Lux had to run away. She decided this when Celia died. She just never had the guts to do it until now. Lux thought it was the sex that gave her the new confidence. Saturday night she would run away, runaway and live…live. Where? She had not thought of where she might live after this. She did not care.
When it reached Saturday night, she packed a few things silently, so as to not wake her sisters. 'Finally I can be happy.' Lux felt nothing but happiness as she ran through neighbor's yards. Sex did not make her happy; it just gave her temporary pleasure, running away made her happy. She wanted to forget everything. Tripp, Mom, Dad, school, and her sisters.
Meanwhile, at the house. Mrs. Lisbon woke to the sounds of a door creaking in the wind. Lux had left the door wide open. Luckily, it was a warm night. She immediately checked on the Lisbon sisters. All of them were asleep. Mrs. Lisbon was relieved to see that they were safe.
As she closed the door, she realized that Lux was not there. Mrs. Lisbon opened the door again and rechecked the room. No, she was not there.
Mr. Lisbon was in the bathroom when Mrs. Lisbon returned to her bedroom. She went up to the bathroom door and banged on it. "Honey, hurry up…Lux is gone!" He was washing his hands but stopped in the middle of it when he heard his wife. "What!" he rushed out of the bathroom almost knocking over his wife. "Call the police!"
Lux finally made it to the out skirts of town. She started to laugh. "I made it, I made it." Her hands on her knees and a smile on her face. She had to keep running. She did not want to be caught. When she finally was rested enough she saw a flashlight's light shine on the ground. 'Oh no.' she thought to her self. Lux's happiness drained from her.
When the police got to Lisbon house, Lux was in handcuffs. There had been a struggle. Lux was crying the whole way there. She cried silently. "We'll let you off with a warning…" The older officer had said. The younger one knocked on the door. "Yes… oh thank God you're here!" Mrs. Lisbon opened the door even wider than it all ready was. "Mrs. Lisbon, here is your daughter." The older one said with a smile of satisfaction on his face.
