My friend Clair and I went out camping with my family at Brewer lake. my mom, dad, and my brother Ethan were setting up camp. I took Clair and showed her around. we went out to the dock and started to randomly throw rocks into the lake. I felt a chill, and I was so freaked out, because last summer, when I was camping my, brother Chase died in a car accident. "come on lets go back" I said sounding paranoid. "why? what's wrong?" Clair asked. "I'll tell you on the way up there, but we have to go!" The dock was a good half a block to our camp site.
"So what happened down there Callie?" Clair asked me. From what I could tell she sounded pretty interested. "Well, last summer...when we were camping..., my brother Chase got hit by a car going over the speed limit..., he's gone, and we never had a funeral." I started to cry. "why didn't you have a funeral?" she was confused. "we never found the body" I told her. who ever hit him hid his body." "wait so you never found his body!?"she said surprised "nope" I said. we were almost there so I wiped my eyes and told her to act like it never happened.
"Hey girls" my mom said. "Hi Mom" I greeted her back. "Callie, go put your bags in your tent, oh and you and your friend are sharing a tent with Ethan, but we have the separator up, so you girls get the back half" my dad told Clair and I. "Ok, that's fine" I said. "let's go get our bags" Clair said to me. when we were done, we decided to go hang out at the park for the day. Nothing really exciting happened, we just ate a lot of apple sauce.
When we went to bed, I wrapped myself up in my sleeping bag, and cried. I miss Chase so much. Maybe he will come again. If he does, I hope it will be day again, because if it's night it would totally freak me out. When morning came, Clair and I had some breakfast bars. I told her my cousin, Kylie and my moms friends son, Kyle was coming out here to camp with us.
When Kyle came out, Clair and I were playing with the snails we found down by the lake. Then we went swimming when Kylie came. she came in the lake with us to try to catch a turtle we found. The water suddenly got really cold. "Callie, their coming, run now, to Mom, don't tell her I talked to you." I heard a whisper in my ear. It sounded like Chase. I ran out of the lake without saying a word. "CALLIE, WHERE ARE YOU GOING!" Kylie and Clair yelled. I never answered. I dried of, got dressed, and went to my mom. "What's wrong, honey" she asked. I had to think of something fast. Chase told me not to tell Mom. "I just miss Chase" I told her that wasn't a lie, I really did miss him. "Oh, poor girl. we all miss him" my mom told me.
"Callie, why did you leave?" kylie asked. "Yea, we almost had the turtle!" Clair said. "I just needed to talk to my mom" I told them. ", and it got really cold" "Yea, I felt that" Clair agreed. "we got the fire going. do you girls and Kyle want to make smores" my dad asked "sure" Kylie said. "I will" Kyle said. "I don't like smores, I just like making them, so who wants mine?" Kyle asked everyone. we'll take we them" I said for Clair and I.
"Callie, come on, follow me" Clair whispered. I followed behind her. she took me back by the picnic table on the edge of the hill we were on. It had a view of the lake. It looked so beautiful, but I had my mind on other things. "Ok Callie, tell me the truth, what happened?" Clair completely read me like a book. I sighed. "Well, I'm thinking Chase isn't alone." I told her. "Wait, what? Huh? What do you mean?" she was entirely confused. "He said "their" coming. Who are "they"?" I told her. "why ya askin' me? how am I suppose to know?" She laughed. I smiled too. "yea, but all I know is he talked to me" at the same time I was trying to figure out what Chase meant by "they". Who was it? Were they set out to hurt me? was I a threat? Am I even safe?
