The Camping Trip

Madison, Wisconsin

June 20, 1996

12:45 A.M.

Jennifer Burkhart's Bedroom

It had been 10 days since Summer Vacation started, and the gang was having the worst Summer of their life. Jennifer was hoping that Ryan's birthday that was coming up would turn it around. But lately Jennifer had been having nightmares about Freddy, Jason, and Micheal Myers. Tonights dream was no different. In fact, it was worse. Jennifer was walking down a hallway at school, but the only thing different about the rest of her dreams was that Ryan was in this one. She felt more comfterable that Ryan was there to keep her safe. In her dream she and Ryan were talking. "Listen Jennifer," said Ryan. "I'm sure that nobody could kill Bugs Bunny."

"Yeah, yeah." she replied. "I guess your right." But just then Ryan dissapeard and was replaced by all three horror movie ledgends. "What the hell are you doing here!" she yelled. "Leave me alone!"

The three started approaching Jennifer. She kept pleading for them to stop. "Get away from me you damn sons of a bitches!" yelled Jennifer. They kept approaching. Forward, and forward they advanced. Each drew their weapon of choice. Freddy and his knifes, Jason and his chainsaw, and Micheal Myers and his dagger. Right before they stabbed her she woke up, "Ahhhhhhhh!" she screamed. She had woke up in a cold sweat.

"Honey are you ok?" asked Jackie.

"Yeah Mom." she replied. "I just had a, er um, a bad dream."

"Ok. Just tell me if you have a problom." said Jackie in a worried tone. Ever since Jackie's husband left after Jennifer was born.

"I knew I shouldn't have stayed up and watched that horror movie marathon.'' Jennifer said to herself.

Madison, Wisconsin

June 20, 1996

10:27 A.M.

The Forman's Basement

The gang was hanging out in the basement as usuall except there was something new.

"Hey Ryan, when did you get the foosball table?" asked Christian.

"I innhereted it it from my Uncle Marty." said Ryan, "He was the one who loved to express his feelings."

So the gang started to play foosball, but right after Tyler scored the winning point the doorbell rung. "I got it" yelled Ryan. When he got to the door and aswered it he found a forigen male that looked like the same age as his parents. "Who are you?'' asked Ryan.

"I am Fez." the forigner answered. "Are Eric and Donna home?"

"Uh... not right now." Ryan replied.

But right after Ryan finished his sentence Eric and Donna came crusing up in the Vista Cruiser. "Fezzy!" exclaimed Donna.

"What the hell are you doin' here man?" asked Eric.

"I'm coming back to Wisconsin. Did you know that there's a vacant house on Blue Ridge that I was just looking at?" answered Fez.

"Uh, excuse me!" yelled Ryan, "Who the hell has a name thats Fez?"

"It's a long story Ryan." replied Eric. "So basicly back in the 70s Fez came to Point Place as a forigen exchange student, hense forth the name Fez. The only problom is the whole z instead of s thing."

"Oh." said Ryan, "Well, see you later. I gotta go hang out with the gang. We were gonna go down to this new place that just opened near the school. It's called, uh.., what's the name of that place again? Oh yeah! The Hub!"

"The Hub is down here now Eric?" asked Fez.

"Yeah, they just started opening all over Wisconsin." replied Eric.

"I remember The Hub." said Donna, "That was so funny when Kelso bought the pinball machine and then you talked the manager into replacing that with Space Invaders Fez."

The rest of the second generation of the gang came up and asked what was going on. "What the hell is going on her?" exclaimed Stephanie.

"Hello, I am Fez." said Fez. "And who are you all may I ask?"

"Stephanie Kelso." she said.

"Jennifer Burkhart." said the blonde.

"Justin Hyde." answered Justin.

"Christian." said Christian.

"Tyler LaPoint." replied the boy.

"Ryan Forman." replied the leader of the gang.

"It's so good to meet all of you." said Fez. "Oh yes. Eric, where is your daughter?"

"Say what!" exclaimed the gang.

"Uh..." Eric stammered, "She's um... In California! Yeah, that's right. She's in California."

"Mmm hmm." said Ryan suspiciuosly, "Where exactly in California?"

"A boarding school in a suberb of San Diego." stated Eric.

"This is some bull shit lies you've been telling me!" yelled Ryan. "Come on guys. Lets get going."

Madison, Wisconsin

June 20, 1996

11:00 A.M.

The Hub

The gang set off for The Hub down near JMM where they would end up having that as their back-up hangout in case the basement was ever "unavalible". "Welcome to The Hub. How can I help you." asked the man behind the counter.

"Hey! Your that same bastard that made us walk back to the bus in the middle of nowhere!" yelled Tyler. "I'll have a cheeseburger with fries."

"Ok, number 9." said the man.

"Uh.. I'll have some fries." said Ryan.

"Ok then number 10." said the man

"Uh.. I'm gonna have some soup." said Stephanie.

"Ok then number 11." said the man.

A few minutes passed and the man later to be known as Frank called out a number. "Number 9. Your order is ready."

As soon as Tyler heard his number called he was up there and grabbed his food.

Then anoth few minutes past and Frank called out another number, "Number 10. Your fries are ready,"

Ryan got up to the counter and got his food.

Another few minutes passed. Stephanie started playing pinball, and after a while Frank called out another number, "Number 11. Your soup is ready."

"One sec." she called back.

"Number 11. I have limited counter space." replied Frank.

"Ugh, fine!" yelled Stephanie in an annoyed tone. By now the gang had learned Frank's name, "I don't see why you can't just serve us our food.'

"I did not lose a leg in the Persian Gulf War just so I can serve food to teenagers." said Frank.

"But Frank, you never lost any legs." replied Stephanie in a confused tone.

"Like I said. I did not loose a leg in the Persian Gulf War." he replied.

Just then Eric walked into The Hub looking for Ryan. "Ryan I need you to come home right now."

"No way. I just bought some fries." he replied.

"Ok then. Just get home as soon as possible." said Eric.

After about half an hour later the gang split up and were going back to each others house to pack for the camping trip that Eric was taking the gang on. "Ok, see you guys back at my place at 2:00 so we can get up there." called out Ryan. The rest of the gang nodded.

Back at Tyler's house his mom was getting really anxsious because Tyler had never been camping because he had been living in Boston his whole life and the only time he had ever left it was to go to New England Patriot games and when he had moved. "Tyler honey. I'm a bit nervous that you'll be camping up at Devils Lake tonight. It dosen't sound like a nice place." his mom Cindy said worried.

"He'll be just fine." said Ross. Ross was Cindy's husband and was always saying that Cindy would keel over if Tyler even broke a single bone. "He needs to get out of the city and into the wilderness. Besides his friends dad will be up there with them."

"Dad's right Mom." said Tyler, "Ryan knows the place like the back of his hand."

But meanwhile back at the Forman house Eric, Donna, and Ryan were having a talk about his sister. "Listen Ryan. We had no right keeping this a secret from you." said Donna, "If it's any consolation she'll be arriving in Madison in about a half hour so she can come along on the camping trip. Heck, if she wants to she can stay here in Wisconsin!"

"Ok." said Ryan, "By the way, what's her name?"

"Mary Jane." answered Donna, "But she likes to be called MJ." Donna smirked for the first time since Ryan had left for The Hub.

"So, maybe we should get down to the airport." said Ryan.

The three Formans got in the Vista Cruiser and left for the airport which was about a 20 minute drive.

Madison, Wisconsin

June 20, 1996

1:00 P.M.

Dane County Airport

The Formans were standing over at baggage pick up and noticed a 12 year old red head looking around for someone. "Hey MJ!" Ryan called out, "Over here!"

The girl ran over and hugged Ryan. "I'm so happy to finaly meet you Ryan." MJ said happily, "I've heard so much about you in the letters Mom and Dad sent.

"Letters?" asked Ryan.

"Uh.. we'll talk about it later." stammered Eric like he always did when he didn't know what to say.

So the Formans were for the first time all together in the same car. "So sis, how was Cal?" asked Ryan.

"It was great." his sister said, "Met a lot of nice people there. So what are we doing tonight."

"Uh... the gang, me, and Dad were going up to Devils Lake for a camping trip. We're gonna be up there for a few days." said Ryan.

"Can I come?" asked MJ.

"Sure." said Eric, "The more the merrier."

Madison, Wisconsin

June 20, 1996

2:00 P.M.

The Forman Driveway

Christian, Jennifer, Justin(the gang still called him Hyde though), Stephanie, and Tyler. But just then Fez came running twords the driveway through the front yard, which was at a slant so Fez fell over many times trying to get down to the driveway, "Wait for me!" he yelled, "Don't leave without me!"

"Don't worry Fez." Ryan said, "No one is gonna forget you."

"So Ryan," stammered Jennifer, "Who's the red head?"

"MJ. My little sis." he replied, "Just flew back in from San Diego."

"Hey bro." said MJ, "Who's your girlfriend?"

"Girlfriend?" said Ryan, "We're really just friends."

"Oh, ok." MJ said, "Just remember this, Friendship can turn into a relationship, but a relationship cannot lead to a friendship."

"Whatever man." said Jennifer and Ryan at the same time.

The fact was that Jennifer liked Ryan more then "just a friend", Ryan felt the same way about Jennifer. Both had a crush on each other. If not that they were already in a relationship.

"Come on guys." said Eric. "We gotta get moving if we want to get up there in time for the hike up to Devils Door."

The entire gang groaned at the sound of 'The hike to Devils Door' which everyone knew was horrible getting there, but even worse getting back. Due to it being horrible getting up there you can't be afraid of hights or else your gonna fall right off the side of the cliff, and also the entire hike there was uphill. But the worst part was Eric's long stories that never seemed to end. Ryan loaded Jennifer and his bags into the Vista Cruiser and helped Jennifer into the back seat. Both sat next to each other and were acting kinda nervously around each other now what MJ had just said about friendship and relationship.

Right before Eric started the car Kelso jumped out from behind the bushes and yelled at Eric, "Hey man! If Fez is going I'm going."

"Put your stuff in the car and hop in man!" yelled Eric.

Baraboo, Wisconsin

June 20, 1996

2:57 P.M.

Highway 12

"Well gang, here we are." said Eric, "Devils Lake!"

"The whole car jumped for joy in the Cruiser which caused it to jump up in the air just a little bit.

"Welcome to Devils Lake." the park ranger said, "How can I help you?"

"Well, this is the Forman party, we really need to get to are campsites soond Eric.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!" exclaimed Ryan, "Did you say campsites?"

"I sure did." replied Eric, "I'll tell you later."

"Here's your sticker. You'll need to put this on your winshield, and your campsites are on the the maps listed." said the park ranger, "They're identified with a star by them. Enjoy your stay!"

"Thanks." said Eric, the Vista Cruiser started driving off on the dirt road. "Wow. These campsites are pretty far away. You kids think you'll be ok by yourselves?"

"Hell yeah!" all the kids erupted.

"So MJ." Ryan said, "How ya feelin'?"

"Great!" she exclaimed, "It feels like I'm part of "The Gang"." She was right to feel great and part of the gang because later tonight she would officialy become a member.

"Ok kids." said Eric, "Get set up and meet us, by us I mean Kelso, Fez, and myself, down by the lake near the canoe rental shack."

"Ok Dad!" yelled out MJ.

"So, we have five tents, and there are seven of us." said Jennifer, "I guess I can share a tent with someone. Uh.. Ryan? You wanna share a tent?"

"Um... sure." stated Ryan trying to stay cool which all of the Forman men had trouble doing.

"So, yeah." said Jennifer.

MJ leaned over to Ryan and wispered : "I think she likes you."

"You don't say MJ. You should become a psychologist." wispered Ryan.

"Hey thanks for the idea!" exclaimed MJ still wispering thinking Ryan was being serious.

The gang got the tents pitched up and everything settled in. "Well, I guess we should get goin' now." said Stephanie.

"Hey MJ!" yelled everyone, "We need to tell you something!"

"Welcome to the gang." said Tyler.

"Oh my God! I'm part of the gang?" she exclaimed, "I don't know what to say." MJ started having troubles breathing.

"MJ!" yelled Ryan, "Start breathing in and out of this bag!"

"Just kidding!" she yelled. The gang had a good laugh and they now knew MJ was quite the kidder.

So the gang got down to the canoe shack and waiting for them were the three guys. "You guys ready?" asked Eric in an excited voice.

"Uh... Sure?" the gang stammered.

"Then lets get going!" exclaimed Eric. He led the gang back to the Cruiser and told them to hop in. It turned out they were driving to the other side of the lake so they could take an "easier" route which indeed turned out to be easier. Well, after Ryan and Jennifer deciphered the trail maps that were unreadable.

Baraboo, Wisconsin

June 20, 1996

4:57 P.M.

On Some Trail At Devils Lake

The gang had been walking for a good hour and a half. "Can we eat now?" Stephanie wheezed.

"Sure." said Eric. "Now, who brought the sandwhiches?"

"Sandwhiches?" everyone but Eric asked.

"Someone was supposed to bring the sandwhiches from the Vista Cruiser and put it in Tyler's backpack." said Eric.

"Well no one ever told me to put any god damn sandwhiches in the backpack!" yelled Tyler.

"Whatever man. I say we just keep on walking." said Hyde.

So everyone started walking untill they got to Devils Door which was about 6:00 P.M.

"Whoo!" exclaimed Eric, "We finaly made it!"

"Now all we have to do is make it back you moron!" exclaimed Fez, "And look at this, the sun is setting, we haven't eaten since noon, and there are probobly vicious animals in here!"

"Vicious animals make me horny man." said Kelso.

"Just shut up!" everyone yelled.

So the gang started marching back to the campsites which was about two hours the way they came, and they had to go that way. It was where the Vista Cruiser was and they couldn't leave it there all night. Or could they? They all took a vote and decided to walk the gravel road which would take them about one hour to get back to where the effigy mounds were, and the effigy mounds were a five minute walk to the kids campsite while for Eric, Fez, and Kelso it was a twenty minute walk back to there campsite.

So by the time the gang got back to there campsite an hour late because both Kelso's kept complaining about how much their feet hurt. And by then it was 8:00, and they hadn't had anything to eat. So they started a campfire, grabbed some sticks, grabbed the marshmallows, got the grahm crackers, and got some of that Hershy chocolate and made s'mores.

"So that was some heck of a hike today. Don't you think?'' asked Ryan.

"Yeah, it was. Intresting." said Jennfifer. "So, night."

"Night." replied Ryan.

Before going to sleep the both kissed like true lovers would.

"Just friends?" asked MJ pering through the door of the tent. Ryan automaticly picked up his shoe and threw it at her. Jennifer started laughing hystericly.

"Thanks Ryan." said Jennifer, "You don't know how much better that made me feel." Both started kissing again then went to bed.