Thanks for all of your reviews guys! The stupid library computer logged me off before I could even finish my Author's note on the last chapter so I didn't get to thank y'all or ask for reviews OR even do my handy dandy, shnazzy ~Akira~ signature. I was throwing a tantrum at the library, yelling at the damn computer and this old lady was giving me the universal SHUT THE F**K UP look. It was pretty great. Ahhhhhhh old people. How they amuse me.
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Chapter Thirteen
Cammie Morgan~Magnet Studios~
"Home sweet Colorado?" I asked between the second chorus of Bye Bye Blackbird as we were leaving Colorado.
"What was that?" Zach stops humming to the song and looks over at me behind the steering wheel.
"I remember you saying 'home sweet Colorado' when we first arrived," Man, the car in front of us is so slow...
"Oh...I was born in Colorado. My grandparents on my mom's side lived here," The CD ended so we were met with a sudden silence, although it was still pretty comfortable. I was driving towards Maine after we decided on driving nonstop.
"You never told me that before," I said with my eyes still on the rode, not exactly tailing the old lady driving in front of me. But, you know.
"It never really came up. I moved when I was six months old and my grandparents died when I was two," his voice was sour and his fingers started tapping his leg unvoluntarily.
"You were close to them, then, huh?" I stated more than I asked. Zach knew practically everything about me, yet I still needed to learn more about him. I want to know everything there is to know about him, to understand him and to know how to comfort him in every way.
"I hated them," Zach laughed but you could tell he didn't think it was very funny. Neither did I.
"Oh..." was all I could say as the old lady started to really tick me off. "This damn dinasour needs to go faster! Is it even legal for people over ninety to be driving?" I asked incredously. Right when I was about to turn left and she signaled to make a right, a the light turned red.
"UGH!" I slammed my head on the wheel. Zach's laughter rang throughout the car, instantly making everything better, "Great, your laughing at me."
"Sorry Cam!" he tried to calm himself from his laughter, "You are just the worst driver I've ever seen. I thought you were going to crash about twenty times and push that old lady off that bridge we passed twenty miles ago."
"I am not a terrible driver!" I said in amazement, "And you are no better Mr. Floor-It-Baby!" I smirked at him as he gaped.
"Hey, babe, you know you liked it," he kissed my forehead and muttered under his breath, "This is going to be a loooong road trip..."
The light turned green, "You know it, babe. Hold onto your pants!" I said before making a sharp turn, away from grandma, and gasing the pedal as hard as the poor car could go.
"Pull up to that park right there," Zach told me once we reached Ohio the next morning around 5 A.M.
"I'm bushed," I yawned and opened my car door to get into the back where Zach was already lying down, covered in sheets.
"I'll start driving at Ten O'clock, just get some sleep. You drove for 14 hours," I pulled the car door shut behind me and crawled under the covers with Zach, not minding sleeping on the hard, flat side of the backseats.
I sighed in contentment as I starte to fall asleep to Zach's heavy breathing in my ear. "Hey Zach?"
"Hm?" he asked while rubbing my side, his eyes closed. His long lashes created shadows on his cheeks with the early rising sun.
"What's this?" I ask, holding up the object in question.
"Oh...I got you one while we stopped off at that grocery store in Kansas," he gives me one of his dazzling smiles, his smile reserved for me.
"Hm, you know, I think I love you even more now, which was pretty hard to beat," I put the basketball in the corner and snuggle back into his arms.
"Me too..." he rubs slow circles on my back, "Oh, and I love you too."
I smack his chest with a grin, "You are so going down, Zachary," I taunt him whlie pulling on his hands to sit-up.
"What happened to sleep?" he whined with an amused smile.
"You lost that chance when you got started with that cocky attitude of yours!" I grab the ball and throw it so hard that he caught it against his chest with a 'thud'. "Besides. you slept for nine hours whlie I drove!"
"You can't call that sleep, with your driving..." he rolled his eyes and jumped out of the car after me, throwing me the ball underhanded like he underestimated me.
"Oh, Goode, you are going to be begging for mercy when were done," I dribble the ball down the court, pulling up my sleeves and pulling down my sweatshirtover my denim shorts since it was pretty cold out for mid-April weather in Ohio.
"How about we make this interesting?" Zach said with a raised eyebrow. "I win, you drive the rest of the way to Maine AND you let me hear you sing since I haven't heard you sing yet."
"Fine. But, if I win, YOU drive all the way to Maine and I don't have to sing, AND we get to listen to Justin Bieber the whole way," His smirk falls and splatters onto the pavement, "Deal?"
He thinks for a moment and shrugs, "Deal."
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There's going to be One less lonely Girl
One less lonely girl
One less lonely girl
How many I told you's
And start over and shoulders
Have you cried before
How many promises be honest girl
How many tears you let hit the floor
"Way too many," Zach groaned for the nth time as I sat in the passenger seat.
"Listen to the Beiber, Goode, let his words really sink in," I grinned mischieviously and tugged my knees to my chest and started tapping to the beat.
"I think it sunk in around five hours ago," he frowned and started to pull into a gravel road.
"Whimp..." I muttered, my grin growing bigger.
"Heard that," he pulled the shirt into park, "And we're here. Welcome to the abandoned cabin of the 'once minimum-income-paid-Goode family'."
"Maine?" Archie's face twisted with confusion. "I wonder-OH!" his eyes brightened with realization.
"Sir...what are you going to do when we reach them?" Elizabeth Sutton asked her boss timidly.
"Oh, have a chat with my cousin and then, well, get to know Cameron a little better," he grinned and looked back at Elizabeth. "And you tell no one of this encounter, you hear? Or else your family would be very disappointed to know their only daughter dropped out of college to pursue a job in show business."
Elizabeth gulped, but her eyes widened when Archie stretched outside, as they were outside at a park in Ohio, and she caught a glimpse of a gun in his jean pocket.
"Y-Yes sir..." her reply was a mere whisper.
His phone started to ring and he smiled again at the caller I.D. "Hello, Auntie-yes, I know. I don't know why he would runaway with that girl...No it is none of your concern but I can understand why you worry for him," Archie gritted his teeth. He couldn't wrap his finger around why his Aunt still cared deeply for her son even though he was disowned. Why? She wasn't even concerned enough to figure out he wasn't actually in the Bahamas!
"But he is legally not your son so therefore, you don't have to worry Auntie-WHAT!" Archie stood frozen in horror. He saw the papers being signed by his cousin and his aunt. Did she not actually file them?
"What do you mean you didn't actually disown Zach!" he yelled into the phone.
"It was to just scare him, make him stay with his friend for a few days without doing anything. I love my son, I would never do that to him. Besides, he's still my heir, just like it says on my new Will and Testimoney, instead of your father."
Archie dropped the phone on the pavement, trembling with shock and anger.
"My plan didn't work." Elizabeth stared at him with her own pale face, shaking with fear of his reckless behavior.
"I'm going to kill them both! DAMN THAT COUSIN! DAMN THAT MORGAN GIRL! AND DAMN GOLDEN AND MAGNET STUDIOS!"
REALLY SHORT I KNOW! And I feel like I'm dragging it on but I needed to get something out and add a little fluff soo...I promise there will be more action in the next chapter and you will find out what happens to Derek, and Mrs. Morgan, and what Archie will do next! Stay tuneed!
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~Akira