I sat on the couch watching TV and waiting for my step-sister Jenna to arrive. It wouldn’t have been so bad if I hadn’t been all by myself. My mom and step-father had left the previous

The end of a semester is always a rough time for any college student, and I was no different. Money saved up over break had run out and we were all so busy getting ready for finals and finishing up

My Mom left us when I was still pretty young. My Dad eventually remarried while I was in my mid-teens. The age difference was kind of big between my Dad and my new Stepmom. He was in his upper 30s

Every summer, my parents would take me up to the cabin they owned by a lake in the woods for a few weeks. Many times, my Aunt and her daughter, my cousin, would join us. I never really like my cousin.

I was in luck, I had the house all to myself this weekend. My parents were on a business trip out of state and my older half-sister was away at college. I had never been alone all by myself for so