Yeah. Long wait. No comment. I mean, i've had billions of different reasons (reasons, not excuses!) at different points in time, like the grad test (even though im a freaking seventh grader), twelve finals, my k button got jammed, I went out of town a few times, concerts, my brother had surgery twelve hours away and I had to go with, holidays, yada yada yada. All of them are true but they werent all at the same time, or all- some of the finals- uber recent. So, ill skip the crap cause there's no excuse for three months (if I did the math right). So yah, merry uber late Christmas and happy new year! Cause its like actually new years day!
We had just gotten on the road when my phone rang. Honestly, can these people give
me any privacy? Two person privacy, yes, but still. "What?" I asked, uber annoyed.
"What's this I hear about you sleeping with the director?" Zach roared, outraged.
"And why didn't you tell me about it? I mean, hello? Are we or are we not best friends?" Bex shouted.
"Volume, people. If you'll shut up a bit maybe I can listen to you and we can discuss this. Now what the heck are you talking about?" I inquired.
"Tina said you slept with the director to get an office at headquarters and then your mom confirmed it and said something about you being four when you did it. What are they talking about?"
"Oh, that. Well Jeffy is my godfather, and I used to always stay with him when my parents went on missions. When I was three, my parents went on a month long mission. My mum came back when I was seven. But he's a sucker for cuddling, and little kids in footsies, so I figure, if I want a real office, I'll just threaten him with no cuddling for a month. Obviously, it worked." Hoping that satisfied them, I hung up and turned my phone off.
"So, Bunches, looks like we're finally on our own. Where do you want to go?"
"Let's take a museum tour of D.C. Then find a zoo, then get ice cream, and a dog would be nice." I laughed.
"Anything you say, Love, anything for you." She grinned at my willingness to go to the ends of the earth for her. What can I say? I love my kid.
Time skip
" Kay, so we have the stars for above our beds, the doggie- he's so adorable, thank you Mommy- we did the simulators at every museum we've been to, visited the Holocaust Museum, which I really really wanted to do. What's left on our list?" Laina asked.
I pulled the clipboard out of my purse and flipped past the six pages of stuff we'd done so far to the very last page. "Let's see. Ice cream, the red slipper exhibit, the Dumbo elephant- those are literally like thirty feet away from each other, so we'll do them together- breaking into the White House, breaking into the Pentagon, setting a tree on fire, and meeting up with Jeff."
"Some of this stuff is insane. Like really, setting a tree on fire? Where do I come up with this stuff?" Laina wondered out loud.
"Well, you are my kid. But I think Jeff would enjoy this stuff. Why don't we go to the Museum of American History first, get some ice cream, then meet him at Langley, and take him to break into the White House and Pentagon, and set a tree on fire after wards? Like, you know, to celebrate?" Yes, I have a twisted idea of celebration. Suck it.
"I want mint chocolate chip. Or mocha cookie fudge... I can't decide!"
I smiled at her. "Get them both." Six year olds don't usually notice how easy the solutions to some of life's major crises are. Like, get a double cone of both flavors.
"May I take your order?" a hot worker came up to us and asked. Laina ordered and I got red velvet in a cup. He gave me a knowing look. "Kid sister? Mine is six. And I'm nineteen. Isn't that just a little disturbing when you think about it?"
"No. My daughter." I ruffled her hair, ignoring his shocked expression.
"Uh- Uh- Umm, Will that be all for you today, ma'am?" he stuttered. I nodded and we ate our ice cream.
He was the person at the cash register when we checked out, so I decided to explain, at least a little. "I'm younger than you are. Not that it's any of your information, but I was raped." His disdainful expression turned to understanding and sympathetic.
"Chameleon, I'm at the east corner. I have eyeball on the hatch," Jeff said over comms.
"Alright. I'm in the harness, halfway up, three- quarters. Okay. On the roof. I see both of you. Three... two... one. Through the hatch! Have I not told you? I took out all the Secret Service agents, but there are infrared snipers. Move too fast and you'll jerk your sensor deflector. Do you want to be shot to death?" I was being snippy, but more snippy, less snipey. And I think they're attached to their lives enough to deal with a little attitude in exchange for more time on Earth.
I recorded us going in. We stole the president's letter opener (that has his official seal on it), his podium, and some cookies from the kitchen, just for proof. (Well, and the cookies because they smelled good.)
Five agents caught on to us as we joined a tour group. They didn't know we had stolen anything, but they were doing a routine check for the admittance approval paperwork, and, as we obviously had none, we ran.
The agents, prided as they may be, were no match for spies. I mean, it was really, really, scarily close, but they didn't make it. They shot at us as we grabbed the podium from where we had stashed it in the bushes outside the kitchen window. They realized it was pointless when the bullets hit our chests but didn't hurt us. Bullet proof body suits. We set a tree in the yard on fire on our way out, just to complete everything on our to- do list. Feels good to wreak havoc on the government.
After our meeting, which had gone insanely late, Laina and I were finally on the road. We had made arrangements for Joseph's body, joked around, redid the Gallagher firewall, and changed all the camera sweeping patterns and security codes, ate some chicken, joked around, the usual.
But then the usual was annihilated when, at 11:32 pm, an eighteen wheeler truck came hurtling out of nowhere and into my car.
I felt the crunch before I heard it. There was a loud pop as my airbag came out. Laina wasn't heavy enough to set hers off, thank God, but I heard a scream of pain from her direction anyways. There was blood all over my side of the car, and even on the highway outside. The glass all over the pavement, intermingled from where both of our windshields had busted nearly completely out, was beautiful as it reflected the moonlight, creating a deceivingly serene atmosphere. At least, until a white van rolled over it, blocking out the reflection...
Rachel
It's ten o'clock Sunday. She left Friday. At first I figured maybe she had spent the night, caught up with some friends, or whatever. But now, I was nervous. I started to dial Jeff, but then the TV in my bedroom came on with a report saying the driver and passenger of a car in an accident still hadn't been found. They disappeared from the scene of a crash that, by the pictures, was likely fatal. Suddenly, I realized something. If put in a tin can crusher, my daughter's car would look exactly like this. Oh, Cammie...
Sorry it's uber short, but realize it takes me a lot longer to write it than it does you to read it. It seriously took me like 4 hours. Crap. Its new years, so now the stupid teen curfew is in affect, so I can't be out after midnight or from 8:30- 2:30 on weekdays. It totally violates the rights I have as an American citizen, but I'm a minor, so nobody gives a crap. My resolution is not to drink any soda, at all, all year long. You think I can make it?
I finally had my epiphany moment! The moment when you finally understand what everything means, and it all clicks in to place. My confirmation teacher was talking about how we all had these ahMazing God moments, but I'm the preacher's daughter, and I hadn't had one, so I felt horrible. But I got a new Bible on my nook, and I realized it in 1 John 4. it's all about Love. Jesus is important, God is absolutely ahMazing, and the reason for everything, and the foundation for our world and Christianity, but it's all basedon love. Jesus' love. God's ahMazing unconditional love. Loving one another. Forgiveness. Releasing anger. It made me so happy, cause I always joke around and sarcastically say things are the key to the universe, but this really is! Thank God for giving me my epiphany. Like, actually, pray and say, thank you God for giving Lily her epiphany. Amen.
Anyways, hope you liked it!
