Thanks to Willi I couldn't sleep the whole night thinking that I would be meeting Zachary once again in the morning. I made up my mind that before he could come and stand on my doorstep I would vanish out from his sight. And for that, I called Tess in the morning asking her if she and the other girls would like to go out on a road trip. She said yes immediately thanks to my stars. I guess the stars are really on my side today.

　　"We will leave without eating anything?" Kiara made an astonished face to which I just shrugged in reply.


　　"We shall eat something in our way," I said as I applied some pink lip gloss on my lips.

　　"Bu-"

　　"Let's go!" I looked at the time to find it already half past nine in the morning. I have no idea about the time when Zachary would show up so, getting out of the house as soon as possible is the only choice left. I took hold of Kiara's hand and dragged her towards the front door picking up my purse in the process.


　　"Why are we even going on a road trip all of a sudden? You even forced me to take the day off from my work!" she complained and all I did was to ignore her rants.

　　"Well I kind of know why you are doing this," I heard her while I locked the door.


　　"He is coming today, right? Are you going to run away from him? Fine, you will just ignore him today but what about tomorrow? You can't just always go on a trip or force me to take the day off you know!" she spoke continuously as we walked towards our neighbor's house. On reaching there I saw Tess already out with her car while Marianna stood there talking on her phone whilst Eve was locking her house door.

　　"Oh Good morning!" Marianna said as she looked at our way putting an end to her call she fished it inside her pant pockets.

　　"Morning!" Eve yelled as she jogged to us.

　　"Good morning," I smiled at them and looked back at Tess who came out of her car and walked to us.

　　"So ready for the trip?" she beamed with joy.

　　"You look more excited from the one who suggested the idea of the road trip," Marianna chuckled at Tess's cheerfulness.

　　"I know right!" Eve joined us smiling at Tess.

　　"Well, I was also planning a road trip. I just love road trips. Who doesn't?" she beamed. I felt the warm aura radiating off her and seeing her cheerful smile made me feel little better.

　　"Well off we go then," Marianna said raising her hand and we joined as we walked towards the black Suv.

　　"Oh wow, I didn't know that you own a Honda CR-V Tess!" I said admiring the car.

　　"Gift from my dad," she beamed as she hopped in the driver seat and I sat next to her in the passenger seat while Marianna, Eve and Kiara took the back seat.

　　"Ready?" Tess asked excitedly.

　　I gave her a smirk while the three of them yelled at the top of their lungs "Ready," excited.

　　"Oh C'mon! it's only ten in the morning! Let me sleep!" we heard a guy from the neighbor and I looked back at them giving them an amused look.

　　"Rise and shine sleepyhead!" all of us yelled at the top of our lungs before Tess ignited the engine and we drove off. Halfway through the way, we continued laughing and chatting about that sleepy guy. I was so indulged in the conversation that I completely forgot about Zachary and failed to notice a black sedan that was following our car all the while.