"Well turns out Orlando is a big place." Mike said and laughed. "His house is about 15 to 20 miles away from here."

"Damn. Ok well I guess we should start walking." I said and picked up my bag off the chair. Mike grabbed his and we walked out of the bus station. "We need some money. How much do we have left from that 100 bucks that lady gave us?" I asked.

"We have about 20 dollars left. We should save that for food and walk to his house." Mike said.

"Or we can take a cab to his house and maybe he can get us lunch." I said thinking of the alternate plan.

"How do we know Nick still lives there though? If he doesn't we just wasted our food money and was are screwed." Mike said. I didn't think of that. So we decided to walk. "What are we going to do if we find him?" Mike asked me as we walked though town. I looked at him and then looked straight ahead. I hadn't thought of that. Yea we would see him but I didn't think he or his stepmom would ask us to stay. She is probably the one who made him stop writing to me.

"I don't know." I sighed. "I guess I didn't think about that." I said honestly. He put his arm around my shoulder.

"It's ok. At least it is warmer here. It will be a good place to live. Especially in the winter." Mike said looking on the positive side. I nodded knowing he was right on that. In a few days it would be Halloween then before we know it, it will be Thanksgiving then Christmas time. If we stayed in New York with out the hideout being there we would need to find a warm place to stay.

I should back up a little. Before we left New York the place the gang used to live was being torn down because it was condemned. Mike and I had no place to live and before I mentioned coming to Florida, we were going to look for one.

We continued to walk and eventually the road began to have less and less houses and buildings on it and soon it came to be that it was just the road and us. There were some palm trees around but other then that all we could see was blue sky and the horizon. In the distance we could see the next town and we wanted to make it there by dark because that was the town Nick lived in. We would find a place to sleep then tomorrow find a gas station to wash up in then go and see Nick. Mike and I didn't talk much as we walked. We were both basically in our own worlds. A few minutes had gone by when we heard a car. I turned to look at it and noticed it looked like the same car I had seen in Virginia. The car passed us and I noticed four people in it. They looked familiar but it didn't hit me until the car pulled over and stopped.

"Mike look." I said pointing to the car. The four people got out and started walking towards us. We recognized them right away. Kandie, Joe, John but the forth person we didn't know. He was tall about 6 feet 5 he looked pretty strong. He had dark hair and was wearing sunglasses.

"Oh shit!" Mike said and looked around for a place to go. There was nowhere to run. Mike pushed me behind him and tired to protect me.

"Well, well look who we found. Two lost dragons." John said as the approached us.

"What do you want?" Mike said trying to hide his fear.

"You think gangs forget?" Joe said laughing. "You remember when you jumped us." I just kept looking at the big guy. He was bigger then all of us.

"Look we are no longer in any gang so please just let us be." Mike said to them.

"We didn't come all this way to let you be." John said. "We have been following you since you left New York."

"Why?" I asked kinda quietly still staring at the big guy. John walked closer to us and Mike pushed me further behind him and moved back a bit. 

"Revenge." John said simply and the big guy came over and grabbed Mike.

"Hey let me go!" He yelled. John grabbed my arm and they brought us over to the car. "Don't you hurt her!" Mike yelled again and struggled against the big guy who we still didn't know what his name was. Joe hit Mike across the face.

"Shut up!" he yelled and began to beat him up.

"Stop!" I yelled but of course they didn't listen. I heard another car coming and I looked over to see it. 'Maybe they will help us' I thought to myself. I smiled, it was a cop car. He saw what was going on and he put on his sirens. The big guy dropped Mike and John let me go and they hopped in the car and took off. The cop car stopped and the officer jumped out to see if we were ok. I looked at Mike and helped him up. He was pretty banged up. But we told him we were ok. The officer wanted us to go to the station to file a report. We didn't want to but he insisted that we go with him into town. We got into his police car and drove off into town. Thank goodness it was the town we needed to get to anyway.

"How old are you two?" he asked us. Mike lied and said he was 18. I looked 14 so I just said I was 14. "Where are your parents?" he asked us.

"Oh their back in New York. We are on vacation here." Mike lied again. "We are staying with our aunt."

"Ok. We need to call her." The officer said.

"You can't. She's not home. She went shopping." Mike said and even I believed him.

"I see. Why were you two on that road with out a car?" He asked.

"We got bored and we went for a walk. I guess we went to far out." Mike said shrugging.

"Do you know the people who attacked you?" The officer asked. Mike lied again and said no and said they wanted our money. "Why are you taking a walk with two bags full of clothes?" he asked. 'Damn' I though ' he got us there' Mike looked at the officer.

"Because she likes to bring all her favorite stuff everywhere with her." Then looked at me. I nodded.

"Can't leave home with out my favorite things." I said and lied as well. I'm not dumb. If he finds out that we are orphans and Mikes not really 18 then we are screwed.

"Uh huh." The officer said not believing it. "I'll be right back." He said and left the room.

"We gotta go and now." Mike said and headed towards the window. I picked up my stuff and we climbed out of the one story window. Then ran into an alleyway and out the other side. "That was close." Mike said.

"Yea. Lets find out where we are so we can get to Nick's house." I said heading towards a gas station. This was already a long day and now we need to find a place to sleep tonight.