Queen of Luna's

Chapter 2: The Trip (part 2)

VICTORIA JUSTICE WILL BE PLAYING AS JESSICA CUNNINGHAM!!☺️
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I can't believe this! What were our crazy parents thinking?!
"Why are they sending us to California for" I say as I stuff a chicken nugget in my mouth and dreading the answer. She eyes me down, unsure if she should tell me.

"Our parents want us to get the feeling of living on our own since we're about that age now to leave."

I stop eating.

"Are you serious?" I try to say in a deathly calm voice. Meeting her worried eyes.

"Yes." Was her only answer. She drops her head and resumes her eating until there was nothing left. She looks up,

"Are you gonna eat that?"

Snapping me out of my trance I look up to see her eyeing my half eaten food like is was the most glorious thing she'd ever laid her eyes on.

"Sure, I don't care. I've lost my appetite anyway." Saying as I push it towards her and looking away. Just the thought of eating makes me sick!

She shrugs and eats the remaining food. We clean up and peacefully head to the car in the cool, sweet spring night. I open the driver door to my Nissan 350Z and settle in behind the wheel, waiting for Jess to get in, I close the door and buckle up. She plots down in the passenger seat, closes the door and buckles up.

"Ready?"

She nods in agreement. Starting the engine I ask, "So, when are we leaving?"

"Tomorrow after school, so you have to have all your last minute homework finished and turned in by the time we leave, okay?"

I sighed an okay still letting the news of our parents actually letting us leave out of state for who knows how long!

"How long are we staying in California?" I ask swallowing the lump in my throat.

"They said about a year unless things change or surprises come up." She says with a side glance to me, trying to read and prepare for any sudden out burst.

As we drive down the forest lined road my hands tighten around the steering wheel to where my knuckles turn white.
Stay calm. I tell myself but I know she notices my tenseness.

"Relax, your so stiff you look like a piece of wood." She says with thick humor in her voice. "We'll be fine. They've arranged that we stay at your aunts house. Your mothers sister whose husband is your fathers cousin. So no worries!" She reassures me with a kind smile and a pat on my shoulder.

"Okay than. But I don't know my parents' siblings or their family members at all tho."

"It's ok! It's going to be on a private beach!" She says with so much excitement that I can't help but genuinely smile. Maybe this will be amazing after all.

We finally arrive home, yes Jess lives with me; i don't know why my parents don't adopt her already. She's practically family, I mean she lives here, she's even treated like if she was my sister.

We unbuckle, get out, close the doors, and walk up to the door to the house all at the same time. I pull out the copy of the house key we each received and unlock the door and walk in.

Heading to my room with Jess on my trail. Our rooms are right directly across from each other but we sneak in each other's rooms way to often and talk but always leads to sleeping with each other. We've always done this for the only reason of those similar nightmares. We've always been there for each other, well she's been there for me more than I've been there for her. It's kind of odd but I don't bother with it to much. Walking in my room I change into a big white t-shirt and take off my pants and bra. Next to the massive king size bed, I pull back the covers and slip in. Jess does the same and when I open my eyes her face is right directly in front of me. My eyes soften and under the covers I reach out and hug my arm around her and she does the same. Something we've done since day one. But before I fall asleep I can't help but wonder what'll happen in the next few days.