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#JackMiles

“This house is wow! It’s beyond wow… it’s wow-tastic.” I said staring at the embellishments that made the living room dazzle.

Jack~

After wondering all around the house I had found a lot of cool things. Things that really made me think how classy my mom and dad can be. It was when I had wondered my way to the second floor that I realized that there was an indoor miniature golf itinerary, something that really got me in shock as to what we needed it for. My dad scarcely played the game of golf at the country club he gets invited to every year so I did not really get what the course was for. All the same it was quite nice and like everything else in the house, well-groomed! But the thought of the course made me a bit interested in the sport. 

Besides having an awesomely stocked game room that was downstairs, the golf course would be another option of fun. 

Maybe I could turn over my disgust over the game that I always seemed to have termed boring and for old fellows, into a new love. I thought the surprises were over until I went through the stairs to the top of the house and found myself at a lounge right before the roof. It turns out that there was a secret room just beneath the roof made for chilling out and by the looks of it.

“I could get a rather good view of the neighborhood from up there.” I said taking a look through the glassy casement.

The place was also a lot chilly than anywhere else I had seen in the house.

All in all, the house was totally breathtaking!

“Jack, you have got to see the indoor garden right beside the stairs.” I could hear my sister call as she too came up the room before the roof. I was wondering how she came by the room when in a swift pull Jenny dragged me down the stairs against my will.

Of a fact, they were all thrilled and excited as to the appearance of their new home. Conspicuously, they really preferred it to their former house even though it was of a similar taste. They loved every bit of it.

“That’s nothing compared to the game room downstairs, Jenny.” I said walking to the living room with Jenny by my side. 

“Ya! Like I expect more from someone who has little or no sense of beauty’ you probably don’t have any taste of Natural beauty or else you won’t be saying that. The garden is my favorite spot in the whole compound,” Jenny said putting up a little sigh towards me.

“Settle down children. Your dad and I as you can see had put a lot into this building so you have to be a tad more careful on how you handle things. You guys should enable that there would not be any case of a mishap. Okay?” said Mrs. Miles walking James up the stairs. 

“Yes mom!” said Jack and Jenny in unison.

“Good!” said Mrs. Miles satisfied with her children’s reply. 

“Jenny you get a room all to yourself while the boys as much as it hurts would just have to share a full-sized room with each other. Sorry Jack but we can’t leave James wondering all on his own in a room with no supervision.” “You can remember how it turned out last time we did that.” said Mrs. Miles holding her step on the staircase and then raising it again to continue her climb to the higher floor.

“Yay!!!” sprung Jenny in merriment. “I’m still single.”

“Haha! You can laugh all you want Jenny,” said Jack pulling up a cunning glare. “Because James won’t be sharing a room with me for so long.” added Jack.

“I heard that!” said his mom turning her expression to both of them.

“Yeah right.” said Jenny picking up her phone and heading up the stairs to explore her new room and get it in style.

Jack stood there in the awesomeness of the living room taking selfies of him beside the various things we could lay his hands on that would make the pictures more spectacular. After which he went upstairs to enjoy the comfort of his new room. 

The members of the Miles’ family had all settled in their new environment quite nicely although there were few adjustments to be made here and there but it was still loved by them all the same. 

Few hours later and it was lunch time.

“Wow! There’s no other word for it Clive. I must hand it over to my folks, this new house is awesome, a lot better than the last.” said Jack with his phone glued to the skin of his left ear.

“You seem to be really enjoying it pretty well Jack. I am glad that my best-friend is enjoying his new home. Maybe by tomorrow I would even drop by to say hi and also get to see the house for myself,” said Clive.

“I wish I could’ve came by today but my dad won’t let me leave the house at the moment because of the commotion I caused at the supermarket last week. By tomorrow I would be officially ungrounded so I would swing by.” added Clive from the other end of the phone.

“Oh! You are still grounded? That must be a total buzz kill.” said Jack trying his best to submerge his urge to laugh.

“Yeah! Tell me about it, a whole week of no video games, no leaving the house and worst of all no Wi-Fi. It’s kind of unfair and excessive don’t you think so Jack?” asked Clive.

“Nah! Maybe just a little though. Clive you actually did not have to knock down the entire cereal section in the supermarket so if it’s anything…. It’s going be a lot your fault you got caught up in this mess.” said Jack taking a bite out of an apple as he spoke.

“Yeah I guess so but it’s not totally my fault. That lizard freaked me all out. You know how I feel when I am around reptiles…Me knocking down the cereal section was more of a reflex action than something I did on purpose.” said Clive.

“Jack!! Mom wants us all now to be downstairs for lunch. You too James.” said Jenny storming into Jack and James’ room with her eyes sweeping all over the room.

“Alright Jenny! I would be down in a minute.” said Jack taking another bite from the apple.

“And by the way… My room’s much better than yours.” she praised exiting the room with a little gaggle.

“Yeah like in your dreams.” said Jack raising his voice so as to make sure that his sister had heard him.

“I’ve got to go Clive. It’s time for Lunch and you definitely know what that means.” added Jack.

“No cell phones, no tablets and/or no gadgets!!” They both chorused after which Jack and Clive broke into a short laughter. That was the one rule that the two families shared together - maximum table etiquettes. 

“Goodbye Clive,” 

“Say hi to Flora for me.” concluded Jack before he put the call to an end. 

Jack Miles and Clive Patricks have been best-friends right from birth. Jack and Clive surprisingly shared the same actual birth-date, 4th of July. Their parents were very good friends, a friendship that gave life to theirs also. They were an inseparable match. They went to school together, studied and played together and came back home together. 

They did basically a lot together as bros. Both families had become more than conversant with each other. Before the Miles’ family moved out, they had been next door neighbors for a long while ever since started pre-school. 

That was way back before Jenny or James came into the picture.

Clive was like a bit contradicting to the personality of Jack although they had their similarities and common features. 

Clive was a shy, tall, not so brawny or muscular but in his own way a charming sort of fellow. Having his hair made in a fuzzy with a fashion sense that could be though a bit poor but on occasions could get really modish. Unlike Jack, his eyes weren’t so striking neither was his smile messed up by his loose tooth spaces. 

His peculiarity came in the sense of his voice. 

He had the voice of an angel per say. Naturally gifted with and had on several occasions gained a few trophies back in high school.

Clive was a bit arrogant but not swollen with pride. In his own way, he too was a darling.

Clive Patricks knew how to drop in on any conversation and make himself the prime focus, makes a girl go on her knees and of course was a pro back in high school in the arts of heartbreaks. 

Unlike Jack’s face, smile and physical appearance which made girls fall all over him, Clive’s superpower was his voice, his humor and his super friendly and social attitude.

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Hope you had a nice read. Now to help keep me motivated and going with this wonderful book, rate how you felt with a range of (highest rate)5 - 0.5(lowest rate) stars and also leave inline comments. Have a prosperous day. *For any confusions please note that I am narrating a little backstory of Ella and Jack before they ran into each others’ lives #JackMiles is Jack’s life and #EllaKendle is Ella’s life as well as conserving the use of a narrator’s (Omniscient) point of view and the first person point of view*.