[A/n Tammy belongs to me - that's it. the rest of the characters and the plot belongs to Stephan King - God of everything Stand By Me]
"Hey boys!" I screamed as I knocked on the door of the tree house. I was only a few minutes late to meet them, but they've got to be here, I mean, they always were. I knocked the 'secret knock' a few more times, "Teddy! Chris! Gordie! Vern! Guys, where are you?!"
Then I saw a piece of paper that was sticking out of the door to the tree house. Instinctively I took it.
Tammy,
We went by the track, meet us there in five minutes or we are leaving. Tell your dad that you are staying over Vern's house with me. Hurry up.
Brotherly love,
Teddy
Was in a chicken scratch handwriting on the back of an old comic. I didn't know when they left, so I didn't know when five minutes was, I guess I'd find out. In my long skirt I started towards the train tracks to meet my brother and his friends. Teddy was really my stepbrother; my dad married his mom about a year ago, right after his dad 'moved out.' We were the same age, so he would let me hang around with his friends, the whole three of them. They were always doing stupid shit. Teddy with his car dodging, Vern sitting under his porch all day, Gordie with his parents and Chris, with, well his life.
I kicked rocks in the dirt as I walked to the far side of Castle Rock where the journey started. I saw that they had started walking without me. I guess I got there a little late. I sprinted the way across to the guys.
"Vern, did your mother have any children who lived." I heard as I approached them.
"What'd you mean?" Vern asked, unknowingly.
"He means that both you and your brother are pussies." I answered for my brother. Which sent him into an uproar of laugher. Eee-eee-eeeeeee
"Thanks for waiting for me you guys," I glared at Teddy, who knew that I was still sleeping when he left.
"We waited for about twenty minutes, then figured you never got the note."
Chris informed me.
"Well, what are we doing on the tracks anyway?"
"We're gunna be famous!" Teddy screamed.
"Uhh, Gordie, what is he talking about?" I asked Gordie who was staring intently at the train tracks, I noticed this and said, "It's alright Gord-O they don't bite."
"He's talking about Ray Brower. Billy and Charlie found the kid while they were screwing in the back seat of the car they stole."
"So we are finding him? I don't wanna see a dead kid, really, I don't want to!" I squealed. I really really did, but I didn't want them to know it.
"Don't be such a girl Tam," Teddy said.
"You say that like I can help it." I responded.
And that was how it started. The first day of the rest of our lives. Day one of our hike up the railroad tracks to find the body of a dead kid named Ray Brower.
