The Need To Get Away
Summary:After facing another tragedy in life,Manuella Santos runs off to Washington,DC and ends up meeting Lance Sweets. Will something develop between them?
Prologue:Fleeing
Manuella Santos sighed and slid her headphones on,leaning her head back into her seat as she shut her eyes slowly. It had been a rough couple of weeks. From her audition with a Hollywood director for a part in a movie,to competing for the main character role against Paige who'd been a rival of her's since high school,to coming face to face with one ex boyfriend and then the other,and then to what had happened just a few days ago with learning that Sean Cameron had died in Iraq a fallen soldier of the war life had definitly taken a toll. She hadn't even gone to the funeral. Instead,she'd ended up in bed with Jay Hogart who had been Sean's best friend and her boyfriend at one time and Manny had been good friends with Sean what with him being her best friend,Emma Nelson's on and off boyfriend and all. Their sleeping together again after so much time had passed had been a mistake that shouldn't have happened.
Add that to what happened the year before with JT being stabbed in the back during a party that she'd planned to make herself feel just a little bit better about her breakup with Craig Manning who'd become a druggie---a party that had been JT's idea to have for Liberty for her birthday then going to the hospital with Sean,Emma,Toby,and Liberty and learning that the doctors had tried everything to save JT but it hadn't worked because he'd been stabbed in the aorta and those were reason enough to want to escape the life she'd had in Canada. She hadn't even went to Sean's funeral. With her being in LA at the time,she'd totally missed it. That was how she'd ended up on this plane,heading for Washington,DC. She knew that it was a crazy and impulsive move but the frequent whirlwind of drama her life held had become too much.
"Attention passengers,this is your pilot speaking. We will be landing at our destination in five minutes. Please stay in your seats and don't move about the cabin." The voice on the loudspeaker said before it shut off.
Manny looked out the window as the plane began it's descent. Hopefully her new life in DC would be what she needed. It had to be. She'd spent all the money she had to by a plane ticket to get here and only had three hundred dollars left. She'd have to find a way to divide the money between food and a hotel this week. She'd have to take the bus for transportation and would need to find a job to earn money to buy herself an apartment. Her parents and friends of course had no idea. She'd written notes in her hotel room after having sex with Jay. He'd been asleep at the time which gave her just the right amount of moments to write him,her mother and father,and Emma and Liberty notes. Notes that she'd told Jay in his letter to give to them. And then she'd redressed back into the clothes Jay had recently stripped off of her,not even taking time to get in the shower before she grabbed her suitcase and was out the door,and out on the sidewalk of her hotel,hailing a cab.
She saw the airport come into view as the plane landed into a stop. This was the beginning of her new life.
Next Chapter:Manny gets off her plane and hails a cab to take her to a hotel,Manny gets lost after going for a walk and ends up running into Sweets---literally.