I slowly opened my eyes as I was awoken by what sounded like a ton of people talking downstairs. I propped my head up on my hand and took a quick glance at the small alarm clock beside me. The time read 9:43 am. I sighed as I fell back onto the bed.

Its the first day of summer, I can go back to bed. I thought to myself before I quickly remembered today was a family reunion. On the first day of summer. Joy.

I gave a big sigh out of my nose and slowly creeped out of my bed. I walked slowly to my closet, grasped the handle of the closet door as I rubbed my eyes groggily, and opened it. I looked around and grabbed one of the few dresses I owned, a simple denim dress with a small brown belt. I figured I'd probably have to dress some what nice for this occasion. I quickly replaced the pajamas on my body, with the soft, blue dress. I took my brush and quickly brushed through my brown, wavy, locks. I then dabbed some light pink lip gloss on my lips, slipped on my black keds, and I was on my way to the living room downstairs.

As I went into the living room, I'm pretty sure my ear drums busted with the tv being so loud because of my cousins.

"Can you turn that down?" I yelled at my two little cousins, hoping they'd obey me. They quickly turned around, so they were sitting on the couch backwards.

"Wendy you're awake!" One of my cousins exclaimed as she jumped off of the couch to come and give me a hug.

"Oomf." I said as she pushed her whole body into me.

"Mhm." I smiled down at her. "I'll be back." She nodded her head and letsgo, going back to watching the tv. I waledk into the kitchen and see six of my relatives, who all smiled at me when I walked in.

"You're awake!" My mom smiled and walked toward me.

" Ya." I mumbled and slight waved to the group of people standing in front of me." It's nice to see y'all!" After I make that statement I started receiving tons of hugs and "oh it's been forever", "nice to see you", or "you've grown so much." Of course I only knew like 3 of the relatives standing in my kitchen, one being my grandma who loves giving gifts. My type of lady.

As all the hugs ended I pulled my mom aside.

" Why are they here so early? I thought they weren't coming 'til like 11:30. I had to rush when I was getting ready, and you know how much I hate rushing,right?" I questioned her in a hush tone.

" They got here early, I guess. Just be happy they weren't here at 7 am. There's only like ten more people coming. Calm down." She grasped my arm a minute and then walked back to the group of people chatting away. My phone went off, signaling I got a message from my boyfriend.

•Hey, I was thinking we could hang out today.•

I wish I could, but I got a family reunion.

I was about to put my phone away when I got another message from my friend Cami.

•Sleepover tonight?•

Uh, ya probably, but I can't come over til like 4! Family reunion. Ugh. I slid my phone back into my pocket of the dress. I finally realized my grandmother was standing right next to me.

" Oh hey." I awkwardly said as I reached over and hugged her.

" Hi Wendy! I brought something for you." She smiled as she lifted her arm up, handing me a big book titled: 'Mystery Islands of the world'.

Well. This book sounds interesting.

" I know how much you've been into the whole mystery, Bigfoot, alien, Bermuda Triangle stuff, lately and I saw this book and I knew I had to get it for you!" She clasped her hands in excitement and looked at me with hope that I liked the book, which I did, but even if I didn't, I would tell her I did, because what type of person tells their grandmother they hate the gift. Which by the way, I hope none of y'all are those type of people.

"Thank you! I can't wait to read it!" I hugged her again, and squealed with excitement, which made her smile.

" You're welcome, dear." She patted my arm and was about to walk away when she turned back around and said, "Oh how is that boyfriend of yours." She gave a slight pause "Peter Pan?" I immediately groaned. It's only ten in the morning and here we are already with the Peter Pan jokes. I looked at her as in saying 'really,seriously,why?' to which she responded with:

" Oh you know I'm joking, tell your boyfriend, Cody," This time making sure she said the right name," I said hello." I gave her a slight smile and then she walked away. I made my way into the living room, and was making my way upstairs when one of my cousins, Lia, stopped me.

She looked up at me with happiness " Will you watch SpongeBob with us until Madison( our other cousin) gets here? Pleaseeee" And then she gave me her cutest puppy dog eyes. Ugh darn it. I really want to read this book, but I guess I gotta be social.

"Okay fine." I gave a slight smile and walked over to the couch and plopped down.

Lets hope Madison doesn't take more than twenty minutes to get here. Please, oh please, oh please!

I quitely sighed after I looked at the time. I had been sitting in here for more than thirty minutes. I kept taking glances at the door, hoping at any minute Madison would walk in. Then, finally, after some agonizing minutes, she did. My cousins then jumped up and screamed her name.

Well, that's my que to leave. So I did. I ran upstairs, giving a slight smile to Madison on my way up, since we're not extremely close, and into my bedroom. I smashed myself onto my bed and opened the heavy, black book. Immediately my eyes landed on maps, maps, and more maps.

Well, this should be interesting.

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