Lost

Chapter 3

Lily POV~
I woke up in Ponyboy and Sodapop's room.  They both agreed to sleep on the couch so I got their bed.  I did cry a little last night.  Ok, I cried a lot.  Hopefully no one heard me.  I doubt it.  I cry very sofly when I don't want anyone knowing I'm crying.  I take the note I wrote my mom and, well, I didn't have any clothes.  So I stayed in the ones I slept in.. and wore yesterday.

"Morning guys." I tell all the boys.

"Mornin' Lily." They all say at the same time.  That scared me.

"Um I need new clothes." I say.

"Hey, maybe don't hand them a Canadian bill." Soda teased.

"Haha, your so funny, ha." I say.  After he looks at me, I actually began laughing.

"What's the letter in you're hand?" Two-Bit tried to take the letter but I hid it from him.

"It's just a letter to my mom.  I'm worried about her." I say. "She's normally treating me like she hates me but the second I go missing she gets all scared and wonders 'Oh it's my fault! It's my fault!' when really she had nothing to do with it... sometimes.. well I mean this time it's not her fault."

"Pony will go with you!" Dally said.

Pony looked up from his book. "Hm? Oh, yeah sure I'll go with you."

"Alright bye lovers!" Dally kicked us out of the house and gave us money.

"Did he kick us out of your house?" I ask.

"Yeahh that's Dally for you." He grinned. "So what's it like in Canada?"

"Um, it's nice, I hate it during the winter.  You'd think it's nice but it's-no.  Summer though is nice.  You have the sun that you could actually see-"

"There's no sun in the winter?"

I shook my head. "There's a lot of clouds.  It made me sad that I couldn't watch sunset-I mean um" I stopped talking.  But realized he watches sunsets as well so I decided to continue. "During the summer.. it's easier to see the sunsets but winter is not so easy.  Clouds and grey skies."

"You like sunsets too?" He asked.

"Yeah, my hotel room had a nice view of the sunset so it was nice." I smile at the memory. "Did you know that Québec was in Canada?"

He looked at me weirdly. "Yeah?"

"Good.  Not many people know that."

He's still looking at me weirdly.

"Americans, nor Canadians, Americans." I explain.

"You callin' us dumb?" He grinned.

"What? No, no you guys just don't know Canada as well as we do."

"I know Canada."

"Do you?"

"Quebec, Ontario-" He stopped.  Ha, maybe he doesn't know.

"That's all I know" He smiled when I laughed.  He was quite good looking-no.  I am not catching feelings for someone in Tulsa.  I can't.  I don't wanna be heartbroken when I leave-well, if I leave.

"You ok?" He asks me.

"Yeah, sorry I zoned out sorry." I say.

He nodded. "It's alright, no need to apologize."

"Sorry-I mean um yeah ok sure um ok"

He laughed. But I wasn't smiling.

"Seriously, what's going on?" He stopped to turn in front of me.

"It's just this letter I wrote for my mom, what if she finally realizes I'm safe and gets mad." I frown.

"Why would she get mad?"

"She's crazy that lady!" I say. "One second she's crying when I'm gone then when I get home she yells at me all night!"

He stayed silent for a while.

"Hey," He said softly. "Maybe it would be better to write to a friend?"

I nodded.  We sat down at the bench and I wrote:

Dear Selena,
If you flip the paper, ignor all of that, it was for my mom.  I was to scared to send it too her so dont tell my mom please.  Please.  Don't boter telling my dad either.  You know how he is : (.  Keep this letter to yourself.  The address you can write me at is at is xxxxxxx.  Please dont show anyon tis leter to any one.  I mean it.  But fel free to rite me, I guess.  I'm staying with Sodapop, you know from the DX.  Yeh.  But I'm safe.  I know it.  PLEASE DON'T WORRY, alright.  Thanks, hope to see you soon.
-Lily H.

Selena POV~
I just got the letter from Lily.  I was about to go to bed and my mom called me down and gave me the letter.  What she wrote for her mom broke my heart.  I knew she was scared while writing it.  She spelled words wrong, that's what she normally does when she's stressed.  Were those dry tear stains on the paper? Was she crying?  Jeez I really wanna worry but the letter says: Please don't worry, in capital letters.  I quickly grab a paper to write her back.

Dear Lily,
I won't worry, I promise.  I'm just glad you're safe with all the shooting going on.  At least you have a place to stay.  Say hi to Sodapop for me.  Hopefully he doesn't hate me lol.  But stay safe alright?  I don't want you getting hurt, especially with any of those guys.  I don't know how many there are but Steve and Soda scared me.  All I ask is to stay safe.  Um, I have a speech to say to the school about how I feel with the whole 'Lily is in Tulsa' thing.  I'll tell them you have place to stay.  I won't tell them how I know but I'll tell them I know you're safe.  I hope you are at least.  Well, hope to see you soon! Bye.
-Selena G.