"Impact!" I yell, clenching my seat, " Drive faster!" That's all he needed to hit the gas peddle to send us flying down the road. Even though we sped up, the cars full of guards got closer and closer.

Then, I have an idea, "Juniper, Diana, Dark," I yell, they look over at me curiously, "I got an idea, and I need you guys to help me with it."

"What's the idea?" Dark says, leaning forward.

"First of all, Diana, I need you to use your super speed to distract the guards. Next, Juniper, I need you to create a force field around the van. And lastly, Dark, think you can shut down those cars?"

In unison, they all say, " On it." And in an instant the van's side door is opened then closed and Diana is out of the van. Juniper's hands fly up, and out side the window I see a glimmer of pink. The force field is up. Next thing I know, Dark is in the trunk, opening the back door and Juniper is making a small hole in the force field, Dark shakes his hands and at the tips of his fingers red lightning appears. He moves his hands toward the cars and shoots the lightning out, making all the cars stop and crawl with electricity.

Just a second later, Diana is back in the car and the force field is all the way down. Impact sighs in relief. Diana sits back down and Dark heads back to his seat.

"What a day," Lamia says, her eyes wide, "First, I almost get hit by a van. Then cars full of people with guns come after us. What's next, getting kidnapped by a psychotic child killer?"

"Probably not," Voodoo says, dabbing some blood off his nose, " We'd kill them before they'd take us." We all laugh, even Toxic. Voodoo switches the radio back on, which is playing, Famous Last Words by My Chemical Romance. I love this song. When you're running for you life, it's easy to relate to.

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We drive a couple hundred miles until we see a sign for Nevada, Voodoo says that we're almost there, after we cross through Nevada, then we'll be in California. Lamia asks about why we're going to California and Voodoo explains that it's abandon and the reason behind being abandon.

"Happy?" Dark asks, seeing me squirm in my seat, smiling, idiotically.

"Of course!" I say, beaming, "We just escaped a highly secured facility that experiments on children! Why wouldn't I be happy?"

He smirks, devilishly, " I don't know why you wouldn't be." I smile even more and peck him on the cheek.

An hour later, we reach a little town in Nevada called Ely. It's a pretty ghetto town, not a lot of people or anything.

"I think we need a new van," Voodoo says, parking along side the almost empty road.

"Why's that?" Toxic asks.

"By now, they must have the license plate, meaning, we could get caught at any second in this van," He replies, "So, let's find a new one, and give it some gas." We all nod and hop out of the car, Toxic putting her hood up as well as Voodoo and Lamia. Right. Their skin colors aren't common anywhere outside of Reap's walls.

We quickly walk down the sidewalk, Toxic, Lamia and Voodoo, keeping their heads down and hands in their pockets.

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Finally, after walking about two hours, we find an eight seater black van. Hallelujah!

"The keys are still in it," Diana say, peeking into the drivers' side window.

"Great. Let's bust this baby," Impact says, climbing into the drivers seat and turning the keys, "No gas."

"Great." Twitch says, her hands coming up to her face.

"It can run on fumes for about a mile though," Impact states, "And luckily this is a small town, so, the gas station should just be a few blocks away. Everyone in!" We all jump in, Juniper still in the trunk and the rest of us in seats.

Impact hits the gas peddle as soon as we're all in and buckled up. He drives around for a few minutes, swearing he saw a gas station a few blocks away while we were walking. About forever and half later, we make to the gas station just before the van gives out. Impact goes out and fills the van, then comes back in and we start on the road again.

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We drive for hours on end, some of us sleeping through it, but the rest of us are singing through it.

As we drive, my favorite song comes on, Eternally Yours by Motionless In White, I've only heard it a couple times before it permanently stayed in my brain and officially became my favorite song. I sing terribly through the whole song until at one point I just can't stay up any longer and fall asleep.

When I wake, the sun is high up and everyone else is awake, the radio now blasting Perfect Weapon by Black Veil Brides. Diana is driving now, and has way less problems with it then Impact and Voodoo. I steal a Pop Tart from the trunk, unwrap it and shove one of them into my mouth.

"Morning, sleepy," Dark says, smiling.

"Morning," I say, crumbs from the Pop Tart falling out of my mouth.

"How'd you sleep?"

"I have a crick in my neck but other than that, I slept well."

"Great."

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We spent the rest of the drive just talking, singing or sleeping. I looked out the window to see a sign for California.

"Welcome to California." Voodoo says, smiling back at all of us. I nearly scream, I'm so happy.

California, hopefully, a place we can call home.