Merrillville. A small town in Ross Township, Lake County, Indiana. The population is 35,246 residents. Merrillville is located in the East-central portion of the Lake County area, in the Chicago metropolitan area. On January 1, 2015, Merrillville became the most populated town in Indiana, as Fishers in Hamilton County was converted from a town to a city.

A two-storey luxury house sat nearby a quiet hill not too far away from the town centre a few streets away, with an amount of land around it, with fresh short green grass all around it. A series of flowerbeds surrounded the nearby the stairs/ramp up to the front porch, containing red roses, violets, lavenders, and fresh ferns with them. The house has what could be a wood style on the exterior, along with dark grey stones on sections of the walls, and with white-picket fences all around the front porch, and with white pillars.

Over at a small swing set playground in the backyard, which looks out to the lovely and calm landscape, a young child is sitting in of the tower of the playground. The young child is a young girl, possibly at 9 years of age, with brown hair that was maybe in a braid of some kind, cobalt blue eyes, and a snow white skin tone. She had a very petite frame, and she might be only 4ft 5in tall. She is wearing a bright blue sleeveless dress with special embroidery across the skirt and on the front, whilst the shoulder sections of her dress is in a darker blue, and blue ballet shoes. This is the little 'baby' sister, Jessie May Martin.

Jessie is a playful and cheerful young girl, always looking at the brighter side of life, and seeing any and all things that are good. She is in primary school, and she has good grades. She is trying her best to keep up with her classes, but fortunately, her mother has given her courage to push on.

'Today is such a good day.' Jessie thought to herself, looking at the fluffy white clouds up in the big blue sky, and saw a few of them shaped like bunnies. 'I wonder what might bring us tomorrow. At least I'm feeling great today.'

"Hey, Jessie!" A teenage male voice calls out from behind, catching Jessie's attention from the sky. She turned around, looking at her brother nearby.

His skin tone is a Caspian white, making him look like a ghost. He may look like 14 years of age, but he looked like he is 10 by the face. His eyes are a cobalt blue, whilst his hair is a brown colour. He stands 6ft 5" tall, whilst his body is skinny. He has broad shoulders, lean legs and arms, whilst he has lean muscles. He looks like his dominant hand is his left, since he leads with a left step. He is wearing a blue-stripe white t-shirt with short sleeves that only reaches to the middle of his upper arms, a set of jet black cargo pants with no pockets across them, and he also has a pair of black sneakers with electric blue stripes across the sides of them. This boy's name is Braedey Gray Martin.

Braedey is what one can call a courageous and a capable being. His sense of right and wrong seems to be the one thing that makes him noticeable around town, since he is such a nice guy. He's an expert martial artist, owns a dojo in his name, and he has even created his own type of fighting style he has called 'Martin-Fu', created by combing Judo, Kung-Fu, Karate, and the fighting style hat has been used by Tarzan. He is also a tinkerer, and likes to work around anything and everything that is mechanical, whether it is a car or even a plane.

"Whatcha doing out here, Jessie?" Braedey asked, climbing up in the playground, and sitting down next to his sister.

"I was just looking up at the clouds." Jessie pointed to the fluffy cloud shapes in the sky. "Some of them even look like soft fluffy bunnies."

"Heh. I can see that as well." Braedey pointed to the bunny cloud. Then, he snickers, and parkour'd down to the ground from the tower. "Jessie, let's go inside."

"Okay." Jessie walked over to the slide part of the playground, then slid down the multi-coloured slide, before reaching the bottom, where Braedey picked her up, and placed her on his shoulders. "Whee!" She cried out happily, as Braedey began to run back inside with her onboard.

As the two go inside, the two head over to a large room in the back of the house, and inside, there is one of the most beautiful model railways ever seen.

It is a Thomas and Friends model railway, with most of the original cast of engines and coaches, most of them lined up around the turntable, whilst others were on the move. It has taken Braedey and Jessie's Dad awhile to make the main section of the railway, whilst Braedey and Jessie combined their pocket money to buy some of the trains and rolling stock, whilst their father bought the buildings and tracks.

Braedey placed Jessie down, and she crawled underneath the table. A second later, she appeared inside of a glass dome, which is inside of the model railway, so the user can see the railway from a model person's point of view. As she looks, she saw Braedey drive Edward by with some cattle wagons behind him.

"Cattle train moving out!" Braedey called, then pushes a button on a control panel to his right side, making Edward's whistle go off. He turns to his left side, and flips some switches, making the switch points on the tracks to switch positions, letting Edward switch down into the shunting yard.

"Braedey! Jessie!" Their mother's voice called out from in the kitchen. "I have lunch ready on the table!"

"Let's eat!" The brother and sister said in unison, and the two head off to the kitchen two rooms away, and get ready for lunch.

The woman is a lovely and beautiful young woman, with fair lightly peach skin, looking around 35yrs in age, with bright gentle blue eyes, and a pair of small red lips. Her hair is a golden brown that reaches down to her shoulders with a gentle flow, whilst two small strands of her hair framed her angelic-like face, and she also has a small red rose hair clip in her hair. She has a firm slender body shape with a slightly above average bust and hip size, whilst she stands 5ft tall. She is wearing a sleeveless firetruck red dress that reaches down to just below both of her knees, a small pearl necklace around her neck, crystal blue flower earrings on her ears, gold bracelets around her wrists, and she has on a pair of light leggings that hugged her legs gently. Their mother is Naomi Jane Martin.

"You two must be hungry." Naomi commented to her two children, handing the two a plate of sandwiches and fresh biscuits.

"Thanks a lot, Mum." Braedey and Jessie thanked in unison, catching Naomi off-guard by the way they spoke. She smirked to then, and headed off out into the garden to tend to her flowers.

"So, what do you want to do now for the afternoon?" Braedey asked Jessie, after they had lunch.

"Why don't we watch a movie?" Jessie suggested.

"Okay. Let's go to the theatre." The two then head off from the kitchen, and headed off to the house's special theatre room.

As they relaxed inside the comfortable theatre room, the brother and sister soon settled in to watch any and all lives they like to. Those movies include 'The Little Mermaid', 'The Lion King', 'Anastasia', 'Scooby-Doo On Zombie Island', 'Tarzan', and even 'Thomas And The Magic Railroad'. They also watched 'Monsters VS Aliens', along with 'Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo!', and also a few other family films.

The two loved these kinds of films, especially since their parents grew up with Disney, Warner Bros., Dreamworks, along with 'Thomas and Friends' on their minds and they had their childhood toys that helped them all the way through their lives. Even when they grew up, they let Braedey and Jessie watch their movies and their shows, and the two had fallen in love with it so much.

~*~*~

Soon, it was becoming dusk. Braedey, Jessie, and Naomi had gone back inside after playing around, but they had put away the trains into their shed, and locked it up. When they walked inside the house, they saw Karen, and she was on the phone, talking to someone, as she was walking in the front door.

Karen is about 18 years of age, has light orange tan skin, no thanks to her using so much fake skin tan products, has jet black hair in a high ponytail with a red ribbon tied, a pair of dull brown eyes, and she had a slim mouth. She has a slender hourglass body shape, similar to Naomi's, only a few sizes smaller than her. She is wearing a pair of jet black skintight pants, which shows off her rounded legs and thighs, and she has on a black short-sleeve shirt with red lining around the collar and the sleeve ends. She also has a handbag around her left arm, whilst she has her phone in her right arm, and she has on a pair of black high-heel wedge shoes.

Karen gets off her phone, and saw her mother and two siblings. "Oh. Hey, Mum. What's up?" She greeted.

"I've been wondering where you've been, miss." Naomi started.

"Oh, not this conversation again." Karen groaned annoyed. "I told you last time; I was going to meet some friends for a sleepover, hang out in Chicago for a little while, but I told you I'll be back soon."

"Is that so?" Braedey spoke up, standing next to Naomi. "Something inside me tells me you've been up to something that you don't want either of us to know about."

"Oh, shut up, you." Karen snapped, then headed upstairs to her bedroom, leaving the three down in the main room.

"Sheesh. What crawled up her behind and died?" Braedey commented, making Jessie laugh at that.

A moment later, the sound of the front door opening for the three's attention, as they saw James walk in, looking like he was about to rip something apart, but he calmed down once he saw his wife and two kids.

James Ryan Martin is a Caucasian at around 40yrs of age, with a set of gentle brown eyes, and accompanied with short spiky black hair. He stands at around 6ft tall, and he has a muscular body figure and shape. He is wearing a fresh cotton white shirt that hugged his broad chest and muscular upper arms, a pair of denim blue jeans, and with black motorcycle boots.

"Dad?" Braedey asked quietly. "What's wrong?"

"Did something happen while you were out today?" Jessie asked next.

"It's okay, you two." James sighed quietly.

"Honey, are you sure?" Naomi asked, walking up to her husband, and placing a hand on his shoulder, and turning his head to her. "James, what happened today?"

James took a deep breath, and sighed in sorrow. "Kids." He spoke up, getting Braedey and Jessie's attention. "I'm afraid our weekend is about to go downhill very fast." He dreaded for what he has to tell his two beloved children next. "Frank's told us to meet up with him in Creek Landing in Michigan for a fishing vacation."

Nothing but silence filled the ground floor of the house. There was nothing but the light blow of wind outside, which made the curtains lightly flow about, as James and Naomi looked at their two loved children. But, about five seconds after James announced that...

"NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!"