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Chapter 14 Five
"What's that?" I ask pointing outside. Nine looks and see's what I'm pointing at.
"That's road kill." He replies yawning.
"Yuck."
"Yeah it is pretty disgusting." As he says this he looks in the glove compartment for something. I instantly grab the wheel worried someone is going to see us.
"Hey relax. The Batmobile's on auto drive and the windows are blacked out. No one can see us in here." He says quickly. Suddenly I'm self-conscious about how I'm lying on top of him with my hands clutching the wheel. I quickly go back to sitting on my seat.
"I think everyone's asleep back there." Nine says whilst adjusting his rear-view mirror.
"Weaklings. Can't handle a ten hour long drive" I say.
"We were all up at four in the morning in case you don't remember, Red. Besides can't we get some coffee or something? My legs are starting to cramp up."
"Nah I think TK is trying to get us as far away from New York as possible. Oh yeah and three of us are wanted fugitives, seven of us have odd scars on our legs, one of us is over seven foot and ghostly pale and Sam has a red eye." I say sarcastically.
"Yeah but it would be super easy to send Six or Zero in for some donuts and coffee." He says whining.
"Two problems with that. If we send Zero in we have to deal with the floating coffee cup scenario because he can't camouflage things he's hiding and Six has that whole thing about trying not to steal from humans as much as possible."
"So no coffee then."
"Nope." I say. We both look out the window for the next few minutes.
"I'm sorry about TK." He says suddenly.
"Say that to TK. I wasn't fast enough to save him."
"It's not your fault." As he says this he puts his arm around my shoulder. I suddenly jump and realise I've had the worst static electric shock of my life.
"Ow!" I shout some of the others start to rouse in the back but no one wakes up. Eight says something about "not the batmobile" and rolls over leaning his head on seven.
"How can an electric shock hurt that bad?" I whisper to Nine.
"I don't know it's probably me sitting down for so long near metal and fabric." He whispers back to me and starts laughing.
"What's so funny?" I ask. If this cocky jerk is laughing at me, next chance I get I'm punching him in the gut.
"Your face!" he says laughing "It was hilarious"
Yep. I'm definitely punching him in the gut. Nine starts to calm down and then looks at me again and erupts into more laughter.
"Jerk" I say.
"Airhead" he replies. I start laughing at that weak insult and soon Nine starts laughing again as well. Soon I'm leaning on him still laughing. I start to stop and he keeps looking at me.
"What?" I ask.
"Nothing." He starts to lean closer to my face and I find myself leaning towards him as well. Are lips are almost touching when I suddenly hear the familiar voice of TK.
"Five pick up; we're almost at the motel. If you don't pick up I will have you running laps until you pass out." He says. I lean away from Nine and find the walkie-talkie TK gave me to communicate across our cars.
"Yes, I'm here TK. No need to give me empty threats, we're on the run remember. It's not as if I can use my legacies in public." I say. I start to think about how I almost kissed Nine. The jerk of the group, the guy who constantly annoys me.
"Wake everybody else up, we're 5 minutes away. Over and out" TK says ignoring my last comment. Nine starts to reach around the seat to wake everyone up.
"Don't tell anyone about what just happened." I say suddenly.
"Oh. Um sure I guess." He looks confused and a little sad. I feel bad for a moment but then I remember I've got to stay focused. I can't get distracted by boys, no matter how annoying they are.
Soon everyone's awake and looking outside the window. I see the state line and see we're in Kansas.
"Funny I thought there'd be more corn." I say looking outside at an empty track of road.
"Nope. Why'd you think that?" Eight says.
"I got all my information about the world from the internet and television." I reply. Sometimes I wish I got out of those sewers earlier to see the world for myself. We pull up at a rather glum looking Motel called the Kansas star.
"Well this looks pleasant." I say sarcastically. I see TK get off the back of the truck with Sam lifting him in the chair onto the ground.
"How was your journey then?" I hear Marina say.
"Wonderful if you like being stuck with Chimera who hate you in a small space" Brutus says.
"It wasn't that bad guys." Sarah says with one of our Chimera round her neck as a Gecko.
"Yeah well they like you." Sam says.
"I have six rooms reserved for us. We just need to sign in then you meet me in my room. I need to talk to you all." TK says rolling up to the reception. I see the reception and it's just as glum on the inside as it was on the outside. No wonder TK would pick this place to stay, no one would look twice at it.
"Hi I've reserved six rooms" TK says politely to the receptionist.
"Um, all of them?" She says whilst flicking her brown hair out of her face.
"O.K. seven rooms then." TK replies
"I just need to write down your names for the visitor book." The receptionist says looking at all of us. I suddenly hear Ella's voice in my head telling me to make something up. I assume everyone else heard because Four isn't going by John and calls himself Daniel instead and TK calls himself Tom Knight. We all say our fake names until it comes to me. I'm staring into space and realise I'm the last one and I haven't said anything.
"Um…" I say. My minds never been blank before. I've been trained to come up with something as easy as a name.
"Her names Scarlett" I hear Nine say.
"Yeah Scarlett Knight. That's me." I say keeping the anger from showing on my face. I'm definitely going to punch Nine in the gut now. The receptionist looks at me funny because of my red hair and the idiotic name Nine just gave me then gives us the room keys. We all follow TK to his room and sit down.
"Well sorry for the long drive everyone. We're going to find a better place soon." TK announces.
"Yeah this place is a dump" Four says sitting on the bed with his arm around Sarah.
"So what did you want to talk to us about?" Lola says.
TK sighs and says "You're not going to like this but we have to split up again." And that's when the shouting starts.