Once a year we do this trip, and every time it's chaos. "Benji!" I yelled down the stairs, "where's my suitcase?!" A small voice called back, "Beside mine in mom and dad's room". Now Benjamin is my little brother, 13 years old, skinny, short dirty blonde hair, green eyes, and not one to talk much. Now, he's sweet and all, but because he doesn't talk alot some things get lost on him somewhere along the chatting line, kinda like broken telephone, except, he stops the line at his turn.

I headed towards my parents room to grab my suitcase and passed my other brother's room. The clacking of keys being pounded echoed through the room, I knocked on the door frame to get his attention. My other brother, Jason, 19 years old, just a couple years older than me. Short golden brown hair and dark brown eyes. Now Jason is a huge gamer, but he somehow managed to balance his social life well, he has a great sense of humor and is always hanging out with his buddies, whether in game or out, so I don't really get to see him all that often, he has an average build but is quite attractive, so it always puzzled me as to how he had never had a girlfriend and never seemed to want one.

He turned around quickly and smiled. "Hey sis! How's the packing going?" He asked, "Not bad" I replied. I turned my head towards his bed and was shocked to see his suitcase already packed and ready go. "How did you get all your packing done and still have the time to game?" I asked. He chuckled "Well, I'm just good at what I do" He winked at me and quickly resumed his game, meanwhile I just walked away shaking my head with amusement. Such a cocky guy I thought, and almost mysterious. "Ha ha" I laughed, what a weird guy Jason was.

While pondering this I entered my parents room where both my mom and dad were rushing around, trying to get ready for our camping trip. Now, we do this every year where we go camping with the family, this year I've finally convinced my parents to bring my best friend along. I slipped through the chaos of clothes and camping gear and quickly grabbed my suitcase and dashed back out of the room so I could finally breathe again.

I ran straight to my room, dropped the suitcase on the floor and flopped onto my bed and instantly relaxed a bit, I then rolled over and stretched my arm to my phone that was sitting on my pillow and turned on some music. As the sweet sound of music fell over me I started to drift off into sleep, then the doorbell rang. "Awe man" I groaned. Then it hit me. "Astrid!" I yelled and jumped out of bed, ran out of my room and flew down the stairs.

Before I could get to the door, Benjamin was already turning the handle, and there stood Astrid. Long and wavy golden blonde hair, piercing sky blue eyes, tall, an athletic build and was half a year older than me. You could just feel the energy coming off her! "Hey Iris! How's it going?" She asked, "You ready for the trip?" "Naw," I laughed, "I'm still packing." I told her.

I never grew tired of the excitement she always had for everything, when I was more reserved and used my energy more privately. Except when I was with Astrid, her energy was so contagious that whenever I was with her I could push past the fact that I didn't always like being around people, unless I really needed to, like for school or family events.

She did Karate, soccer, skiing, swimming, rock climbing, pretty much everything that was awesome. I on the other hand did things like drawing, music, artsy stuff, cooking sometimes, and sewing was something I did from time to time.

"I see you're still sporting the purple streaks eh?" Said Astrid, "Yea" I replied. She was referring to the streaks of dark purple in my extremely dark brown hair, I wanted to seem cool and I always saw people who had different coloured hair seemed to be the "cool" people. I didn't want to attract too much attention, so I put in just enough purple in my hair to be noticeable enough.

My parents would always say that the purple would compliment my golden brown eyes and the slim body I possessed, so I was happy with my hair and didn't feel the need to change it. Right now I had my long hair in a ponytail and I had a black t-shirt with the shoulders cut out and a silver wolf staring straight out on the front of it. I also was wearing dark blue skinny jeans with a few rips in them which seamed to compliment my shirt.

Astrid was wearing a light blue muscle tank top that had the words "coolest kid around" on it. She also wore a bleach white headband to keep her long golden hair under control which matched the white jean shorts she was wearing.

"We look pretty darn good if I do say so myself" said Astrid. "How I look won't help me if I don't get my packing done before we leave" I told her. "Well then I'll help you!" Said Astrid as she started dashing up the stairs in a hurry. "Wait for me!" I yelled. This is going to be quite a trip I thought.

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