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The trip
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Her school day went off without a hitch.
She walked in, sat down, did her work (her make up work included) then when the bell rang she stood up turned in her work and walked out of the class room and weaved her way through the crowded hall to her locker and put her school books away.
Summer vacation would be starting in another day or so. Which meant that she would have an entire four months away from school to herself.
She wasn't sure that she liked that. Especially since it may mean that her parents might decide to stick around more than a day or two. It wasn't that she didn't love her parents, she did. Even after everything that they had done to her so far, she loved them.
She just didn't want to be in close proximity to them any more than absolutely necessary since they might start to remember that her brother was dead and flip out on her. She closed her locker and leaned in so that her forehead was resting against the cool metal for a second.
God she really didn't want to go back home. She'd much rather disappear for a few days. An idea popped into her head and she instantly perked up a little bit. She could leave the city and take a train out to the country side and camp out for a few days.
Everyone might worry if she didn't come back to the house, but she could easily fix that with a phone call to Tanaka or something. It might disappoint her parents but whatever. She had her reasons. She pulled her wallet out of her back pocket and checked to see how much cash she had on her.
She had a little over six hundred dollars in cash. And several thousand on her debit card, but she didn't plan to spend much. Just enough to get a tent and lighter a change of clothes and junk food and she'd be set. She moved away from her locker and started walking down the hall to the front door and left the building, debating with herself on if she should make the phone call now or when she was on the train.
If she made the call to the house now, everyone would come after her to stop her. And that would ruin what was left of a nice day for her. So she'd have to wait until she was out of the city before she called.
She walked for several blocks to the local super center and grabbed a buggy and went around the store grabbing whatever she felt she would need. She didn't get much in the way of things. Her tent was nothing like the complex stuff that went for hundreds and hundreds of dollars. No, she grabbed the simplest tent she could find and put it in her buggy before going to find some toilet paper. No doubt she wouldn't like using a pine cone if she needed to answer natures call while she was gone.
She also grabbed some matches to light a fire if she got cold, grabbed a sleeping bag and an extra blanket just in case then moved on and found herself a change of clothes. Three or four light shirts, a sweater, several pairs of pants and socks followed by a small pack of brightly colored panties that made her blush a little bit in embarrassment then moved on to get her junk food which consisted mostly of potato chips, dry fruits like peaches, figs, apples and cranberries. Some nuts, several things of cookies and crackers with cheese whiz.
And the last two things she bought was several things of bottled water and a back pack to carry most of it in.
After paying for everything she moved out of the way and packed the clothes, toilet paper and a majority of the food in the pack, then picked up her pack and slipped it onto her shoulders and grabbed her tent and walked out of the store and headed for the nearest train station.
An hour in a half later she was on the train, heading out of the city.