By The Way

Chapter Two

Ana's Point Of View

Today is the last day of he school year and Ben and I have the entie summer planned out. we are taking a road trip. i am so f*****g excited to get out of town for the summer.

So today since Ben and I have alk the same classes we are going to come up with a road trip playlist. This is goin be fun.

“Hey Ana are you ready to make that list?” Ben asks coming up to me.

“Yeah I am so f*****g excited for our road trip. And we also need to decide where we are goin first,” I say.

“Me too Ana and yeah we have to do that. I am think we start in Denver Colorado and work our way up to Washington then to Florida and then come back to North Platte, and of course we will stop and smell the roses,” he says.

"That sounds fuckin awesome," I say.

Sometime later. We have our road trip playlist written out and and now all that is left is to put it on my Youtube Music premium account and we are set to go home and pack our bags and leave at five am in the morning.

***

After school we head home and start the packing process and of course I am having Ben help me decide what the flying f**k I should bring and wear. He is actually being very helpful.

Hours later. We are finally packed and ready to go for tomorrow. I know I am way to fuckin excited to sleep tonight but I also know that I need to try and get some sleep. So what I am goin to do is, I am goin to put on Hinder and Nickelback on my phone and turn down the volume and listen to the sing and pray and hope for sleep.

Finally sleep seems to find me after two hours of staring at my celing.

***

The next morning. BEEP BEEP BEEP! My alarm goes off. I groan and slap the snooze button and get up and get dressed in the out fit that Ben and I picked out last night.

“You ready Ana?” Ben asks.

“Yeah, just let me grab my phone all the eletronics and there cords and then I will be totally ready,” I say.

He nods and I grab the stuff and we hit the road and head on our way to Denver Colorado.

***

Five hours later. It is ten am here in Denver I slept for the whole ride. We finally get to the Stinker where my older sister works. Ben Pulls in to the store parking lot. I jump out and run inside. Ben follows me.

“Amelia!” I shout when I see her behind the counter.

“Ana! I missed you how have you been, and where the f**k is dad?” She asks.

“I have been good. And I missed you too, dad is not in my life anymore, but there is someone new in my life,” I say.

“Ana what happened with dad? And who is this new someone?” she asks goin into protctive sister mode.

“Dad abused me and hurt me a lot and so I left. And the new someone is right here,” I say waving Ben over.

“This is Benjamin, but I call him Ben he saved me from dad and his mom has taken me in so yeah and he is just wonderful. He wanted to come down here with me to meet you and then we are going to go to a couple of other states before we head home,” I say.

“ Nice to meet you Benjamin. Thank you for saving my sister and for letting her live with you. I hope she has behaved herself,” Amelia says.

“Nice to meet you too Amelia. And no problem I was happy to help your sister. And yeah she has been behaving herself,” Ben says.

We talked for a few more minutes and then Ben and I left to go check into our motel room.

“Ana?” Ben asks.

“Yeah Ben,” I say.

“You know I love you like a sister right?” he asks.

“Yeah why?” I ask.

“I feel like you don’t like living with me,” Ben says.

“Benny, I love living with you and I love you, and nothing could change the way I feel. Not my friends not my boyfriend. So you have nothing to worry about okay Benny,” I say.

“Okay Ana,” Ben says.

And with that we fall asleep. My alarm goes off a five pm because we are going to have dinner with my sister at seven.

We get to the restaurant and my sister is pulling in at the same time as us. We walk in and wait to get seated. We finally get seated and we all start looking at the menus. When we all decide what we want and order. That is when the conversation starts.

“So Ben how did you meet my sister?” my sister asks. I take a sharp breath.

“Well I met her when I was in the hospital because if her friends beatin the ever livin s**t out of me. But this is what makes me proud to know her. She had the chance to help them beat the s**t out of me, but she didn’t. She came by my hospital room and stayed with me every night. Until I left the hospital. And it was when a teacher paired us up for a project that I found ouyt what your guys dad was doing to her. And she has been living with me and my mom ever since,” Ben says.

My sister looks shocked at what happened. After we ate dinner me and Ben went back to the motel and fell asleep again.