"Excuse me, uhm, we have some tickets reserved under the name 'Myres'," Natalie told the man at the ticket booth. The other four were waiting on the platform for the tickets. Natalie had insisted that they just wait while she got them.
McKenna, however, was watching Natalie like a hawk now. She was sick of all this secrecy. She was sick of not knowing whom they were working for and what they needed that idiot woman for. And she was sick of the fact that Natalie knows all that she yearns to know herself.
So yes, she was listening in on the conversation while the others babbled on.
"Hey Tohru do you like chocolate?" Sarah asked while taking out a Hershey's bar she had taken from a random person that had walked by. It was in the same pocket as the person's wallet.
"Uhm, what's that?" she replied. "Oh my god you don't even know what chocolate is! My god woman, eat!" Sarah shouted as she shoved half the chocolate bar into her mouth.
"Mmmm this is good!" Tohru yelled and the group giggled.
"You're so sweet Tohru," Sabrina commented and the whole group was in a fit of girlish giggles (don't kill me Sarah).
'Fools. Tohru is a complete and total idiot. It's as though she has no brain at all. She's clumsy and stupid beyond that of mortal men. Ok McKenna, their pathetic conversations mean nothing. What is Natalie doing that would make her not want anyone else to know she's doing?'
McKenna slowly crept closer to the booth, but was careful to stay out of Natalie's sight. After ending up too close then she would have liked, she was able to hear the conversation.
"Myres? Oh, yes. Five train tickets to Chicago. Already paid for. Train docks at platform 3. You guys should arrive at 6:00 A.M. tomorrow morning."
"Thanks." Natalie grabbed the tickets and left. McKenna was quick to rush back to the group. Luckily, Natalie was too busy checking over the tickets to notice McKenna's quickened steps.
"Ok guys, looks like the train's docking in 5 minutes. So I advise that we go now," Natalie said without stopping. The others followed barely paying attention.
- - -
"God, where'd everyone go?" McKenna said as she approached Natalie. It was 10:00 at night, and both Natalie and McKenna had yet to change into their pajamas.
"They're asleep. Apparently they were warn out from wondering around the train all day." Which they had been.
"I see." McKenna moved to sit down next to Natalie. "So, what do you think of that Tohru?"
Natalie began fiddling with her nails. "She's the biggest idiot I've ever seen. I didn't know someone could be so pathetic and clumsy and just plain stupid."
"Yeah I know," McKenna replied, "But for some reason Sarah and Sabrina really like her."
"Yeah it's pathetic. It's also unwise. I told them not to get close to her, but they just won't seem to listen."
"Care to tell me why that is so?"
Natalie turned to look McKenna straight in the eye. "What was that?"
"I want you to tell me what the hell is going on. I want to know who this guy is that can give us 100 grand for kidnapping an idiot. I also want to know what he wants with her."
"What are you asking me for? I'm not all knowing."
"Oh please. You know the answers to those questions and you know it."
"Oh and what makes you think that?"
"The fact that you even have the authority to tell us not to get close to Tohru for one thing. And then another that I saw you hang up your cell phone at the airport. And then you go up to the ticket window and ask for reserved and already paid for tickets. What am I supposed to think?"
"That maybe I reserved them?"
"No you didn't. How could have already paid for them? And why all the secrecy?"
"What do you think anyway?"
McKenna was a but taken aback by the straight forwardness of this question, but answered anyway, "I think that you were talking with whoever we're working for. And note that I don't even know what to call him. Somehow, you're connected to what ever his plans are. I know it."
There was a long pause before a reply. "I-ok. So maybe I know a few things. But I can't tell them to you. That would be disobeying orders that came from him."
"Dammit. Just…. ignore them!" McKenna was angry now. She was ready to find out. "WE'RE COUSINS! DO YOU NOT TRUST ME OR SOMETHING!"
"It's not that…"
"THEN WHAT IS IT!"
"I WOULD BE JEOPARDIZING EVERYTHING BY TELLING YOU! THAT'S THE BOSS'S PHILOSOPHY! THE LESS PEOPLE WHO KNOW, THE LESS LIKELY TO FAIL! IF I TOLD YOU HE WOULDN'T GIVE US THE MONEY! IT'S THAT SIMPLE! HE WOULDN'T BECAUSE HIS PLAN WOULD FAIL, AT LEAST IN HIS EYES! AND HE GOES BY 'THE BOSS' OK!"
McKenna was shocked by the sudden outburst from her cousin. "Sorry," she muttered as she walked away from the first argument they had had in 5 years.