The Babysitter

The Babysitter Chapter 3: Bid You Farewell

  When we got to the hotel, we were all exhausted. Jane and Landon praised me for sticking up for myself. Unfortunately, it was now time to decide floor, couch and bed duty. We all wrote our names down on a piece of paper and threw it in one of Alex's baseball hats."This one is for the first bed." Called Jane and dug out a piece of paper.

   "Alex." She called, and Alex was dancing around while we sighed.

   "Second bed goes to...." She announced.

  "Ha, me." Jane continued.

  "Here's for the couches, Stacia gets the first one." She called while reading a piece of paper.

  "The other one is Henry's."

  Landon and I shared floor duty. As I lay down with a pillow and blanket, I fell asleep.

  Soon, someone was shaking me softly."Mercia."

"Mmh, yea?" I ask lazily.

"I'm not letting you sleep on the nasty floor."

"Then where, genius?" I say, my eyes closed.

  It was Alex. He scooped me up and laid me in his bed. He went around the other side and tucked himself in. I soon realized my head was comforted on his chest .Alex sleeps in his underwear only, but I was too tired to care the slightest bit.

  I woke up after a very accomplished sleep due to Henry's on and off laughter right in my face."You two had sex." He bluntly said. He was switching on and off laughter due to a hangover.

Alex was half awake, like me."Shut up Henry. You'll wake the love birds up." Stacia joked.

  Stacia was just as annoying as Henry. Jane was still sleeping and I guess she had Landon sleep with her. No shock there, they were in a hard-core "can't live without you" relationship since 8th grade. We've all know each other since 6th Grade, but didn't become friends since 8th.

  Alex was the first one to speak, "We didn't do anything."

  "Her pillow is your naked chest, bro!" Henry exclaimed annoyingly.

  I suddenly felt around my head, Alex's hard, clean shaved chest. Henry and Stacia erupted into fits of laughter. My cheeks grew hot. I reached above my head to the pillow I wasn't using and threw it at them. I got up and looked at the clock, 1:00."Guys, we have to be out of the room by three. Wake up Jane and Landon. Alex, get up."

  Alex stood up, just to fall back down on the bed. I hurried to the bathroom to brush my teeth and hair and flow light makeup on that I had carried in my purse. I realized all my crap was in the moving van, parked in the university lot."Stacia, got any clothes I can borrow?"

  "Sorry, I don't. Jane and I have our stuff at the university still."

  I groaned in frustration."I've got a shirt and shorts." Alex offered, soon I heard Stacia and Henry's giggling.

  "Thanks."

  I went in the room to grab the clothes from Alex. He seemed to be looking perfect!

  Perfect idiot.

  "Thanks." He said, revealing that he heard me.

  "I said that aloud, didn't I?"

  He nodded. I turned to the bathroom. I pressed my mind about the future. Jace was cool and pretty cute, but he lived in another state so it's probably not going to happen. I needed to attend law school back home and god knows how I'm going to pay my way through. I figured that I'd get a job as a clerk in a firm, but it wasn't enough. I dropped my thoughts about my financial situation and went back out after changing.

  "Landon and I have a plane to catch at 2."Jane said, now perfectly ready. Jane is insanely fast when doing things, while Landon's a turtle.

  I realized it would be the last time I'd see Stacia and Henry. They were going to Los Angeles. I was totally going to miss their stupid antics. I hope they get good jobs out there. We all popped in Alex's car and he drove to the university. Once we got there, Jane and Landon begged Alex to take his car back home. Jane decided to back out of taking the airplane, much to Landon's dismay. Alex finally agreed .Both Landon and Jane were on the East Side building, they didn't have much stuff to carry with them. We all bid our farewells."I'm going to miss your idiot-ism, Henry." I say with the straightest face. Stacia was budding tears.

  "You're not still drunk, are you?" Asked an inconsiderate Henry.

  "Shut up." Stacia muttered as she pulled Jane and I in for a hug.

  Stacia and Henry caught a taxi to the airport."See you guys at home. Be safe." I said to Jane and Landon.

  There were like 500 cars in the parking lot, due to pupils who procrastinate. Alex and I dodged vans, trucks, taxis, and car while getting to the moving van. I pulled out the keys and got in the driver's seat. Alex was in the passenger's seat. Then, I made a dumb revelation that only an idiot like myself wouldn't automatically know."Alex, I don't know how to drive a truck." I said dumbly, a hand over my forehead.

  He laughed and said, "I know, I'll just drive. My uncle taught me one summer."

  I sighed in relief, I do that a lot. We made swift body contact changing seats. Thank goodness Stacia and Henry left or, we'd still hear the stupid crap out of them. Alex began driving."You know your dad is going to kill you for letting Jane and Landon drive your car, right?"

  "With Jane in the car, Landon will drive half the speed limit."

  "Not a good thing. They'll be driving on a highway."

  "Oh shit!" Alex exclaimed.

  I rarely heard Alex swear, but might I say, he looks cute doing it.

  "Look at it this way. If someone hits the car from the back, it's their fault legally."

   "Thanks for the knowledge, Ms. Soon To Be Lawyer."

  Alex and I kept up with the jokes and remarks. Soon, there was a comfortable silence. I had once again managed to figure out my future. I picked up where I left off, was I still heartbroken?

  Once upon a time, in high school, I fell in love. His name was Mason DuPont. We were never off and on. Just on from sophomore year of high school to the beginning of senior year in high school. We broke up because he wanted to run away with me. We got in a huge fight and he ended up dropping out. I never saw him again. I heard something about how he ran away with Carlene Richardson, but I don't know. I hated Carlene and she hated me, but that was 4 or 5 years ago.

  A car close by was suddenly losing control. Alex was trying to slow down in effort, but no use. The car rammed the side of our van, hard. Sparks were igniting on the side of the van. It all went black.

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