Can't Say No

Chapter Ten

Toby's POV:

"Where's she going?" Hoodie asks me. I shrug my shoulders. "No clue." Masky scoffs. "She's your girl and you don't know where she's going?" I feel my cheeks flush. "She's not my girl." I say, though the thought may put a smile onto my face under my mask. Kayla was great, and I felt we kept getting closer as the days passed. "If you two aren't together, why're you sharing a place? Though this is more of a big room." I laugh when he says 'big room', but it is kinda big. I guess. "I'm here cause I need a place to crash. Kayla just provides that place." "So, you don't like her?" Masky questions. I swore, I could have never felt more embarrassed. My face felt like it was on fire. "She's alright." I mumble, looking at my feet. I hear Masky and Hoodie crack up, and I twitch for two reasons. "Laugh all you want, I don't have to let you stay." I growl. "Well, it seems Kayla has more power do decide that." Hoodie teases. I roll my eyes, though they can't see it. I take off my glasses and mask, then sit down in my corner. Masky and Hoodie sit a little ways away from me, near Kayla's stuff. "What do you do all day?" Masky asks, looking around the room. "There can't be much to do around here."

"You're right, there isn't." I hear a voice say at the entrance.

Looking over Hoodie's shoulder, I see Kayla. Hoodie whistles and Masky claps, making Kayla smile and take a bow. "You like?" She asks, more I think to me than the others. "Well..."

Kayla's POV:

I had literally run half a mile to find the stream that flowed through the woods. To any passerby, I'd have looked like a mass murderer, running through the trees in my t-shirt and jeans holding a knife. But it had been worth it. When I finally got to the stream I could see my reflection and use the knife properly. I had cut my hair so it could only reach the tops of my ears. I quite liked the get up, and Masky and Hoodie sure seemed to. Toby's reaction was a bit disappointing, but I remembered him saying he liked my long hair. Oh well. "Well..." He said in response to my question. I laughed again and tossed the knife onto my bed. "No? Ah well, I can't please the world." Toby had taken off his glasses and mask again, which told me he was extremely comfortable around Masky and Hoodie. And me, of course. That thought put a smile on my lips. Though I can hardly explain why. I look over to Masky. "So, I'm guessing you and Hoodie want a place to crash?" I ask. He nods. "You cool?" I dramatically sigh, but stay smiling. "Yeah, I'm cool. If you can fit whatever you have into the small space that's left, then go for it." I pick up phone and look at the calender. "Aw, shit!" I say. "What?" Toby asks. "Tomorrow's Monday! I have to go back to school." Ugh, I was hoping it was Friday and I could have a weekend. "Why you want to go back there?" Hoodie asks. "Uh, because I want to graduate and get a job in life. Not spend my life working at a gas station, which is a job I'm applying to." "Again, why?" Hoodie asks. "My money's almost run out. I got twenty bucks left, and that ain't gonna do much. So, I'm getting an afternoon job for after school. So you three can do whatever the hell you want from about seven to five." Everyone is silent after that, which is okay by me. Not like I expected applause for saying I was getting a job. "You're gonna be gone the whole day?" Toby asks. I nod. "Yeah, pretty much. But on weekends I'm all free, so yeah..." I don't know what else to say. "Why not hold out on the job, cause we got the money problem fixed." Says Hoodie. "Excuse me?" I say. Masky and Hoodie looked at each other, and I could only guess they're smiling. Masky reaches into his pockets, as does Hoodie, and they pull out stacks of hundreds. "Holy, crap..." I say. Oh, that's what they did. "You guys robbed a bank?!" Toby exclaims. Masky laughs with Hoodie, and I can't help but join in. Though what they did was bad, it was hilarious that they got away with it. The police around here are total shit apparently. "Yeah, we robbed a bank Toby. And we got away with it! No harm done." Hoodie says. "Well...that's not exactly true. You did cause the cops to do lock downs at a campground and probably everywhere else, but that's not important." "See, Kayla's cool with it." Masky says, slapping my back. Rolling my eyes, I roll onto my blankets and pull out my sketchbook. Using the knife as a type of mirror, I began to draw my new reflection. I liked my new haircut, it looked more natural and seemed to fit my face better. My phone buzzed with a text, and I picked it up to check. "Uh..." The screen didn't lie, but what it read should have been. "What is it?" Asks Toby, walking over and looking at my phone. "It's my school." I say blankly. "They say they found my family... And they want to meet me."

(I know this is a short chapter, but PLOT TWIST!!!!! I will be updating more soon, but three chapters a day is tiring and I'm exhausted. "If you're reading this days after I post, you may not understand." More chapters coming soon. Get ready to meet Kayla's family!)