" Well its going to be Me, Brooke, Haley, Nathan, Peyton, Jake, Mouth, Rachel, Skillz, and Bevin." Lucas explained to his mother

" And tell me again where you're going to be, I mean besides about fifteen miles into some scary forest where I wont be able to get into contact with you for five days." Karen asked sarcastically

"Mom, it's a safe forest, park rangers and all, and I'll be fine." Lucas explained. " Please don't worry, and as soon as I get a way to call you, I will."

" You promise me you'll be careful?" she asked

"Mom yes, I promise."

It was Friday night, the boys had their game and then the group planned to leave early the next morning for their trip. The crowd was big as usual, Deb and Karen sat next to each other talking about their boys going away for the weekend. Rachel, Brooke, Haley, and Peyton were on the floor getting warmed up before the game while Lucas and Nathan were with the rest of the team in the locker room.

"So you excited about this weekend?" Lucas asked his brother

"Honestly more excited then I thought I was going to be." Nathan laughed

"Haley kept going on all night about how excited she is, how she can't wait to ruff it, as she says" Nathan laughed again.

"That doesn't surprise me, when we were kids she was up at the crack of dawn either fishing, swimming or just walking around finding cool things in the forest as she used to say, and you know who she ALWAYS had to take with her early in the morning..me." Lucas chuckled

The game went by pretty easy, the team wasn't much of a challenge for the Ravens. Jake sat with Mouth and Skillz in the stands with his daughter on his knee. Since he has been gone so long their was no way he could play, but he was just as excited to watch his old teammates play. This weekend was going to be the first since he got full custody of Jenny with the long battle with Nikki. He was so happy finally be home, with her, and with Peyton. Even more excited he was going on this trip with his friends who he hasn't been able to just hangout with forever.

After the game Haley and Nathan went off home together and after giving her good job/good bye/see you tomorrow/ I love you kisses to Lucas, Brooke went with Peyton and drove home Jake home because they wanted to get a good night sleep for the next morning. Lucas lagged behind a little tonight after the game. His medicine always made him tired during the games, and he always felt exhausted afterwards. Taking a deep breath he gathered his things and walked towards the gym, he had told his mom he wanted to walk home tonight and to not wait for him. He had been doing this almost after every game, after everyone has left the gym he would just stand around in the gym and think about everything.

"Well look who it is." Lucas herd a deep voice behind him

When he turned around he saw the one man who it hoped it wouldn't be, the one man who he honestly could say he hated, his father.

"Don't look so scared Lucas, I promise this little chat wont be the same as last time we were in here." Dan laughed

" Oh you mean the time when you tried to kill me? Get out of my way." Lucas walked by angrily.

"Pretty exciting weekend you have coming up, I'm sure you're mother wouldn't want you to be so far away with no help really at all, you know just in case something happens." Dan slithered. "Well that is if she knew about your little secret."

" What the hell do you want from me huh! What could you possibly want from me now." Lucas yelled in anger at him

"Haha, relax kid, just looking for a nice father to son chat" Dan said with a smirk

Lucas just stood their, not knowing what to say he just felt his body heating up with anger and even more hate for this man.

"Well since we both know that's not true," Dan started " Have a great weekend son" shaking his head Dan walked away. With just Lucas staring back at him.

"Turn up here Nathan" Haley said directing her husband. There it is our camp out stop Luke!

"Wow, this looks awesome Haley" Brooke said

" Haha you see that dock over there?" Lucas asked

"Yeah." Brooke and Nathan both said

"When Haley first brought me here she tried to show off by running and doing some cool flip..," Lucas started

"Luke!" Haley cut in

"No wait what happened?" Brooke said interested.

"Oh my gosh" Haley said embarrassed

"Anyway," Lucas continued "Haley was mad because I could do the cool flip, and she was always to scared to Her sisters kept making fun of her because I could and Haley couldn't. So Haley went for it, as she was running she tripped over a loose board and did some crazy belly flop face first plunge into the water and came out with a bloody nose."

Everyone started laughing, and Haley sunk down into her chair even laughing to herself, as embarrassed as she was she knew it was funny.

As the friends pulled up they all got out and looked around. Of course it wasn't some beauty spot but their was a couple of hammocks that Haley's mom and dad put up years before and their was a small dock leading out to a lake. To the left their was also a out house and about three other porta-potties around the area.

"Wow Haley this is cool" Mouth said from behind. He, Rachel, Jake, and Peyton were coming up from behind.

"Man how you gonna make me stay out in the cold for five days baby" Skillz was saying to Bevin, they were coming up from the other side talking to each other " I mean theirs scary things out here, and we don't got no damn phone, how the hell we supposed to order pizza"

"Oh Skillz, you'll be fine, promise I wont let some scary beaver get ya" Bevin said jokingly." And look you were afraid of having to go pee in the woods, they have an outhouse."

As they all just arrived there they were all just looking around for a little bit and then they wered something from behind

"Can I help you?" a strange voice called out to them. He was a strange looking man, dark ragging looking hair, and dark beady eyes.

The gang just turned around, a little shocked and their was an awkward silence for a moment.

" I said can I help you" the man said again.

" Um were here to camp, who are you?" Nathan asked

" I own these woods boy, I have a right to know who's going to be making a mess of things" he said with an evil look.

"We're just here to have some fun man, were not going to be messing anything up." Lucas said strongly

"Fun? Oh its fun that you want." the man said walking closer

" I used to come out here when I was a little girl all the time, we just wanted to come out here to just hang out and have a good time , we don't want to cause any trouble." Haley chimed in.

The man walked right near Haley and got a little to close, and Nathan put his hand in front of him and got in front of Haley, " Hey why don't you just get out of here alright? We're not causing any trouble" Nathan said starting to get angry.

The man just looked towards Nathan giving him a crooked gin and walked away.

"Crazy old drunk" Nathan said

" Well that was a little scary" Rachel whispered

"Yeah just forget it, alright lets start setting up" Nathan said.

Before bed they all cooked up some food and while everyone was getting dressed Lucas went to the car and went through a bag he had left in their, and he pulled out his heart medication and looked around to make sure no one was looking and took the tiny pill that was saving his life.