Grandma was still sleeping when I woke up. I snuck outside, it was brothers turn to sleep.

I was going to tackle him.

“Mikey!” He wasn’t there. His sharp stock was on the table beside the colouring books.

“Mikey!” I looked under the couch. Not there either.

“Ganma, Mikey’s not here.” Grandma always knew where Mikey was hiding.

I tried shaking grandma to wake her up, she stayed sleeping.

“Ganma wake up!” I shook her harder and yelled.

“What’s wrong child?” I jumped and turned around.

“Friend!” The candy man was standing on the edge of wall

“Hello again, did you enjoy the skittles?” I nodded and the man jumped down from the wall and walked towards me and patted my head.

“Good girl so tell me what is wrong now so that I can help.”

“Mikey is gone and Ganma won’t wake up.”

“Okay, sit on the couch and eat this, I will go check on Ganma ok?”

He handed me a sandwich like brother does all glowing and pretty. I smiled and climbed onto the couch.

“My favourite! Peanut and jelly” he rubbed my head like mom used to do, then turned and went into the room where grandma was sleeping.

Black smoke puffed twice in the room. The man walked out and smiled. “She is just really tired, why don’t we let her sleep while we wait for Mikey.”

I nodded, my mouth was full and it was bad to talk with your mouth full.

“How about you tell me about Mikey and then I will see if I can find him.”

I held up the sandwich.

“Ok finish eating first.” He hopped back up on the wall and was looking around. His hair was blowing behind him.

He is my boyfriend now.

I quickly finished my sandwich.

“Mikey is my brother.” I started to tell my boyfriend all about my brother, the good, the bad, and the funny bits.

He is a good listener.

My tummy started to rumble again. Grandma usually was making lunch by now.

“Hungry?” I nodded and he made a bowl of soup appear.

“Eat up and I will go find your brother, okay?” I nodded. “And don’t disturb Ganma okay?”

I nodded again and he jumped down the wall. I climbed up to the chair where I could see over it and he turned around from the middle of the street and waved at me.

“Soup soup soup!”

I coloured while waiting for my boyfriend to return.

"Grandma, can you please lower the ladder and put Mia inside?"

I looked over the wall, Mikey was there with girls. No boyfriend.

I pushed the ladder hard make sure it would hit Mikey.

I stood by my colouring books with my arms across my chest.

A girl came up the ladder.

“Why are you nakey?” The girl looked as me and smiled. She went and sat by my colouring books.

Another naked girl climbed up before I could tell the first one that the books were mine.

This one was a pretty one with short black hair.

“You look like my dolly” she offered me her hand and smiled.

“Thank you, I’m Jenny. What’s your name?” I grabbed her hand and shook it.

“Princess Mia!”

Jenny turned to help a girl even more pretty then her self over the wall.

“Princess Mia, this is Karen, can you make her smile?”

“Okay!” I took Karen’s hand and pulled her towards the couch.

I pushed her and she sat down.

Now the trouble was finding the smile button. I climbed up onto her lap then started poking her cheeks like brother does when I am mad at him.

It didn’t work.

I tried everything from funny faces, to blowing raspberries.

Nothing worked.

I turned around and a bunch of naked girls were sitting around looking at me. Mikey was red in the face and was handing them blankets.

I sat down on Karen’s lap and pressed my head against her.

“Jenny she is broken.”

Somebody laughed the rest smiled. I looked up at Karen but she wasn’t smiling.

I wrapped her arms around me and pouted. Jenny and a pretty red head came and sat beside me.

“Mia where is grandma?”

“Sleeping, my boyfriend told me not to disturb her.”

Mikey went inside the house and came back out holding a paper.

“We are going to let grandma be, you can sleep out here tonight.”

It was boring.

All these new friends and no one talking.

Mikey showed the paper to the redhead beside me and Karen took it from him,

Tears fell on my head as she hugged me.

“Kevin.”