Author's note; this is my first fan fiction. I hope it doesn't suck as much as I think it does.

Throughout the fan fiction you'll probably notice a couple of references to River Phoenix (like Shaline's last name, stuff like that) as a bit of a tribute sort of thing.

Gordie and his three friends sat around him in their small stuffy tree house. He was tampering with the large inconvenient radio, scowling at it occasionally. His best friend, Chris Chambers, was deep in thought in a game of chess against Teddy Duchamp. Vern Tessio was leaning against one of the walls reading a comic book.

Frustrated, Gordie stuck his tongue out at the radio and tossed it onto a shelf. It crackled and burst out in song; Gordie recognized it as a "Dion" track.

"Hey, man" Chris looked up, halfway between taking down one of Teddy's pawns, "it's a fucking radio. "No need to throw it around"

Gordie wrinkled his nose at him and grabbed a comic. Chris raised his eyebrows.

Silence engulfed the tree house for a few moments before Gordie spoke, "Hey, guys, can you do me a favor? My first cousins, or something, is coming tomorrow and I've gotta go pick her up at the train station"

Teddy interrupted him, "I'm not doing your chores for you!" Gordie rolled his eyebrows and continued, "No, I mean can you guys come with me?"

Chris shrugged "sure, whatever"

Vern looked faintly interested, "okay" he said closing his comic, "what's her name? How old is she?"

"Something stupid, Shaline I think. She's our age. Bit of a bitch. Last time she came I was 8 and it was like having a teenager in the house. Snobby."

"Yeah, the eight year old teenager" snorted Chris.

"What 'bout you Teddy" asked Gordie, ignoring Chris's comment.

"Is she hot?"

Chris scoffed. "Teddy, we're talking about a relative of Geordie what do you think? Geordie rolled his eyes and gave a loud fake sigh "Even if she is hot, you can't go near her. Especially not you." He said jabbing his finger at Teddy.

Teddy wrinkled his nose at him and turned back to the game, where he flicked Chris's queen off the board

"Hey!" He protested, putting out his cigarette on the table, "Asshole! You can't take my queen!"

Teddy squinted his eyes at Chris, "that's what you don't know" he said mysteriously, and then erupted in a fit of laughter.

Chris gave him a look of fake alarm, and leaned over to search for the missing queen which had rolled across the room to Vern's feet.

"Where's she from, anyway?" He asked resuming to the game.

"Some place in Britain"

"So she's got a sexy accent?" Teddy asked eagerly.

"Fuck off"

He was silent for a couple seconds, and then said "Anyway, like I said; she's an irritating bitch. You won't like her anyway"

"Ahahahahaha! I win! Chris loooooooses!!"

"Good job Teddy" said Chris sarcastically as he tipped the pieces into a box, and folded up the board.

Vern put down his comic.

"I'm bored" he whined. "There's nothing to do."

It was the summer after they had gone on their two day journey into the forest, and they were growing apart. You can always tell if you're growing apart from your friends when people complain about being bored. It's practically a fact of life. You should never be bored when you're with your best friends. Gordie could see this, but he knew Teddy and Vern were oblivious to it. Chris, he wasn't sure about.

"Well," said Chris, "we could go down to the Blue Point and hang out...." he trailed off.

Geordie shrugged. "Sure, why not."

AN; hope you like it so far! I'll be posting te next chapter in a couple of days.