Halloween Night

Chapter 34

Ally gulped and Austin held her closer. Dallas and Cassidy raised their eyebrows and Trish started laughing in a drunken haze.

"Can one of you explain what's going on?" Austin asked both Cassidy and Dez.

"Dude, they know our names. Trish told them everyone's last name." Dez said and Cassidy glared at the drugged girl. "It's not her fault, she was drugged. She's been through hell, Cassidy."

"Wait, how do you know this?" Ally whispered.

"She told me and Dez in the waiting room." Cassidy answered.

"What else?" Austin whispered.

"They found her wallet, they have her drivers license saying she's from Miami. They know our names, where we're from. And they personally promised me that they would not sleep until they found each and every one of you. I got away to find you." He told Austin. "To warn you."

Ally was crying into Austin's shoulder, as Cassidy did the same into Dallas's neck.

"I really hate Halloween." Dallas whispered and everyone agreed in their hopeless state.

Dez got on the freeway, heading away from Miami and no one fought him on it. They all knew that everything had changed. Their whole life had changed. In one night.

At least they were alive. For now.

Dez and Austin watched as Ally paced at the pay phone, as long as the cord would let her. They had decided to call Jimmy for help since things with the cops didn't seem to work out. They couldn't call their parents because they would freak out and make them come home, which they clearly could not do.

Dez took a bite of his chocolate bar and offered it to Austin. Austin shook his head and just watched Ally. It was nearly 10am and he had been up for 28 hours. He looked behind him at the two girls sleeping, fallen over each other. And behind them was Dallas, cuddled up on his jacket. Austin rubbed his eyes, and looked at Dez. "I sure hope this works. We need to get a place to sleep. I feel like I'm going to pass out."

Dez nods, "I know buddy. I don't know how much longer we can make it." He looks back at Trish with a sad look in his eyes. "This whole thing has been a joke, I just want to get Trish somewhere to properly rest."

"How long has she been sleeping?"

Dez looked at his watch. "It's been about two hours since we last woke her up. She still seemed pretty out of it."

Austin agreed, "Yeah, but getting better." Austin shrugged and Dez smiled sadly at his friend.

Austin hated seeing Dez like this. His usual, goofy best friend has changed because of tonight, and he's worried he might never return back to his fun loving self.

"You're right." Dez and Austin trained their eyes back on Ally. She was clearly upset and shaking her head. Recalling the story so soon probably wasn't easy. Austin couldn't get images out of his head.

After a while Ally finally made her way back to the car and crawled on Austin's lap, "Okay, Jimmy has a plan." Ally said as she wiped her eyes.

"We have to ditch this car. He's going to call his friend Richard who lives in Orlando, which isn't too far a drive from where we are. He's going to switch cars with us. He also is going to pick up the money that he's wiring to us." Ally whispered. "We've got to figure out how to convince everyone that we're dead."

Dez's mouth dropped, "H-how are we going to do that?"

"I don't know. But, that's the only way to do it." Ally said sadly. "Jimmy is nice enough to help us out with this. But, he's the only one who can know. The more people know the more possibility it could get out that we are alive and then we'll be running forever."

"You don't think they'll catch them?" Austin asked as he wiped away her tears.

Ally just shrugged, "They haven't yet. But, it's all over the news that we're missing. And Dez's license plate is all over too. Luckily he thinks it's just in Miami and we're already out of there." Ally yawned.

"This probably isn't the time, but what did Jimmy say about my record deal?" Austin asked.

Ally looked at him sadly. "Jimmy says you'll always be apart of Star records, and that you can continue on if we ever get out of this. But since we're on the run and supposed to be "dead", you have to forget about it for now. I'm sorry Austin."

"Oh." Austin said, sighing. He just hoped they could get out of this soon. But something tells him they'll be on the run for a very long time.

"How far to this place?" Dez started the car back up.

"Ten miles west." Ally read the instructions on her hand, "He should be expecting us. Apparently he's not the 'cleanest' car dealer so we shouldn't have a problem."

"Who is he?" Austin inquired as he attempted to buckle them both in.

"Jimmy's cousin, I guess. He owes him a favor or something." Ally leaned her head on Austin's chest. She wanted to just cry, but she couldn't. She's been doing it too much lately, but can you really blame her?

"Oh, and Dez?" Ally asked sleepily.

"Yeah Ally?"

"What's the name on your fake id – we might be relying on you for some stuff. Hotel rooms and things like that."

"I've got two, Calum Worthy or Dezy Roo." Dez told her and Austin and Ally both shot him an incredulous look. "What? Is Calum Worthy too weird?"

"No man, we mean Dezy Roo. Do you really think people will buy that?" Austin half laughed.

Dez grinned proudly, "of course they will...but...maybe we should stick with Calum Worthy." He said sheepishly.