Chapter 14
Two hundred and thirty dollars. That is how much money Ethan had found. That much money would pay for all of our train tickets plus food.
We went to the ticket booth and purchased our tickets, and then we went to board our train. All the while, Kary was muttering something about Harry Potter and Platform 9 and ¾.
The whole train ride from Death Valley to San Francisco took about six hours, so we would get there at 7:00pm. The train stopped at several places, Stockton, Modesto, Merced, Martinez, and Fresno. We get off at the station in Oakland. The only thing I'm worried about is Erasers. Let's just hope they don't like the chilly San Francisco weather.
One Hour Later:
"Charlotte?" I looked over at Kary, "I'm hunnggrryyy" she whined.
"I'm not your mom. You're a big girl, go order your own food." I told her. She grabbed some cash and left. After five minutes she came back with a plate heaped with beans and rice, and a burrito. She started devouring it in a very unladylike manner. She looked up to find all of us staring at her, disgusted. She picked up her napkin and patted it daintily on her mouth and continued eating.
Three Hours Later:
Kary and Ethan were talking quietly together, while Ariek and I were laughing quiet loudly, earning a few glares from our fellow passengers. We both bored out of our minds and a little whacked out from being cooped up so long. We started telling knock-knock jokes and that progressed into joke extravaganza. I don't remember all of the jokes we said, but the majority of them were probably really stupid.
One Hour Later:
"Oh my God." I said.
"What?" Kary asked looking up from a Teen Vogue magazine.
"Oh my God! Oh my God!"
"What!"
"Oh my goodness! Thank heaven and Lord above!"
"Charlotte, if you don't tell me now I'm going to rip you limb from limb and then dump your body in a vat of boiling acid."
"Okie dokie then… Anyway, they have a Ghiradelli factory in San Francisco!" I was looking at a brochure that was about all the "fun and exiting" things you could do in San Fran.
"Really? That's it?"
" 'That's it'? It's a CHOCOLATE factory!"
"So?"
"If you cannot appreciate the amazingness of this, then I can't speak to you anymore." I told her. She just rolled her eyes and went back to her magazine.
The very last hour on this freaking train:
We were all pretty burnt out and patience was running low. Ariek and Kary, who were pretty much the best siblings ever, never fought or anything, were at each other's throats. "Ariek! Don't shove me!"
"Don't be such a baby! I barely touched you."
They kept bickering like that until Ethan shouted out "Quit it will you? We are almost there, and if you two don't be quiet we are going all the way back. So shut it, okay?" Ariek and Kary just stared at him, stunned. They turned to me in disbelief, their faces asking "Is he serious?" I nodded and sort of like flicking on a switch they were back to normal. Kary picked up a magazine she had read five times already and started leafing through it. Ariek leaned back, got comfortable and closed his eyes. Within minutes he was already snoring softly.
"Good job." I said to Ethan high-fiving him.
"I know." He said smirking.
