The Uninvited by Mike Evans Page A

lake?"
    They all nodded to this and within five minutes were sitting down by the lake watching the Canadian geese floating lazily across the water in front of them with an equal number of adults to babies. Traci said, “Oh my god, this is the most beautiful place ever. This would have been a good spot to pop the question, Isaac.”
    Isaac smiled, thinking of how they had gone through and done the ritual and was just content as could be. “Nah, I’m good with how I did it. But yeah, this is picture perfect, huh?”
    Traci pulled out her phone taking a picture of the two of them. She did not see the watcher across the lake. Jack said, “So only because I know that Katy is going to ask, let me beat her to it. How did you ask?”
    Isaac smiled and got an elbow to the gut. Traci said, “It was actually in the morning today when we were still in bed. It was very romantic and perfect.”
    Jack could see the smile trying to break free on his best friend's face and shook his head. “Probably even climatic huh?”
    This earned him an elbow to his own gut and Katy said, “Don’t be crude and ruin something beautiful. God, men are so dumb.”
     

Chapter 6
     
    Tony sat with his head facing directly up, snoring loudly in the sport utility. The stranger walked slowly around the truck, looking in the distance at the five other occupants of the campsite. He sat watching Tony’s chest rise and fall, wanting very, very badly to stop that from happening. He tapped on the glass and then waited patiently. When Tony did not so much as stir in his sleep, he brought back a giant of a hand and slammed the window with his open palm shaking, both the window and the truck. Tony jumped in his seat startled awake looking around wild-eyed and wiping the line of drool making its way down his chin.
    “Jesus Christ!” Tony looked around, breathing heavy, fists clenched, but he saw no one. “Yeah, real fucking funny people. Why didn’t you guys wake me when we got here, damn it?”
    Tony was moving his lips and tongue around trying to gain some sort of saliva. The all-night party that he and Brandi had pulled was now catching up to him and he could feel it. He looked around, seeing the tent was already up and the camp had been made. A short moment of guilt for being uninvited in the first place and then not helping out with the work ran through his head. It only lasted a moment, as there was the thought that no one woke him up and he couldn’t help it if he was sleeping. Tony took off his seatbelt, looking at the seat in front of him and trying to figure out how to get it to move so he could get out.
    Tony after a minute gave up looking for the hidden button or lever and as gracefully as he could threw a leg over the second seat and went over, losing his balance and falling between the front seat and the second seat’s feet space. “Fucking Christ, stupid ass seats. If he had a fucking real car, this wouldn’t be an issue. I don’t need this stupid shit right after waking up, damn it.”
    Tony pushed up from the floor to his knees. A shadow fell across his face as he was pushing himself up and he fell backwards. “Real fucking funny assholes. Real fucking funny. Fuck with the new guy, yeah I get it. That fucking hurt man. I would have helped you with the tent if you would’ve woken my ass up.”
    Tony looked up, cocking his head to the side and mouthing what the fuck. He said more to himself, “I got out to get a nut off and I end up out with a bunch of weirdos for the weekend, that’s great. Hey lose the mask man, you are creeping me out and we don’t know each other all that well.”
    The figure shook its head no slowly and blew hot air on the outside of the window creating a small circle of condensation. It drew an unhappy face in it and stood back. Tony, not wanting to look weak slipped out of the sport utility, puffing up his chest and then looking down seeing that whoever it was, was not standing on a bucket like he’d thought.