Jess's P.O.V

I don't know why, but memes are really good for my mental health. Whenever I'm sad, I just listen to some sick meme BOPS, and bam, I'm good again.

Anyway, that's not the point of the story.

New neighbours are on MyStreet, so what the heck I'm introducing myself. No this is not in present tense, the author is currently in the middle of a crisis so just... bear with me here.

I waltzed on over to the moving truck. "Hello Murray!" I greeted the moving dude.

He knew me, he helped me move in. That put us on a first-name basis. "G'day Aphmau, how are ya?" the Aussie replied. The author felt like making Murray Australian just coz ok moving on.

"I'm doin' well, how's yourself?"

"Pretty rad. I'm taking the kids to a JoJo Siwa concert and I think I'm more excited than what they are. Also, we are celebrating yet another spring without deadly birds coming from the sky to rip our heads off."

"That sounds just lovely. Well, Imma let you get back to work."

"Nice chattin' to ya."

I continued over to the house, where a small group of people were. "No, I think I should be established as Boss of the household," said a dude in sunglasses.

"No, me!" a redhead boy exclaimed.

"Me!"

"Me!"

"What if I was boss?" a boy in glasses asked.

"Hm, nah, me."

I noticed a girl standing next to them, clearly not very impressed with their fight. "What if she was boss?" I asked, pointing to the girl.

The group looked at me weirdly. "Sorry to interfere, I noticed you moved in, I live next door, the name's Aphmau," I smiled.

"Aphmau..." the sunnies dude repeated. "I'm Adam. This is—"

"I'm Max," redhead said.

"I'm a narwhal. I mean Ross," glasses dude said.

"I'm Shelby," chirped the girl in a very high-pitched voice.

Shelby's voice sounded familiar, and all the names did. "Some people share names, Jess."

We all stood there awkwardly. "I'm hungry," Shelby said after a moment.

"You got food?" I asked.

"No, I... ate it all on the road..."

"Yeah, she's a butt," Max frowned.

"ExcUSE ME?!"

"DON'T YELL, PLEASE!"

"Dudes, it's cool. I have food," I chuckled.

"Ok let's go."

"AphmAU WHo thE HEcK aRe TheSE pEopLE?!" Katelyn demanded.

"Hi we are your neighbours," Adam said. "Adam, Max, Ross, Shelby. And Aphmau said we could eat your food because you should be kind neighbours and help out a pal when necessary."

Katelyn glared at Shelby, who glared back at her. "Fine," Katelyn huffed. "Trash my house and I'll kill you."

"We wouldn't," Shelby said sweetly, although it sounded almost... fake. "I'm 'so freakishly' neat, NOT. I'm just... self-conscious."

"About what?"

"Mess? I don't know, I'm just hungry. Can we EAT?!"

"Yeah let's go," I replied.

Shelby's P.O.V

Food was pretty neat, actually. Chips and chips and chips... and sweet food. And an apple. You gotta be healthy, my dudes. Ross looked over at me as Aphmau left the room to use the bathroom. I looked back at him. He pointed at his eyes. That's when Max turned to me and asked, "Shelby, are you okay? Your eyes are really red."

I squeezed them shut. "I-I... it's fine, just a bit tired is all," I replied with a smile.

"They weren't like that before."

I forced a yawn. "Guess it just hit me."

"I'll take her back home, you guys chill here for a bit, get to know... 'Aphmau' more. I can't be the only one who thinks she looks like Jess," Ross said.

"What if we want to leave too?" Adam asked.

"Ugh, fine, I guess. But we can't just all up and leave. Can you hold out for just a bit longer?"

I realised Ross was talking to me. I nodded and turned away from the group. I tried to take my mind off my... secret. Memes. Memes, Shelby, memes. 

Remember that one time you Rickrolled Max, and he was more angry about the fact that the meme was dead, but you said 'Rick Astley shall never die' and left the room?

Oh, Smash Mouth is EPIC.

Am I verified on Twitter yet?

"SHELBY!" Ross shouted.

"Huh?" I mumbled, not turning around.

"Girl, you okay?" Aphmau asked.

"Yeah, I'm good. I'm tired, I'm leaving, nice meeting you lol bai."

I left the room.