Intro

It was Christmas Eve. Katie was having a party and everybody was there, except Summer. She wasn't invited. Summer only had two friends; Zach and Dewey, everyone else thought she was stuck-up and conceited. Zach thought she wasn't either of those things. He thought she was fun to be around, they would always go to movies and do stuff like that.

Chapter 1

"Katie, I know it's still pretty early but I have to get home." Zach said.

"Alright, I guess I'll see you tomorrow at practice."

So Zach went around and gave hugs to all the girls and said bye to the guys and then he left. As Zach was walking by Summer's house he suddenly wanted to see summer. No big deal. 'Well I have a few minutes until I have to be home, I'll just stay for a little while.' he thought to himself.

As he was walking up to the door he noticed her favorite scrunchi on the floor and so he picker it up and thought nothing of it. He rang the doorbell and a petite but beautiful woman answered it.

"Hi, Mrs. Hathaway" Zach said cheerfully.

"Hi, Zach, Summer's in her room."

"Thanks"

So Zach walked up the stairs to Summer's room, he was there so often that Mrs. Hathaway often referred to him as her own son. The door to her room was a little ajar so he gave it a little knock.

"Summer its me"

When no one answered he gently pushed open the door. Inside the room was a total mess and Summer wasn't there. Zach steps into the room and says to himself, " If I know Summer, which I do, she would never let her room get like this."

He waited a couple minutes for her to come back.

"Hey Zach, Your mother just called, she was wondering if you were here and she sounded pretty worried, I told her that you were here, and then she got pretty mad at you, so I think you guys should call her back." Said Mrs. Hathaway from downstairs.

"Okay" Zach called back down to her.

He called his mother and Mrs. Hathaway was right, she was mad.

"Zach, I TOLD you you could go to the party as long as you were back by ten."

"I know mom, I sorry, I was on my way home and I decided to stop by and see Summer."

"Wasn't Summer at the party?"

"Um… Katie doesn't exactly like Summer."

"Well that's not relevant right now. You should have at least called me."

"I know, I'm sorry."

"Well I think you've socialized enough for one day, you should come home."

"Mom can I just stay for a few more minutes, we're talking about important stuff, band stuff."

By now his mom had calmed down a lot.

"Alright fine, but come home as soon as you're done."

"Okay thanks mom, I love you."

"I love you too"

And they hung up. Summer was still not anywhere to be seen so Zach looked through the entire house. Still no Summer. He went back to her room and called Summer with his cell. It rang and rang. Finally, right before it was going to go to voicemail, she answered.

"Zach-" but that was all she said.

"Summer? Summer?" he knew she was no longer there.

He started to think out loud as he often did, 'Well everybody else is at Katie's party. No wait, Freddy had to leave right before I did.'

He dialed Freddy's number.

Ring.

Ring.

"Hello?"

"Freddy, it's me."

"Hey Zach, what's up?"

"I need you to over here, NOW, I'm at Summer's."

"Aww… come on, Summer?"

"Yes Summer, just get over here."

"Fine but only because you sound really scared and I wanna know why."

Freddy was up in Summer's room in a matter of minutes. They all lived pretty close together.

"Woah, what happened here Zach? And where's Summer?" Freddy said as he looked around Summer's room.

"That's the problem, I don't know where she is."

"Then why don't you just go ask her mom?"

"Because her mom said that she was up here. And a little while ago I called Summer's cell and all she managed to say was my name before the line went dead."

"Well maybe, she just had bad reception. Can I go home now?"

"Maybe, but she sounded really scared, and no, you cant"

"Maybe she ran away and was having second thoughts." As he spoke Freddy looked around summer's room and picked up her diary "Well, if she did run away this would know"

"We cant read her diary!" Zach said a little annoyed.

"Well, maybe you cant, but I can." And Freddy sat down on Summer's bed and started to read.

"Uh, Zach, I think you should read this." Freddy says uneasily.

"Fine" Zach said and let out an exasperated sigh.

The diary entry said,

Dear Diary,

Today is Christmas Eve. I wish there was someone for me to spend it with. I mean Katie has Freddy, Laurence has Tomika, Eleni has Gordon, Marta has Marco, heck, even Frankie and someone (Alicia). But who do I have? No one. I wish Zach kn

"It just ends."

"Yeah"