The Story of Zane Downs

Chapter 10

Hey look a fancier flash forward. I'm learning.

**NOT EDITED**

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SPRING   April 21, 2018
Saturday

Sitting up I looked at what Zane's father gave me. It was a box of his he kept locked in his closet. I'd stumbled upon it before he and told me jokingly it's where he kept the souvenirs of the people he killed.
Wondering how I was gonna open it I suddenly remembered the key. I had it hung upstairs on a hook by my desk.
Getting the cliche key necklace I grabbed it and took it downstairs and opened the box taking a glimpse inside at its contents.

FALL October 3, 2017
Tuesday
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    Zane and I decided this was possibly the easiest trip. However possibly more on pricer side though. Because we were gonna be in Louisville we decided to spend the night there in a hotel. Mainly because the two of us didn't wanna drive home after walking through the aquarium and maybe going through some stores it'd be best to drive home the next day.
    We had bought some little snacks for the ride to and fro. We had thought about going to the aquarium today then tomorrow ride up to the Cincinnati zoo/botanical garden and possibly the theatre for a quick show at some point. Then go home after that.

Welcoming myself into the Downs' house of living I peaked through the kitchen and connected living room before walking up the steps after not seeing Zane in either.
Knocking three times I sat for a second before letting myself saying "I knocked and waited! It's your fault if I walk in and need therapy."
Hearing a groan I knew Zane was still asleep. Or was.
   "Come on silly goose we gotta get going! Gotta beat the traffic." I said kneeling on his bed edge and rolling his body side-to-side.
"Can I please have five more minutes." Zane moaned out placing an arm on top of his head.
"No! We have to go now." Saying that earned me another groan. "Please, I'll buy you breakfast."
"Oh hey Aleska you ready to go?" He said sitting up immediately.
"There we go." I said smirking.
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"When you said you'd buy me breakfast, I didn't think you meant Burger King." Zane said placing our tray on our table and sitting.
"Well I never said where I'd buy you breakfast I just said I would. That's where you went wrong and didn't read the fine print." I said picking up my box of French Toast sticks.
    "I need to start making some type of rule before automatically agreeing to things like this." He said looking sadly and picked up his sandwich and unwrapped it and took a bite.
    "Okay after this we need to get gas. Then we can check into a hotel and make our way to the aquarium." I said with a smile taking a bite of the stick.
"Got it Hannibal." Zane said looking at me while I ate.
"Good-evening Clarice." I said before making the hissing noise at him.
"I thought it was 'Hello Clarice'?" Zane said taking another bite.
"Nope watched it again last night, it's good evening. Tickle me surprised." I said dipping a stick in syrup and finished my first box off before moving onto my second.
(Burger King only has like 9 French toast sticks per box but they seem kinda small so. Granted I probably still would've had her get 2 boxes because let's be honest it's French toast sticks.)
"Well I'll be damned." Zane said sitting back crossing a leg over the other.
    "Don't do that."
    "Do what?" He asked lookin at me with furrowed eyebrows.
    "Cross your legs, you look like a grandpa, or like.... a Mr.Rogers wanna be." I said narrowing my eyes trying to describe what was going through my mind.
"That sounds mean and kinda offensive considering Mr. Rogers has passed away." Zane said slowly uncrossing his legs and took his final bite of his breakfast before reaching over and grabbing one of my own.
"Yes but so have most Mr. Rogers wanna be." I stated smacking his hand away after it returned from its journey to his mouth.
"Well hurry up and finish Goliath we have a schedule we gotta keep." He said scooting out of the booth and slinging his jacket on.
He grabbed what was mine and his trash and threw it away before waiting for me to gather my items before I started toward him.
Walking side by side he held the door open for me allowing me to walk under his arm and toward the van. Opening the doors we got inside and closed them at the same time before settling in for the adventure ahead of us on I-65 (it's a literal pain in the ass. However I-70 is worse my father literally tells us to never get on it because of people always crashing and getting killed on it.)

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Guess who started back to school almost a month ago! I did! We went back on August 8th, I don't wanna say I hate it yet because the hardest class I'm taking is my Intro to College Algebra and it's the easiest math. The reason it's hard is it's all online so we're not actually being taught atm all the notes are online.

Anyway this has been my senior year update back to the weather.

Weather: hot is balls and it'll probably only get hotter before cooler.