorry that sounded rude, I just can’t talk about it”

“No Its understandable, well I am going to get going on this sink. Umm my younger bro Zac might come over later to bug me, but if you want I can call him and have him show you around, you know so you don’t have to sit her all day.” He smiled, and then I figured he had heard me talk to myself also.

“Umm” I hesitated.

“He doesn’t bite, I’ll give him a call, I am sure he wont mind,” Isaac said picking up the phone and called his house I was guessing. When he hung up the phone he looked at me.

“He said he would love to, he will be over in like 5 minutes cause that is how long it takes for him to walk over” Isaac said.

“Well I am going to go get to work.” I nodded and walked outside to where Taylor was mowing the back yard. I waved and walked out front, I sat on the front steps and waited for Isaac’s little brother to come show me around. I was less then thrilled, but decided that I would go.

“This is boring,” I said picking at a piece of grass.

“Well I would think so.” I jumped then looked at who was talking. There was a boy about 5’8 long shiny blonde hair, brown eyes, kinda a mix of Isaac and Taylor, but a little better looking. He extended his hand.

“Hi, I am Zac”

“Alyssa” I said shaking his hand.

“So why did you jump?” He said as a stood up.

‘Cause I wasn’t expecting anyone to be there.” I said brushing some grass off my pants.

“Well, good thing I came, otherwise you would have mowed the front lawn with your hands” Zac said motioning to the little piled of picked grass I accumulated in the time I had been outside. I laughed.

“Well, oh well, so, your going to show me around” I said looking at him.

“Yeah, that or we could just go get something to eat or whatever, I don’t care, I was bored, and we all know you were.” He said leading me down a street.

“Ok, whatever, I have like 30 dollars, my dad just keeps leaving and giving me money.”

“I wouldn’t mind that, so when did you get here.”

“Yesterday. I saw my dad once, since then,”

“Why did you move.”

“ I was sick of my old town, I couldn’t stand it there anymore”

“Where did you live?”

“Ohio”

“Oh, sounds fun…your dad and my dad are pretty good friends, so if you were thinking about getting ride of us, well me, Tay and Ike there, you are wrong” He flashing me a killer cute smile.

“Well you just caught on to fast,” I said shaking my head.

“Oh yeah, I liked you drawing of my brother and sister” I flinched at the word sister.

“Oh thanks”

“Yeah, maybe you can show me a few things, about drawing that is, I am not too good at shading, but I sorta have the idea.”

“Yeah, maybe, I didn’t know you drew, wait, about 20 minutes ago I didn’t know you,” we were walking towards a little café,

“wanna go in here?” I asked

“Sure, whatever,” Zac said opening the door for me, then when we got in there he slide my chair out for me. He was quite the gentleman. I ordered a black coffee and he got a hot chocolate.

“So how old are you?” I asked

“14, you?”

“17, what about your brothers?”

“Taylor is 16, he will be 17 in March, Ike is 19”

“Where do you guys go to school?” I asked

“We are home-schooled”

“Damn, that means I gatta deal with a new High School without knowing anyone.”

“You’ll do fine, people are nice here.”

“So I have noticed” I said looking at him while a sipped my coffee.

“When are you going to start school?”

“When I enroll myself, or when my dad tells me to go, I don’t know” I said shrugging. We both stood up and I paid Zac for my coffee since he took the bill, and we started to head back.

"Well, I will see what my brothers are up too. I think we have to go home for school though,” Zac said walking through the house.

“Its Sunday”

“We have it 3 hours, everyday”

“Oh, sounds fun, well thanks for a good time, maybe I will see ya around,” I said

“Friday night you will” Zac said matter-of-factly

“Oh will I?”

“Yeah, that I when your dad comes over for dinner, my mom makes a really big dinner.” Zac said

“Oh, ok then, See ya Friday night.” I waved as Zac left. Taylor walked into the kitchen,

“Have fun?” he asked

“Yeah, your brother is nice,”

“Yeah it runs in the family I think, well I have to go. Tell you dad I say hi” Taylor said.

“Yeah, if I see him” I said to myself. I was once again left alone in the house.

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