3PB/SarahC/New
Mom told you that you got somebody new looking after you when you get home from school. You're glad because you didn't really like the lady who did it before, but you're a bit nervous because this time it's a boy and he's not really all that much older than you.
You let yourself in through the front door; since you've been old enough to walk home on your own, you've had your own front door key, tied to a ribbon pinned inside your jacket pocket so that you won't lose it. When you get inside you can hear that the TV is on so you hang your coat up, take a deep breath and go into the living room.
You see a skinny boy with dark hair and glasses sitting on the couch next to Jason; Jason's your six-year-old brother and of course, he gets out of school earlier than you. When he sees you he stands up and sticks his hand out like grownups do and not knowing what else to do you shake hands with him. "You must be Sarah," he says; "I'm Jordan." He sits down again and you go over to sit on one of the armchairs; he keeps looking at you making you feel a little bit uncomfortable.
"Why you looking at me like that," you say.
He blushes and looks away. "I'm sorry," he says; "it's just that I didn't think you'd be so pretty."
Now it's your turn to blush. "I'm going upstairs to get changed," you say and beat a hasty retreat. Once you get into your bedroom you kick yourself for being so stupid; it's not even as if he's good-looking, not like Stuart the boy in your class that all the girls fancy. You take your school uniform off and hang it up carefully; uniforms are expensive and you know that your Mom hasn't got any money to waste. Normally, you put your PJ's on and go back downstairs to watch TV and then have tea, but you're not sure if you should with a strange boy in the house, so you decide to wear a pair of shorts and a T-shirt.
Back downstairs, Jordan's in the kitchen warming something up in the microwave and he sends Jason up to get changed into his PJ's before he eats, then we all sit round the kitchen table. Jordan asks us the usual stuff about what we did at school you just shrug and say "not much", and he laughs and says that's exactly what he always says when his mother asks him the same question. Jason has some story about something that happened in the playground and you watch Jordan as he listens and decide that he's okay, even if he is a bit dorky looking.
After tea, Jordan says the TV is boring, takes a pack of cards out of his pocket and says he'll teach us how to play twenty-one. He deals the cards out and we play for a little while and he explains that it's really a gambling game, but since we can't play with money we should find something else to play with. He hunts around and finds an old box of cocktail sticks to use and we play with them for a while. When he sends Jason to bed, your winning but you have a sneaky suspicion that Jordan is letting you win.
I go and watch TV while he's putting Jason to bed and when he comes down he sits next to you on the couch. You were a bit nervous about being on your own with a boy, especially one who thinks your pretty, but he doesn't do anything and just sits there watching TV with you until your Mom gets home.