I knock on Lucy's door, but no answer, "Lucy! Lucy!" No answer. I run down stairs to see the gang, "has anybody seen Lucy?"

"No, why?" Darry asks softly.

"She's not answering and we-we had a date," I sigh sadly. "She wanted to kill herself a few days ago." I run back upstairs and pound on her door as the gang rushes upstairs, "Lucy! Lucy! Lucy answer me!"

I open to up her door to see her bedroom cleared out all, but a box and a note. I run over to read the note. 

"My dearest Sodapop,

I'm sorry that I keep hurting you, but I can't do this. I'm not ready to move on from everything, even if I'm moving on. I know I'm probably making a mistake, but I'm leaving and I don't mean just Tulsa, I'm leaving all of Oklahoma. I don't know where I'm going yet, but it's just me and the open road. Maybe one day I'll come back to Tulsa and we'll be able to move on together, but for right now I can't. I think you should try to move on, maybe with Charlotte. She seems real nice and you deserve somebody who won't hurt you. I want you to know that even though dating ruined everything, I don't regret it because, it felt right. What we had was real and it was perfect. I'm gonna remember that forever. I'm gonna hold on to all the good memories and forget about the bad. I'm try to move on too, maybe I'll find my own Charlotte. I think she's special Sodapop. Tell the gang, I'm sorry too. Tell them I'm sorry for leaving them again, especially Pony. Tell them the truth though, that I'm not in a good place right now and I'm not the Lucy they all know and love. I don't even know who I am.When I look in the mirror I don't recognize myself anymore, that's one of the things that hurts the most. I lost myself and no matter how hard I look or what I do, I can't seem to find myself. I love you Sodapop, like married couples. I'm gonna miss my best friend, my soul mate, my lover, my supposed to be future, my everything, my Sodapop.

Love you always,

Lucy Romeo P.S. don't come out looking for me because, by the time you'll find me, I'll already be far out Tulsa, there's no use" 

I look the gang with tears streaming down my cheeks, "she's gone."

"What?" Pony asks as tears fill his eyes too.

"She asked me to tell you that she's sorry for leaving again and that she's not the Lucy you love and know. She says she's in a bad place. She's gone," I sob out.

"Then lets look for her," Darry suggests.

"It's no use," I sigh. "She's way out Tulsa."

Lucy's P.O.V.

I coat my lips in my signature pink lip gloss and smirk an emotionless smirk as I put on my sunglasses. I put up the radio and the same song that Demi sang at the concert starts playing, most people would change it, but I sing along to the wonderful lyrics that once reminded me of Sodapop, "Our love runs deep like Chevy. If you fall I'll fall with you baby 'cause that the we like to do. That's the way we like." The radio gets turned off and I look next to me and smile wickedly, "what's wrong?"

"Nothing," he smirks. "I'm just shocked you asked me to come with you."

"I need a tour guide of New York and somebody to get over Sodapop with," I wink before I peck his lips softly. "I was always still a little attracted to you Randy." 

He smiles as he looks out the window, "just me you and the open road, off to the big city."

"It's like it was meant to be," I smile sending him my perfectly white teeth.

What would ya'll do if I end it right here? I'm obviously not gonna, but just a heads up I won't be able to update for a couple days because, I'm swamped with school work and right now I'm on crutches so my family wants me to practice. It's just a heads up, I haven't lost interest I love this book. Just another warning there'll be another huge time skip next chapter. Thanks for reading this far. Stay gold. Do it for Johnny!

-Beth