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"This is just great. I'm just really loving this adventure Lachance." Trinity said, very sarcastically.

The reason she was saying this was because we were trudging through about a foot high thing of mud, in the middle of a forest. Yeah, it was pretty great…kidding.

"Don't worry, we're almost there." Gordie was pushing through a bunch of random branches poking us all in the side.

Creak. Clank.

"Did you hear that?" Vern said all paranoid.

"Uh huh… what the hell was that?"

Creeeaakk. Claankk.

"Oh no! It's getting closer!" I jumped on Chris and he was a little scared too, the sun had set and it was now dark out.

Creeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaak.

"BOO!!"

"OH MY GOD!! WAHH!!"

We were all screaming like babies and flying in every direction to run and hide.

"Wait a minute, that's Paul!" I said finally seeing his face.

"You asshole!" Trinity yelled at him.

"Jesus Christ man, almost shit myself." Gordie said while recovering from the shock.

"I knew he was there all along." Teddy was coming back from where he hid, we just glared at him.

"Hey guys." Paul finally said hey after laughing so hard he almost peed. By the way, this was the Paul from English class that Trinity had talked to before.

"Wait, Paul, what are you doing out in the woods, all by yourself, after dark?" I was curious.

"I should be asking you guys the same thing…I live right there, and I heard some people so I decided to come check out what was going on."

"Well you had perfect timing, Gordie was just gonna show us something."

"Is it the meadow?" Paul asked.

"Yeah, you know about that too?" Gordie asked.

"Yup, been goin there since I was a kid. It's amazing at night."

"Yeah, it is. Well that's why I'm bringing them. You can come too, maybe you'll finally get them to stop complaining."

"Sorry not all of us like to go trudging through mud in the middle of the night Gordie." I said as I walked up to him and Paul.

"Oh suck it up Ry, it's right here…" Gordie pushed a shrub back and we entered the meadow.

It was amazing. Truly amazing. Really, words can't even describe it. There were what looked to be like millions of lightning bugs, just hundreds of them lighting up at random parts in the meadow. They were like nature's own fireworks.

We were all speechless, completely in awe.

"Gordie, this is amazing." I said wide eyed, just in disbelief.

"Isn't it?"

We stayed there for what seemed to be like hours. Just laying there. None of us had to speak, our disbelief and awe pretty much just said everything for us. It was grand.

--

"Hey Ryan! Ready for our date?" Vern was at my door step in a nice polo and jeans.

"Man, Vern. You look sharp, I'm impressed." I was looking him up and down.

It was weird. Vern always acted like a little kid, but in reality he wasn't. He was starting to fill out and lose all the baby fat. I was pretty sure he was a couple inches taller than me now, but I would always think of him as the pudgy little Vern.

"Well, I try…" He said with an awkward, innocent smile.

"Ha, oh Verno. So where are we going?" I asked while walking out the door with him.

"Go-cart racing!" Vern's face had lit up, and so had mine.

"Vern! No way! How did you know I always wanted to go go-cart racing?"

"Timmy told me. He said you guys used to do it all the time back in San Diego."

"Aw, thanks Vern! Who knew you could be so sweet?" I was really flattered with all of this, and overwhelmed. Vern wasn't the kind of person who put much thought into things.

"Ha, thanks Ryan."

"No problem Vern." I smiled and wrapped his elbow in mine as we walked to the race track.

--

"Vern, that was a blast! I can't believe I beat you and Johnny on that last turn!"

"Aw, come on Ryan! I totally would've had you if you didn't cut me off."

"Haha, cheaters always win! Well, that's my saying at least…"

"Well I'll get you next time Ry, you just wait and see."

"Ha, I'd like to see that Vern. Thanks for everything." I gave him a peck on the cheek and he got all red as I waved bye to him. Vern was so cute, he was like a little kid in a sixteen year olds body.

--

The next day was my plan of attack day for getting revenge on the guys for putting the string everywhere. You know how long that took me to cut/take down? Four hours. Four hours! I didn't know whether to laugh or cry…

Trinity and I had gone house to house and got all the guys' boxers. We were going to soak them in beer and let them dry so they smelled like winos. We only had one house left, and that was the Chambers house.

"Alright Trinity, I'm gonna go in Chris's room and you send me the signal if anyone's coming. Okay?"

"Yeah, signal, got it." She gave me a thumbs up, and the mission began.

I went into Chris's room. Well, Chris's and Eyeball's room. How does he survive sharing a room with scum? Well anyways, it was really weird actually. I had only been on the front steps of Chris's house before, and now I was sneaking into his room…

"I got um!" I half whispered half yelled to Trinity.

"Good! Come on, let's go!" She yelled back.

"COCK A DOODLE DOO!! COCK A DOODLE DOO!!" Trinity was screaming the signal like a maniac.

Oh shit.