“What are you going to do?” Brylee asked.
“I was going to my aunt’s house before I got in an accident,” Casey said.
“What were you going to do there?”
“My mom said the aunt would help me find a job, and I could stay with her until I’m able to get an apartment.”
“Is that where you think you’re going?” Sienna asked.
“It’s the only place I can go. I don’t think my parents want me to go back there.”
“They suck,” Riley said.
Casey shook her head. “No. They’re actually really great. They knew I wasn’t going to get anywhere if I stayed in the little town we lived in. If I had to go back, I feel like I’d be living with them for the rest of my life and working at a grocery store. I want more than that.”
The other girls nodded.
“Do you know her address?” Kinley asked.
“Yes, I have it. I guess it’s only an hour from here,” Casey said.
“Good, then we can still see each other,” Sienna said.
“If you don’t have your car, how are you going to get there?” Riley asked.
“We could ask one of the daddies to help,” Brylee said.
Aleena shook her head. “No, they’d go right to Simon.”
“Do you know if there are buses here?”
“There’s got to be. But remember what Kyla told us,” Brylee said. “It was terrifying. She was even attacked on it.”
Casey’s heart dropped. There was no other way. “I don’t think I have a choice.”
“We can ask Nia. She’s the only one of us that drives. We’d have to take her so she could drive us back,” Aleena said.
“She would do it. But now, we have to find a car,” Riley said.
“But wait. You guys could get in trouble, couldn’t you?”
Casey was shocked when they all smiled.
“It’s been a while since we poked at the daddies,” Sienna said.
She didn’t understand. “You guys aren’t afraid of your daddies being mad at you?”
Aleena snorted. “No. They would never hurt us, and we littles feel it’s our job to keep them on their toes, or life could get boring.”
Casey rolled her eyes. “When can you talk to Nia?”
“I’ll call her now,” Kinley said.
Casey listened to her talk to Nia. Kinley looked happy when she hung up.
“She said she’d absolutely go with us, and she can get a car,” Kinley said.
“How?” Brylee asked.