(1) The Days Of Tommy

by Dequincyx

9-year old Tommy Turbo starts having visions of himself and millions of people getting beamed off the face of the Earth-believing it to be a sign of Jesus' soon return-so he commits his life to God and tries to be a great Christian. Meanwhile, others are trying to minister to Clare Dunning, a CPS worker who's caught up in living for the present with little concern for the future.

7. (7)-Road Trip

(7)-Road Trip.

54 Minutes Later...

Iowa

Tommy awoke to find himself in a moving vehicle. The 10-year old boy got to his knees and looked at his surroundings, and realized he was in the trunk of a station wagon.

"Where...where am i?" Tommy asked.

"Rise and shine, Tommy." Came the voice of Clare from the front driver's seat.

"Miss Clare? What's going on?" Tommy asked.

"We're on a road trip, sweetheart." Clare answered.

"A road trip? Cool! Where are we going?" Tommy said.

"Los Angeles." Clare stated.

"California? AWESOME!" Tommy said excitedly. "When do we get to the airport?"

"We're not going there by plane, that would ruin the road trip." Said Clare.

"Then how are we gonna get there?" Tommy asked.

"We're gonna drive there." Clare answered.

"Drive there?" Tommy asked.

"Did i studder?" Clare asked.

"Miss Clare, it'll take us days to get to Los Angeles by car." Said Tommy.

"29 Hours and 7 minutes, to be exact. Well, 28 now, since we left Chicago 54 minutes ago." Said Clare.

"Wow. We're gonna be driving for a really long time." Said Tommy.

"That's the whole point of a road trip. You're on the road for days and day and days. Flying would take all the fun out of it. And the word 'road'." Said Clare.

"I guess you're right." Said Tommy. "Oh, well...on to L.A., i guess."

"Let's go." Said Clare.

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During the next several days, Clare and Tommy had spent a lot of time together.

On the night of the day they arrived in Iowa, Clare and Tommy stopped at a truck-stop restaurant/gas station and ordered fried-fish, french-fries and two sprite sodas in glasses with straws in them.

They later checked into a motel that night and stayed the night there.

The next morning, they got up and went to McDonalds to have breakfast and then resumed their road trip. They went to Lost Island Water Park...Blank Park Zoo...National Mississippi River Museum And Aquarium...and they got ice-cream.

4 Hours and 55 minutes later, they arrived in Nebraska and stopped for dinner at Burger King and continued onward. They went to the Strategic Air And Space Museum... Lake McConaughy, where they went wet-skying together on one wet-ski...and Niobrara National Scenic River. They spent the night in another motel, and then set out for Wyoming the next morning.

13 Hours and 13 minutes later, they arrived in Wyoming in the middle of the night and rested up in a motel. The next day, they went to the theater to see a movieand then continued onward through Wyoming.

Clare and Tommy arrived in Idaho 9 hours and 10 minutes later and went to Sea World, then a circus.

They soon made it to Nevada 9 hours and 42 minutes later and went to Six Flags, got some dinner, then continued onward.

Throughout the entire trip on the road from Chicago, Tommy had been in the trunk of the station wagon, reading the Bible Jackie had given him.

In all her years as a CPS worker, Clare had worked with a lot a kids that were Christian...but even they didn't read the Bible as often as Tommy did. Why wasn't he like other kids? Why was he so different from everybody else?

She had no clue.
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