Stranded

Chapter 1 - Leaving

"Guys! I got it!" Peter basically screams as he runs towards me, Ariana, and Lucas. "Will you shut up? Do you want everyone in this goddamn orphanage to know our plan?" Ariana harshly whispers at Peter.

"How much did you manage to get?" I ask softly looking up at Peter "$200 I got scared to take anymore" after he said that I hear Ariana sigh probably rolling her eyes too. "That should be enough to at least get us started" Lucas said.

Ariana and Peter are arguing about him not getting enough money not listening to Lucas trying to reason with the both of them, If there's one thing I like about Lucas is the he's actually reasonable and doesn't yell at everyone unlike Ariana who is the complete opposite. "Fine, lets ask Wendy if she thinks it's a decent amount" once I hear Peter say my name I perk up. Of course they would bring me into the argument they always do.

"Um, I mean I guess it's a decent amount" I mumble quietly before looking up at the three of them. I see Peter laugh as he sticks his tongue out playfully at Ariana "see? I told you it was fine but you didn't listen" I swear Ariana and Peter are like a married couple from all the arguing, but then again what do I know about marriage?

"We meet here at midnight" Lucas says "and whoever chickens out and decides to stay here then fine that means more money for the people that choose to go" he quickly turns on his heel leaving the little circle. "Peter are you gonna chicken out?" I ask him as I stand up stretching "how dare you ask me that I am not scared of anything I'm a man!" I raise an eyebrow at him "okay yeah, I'm scared of pretty much everything but I really just wanna get the hell out of here and be free" I nod at him understandingly before leaving him and Ariana alone going up to my room.

I sigh laying on the bed my mind wandering off 'what if we get caught? What would they do to us?' I begin to get sleepy just laying in bed thinking and once I begin to doze off but only to be interrupted by Ariana "you probably shouldn't go to sleep" I crack an eye open at her "it's only one in the afternoon and we leave at midnight" she sits on the end of my bed "yeah, but you could sleep all week so get up sleeping beauty" I hate it when she calls me that. "Fine" I begin to sit up.

"I convinced Lucas to let us buy you some sunscreen before the sunlight hits your skin" Ariana laughs as she sits next to me resting her head on my shoulder. "Thank you for convincing Lucas to not make me look like a tomato" I giggle slightly before resting my head on top of Ariana's.

"Where are we going again?" I put my head up sighing "I think Lucas said something about a small town in Ohio but since we live in Colorado it's gonna be a long ass trip" weeks and weeks of walking with no naps? Now that's my kind of hell.

I stand up pulling out my backpack from the closet before setting it on the bed "okay no more contemplating about the universe" I start pulling clothes off the hangers "help me pack then I'll help you"

After hours and hours of packing then getting yelled at by Ariana for trying to take a well needed nap, but it was finally bed time in the orphanage or I like to call it 'if you aren't in bed at this time then you have enough energy to stay up all night and do chores' bedtime was at 10'o'clock meaning we all had two hours before we could leave.

"Wendy" I hear Ariana whisper from the bed beside me. I sigh rolling over to face her "what do you want?" "do you think we'll get caught running away?" that question made me think because no one has really tried to run away from this orphanage so who know what could happen "if I'm gonna be honest with you I don't know if we'll get caught or not"

Finally, it was the time that all of us would meet up. Ariana and I slowly got out of bed making sure it wouldn't squeak before grabbing our bags and quickly walking to the front door where we see Lucas and Peter waiting.

"Once we do this" Lucas says looking at every single on of us in the eyes "there is absolutely no going back" we all nod at him. Peter opens the door and walks out eagerly next follows Lucas then Ariana. Before closing the door behind me I mentally say goodbye to the place that I've called my home for years.