Chapter 20

Three more days had gone since Jack and Kate began travelling with the motor home. During this time, they had gotten to know each other better as well as running away from the police, which was of course their main worry. They were in Kansas right now, and everything seemed to be going well so far.

Not much money was spent since then, only around $80 and they were surprised at how well they were doing in the financial area, especially since as they didn't have that much money. Of course money was needed on petrol and food but apart from that, they hadn't exactly spent a lot more. They bought a few items of clothing from the first charity shop they stopped at, but that was about it.

'So... what do you think of Kansas?' squinting his eyes away from the sunlight, Jack smiled at her.

'It's nice.' Kate simply answered and nodded.

They stayed quiet for a few more minutes when Kate's cell phone gave out a noise, telling her that she received a voicemail. Opening it, pressing the buttons and finally putting the phone to her ear, she heard the message.

Kate, where are you? I've been trying to call you for days but you aren't home and not answering your cell. Please ring back when you hear this. I'm worried sick about you.

As soon as Kate heard the first word, she immediately knew that it was her mom calling. She obviously hadn't watched the news, then since as she and Jack were known everywhere.

'Who was that?' Jack asked, while still driving.

'Oh. That was my mom asking where I was.' rolling her eyes, gave away the fact that her mom didn't have a clue what was going on.

'Not this again.' Jack muttered under his breath, hitting the driving wheel forcefully. They were stuck in traffic.

'Not which again?'

'Oh, nothing. Doesn't matter.' he answered, though his voice was giving out that he was hiding something from her. He had been like this yesterday, and the day before that. Whenever Kate suggested another route to take, Jack didn't listen and continued the way he was going. It was as if he didn't want to be late for a business meeting... or better still, not being late to see someone. Someone important.

'It doesn't matter that we're stuck in traffic.. look, we can always take that way.' she pointed to the road leading off the motorway and Jack's eyes quickly travelled there. Sighing ignorantly and grunting, Jack quickly punched the driving wheel with his hand, causing a sound to come out of the honking machine.

The others around him were obviously as irritated as he was and a few other honks were aimed back at him.

'No we can't.' he yelled, which startled Kate, making her jump back into her seat. Why was he acting this way? Had she done something wrong, something that upset him? Kate thought this through but couldn't find a suitable enough answer and sighed deeply, looking down at her feet.

'Sorry.' he finally whispered after a few minutes. They still haven't moved from where they were before although this didn't seem to bother him any more.

'Jack do you have something you haven't told me?' Kate asked.

'No!' He shouted, almost too quickly, giving Kate the answer she needed.

'Like for example why you are so eager to get to Texas in the next week and a half? Because I thought that we weren't following directions and just going wherever we wanted... do you have somewhere you need to be?' she pushed on, he wasn't getting away that easily.

'Just... leave me alone.' he slumped back into his seat. They sat still, not sharing a word or even a smile, for the next couple of hours. When the sun finally set and the street lights appeared, Kate slowly drifted off to sleep. Jack looked at her shortly, extremely sorry for the way he shouted at her and for keeping such an important secret away from her. He made a mental note:

I'll tell her tomorrow.

But he never did.

So... what is it that is making Jack so upset? And just how important is this secret that he's keeping away from Kate relevant to the situation? You'll just have to wait and see as I always say. :P Yeah, I included a Jate argument because I wanted to add some angst in. Well, this is another form of Jate which hopefully you don't mind? But just so you know, this little argument won't really damage their plans for running away from the cops. Talking about the cops, they will appear in a few chapters time. That's it for now really... thanks for reviewing everyone! You all really make my day when I open my inbox and see so many reviews waiting for me. :)