chapter 20

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"It's time to get up."says Jack.

I refuse to open my eyes at first. I finally open them and see that Alex is also just waking up. I go get changed and then Alex takes his turn. Once he's finished we grab some breakfast and meet Jack at the car. He had already put everything in the car while we were getting breakfast.

Alex and I climb into the back seat again in the same spots at last time. I work on finishing my drawing. I pull out my colored pencils once I'm finished and go back to the drawing of Alex looking at the window. I start coloring it. I finish it after a few hours later. I put away my stuff in my backpack as we pull up to a gas station.

"The others passed us but they should be turning back to meet us here." Says Jack opening our door.

We both climb out and go to the bathrooms. Jack tells us to go ahead out to the car while he grabs a few snacks. I walk with Alex outside slowly looking at the ground. When I look up Alex is still directly in front of me. I look over by the trees to see a guy pointing a gun at Alex.

"Look out!" I yell pushing Alex out of the way just in time.

I was now on the ground and I quickly sit up. The man was coming towards us. I stand up and Alex does the same. The man starts running towards us. We start running away. I get jerked back as the man grabs onto my arm and pulls me back. Alex turns and runs over to me. He starts fighting the man trying to get him to let go of me.

I elbow the man hard in the stomach as I see Jack running towards us and the other two police cars just pulling into the gas station. The man quickly grabs my wrist while trying to stop Alex. Once Jack gets the man away from each of us. Detective Weaver is on the phone having skmek come to us to got the man. Once the other police cars shows up they take away the man. We get into Jack's car right away and take off down the road in the middle of the other two undercover police cars.

"We're going straight to the airport to get you guys somewhere safer."

I could feel myself shaking. I tried to make it stop but I couldn't. I try to braid my hair but I couldn't stop my hands from shaking. I finally give up and just let my hair fall.

"Do you want me braid your hair?" Alex asks looking at me.

I look him in the eyes, "you..can braid hair?"

"Yes! Why would I ask if I didn't know how?!"

"Well it's just most guys I know have no clue how to braid hair and you also don't have any sisters."

"Well my mom taught me before I wanted to do her hair."

"That's cool."

"So...can I do your hair for you or not?"

"Yeah go ahead."

I hand him the two hair ties on my wrist and he puts them on his.

"Do you have a brush with you?"

I quickly get my hair brush from my backpack and hand it to him.

"So I'm guessing you wanted to braids and all of it up right?" he asks while brushing my hair.

"Yeah."

I sit facing my back towards him as I feel him braiding my hair. I was hoping that he actually did know what he was doing. I feel I slight pull on my hair.

"Sorry...my finger got caught."

"It's okay."

He keeps on going until he has both sides completely braided. I look for my phone trying not to move much as he puts in the last hair tie. Once I finally find it I hand it to him.

"Could you take a picture so I can see?"

"Sure."

I stay still and then he hands me back my phone. I turn so my back is up against the back of the seat again. I was surprised that he had done a Dutch braid.

"I don't even know how to do this braid." I say turning off my phone and setting it down by me.

"It's really easy. It's just and inside out French braid."

"I have no clue what you mean..."

"Basically you just braid having the pieces go under instead of over."

"Okay that makes more sense. I'm still surprised. It looks really good."

"Thanks I guess..I mean if you meant that to be a complement."

We both laugh and then it goes silent. We stay silent for the rest of the drive to the airport. Once we get to the airport we wall park next to each other. Alex and I get out of the car grabbing out backpacks. We follow Jack to the back of the car. As he gets our duffle bags out my dad, William and the officers come over to us.

"Detective Cooper and I were going to each take one of these cars back. We were thinking of just leaving Officer Moore's car hear and taking yours." says Officer Stone.

"Okay, we just have to finish getting the stuff out of it and then you guys can go." replies Jack.

We finish getting our stuff and then go into the airport. We finally make it threw bagging and security. I keep my backpack with me and everyone else does the same. We get on the plane where I sit in the middle while Jack and Alex sit on each side of me. My dad sits in front of us by the window when William sits in the middle and Officer Moore sits on the side. While we're waiting to take off the three of them look back at us.

"Did you two get any sleep?" asks Officer Moore.

I just shrug my shoulders and Alex doesn't say anything. I just felt tired but I could never fall asleep on planes.

"You took look completely exhausted." says my dad.

They turn back around when the flight attendant starts explaining everything like usual. Finally we take off and I pull out my sketchbook and colored pencils. After awhile I just can't work on the picture anymore. I was to tired and I knew I would mess it up if I keeps going. I put away my stuff trying not to wake up Alex who had fallen asleep on my shoulder while watching me. I end up leaning onto Jack as I fall asleep. 

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