Night fell and my eyes shot open. I wondered if Jas had stuck around. No, probably not.

The boys and I went to the main part of the den to hang out for a short while. David's eyes immediately landed on the bed that Jas had been sleeping in. She wasn't there.

"Where is she?" David turned to look at me. "Paul, where's your sister?"

I flopped down onto the bed and shrugged my shoulders. "Emerson place, I guess. Pretty sure she said she was goin' back there, today." I answered.

"She might be at the boardwalk, though. She can't stand to be shut up in a house for too long." I added with a grin.

David clapped his hands together and said, "Well, let's go there, then."

So we did. David instructed me to split off and walk around to try to find Jas, while David stayed in one place and kept a sharp eye out for her. Being her brother, they expected me to know exactly where she was. Even if I hadn't seen her in years; too long to know.

I grabbed Marko and dragged him along with me. "You're coming with me, bud. Gotta do this the Scooby-Doo way and split into groups!" I laughed.

Marko jerked away from me, but still followed. "Maybe, I didn't wanna come with you. Ever think about that? Maybe I wanted to stay with David." Marko smirked.

"Poor you. Now, c'mon, let's look in the arcade." I muttered, slipping through the crowd of people at the game closest to the entrance.

Marko was lost in the crowd for a few seconds, but finally emerged and asked, "Why the arcade?"

I turned and raised my eyebrows. "She loves arcades."

Marko and I searched through the arcade, looking through each crowd and even looking near the small bar where they served food and drinks. Eventually, we found her playing the Star Wars arcade game with Sam standing by, watching her.

"Jazzy!" I shouted once I had spotted her. Marko and I jogged over and stood by the machine.

She didn't turn or even glance my way, but laughed and said, "Oh, hey, Paulie! What's up?"

"Nothin', I wanna talk to you, though." I placed my hand on the top of the machine and watched the screen.

Jas made a face, but didn't look at me. "Uh, could ya wait? I'm kinda on the tenth wave, ya know?" she mumbled.

Sam looked at me and shrugged. She'd probably been ignoring him, too. Jas always got really into games, once she started them.

My finger tapped against the side of the machine. "Jazzy, if you don't stop now, you never will. I won't be talking to you until wave three thousand." I muttered.

Jas rolled her eyes and groaned. "Just let me get to wave eleven." she grumbled.

Marko smirked and leaned against the wall. "Ya know, Jas, I could just unplug this.."

The fear in her eyes was so intense that it could almost strike fear into your own heart. "You wouldn't dare!" she exclaimed, gripping the joystick.

"Oh, I wouldn't?" Marko placed his hand on the cord.

Her head whipped around and her eyes locked onto his hand. "Don't!" she yelled, just before a noise sounded; the one you hear when you've lost the game.

"Game over." the monotone voice came after.

Jasmine moaned and fell against the machine. "I hate you guys..." she said into her sleeve, her voice slightly muffled.

I snickered and gave Marko a high-five. "So, to what I wanted to talk to you about.."

Jas waved her hand about in the air. "Go ahead. Shoot." she muttered, her head still buried in her other sleeve.

"What ya think about coming over to our place, tonight?" I asked, nudging her arm. It seemed as if losing the game drained all the life and energy out of her.

She raised her head ever so slightly and cocked a brow. "That old hotel thing?"

"Yeah, the hotel thing,"

Sam, who had been silent up to this point, chimed in, "Wait, the hotel place you took Mike to, that one time?"

Jas shot Sam a confused look. "Mike has been there?" she asked.

"Just to hang out and stuff." I quickly replied. She seemed to believe it. It was sort of true. We hung out. He also kinda became a creature that ninety-eight percent of the world believes to be fictional, but that wasn't really worth mentioning.

She agreed to go for a little while, considering it wasn't that late. Sam said he was going to stay on the boardwalk and catch up with her later. I slung my arm around her shoulder and the three of us made our way out.

"I should kill you guys for messing up my game."

"Sorry, I can't hear you over the fact that you need to let it go." Marko retorted.

Jas stuck her tongue out at him and laughed. They had more sibling rivalry than Jas and I did as actual siblings.

Finally, I asked the question that I had been meaning to ask: "So, what do you think of David? Like, how do you feel about him?"