chapter 6

"Klara, I'll be right back, just let me grab some food, and most likely by then my siblings will be here… and.. um you see, my sister, she um… might be a little rough on you, but that's just how she is so don't take any offence okay?".

"Um okay?", Dear god, what am I getting myself into, "Okay, if you need me, I think I'm going to be in the stationary isle alright? I just wanted to grab something real quick."

"Okay I'll meet you there."

I stalked off to the stationary to go and pick up a sketchbook, and some art pencils and pencil crayons, considering that I love drawing to death and it would get pretty drab real fast, if I knew that I didn't bring some artsy stuff along for when we were taking refuge and just sitting around moping, and basically doing nothing.

Minutes later Derek appeared around the corner with 2 people flanking either side of him. Naturally I would have been panicked, but I quickly recognized one of the people to be Simon, and assumed the other girl to be Tori…

As far as looks went, Tori was gorgeous. She might have been around five 6, five 7, dark spiky hair, and glowing amber eyes, cute pointed nose, and bow shaped lips. She was the envy of all girls, and the dream of probably a hell of a lot of guys.

"Who the hell is this chick!?", Oh dear lord, she's going to eat me alive.

"God Tori can you not be a bitch for five minutes. This is Klara, the girl we're going to be on the run with." Leave it to Simon to tame the wild beast.

Tori then snapped her head towards me so fast, I'm surprised she did not get whiplash, and glared full on at me. This is going to be splendid.

Just then Derek decided that it was enough, "Whenever the 2 of you are done bickering, I'd like to leave thank you very much, Klara? come on lets go pay for this."

He started to walk, as I raced after him before Tori could pull me down and slash my throat, but instead they just followed after us.

Once we got to the cashier she started checking out our items, and gave us a raised eyebrow, probably assuming we were running away from home or something based on the supplies we were purchasing , so I came up with a quick fib, "Oh, yea, my siblings-", I put an arm around Derek, and much to my dismay Tori, "And I were just going on a camping trip so were just getting some supplies before we headed out."

As I finished off I gave her a sweet smile, she squinted analyzing us.

" I can kinda see how you three are related," she said while motioning at Derek, Tori, and I, " 'Cause of the funky colored eyes but," she said motioning at Simon, " What about him? his are as normal as ever."

"Oh, yes, you see he's adopted."

"Oh", she gave a sheepish grin, and turned a bit red, and mumbled something, and went back to checking out our items. I paid for them, of course while putting up with Derek's multiple protests, but finally realizing my stubborn determination, he gave up and made me promise to let him pay the next time we needed something.

We walked out and into the parking lot we went. When we reached there was the red mini.

"You know it was your fault right?", the three siblings turned and looked at me in confusion so I continued, " Today morning when you came, and cut me off in the morning, and got out of your car to probably yell at me, but was stopped because I heard Simon trying to coax you into coming inside, and forgetting about it, and that's how when I was out cold, and woke up to him, and he started talking I knew his voice was familiar."

Simon started laughing and Derek even gave a low rumble, and that made a look of terror contort Tori's face, and disbelief on Simon's, Derek saw their faces and started laughing even more than before, until it was a full blown laugh, and Simon and Tori's expressions intensified.

So here we were standing by the mini, with 2 shocked people, one hysterical guy, and one profusely confused person.

"You guys what happened?"

Tori spoke up, " H-he's l-l-l augh-ghing!?", then her mask of horror broke, and anger was revealed beneath it "What did you do to him! You broke him!"

Now Simon started laughing, while Tori stood the glowering, then I finally caught on, he must not laugh; like at all, by the looks of their faces

And then the goofiest smile must've spread across my face, and I looked at the brothers laughing with Derek's arm slung around Simon's shoulder, and vice versa. And I couldn't help but suppress the laughter bubbling up inside me anymore.

Tori then must've really gotten pissed off cause she ripped the keys out of Derek's hands and yelled, " When you retards are done, we can get a move on!".

With that we settled down and got into the car. Tori was driving Derek did not seem to happy about that, but let her drive, Simon called shot gun, so that meant Derek and I were in the backseat.

We had put our packs in the trunk, so it would be more roomy up here considering it's only a five seater, and if we were in dire need of sleep that meant we would have to pull over and go to a motel.

Boy was it a good thing I was loaded. I had about 700 hundred dollars in 20's rolled up in my boot, and about, $ 670,000 in my debit card.

In around 15 minutes we were on the main road, "Hey where are we going?" Simon replied, "Here's the thing we're going on a bit of a long road trip…. to Buffalo."

"Buffalo? Isn't that a 3-4 day drive give or take, and that's excluding sleep cause at some point we're going to have to go to a motel or abandoned house to rest, right?"

" Yeah but the thing is we have someone we can contact incase of an emergency like this. She's my dad's friend her name's Gwen, she's really nice, and agreed that if anything bad were to ever happen to us or dad, we should got to her, and right about now would be a good time to go and pay her a visit."

"Oh, that makes sense", And I tried for a smile.

It's been about an hour and half of driving, it's been relatively quiet with the exception of Tori and Simon bickering about music and routes, and before I knew it, I succumbed to the exhaustion that's been chasing after me all night yesterday and all morning today.

Suddenly the road went bumpy, and woke me up a bit, I still had my eyes closed and I was comfy as ever! I felt like I could stay like this forever, I was so warm and there was something under my head acting as the best pillow. I opened my eyes to see what it was, when I yelped in surprise, because my pillow was no pillow. It was a leg! and not just any leg, it was Derek's leg.

"Oh my god, I totally invaded you personal space!"

"Would you 2 keep it down back there, sleeping beauty finally fell asleep, and if I have to put up with anymore of his girlish bickering, you 2 are going to be the ones to blame !" snapped Tori.

"It's alright I don't mind",said Derek

I let out a breath I did not realize I was holding, then I felt why my whole body was excessively warm, it was Derek's zip up hoodie, it was so huge it covered me fully as I slept in mid fetal position, with my head on Derek's lap.

Then I took a look at how I must have slept. Derek was sitting in the window seat to the right, and I to the left, leaving the middle empty. So I must've taken my seat belt off at some point, because it was annoying my neck, and fell over on his lap used him for a pillow, and used the remaining two seats to bring my legs up and sleep. God I'm such an idiot.

As I sat up right I refused to let sleep grab ahold of me. Every couple minutes my head would bob down, until I realized that I was about to sleep again, then my head would snap back up again. Then a minute later my head bobbed down, but snapped up for a different reason Derek had unbuckled my seatbelt, grabbed me by the waist and pulled me down till my head reached his lap, and my legs we brought up into the spot my butt was in a few seconds prior to Derek's re-adjustment, he then grabbed his discarded sweater and put it on me.

Just then I turned around so I would be facing his stomach and looked up at him, my gaze landed on his eyes. There was so much care, and passion in them. I heard a voice faintly whisper 'mate', and it left a burning pit in my stomach.

He then reached down and placed a sweet and soft kiss on my forehead, and murmured "Go to sleep, everything'll be fine.", with that said he lifted his head, I then smiled at him before I snuggled my face into his left hip where his stomach and legs conjoined, and right then sleep consumed me once again.

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