Midnight's daughters

Midnights daughters 12

Jared and Jarl were sitting in the pilot’s seat getting the jet ready for take off.

“Ah. Our passengers have finally arrived, you’re late. Take a seat and do not take your seatbelt of until the ‘you may remove your seat belt sign’ is on. Buckle up we’re taking of soon.” Jared announced.

“What the heck are you guys doing here?” Satan demanded while spitting Spanish cuss words out in between sentences.

“Escaping with you guys. We heard what you said yesterday and we were curious so we looked at the security tapes of your room and decided to join you guys. The old man sucks and I miss my parents.” Jarl said in a matter of fact way.

“Me too man me too.” Jared said.

“Okay fine. But what makes you think we’ll let you join us?” Zee spat at them

“Do any of you other than Zee know how to fly a jet or know anything about reading maps?” Jarl asked. Good point.

“…Fine…but you’re flying this thing. If you get caught we aren’t risking our buts to save your sorry asses.” Zee said acidly.

“You guys know who your parents are?” I asked in disbelief.

“Yup. We’re cousins. We ran away from home when we were seven years old. It was pretty stupid but we were mad. When your dad offered to take us in we were happy. He was the father we wanted. He always had time for us no matter how busy he was and it was fun. The teaching bit sucked but well that’s life I guess. Much later we got homesick but he refused to let us go home so we did things to get our minds of them. Sorry if they offended you.” Jarl said while Jared ignored me. It was obviously a touchy subject.

“But dad said you were orphans.” Jailbait blurted out while Satan and Zee glared at nothing in particular already knowing why dad lied to us. To make us hate them. To loathe them. Caring about them may create a spark which is all we need to cause a major uprising or breakout. I hated dad’s very existence at that exact moment.

“He lied Jailbait. And you can guess why.” Zee said answering her question for the cousins. “Start the jet up, we need to leave soon.” Zee said coldly.

“Where are we going?” Jarl asked.

“New York.” Zee answered. I gently picked Joey up and began braiding her hair humming a soft, sweet lullaby for her to listen to try and help her sleep. The plane took of and we were quiet. The boys were probably focusing on flying the jet while I stopped braiding Joey’s hair and started tending Satan and Poppy who had a few cuts here and there. The adrenaline and excitement of the fight was slowly wearing of leaving me exhausted and sleepy. Jailbait, Heartless, Poppy, Zee, Joey and Satan were already asleep I tried to stay alert incase this was some sort of trick.

“Go to sleep brook. Relax your tired and you’ll need all the energy you can get tomorrow.” Jarl pointed out. I numbly nodded my head before passing out on the sofa becoming part of the entanglement of limbs already on the sofa.

Jarl and Jared mumbled something to me but I couldn’t catch it. And I fell into the blissful obliviousness of my dreams or nightmares.

~~~The next day~~~

I woke up to the loud shrieks of Zee. “What do you mean we have to land in this massive space of nowhere?!”

“It’s a big field in Pennsylvania near New York City. If we land in an airport dad will track us down he can still track a plane down so we’ll need to blow this plane up. Brook will create the bomb and we’ll just put the bags in the cars and drive off after the plan explodes. In fact we’re lucky Caroline was sent to the air force or this plane would have been shot out of the sky or something…” Jared mused. He had obvious eye bags so he was probably exhausted and sleep. I actually felt a bit guilty.

“Fine. If anyone gets injured or dies we’ll shoot you two got it?” Zee said coldly. Jared and Jarl probably didn’t know about Zee’s obsession with sleep. Poor them. They looked scared and obviously didn’t know that it was just an empty threat. I pitied them even more.

“Alright brace yourselves. It’s going to be a bumpy landing.” Jarl warned and the plane dipped. We buckled up and braced ourselves. It was horrible. Have you ever flown through turbulence or a thunder storm? Imagine that but you’re landing. Scary right? I actually thought Jared and Jarl decided to kill us all even if it meant killing themselves as well.

Once we landed we got our stuff and pilled it into the 4 jeeps Massie had provided for us. They had plenty of space for everything we had. But there was crappy seating arrangement. This was the original seating arrangement:

Zee and all of the luggage

Poppy and Heartless

Jailbait and Satan

Joey and I

So now the new seating arrangement is this:

Zee and Satan were going to sit at the front of one jeep. While I was stuck at the back seat in between Jared and Jarl who were sitting next to both exits.

Jailbait and all of the luggage

Joey and Poppy

Heartless all by herself in one jeep.

Now how did this happen? Easy, Zee and Satan still didn’t trust Jared and Jarl so they decided to drive the jeep with them in it. But they didn’t want them to communicate so someone was supposed to sit in between them and obviously we all refused. So they gave me the puppy dog face and I gave in and agreed.

So now poor me is stuck between two annoying players for the entire ride to New York City. I wish I had tear ducts so I could cry.

Yeah they may be my friends but being stuck in between a few players is not a situation anyone would want to be in.