"Run away?" she asked. His face flushed and his ears pinked. "I-I'm sorry I..." She put a finger to his lips quietly. "I'm thinking... where do you think we could go...?" Noodle thought as she let her eyes meet his. He scratched his head. "Usually after we go our seperate ways I stay with me mum an dad...an I help him repair the carosells an the coasters. I usually don' stay long looking for an apartment of me own an..." 2D furrowed his brow pushing Noodle's hand away from his lips but not letting go either. "Ah fuck it Noodle. Its a dumb idea. I don' know why I brought ih up to begin wivh really, maybe th' beer I had er somefink. We could neva pull ih off. Murdoc would find us an-"
"-We should do it." Noodle said. Intrusive on his words. "I think this can be good for you. For both of us. I want to help you get better without none of this Stockholm crap. I wanna bring the best out of you..." Noodle began. ".. but you have to let me..." Noodle let her words float into 2D and not escape his other ear. They stayed there and she was sure that they did. This time instead of taking days on end to answer whether or not what she said stuck, he took a deep breath and answered then and there. "Lets hurry home and pack as subtle as we can before we get caught," 2D started. Then he turned on his heel and stuck a finger of declaration in the air as he proudly trudged to the car.
"But first I have to call my mother!"
The house was anything but empty. Cars lined the sides of the neighborhood and 2D hadn't noticed till he hung up with his mom what was going on. Noodle looked around as she stepped out. She hissed. "Oh yeah... its Friday the thirteenth..."
Every Friday the thirteenth was a day where Murdoc would throw a huge rager that wouldn't end till the cops came in. But usually they helped themselves to a little alcohol too. And it usually lead it to be an even huger party when the cops joined in.
2D stared up nervously. "I...I don't know what we're gonna do now..." Noodle faced the house with no visible expression aimed at 2D.
"This is..."
2D itched his scalp. "I can tell mum we can come on a different day luv, it may be well worth the wait..."
Noodle mumbled something 2D could not hear.
"What luv...?"
"THIS IS PERFECT!" Noodle whisper yelled and grabbed 2D's hand. "We can get out and not be spotted! In and out in a instant under Murdoc and Russel's noses!" She continued to fight the urge to scream it out so no one listening could be onto them. 2D looked at her like she had three heads, but regardless got dragged away by Noodle anyways as he was lead into the living room and upstairs. Despite the stairs groaning in defiance Noodle and 2D were able to get to the top floor without attention by party guests. "Gather everything you can," Noodle whispered. "Then meet me in my room in ten minutes," 2D just nodded and tried to hurridly fill as many suitcases as could be possible with his own things. Hurridly he had the room half empty except some furniture and several messy suitcases with a variety of whatever shirts he had left thanks to Noodle's kleptomania with his clothes.
By the time he stepped out, Noodle had carried Mike and Katsu down her window by the makeshift climbing rope out of bed sheets. How she managed to escort her pets when one was in a cage was the strangest thing to 2D. But she was Noodle after all. 2D looked down her long rope of sheets down the window. Sure enough Mike waved hello as he sat on the cat carrier. But he was pretty high up. Noodle rubbed his back. "Afta yew, ladies first after all..." he said awkwardly. Noodle patted him. "Dont flake on me, meet me down." Noodle whispered. She swung a leg over the window sill and grabbed the rope firm. Allowing gravity to do the rest. Noodle landed her feet first on the ground with a fluff of the grass. Her eyes looking up to 2D, and admittedly this angle made her cute to say the least. With a breath, 2D grabbed the rope and slid gracefully until the rope gave way and landed on his ass. Noodle laughed at his misfortune at first all the while helping him up. "Lets get the hell out before we get found out..." She dusted him off, and the two snuck away to the car with luggage in the trunk and animals in the front seat. Katsu meowing and sleeping and Mike patiently sitting there tranquilly.
Noodle knew it was 2D's turn to drive. They'd been gone long now. Perhaps Russel noticed they were gone. But Murdoc was unlikely. All she had to focus on was the road at night, but her mind wandered. It wandered to the house again, her ruined sheets and her themed bedroom. She had free room and board back home and obviously they could not stay at Stu's parents house forever. But it did seem nice in theory to live with Stu away from paparazzi and nagging fans.
This could work... this can work... this will work... oh fuck what have we done...
Her heart pounded in her chest. The GPS being her only source of info right now and the yellow lines of the road and the occaisional car passing by being her only wakened company. Both her cat and monkey were asleep. Then 2D was also asleep by her side in the passenger seat. So swapping seats was out of the question tonight. But with only one more hour left till the destination was reached she knew she would be okay.
I'm okay... he's okay... we're okay...