Things are going rather smoothly too smoothly about after Nicole's recent shenanigans. You are left in charge of keeping an eye on her. McKenzie was still at your place waiting for your wedding gift to be delivered Bridget's at skip town. She left you a text saying she'd be back in time for the wedding but this slow city life. It was cramping her style so she went to the nearest city to stay at a hotel to get her vibes back, which is probably for the best that way. Nicole can't raid her stash anymore and Tiffany hasn't said a thing or done anything about this bugs you. She's usually the most vocal person you know speaks her mind demands so much from others and barely gives much back. But even after your little talk, she's still making considerate towards others and less demanding. It's chillingly weird, but she decided to let it go considering she said she wasn't going to make a thing out of it the other night and with that your foolish beliefs were shattered who was in the middle of the night or rather light climb of light right across your eyes. You wake up to find that your semi cold which made no sense considering the house you're staying and has air conditioning and heating. You think maybe someone turned on the AC? You squint open one of your eyes to get your grass of the situation, and you're surprised to find that you're laying down in the backseat of a car. Congratulations! You've been kidnapped situation better. You notice you're luggage and Nicole's luggage and an unfamiliar luggage. All stacked neatly in front of you in the leg space of the back see if you see Nicole messing around on your phone. That's not good In the driver's seat. It's even worse. Tiffany is the driver you try to rationalize it considering you trust her words to a degree. Maybe this is just one of those absence. Makes the heart grow fonder things she could just as easily be moving to a second location. So that way during the view moments before they do the wedding thing, they'll be even more in love when they see each other or something along those lines. You know now You've never been into the whole marriage thing and every time when your mother talked about her wedding it was usually just a ruse to get her in a position where she could brag about how she's married, considering, and you believe this to be true. She might have no friends what as a situation progresses. You tried it assessed the situation before making it known that you're awake. Tiffany is driving a little bit anxiously. Her hair is in this and she has bags over her eyes. Nick said and she's probably been driving for hours. Nicole doesn't have a license you do, but you're unconscious and considering the situation, she wouldn't wake you up to have huge drive if this is a hostage situation or if you're an unwilling victim of her own winds of panic, but you're not quick to accept that. It's just as easy as she is bailing on her wedding and chose to take you with her I can easily be something else. Perhaps she desired to distance herself from her fiance for a couple of days to make the marriage work and wanted some company? If so, she figured she'd take you with an explain everything at the end of the day when you woke up as you continuously make excuses for over the obvious betrayal of trust, you notice that Nicole's been going through your phone rather thoroughly you try to see what she's been doing. Maybe she's playing a game on your phone, but you don't have that many games. You look over to find that she's been furiously scrolling through your photos. This brought your fight or flight instincts into question. You doubt she knows that and you're not sure if Tiffany knows this, but you have a very, very thorough collection of photos by of a certain someone that you would rather not let people in your social group know about, especially that certain someone. this caused your body to act before you had time to calmly assess the situation, thus leading to you reaching out to the front seat snatching your phone from her bringing your awakened state to Tiffany's attention. In a anxious state, she tries to butter over the situation by greeting you with a semi good morning and even though it's clearly almost mid-dusk. You decide to play along by grading her back asking where the three of you are off to this late in the evening. She then quickly responds with she felt the need to get away and develop some fond memories before tying herself down to a single human being for the rest of her life. If you were psychologist, you would definitely be skeptical about the words coming out of her mouth and would probably mark her down as midlife crisis or anything crisis for that matter. She's clearly stressed out in driving, so pursuing this topic a bit more would not be in your best interest. So instead you change the topic you decide to talk about where? Are the three of you going to eat considering this trip may take a while and it's the middle of the dark and you are other famous considering you just woke she decides to look around at the many highway signs to find a restaurant that would be open at this time of night. There was one and it looked to be his truck stop location so there's a chance that someone might be able to get food there. If not there was a gas station next door so she decides to turn off with me main road to get to the diverging road where the truck stop would be there. You can help it notice that truck stops are huge. Truck stops do occasionally have gas stations like this one and the gas station roofs are raised quite higher in order to account for a variety of different trucks that do come to fill up on gas while the driver takes their time and gets meals that they can have on their journey. You didn't start to think that truck driving might be a romantic endeavor and that you might give it a try. But then you feel that the truck stopped look would make you look a bit more obvious to others than you would like. So you decided to put a pin in that one. The next thing on your agenda is stopping Nicole from trying to get into the back of a truck as she somehow developed the idea that that was a great choice. The truck driver noticed her while you were trying to stop her and yelled at her telling her that she would be stupid to get in the truck and that he was traveling across country and he does not approve of stories. As he hits the border, he could have lost his license. You, of course apologized profusely and try to explain that she doesn't always think the things that come to her head. Nicole starts to apologize but then gets distracted by a bright lightened distance and tries to follow it. You of course following suit trying to stop her from running into the middle road. Eventually you managed to wrestle her into the rest area where the three of you could eat. You were more tired than when you went to bed. Watching Nicole will do that to you. You had been so distracted that you didn't even notice the anxious eyes looking at you for the cross the table. You try to ignore them now that you've felt the presence and focus more on the care child that needs constant supervision. Apparently Nicole doesn't have any money so you're paying for her meal Tiffany or would have, but she didn't bring her card that I would have enough money to cover everyone's meals. So you're covering Nicole's portions. Goodbye again to your budget. At this age you won't even have enough to pay rent. What does this keep happening to you? You wonder maybe you were born under and lucky star? Or perhaps your mother prayed to curse you because she felt that she would dislike you before you even born. You wouldn't put it past that woman. It's one of the many things about her that you know for a fact she's so spiteful Even towards something that hasn't even wronged her or wrong yet actually thought about sending her to it carefully for the 89th time in your life time while you villainously laugh to yourself and stopping your charge from ordering the most expensive thing on the menu. Tiffany had been renting for a while now about something you would stop listening because your hatred towards your own flesh is lied. Tends to do that to you. Turning back in you start to get a idea as to what she said it would appear. She's trying to make a good enough excuse as to why she is leaving the house in the middle of the night and dragging you with her. Her excuses is so vague. You would think she was the murderer. If this was a mystery novel, you try to let it go because a lot of her excuses are starting to sound vaguely like anything you would come up with you just pat her on the back reaching over the table and smacking away Nicole's hand as she reaches for the salt and sugar and tries to switch them you say to her it's all good. Sometimes when you feel like you're over your head you just got to run. You know that was those words left your lips you think back to graduation. It was a few days before and things were looking pretty weird. On the first week you had been introduced to the new landlord who had apparently won the property in a gambling game that may have not been above bored and after they did in full investigation of the property they had noticed that a community of moles had established a rather dangerous tunneling system underneath their housing which explains why the water kept coming going out no matter how many times the guy came to repair it and how a lot of underground electrical wiring would often be damaged and have to be replaced. Wild animals be like that's sometimes what worst of all the amount of tunneling that they've done is so rather dangerous. It could become a pitfall any minute now, so the landlord has to shut down the place and get some people in to remove the moles and then another guy in to reestablish the land beneath so that it's safer for people to walk around on without fear of falling into a rather deep pit along with their precious belongings. With that, everyone had been evicted temporarily and would be offer the opportunity to return with cheaper rent. Once the reconstruction had been approved and finished, you were promised about 3 years repair of course. Considering your lease is a 5-year one, you have no choice in the matter, so they offer you a great relocation into an associate of theirs stay, which is where you're currently residing. But the thing is that place is across the way, but the range was discounted for the time being considering the rent usually hails in the thousands and the guy said he had a room available for you, but if you weren't there within a certain amount of time, they'd just give it to someone else. They couldn't reserve it so you had to haul yourself over. Of course, during the midst of us all, McKenzie did approach you and offer for you to stay with her during the time that this renovation was going on. While you were a little bit about the idea and very excited and told her you would give her and answer after you had time to think about it, you then started to really think about it. In your excitement, you didn't consider some of the things you did over the years after you and her hadn't met during your first year in college. You wanted to know a lot more about her, but she didn't really know where to begin until you met again. Actually in school learning that she was a part of another department on campus. You then proceeded to break into the area of the student guidance office that holds all the student files, including living environments, steal her address from there, then proceed to observe her coming and goings and how long it usually takes for her to return before breaking in and then plugging in wire taps all over her apartment. Sadly though, those wiretaps didn't last because the guy who sold them to you didn't mention the fact that the receiver was radio and not satellite so you can only get within a few meters of her place before you can get a signal. And since you lived on the opposite side of town, that was impossible for you. So while you decided to save up to get a receiver that did satellites and some new bugs have hit, not apartment. You notice that your funds were dropping low when you couldn't ask your dad to fund this operation, especially considering if you got caught or if you found out that the funds he had graciously given you for college stuff have been blown on your stocking activities which you didn't get arrested for before back in elementary school. You would be in far serious trouble. He even had to drop his job for you can. You do feel really bad about it but you just couldn't help yourself. So you decided to put that liquor license you got into good use? There was a job for a bartender at this rather lazy looking establishment. The guy working there was in the midst of bolding. Apparently all of his employees were extremely unreliable and the ones that he did have were useful but didn't listen to anything. He had to say he was at his within and if he didn't show results they were going to can him boss who was working at a different location at the time then the current location the two of you are working. You requested a job from him and he desperately accepted considering he needed anyone who was consistent. Ironically, he also hired one other bartender at the time and that the two of you would be dual working the bar since there was enough space for two at the time and the pay was study in the tips. World. Okay, since it was one of those casual places. You didn't get a lot of new customers but the customers that did come knew that it would be in their best interest to tip considerably when they could since they frequent here and they didn't want to spiteful bartender serving their drinks. So you would often want occasion when one of the customers that usually comes was looking good economically wise. Get a nice tip on odds and ends. It wasn't extravagant but at the end of the day it was good enough to just drop in your savings in over time you did start to develop a truly nice. I'm out of money in your savings account. Then the day finally came where the other new bartender and you work to shift together into your surprise. She was McKenzie the girl you were burning money to bug her apartment. Both you and her were surprised. Apparently she knew the owner during her earlier years in middle school. He was apparently one of her seniors that went to the high school branch of her school. The two of them were in such good terms. He knew he could trust her and hired her on the spot. Look kind of jealous of having connections like that even though it was just for a bar, but she has the two of you spent time running a shift together. You started to truly hit it off before it was just casual weren't exchanged, but until learning a lot more about her. Apparently she lived on the coast side before coming here and that her whole deal was she was trying to save up to build her own motorcycle parts and all. You didn't really get it because what all goes into a motorcycle doesn't really come naturally to your mind and you are actually tempted to Google some of it just to impress her. But after a few more verbal exchanges the two of you actually said up. I hang out together. I'll be at the hangout. Was just you accompanying her to pick up some items she needed for class, but the thought that you could spend more time with her made you accept despite the undertones. So then in the coming weeks the two of you spent more and more time together. That was when you hit the first official month that you knew each other as associates and was also The first time she introduced you to one of her friends, Tiffany.