Disclaimer: I don't own The Fosters.

Author's Note: I will be taking this fic over for Dramatic-ADD-Having-ass-Writer. She has given me here permission to do so, and I'm very thankful for the opportunity.

A/N: If you scare easily, try not to read this in the pitch-black of the night/or in your bedroom… Or if you're home alone... Or if you don't like scary movies or being scared, in general. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED.

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Chapter 1

"Mariana! Let's go!" Stef called for the thousandth time. "If you're not in the car in one minute, we're leaving without you."

"Go ahead!" Mariana yelled.

She hated going on this annual vacation that her moms always found the need to make time for every, single, year.

It had been fun when she was younger, when she, Jesus, and Brandon didn't know any better, when they would be entertained by the littlest things, and loved to just cuddle with their mothers and sing-a-long to songs on the five hour drive, to the secluded cabin in the middle of nowhere.

But now, she hated every second of it. The arguing in the car, the stupid songs that her mothers still tried to get them all to sing-a-long to, the no-cellphone-rule that her mothers made for the trip, because they thought they were too distracting.

"This is supposed to be a bonding experience," Lena always repeats.

That was her excuse.

But what she didn't realize was that the kids found it more torturous in the recent years, regardless of the lack of cell-phone signal that the small cabin in the woods came along with.

Stef looked at Callie and Jude, who were both giving each other worried looks, after hearing what their brothers and sister thought about the "special bonding experience" they would have to endure for an entire week.

"Come on, Mariana! This is Callie and Jude's first vacation with us! We don't want to keep them waiting on all of the family fun we're going to have!" Stef yelled as she walked over and got in between both siblings, and put her arms over both of them as she smiled. "This is going to be fun," she assured the two newest members.

They tried to smile too, but they hadn't really known what to expect, besides what their brothers and sister told them. None of which was good.

Mariana reached the top of the stairs and stared at her mother, "If you call being stuck in "mosquito-bloodsucking central" with no outside communication due to the lack of cellphone-signal fun?"

Lena heard her daughter, "Mariana. We go on this vacation every year."

Jesus walked in to grab his duffel bag, "Yeah, that's the problem."

Stef argued, "Well, I think it's fantastic for all of us to spend some quality time together, without the cell-phones and all this other social media crap you kids use on a daily basis."

"Honey," Lena warned her wife after she used her version of a "bad word".

"I'm sorry, babe. It just slipped out."

"If we can't bring our cell-phones and laptops why do you get to bring your gun?" Mariana asked Stef as she pointed to the pistol on Stef's belt.

Lena glanced down at it, "Stef."

"What?"

"There's no reason to bring that. Please take it back upstairs, where I don't have to see it."

Mariana smiled as soon as she saw Stef's sudden happiness shift into disappointment, "I'm not going to shoot anybody, Lena. I promise."

"Exactly, which is just another reason why you don't need it. And besides, you're not allowed to cross-state lines with your weapon."

Stef squinted her eyes at Mariana in an accusing way.

"Don't look at her like that," Lena cautioned. "She's absolutely right. This is going to be a peaceful vacation, and what would make it even more peaceful, is if I don't have to see a gun lodged onto your hip the entire time."

"Fine, my love," Stef agreed as she gave her wife a quick peck on the cheek. "No gun," she said in a defeated voice, as she walked up the stairs in a sulking way. As soon as she reached the top, she glared at her daughter once again.

Lena shook her head and tried to hide her own laughter, "Let's go. Everyone in the cars."

"I call shot gun in Mama's car!" Mariana shouted. There was no way she was going in her Mom's car after calling her out on her gun.

"Big surprise," Jesus said sarcastically. "I guess I'll take the backseat of Mom's."

"I'll guess I'll take shot gun in Mom's," Brandon shrugged. He didn't really care.

"That's my boy," Stef smiled as she came back down the stairs.

"Callie?" Lena asked.

"Yeah, I guess I'll ride with you. What about you Jude?" Callie looked at her brother.

"Would you be mad if I rode with Stef?" Jude asks as he stared at Callie. Then at Lena, which surprised everyone.

"No, not at all, Jude" Lena stated as she shot him a reassuring smile.

"Go on," Callie said as she pushed him gently out the door, in back of Jesus.

In the car

"This is going to be great, you guys," Lena started. She looked over at Mariana, and then at Callie from the rearview mirror, and put her car in drive.

Mariana gave her a flattened expression, while Callie tried to give her a nervous smile. She admired the fact the her new moms wanted to include her and her brother in their family tradition, but she couldn't ignore the fact that they were the only ones that seemed excited about it.

"So…How long have you all been doing this? Vacation, I mean?" Callie asked in an effort to start some conversation.

"Too long," Mariana mumbled, which caused Lena to smile. She knew her daughter hated it the most, but she also knew that Mariana would get accustomed to it after day two.

"About 5 years. I think this'll be our sixth one, right?" Lena asked as she looks over at her other daughter.

"I guess so," Mariana said with a loud sigh followed right afterward.

"Well, anyway, it used to be the highlight of Mariana's life, before she entered high school that is. We used to have so much fun, and I think that it'll be even more fun with all of us there."

Mariana opened her mouth, "It would be more fun if we went somewhere else for a change."

"But that would mean breaking the tradition," Lena argued as she pat Mariana on the leg twice. "Honey, you're just mad because you can't use your cell-phone."

"Do you have any idea how torturous that is for a teenager. It's like I left my soul back at home or something."

"Your soul?" Callie asked, and her and Lena burst out laughing.

"You two are not normal," Mariana stated as she shoved her earbuds in her ears and raised the volume on her iPod.

"Don't listen to her, Callie. It's going to be a lot of fun."

"Mama, I think we're lost. You should call Mom to come and find us," Mariana said, after five and a half hours of being stuck in a car. She turned around to look at Callie. "Oh, wait. You can't because we couldn't bring our phones on the trip!" She started laughing, and Callie had to cover up her smile.

Mariana instantly lost it, when she saw Lena casually pull out her iPhone from her jacket pocket, "Hey! That's not fair!"

"What's not fair is when I ground you on this vacation, because you're questioning me. Mom and I are adults, and we only brought our phones in case of an emergency. Which is exactly what we're having right now," Lena answered, as she looks through her phone for Stef's number.

"Like grounding me would make a difference over here," Mariana mumbled as she glanced around the road that lead to nowhere.

"I wouldn't take your chances," Lena answered as she gave her daughter a stern look, but turned her gaze back to the rode, "Stef. It's me. I think we're a little lost."

"It's like we've been on the merry-go-round for hours," Mariana mumbled loudly. Stef heard and started laughing.

"Where are you guys?"

"I don't know. There's not a sign in sight."

"That means we have to be close," Mariana turned to tell Callie, which caused Callie to smile again.

"All right babe. Stay where you are and make sure the Find My Phone app is on. I'll be there soon."

"Okay. Bye," Lena said as she hung up the phone.

Out of nowhere all three of them hear and feel a loud thump coming from the front of the vehicle.

"What was that?" Mariana asked worriedly as she looked over to her mother, as she always did when she was nervous about something. Regardless of her age, she still expected them both to have the answers to everything.

"I don't know," Lena answered as she pulled the car over to the side of the road. The car made some rattling sounds before it finally came to a stop.

All three of them came out of the car to find out what happened to the car.

After a few seconds, Callie found the problem, "I think you hit a nail or something. There's a hole in the back-tire."

"No," Lena said in an exaggerating voice, not wanting it to be true. She walked over to see what Callie had been looking at and saw the giant gash in the back-tire. She sighed, "It's okay. I think I have a spare. Hopefully, Stef can change it when she gets here. Mariana, can open the trunk for me please?"

When Lena gets the trunk open, she reaches for the spare tire only to see that it also had a large gash through it, "What the hell?" Lena mumbled, which cause Mariana and Callie to give her surprised expressions, because they knew that she never cursed.

"This is a sign, Mom. I think we should go back home," Mariana said nonchalantly. Honestly, she had been praying for a reason to go back home.

"Don't be silly. I must've forgotten to buy a spare the last time this happened. Mom and I are just going to have to buy another tire around here. That's all," Lena assured her two daughters.

But she couldn't help but wonder why the spare tire was destroyed, when she was almost 100% positive that she purchased another one just a month ago. The whole situation felt very off to her but her and Stef still brushed it off. They weren't going to let a stupid tire ruin their annual vacation with the new members.

To be continued.

Author's Note: Not scary so far. I know. First chapter. Give it time. We'll get to the good stuff :)

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