Saturday afternoon, after the tag sale, Raven had Chelsea come over to her house. If Corey could have William over, than Raven would have over her best friend, too.

As they piled into the mini van after the tag sale, Corey raised his eyebrows at Chelsea.

"You're coming home with us, Chelsea?" Corey asked, with a smile on his face.

"Yup!" Chelsea said, looking into the third row of seats of the van, where he sat. He was smiling at her. Chelsea rolled her eyes.

"I'm glad. I love it when you stay over, sweetums."

Chelsea turned around, and gave Raven a desperate look that said, 'EEEWWWW! Make your brother stop, please! He called me sweetums!'

"Corey, be quiet." Raven snapped to the back of the van.

"Corey, be quiet." Corey mimicked, making a stupid, scrunched up face. Then he started cracking up, and William just smiled, looking at his hands folded neatly in his lap.

"Time to get going! By the way, wanna stay for supper, Chelsea?" Mr. Baxter asked as he pulled the van onto the road.

Before Chelsea could answer, Corey piped up, "Well, of course she does! Don't you Chelsea?"

Chelsea gave a nervous giggle, and replied sweetly, "I'd love to stay! Thank you Mr. Baxter."

After that, Corey talked to William for the rest of the ride, and Raven talked to Chelsea.

In ten minutes, they were all stepping through the front door. Well, the family was. As for Chelsea and Raven, they were going to the mailbox. Once they got out of the car, they went back to the end of the driveway to look inside the box of mail.

Raven stuck her hand in and grabbed all the letters, bills, and magazines.

She skimmed through them.

"Letter to Mom, cable bill, some recipe for Dad to try."

Then she saw what she had been waiting for! She grabbed it and screamed a shriek of joy!

"Is that from Eddie? " Chelsea asked looking at what Raven was holding in her hand. Raven's face was lit up like a light bulb and she was fanning her face as if she was all of the sudden very warm.

"Its my fashion magazine! I ordered it like, five months ago! It finally came! Chels, you have no idea how hard it has been to wait for this thing to come" Raven held the magazine to her heart. "Girl, this calls for a celebration."

"Well, Raven. That sure is exciting, but is there anything from Eddie? I mean, he said he'd mail us as soon as he got to Montana, and its' been a week since he left. So you'd think he'd mail us-"

"A letter from Eddie!" Raven interrupted, grabbing the stranded letter she'd not seen in the mailbox.

"It is!" Chelsea grabbed it from Raven and tore it open. To see his handwriting made Chelsea feel really good. Really, really good. As if he hadn't moved.

"Well, read it out loud, Chels!" Raven practically screamed.

So she did. This is what it said:

'Dear Raven,

Make sure Chelsea reads this too, okay? Anyway, I'm doing fine here in Montana. The air is sooo much cleaner, it's crazy! I can actually 'breathe' the difference! )

So…the ride here was wild, too. We got into a big family argument that lasted half the ride, and I hated it. We were crammed into the car for hours, and I had to go to the bathroom so bad!

Ummmm…the house is very 'countyrish' if that's even a word. It's small, with a rickety old porch, and we don't have any neighbors for a mile. But, man, I never saw my dad as happy as he is right now. I miss my room, and I miss you guys. I miss my other friends, and Mr. French, even! I never thought I'd miss your homeroom teacher as much as I do now! Haha!

Oh, and guess what I saw! A DEER in my front yard, just like my dad said we would. We saw it right when we pulled into the driveway! What do ya know! There it was. You should've seen my dad's face light up.

Anyway, I gotta admit I'm nervous for school. I mean, I feel so different. I'm from a city, and I don't know what they're like, since they're from here. Ya know? I mean, what do I expect? I feel like an outsider. Awww, man.

Write back, ok? Cause I feel like talking to somebody. Somebody other than Dad.

Really wish you were here, cause so far, I hate it. Nothing against Montana. I'm just not a country kind of guy.

-Eddie

Chelsea looked up at Raven when she finished. Raven's eyes were big and wide, probably just like Chelsea's. Wow. So he hated it. Chelsea would love it, but he hated it. It would be a long two years for him And them.

"Ray, we gotta write back!"

"I know we do. Poor guy. All alone in the woods." Raven said, holding her fashion magazine closer to her heart.

"Come on. Lets get inside. Let's write back right now. Together."

With that, the two girls walked inside the house to write up their letters. They missed Eddie more than anything. And they had no idea how much Eddie missed them.