I woke up to Kai laying on my chest, I could feel his chest moving up and down as he breathed. I started playing with his hair and lightly grazing his scalp with my fingertips. He lets out little moans as his eyes start to flutter open.
"Mmh keep doing that" he groaned out
"Hey, i have a question" i mumbled
He pushes himself up to sit next to me and signals for me to continue
"Can we leave today?" i asked
"Woah what's the rush princess" he asked concerned
"I just want to go away, I'm tired of being here. I'm tired of getting yelled at by mom, treated badly by boyfriends. I just want a fresh start and i want to do it as soon as possible." I ranted
He pulled me to his chest and rubbed his thumb soothingly over my cheek.
"We can leave today if you want to princess"
I nodded my head and got up off the bed.
"What time is it" i asked as i walked into the bathroom to freshen up
"8 am" he replied
"We should freshen up then pack up the car" i shouted from the bathroom
"Yeah we should get an early start if were gonna leave today" he shouted back
I finished freshening up and changed into one of Kai"s hoodies and threw on a pair of his sweats. I jog out the room to see him packing his remaining clothes in bags.
"Need some help" i asked
"Yeah grab those bags and take them to the car"
A couple hours later and everything is packed into his car and we are ready to start driving.
"Finally done, what time is it now?" I ask as I get into the car.
"Its 11:45 ish almost noon" he replied as he starts the car up
"We should drive for a couple hours then stay at a hotel somewhere" i suggest
" so a road trip where we chill in one area for a while then keep going" he questions as he starts to drive.
"Yes sounds perfect, let me google what's a couple hours away" i reply
I open google maps on my phone and see what areas are a couple hours away from Maryland. I decided on New York because it had a good distance.
"Lets make our first stop new york and we can see the statue of liberty on the way to the hotel" i said
"Sounds like a plan" he said
"what's the name of the hotel and how far is it" he asked
"The hotel is Arlo SoHo, its 3 hours and 49 minutes away" i replied
"Also we should head to the statue of liberty first since it closes at 5" i continued
"Ok we can just call the hotel and reserve a room" he said
"how long you wanna stay" he asked
"4 weeks should be good, so about a month" i replied
"Agreed" he said as he placed his hand on my leg and gave it a little squeeze.
Hours past and we finally arrive at the statue of liberty.
"We got here just in time to look around before it closes," I stated as we walked up to the entrance together.
"Yeah we did" he agreed
"let's look around" he spoke with excitement.
Before we could walk in I grabbed his arm and stopped him. He turned to look at me signaling me to speak my mind.
"Kai this is the start of our journey together and i think to really be able to start fresh we should toss our phones so no one can contact us. Those people are all in the past now, we can get new ones though". I spoke
"Your right" he agreed
"let's toss them and buy new ones later, for now we can buy a disposable camera from the gift shop to take some pictures with". He stated
We both drop our phones on the ground and step on them, smashing the phone and tossing the remaining pieces in the trash.
"You ready" he asked as he held his hand out for me to grab.
"Never been more ready" I replied,interlacing my fingers with his.
We walked inside and were immediately greeted by a nice lady who I assume to be a tour guide.
"Hello welcome to the statue of liberty" the lady greeted
"this is the last tour of the day would you like to join" she asked
We both nodded our heads eagerly
"Ok great 2 tickets that will be 20 dollars" the lady stated
Kai pulls out his wallet and hands the lady a 20 dollar bill.
"Alright just follow the crowd out to the ferry and the ferry will take you to liberty island" the lady stated
We thanked her and followed the crowd out to the ferry. The line wasn't that long since it was later in the day close to closing. We stood in line for maybe 15 min then we finally were on the ferry headed to liberty island. I walked over to one of the windows to look at the scenery. Kai followed me and stood behind me with his arms around my waist and chin placed on my shoulder.
We finally made it to liberty island and we played around for a while until we got hungry.
"You wanna grab some food from that stand over there" he asked
I nodded as he interlaced our hands and heads into the direction of the food stand. We got our food and sat on the grass and ate. We chatted for awhile until we heard that the last ferry back was gonna leave soon. We threw our trash away, jogged to the ferry and got on. Eventually we got back to the car and headed to the hotel.
"We probably should have reserved a room before we crushed our phones" i spoke
"Yeah" he agreed chuckling
"We should be fine though, they still should have a room open" he continued
We made it to the hotel and luckily they had a room available with a king sized bed. We put the suit cases down in the room and take turns using the shower.
"Not only do we need new phones, I need some clothes. I don't think i can keep wearing your clothes the whole time" i spoke matter of factly. As i throw on one of his graphic tees
"But you look good in my clothes," he says with a pout as grabs my waist and pulls me close.
"Goodnight Kai" i said as i giggled
I got under the covers and laid down and soon fell asleep.