"So I was digging under the porch," Vern started.
We all knew what that meant. You see, Vern had buried a jar of pennies. He had made a map, but his mom was cleaning up his room, and threw it away. He'd been digging for it for nine months. "We know Back Harlow Road!" I exclaimed, pointing to me and my twin.
"Yeah! It comes to a dead end by the Royal River. The train tracks are right there! Rache and I used to go fishing for cossies out there!"
"You know they would've killed you if they knew you were under the porch," Chris said, which of course Vern knew that.
We all wondered how Ray Brower could've gotten all the way to Back Harlow Road. Since it was really far from Castle Rock. "He must've followed the train tracks," I suggested.
"Yeah, yeah, he must have been picking blueberries at night, and then smacko!" Teddy said.
"You're awful," I told Teddy, as he rolled his eyes.
Chris suddenly had a brilliant idea. "I bet if we find him, we'd all be in the paper!" He said, as we all thought of it.
"We'd be heroes!" Teddy exclaimed.
"Yeah!" We all exclaimed.
"What'll we tell our folks?" Vern asked, which was a question we were all thinking.
Of course Gordie was the one who thought of a plan. "Exactly what you said. We'll tell out parents that we're tenting over at your house, and you tell your folks that you're sleeping over at Rachel and Teddy's. Then we'll tell our parents that we're going to the drag-races...until dinner," He explained.
It was a pretty good plan. Even Chris thought so, who was the one who mostly thought up of the plans. "Except there's one problem," I said.
"What is it?" Gordie asked, not seeing what was wrong with the plan.
"What am I gonna tell our folks?" I asked.
"You know, that we're tenting over at Vern's!" Teddy said. "They know nothing's gonna happen to you." He explained, even though I wasn't the one who needed convinsing.
I rolled my eyes. "No shit Teddy. I'm not the one you need to convince otherwise," I said, as we started to argue.
"Anyways, are we doing this?" Chris asked.
"I don't know guys," Vern said, suddenly becoming reluctant. "If we find the body, our parents will know that we didn't go tenting." He said.
We all sighed. "Yeah, but they'd be so proud of us, we wouldn't get hided!" Gordie said, as we tried to convince Vern.
"We'd get hided anyway, but hey, it's worth the hiding!" Chris said, feeling more confident in the plan.
"So Vern, are you in?" I asked.
"I don't know," He said, still not on board.
"Vern," We all said, as we pulled on his face, and gave him noogies. "Alright, alright! I'm in!" He said, as we all cheered, because we were really going to do this.
A/N: I know it's short, but I've been really busy with school, and work. Thanks to Guest for reviewing!
