⌜ alaska ⌟

four.

"Carol, she's probably on her period or something," Ellen laughs as if her daughter isn't right there in front of her.

"Ew, please don't talk about that while I'm eating," Aiden makes a face, placing his fork down and pretending to gag.

"I'm not on my period." Alaska drops her fork causing a clinking noise to erupt throughout the room. "I'm sorry, I'm just not too thrilled about this new house, okay."

That is true, even though they've been living here for two weeks now, Alaska is still not too thrilled about the house. Those feelings would come and go, and so her mothers and brother aren't really surprised when one day Alaska would say how much she likes the new place and the other she would complain endlessly about every single possible thing.

"Oh, sweetie," Carol says, reaching over the table and placing her hand on top of her daughter's hand. "I'm sorry but you know we had no other choice."

"Yes we did have another choice, I could've stayed with Aunt Mae," she groans out. She's acting very childish but she didn't care. She's mad and she's sure that her period is about to make an appearance.

"Yes! Why couldn't we leave her with Aunt Mae?" Aiden asks as he shoves mashed potatoes in his mouth.

Ellen rolls her eyes. "You know Mae doesn't like kids, especially hormonal teenagers."

"Whatever," Alaska sighs.

Carol and Ellen chuckle. "You'll get used to it, sweetie. Everything is going to turn out just fine," Carol says trying to comfort her daughter.

"You'll love it here," Ellen says. "I know we do, I heard there's this amazing lesbian club and I am dying to go there!"

Alaska's eyes widen. "I don't wanna hear this!" she says louder than necessary.

"Cool, a club filled with chicks," Aiden says, smirking.

"It's a lesbian club, doofus. They don't like dick." Alaska rolls her eyes.

"That doesn't mean they don't like fingers," Aiden replies with a smug grin as he waves his fingers in the air.

"Ew! You're disgusting!"

Carol looks over at Ellen and laughs. "We should go there tonight."

"Can I come too?" Aiden looks at his moms with a hopeful look.

"Barf, I'm going upstairs," Alaska murmurs, shaking her head and picking up her plate. "I'm eating in my room. Have fun!"

She walks up the stairs while eating her chicken and murmuring about how stupid this town is. She held tightly onto her plate with one hand as she tries to open the door with the other.

The plate wasn't held tight enough since it fell from her arms and landed on the floor in pieces. She lets out a loud shriek, "Who the hell are you and why the fuck are you in my room?"

The boy---who's standing with his back towards her and shirtless---turns around with wide eyes, then his feared look turns into a smirk. "Nice to meet you too," he says, looking at her up and down, then he sticks his hand into the front pocket of his cargo jeans. "Nice panties by the way." He takes out a pair of black panties and holds it up, his index fingers holding it up by the waistband.

Her mouth drops open. "What the hell you, creep!" She reaches out and tries to grab her underwear from him but fails miserably since he's fairly taller than her and he held his arms above his head, laughing.

"I especially like what it says on the back," he smirk. "It's so...cheeky."

"Oh my God," she groans, shutting her eyes tightly and mentally counting to three. "Who the hell are you?"

He grabs the panties in one hand and stuffs them back into his pocket. "I'm Justin Bieber, and who might you be?"

She glares at him when she sees him stuffing her underwear back into his pocket. "I might be the girl that kicks you in the balls so hard you won't be able to reproduce if you don't get the hell out of my room!"

The smirk that once was plastered on his face quickly falls. "Well, I happen to like my balls and I have a dream of having kids, so I'll be going now." He turns towards the window and stretches his legs onto the windowsill of the house that was beside her house.

She looks at him with bewilderment, then she realizes that he was her neighbor---Pattie's son, the Justin, the one who Aiden claims is his "best bud"---and that he had also taken her underwear.

"Give me my underwear back, you jerk!" she yells after him but he's already inside his room and the window tightly shut as he laughs while holding up her underwear and spinning it around in the air.

She sticks her middle finger up at him and he just throws his head back in laughter then closes his curtains.

Alaska curses under her breath and walks over the window so she can lock the damn thing. This was exactly what she was worried about when she spoke to Ellen about this kind of situation happening. Though she doesn't know who the guy was, she is certain that he's a completely psychotic. What other reason is there for a boy to sneak into his neighbors room and steal her panties?

She tightly closes her window and when she tries to lock it, she has the biggest urge to repeatedly pound her head against the wall. The damn lock doesn't work! No wonder that psychotic kid was able to get it. And now she's scared. If he could do it once, he could do it again, and again...

"Alaska!" She snaps out of her daze by Ellen's voice yelling from downstairs.

She pulls her curtains close and walks out of the room and down the stairs where she finds her moms dressed up and standing in the middle of the living room and Aiden sprawled over the couch flicking through the channels.

"We are going out, and we trust you both to be alone for a couple of hours, okay?" Ellen says.

"There's money on the the coffee table," Carol says, pointing to the coffee table where surely enough there were at least forty dollars there. "Order some food later or something. I don't know. In case of a serious emergency call 9-1-1 and if--"

Aiden quickly cuts his mom off and groans. "Jesus, mom, We're seventeen not seven. We know what we're supposed to do."

"Okay, we'll be back later or tomorrow...we'll let you know," Ellen says grabbing her purse from the couch and starting her way towards the front door.

"We love you, enjoy your time alone," Carol says as she follows Ellen out the door and quickly blows her kids a kiss before shutting the door.

Alaska throws herself on the recliner and lets out a loud breath. "So, brother, what do we do?"

"Movies and junk food?"

"Sounds good to me," Alaska replies, standing up from the recliner and going over to scan through the early 2000's movie section on the moviecase when she hears a loud crash coming from upstairs. "Aiden, did you hear that?"

Aiden scrambles to his feet. "Shit, okay, stay here."

"Wait!" she whispers. She then runs into the kitchen and returns a few seconds later with the broom. "I'm going with you."

Aiden gives her a what the fuck look. "A broom, seriously? You couldn't get the knife of something?"

"Oh hell no, we are not murdering anyone!"

"Fine. Let's go," he whispers as they carefully and quietly ascend the stairs.

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FUN FACT:
the encounter she has with Maximus, Marquise and Jordan are all real events that happened to me on my first day at my new school (for 10th grade) they were legit talking about porn and watching porn videos.