by Erick Ian Gael

Created on: July 13, 2009

Jonathan was always a skeptic and today was not different. He seems to have a gift on knowing how stuff works and doesn't believe in fate, magic, the paranormal or even fairy tales. His parents didn't really get a chance to keep Santa or the Easter Bunny alive, as soon as he was old enough to walk and talk he had it figured out. To him it is as it is, nothing special about it. If a situation presented itself and Jonathan didn't know right away the catch, he would than become, for lack of a better word, obsessed, on figuring it out. It usually didn't take him long, his dad being a top notch detective and his grandpa being a captain of the force and his great grandpa...well you get the point. Being a freshman in high school and not learning the do's and dont's of the school, or not caring about them, has made him an instant outcast. It really didn't bother him too much, he just kept to himself and usually was found in the science lab or on the library's computer looking up facts.

He wasn't lonely, he had a part-time friend that he confided in, his cousin Timothy. He was a year younger than Jonathan and Timothy looked up to him, pretty much all of their lives. Timothy's family lives out of state and usually visit once a year near the end of the school year. His school year usually ended sooner than Jonathan's. That's where the part-time comes in.

Every year Cibola High School has a school funded fair, usually put on by the seniors. It was in an upper class neighborhood so their was money available to make the fair top of the line. Most fairs at this school usually out did the State's fair, this year was no different. They had a theme to go with it, a Coney Island theme. Just outside of town was a well hidden beach that the kids frequented during the summer, it had the room and made for the perfect setting. Within a week there was a pier complete with booths, tents and rides. I told you the school had money. Jonathan didn't usually attend the fair, found it awkwardly annoying and usually ended up in situations he'd rather just avoid all together. But Timothy was visiting and the parental units were forcing them out of the house for that night. That usually meant that some drinking was going to happen and something stupid usually followed. It was best for the two of them to not be part of that, could end up with years of therapy. The fair was as Jonathan expected, full of thoughtless money sucking, time consuming games and rides. There was

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