"So what are we going to do when we get to your house?" asked Tori on the way home from school. "I don't know. What do you want to do?" I
asked. This was a game Tori and I always played. One would ask 'what do you want to do?' and the other would say 'I don't know, what do you
want to do?' It would continue for what seemed like hours on end when in reality it was only a couple of minutes.
Tori is my best friend. We've known each other since the forth grade. She has long, dirty blonde hair with brown eyes. She's about 5'5. She
always has this goofy looking grin on her face but that just the way she is. She's what some might call quirky. She totally loves horses and
rides them now more than ever. It's her outlet to her parents getting divorce last year. It wasn't easy on her and most of the time I had to
be her shoulder to cry on (which I didn't mind at all!).
As for me, I am really tall (about 5'11 that is). It's funny to see tori and I together because she's so short compared to me. I have short
brown hair with natural red highlights and a few blonde ones added in along the way. I quiet most of the time but I can't really help that. I
have this disease called Soto's syndrome. It this disease that makes me grow really fast and have a few emotional problems. There's other
symptoms to but they're not all that common. The disease it self isn't that common.
Anyways, when we got back to my house, tori and I decided that we wanted to watch a movie. "What movie do you want to watch?" asked tori.
"I don't know. Let's look in the drawer and pick one out" I said, gesturing to the draw that was on the bottom of my dresser. I had this
drawer in my room that my friends and I often call the movie drawer because it's packed with movies. "There's too many movies here. Maybe you
should
pick I mean it is your house" said Tori.
"No, you're the guest. I insist."
Tori just gave me a look that said "just shut up and pick one." So I did. I picked The Outsiders. "What's that about? I don't think I've seen
it" said Tori. I explained to her that The Outsiders was based on a book and is about this group of teenage boys who live in Tulsa, Oklahoma
and about all of there troubles that they go through. Tori said that it sounded boring and that we should pick another movie but then I added
the part about the murder and the church fire and all the hot guys in the movie and all of the sudden she was interested.
So I popped the DVD into the DVD play and we were about half way through the movie when my mom came in and told us that it was getting late
and to go to bed.
"Now? But I was just getting into the movie" whined Tori.
"We can watch it while we try to fall asleep. Maybe we won't fall asleep until the movie is over" I suggested.
"Well, ok" said Tori. Tori and I climbed into our sleeping bags in front of the TV and tried to finish the movie though. Unfortunately we
only got to the part where Johnny dies. We didn't get to see the rest.
I awoke the next morning to the warm sun on my face which was strange because I don't remember falling asleep next to a window or anything.
As I laid there peacefully, thinking about the dream I had had the night before, I rolled over and felt grass on the other side of my
sleeping bag. Startled by the feel of the grass I jumped to my feet. I was some where's outside. I looked around me but all I could see was a
road and some fields. Nothing looked familiar to me. I noticed that wherever I was, Tori had come with me. She was laying right next to me,
just like she was when we fell asleep. I shook her as hard as I could to get her to wake up. She hit me on the head and said "quit shaking
me, damn it, I'm awake!"
"Tori, wake up!" I yelled.
"What?" Tori was really upset about the fact that I woke her up.
"Look around you! I have no idea where we are!"
Tori quickly jumped up and took a look around, just as I had done minutes before. "Where are we?"
"Somewhere outside, I guess."
"I knew that. I meant what city or state are we in?"
I looked around for any sign of where we were. I saw a billboard off in the distance. "There's I sign over there" I pointed to the sign to
show tori where I was looking, "maybe that will tell us where we are."
"Good I idea." Tori and I rolled up our sleeping bags and made our way towards the billboard. The sign was a lot further away than it
appeared to be. It took what seemed like forever to get there. "My feet hurt" complained tori. "Maybe when we find a town we can get you some
shoes and some directions."
"Directions to where?"
"Back to Jacksonville. Back to Florida."
"Well maybe we are in Jacksonville. Maybe this is clay county or something. You know clay county can often times be mistaken for the
country." Tori was right. Maybe we were in clay county and I just didn't recognize it but then again I've been over there more times then one
would wish and this didn't seem like clay county to me.
"No" I started "I don't think this is clay county. Besides, if we were in clay county, how do you think we got here? We can't drive plus we
were asleep last I remember."
"Look!" tori shouted, "it's the sign." Tori ran up to the sign almost as if it were a person and she was greeting it. She stopped dead in her
tracks once she got there. "What's it say!" I shouted from where I was along the road.
"Tulsa, Oklahoma. 21 miles."