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I wasn’t angry when my parents told us we were moving. I was fourteen but I didn’t have many friends and I had begun to hate Florida with all my heart. It's a shithole really, overdeveloped and full of crackheads so when my parents announced to me and my younger sister we were going to move to some tiny town in Washington I was excited but my younger sister cried everyday until we moved. I began to do some research on the town. It was some small town nestled in the mountains cold and rainy most of the year but cool and sunny during the summer. That's all google told me the rest i’d have to find out when we got there. We moved June 12th the day school let out that year so I'd have the whole summer to explore the town and the surrounding mountains and that's what I did until July 4th when my family got invited to the towns cookout that is where I met Charlie. He was this tall slim guy loud and outgoing. His hair was dirty black in a messy wolf cut and his piercings shined in the moonlight as he came up to me, “You're the new guy right? Finally nice to see a new face. I'm Charlie.” He held his hand out expectantly, “I’m Sam.” I sheepishly took his hand to shake it and he began dragging me somewhere, “Wh-where are we going?!”, “Somewhere fun! You seem as if you haven’t talked to someone in forever!” He was right. I had spent most of the summer so far talking to my parents and whatever animals I found, maybe even rocks if I was lonely enough, “Um I-”, Charlie cut me off, “We're gonna snag some fireworks.” Charlie whispered sharply he was fiery. I liked it. “Um sorry but I don’t know you.” I said sheepishly and stopped walking, he turned around and spoke softly, “But we just introduced ourselves?” He announced a little disappointed. I felt bad but I didn’t want to run off with some guy I just met so I asked him, “I know your name but I don’t know you, so tell me about yourself.” And as the first of the many fireworks that night lit off he spoke, “I live down in the trailers across town with my Dad my mom’s been out of the picture for a while.” As he spoke his long soft arms began to hug himself. He looked smaller and less fiery. It was obvious he didn’t want to say anything anymore and I didn’t make him say anything else. I only offered him my hand and he grabbed it and let him continue to drag me towards the fireworks in a comfortable silence. We weaved through the crowd. I got a nice look at the townsfolk from the hillbillies who lived off in the trailers like Charlie to the mayor and the sheriff and as we walked past the sheriff the Mayor stopped us. “Charlie and oh who's this?” The mayor was a tall man around 6 '8 he had weird yellowed eyes and pale skin. Charlie looked uncomfortable probably because we were currently on a mission to steal fireworks but he answered with gusto, “Sam he's the new boy I’m showing him around you met his dad didn’t you his dad is the new Surgeon!” Charlie answered excitedly despite his earlier discomfort. “Good Charlie.” We began walking off and the mayor yelled, “Now don’t cause trouble, you hear me! And let this boy turn you into a model citizen!” The rest of night went as expected stole the biggest firework got caught immediately and were forced to volunteer at the dump a few hours outside town the rest of the summer but our friendship began to flourish when we weren’t doing chores at the dump we explored the woods and spent the hot or rainy days at my house playing Terraria or magic the gathering. Charlie played eldrazi he always won. On my sister's 13th birthday Charlie and his dad came over. This was the first time I saw his dad. He was shorter than my dad with the same yellowed eyes as the mayor. He was greasy too which obviously upset Charlie. Charlie's dad got them both kicked out after his dad offered my sisters an unsmoked joint, but my mom thought it was funny Charlie was still allowed over but his dad was forbidden. The day that changed everything was a few weeks before school started Charlie whooped my ass with Ulamog for the 15th time that day he said, “Hey Sam can I trust you?” I was taken aback. We spent the whole summer doing everything together. I even met his dad. He even cried to me about his life. I felt saddened. He still wondered if he could trust me but I still answered, “Always.” That one word gave him hope, “I want to show you where I go when my dad’s on one of his benders. Do you wanna come?” Of course I wanted to go so I answered as such, “Yeah I’m down where we headed?”, “We're gonna be gone for a few days so ask your parents, my dads on a bender so he's not home right now.” “Okay I’ll ask but it better be good.” I asked my parents and after a few minutes they were convinced so I asked Charlie where we’d go. “Charlie, where are we going anyways? That'll take us a few days?” “We’re gonna visit Mount Adams.” Me and Charlie had climbed the smaller mountains but Mount Adams was the mountain we couldn’t dream of we were too young and my parents overheard the plan and that was it we were grounded my parents knew of Charlie’s position and he stayed with us for days when his dad was on benders so we were grounded together. Two days later we were ungrounded so at 3 we went out in the woods and he took me somewhere else, to the underground spring. We had to squirm through a small cave but made it, “It’s dark in here.” I said not scared but not courageous either. “Oh don’t be a wuss, school starts soon and I wanna swim before it gets cold.” Charlie turned on his lantern and set it down. It illuminated the cave with its soft white glow. The cool air wrapped around us as we took of our shirts and looked away from each other as we changed into our swim trunks I had seen Charlie shirtless plenty of times but this was the first time we were alone it felt different but that thought soon vanished as Charlie leapt into the water it was ice cold spring water crystal clear and soon after he leapt I did too I jumped in and we swam for hours splashing, floating, racing. At 9 pm was got out of the water and squirmed back through the crevice and we walked through the forest back to town we were silent wet and still shirtless as a cool dusk wind crawled through the air the trees rustling softly the leaves and dirt sticking to our feet the occasional stone scraping our heels we were content and happy and I found myself staring at Charlie as he walked the moonlight. His soft pale skin shone in the moonlight, his wet hair sticking to his back as he walked. My thought was disrupted as Charlie suddenly turned around and covered my mouth and whispered, “Did you hear that Sammy…” He whispered softly with panic in his voice. Charlie was shaking and in that moment I felt strong and I felt protective. Charlie broke my thought with his whisper, “Listen Sammy.” I listened closely. All I could hear was the wind and the trees. That was until the sucking started the soft sucking like lips on skin, “Charlie we shouldn’t be here let’s go a different route I think that's a couple their having sex!” I whispered a little too loud and the sucking stopped then a fast rustling went away from the original area where the sucking began. Charlie spoke, “Let’s go see if they're still there”, “No! We shouldn’t peep on them!”, “We might see boobs Sammy c’mon think about the big picture!”, “We can see boobs on the computer!” I pleaded but he began forward. I didn't want to see boobs. I just wanted to go home even so I followed him closely and once we pushed through the bushes and laying on the ground was a naked woman but her skin stuck to her bones like she was vacuum sealed. Charlie got closer and next to her was a dry black mass of gore as we got closer we realized it was all her muscles dry of all blood piled next to her. The next thing I knew we were hyperventilating in my house in front of my parents trying to explain what we saw, “Blood…skin!” Charlie threw up after he spoke. My parents sensed the urgency and called the Sheriff. He was an old Native American man with long deep brown hair, his name was Edensaw, before a sheriff he was a whaler in Alaska. Once Sheriff Edensaw arrived at my house Charlie was too scared to show him the way so me, the Sheriff, and my dad went to find the body again, “Lets go Sammy.” The Sheriff’s deep voice bellowed as he put his hat back on and walked outside with my father. Before I left I looked back at Charlie and saw him asleep on the couch with my mother watching over him. Charlie looked at me his eyes pleading me not to leave but I had to he knew I had to so I left and walked beside the Sheriff, his long strides making it difficult to keep up.
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