Military Girl

Chapter 15: Shovel

I just talked to my brother on the phone about how many reads I had and he said "yeah when you get older I can tell all my of my friends that my sister is a famous author" and I started crying but Pht! I don't cry.... 😐

Anyways, ta-dah!!! Here's the chapter.

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"How do you know so much about plans and sneaking out?" I ask Nia after our plan was put together.

She laughs. "I used to sneak out my window every night and umm....see my friends and smoke."

I raise an eyebrow at her. She's the last person in the worl is expect to smoke but I guess she had to give it up for the Army.

"Will they let us back in?" Nia asks.

"Nope!"

"Can we sneak back in?"

"Nope!"

"Can we sneak to the next station?"

"N-maybe." I say. Her face lights up and I laugh. I check my watch and it reads "O-Two-Quarter".

"Nia it's 2:15 in the morning!" I whispers loudly. The other girls in the bedroom just shuffle around in their beds.

"Perfect."

We stand up and make our way to the door.

The floor creaks loudly under my feet. The room is almost pitch ball and I stick my hands out in front of me. I hear a loud smack and then Nia shrieks.

"Shi-" She starts.

I snicker a laugh.

"Guess you found the door."

"Oh har-har."

I hear movement in a bed and I can barely see the outline of a figure in front of us.

"What are you doing?!" The figure whispers.

"Bathroom break." Nia and I chant at the same time.

"You're lying!" She spits out.

"Run!" I yell to Nia and we bolt out the door and sprinting down the hallway.

"Escaping!" The girl screams as we turn around another corner.

We push open a double set of steel doors and run down the steps and towards a military truck.

I pull off my dog-tags and scan them into the truck. The trucks motor starts and Nia jerks her foot on the gas-pedal. We lurch forward and down the driveway of the military base. We keep driving and still silence. Nobody chasing us and no traffic on the streets.

"Music?" Nia asks. Her voice is shaky and she's trembling. I nod my head and swallow. I punch the "on" button for the radio and turn up the volume. A rock song is blaring out.

"Nia?" I ask.

"What." She snaps at me. I put my hands up in a "I'm-innocent" way and she sighs.

"How are we gonna get to North Dakota? We are in Nebraska."

"We keep driving Maddie. Just wait." She replies.

"Nia I can't wait! Will is at home getting the crap beaten out of him from a gang! I CAN'T wait!" I shout. Her eyes start tearing up and her bottom lip trembles.

I put my hand on her arm to show I'm sorry and she blinks the tears back.

"I'm ok it's just I lost my military career because of this." Nia bites her bottom lip. And we keep driving....

:::A Day and Two Hours later:::

Someone is shaking my arm and I open my eyes. Nia has dark rings under her eyes.

"We are here." She says gently.

I bolt my head up and pop open the car door. Sure enough, we are at my house. My foot gets caught in the truck and I fall flat on the ground. I scramble up off of the ground and rush to my garage door.

Nia quickly comes up behind me and stands there as I type in the code.

I mutter the code under my breath and the garage slides start moving upwards. I move into the garage with Nia running behind me.

Nia grips a rake. I race across the other side of the two-sided garage.

I grab a shovel.

"Ready."