"Starbucks coffee, swimming, air conditioning, peppermint stick ice cream, the jonas brothers…" I said drearily as I listed off everything I wish I had at that moment

"Starbucks coffee, swimming, air conditioning, peppermint stick ice cream, the jonas brothers…" I said drearily as I listed off everything I wish I had at that moment.

We had been driving in the car for almost seven hours, due to bumper to bumper traffic along the bridge that took us from the main land to Cape Cod. I lived outside of Boston, and it was regularly a three hour drive, not seven.

"Jonas Brothers? Why do you even like them?" Adam asked from behind me. I glared at him.

"What's not to like about them, and I didn't criticize your answers! I mean why would you want to have marbles right now, we're in a moving car!" I said.

"Hey, It's not my fault I'm easily entertained, and what about Tiffany's answer? I mean a wooden spoon? That not useful in a car either!"

"Hey, don't bring me into this Mr. I –brought- a- surf –board- to –cape- cod. There is no surf here, there are hardly any waves, and you like Celine Dion so don't be criticizing Heather's choice of music!" Tiffany said defending us both.

"ALRIGHT THAT'S ENOUGH! You guys have been talking and fighting over stupid things the whole way here, can you please just shut up?" Miara said annoyed from the drivers seat. I sat up and looked outside seeing another field of cows go by.

"Where the heck are we anyways? This doesn't look like the cape."

"I don't know, these directions mom gave me are no help at all, I think we're lost." Miara said.

"NOO! I cant be in this car any longer, I need to stretch my legs out and get something to eat."

"I know me too and the air conditioning isn't working so its going to get really hot soon, but I don't have any service here." Miara answered. We all took out our phones and checked for service.

"NOOO!! We need to get to the cottage, I don't like being lost. WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!" She yelled, we both started freaking out.

"It's like in those horror movies, when the kids get stuck in a field and it gets dark and they have no service and the killer comes and gets them all!" I said panicking…I was kind of a drama queen.

"Will you two shut up? We will be fine, lets just try and stop to ask for directions." Miara said. We looked around but still all we saw was fields.

"I knew this summer was going to be bad, but come on it's only the first day!" I whined feeling the heat set in from the loss of air conditioning.

"I still don't get whats so bad about Jack, I mean mom likes him." Miara said.

"He's a jerk and hes rude, ughh this whole wedding is an awful idea."

"She gets upset when you talk about this stuff." Tiffany whispered to Miara. I glared at her, and popped in the Jonas Brothers CD. Then I shut my eyes and attempted to fall asleep to take me out of this nightmare of a car ride.

Hello Beautiful

Hows it going?

I hear its wonderful

In California

I've been missing you, its true…

I opened my eyes to see Adam and Tiffany hovering over me.

"AHH! What are you doing?" I said clutching my heart.

"You fell asleep, but we stopped at a convenience store for directions and we wanted to see if you wanted anything." Adam said. I sat up and looked around, seeing an empty parking lot and a small convenience store next to a country styled house, along a high way.

"Its empty."

"I know, its almost 6PM, lets go grab some snacks." We walked inside and the smell of microwave hot dogs and icees hit me, and oddly my stomach started grumbling. It had been almost five hours since I have eaten, and I was starving. The air-conditioning felt nice against me, so I pulled my long blonde hair into a high ponytail and adjusted the belt on my short jean shorts.

I grabbed a bag of Lay's Potato Chips, some mini donuts, and a package of Sweetart's.

"Is anybody here?" Miara yelled from in front of the cash register. I walked over next to her accompanied by adam and Tiffany and we looked around.

"Like I said, setting from a horror movie."

"There must be someone here, let's look." I walked around looking for someone, and grabbed myself a diet coke. Tiffany and Adam came up next to me.

"Find anyone?" They shook their heads. I heard the sound of the door jingling and turned to see a middle aged guy come in, holding a small sheet of paper. He began wandering the store.

"Great, now we're stuck in here with some random guy who could kill us and nobody would hear us scream!" Tiffany whispered. I clutched Adams arm and he glared at Tiffany.

"Why did you say that? You know she gets scared at that kind of stuff."

"It's funny though, and hey you never know, he really could be some serial killer coming to the cape to hiding out…" Just as Tiffany was finishing someone spoke from behind me.

"Excuse me but do you…"

"AHH!" I screamed hearing the man talk from right behind me. I dropped my stuff and ran into Adam who toppled over onto the floor with me on top of him.

"Oh I'm sorry! I didn't mean to scare you, I was wondering if you knew where this address is, me and my family are lost." I looked outside and saw a black BMW with people inside, and I breathed a sigh of relief, his voice was kind too. I got up off of Adam and brushed off myself before apologizing.

"No I'm sorry, ive had a long day. I cant help you, we're lost too, but my sister is by the cash register trying to get directions as well."

"Thank you so much." He said before walking over and talking to my sister.

"You see? You got her all scared for nothing and I was the one who ended up getting hurt in the process." Adam said getting our stuff off the ground and handing mine to me.

"Yeah way to go Tiff."

"Hey you started the whole killer thing heather, I was just playing along. Ooh candy!" She said running away towards the candy aisle. I just shook my head and walked over to where Miara was talking to the man.

"This is my little sister Heather, apparently you already met."

"Yeah, sorry about that." I said again. He laughed.

"It's alright, I did kind of sneak up on you, I'm Paul." Suddenly a short bald man came out from the bathroom and began checking out our food, and helping us wih directions, then he helped Paul.

"Tiff, Adam come on! We're leaving and we know where we're going, we're not that far. We're on the other side of the town that's why theres no beach, come on." I said. They paid for their stuff and we went outside.

"It was nice meeting you Paul." I said.

"Oh no, it's a pleasure meeting you! Have a nice evening." He said getting into his car. As he pulled away we waved and saw the back windows roll down, and someones head stick out.

"Hey, was that Joe Jonas?!" I yelled.

"I doubt it, now come on, lets get to the cottage to meet mom, she's probably worried sick."

"Alright." It was getting dark, it was hot , I was hungry, and it had been a long day. I was probably just hallucinating or something. I buckled up as we took off down the street and I began eating. The Summer of Misery was already here.

Authors note: Hey everyone! This chapter was mostly to let you get to know the characters, and kudos who those who figured out who paul was JB in next chapter, xoxo