Hey people! So yeah I've never done one of these before, so I'm sorry if it's a little messed up. Hope you guys like the story! This chapter's really short btw...

The next morning I heard my mom yelling for me to come to the door. I was a little surprised to see the four boys standing on my front porch. I opened the door and said hey, and I thought it was a little strange to me that the people in this town could find out where you lived that fast. I heard Teddy start laughing that "Eeeeeeeeheeee" hyena laugh of his, and I noticed that I was still wearing my teddy bear pajamas. My cheeks flushed and I ran upstairs to put on some jeans and a t-shirt. I grabbed my comb and ran downstairs while trying to brush my long knotted blonde hair at the same time. Then, looking halfway decent, I opened the door trying not to be embarrassed anymore.

"So, I didn't know the kids in California were still in touch with their childhood side."

"Shut up Teddy." I said as I pushed past him.

"Touchy."

The guys decided to show me around town and Vern saw that I had a comb so he started telling me about how he lost his comb one day.

"You see Ryan, a guy with as much hair as me has to keep a comb around (thought Vern had no hair…), and this was the one time I really needed a comb, but then-"

As strange as he is he makes me laugh and I like that about him, he's one of those people who doesn't try to be funny but is just funny anyways. Does that make sense? Well anyways they showed me this cool arts and crafts place with lots of paints and I made a mental note that I had to come back there to pick out a color for my "room". We went to the general store and got some pop, it really felt good to have a cold coke when it was about 90 degrees out.

"Guys, let's go to the lake!" Vern said

"Yeah come on let's go!" Teddy said

"Uh... I think I'll just pass on this one." I really don't have the confidence to be in front of four guys, my age, in a bathing suit.

"Ryan I will drag you there myself, you're going!" Why couldn't Teddy just keep his mouth shut.

"Yeah, but uh I have some work to do on my room and uh…" This wasn't going well.

"COME ON RYAN PLEASE!! IT'LL BE FUN!! COME ON! PLEASE!!!" All the guys were in full out begging mood by now.

"Gezz, I didn't know you guys wanted me that badly, you must be really desperate."

"Aw shut up Ryan, come on guys times a wastin!" Gordie said as he started running out the door.

"We'll meet at Ryan's in an hour."

"BOSS!" Everyone seemed really excited about the lake… weird.

I went home and Timmy and my mom were out at the doctors again. I went up to my room and I was a little frantic since I realized I didn't have a bathing suit, must have lost it when we moved here. I'd just tell the guys that I would sit this one out. My room was actually starting to come together. I had a bed in there, and when we were talking in the tree house Chris said he'd promise to help me paint my room. I went over to my mirror and started fixing my hair. I have straight long blonde hair that is pretty plain. I'm not overly heavy or too skinny, just about in the middle. I realized too that I was almost taller than my mirror; the doctor says I'm about 5' 7" now. It was weird looking at myself, it felt uncomfortable.

I went downstairs and made a quick pb & j sandwich before I started hearing a bunch of kids knocking on the door. Teddy was the first to bust through my doorway. He spotted my sandwich and snatched it out of my hands and started eating it.

"Thanks Ry. You sure make a mean pb & j."

"Your welcome asshole, that was my lunch by the way."

"I'll just pick you up something later, Boo. Eeeeheeee"

"Who told you about Boo?"

"Oh no one special, just someone who happens to be 4' 7" and lives with you…"

"Timmy" I'd get my hands on him…

"Come on guys! I gotta be home soon so I can watch my cartoons!" Oh that Verno.

It surprised me how I now knew the town like the back of my hand, goes to show you how small it is. Chris, Gordie and I all started talking about some of the college courses, and they filled me in on all the teachers and some of the kids in their grade. It was kind of sad how they only have 80 people in their grade and in San Diego I had close to 1,000. We kept talking when all of a sudden the mood changed really quickly and I saw this black car pull up.

"Shit guys, RUN!!" Chris screamed as he pulled my arm and practically carried me away. We were all running as fast as we could when all of a sudden we're all cornered by about 7 guys that looked like they wanted to kick our asses. It struck me then that these were the infamous Cobras.