Nessie:

"But Jake, I don't want you to go." I called from the veranda.

"Umm, sorry Nessie, I gotta, I, umm, bye." He mumbled having trouble getting the words out, then he ran into the forest and disappeared.

What did I do this time? I wondered to myself again.

He was always doing this these days, ever since I turned 16 he'd been running off all of a sudden whenever we were playing around.

I ran through the whole day again in my head, starting from when I woke up . . .

"Ugh." I groaned to myself as I rolled over and peeked at the clock. 3 bloody a.m.

What is with waking up at this damn time every morning? Can't I just have one nights sleep without waking up at 3?

I rolled back over towards the wall and tried to get back to sleep, not that it normally worked.

And I was right, it didn't work. I'd been tossing and turning for almost an hour. So I decided to just turn on my ipod, put my earphones in and listen to my mum's lullaby my dad made for her, it normally made me sleepy.