"So Becca, where are we heading?" Isaac asked the disturbed girl in the back seat.
Becca sniffled and wiped her face off before answering. "Ike does it really matter? This whole thing is like 'I Know What You Did Last Summer Part 5000' or whatever. But it's real. Don't you get it? It doesn't matter where we go, they'll find us. We might as well drive the bug to the bottom of the lake. Jacqui and Tayles can get out but what are we going to..." she trailed off and started crying again. sheez, this girl cries as much as Vega! Taylor said to himself, remembering his "love". What am I going to do about her? It wasn't supposed to end up like this he thought. Isaac interrupted his thoughts.
"Well Becca, we have to deal with it. It's not like we can change what just happened. So let's just pretend it didn't happen," he said, his tone heightening.
Silence followed this for another period of time. No one noticed the Jimmy still following them. * * * * *
"Well this is just getting me nowhere fast!" Vega said quietly, but loud enough to stir Stephanie who had been snoozing.
"What are you doing!?" Stephanie asked sleepily as she saw the diary in Vega's hands. She couldn't have found it she thought to herself.
Vega looked down at the diary. "Oh.. nothing! I was just looking for a new shirt," she said, placing the journal carefully back into the closet underneath a formidable pair of shoes. She grabbed the nearest shirt she could find and excused herself to the bathroom.
As she changed her shirt, she continued thinking to herself. What could they want with her? How could they even know her?! She thought about all her extended family: An Aunt from Texas, An Uncle from some island she couldn't remember the name of, a pair of grandparents from Tulsa, a much older cousin from NYC. WAIT! she thought. Grammy and Gramps! Yes! The connection had to be there. But what had they done to tick off the Hansons and why on Earth would they chose to get their revenge on Vega and not Vega's mom or dad... "Oh... my... Lord.. No!" she said in a whisper. "Dad!" she screamed and began bawling uncontrollably. Taylor set it all up. He was the leader of all this. He had to be. He killed her father. She knew it had to be that. His parents could have forced him into it, but maybe not. He had just used her! Michelle and Cameron had taken her to the Hanson concert so Tay and Vega could meet, and he could kill her father by 'accident'. "NO!!!" she continued screaming and crying in the Hanson's bathroom. Suddenly Sandra, who had seemed so nice before, opened the door with a ticked expression on her face and said, "Ok Miss Easy, get your butt up. We're leaving. Now." She grabbed Vega's arm and pulled her out of the bathroom. + * + *+* + * +
Isaac got on 275 east and saw a sign for Grand Rapids. He took the turnoff to go towards it, and so did the Jimmy behind him. Ike glanced in the rearview mirror, and noticed in the car he had just murdered a man, was another man with darker skin and black hair. "Oh my gosh. Tay, we've got company!".
Tay glanced behind him and gasped at who he saw. "Yeah Ike you could say that! Whatever you do, just DON'T STOP!" he said sternly.
This got the attention of the girls in the back. "What's going on?" Becca asked, suddenly more concerned about her own safety, rather than the dead guy.
"Just don't ask. Let's just say we used to be really good friends with this guy and we let him play with our band a couple performances, and we then let him go.. now he's a little p.o.'d at us. He said when we left 'i'll get you back for this!' and now... I think that's what he's doing.. oh my gosh Becca if he saw us kill the man... I'm screwed for life dammit!".
"Oh my gosh are you talking about--" Isaac cut Becca off before she could finish.
"Becca," I just had a thought.
"What?!".
"Weelll... remember that thump we heard when we tried to start the car?" Ike began.
"You don't think... oh my gawsh he probably was that thump! And then he would have seen us hit the guy!" Becca finished.
"Ikezactay-ly!" Ike said determined to always have the last word.
"Haha i'm almost laughing!" Jacqui cut in with a tone drenched in sarcasm.
"I thought it was good... hey geez just trying to lighten the mood here!" Ike said, annoyed.
"Yeah well smooth move ex-lax!" Becca added.
"Oh that was much better than mine!" Ike said sarcastically.
"Okay guys, we are not doing this! We're not going to go bouncing off the walls fighting for 10 minutes, because we're just going to end up with the same problem! How to stay alive!" Tay quoted, attempting to sound serene.
"Quality. I love that movie though anyways. Apollo 13.. whew Tom Hanks is yummy!" Becca stated, over the tension already.
"Yeah whatever you movie freaks, now what are we going to do about the bimbo who's following us?!" Isaac said, attempting to be a responsible driver.
"Quoique!" Becca stated.
"What!? You retard what are you talking about?!" Ike shouted.
"Ferme la bouche!" Becca came in with the french again.
"Ack just shut up!" Ike replied.
"That's what I just said, moron!" Becca smart-mouthed back.
"Okay come on guys, this is adding nothing to the plot of the story!" a voice from overhead said.
"WHAT?!" all 4 chanted in unison.
"Anyways, I think God wants us to get on with this, so, umm, yeah, let's get this guy off our backs!" Becca said, saving the plot line.<>
"Alright, here we go!" Isaac said, as the speedometer reached 107mph. Chapter 24
