Hi guys, here's the next chapter. Please let me know what you think!
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I do not own the Darkest Powers or any of the characters, Kelley Armstrong does.
(CPOV)
I woke up with Derek next to me. He was already awake and he was staring at me. "What?" I said, smiling. He kissed me on my forehead, then said: "I was just watching you. You're really cute when you are sleeping," that made me blush, 'cause he might say I was cute, but still, it probably didn't look so charming. "You know, we haven't gone on a real date yet." He said. "Let me take you on a date." Wow.
"Uh, yeah! What do you want to do?" I asked.
"I thought, well, maybe we could, you know,"
"Yeah…?"
"Chloe!" Tori yelled, why did she always have to ruin the moment…
"What?" I mumbled.
"We're going to Houston, remember? You have to call you dad!" Omg, I had totally forgotten about that…
"Yeah…" I hugged Derek and kissed him. Then I followed Tori. "Hey, it's just an idea, but maybe you should get dressed first." She laughed.
"Right." I took a shower, brushed my hair and put it in a ponytail, brushed my teeth, put on a jeans and a T-Shirt, put on my make-up and went to Tori.
"Do you know his number?" she asked.
"Of course." She gave me a phone and I dialled the number.
Nothing, what if he isn't there?
Then a woman answered. "Hello?" I didn't recognize her voice. What if he left?
With no one to be there if you came back?
"H-hello, is Steve there?"
"Who is this?"
"I-It's Chloe."
"Chloe Saunders? I'll go get him for you immediately. STEVE!" she started to walk, I think. I heard nothing for a very long time, then my dad answered. "Chloe?" he sounded horrible. Like he had been crying and drinking. "Dad!"
"Chloe! Where are you? I've been looking for you everywhere, Lyle House is empty, Lauren is gone too. Are you safe?"
"Yes dad, I'm with Aunt Lauren." He sighed with relief.
"Where are you?"
"I don't exactly know where I am right now, but we're taking the next flight to Houston. Can you meet us at the airport tomorrow?"
"Huh, yeah, of course honey… I'll book a flight right away, have you got enough money?"
"Yes, I think so… Dad?"
"Yes, sweetie?"
"I really missed you."
"I missed you too. I'll be there tomorrow, can I call you back on this number?" he asked.
"Uh… wait a sec, Tori? Can he call me back on this number?" she nodded.
"Yes, you can call me at this number. Love you."
"I'll be there tomorrow. Love you too." He said, and then he hung up. Tears started to fill my eyes. Tori saw it. "Hey," she said, "don't cry. You're gonna see your dad tomorrow, 'kay?" I nodded and she hugged me. "We're gonna be okay."
"I know."
I was packing my stuff, I didn't have that much stuff, but I kept thinking about other things. I was going to see my dad again tomorrow, it was like a huge weight off my shoulders. I could tell him everything. And my date with Derek. I was really curious about that, I hoped he wouldn't take me to a movie, as much as I liked movies, I kind of hoped he was more creative than that. But even if he did take me to a cinema, as long as I was with Derek, everything was perfect.
I heard the door click and turned around. "Hah! Gotcha!" I said.
"Wow, a historical moment, you got me." Derek said. I stood on my toes to kiss him. He kissed me back, but pulled back after a few seconds. "What?" I asked.
"Hmm? Nothing, but we have to go now if we want to catch our flight."
"About that, how are we going to pay for everything?"
"Dad still has some money saved, we can use that."
"Okay, but you can just be honest, my dad can pay for us, you know."
"I know that, but we're fine."
"If you say so. As long as you don't let me sit between chicken goats I'm fine." He laughed.
"I would never do that."
"You made me dye my hair black."
"And I apologized for that. You can go to a barber if you want to."
"And you will go with me. Your hair is way too long." I joked, but he took it serious.
"I know, but first, we have to go to Houston!" he grabbed my bag and when I followed, he closed the door.
"Wait!" I said. "Oh, never mind."
"What?"
"Oh, I thought I forgot my necklace, but it's right here." I showed him.
"Okay, let's go then." He kissed my forehead, and we headed to parking lot, where the others were already waiting for us.
At the airport there was a very strange spooky atmosphere. It was really cold and creepy, and though there were a lot of people, something didn't feel right. I think it was because of planes that may have crashed here. I would be really glad to be out of here.
I walked with Derek close to my side, I wouldn't let him go anywhere too far. And he seemed to have the same feeling about me. Suddenly I saw something really terrifying. There was a man with a machine gun. He started to fire bullets in all directions. I screamed, and when everyone looked at me, I first noticed that there weren't any sounds coming out of the gun and realized it wasn't real. So I just tried to ignore it. The feeling I had before got worse and I got even more close to Derek, and didn't go anywhere without him until he was sitting next to me in the airplane. "Love you." I whispered. "Love you too," he said and he kissed my cheek.
"Hello everybody, this is you pilot, I'm Peter Garcia and I will fly you to Houston today. We hope to arrive in Houston at 18.45…."
When I woke up when me ears started to hurt. I had flown a lot because of my dad's work, but still my ears hurt every time because of the turbulence. It meant we were almost there. I wanted to ask Derek where we were, but he was asleep, so I asked Simon, who was sitting behind us.
"We should be there in a quarter." He said.
"How do you know that?"
"The pilot said we had to wait twenty more minutes, and that was five minutes ago, you probably missed it." Aw, my ears really hurt. Simon saw it, "You want chewing gum?" he asked.
"Yeah, if you have some. You would really do me a favour."
"Chloe." Derek's voice. Huh, I must have fallen asleep again. "We're here."
"Is my dad here too?"
"I don't know what you told him, but I don't think so."
"Okay, I'll call him." When I wanted to call my dad on the phone Tori gave me, I realized it was off. I turned it on, and I had two missed calls and one voice-mail from my dad. I listened to my voice-mail.
"You have one new message, recorded at 17.52 today." "Hey Chloe, I'm already at the airport, I came immediately. I guess you're in the airplane right now, and your cell is off, so I will wait here one hour, then I'm going to find a hotel, and you can call me on this number when you arrive. Love you."
"He's here!" I said. "Derek, he's here!"
"Really? How?"
"I don't know, but he's here!"
"Yeah! Shouldn't you call him?"
"Yeah, right. I can't believe he's here."
And? What did you think? Please let me know… Reunion with her dad next chapter, srry…
