Story Writing Debate (see rules for genre)

Fair enough. Generic Slasher Story Chapter One I raced the kitchen, looking for my backpack. It had been a good two days since we planned our trip to the bottom of the grand canyon. Today was the big day. I got my backpack, and put it in the back of my car. I turned around to go back inside for my phone when I realized the door was open. "Did I leave that open" I wondered. I figured it didn't matter, I went inside and got my phone. I stared at my one bedroom house. I had gone a long way since high school, and I felt things were finally coming up in life. Then I heard a creaking sound. I turned around, nothing seemed wrong. However it did come as a little strange that my house seemed to make noises of its own. I decided it was probably just a mouse, I know, cliche. Anyways I didn't think much more of it and headed toward the door. I saw something out of the corner of my eye, but this time I took more of an interest than the creaking sound. I looked around the living room Then I saw a flash and something knocked me to the floor. My head throbbed from the pain of hitting the hard tiled floor. I rubbed my hand through my hair. Then I looked up and was instantly relieved...and annoyed. "Sh*t, what the hell?" I exclaimed. My best friend AJ stood over me, laughing like crazy. "Nick, man, you should'a seen the look on your face!" He said in between fits of laughter. I got up, and he laughed some more. I playfully shoved him. After that we headed over to the car. I put the key into the ignition and put the gear into reverse. I backed out of the driveway, shifted gears and started driving away when AJ looked behind us. "Did you invite anyone over?" He asked. "No why" "Ummm...theres someone in the window" His voice quivered. "What?" "I'm messing with you man!" He snickered. I punched him in the arm. Incase your'e wondering, I'm 19 years old, and so is he. But sometimes he acts like he is about twelve. The rest of the drive was uneventful. We parked in front of AJ's girlfriend Claire's house. Her and my friend Liz were going with her. They came out and Claire jumped in the front seat with AJ. For your sake, I'm not going to describe what they were doing. Liz jumped into the backseat and we headed to our last stop before we left for the Canyon. Steve was another friend of ours, and of course he was going since he was good friends with AJ. We got to the canyon about three hours later, where we met with our tour guide, his name was chase, he had an assistant named Derik, but he was a total jerk. "Okay, everyone ready?" Chase asked. "Um..Sure" We all replied. "Wow, what a square" Whispered Claire to AJ. "Hey, don't be mean!" Liz scolded. "Hey guys," Chase interupted "Stop fighting, we should start the hike!" He started walking down the canyon, we followed him, happy to finally start. Making jokes and pretending to push eachother off the whole way down there. Steve said he had to tie his shoe so we walked down lower without him, and he ended up peeing on us from a ledge above us. He didn't hit any of us but it made the girls pretty upset. Later that night we stopped at a campground for the night, it was a pretty woody area, I didn't know there would be any trees down here, but what ever. While we were down there, Derik told some stupid story about how there was a guy who fell of the canyon and wanted revenge, so he killed anyone who went to this campground. It was so pathetic I laughed in his face. After a while, at about Nine O'clock, we decided to go to bed, I pitched my tent and crawled inside. I was just drifting off to sleep when I heard a scream come from Claire's tent.