Another day of work came and passed. Though, strangely enough, Kiki didn't come.. which made me both lonely and paranoid. I was alone at the place. Anything could happen. Especially since the cameras occasionally cut to static, which added to my paranoia. It made me think of things I haven't wanted to think about in years. One day, I got home and found Kiki on the couch.
"Hey, why haven't you been at work?"
"I-um-was.. planning our vacation!"
"Vacation? We have vacation days?" Kiki looked at me, pausing her show.
"Of course we do! All of us! We're all going to take a break and go back home!"
"B-Back.. home..?" I stammered out, remembering all the bad times there.
"Yeah, why not? We all need a break!" Vixen came out of our room, yawning.
"I just got an email.. The Museum's gonna be closed for a few days for.. management. What? That's happened before.. but me and Cass still went to work.." Kiki snapped.
"There we go! Vacation!"
"Vacation?" Vixen asked, wrinkling her nose.
"Vacation?!" Cass yelled, popping out of her room.
"Yeah, you know, Vacation! Just for a couple days, back home, visit old places, old friends, a good old time?"
"Do we even have the money for that?"
"Yeah, I've been saving!" Kiki says, looking a bit nervous.
"For once, you actually did something responsilble." Vixen said with surprise, as I shrank to the shadows of the conversation. I could feel tears welling in my eyes as I escaped to the bathroom. I turned in the sink and washed my face with cold water.
"Pull yourself together Alex.. You can stay for a couple nights.. It'll be fine.. I think.." I whispered to myself as I splashed my face with cold water, then straightened.
"Yeah.. I'll be fine.. I have my friends.. I mean; more friends than I did last time.." I whispered, then dried my face off, then slipped back into the living room, where I found everyone talking about where we would stay, costs, who and what we would see, when we would go, and such like that. They barely noticed I was gone.
"Hey, Alex, do you wanna see your old house?" Cass asked, looking at me.
"Hm? Oh, um, no, no, I don't like it that much and nobody lives there." I responded, remembering that my parents don't live in our hometown anymore.
"Alright. Just wondering if you wanted to flip it off or something." Cass said as I stifled a giggle. I would've wanted to do that if I were younger, but now that just seems immature. Soon, when everything was sorted out, including me getting a few days off, we packed, got into the car, and drove off. I dozed off a few times, only to have nightmares and wake up shortly after. I gave up on sleeping a couple hours in, and just listened to music the rest of the way there.