Taken

Chapter 24

Skylar is passed out in the passenger seat snoring loudly. I guess after all that swimming she was doing caught up to her. I'm trying to think over her snoring to get back to the house. I haven't really hung out in Aventura so I don't know my way around too well. I've been driving in the wrong direction for the last thirty minutes. I don't remember any of this from on the way here.

"Where is my phone?" I ask myself.  Looking down at the middle console for my phone. Not seeing it there, I pulled into a gas station.

"Skylar." I call trying to wake her. Taking off my seatbelt, I lean over the middle console to see if my phone is on the floor.  I don't see it there. Where the hell is it? "Skylar wake the fuck up." I groan getting aggravated. I wanna sleep too and cannot do that until I can return to the dorm or Ezra's house.

"Mmmmh." She groans turning in her seat. "What?"

"How the hell do we get back from here?" She opens her eyes a little and looks around. "And where the hell is my phone?" I ask plopping down back into the driver's seat. 

"Did you bring your phone with you?" She asks sitting up in her seat.

"I think I did." It's been a long and stress-filled day, I cannot even remember if I brought my phone with me to the pool. "Where is your phone?" I ask. 

"I think it's in my bag in the trunk. But there is no way I'm getting out this time of night in this sketchy neighborhood. And not to mention that we're both in beach towels." She scuffs at the idea. 

"We'll do you at least know where the fuck we are." I just want to get somewhere I can shower, wash my hair, and sleep. 

"Umm." She turns in her seat looking behind us. "Not really. Can you get us back to the hotel?" She questions. 

A sigh falls from my lips. "Hell no." Our only option is to get that bag out of the trunk. I unlock the door and reach for the handle before I hear the lock click again.

"Stay in the car." She says while leaning over and reaching under my seat for something before sitting up.

"We need to get your phone so we can get home. And what are you looking for?" I take a breath and get comfortable in my chair. 

"Ezra has trackers and emergency buttons in all of the cars. Well since this one was in the back of the compound it doesn't have an active tracker unless you push the button to activate it. Shit we better just be lucky it was there still. If we need help we push the button and a rescue team comes. I just push that magical button and we will be out of here in, I'll say ten minutes or less." Skylar closes her eyes and lays back in the passenger seat.

"Okay so what now?" I question not knowing what to do next.

"Just rest they'll be here soon. They'll get us back home we'll get fussed out by Ezra and then I can go to bed." She sighs. 

"Why the hell can't I go to sleep?" I laugh, turning my head to look over at her.

"You'll have to listen to Ezra fuss about this." She laughs.

"He can do all of that tomorrow. I just want to get in the shower and then the bed." I laugh. Turning my head out of the window, I see a man limping across the street toward the gas station across the street from us. "I cannot wait until they get here."

"Are you ready for Thursday?" Skylar asks. My right eyebrow lifts itself in confusion while looking over at her. "Girl since the day that I met you, you have been doing nothing but working toward this day for years and now you don't know what Thursday is?" Skylar laughs.

"What the hell are you talking about?" 

"Graduation duhhh." I laugh at her.

"Girl that is the undergrad graduation. Ours is tomorrow. I get my test results later in the morning along with the news if I made valedictorian, and then my cap and gown and name card from admissions at twelve." I explain to her. Since my GPA was tied with that evil bitc-, okay let me be nice, chick they advised both of us to write our valedictorian speech and when the final test results come in it will let us know who is valedictorian. And to think I thought yesterday was stressful.