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Part 4

Joey walks in and my eye catches his attention.

He sits in the back row and I wait for the teacher to assign us an assignment for the day.

He explains today's assignment and hands out a piece of paper to everyone, "This will be due tomorrow, so I'd get started on it now"

I grab a pencil from my backpack and start the assignment, it was pretty easy so it didn't take as long as I thought.

I'm done so I wait in my seat for the bell to ring.

The teacher gets up from his seat,"Alright, if you're done hand in your paper to front of the classroom"

I get up and put everything else in my backpack away and hand him my paper.

The bell rings and I head out the door, I wait outside the front of the school for my mom to get here.

"What is taking her so long", I think to myself.

I sigh and look at my watch, it's 3:26, she's usually already here by the time I get out of class.

I take out my phone to call her but automatically remember she said she won't be able to pick me up today.

Everyone is already gone and there's just a few people left, I should start heading home.

"Hey"

I turn around and Joey is standing a few feet away from me, it looks like he just got here.

I smile but I'm slightly confused, how did he get here? I've never seen him go this way after school

"Hi?", I laugh

"Are you walking home?", he asks.

I nod, "Yeah, I was actually going to start heading home"

"Me too", he says.

It gets awkwardly silent until he breaks the silences.

Joey walks towards me, "do you mind if I walk you home?"

"Sure", I smile.

We start walking away from the school but I feel like I'm forgetting something, "Wait"

Joey looks at me, "Yeah?"

I put my hand on my forehead and sigh, "I'm supposed to pick up my little brother from school, I totally forgot"

"It's okay, we'll walk there", he says.

I smile and we walk to his school, Brandon is outside waiting with a few other kids.

A teacher walks up to us,"Here to pick him up?"

I nod,"Yeah, I'm his sister"

"Walk home safe", she says and Brandon walks up to me

"Laurie!", he yells and hugs me

I laugh, "C'mon we're going home now"

We start heading home, it was pretty nice since it was sunny and warm.

Brandon wouldn't stop asking questions but Joey didn't seem to mind, he enjoyed talking to him. I'm surprised lol.

"Can you give me a piggyback-ride?", He asks.

"Sure, hop on my back", Joey smiles.

Seeing Brandon and Joey get along so well is making me blush so much, it's so cute.

He looks like he likes Brandon already even though they just met, I'm glad they're getting along.

I laugh and Joey playfully rolls his eyes

"Run!", Brandon yells.

Joey's confused but does what he says anyways, he runs with Brandon on his shoulders and I catch up.

We ran pretty far and I didn't realize we were already home

"We're here", I say and Brandon hops off of Joey's back.

I open the door and place my backpack on the floor

"Are you hungry?", I ask

"No but thank you", he says

I smile, "How about a water bottle?"

"Sure", he nods.

"Okay", I grab a water bottle from the fridge and hand it to him.

He grabs the bottle from my hand and I feel his hand touch mine, I look up at him and his eyes meet mine.

It feels like time has stopped and we're gazing at each other

I'm sorry I-

No I'm sorry, I wasn't looking at where I was heading, my bad

It's fine, don't worry I"ll pick them up myself