Chapter 11: Camping Trip
"Ready for school?" Roy asked as he walked down the stairs. I knew that I wasn't actually going to school, for the sake of my life, but Roy didn't need to know that...ever.
"Not yet. Uh, Dinah's going to take me so you can drive yourself. You probably don't want some strange woman getting out of you car anyway." Roy raised his brow suspiciously and I ignored him, walking away as if nothing happened.
"Whatever." He said, grabbing his keys from the counter and walking out of the door. I sighed.
"Uh, Sarah?" I heard. I looked over to see Dinah peeking from behind the wall. "A little help?" She asked. I nodded and followed her into the room.
I was quiet surprised to see Dinah in a tight, short red cocktail dress, but then again she did have the body and chest to pull it off and it did look pretty good on her.
"Zip me up?" I laughed as I zipped up the back of her dress. I could hear Dinah swallow hard, but I didn't say anything. "Um, can we talk?" She suddenly asked me. I slightly raised my brow by the sudden question.
"Uh, sure, I guess." I said, watching Dinah sit down on her bed solemnly.
"Um, I don't really know how to start this, but, um..."
"Yes?"
"I'm going to be taking a break, as you suggested." She said as she stared at her hands. "I'm going to go to my mother's beach house that she bought a few years ago for a week or so..."
"Good." I said. Dinah started fiddling with her hands. "What do you need me to do?" I asked, smiling. Dinah laughed as she looked up.
"I need you to take the team out for the week." I froze. Out? What did she mean?
"Hold on, do you mean like out, out? As in.."
"The Appalachian Mountains." I raised my brow.
"Okay, I may have been born here, but I still have no clue where those are nor what they are, other then they're mountains."
"Did you fail geography or something?" Dinah asked me.
"No, I just haven't been in the United States for almost nine years." I said. Dinah looked surprised, but seemed to brush it off. "So why am I taking them to these 'Appalachian Mountains' again?"
"I had scheduled a, um, camping trip for tomorrow to teach everyone how to work while hiding. And now that I think about it, you do seem more qualified than any other person I know."
"Hold on." I said, pissed off that Dinah just told me that instead of, I don't know, a week ago. "First of all, you barely know me, and second, why would any of the team go into hiding? It's not like they can't just, you know, go back to living a normal life. Dinah, they're identities are completely safe. No one in hell will guess that a bunch of super heroic teenagers are going to be a bunch of rich kids, straight A students, and school jocks. So, why are they even learning this?"
"It's for their own good, Sarah! You out of everyone in the world should know this! You should know this more than me! For God's sake! Just help me out here!" I was silent. I wanted to talk back to Dinah so bad it hurt. But I couldn't. Not only was my fate practically sealed in her hands at the moment, but I wanted to live a little longer, even if it was just to fix a life.
"I get it." I said quietly. "I'll talk to the team today and we'll leave tomorrow morning. One question though." Dinah looked at me with a slight glare in her eyes. Her eyes seemed harder than usual, more of an angry side to Dinah shown. It wasn't that I was scared of her, more scared for her. "Transportation?" I asked. I could see Dinah's eyes soften a little, as if she was just trying to fix everything according to my advice. But the problem was that the stuff I told her was only advice, not a demand or command, but not a statement either.
"You'll be driving a truck I borrowed from a friend and Roy will be driving a van I also borrowed. After everyone gets to your choice of place in Central City, you'll be heading to the main airport in Colorado. After that, you get on the plane to Albany, New York, grab a car rental or two in this case and head for the mountains." I blinked.
"Okay, I have no clue about half of what you said." Dinah laughed.
"Roy can help you." Dinah said. I rolled my eyes as Dinah patted me on the back and left the room. I sighed as I heard the front door open and shut.
"Roy this, Roy that. What the hell is up with this family? God..." I said out loud. I sighed and walked out of the room, walking in the direction of the guest bedroom. "They better not give me hell about this..."