Chapter nine: The Great Escape
I woke up to Derek singing, I have never heard him sing before, he was pretty good at it. He seemed to be in a very happy mood, I did not know why, "What is different today, than yesterday?" Derek moved towards me smiling and spinning, "We have a funeral to skip" I stared blankly at him "What is uplifting about a funeral and why are we skipping it?" Derek took my hands and began to become his old serious self again "because Abegayle we are escaping" I gasped "really, that's dangerous, I do not think I could" Derek seemed hurt "Of course, you can" "But, What about if your uncle catches us?" Derek kind of looked nervously at me "You don't have to worry about him, he's dead" "You killed him?" I said in a hurt tone "why did you? Does anyone know? You promised me you would not" Derek became defensive " I did it for my parents, and I did it for a distraction, and I did it for your family and for you, because I love you Abegayle and I want you too be safe" I looked up at him, with tears in my eyes "I love you too" "Then, please do not judge me, and come with me" I kissed Derek "I will"
I awoke my sister, and went to the hut were my family was and told everyone to meet behind the crematory in an hour, meanwhile Derek was thinking of a plan, when I got back Derek was still thinking "Disguise my father as a soldier, and you both are taking old clothes to dump them, and the rest of us hide in the two bins that have the articles in them" Derek looked at me, "that's a great idea!" Derek then left to arrange transportation and also to put the bins behind the crematory.
Eventually, One hour had passed, my family and I were waiting for Derek he was no where to be seen, my father was all dressed in his army uniform with his hair cut and his beard shaven off, he looked quite handsome, and passed off incredibly. We continued to wait for him.
Around one hour later, we heard footsteps, it was Derek, and he was approached quietly making sure that no one was following him. He smiled at me, and patted Noah on the back. "Sorry, I had to give a speech to them, it was a bunch of bull about my uncle, and how he was a great man" Derek whispered "That's okay" I smiled "yeah, I thought you were going to dub us in, I was worried" Derek put on a serious face "I would never do such a thing" he lifted up Noah and put him in the bin, " Are you ready?"
Once everyone was in the bins, we began to move, I do not know what was happening out there, and we didn't bear to speak, after a short time moving we came to a stop. "Major, what exactly are you doing?" "Well, You see I was over at the crematory and there were articles that had been searched through and left so me and Thomas were just heading to dispose of it" "Okay, You're the boss" then the bin started to move again there was a sigh of relief. The bin began to move faster, felt like the person pushing it was running. When it subsided I began to fall asleep.
A while later, the clothes over us were pulled off I awoke to Derek looking down at me, he offered his hand and helped me out of the bin. The first thing I noticed was that he was not in his uniform any more "Where at sea" "What do you mean? Where are we?" "Some where on the Pacific" "You mean…" "Yes Abegayle, Your free" My family gathered around me and we all began to laugh, we went over to the railing of the boat and looked back the way the boat had came, and all we could see was the horizon, we looked the way we were heading and all I saw was a new beginning.