Chapter 19.
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I woke up to the soft tapping of rain against the windows and roof. It was dark outside so either late at night or still very early in the morning but the room was lit up and I could see Brandon sitting on his bed as he wrote in a notebook. I sat up, the movement making him look at me and he gave a tight smile.
“It’s three, you should probably go back to sleep.” He said.
“No… what are you doing?” I asked.
“Mapping out where we’re going today. We need to get a different motel as well, one closer to the inner city so that it’s easier to get lost in crowds if we need to. We can go for a run before sunrise, before we have to leave. We need to get some hair dye – red?” He asked me.
“I… okay.” My hair was very dark brown, I had never dyed it before but there was a first t
