Luna jumped on the last car in the ally way she and her friends were in, setting off car alarms. The whole ally way was loud with the sound of the alarms and people yelling out their windows at the teenagers. Sid and Jace yelled back at them with cuss words and threats. Luna paused, hopping off the back bumper of the green Saab, she just set off. Her ears twitched to a sound just over the yelling and screaming alarms, a sound she wouldn't have caught without Eric's blood in her, heightening her senses.
"Fuck!" she barked, pulling on Sid and Jace's jackets. "Run! Someone called the cops." she said, then took off up the ally way. The group followed, hopping a chain link fence that blocked the other end, getting cut by the razor wire as they made it to the top and over, down to the other side.
"Into the park, hurry. We can hide in the woods." Jace called, directing them into their original destination, Central Stockholm Park.
They ran past the iron gates of the park and scattered into the woods beyond. Luna and Jace slide down a drainage ditch and hid deep in the drain pipe, panting as quietly as they could as they watched the opening of the pipe. Their breathing evened out and they relax in the pipe, still not ready to come out yet. Stockholm police was unfaltering and determined people when it came too breaking down on out of control, raving Teenagers in their city.
"How did you know they were coming, Luna?" Jace asked after a while.
"I heard them, you idiot. They had their sirens on. If you and Sid weren't busy telling that old lady that you guy's were gunna strap her dead husband's ashes to her fucking air tank and set it off rocketing into space you would have heard them coming too." Luna defended, digging out her cell phone that kept buzzing in her pocket for attention. She saw her 4 missed calls and one voice mail from Eric. Flipping her cell closed, deciding that she'd listen to his message when Jace wasn't around was the best choice. But that didn't seem to keep him seeing the missed calls from Eric.
"Who's Eric?" Jace asked.
"A friend I made in Louisiana." Luna told him, shoving her cell back into her pocket and crawling back to the opening of her pipe. She peeked out and ducked back in as a cop's search light flashed over the front of the pipe. "My parents are going to be pissed." Luna said going back to Jace.
"I don't you stay with me til it blows over." Jace suggested. "My mom is in Gothenburg for a week, so she won't question."
"You're mom doesn't question even when she's home, dude and I don't blame her half the time." Luna deadpanned.
Jace laughed at gave her a gentle shove, "Go to hell." he said.
"I'm in hell. I'm in a god damn drainage pipe with you, hiding from the damn cops. It doesn't get much more like hell than this." she laughed back.
"That's true. Could be worse though." Jace said looking around the pipe. "Could smell." Luna nodded agreeing with him on that.
Getting the all clear from Sid in a text that Jace got. He and Luna crawled back out of the pipe and met up with the rest of the group in the center of the park. Sid and his brother Henrik had leaves in their hair and dirt all over their clothes from hiding in a pile of leaves and Ashley was wet from where he jumped in the pond thinking the cops had found him and it was just a pair of joggers. Luna and Jace hand mud on their knees and hands from sitting in the pipes. After meeting up, they decided that it be best to go home, sunrise was in an hour and parents were liable to be pissed with them being out so late. Giving hugs, the teens split up once again and headed home. On the walk to Jace's, Luna called her parents to tell them that she was alright and was gunna spend the night at Jace's. They were fine with it and told her to call them when she got up to let them know when she was coming home. She completely forgot to call Eric or too listen to his message, when she got to Jace's house she crashed the second her face hit the couch cushion.
When Luna woke up again it was the next night and Jace was out cold on the floor next to her, groggy from the over sleep, she pulled her cell out and checked the time. It was 2am and she had a missed call from her dad. Instead of calling him, she sent him a text that she was fine, still at Jace's and probably be back hopefully by dinner time the coming night. Dropping the cell back to the cushion next to her head, Luna fell back to sleep for awhile. Waking up again at 10 to Jace jumping on the couch above her, she pushed him off.
"Jerk!" She snapped, sitting up and fixing her hair.
Jace laughed from the kitchen, "Love you too." he called, coming back out with two bowls of Peanut butter Captain Crunch. "Here." he said handing her a bowl and dropping next to her, turning on the TV to Cartoon Network. Luna watched him munch in his cereal, watching Tom & Jerry, then looked at the living room that was more familiar to her than her own living at home or Eric's. She felt the flood of emotions of longing and sorrow for missing this place and the comforts of normality. Picking up the spoonful of cereal and eating it, Luna let herself relax in the old ways before she left and met Eric. It made her smile with happiness.