Taking the Long Way Home

Claudia Hampton is a social misfit. She was born into a family where she was taught from young that money was everything and parents had to fight in order to get it. She also was brought up thinking mom bringing strange men home is fine and women calling up to flirt with dad is perfectly normal. Other than that, she also thought that having three younger siblings named Tom, Dick and Harry, born from different fathers, is cool.

It's not.

Claudia's life was, needless to say, a little screwed up. Having sex ed for the very first time in school while other kids snickered at the diagrams kind of made her a little bit more screwed up, realizing that this was what mom and dad have been doing to other people.

So when offered the chance to go to Las Vegas for 4 days, Claudia signed herself right up and even signed up for staying away for an extended period.

Not that it was an option, but when you live in the Hampton household, anything could be made possible-- one proof being having siblings named Tom, Dick and Harry, consecutively.

Essentially, this is a story about Claudia and a boy named Eli Moore, and they pretty much hate other, but they somehow embark on a journey together to discover themselves, and each other in the process.

Td;dr (too dramatic, didn't read), Claudia and Eli and angst-filled teenagers running away from home; they may hate each other but Claudia is a woman with a plan and Eli has his daddy's money, so what else do two teens really need?

(Some space and privacy. Please. And also, a little bit of heart-to-heart never hurts?)