"Help!" Josh is trying to kill me!"
"Jake, play nice." I sighed, annoyed. I was babysitting two of my younger brother's friends at the pool. It seemed like these two just could not get along.
"But Josh is…" Jake persisted. He was probably upset that I wasn't taking his side.
"I know, Jake." I interrupted. "You said that already. Now play nice, it won't be long before your brother gets here."
"Aw, man." The boys both whined.
"Get over it." I said rolling my eyes, as I turned back to my book. As I looked up, I noticed really dark storm clouds coming closer to the pool.
I sort of enjoyed watching Jake and Josh, but about three hours of them together would be enough for anyone to consider homicide.
Being a senior in high school, it was hard for me to find a job that my parents would be willing to let me have, but being home schooled let me have more freedom than many other kids had.
"Are you goin' out with Jeremy tonight?" Josh asked a few minutes later.
"What?" I said, "Who told you I was gonna go out with your brother?"
Jake and Josh's older brother, Jeremy, was a year older than me. He was kind of cute, if you looked at that sort of thing.
He actually was a little annoying, he always wanted to sit beside me in church, help me with my homework, and generally make a nuisance of himself.
"I heard him tell one of his friends that he was gonna ask if you wanted to go out with him." Josh said.
"He hasn't asked and I probably will say no." I said, ending this conversation.
"Boys!" I called a few minutes later, after a flash of lightening. "Time to get out!"
As they grumbled, I turned to pick up their towels and I saw their brother Jeremy pulling into the parking lot.
"Hey, Claira! How's it goin'?" Jeremy called to me from the car.
Annoying much? "Hey, Jeremy." I sighed back, waving him off. I really didn't want to deal with him right then. I just wanted to go home and take a nice long nap.
When I turned back towards the pool, a chill wind picked up. It was then that I got a really bad feeling in the pit of my stomach.
"Boys! You need to get out NOW!" I yelled at them.
As Jeremy was walking toward the pool, a bright blue-white light flashed, and everything went black.