It has been four months since Skylar saved Mckenzie from the SHAP. As she nears summer, she looks forward to having no school, no responsibilities, just fun in the sun. But that all changes on the last day of school, someone has put a 85 million dollar reward on Skylar and McKenzie. Dead or alive. Now it seems that everyone is after her and they have no choice but to go into hiding, in a little town called Someweare.
If things couldn't get any worse I had to hand him my phone, my ID, my keys, and anything that connected me to my family. It was a long car trip, I had a book to read, but I was so worried about the situation I couldn't stop thinking about the worse possible outcome. It seemed that my life suddenly changed without me asking. We drove for HOURS and hardly ever made any stops, and if things didn't worry me anymore all the windows in the SUV were tinted so dark I couldn't see outside.
So for the whole car trip, I just sat there, thinking about my summer, thinking about McKenzie. I worried for her, she hasn't been the same since her kidnapping. She hardly sleeps, and when she does she sleeps in that old rickety tree house in her back yard. I understand I will never understand what she went through, but I still want to support her. But it seems that she keeps pushing me away. She won't hang out with me anymore, she won't leave the house, despite countless times of me asking her to visit my house for a sleepover. It almost feels like we're not friends anymore.
But I know that's not true, we're friends. Best friends. If friendships didn't struggle, than how do you know you trust them? I've tried to get her to open up to me but it doesn't work. She doesn't talk to me about the kidnapping, or her PTSD. And I knew she would tell me about it when she was ready, but now someone is coming after both of us. And it was probably my fault. If I let the FBI handle the situation, I wouldn't be stuck in this mess, neither would McKenzie. After hours of overthinking, I finally fell asleep in the car. Which was a miracle, because I can never sleep sitting up.
