It was the autumn right after I had finished school and I suddenly got a lot of time on my hands. I had recently turned eighteen and planned to use this chance to travel somewhere. I had always had the dream to visit Australia once and check out the famous camping life there. Because I had neither a girlfriend nor a friend whom I wanted to travel for three months in a very confined space, I travelled alone. Sure, I was ne...

Since the rain had started, I had never even once thought about whether my van was locked up or not. Was the trunk still open? No, I had closed it. Or had I? An unsettling feel was going through my body. I jumped to the window and tried to see something but even if it had not been raining like hell it would have been too dark by now to see anything. Cathy and Claire looked concerned as I had gone mad. I had no other chanc...