Annabelle

After a few attempts (and much fewer than Gabriella ever took), Mack managed to park the car in a semi-straight position. I stepped out of the backseat and the frigid air blasted through my skin and into my veins. I was examining the new goosebumps that had formed on my arm, while Mack just smiled smugly and zipped up her new Kroger jacket.

"It's f-f-freezing out here!" I shivered.

"Too bad you guys didn't want a jacket," Mack smirked and twirled, showing off the bright blue mess that would never blend into the trees. Thank you, rollback prices.

"At least Annabelle and I don't look like blueberries!" Gabriella giggled.

"At least I'm warm!" Mack replied with a chuckle.

"At least... Yeah I'm not good at this!" I added, which made Mack and Gabriella laugh even harder, which made me join in, which made us look like a bunch of lunatics. Not that there was anyone here to care anyways. The Mogermentry Park parking lot stretched on for a half a mile, which was pretty ironic considering only elementary field trips and elderly people wanting fresh air were the only people who ever came.

"This parking lot is huge! I wonder how much asphalt they used in this..." Gabriella trailed off, taking in the vastness that was Mogermentry Park parking lot.

"Yup, that's what people drive miles to Mogermentry to see, the Mogermentry Park parking lot." Mack said sarcastically.

"Duh, it hold the World's Largest Collection of White and Yellow Lines!" I added.

"Don't push it." Gabriella and Mack replied simultaneously, which made them both laugh, which made me laugh, which started the whole process that we had just gone through before.

"You guys, I think we're a little slap happy," I managed to say through my laughter.

"Well it is like," Mack looked down at her phone. "2:30 in the morning." She yawned.

"What time did we have to be home?" I asked.

"We should be heading out of here at around like 5:00, so that leaves us..." Gabriella wasn't too good with math when she was tired. "An hour and a half to get into trouble." She smirked.

"Race you guys!" Mack shouted before she took off across the parking lot towards the entrance.

"Hey, I don't run!" I crossed my arms scornfully and proceeded to walk across the parking lot. I got away with this for about four seconds before Gabriella grabbed my arm and dragged me along with her.

"I. Don't. RUN!" I screamed in between my heaving breaths as my shoes pounded their way through the lot.

"Sure you do, you are right now!" Mack called from the increasingly closer entrance.

"Shut up," I shouted back at her. Gabriella and I ran the few last yards and met Mack "at the entrance. Gabriella pulled her (sister's) license out from her pocket.

"Whaddya need that for?" I asked.

"Just watch." Gabriella grabbed me and Mack by the arm and took us to the entrance, where a half asleep guard started to chug an opened 5-Hour Energy. We stood at the window for a few minutes before she finally took note of us.

"You need an adult sixteen or older to enter Mogermentry Park after 9:00 P.M." She informed us in a monotone. I wondered what had to happen in your life to be in your mid-thirties and working at a Mogermentry Park night shift.

"That would be me." Gabriella gave the guard a closed-lip smile, which resulted in making her look at least seventeen. A short seventeen year old, but still.

"I'll need a proof of identification." The guard droned. Gabriella stuck her (sister's) license in the guard's face. She pulled on a pair of cat-eye reading glasses with little rhinestones and held the license close to her face.

"You're clear." She let the glasses fall around her neck and handed the license back to Gabriella.

"Stay on the marked paths!" Guard Lady called after us, but we were already almost out of earshot.