Chapter 18: Home Sweet Home
"Okay, I so want to go home." Raquel said.
"Me too.." M'gann whined. I sighed.
"Does everyone want to go home?" I asked. Everyone nodded, including Roy. I sighed.
"Can't blame you." I said. "How about this. If we leave early, you guys have to promise to work three times harder in training than usual. Deal?"
"Yeah. Deal." Wally said as everyone else nodded. I smiled.
"Kay, pack your bags. We're going home."
Everyone suddenly jumped up and ran to their tents and I rolled my eyes. Honestly, I was a bit at home seeing that my home had been the forest for over a year. But now that I had been able to stay with Dinah and have the luxury of a soft bed with warm blankets and not have to deal with waking up in the middle of the night thinking that the noise outside is either a murderer or a bear was actually quite pleasant.
I stood up myself and started to pack my own bags, taking my sleeping bag out and rolling it up, and then putting everything in the trunk. For a day as sunny as that day, I was quite surprised that everyone just wanted to stay in the car the whole ride and not even get out to eat.
Roy and I quickly parked in the parking lot of the airport and walked into the car rental area talking to them about a car that we could drive to the airport in Colorado. Surprisingly, they let us stay in the cars we had already had rented and just put the extra bill onto the credit card number Dinah had given them, which was probably Oliver's, but he'd let it slide if it was for a good purpose. And getting home was a pretty damn good purpose.
Throughout our four day adventure, which consisted over multiple hotel stays and restaurant stops and not to mention a few hundred stops for souvenirs, it was pretty much smooth. No one actually found me and tried to kill me again, lucky me, and there was no sign of anyone I knew who was after me so I felt pretty good about my safety. Well at that moment of course.
After getting home I was pretty worn out, seeing that I had stayed awake a while, driving and following Roy who seemed to be sleeping at the wheel at times, which later I learned that he didn't and he was just very tired. Getting back to the guest room was exhausting, climbing up the stairs was even exhausting. After reaching my room I completely collapsed onto the bed and I surprisingly got a good nights rest, which I later learned that I was going to need. I was going to need it badly.