At the end of the vacation, Christine and AJ had gotten back together. We all said our good-byes to Nick's family. After that we all walked out to my mini-van. Aaron waved and smiled as we drove away back to Nick's house. All the way home, AJ and Christine were talking about god knows what. Brian looked out the window at all the trees and the sky. Nick drove and I was listening to music. I took my headphones off, "Are we almost home?" I whined. "We just left," He laughed. I made a noise and put my headphones back on. ~ Later, we were still about an hour away from home, and it was nine thirty PM. we'd stopped for dinner and lunch of course. Right now, Kevin was driving, Brian was in the passenger seat, AJ and Christine were in the back, sleeping; and Nick and I was in the way back. Brian was slouched in his seat with his leg out the window, listening to music. "Brian!" Kevin shouted, not taking his eyes off the road. "What?" Brian whined, taking off his headphones. "Get your leg inside the car!" Kevin said. "Whatever." Brian replied, sitting up and bringing all his body parts in the car. Kevin made Brian's window go up. "Man…" Brian mumbled. Nick put his arms around my waist, and layed his head on my shoulder. "Hey you two!" Brian laughed, repositioning himself in his seat. "What?" Nick whined, annoyed. Brian laughed to himself; "This is a van, not your bedroom!" "I'm trying to sleep!" Christine yelled in Brian's face. "You need to try a breath-mint!" Brian retorted, laughing. Christine narrowed her eyes at Brian, and then went back to sleep. I laughed at what Brian said. ~ Forty-five minutes later, Kevin pulled the van into the driveway of Nick's house. Everyone was really tired, so we decided to spend the night there. I was still kind of unsure about this AJ and Howie ordeal. I was mainly tired of hearing AJ apologize to us many, many times for the way he'd acted. He explained that Howie had something on AJ, that could be used as blackmail against him. Kevin told him that it was no reason to try and kill us, but then AJ explained how Howie forced him to act like it was AJ's idea so that he wouldn't be thought of as the killer. Nick and I were lying upstairs in his room, watching the same movie they were watching downstairs. They'd ordered pizza, but we were hungry. Nick put his arms around my shoulders. "I love you," He said, closing his eyes. I started thinking about the past couple months. About how that day on Nick's boat turned out to be a complete nightmare. About Nick "dying" just to fool AJ. About AJ, Kevin and Howie coming back to life. About the train-ride. I thought about everything that had happened up till the point where Nick told me he loved me, not two minutes ago. I smiled to myself and with that, I shut my eyes and went to sleep.