Adria was sitting in her room in a chair by the window that faced out the back yard. Mom and Dad were going to Australia this year. Without her. She shook her head at herself for that. She should be used to it by now, right? Right. So why did she feel so upset about it? Mad, angry, pissed, disappointed. Whichever word fit her mood best. Currently, it was all of the above. She looked out the window as she drummed her fingers on the window sill. Mark. She smiled when she saw him at what was going to be the new guest house.
For five years now, since his first day under her parents' employment, she had a crush on him. Sixteen at the time, he never paid any notice to her, no matter how hard she tried to gain his attention.. and perhaps affections. Then she was off at college at eighteen, and came around during breaks. He was probably the only reason she ever came around these days. The only person who worked for her family that was willing to talk to her, he'd quickly become a friend during her first break in college. She'd needed a shoulder to lean on, a sounding board to vent at. He'd been both. Every time she came home for break, at least he was there.
She counted him to be the better of her friends, even if she couldn't exactly acknowledge that relationship outside of the house, but as long as they were on this property, they both could flirt and talk and laugh, and they did exactly that. She'd watch him from afar, and she caught him, on several occasions, to watch her from afar as well. A fun little game, though, in her opinion and, probably most importantly, her parents' opinion, the game couldn't delve farther than the flirting and talking.