"Ding Dong, Ding Dong" The doorbell rang Allie opened it to see three people standing on their porch. "Good evening" Allie said politely, she couldn't help but notice that Carmine wasn't with them. She felt a ping of sadness hit her heart.
"Good evening young lady" said a tall and brooding man. Allie looked at him he was a tall muscular man, he carried himself with such confidence that made Allie want to shrink back away from him, but she put on a smile and invited them in. She led them to the dining room "It's just me and my mom" Allie said quickly, she didn't want to get into detail, but you she could tell that that was what Mr. Dangelo was wondering.
It was as if Gigi read her mind and whispered "Carmine couldn't come he has tryouts for the football team" Allie was disappointed, but she thought it was cool he played a sport. She herself played volleyball and ran track.
Allie's mom came out and they all sat down at the table. It was all small shallow talk, while they ate. Allie barely talked and only spoke when spoken to, she was very uncomfortable. Something about Mr. Dangleo just made her uncomfortable and she couldn't figure out why.
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After the dinner the Dangelo family took their leave and left. Allie and her mom had finally finished cleaning up.
"Well they were a nice family. Don't you think so Allie?"
"Yeah" It was late and Allie was tired and just wanted to go to sleep. She went upstairs and scrolled through her social media feed, she saw that Gigi had added her, she looked through Gigi's page and saw pictures of Carmine and she could feel her cheeks flush as she saw him. Allie decided she didn't want to come off as overbearing so she didn't add him right away. If they were meant to meet, they would meet. No sense in rushing it.
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"Come on Carmine pick up the pace!!" the football coach screamed. 'Damn it, seriously!?' Carmine thought, 'I'm going almost double speed all the other guys are'.
Carmine was lucky he even made it in time for tryouts, they moved just in time. His dad had him "training" almost all the time, he was already exhausted by time he got to tryouts.
'I seriously missed food for this?' He was internally yelling with every push-up he did 'I could have maybe even talked to the cute neighbor next door. At least there was a girl in his neighborhood, in his old neighborhood it was all old people not a single kid.
"Good work today Carmine" the coach patted him on the back as he was getting ready to leave.
"Thanks" He got in his car and drove home hoping to get some sleep. He then arrived at the house and ignored everyone and went straight to his room. He was p.i.s.s.ed that he couldn't go to dinner. He took a hot shower and laid on his bed scrolling through his social media. When he was scrolling he saw the girl next door's account. He decided to add her and look through it "Damn she's hot" Carmine laughed "This might be a good summer after all."