As much as I was a bit skeptical before we arrived at the campfire, I have to admit I had fun. Tyler was really nice and Sarah was just so hyper. At first it was a little awkward, but as the night went on there were less silences as well as less old people. Finally their father said it was Sarah's bedtime, and Meg and Vera told me to meet them back at the bungalow. So it was just Tyler and I sitting around the fire. And as we continued to talk I couldn't help but notice how sweet his smile was or how flowy his hair was.

"Yeah my Middle school's mascot is a bullfrog! I mean its like we hop to victory, we will make you croak."

"So mine's a giraffe!"

"Seriously?"

"Nahh, but wouldn't that be awesome!!? I love giraffes! Did you know that they have the same amount of bones in their neck as humans do?"

"Well now I do," I said laughing.

…

"So are there any other people our age around here?" I asked.

"Well sometimes my cousins come and stay in our bungalow. The guy is my age and the girl is a year younger. Come to think of it my uncles coming the day after tomorrow" As he said that I noticed he wrinkled his nose.

"You don't like them?"

" Well I guess he's okay, but his sister…man is she nuts"

"In what way?"

He went on to tell me how she has earrings all up both her ears, like twenty on each one, and how she also dyes her hair this disgusting red color. And wile he is talking something in the back of my mind is clicking, but the disbelief is stopping it from making it into logical thoughts.

"My uncle usually brings both of them up for a bit of the country, you know? Of course Heather hates it up here. Thankfully I think this year she is in Europe-"

"HEATHER??…?"

Now my jaw is dropping a little bit because there's no way this guy is an Acosta, there's just no way.

"Um yeah... that's her name."

"Acosta?"

"How did you know?"

"Lets just say I know her, and Casey too." I added, "So Casey's coming in a few days?" I asked trying to look at the bright side.

"Yeah, I guess… you okay?"

"I'm okay, I just can't believe you're related to her!" I was now getting a good idea of what it was like for Sammy to find out Casey was Heather's brother.

"How do you know them anyway?"

So then I had to go into a whole explanation of how heather and my friend Sammy are archenemies and I've seen how crazy she can get and how she's just plain evil. And after I was talking for a few minutes, I felt kind of bad. I mean it's the same way I cant help that my parents weren't good at taking care of me, or that Sammy's mom is crazy. You can't help whom you're related to, and cay had sure proved himself to be a true friend, so Tyler was probably the same way. Besides he hardly ever saw her and when he did he seemed just as disgusted with her as the rest of us.

So as my minds on top speed, he's just sitting there watching me with a bemused expression etched right across his face.

"Its getting kind of late maybe I'll see you tomorrow?"

"Maybe we can go swimming or something?"

"Yeah definitely, you should invite one of your friends to come up here as well, it would be like a party. And we can definitely use some more people our age around here!"

"Haha okay see you tomorrow."

So I start walking down the path towards my bungalow, and my minds racing. I couldn't help but wonder how many awesome people Heather was related to and if her family was half good and like half evil or something. So while my mind is in somewhere far off I start getting this prickly feeling in my neck. Like someone's watching me. Now I've had experience with this stuff. I can definitely say I've been in plenty of situations that I probably shouldn't have been. But this time I was also alone in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night. The stories about all of those people who had gone missing through the years were fresh in my mind. Suddenly, like the crack of a whip, a twig cracked through the night, and I took off running as fast as I could. Silently cursing the fact I had left my skateboard in the house. I wasn't thinking logically, I wasn't thinking that it was probably a squirrel or something. I just ran marveling about how on edge I was without realizing it. Then I saw it, the bungalow a few feet into the woods. I sprinted the last few meters, and WHAM. I was on my face on the ground. Shell-shocked owls were flying from the trees and poor chipmunks went running. Vera threw herself out the front door so see what happened as did several of our elderly neighbors. I sat there on the ground starting to shake with embarrassment.

"Everything's fine, sorry." I said blushing

And that's how my night ended, with me not being as excited for the next day as I could have been.