No Time For The Devil's Call (TDATT FanFiction)✔︎⚠︎︎

Chapter Fifteen

I woke up to a bright light blinding me. For a moment I thought I was surely dead, until my eyes adjusted to reveal it was just the sunlight.

I yawned, stretching and reaching my hand over to feel an empty space next to me. I sat up, rubbing an eye as I realized Arvin wasn't next to me.

I frowned, looking around for the pretty boy before I heard the bathroom door swing open, steam leaving as Arvin walked into the bedroom.

In only a towel.

"ARVIN JESUS!" I yelped as he flinched, eyes widening as I threw the blanket over my eyes.

"Emily! I didn't realize you woke up!" He said, panicked, as he grabbed a shirt and quickly out it on. Still shielding my eyes, I waited for him to give me the okay.

"I-I'm dressed now.." he said quietly as I slowly lowered the blanket, dropping it when I noticed he was clothed.

"Yeah.. I um." I felt my cheeks heat up as bad as Arvin's were as he sat down, looking either embarrassed or flustered. "I just woke up not even a minute ago." I said with a nervous chuckle as Arvin nodded, lips pressed together in a thin line.

"Well. Is there anything you want to do today?" He asked, quickly changing the awkward situation. I thought for a moment before my lips grew into a smile.

"There's a place I need to go to." I said as Arvin nodded, standing up.

"Alone." I said as his face grew with concern. "Arvin I'll be fine. I can clearly handle myself." I said, standing up as he nodded.

"Right. Right of course. I just... Want you to be safe." He said as I rolled my eyes.

"I will be. Now. I will be back in maybe an hour or two, getting the thing I want to get us. You go out and do something fun, I be back soon." I said as I walked over to Arvin, grabbing his waist as I have him a quick kiss.

He smiled before he pulled me into another one, this one a bit longer. I muffled a chuckle before I pulled away.

"Arvin I have to go! I want to be the first one there when they open." I said as Arvin pouted, causing me to laugh as I ran into the bathroom, slipping on a black office type dress, grabbing my purse and waving goodbye to Arvin before walking out of the room and hotel.

As I walked the streets of Chicago, I finally got a look at how different everything was from Cincinnati. I never went to the city of Cincinnati, I lived where it was mainly just fields.

I was never allowed to go to the city. I never knew why.

I'm sure the city was lovely, but Chicago had a different feeling. While it felt dangerous to be alone, I felt at home, and hoped there was a city in Canada me and Arvin could live in.

I looked into my purse to see my gun next to a roll of cash, a smirk crossing my face before it turned into a frown.

We were running out of money.

We spent so much money on gas, because we chose to take the longest way possible here, and spent so many nights in motels, that we were coming up to about less than $500.

And that hotel is expensive.

I groaned, taking out my sunglasses and putting them on as I walked into a candy shop, the aisles lined with popular and not-so-popular candies.

There was chocolate, hard candy, that weird chalk candy thing, you name it, they got it. They had a large cotton candy machine, an ice cream machine, even a line if vending machines with snacks.

Just looking at this place have me cavities.

The smell was putrid, but the food putrid. A sugar rush ached to appear in my mind as I grabbed a few bags, filling it with gummies, hard candies, sour candy, anything I saw.