Secret Paradise

Chapter 16

*Friday Night*

It's official. Every ones bags are packed. The Bus tickets are sitting in the money box. We leave tonight. This is suppose to be Kayla's last night here and it is, but little do they know its also ours. We convinced our parents to let us sleep in the back yard in honor of her last night. The bus comes at 1 a.m. It was the latest I could get to ensure everyone was asleep when we left and nothing went wrong.

"I can't believe it guys. We did it in under a week." We clank our sodas together. "Here's to us."

We stay up watching the clock. At 11:50 we pack up all the food we brought and started to head out to the bus station.

"And where do you think you guy are going with all that stuff?" I turned around to see my annoying Lilly.

"Scavenger hunt kiddo!" Kayla chirped.

"Scavenger hunt huh? Can I go with you guys?"

"No!" We all said in unison. We looked at each other hoping we didn't sound suspicious.

"And why not?" She pouted.

"Because its Kayla's last night and we don't wanna ruin it with you complaining the whole night," I said hoping she believed it. I look at everyone and we turned to start on our way.

"Why do you need all the stuff for a scavenger hunt? Seems like you already have everything, and what's in the box?" Damn! Why oh why does she have to notice everything I do?

"It's a box filled with little children's souls that couldn't keep their mouths shut and got back to bed," I said smiling down at her.

"Yeah right! Let me see!" She reached for the box as I quickly pulled back.

"No it's not yours now go back inside the house before I tell mom you were bugging us." Again we turned to walk away hoping she was done pestering us.

"How are you gonna tell her if you're going out to California on a bus?" I stopped dead in my tracks. How did she know.

"What are you talking about no one has enough money to go to California?"

"Obviously you guys do. I wasn't born yesterday. I've been listening to your guys conversations. Yeah, I know you guys are leaving to California."

"No one is going to California." God I thought we were so good at hiding everything. This was going just fine and then she comes.

"Well where ever you're going I wanna go and I wanna go now."

"We don't have enough bus tickets for her to come too." Damn it Dana shut up! I turn and glare at him hoping he'd get it and shut his mouth.

"See you are going some where! Why won't you take me with you!" She whined.

"Because I'm trying to get away from you. If I go you get to stay here and get everyone's attention. Now go inside so we can go okay." Finally she turns around and starts on her way to the house as we go our way too.

"Wait, I want some of that money." My mouth feel open at this kids demand.

"No!"

"Fine I'm sure mom would love to know you convinced everyone to run away with you and you stole all her money." She smirked at with putting her hand out like I owe her something.

"I didn't not steal any money."

"So she doesn't have to know that."

"Dylan we need to go just giver some of the money," cole whispered to me. I reached in to my back pocket and pulled out a fifty.

"Here now go." She smiled gave me a hug and said Bon voyager .

After that little drama we made it to the bus station. We managed to get everything on to the bus and we were the only ones in there so we had all the room. Cole and I went to the back of the bus so we could talk about what our plan was once we got there. Kayla and Dana sat in the middle. They were kinda cute together. I could see something beautiful starting from these two.

"So you remember that guy we meet on the plane?" Cole asked me. I think I remember he was a little Mexican guy. Or did he say he was Cuban? I don't remember but I don't kind of remember him.

"Sure," I smile looking down at my phone. I was going to turn off the police tracking setting my mom had installed just incase something happen to me.

"Well I've been talking to him and he's been getting him and Alex, his girlfriend together so they could join us." I turned up to look at him. "Meet up? But we're taking a bus to L.A how are we suppose to meet up with him?"

"I told him the bus stops off in Dallas Texas and to come and meet us to get on."

"The bus stops off at Texas?"

"Yeah when I went to go get the tickets it said something about a stop at Texas or something so he's gonna meet us there."

Something about that didn't seem right. The fact that the tickets were cheaper than I thought they should be and now this stop in Dallas. "Where are our tickets?" Cole reached into one of the bags and pulled out the tickets. I took one out of his hands quickly reading it content.

Departure: 1:00 a.m Thursday July 2

Arrival: 1:00 p.m Friday July 3 Dallas ,Texas

"Cole those says arrival at dallas, Texas not layover in Dallas,Texas."

"What do you mean?" He looked confused.

"I mean that this bus isn't taking us to California it's dropping us off in Dallas, Texas on the 4 of July!"he grabbed the tickets to read if what I said was true. He started to shake his head.

"No. This is suppose to all work out perfectly. No mess ups, nothing is suppose to go wrong."

"It's okay Cole we all make mistakes. Look this is good," he looks at me wanting me to continue on how this is goods but I didn't know. I a sat there think of ways that it could be good. "Now we have more time to think up a plan for when we get to L.A and maybe get a job while we're their to get more money or something. At lest this way we can have some work back ground so people will take us seriously when we get there."

He looked at me trying to process what I just said. He was surprise and heck I was even surprised that I came up with that answer. He just shook his head and laid back into his seat. I reached over and grabbed his hand for support. I love him to death but sometimes he'a too hard on him self. I lightly kissed him on his cheek and tried to go to sleep.

I could tell this was going to be a long trip and I need my rest.

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Yo! So I know this is kinda short but it's cause I wanna get started on the Texas chapter. Beside L.A I kinda want the story to take place in Texas. So it hope y'all are okay with that. I put this at the end so if you don't wanna read what I write at the end it's okay. So how was you're fourth of july. I taught my cousin how to swim and saw the guy I liked and about died! I looked like crap because the chlorine dried my eyes out so I had to wear my glasses and my hair was a big ball of puff other a Beanie on and it was just bad. But I'm sure yours was better so tell me! Please!

I think I'm done talking

Peace love and tartar sauce

-Lizzie xoxo