Love Bites is a collection of short stories written by Wattpadders who love their romance as much as we do. With Love Bites we hope to celebrate the diversity of the category with stories of different subgenres, length and style. Whether you like Hi...
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When Lilly peeked her head out of her little window like she did every morning, things were different. It wasn't just the same old front yard staring back at her, with a "sorry, there's nothing of interest here" look. Instead, it had a very, "guess what's up" kind of spirit in it, and Lilly felt a kind of excitement she hadn't felt before. The kind, where everything was normal, but then it was not, at the same time.
She saw boxes. Boxes everywhere. Boxes were lined up around the lawn of the empty house adjacent to hers. Near the hedge that separated the two houses, her Mommy was chatting animatedly with a woman who had a similar box in her hand.
After one last look outside, Lilly pulled the curtains over the window and tried to run down stairs which were a little too high for her four-year-old self. She pushed open the front door, which was a little too heavy for her small hands, and popped half of her head outside to get a closer look at things.
She saw bigger boxes being unloaded from a truck parked just around the corner, and a man struggling with them, helped by two others. With the three men, she also spotted her Daddy, eagerly volunteering to assist them.
Lilly took a step forward. The front door swung shut behind her, as she tiptoed her way across her lawn, imagining herself to be in a spy-movie. The world around her was big and tall, and like an ant crawling towards sugar, she made straight for the house next door. As she rounded the hedge, she saw the door of the house wide open and things scattered all around their front yard. And among those, oblivious to everything that concerned the adult world, was a boy, as little as her, sitting in a corner and playing with her favourite toy - Legos.
He was a chubby little boy, fair-skinned, with bright golden hair snapped into a round-ish cut and huge round eyes staring intently at the masterpiece that he was putting all his effort to create.
A smile of glee spread across Lilly's face. Forgetting all about the spy-movie, she ran towards the boy and his little Lego house at full speed. However, failing to stop in time, she accidentally knocked over the boy's beautiful toy house.
A look of shock overtook the boy's face, before it scrunched up and tears sprung from his eyes. Looking up sharply at Lilly with a fierce frown, he picked up what was left of his broken house and threw it right at her.
"You broke my castle!" he shrieked.
The blocks hit Lilly hard on her forehead and she let out a gasp, before taking a few steps back and starting to cry even louder than the boy was. The commotion caught the ears of the mothers, who snapped their heads in their direction with an anxious look in their eyes.
Wailing loudly, Lilly ran down the same lawn she had tiptoed across a few minutes before with a smiling face, as Mommy started to follow behind her, while the other woman advanced in the direction of her own son.
