We made it! We made it to Los Angeles... finally. I swear I could have been here in less than 24 hours if anyone let me. Salice and I are just sitting in this motel 6 parking lot breathing, a breath in freedom and happiness. I decide to get out and get us a room, though extremely relieved, very tired and in need of a long shower. I walk up and ask the lady with the brunette bun if there are any rooms available for tonight and we begin getting a room, "can I have a name?" she asked, "Aerabella Morales," I say and then spell for her. We get a room and the first thing I do is lay on the comfy white bed and charge my new phone while Salice got all our bags. Gosh did I want to just fall asleep, but I knew I smelled bad, we were in dire need of a shopping trip. "We should probably go get some food and i dont know, hygeine products, S." I tell her. She agrees with me and we head out, leaving my phone in the room to charge because right now I have no one but her.
We settle for a trip to walmart, being as it is three in the morning and it is the only thing open, just to grab the basics, snacks, shampoo, soap... we check out and when I say I am exhausted I mean I wanted to buckle down in the middle of this store and take a nap. We got back to the hotel and I took a very long steamy shower. I put on a fluffy robe I grabbed from the store and tied my hair up in the towel, I layed down just for a minute and ended up falling right to sleep.
I wake up around noon the next day, I get on my phone to see a bunch of instagram DM's from bear... To be honest i had completely forgot about him and the rest of my friends during the couple days I was in the hospital and the three days it took us to get here.
iamblackbear: wyd today
iamblackbear: hope ur day was good
iamblackbear: r u ok
iamblackbear: ok, was nice talking 2 u. 👍🏻
Oh gosh I feel so bad, everyone probably thinks I am ghosting them right now. I am quick to message him, maybe we can make plans.
Username: bear
Username: im in LA wyd
I figured I would keep it short, and not assume he would even reply after I accidently ghosted him. My paranoia was wrong.
iamblackbear: so u ignore my messages and now you're just in LA
Username: yea. sorry.
Keep it short. Don't come off like you actually want to see him, even though you're just dying to. why am i like this..
iamblackbear: weird..
Clearly being dry with me. damn.
Username: sent a photo
I decided to send a selfie with the geotag so he knows its for real right now.
iamblackbear: where u
I tell him and he tells me he's coming over. ok cool... so I have an undisclosed amount of time to go from fluffy robe with a towel on my head to the instagram goddess I come off as in my photos. I take my dark brown, curly hair down and quickly pull on an all black outfit with some pink shoes and put foundation on to cover a bruise from the crash, just a little mascara and I'm done, i guess. I try not to stare too long at myself before I get self conscious. I send a quick text to let him know I'll just wait in the front by the lobby, since Salice is still asleep.
About 10 minutes goes by and he pulls up, with no doubt it's him in the range rover, I walk up to him with a smile and he gets out and greets me with a long hug. We pull away and I just look at him with my resting face for a minute, he's so pretty. He goes to the passenger side of the car "get in" he tells me as he opened the door. "I dont take rides from strangers I tell him," oh god that was cheesy and dumb I thought. "I wont be so much of a stranger after the ride," he says as he smiles and gets in the car. I get in the car. Oh gosh what am I getting into.
