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Chapter one
Summer starts
Audrey and Roxanne both looked eagerly out the cars windshield as they approached thier cousins house in Brandon, Florida. Though they lived only 45 minutes away in Lakeland, it was always a treat to see their other family members.
"Watch the truck!" Audrey screamed. She was (illegally) crouching inbetween the drivers seat and the passenger seat, gazing forward warily. Her sister Roxanne had just turned 15, and was driving.
Roxanne glared ahead, unable to turn around lest she run off the road.
"Pff...well your tone is certainly encouraging." The teen said, referinng to her sisters tight, paranoid voice.
"And you're not exactly doing everything you can to be safe!" she laughed, glancing at her sister clutching onto the armrests of the front seats.
12 year old Audrey frowned and said no more. She would rather not be run off the road.
The family was looking forward to a weekwend sleepover at their uncle Craigs house. That meant make-believe and movie making with Celeste and Tony. They always had fun with the cousins.
Mark Hartfield, their father, was sitting in the passenger seat, on the phone of course, but was still watching the road intently.
"Turn here." he said, moving his cells mouthpiece back away from his whiskered face.
Roxanne flicked on the left blinker and turned. Smiling to herself as she made it perfectly around. Ever since Drivers Ed that summer, she'd been a much better driver. Not perfect, but better. Her mother, Karen, was slightly frightened of driving with her, but dad didn't care.
Their parents had divorced when she was five. She was so used to it now, it was scary. Roxanne blinked and shook her head. She absolutely couldn't let her mind wander. This was a problem for Roxanne. She was a dreamer. She was always thinking up fantastic stories while listening to her iPod, and had even written numerous stories that had been shared with her cousin up north.
But now is NOT the time to daydream. Focus, girl FOCUS!
At that moment Audrey sneezed, and Roxanne jumped, pushing on the gas. The van revved forward at an alarming speed, Roxanne squeeled and banged down on the brakes. The car jolted to a stop. Audrey was shoved towards the windshield, dad dropped his phone, and a lump under a pile of blankets in the back of the van fell forward onto the floor with a yelp.
Roxanne squeezed her eyes shut. Why now? Why can't I concentrate!
Lately her daydreams had been the better of her. More so that normal, anyway.
She slumped forward and turned to her dad.
"I'm sorry!" she groaned. "I was daydreaming then Audrey sneezed and freaked me out, and I reacted wrong." She hung her head shamedly, hoping that she wouldn't get a lecture.
"Oh, so now it's MY fault?"
Audrey bore a hole into her sisters shoulder with her smoldering brown eyes.
Roxanne returned the favor with bright green and yellow ones, and silently told Audrey to shut up, or she'd get it later. Dad just asked if she was okay, and went back to his phone conversation after retrieving his nifty new cell from the front of the dashboard where it had landed.
Roxanne let out a breath of relief, but too soon.
"WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO? KILL ME?" shouted a muffled voice from the back of the van. Since they were still stopped, Roxanne looked around in time to see a touselled head of yellow hair emerge from the blankets.
Marcus Hartfield frowned, fire flickering in the eyes that were so similar to Roxannes, minus the yellow.
He had been sleeping in the back, like always.
"Well?" he spat.
Roxanne bit her lip, she would have retorted, but she didn't want to be too "emotional behind the wheel", something she'd learned in her driving class.
Instead she forced a regretful smile.
"Sorry, dude." She said.
She really was, but had trouble loosing fights, she was too competetive. The two siblings were always at eachothers throats. Marcus was only ten, but he could still cause alot of damage.
She turned around just as a blanket flew forward and tumbled over her head, messing her hair.
"Hey!" she yelped at her little brother.
He smirked and crawled back up on the seat and under the remaining blankets.
Audrey pulled off the blanket, and thew it over her shoulder at the blob on the back seat.
It "harumphed" but didn't strike back.
Audrey smiled up at her sister.
"Lets go." She said. "I have a feeling this is going to be a fun weekend!"
Her sister snorted quietly, and turned the van back towards their destination.