Chapter 1
I'm sitting in the passenger seat of my car as I let Pharux drive, watching the scenery pass by. Malachi was leading us to our new home which felt worlds away from the one we were recently at. Pepin, Chico, and Christian were in the cars behind us and Raul in the truck behind them. Chico was driving Raul's car and Christian was driving Pharux's. I didn't feel like driving my mind kept wandering back to where we came from, the only reason Chico isn't driving his car is because he no longer has a car. A month back Chico crashed his car; he was with a girl doing who knows what while trying to drive. I checked my phone for the hundredth time, letting out a sigh as ask Pharux, "Ruxie, how much longer until we get there?" Pharux glances at me and shrugs. "Not sure call and ask Malachi." I sigh and unlock my phone scrolling to Malachi's number. I hit call and hold it up to my ear listening to it ring until he picks up and says, "Yes Lizzy? I'm guessing you want to know how much longer?"
"Yea, how far until we hit another city I need to stretch my legs."
Pharux pipes up and says, "Do you have carsickness?"
"We're an hour outside of Las Vegas, we'll all stop there for an hour or so to eat and stretch and fuel up. Then we'll continue the last 3 to 4 hours. Do you want to drive or ride with me?" Malachi asks. "I'll stay with Pharux don't worry about me, I just need to stretch and eat." I respond knowing Malachi was worried because I never went on a trip this long without driving.
"Alright tell him were stopping in Vegas to eat and get gas." Malachi says before hanging up. I sigh and tell Pharux were stopping in Las Vegas. After telling him what I need to, I go back to staring out the window. The sun was just starting to set looks like a long night of driving to get to our new home. "Looks like a beautiful sunset, red at night sailor's delight." Pharux smiles as he glances at me.
An hour later we were pulling up to a small restaurant in Vegas, we park our cars and peal ourselves out of our seats. I wobble a bit trying to get my balance and Malachi comes over to help steady me. "How bout we stay a night in a motel and leave early in the morning?" Malachi asks the crew. We all nod in response before walking in the restaurant and sitting down at a few tables. We all order our food and everyone else converses amongst themselves as I fiddle with the napkin in front of me. Suddenly Pharux opens a sugar packet pours it on a spoon and flings the sugar at me. "What was that for Ruxie?"
He smirks and says, "You're fiddling with a napkin, what's wrong?"
I sigh and say, "Eric, I feel like he's going to follow us. He's been invading my mind since we left yesterday."
Pharux sighs and says, "He's not going to hurt you we won't let that happen." I smile at him and say, "Thanks Ruxie." Not a moment later our food was brought to us and we started to eat.
After eating we headed to a motel and got 2 rooms Raul, Christian, Pepin, and Chico were sharing one room and Malachi, Pharux, and I were sharing the other one; I got my own bed. We all dressed up nice which meant all the guys in button downs and jeans and me in a corset with nice skinny jeans and some nice high heels on. We walked the strip which was lit up and almost as bright as day, we were having fun until one guy thought I was a hooker and Christian lets his fists fly, after that we went back to the motel and rested up for the 4 hours of driving the next day.
The next morning went the same as the last 2 Pharux driving and me staring out the window until we pulled up to the new house, then we started unpacking the cars and started on the truck. The boys decided to give me the Master bedroom since I was the only girl out of them all. After we unpacked all the stuff for my room that we hadn't shipped yet the boys went to unpack there things, the stuff that was shipped should be here by tomorrow afternoon.
After everything was unpacked we were all sitting around in the living room around our coffee table which is the only table we have at this point with 1 sofa and a bunch of boxes to sit on. We were all eating pizza then Malachi pulled out two six-packs of bottled beer. He handed us each one and opened mine for me. "A toast to the new life we are going to make here. May we always stay close and never have to leave again." Malachi raised his bottle and we all did the same. We all clanked our bottles and took a swig, I myself am not fond of beer but I'll drink it with the guys. Malachi then looked at me and Pharux, "You both are starting your senior year of high school tomorrow with everyone else here. You both need to go to bed soon." Pharux and I looked at each other sighed and in unison we both said, "Do we have to?" Malachi started laughing and said, "Yes, finish your beers and then off to bed." We sighed and finished our beers, placing the bottles down on the table and headed to our rooms. I got to my room and pulled out a black corset and purple corset cover, a pair of black skinny jeans and my skater shoes. After putting them on a chair I took a shower washing my mid-back length black hair. I threw a tank top and a pair of shorts on then crawled into bed.