She awoke, earlier than she wanted, to find everyone asleep. With the exception of the beer bottles that were scattered among the pizza boxes, empty buckets of fried chicken, and the bottles devoid of soda, the room was immaculate. Yeah, right.
Ember got dressed and after stumbling in the dark to find Maverick's keys, left the room. She looked at the clock in the van. Only five in the morning.
She gazed at all the lights in the town. It was a beautiful shame: beautiful for the fluorescent lights that were one big, man-made rainbow, and shame for the natural beauty that was destroyed in order to achieve the faux one.
Deciding that was enough deep thinking for the time being, she made her way home. Or what was close enough to home. When she arrived, it was eight o' clock. 'Thinking takes a lot out of the morning.'
Ember found that most of the boys were still sleeping, with the exception of Johnny. "Where you been Em?"
She looked at him and shrugged. "Just out."
The hours passed into the day. Lex and Maverick finally woke up (not without hangovers), and it was overall a peaceful day. Until…
"Hello?" answered Lex to the phone.
"Is Amber there?"
"Who? Oh, yeah. Hey Em?" he called handing over the phone to her, "Phone for you."
Ember hesitantly spoke, "Hello?"
"Amber?"
"DAD?"