" And this is the spot where ol'Gordie fainted like a pussy, cos he had a big fat leech hangin form his balls" Teddy Duchamp let out a wild laugh, and patted a not so amused looking Gordie Lachance, roughly on the back.
It had been nearly four years, since Teddy and his friends had embarked on the life changing quest to recover the body of Ray Brower, and now at aged sixteen they had returned to the Royal river once more. This time, however, they had an addition to the group, a female addition, the same female who missed out on the adventure all those summers ago, due to a sudden bout of measles that had her hauled up in her room for nearly three weeks, like an animal in quarantine. This addition was Lilly Woods.
Lilly Woods had white blond wavy hair, which was often tied up with a ribbon that had been carefully colour coordinated to match her out fit. She had a heart shaped face with pretty features, including her dazzling emerald eyes, her only inheritance from her father, she was slim and slightly pale, and for a girl of only sixteen already had a body to rival a woman in her early twenties. Aesthetically, Lilly was everything a girl was supposed to be, but her sprit was wild, and more than a match for any of the boys . Lilly could often be found climbing dirty great trees in beautiful dresses with a dirt smudge across her cheek. Her mother often blamed Teddy's influence for what she liked to call "her daughters more rebellious side" but in reality Lilly was a free spirit, and adventurer that longed to go searching for life's great untold mysteries, whilst looking good in the process.
Lilly was Teddy's best friend and had been since either of them could remember. Lilly had been through everything with Teddy and the boys, she had helped to build their much treasured tree house, the secret knock to enter was her idea, she had comforted Gordie through his time of loss, and had even helped Vern to eventually find his long lost jar of pennies. But the search to find Ray Brower's lifeless corpse was the one thing she missed out on, and after hearing the boys talk about the trip so often, she finally convinced them to take her to where it all happened so that should see whether the images she had created in her mind were anything like the reality. Although this time it was decided that the friends would take Gordie's car, rather than hiking for two days, like last time.
" Hey, id faint too if I was covered in leeches, no matter what part of my body they were sucking" Said Lilly, a smirk appearing on her pretty face. Gordie smiled at her in appreciation.
" Guys, can we go back to the car already, I'm getting hungry, and you know I'm no fun when I'm hungry, sincerely!" Vern winced as though he expected someone to hit him, at the mere suggestion of leaving.
" We've been here five minutes, and what a surprise, the pussy wants to leave." Teddy advanced on a nervous looking Vern who began to edge towards the ends of the clearing.
" I don't wanna leave, honestly Teddy, it's just the food is in the car" Said Vern at lightning speed, determined to get the sentence out before Teddy had the chance to pound him.
" Hey man, cool it already, we can all go back to the car, grab the food and beers, and show Lilly where we found Brower's body." Chris was standing between Teddy and Vern arms out stretched, " That cool with everyone?" Everyone nodded at Chris in agreement.