Violet, Klaus, Isadora, and Quigley left at 7:00 to eat at some Italian restaurant. I sat on the couch in the living room watching a Fresh Prince rerun.

"Bye, Sunny" Violet called, and I ran to the door for a "be good" lecture.

"Be good," she said, "and, please, don't do anything that might ruin Duncan's life."

"Fine." I said, "Don't eat outside, it looks like it's gonna rain." And I returned to the television. Duncan sat at the computer typing up an article.

About an hour later, Ellie called.

"Hey, Sunny," she said

"Hey," I said, "What's up?"

"Bored." she said.

"Same here."

"Mind if I come over?"

"One sec," I said.

"Duncan!" I shouted "Can Ellie come over!"

"Yeah," he replied, "whatever."

"Yeah," I told Ellie, "that's fine."

"Be right over."

The doorbell rang and Francis and Harry barked. I ran to the door to greet Ellie. While Duncan continued to write his report, Ellie and I watched a bunch of old reruns from the 90's and devoured a bowl of popcorn until 8:30.

"Hey," I said, "Wanna pedicure?"

"Yeah," she sighed, "Can this summer get any more boring?"

"Don't think so" I agreed, sitting down with bottles of bright nail polish.

"Okay," she said painting her toenail neon green, "Who were you crushing last year?"

"No one," I said. "C'mon," She encouraged, "There had to be someone."

"Nope" I said then stopped, "Well, there was- never mind."

"Please" she was begging now, "I won't tell anyone."

"Pinky promise?" I asked.

"Pinky promise." she said and we locked our pinkies together, " now spill!"

"You know that guy who sat in front of me in math?" I asked.

Ellie nodded, "Dylan." "Yeah," I said, "That's not him."

" Sunny!" Ellie cried and threw a handful of popcorn at me, "Please."

"Fine," I sighed, "this guy-"

" Sunny," Duncan interrupted, "I'm going to the library to do some more research."

"Isn't it closed?" I asked.

"No, it stays open 'till ten on Saturdays." he replied.

"Okay," I said, "have oodles of fun."

"The degree of your sarcasm amazes me." he said and left.

After Duncan had left it started to pour. The sound of the rain on the windows rang like a warning to stay indoors. And, of course, with my luck, the power went out with the thunderstorm. Ellie and I lit candles and scattered them throughout the mansion.

"This is freaky," Ellie said as the candlelight flickered around the living room.

" June gloom at its worst," I sighed.

" So," Ellie said, "what were you saying earlier about who you liked?"

"Um," I began. But I was interrupted by a loud noise.

"What………" Ellie said.

"Shhhh…." I said.

It sounded like someone was trying to force open the back door. My heart started beating faster as I sat up from the floor to see a figure on the other side of the glass door. And then, before either of us could scream, the figure burst into the house. Then, without knowing what I was doing, I ran at the figure with the only weapon I had, the popcorn bowl. I started clobbering the person with the bowl.

"Hey!" it cried in a familiar voice, "Stop! I promise I won't call you names anymore! STOP!"

"Huh?" I said lowering the bowl.

Just then the power came back and the lights surged back on.

There I saw Duncan, cowering on the floor.

"Holy crud!" I said, "Duncan- I- thought- you- scare"

I sighed, " I am so sorry."

"What was that for?" He asked lifting himself off the floor.

" I thought you were trying to break in," I said.

"Well" he said rubbing a colossal bump on his head, "technically, I was. The front door's locked, I have no key, and the library's closed 'cause of the storm."

"Sorry," Ellie said, "We were really freaked out."

"Yeah," he said.

"Well," I said grabbing Ellie's arm, " we'll be upstairs."

On our way to the stairs the lock on the front door turned and my siblings and friends emerged behind it.

"Hi," I said quickly and continued towards the stairs. I ran upstairs to wait until Duncan finished telling them "how it went".

"Sunny!" Violet said, her voice echoing throughout the mansion.

And I knew that was defiantly the wrong time to go completely insane.