Chapter 10

It took a day to get there. Laura only stopped talking long enough to answer questions from dad and sleep for a couple hours. I never said a word, just stared out he window. Dad would ask me once in awhile if I was ok, but I never answered. I hated him completely now. He could have died right there in front of me at that moment and I would have cheered.

We were left at a ranch outside of Carlin, Nevada. Dad introduced us to Caleb and then pulled him off to the side to chat. Laura and I just started taking our stuff out of the car. All of a sudden 10 kids came running from the back of the house. They were talking all at once trying to introduce themselves. Laura got a little scared by them at first, but then they started helping with our stuff. We went inside with them while dad was still talking to Caleb an they showed us where our new room was.

It was a good thing our room was kinda big. We were all crammed in there and they were helping us unpack. Dad and Caleb came up a few minutes later. Caleb shooed them all out. I snuck out with them and waited in the hall for dad to come out. I had something to say to him and I didn't want Laura to hear it. She'd have gotten really mad at me if she did.

Dad came out a few minutes later. He reached down to give me a hug and I backed away. He started to say something, but changed his mind. When he started to walk away down the stairs that's when I told him not to come back. He turned around and asked me to say that again, so I did. I said don't ever come back here again unless Sam and Dean are with you. He stood there staring at me for a sec and I just turned around and walked into my room.

Laura was unpacking and kinda humming to herself. She got all excited when she looked up and saw me. I asked her why she was so happy and she asked me if dad told me. I just looked at her. She said that dad was gonna come and get us as soon as he told Sammy about us. That we would be going home to our brothers. He promised her.

I wanted to run downstairs and knock him out all over again. I didn't see how he could get her hopes up like that. I knew deep down that it would never happen. I sat down and wrote to Dean later that night. I made him promise me that no matter what happened between now and then, he would tell Sam about us when he graduated from high school. The letter I got back a couple days later said that all I had to do was say the word and He'd tell Sam everything now. I should have let him do it then, I still don't know what stopped me.

We finished unpacking and went downstairs. Caleb was waiting for us in the kitchen. He said that because we were basically kidnapped from the state of Kansas, we had to change our names so he could enroll us in school. He assured us that it was only temporary. This was basically a cover story so we wouldn't get sent back to Kansas. He said all the other kids there had to names too.

Laura didn't like the idea too much, but went along with it. We went with mom's maiden name of Reynolds for our last name. I chose Grace as my first name cause it was short for a nickname Dean gave me when I was little. Laura chose Daisy as her first name cause mom and dad used to call her that and she has a birthmark on the back of her right shoulder that looked like a daisy. Caleb said that would actually be perfect. He had a sister named Claire Reynolds, but she died a few weeks ago. He could just tell everyone that we were his nieces.

After getting things planned out for our cover story with Caleb, we went outside to look around. In the back yard there was a shooting and archery range. There was also a huge shop with a lot of old model chevys parked around it. All the cars needed work done. I knew when I saw it that I would be spending most of my free time there. Dean told me a lot about fixing cars in his letters, so I was pretty sure I could get them all running.

There was also some kind of obstacle course. That's where we found the other kids. We went over to them and watched for awhile. One girl came over and sat with us. Her name was Racheal Singer. We started talking to her and found out that her dad was a hunter like ours. She told us that all of the kids here were in pretty much the same situation. All their moms and dads were hunters, but didn't want to travel around with their kids. They sent their kids here to Caleb during the school year and for training so they could be hunters when they got older. Most of them went hunting with their parents during the summer. Caleb always took her and his daughter, Heaven to Nebraska during the summer. To some place called Harvel's roadhouse.

I knew after talking to her for a few minutes that I was gonna be happy here. I hoped Laura would be too. I knew dad could never keep his promise to her. I think he really wanted too, but too much had happened. He was scared of us. We were to unpredictable, especially me. I'd already knocked him out, there's was no way he could know if I wouldn't do it again.