Summer Emmerson is like an other teenage girl. small, petite, curvy. She had long blonde hair and deep blue eyes. She's pale, but her skin had a glow to it. Dressed in a jean jacket, purple tank top, and frilly black and white skirt, she sat in the back of her mother's car. Her parents have just gotten a divorce, which lead to them starting all over again. They were moving in with their grandfather and none of them were looking forward to it. "Keep going." Summer's twin brother, Sam says as they heard the song come onto the radio.
"Hey, I like that song." Their mother defended, but it was in no use. The three kids did not like that song. The radio changed to a man speaking in Spanish, causing Summer to roll her eyes.
"Keep going mom." Sam says.
"Oh how about this?"
"Hang on." Mike, Summer's oldest brother says as he listened to see what it was.
"I don't see any boogie mans or nasty guys." The radio host says, causing Summer to giggle.
"Nope." Summer says. Her mother changes the channel once more, but the music that it got changed to is very bad country, oldies. "You're killing me." She groans as she bangs her head on the back of the seat in front of her.
"Pretty cool, Mom, you know. You wanna switch the dial?" Sam adds and soon the blues comes on.
"Oh. My. God." Summer groans.
"Oh, this jams." Sam sighs.
"Quite right." Mike says.
"Gosh, you guys are rough."
"It's pain, discomfort, manipulation-" The radio says once the channel is changed again.
"No, no." Sam complains, their mother changes the channel and it turns to 'Grooven' by the Rascales.
"No." Mike says.
"It's not... bad." Summer says, causing her brothers to look at her. "Okay, it's bad."
"Oh!" Their mother says.
"Keep going." Sam and Mike says together.
"Oh, wait, wait, wait. That's from my era." Summer giggles as she listens to her mother sing very badly off key. "Grooven on the sunny afternoon."
"Keep going." Sam and Mike says once more together.
"Keep going, keep going, I know." She says as it changes to 'People are strange' by Echo and the Bunnymen
"Oooh I like this song." Sam shakes his head at his sister as Mike laughs.
"Hey, we're almost there." Their mother says.
"Mom, what's that smell?" Sam asks, causing Summer to take in a deep breath.
"Ah, that's the ocean air." She answers Sam.
"Mmm I like it." Summer smiles.
"It smells like someone died." Sam mumbles, causing Summer to glare at him.
"Oh shut it, you."
"Make me."
"Oh you two, don't fight." Their mother says. "Look, guys, I know the last year hasn't been easy, but I think you're really gonna like living in Santa Carla."
"I am willing to at least try." Summer shrugs.
"Yeah, you always are." Sam says as he rolls his eyes.
"I'm optimistic."
"Yeah and too sunny. You should have been called Sunny." Summer opens her mouth to argue back when she sees a carnival.
"Ooooh carnival." Summer says with a wide smile.
"Like a child, get distracted by the smallest of things." Mike smiles in amusement. Soon their mom stops to get gas and the siblings manage to get out to stretch their legs and allow their dog to use the bathroom.
"Mom, there's an amusement park right on the beach." Sam says as he runs over, back from walking their dog.
"Sam, tell those kids to get something to eat." Their mother says to Sam as she looks over at the kids, who were eating out of the trash. Summer makes a face as she sees this. Soon they're back on the road and driving out of the town and up a dirt road. The dirt road lead to a strange and large home.
"Come on Nanoke." Sam says as he gets out of the car and helps Summer out of the car.
"Nice place." Summer sighs as she takes in all the strange wind chimes and Indian statues. "So where's grandpa?" Summer asks as she walks to the door only to find him lying on the deck. "Uh..."
"Dad? Dad?" Lucy, their mother says as she crouches down beside him.
"Is he dead?" Summer asks, causing her brother to look at her. "What it's an honest question. One I know you both wanted to ask."
"It does look like he's dead." Mike finally agrees after a moment of quiet.
"No, you two he's just a deep sleeper." Lucy says with amusement in her voice.
"If he's dead, can we go back to Phoenix?" Sam asks, causing Summer to giggle and nod.
"Yeah, I can agree to that."
"Playing dead." Their grandfather suddenly says as he sits up slightly. "And from what I heard, doing a damn good job of it too."
"Dad." Lucy says with a sigh. "Oh dad." She hugs him as he wraps his arms around her. The children looked at each other before their grandfather and mother gets up and goes inside.
"This is a pretty cool place." Mike says as he looks around the hunting like cabin.
"For the Texas Chain Saw Massacre." Sam says, causing Summer to roll her eyes.
"Sam, mom had it rough, cut her some slack." She says as she walks with them into the kitchen to drop the stuff off.
"Yeah, come on, Sam, give mom a break." Mike agrees.
"What's wrong with this picture?" Sam asks as they entered the kitchen and found clothes hanging on a line. "There's no tv. Have you seen a tv? I haven't seen a tv, Mike." Summer rolls her blue eyes and looks at Sam.
"Oh, Sam, stop being a drama queen."
"You know what it means when there's no tv? No MTV." Summer rolls her eyes and looks at Sam.
"Sam, there's plenty of things to do, stop being so..." She takes a deep breath and looks at him. "Sam, mom had had to deal with dad cheating and leaving her for a girl no older than Mike. Moving out here is for her, so just... just deal with it. Grow up and get over no tv." She says before heading outside. "I swear, I don't even know how we're twins."
Summer grabs her things from the back and heads upstairs, the guys have yet to come up here, so it gave her a chance to choose her room. She goes for the biggest room and begins to put away her things. She didn't like moving out here either. It wasn't Arizona and it certainly wasn't home, but she also knew how hard it has been for her mother and so she was willing to try for her. Her mother deserves to have a fresh start and this place could be great for all they know. Until she has given it a chance she's not going to make a big deal of it.
As Summer packs her things she hears her brothers running around the house. "And I'm supposed to be the youngest." She says as she rolls her eyes. "Unlikely." Summer spends the rest of her time getting her room how she wanted it before her brothers came back in.
"Mom's going into town to look for a job, you wanna go and see what's at the carnival?" Mike asks, causing a large smile to form on Summer's lips.
"Carnival! Carnival! Carnival!" She saws as she jumps and down on her bed. Mike chuckles.
"Yeah, squirt, carnival. Now come on, before mom leaves without us."
"Wait! Let me change into something more cuter." She says before pushing Mike out her door before he can protest and closing the door. She slips on a black and purple tutu, a black t-shirt that hung off her shoulder, purple fishnet leggings, black fishnet gloves, black rocker boots on, chunky black bracelets on, and finished it off by putting on checkered belt that hung off her waist. She smiles and did a quick twirl before heading out the door.
"Really?" Mike questions.
"What? I like it." She smiles before walking out to the car.
"She's going to give me grey hair dressed like that." She hears Mike mumble before he gets in the car with her, Sam, and their mom.
Once they arrive they quickly depart from their mother. The first stop they go to is a concert that was happening. It was a rock band and it made Summer smile because she loved rock bands. "They're not half bad." She tells Mike as she listens to the lead singer.
"I still believe!" The singer sings, causing Summer to move with the beat, drawing the attention to a rather rough looking group of guys.
"We uh..." mike clears his throat as he looks at his sister. "You're bringing attention to yourself." Summer looks over and smiles.
"Not unwanted." Mike makes a face, but Summer ignores him as she continues to dance. As Summer dances she hears less complaints from Mike, causing her to look over at him only to see him drooling over some girl. "And you yell at me." She says with a smile, watching the girl run off. Mike goes and quickly follows, causing Summer to pout. "Look like we're following him." She sighs as she and Sam head after Mike.
"So where are we going?" Sam asks after awhile of just following Mike.
"Nowhere." Summer frowns and looks at Sam.
"So, what's our rush. You're chasing that girl, aren't you?" Sam asks, continuing to push Mike for information. "Come on, come on, admit it. You're chasing her. I'm at the mercy of your sex glands." Summer makes a face in protest at his word choice.
"Sam, Summer, don't you two have something better to do than follow me around all night?" Summer looks longingly at the ferris wheel, she had wanted to go on one since she was a little girl, but never got the chance.
"Yeah. Actually I do. Come on, Summer." Sam says, dragging her to the comic book store.
"No, Sammy I want to go on the ferris wheel." Summer pouts. "I hate comic books."
"Look I just want to know if they have the comic I've been looking for."
"But Sammy." Summer whines.
"Come on, Sum, I always do what you want."
"That's not true, Sam you always do what you want." Their arguments caught the attention of the owner's two sons, but Summer doesn't notice.
"Summer it'll only take a little bit."
"No it'll take you hours. You're like Mike with that girl. You're obsessed." Sam rolls his eyes.
"No, I'm not." Summer pouts and crosses her arms.
"Why can't we do what I want for once."
"Because I don't want to go on some stupid ferris wheel with you." Sam says.
"You sound like dad." Summer mumbles as she pushes past her brother and begins to walk aimlessly down the aisles, knowing she was not going to win. Sam sighs, but leaves her to her sulking in order to look around the store.
"You new around here?" One of the boys asks her, his hair was lighter than the other, kept out of his face by a bandanna that was wrapped around his head like a headband. He has honey brown eyes that warm and inviting. He was dressed in a pair of jeans, a grey t-shirt, and red flannel.
"Yeah, just moved here today." Summer says as she looks up at the boy, he was a good five inches taller than her.
"What do you think so far?" Summer smiles at him.
"It's not too bad." She says.
"Yeah, you're in luck the carnival only comes around a week each year." He tells her, causing her sadness to increase because that meant she only had a limited amount of time to try the ferris wheel.
"That's too bad." She says. "I doubt my brother will want to do anything, but read comic books all day." She says as she rolls her eyes.
"You don't like comic books?" The boy asks, but Summer simply shrugs.
"I like the horror ones, but my brother hates them. Refuses to even let me buy them, so I just don't like coming into places like this if my brother is just going to geek out over guys in tights." This causes the boy to laugh.
"I have a comic book you might like." He says before handing a vampire comic book. Summer takes the book and looks over.
"This is pretty cool. Where'd you get it?" Summer asks.
"Found it awhile back. There's a series of them, but I'll let you read that one first."
"Cool, thanks." She says with a smile.
"So, couldn't help, but over hear your brother's and yours argument." Summer rolls her eyes as he says this.
"Yeah, I'm the youngest so my mom's really over protective. Won't let me go anywhere without my brothers." She says as she holds the comic book close to her.
"And you wanted to go on the ferris wheel?"
"Yeah, it's something I really liked for a long time. I never got to go on one and it looks really cool, but my oldest brother is terrified of heights and Sam..." She trails off and looks at her brother, where he was busy geeking over the placement of comic books. "He only cares about comic books." The boy glanced around, as if afraid to say what he wanted.
"I... uh... get out of here in a two hours if you still want to go on the ferris wheel." The boy's cheeks were pink with embarrassment as he looks at the ground. Summer smiles at him.
"Sure, I'd love to." Shock came over the boy's face as she says this. "I'm Summer by the way."
"Edgar Frog." Summer smiles.
"It's nice to meet you." She smiles as Sam made his way towards them.
"You too." Edgar says as Sam walks around them. Edgar's brother walked behind Sam with interest.
"Got a problem, guys?" Sam asks.
"Just scoping your civilian wardrobe." Edgar says, causing a smile to come over Summer's lips
"Pretty cool, huh?" He questions as he looks down at his own outfit.
"For a fashion victim." Summer bites back a life as Edgar smirks.
"Listen, buddy if you're looking for the diet frozen-yogurt bar it went out of business last summer."
"Actually I'm looking for a batman, number 14." Sam tells Edgar.
"That's a very serious book, man." Edgar replies back.
"Only five in existence." His brother adds.
"Four actually." All of them looks at Summer as she says this. "I may not like superhero comics, but I still live with someone who never stops talking about them." She tells them.
"I'm always looking for the other three." Sam adds before going into geek mode once more. "Look. You can't put the superman number 77s with the 200s. They haven't even discovered red kryptonite yet. And you uh can't put the number 98s with the 300s. Lori Lemaris hasn't even been introduced."
"Where the hell are you from? Krypton?" Edgar asks.
"Like I said he's obsessed." Summer says with a roll of her eyes.
"Phoenix actually... But lucky me, we moved... here." Sam says, casing Summer to give him a look.
"Take this." Edgar says, handing another one of the comic books that he gave Summer.
"I don't like horror comics." Summer rolls her eyes as he says this.
"You'll like this one Mr. Phoenix. It could save your life." Edgar says, causing Summer to raise an eyebrow at him.
"Hey!" Edgar's brother suddenly yells, causing Edgar to look over and see people stealing some comics.
"Hey!" He yells and his brother and him chase after the guys.
"Come back here!" His brother yells.
"Hey, let's go!" Edgar yells. Sam looks at Summer and shakes his head.
"Those guys are nuts." Summer smiles and looks in the direction they ran off.
"I don't mind them. They're not half bad." Sam rolls his eyes and puts the comic back where it belongs.
"Of course you'd say that. You're just like Mike, all over that kid." Summer glares at him
"Oh shut up." She says before walking out.
"Whatever, let's go find Mike." Sam says as he leads them back to the center of the place. They watch as the girl from before gets on the motorcycle of one of those rough guys from before. The one she got on with smirks at Summer and eyed her over. Summer glares at him and moves closer to Sam's side. "Come on, she stiffed ya." Sam jokes before laughing.
Sam and Mike headed home, but Summer was able to convince her brothers to go ahead without her. Summer made her way back to the comic store in time to see Edgar shutting the lights off. "You closing up?" Summer asks, causing Edgar to glance over at her.
"Yeah." He says as he locks the cash register up and moves to the front door.
"Where's your brother and parents?" Summer asks, noticing them not here and him only here.
"They already headed home." Edgar says as he leads Summer out the door so he can lock it up. "Figured you'd show up again." Summer smiles.
"That depends." Edgar glances over at her once he locks the place up. "Is your promise still good?" Edgar smile.
"Yeah, if you still want to." She nods and Edgar begins making his way slowly through the crowd, not wanting to lose Summer in the craziness. When Edgar noticed Summer and him started getting farther and farther apart he slowed down and took her hand, making it so they won't lose one another. A jolt ran up her arm at the touch and a smile came to her face.
They arrived at the ferris wheel, but before Summer could pay for her ticket Edgar already did. "You didn't have to pay for me. I have money." She says once they got buckled in.
"I don't mind." He says as he leans back in the seat. Summer smiles and her smile only grows as they begin to move until they were at the top. She leans forward to look down, causing Edgar to move farther back. It didn't take a genius to tell Edgar was not to comfortable with the rocking.
"Relax will yeah. It's perfectly safe up here." Summer says, taking his hand in hers before looking back down at the street below them. Edgar let out a heavy breath and looks at her.
"How do you know that?" She smiles.
"Because there's no crime tape around this place." Edgar groans and closes his eyes.
"Not helping." She giggles and leans back in the seat.
"Don't worry, you're not alone." She says as he moves closer to him, squeezing his hand in order to comfort him.
"I... I don't really like heights." He says, causing her to frown.
"Then why did you want to go on this with me?" She asks.
"You... You seemed disappointed when Sam didn't want to... So I thought I'd cheer you up." She sighs and looks at him.
"By freaking yourself out?" He manages a shrug. "Look, just close your eyes and think of something else." He closes his eyes and frown.
"What do I think about exactly."
"Anything."
"That doesn't narrow it down." He was beginning to look as white as a sheet, which told Summer that she should really get his mind on something else.
"How about this." She says, leaning and kissing his cheek. His eyes opened up and he looks at her taken aback. "Did that help?" She asks, but he just stared at her in shock. "I'm sorry, was that too far?"
"N-No." Edgar stutters out.
"Good, now just close your eyes and relax." She says before moving his arm around her and curling up to his side. Edgar sat rigid, too afraid to move. He never been in a situation such as this. "I told you to relax. I'm not going to bite." She says as she moves his arm more comfortable around her. Edgar slowly relaxes and lets a heavy breath. "Better?" She asks as she looks up at him.
"Yeah... better." She smiles and leans her head on his chest, closing her eyes and sighing.
"Good." Even though Edgar was scared at first, it was defiantly the best first time Summer could've ever had on a ferris wheel. Moving here might not be too bad.