"Hey, my cousin is coming tomorrow…" Vern said late one evening as we all where sitting on his front porch smoking.

"Who, Ali," I asked.

"Your fat cousin Ali," Teddy laughed throwing his cigarette away.

"Hey I am sure Ali has changed," Gordie explained.

"She has," Vern said. It had been four years since we saw her. We where all thirteen and she was twelve, the last time we saw her.

"Yea…..what she look like," Teddy asked.

"You will see tomorrow. But her family has changed a lot. Her parents drink a lot, I heard from her brother Tyler."

"I got to go, dinner and you know my mom, doesn't want me to be late for dinner," Gordie said jumping off of the front porch.

"Hey meet here tomorrow around noon, that's when she is coming…."

* * *

Our car rolled down the familiar street of Castle Rock. I had been stuck in the middle for four hours. Tyler who was a year older than me at seventeen was on the right side and my little sister Gina who was a year younger at fifteen on the left side. I couldn't wait to get out and see everything. I couldn't wait to see Vern's face when I got out. I was fat the last time his friends and him saw me and I had glasses, and pigtails. But now I was still short but very thin. I had long curly red hair and contacts. I had on tight jeans with a shirt that said "Stop staring and keep walking." But I had a past, that's only my sister and my brother knew about.

"Ok well we are here," my mother said from the front seat. I looked at the familiar white house. I saw Vern, Teddy, Gordie and Chris sitting on the front step. My sister got out first then my brother on the other side. Vern walked over to them and so did his friends.

"So where is Ali," I heard Vern asked.

"Right here," I said as I stepped out of the car. All eyes where on me. I looked at the four boys and they just stared at me.

"Marie," I heard my mother yell as she ran over to her little sister, Vern's mom.

"Vern get their stuff out of the car, and you three boys can help," Vern's dad said as he disappeared into the house.

"Ali…this is going to be fun," my sister Gina said. I looked at her and laughed.

"O yea…time to mess with their heads."

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