Ellie Beth Fostor awoke to the song 'Get it Poppin'', from the room next door. It was Summer as usual. Always up at 5:30 in the morning, doing her hair, taking a shower, and singing along to the music that played on the radio, waking up God and everyone with her.
"Summer Jasmine Port!" Ruthy banged on the door, making it sound as if it might come off it's hinges.
"Yeah?" Ellie Beth could hear as the music grew louder, she must have opened the door.
"If you don't turn off that freakin' music I'm gonna turn you off with it!" Ruthy shouted, eventhough Summer was right there.
"Ok Miss Cranky Panties!" Summer slammed the door and cranked the volume up louder.
"SUMMER!" Ruthy shouted again.
For a second, Ellie Beth didn't know where she was. Then, when she heard the waves crashing outside, it clicked in her brain and she found her barings. She was at her beach house. Her beach house in the beautiful Carribean. She and her two friends, Ruthy and Summer, where staying down there untill...
El didn't want to think about it. Her best friends in all the world where going to go back to Hillcrest Acadamy, the witchcraft and wizarding school she'd gone to the previous year, without her. Because things started happening. Bad things. Someone was after her. She could feel it. It was like that sensation you get when you know someone's looking at you. But she never wanted to leave Hillcrest, and her friends. Her parents were paranoid and decided she couldn't go back, although, she knew, that was the saftest place she could be. Her thoughts went back to the day when she fell hundreds of feet from the sky, down onto the Alakan plain.
They'd gotten on the wrong plane. She, and her several other friends. Instead of going to New York, they landed in Alaska. The Headmistress, ordered flying dog sled teams to trasport them all back. She and her other best friend Morgan were in one. She remebered she was about to tell him that she thought someone was after her, when the musher made the sled go crazy and she flew over. Moragn tried to help her back up and then she fell. Down...down...down...
Then she woke up in Holden's cave. He took care of her and took her home, or back to New York. But she felt there were layers to Holden and eventhough she was best at figuring people out, he was a tough case. Everyone was excited for her home coming...everyone except Morgan.
Morgan. Her best friend. They'd been together forever, and now, some silly girl, Gabby, comes and takes him away. He'd been stand-offish to Ellie Beth ever since she showed back up. He would have been here, with his long time friends, the one's that cared more about him than his hot looks, in her beach house, if not for Gabby and her big trip to the Swiss Alps. Her insides burned, and although she'd made it a goal in life, not to make enemies, she need something to hate, and that thing right now, was Gabby.
She sighed and shook the thoughts from her head and got up to start the day.
"Look at me!" Summer exclaimed as she stood ontop of the surfboard, riding her first wave. Ruthy snuck over and pushed her down. Summer came up and squrted the water in her mouth onto Ruthy, which made for a heck of an argument. Ellie Beth just laughed, and wished Morgan was here to see Summer's first wave, here to laugh with her.
"Guys, I'm going into town to get some snacks, wanna come?" she asked the girls as she slipped on her clothes.
"I call pink moped!" Summer shouted as she stumbled out of the water. In a few moments, they were pulling out of the driveway, Ellie Beth on a light blue moped, Ruthy on black, and Summer on her 'called' pink one. They ended up, of corse, buying more than just a few snacks and more than just food. Summer tried on at least 50 different things at the shops, making Ruthy and Ellie Beth give their personal oppions.
"Summer! You're not even gonna have enough bags to fit all this in when we go to-" but Ruthy stopped as she saw Ellie Beth's face.
"I'll just buy more bags...DUH!" Summer exclaimed as though it were the dumbest thing she'd ever heard.
Ellie Beth laughed, inspite of herself, and they carried on their day.
There was a storm that night. Almost hurricane-ish. Summer crawled in Ruthy's bed beacuse she was scared out of her mind that the roof would collapase and quote, unquote 'sqush us like pancakes'.
Ellie Beth awoke to a tapping on her window. She looked at the clock...1:34. That stupid storm need to stut up and let her get some sleep. It keep tapping. She passed it off for a tree the first couple of times, and then she heard her name. And this scared her out of her mind. She was locked in fear, and couldn't move.
"Ellie Bear, it's me, Holden, open the gosh darn window and let me in!" the voice said again. Recognizing it for really him, and feeling such intense wave of relife, she almost lost feeling in her feet, she walked over and opened the window.
A big shadow of Holden, stumbled into the room, soaked from head to toe.
"Oh my gosh Holden! What are you doing here!" Ruthy asked coming into the room, turning on the light, and seeing him.
"Are we having a slumber party?" Summer asked in a yawn, rubbing her eyes.
"Oh Holden! Lemme get you a towel!" Ellie Beth exclaimed, turning to go to the bathroom.
"No! No...El just listen! We have to get you guys out of here!" He exclaimed histarically.
"Why? No! My parents would be scared if they ever found out I'd left the house!" Ellie Beth told him.
"El...I don't think that matter's right now!" Holden exclaimed in almost a roar.
"What? Yes it does! My parents trust me! They let me and my friends stay here without supervision!"
"I don't think that matters now," Holden said, calming himself down.
"Yes it does!" she said angery now.
"El! No! We have to go!" Holden pleaded.
"Why? Why is it not important now?" Ellie Beth said, with tears coming down her face.
"Because your parents are dead,"