Okay, my Marble Hornets and Everymanhybrid stories are doing okay so far, so let's see if I can score three in a row with TribeTwelve, shall we? I want to thank AlbinoAwesome for suggesting the concept of the oc being a roommate.

Today is Saturday, during the month of May. I was looking forword to today. My roommate's cousin Milo (who is also my friend) is visiting for the weekend, and I have'nt seen him in ages so I think I have the right to be excited.

Oh, my name's Rachel Evens by the way. I'm in college, have long, dark blonde hair and dark brown eyes. Oh, and my roommate is Noah Maxwell. We've been friends since me and my parents moved from Ireland to America when I was eleven. Since Milo visited him a lot I was friends with him too, though I never really got to visit him with Noah except during the summer.

Like I said, Milo was staying for the weekend at me and Noah's place. It was Noah's parents summer house and they let Noah use it as a place to stay since it was near enough to the college. He let me stay here since we're going to the same college as him, which was really nice of him.

Since Milo is coming over, Noah decided to use it as an excuse to test out a new camera he bought a few days ago. It's a pretty good idea in my opinion.

"So, the camera all ready?", I asked Noah as I looked into his room, said man moving the camera around a bit.

"Well, everything looks good so, I guess everything is all right with it", Noah answered just as the doorbell rang. "Must be Milo".

"Then don't keep him waiting", I said, smiling as I walked ahead to answer the door.

"Hold on a sec", Noah mumbled when we got to the hall and put the camera on a nearby surface before we went to the front door and Noah opened it.

"Hey Milo", Noah greeted his cousin, walking away from the door to let him in, while I closed the door after Milo.

"Hi, Milo", I said, cheefully as I gave him a small hug which he returned.

"What's up? How's it going?", Milo asked after he pulled away from my hug and pulled his bag in.

"Pretty good", I answered.

"Yeah. How was the plane ride?", Noah asked as he went to pick up the camera.

"It was pretty good. A little turbulence, but not too bad".

"That's cool. So how's Alabama?", Noah asked but Milo seemed to freeze when he saw the camera. He seemed worried for a moment.

"Wait, wait, wait...what's with the camera?", Milo asked Noah, seeming hesitant to know the answer

"Oh, I just bought this camera a few days ago and I felt like testing it out", Noah repleid simply.

"Okay..." Milo seemed a bit unsure of this for some reason though.

"Um...Are you okay, Milo?", I asked him.

"Yeah...it's just...", Milo shuck his head. "Never mind, sorry. How's Florida doing for you guys?"

After we let Milo take his stuff to the spare room he was sleeping in, we went outside to the canal closeby to the house.

"Oh man, I remember that. See that?", Noah pointed to a sort of dock area at the edge of the canal. "That's where we used to have the bonfire like two summers ago".

"That was fun. Tyler was there too", Milo said.

"Yeah, Tyler was kinda a dick though", I said, chuckling a little.

"Yeah, remember him? He used to chase you around the sea wall and you almost fell in the canal one time?", Noah asked Milo.

"Yeah, I hated that guy. It was pretty funny when Rachel pushed him into the water", Milo said, grinning a little at the memory the three of us shared.

"Totally worth the laugh", I said. Milo then began to cough a little.

"Man, what's with that cough?", Noah asked Milo.

"Eh, it's nothing", Milo shrugged it off.

"You need a cough drop or something?"

"Nah, I'm good", Milo waved it off.

"You've always had that cough. I still think you should see a doctor for it", I told Milo, in a concerned tone.

"I'm used to it. So where's Tyler been anyway?", Milo asked as the three of us walked back to the house.

"My parents got me this tripod after I bought the camera", Noah explained as we hung out in his room. He was showing the tripod to us as me and Milo sat on the bed, Milo a bit more focused on Noah's rubik cube as Noah talked. "...and there you are", Noah finished off as he pointed the camera at Milo.

"You're rubik cube is broken", Milo stated bluntly. "Anyway, are you sure you two , uh, want to go to Victor Park today?", Milo asked.

"Sure", I said as I nodded.

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure", Noah said. "I mean, it's not gonna rain or anything. I'll check the weather channel real quick. Sure there's nothing to be worried about or anything". Noah changed the channel, but there was only static. "Uh, my tv's not working. Static"

"Huh, that's...kinda weird", I said. I'm pretty sure that there should'nt have been a reason for there to be static.

"Gotta ask my dad about that", Noah said, mostly to himself as I looked outside the window.

"Well, it looks really sunny outside anyway, so I think it'll be okay", I pointed out.

"Yeah. But first, the rubik cube. I don't think it's broken", Noah said as he took the cube from Milo and tried to fix it, but by the looks of it, it was broken and would take a while to fix.

Eventually we went to Victor Park after Noah gave up on the cube. I would have gotten shotgun seat but Milo beat me in rock, paper, scissors so I was in the back seat behind Noah.

"So what have you been doing in Alabama lately?", Noah asked Milo as he drove.

"Me and my dad built a barn in the backyard", Milo shrugged.

"That's awesome. Not", Noah said, the humour clear in his voice.

"Yeah, it was quite boring. But I did get to shoot him with a nail gun", Milo said, surpressing a small laugh.

"Nice", Noah commented.

"Yeah, he just started mouthing off".

"What, did you pierce his ears?", I asked jokenly.

"You wish", Milo said. "So what have you two been doing around here?"

"Oh nothing, I just drive around sometimes", Noah answered.

"I sometimes go with him", I shrugged.

"That's it?", Milo asked.

"Well, we walk on that boardwalk. Wanna go there?"

"Yeah, sure", Milo replied. "How far is it?"

"Uhh...about a quarter mile. I don't think you've seen it yet".

"Yeah, they just built it last year", I added in.

"Really?"

"Pretty much".

"Yeah", Noah said at the same time as me.

"Sounds...pretty interesting".

"Man, this place has gotten creepy", Milo commented when we got to the boardwalk in Victor Park, and to be honest looking at it you could'nt really blame him for thinking that. With the tangled looking branches and narrow, old looking boardwalk it was something you would see in a horror movie.

"Yeah, sometimes I hear noises out in the forest, but it's just drunken rednecks", Noah said.

"Yeah. Infact, there's a lonely bear bottle right there", I said, gesturing to an empty bottle of booze. We countinued walking up the trail, and eventually neared the observation tower.

"This place is really peacefull", I commented.

"Yeah", Milo nodded in agreement.

"Remember when we came back here in '03? They did'nt have like any of this built yet", Naoh said.

"That be true", Milo said.

"Wanna go up the tower? We have'nt been up there in ages", I asked. I think the last time I was there myself was...last month?

"Sure, why not", Noah said as he walked to the tower.

"Man, I love the view from up here".

"Yeah, it's deffinetly something", Milo agreed with Noah when we got to the top.

"Amen", I nodded. "I mean, you can see the whole mangrove forest, for miles". I placed my hand on the railings and felt along the wood and the carvings on them. A recurring one was a circle with an 'x' through it

"Man, look at all the stuff people have carved in. 'MA BAD'? 'LOOK BEHIND U'?", Noah read out some of them. "Who has the patience to carve this stuff into this, like, fire-resistant wood?".

"Someone with too much time?", I suggested, a small grin on my face.

"Would'nt be surprised".

"We have to go", Milo said suddenly. He seemed like he was troubled by something. It was'nt too surprising since he did admitably have some problems. One of them being a slight paranoia.

"What?", me and Noah asked.

"We need to go, now!", Milo then took off running down the steps.

"Hey, wait up", Noah called after Noah as we followed after him. As we walked up to the end of the boardwalk the incident was soon forgotten about, and we made some small jokes about how fishing was boring (which it is).

"Hey, Rachel. Remember when we dared you to go through the trail on your own when it was getting dark?", Milo said to me.

"How could I forget?", I replied, thinking back to that summer evening when we were twelve. "I got lost somehow and Noah had to come find me".

"Yeah, he to be your knight in shinning armour", Milo joked, and I scoffed a little.

"That's stretching it a bit. I would have found my way out eventually".

"You were in there an hour and you were close to crying", Noah teased me, which made me flush a little.

"I was twelve, and we agreed to never mention that part again", I mumbled.

"Right. Anyway, Milo, what do you want to do next?", Noah asked.

"I think we should go". Milo seemed to have noticed something that frightened him and I looked back trying to see what he was looking at but saw nothing.

"Why? We have a few hours of light. I mean, it's only six", Noah pointed out, probably confused as I was.

"It's getting dark".

"You okay, man?", Noah asked.

"We gotta go now". Milo took off running again, followed by me and Noah as we ran after him.

"The hell you running from?", Noah called after Milo, but he did'nt respond. I only took a quick glance back for a second. Maybe my eyes were playing tricks on me, but I thought I saw something. But I did'nt really look properly so there might not have been anything there at all.

Everything after that was peacefull though. Me and Noah did'nt press Milo for why he ran, deciding to just forget about it unless it happened again. If he did'nt want to talk about it, it probably was'nt worth asking...at least for the moment.

Funny thing though, I thought I heard some running that night when I was in bed.

Probably just my imagination.

I've a picture of Rachel up on my deviant art account. The picture is called, 'TribeTwelve oc'.