Fin was woken by the sunlight shining through the window. She was tired, from not getting any sleep. Fin yawned and rubbed her eyes. Her face was warm, red, and tear stained. Fin had only gotten about an hour of sleep.

Rough night, she decided.

In Fin's mind she was getting out of bed, stretching, moving slowly towards the bathroom. But that wasn't what was happening. In reality Fin was still in her small, creaky bed, with its seemingly inescapable comfort.

She desperately tried to pry away from her poofy blankets. I could call in sick, Fin thought, yeah, right, lovesick.

She reluctantly shoved her covers to the foot of her bed in an untidy bunch and placed her feet on the splintery floor. Fin sat there for a moment before standing, and stretching. She reached her arm behind and scratched her back, and strode away from her source of happiness.

Fin was met in the hallway by Emma, who smiled nervously, waiting for Fin to explode. Fin groggily smiled back and yawned again, causing Emma to yawn.

Everyone else seemed to be afraid of her, they all had the same reaction.

"Where's Reef?" Fin said aloud, not realizing it. I guess he'll show up later. Fin shrugged and started to change into her uniform, along with all of the other things you do in the morning to get ready.

Fin walked outside, looked at the orange and pink sky, the trees. The pine trees made an uneven, spiky, dark outline against the glowing sky. The tomato of a sun also seemed tired and stayed half below the horizon, staying in bed for a while longer. Fin had previously decided not to go surfing at the office, she would take the longer route to the hotel, so no one could find her and stop her. Fin began walking, bags under her eyes, towards Surfer's Paradise.

She soon heard the crunch of twigs under her feet, the long path had a lot of twists and turns, a lot of rocks. It was hard to see here. But that was a good thing. Someone might be able to see her so close to the staffhouse.

As soon as Fin rounded a corner, she heard a groan, she broke into a run. Oh my God what is that?

Is someone hurt? Are they okay? What if someone is dying? What if someone is just trying to scare me?

Fin's mind became frantic, filling with thoughts and visions of a gruesome body of a stranger.

Another groan. Someone is hurt.

Fin could easily trip but she didn't care. The trees and bushes were flying by now. She kept running and running, not paying attention to how easily she could scrape herself. This made her unprepared for what she was about to see.

Fin stopped, frozen.

Her heart seemed to momentarily freeze too. Fin's whole body went cold.

There was Reef, lying on the ground of the woods. In his pajamas.

Fin ran over to Reef, she bent down and started to shake him. "Reef! Reef! Reef, are you okay? Reef wake up!" Fin screamed, shaking him more and more frantically.

"What?" Reef muttered, his eyelids fluttered open.

"I tripped, I'm fine." Reef said. Fin helped him up to his feet and he rubbed his head.

"The woods is not a fun place to sleep." Reef said half smiling.

Fin slapped him and smiled, "You scared me half to death!"

Reef's smile quickly faded. " You have to listen to me. Alex, he's he's..." Reef's voice was cut off by the sound of footsteps.

"Fin? Fin?" it was Alex's voice. Fin's eyes got wide and she instantly looked over her shoulder. He was coming.b

Fin needed to hear what Reef had to say, fast. She turned to look at him but nothing was there, except for the dark woods.

Alex ran up to Fin. "Hey, what's wrong, I heard you screaming."

"I'm fine."

"I also heard someone else with you..." Alex said, looking around.

"Nobody." Fin knew she had to protect Reef. Whatever Reef was trying so desperately to tell her about Alex, it couldn't be good. She knew she had to play nice, act in love with him. Whatever Reef needed to tell her, she needed to find out. Something was wrong with Alex.

Alex offered to walk Fin to work but she refused.

"You're not supposed to be here, Alex. You're a guest, go to your room."

Alex left and Fin sihed. She ran around a few times, tried to look over to bushes and ferns and massive trees. When she decided Reef was nowhere to be found, she kept walking.

Fin reported to work, as usual. Johnny was at the front desk, dealing with pink-faced, overweight tourists who were way too greedy. Fin kept hoping to run into Reef. The whole work day had went by completely normal. Except for the fact that nobody paid any attention to Fin at all.

Fin cleaned rooms, Emma waited tables, everything was ordinary, boring.

The glittering clean lobby seemed to have a special sleepy haze over it. It was oddly calming.

Soon enough, Fin's shift had ended.

I can't believe it. she thought, Absolutely nothing happened, something always happens. Always.

Fin walked out of there without seeing Alex or Reef.

Fin sighed, and exited the double doors of the front of the hotel. Only to find Noodle standing there, staring at the ground.

"Get up Noodle, go to your room."

Noodle looked at Fin sympatheticaly and Fin smiled. Noodle knew something was wrong with Fin. She started to walk away, and gestured Noodle to follow. Noodle gladly got up and started to scamper along, happy to be a part of the action for once.

Noodle didn't talk. He let Fin vent for a while before muttering something about a girraffe and waffles.

"That's it." Fin said, and sent Noodle to bed. She was fine as long as Noodle acted normal but the second he got weird, bye-bye. She walked around for a while, trying to avoid being seen.

Fin was now at the hotel beach. She wasn't going to go to the office, everyone else would be there.

The sky was dimming now. The day seemed to slip by so fast, it was lilke sand sifting through her fingers, so fast you don't even notice, until it's gone and behind you. Fin started to walk back to the staffhouse, away from the orange glow the sun was casting across the horizon.

The sky she was walking towards was gray.

Alex ran to catch up with Fin. He came out of nowhere. "Hey Fin, I have something for you. But I want it to be a surprise so I won't give it to you until tomorrow. I know it's weird it's just I have been dying to tell you."

Fin smiled and they walked together, towards the staffhouse. "Thanks for the flowers."

Alex nervously laughed. "No problem."

The staffhouse was a long way away, and it was a long enough time for Alex to tell Fin all that he had to say.

"I was thinking about your little friend Reef" Alex started, "are you cheating on me? Because if you are Fin..." Alex's tone of voice had drastically changed. It had went from curious to forceful, evil, almost like he was threatening her.

Fin became scared. She suddenly pushed Alex and started running. He couln't follow her to the staffhouse. Fin could hear Alex chasing after her for a few seconds, then the running slowed, and stopped.

After Fin was sure that he wasn't following her anymore, she sat down against a tree, to catch her breath.

Fin could only sit and stare in shock. After about half an hour, she got up, eyes wide, and started towards the staffhouse. She walked along nervously, as if someone or something would jump out at her at any moment. She rounded a corner, the same corner where she had seen Reef this morning.

REEF!

Fin hadn't seen Reef all day. Where was he?

She decided that he was probably already asleep. It was probably 10:00 at night and he was in bed. Fin kept reassuring herself of this all the way through the doors. All the way up the stairs. Into her bedroom. She had been completely sure of this until she saw a folded piece of paper on her bed with a big R lying on her bed.