The car sat alone now. It had been about 6 hours. The wind blew the beach sand near the times, and the engine was cold. It was cool now with out the suns heat. The sand was cold, there were a few people down the beach near the pier. Walking...

They were still leading the operation. A pot of coffee was just started and there was steady beat of some deep house beat playing. She had to find her. She knew she was gaining. 


"They found her car."

The words went through head and then out again without registering."

"What?" She said...

He had written down her locations when he periodically checked. Here and there, and he kept compulsively checking it when they stopped. The last place she had it on was  in Kansas. And that's where they were headed where the blue do stayed. The whole drive he was hoping she'd...

Alan fell asleep. Aaron looked over and checked, he turned the radio to his playlist. A techno one he made in college for studying for exams. Still pumps him up. He liked driving. All day he sits and goes no where, now he sits and he goes somewhere. Probably should...

Imogen woke up in room out of the 70's. There were bean bag chairs, and one inflatable, stacks of normal chairs, then the couch she was on. A sort of red leather that was kind of fancy, but stood next to to this random assortment of furniture made everything stranger. ...

He didn't take her home for some reason. Thats what a normal person would do, he was worried that how that would come across. They left her car at the beach, worried she might pass out at the wheel. Instead he took her to the lab lounge. It was past...

She watched his blood move up through the tubes and into the machine, then she looked at hers. That was it she thought. She felt close to death in that moment watching some of her insides on the outside of her body. But looking at his felt different like intimate....

"Its weird it took so long." She said. 

The guy pretended not to notice, but maybe he did. 

"Its weird it took so long, like with your  McFlurry were the only people here." She laughed a little. 

He turned to face her, unsure.

"Yeah, I mean I guess they have drive...

Imogen didn't know how to answer this. She didn't think this about herself, but was happy for Ashley.

"Guess its none of this again." She joked. But it would turn out to be true.

"But who do you want to be? Like your not gunna be always like this, you...

Her friendship with Ashley faded after the summer she met Alan. She wasn't sure why, and although they never talked about it Ashley didn't know either. 

"It was like a setting sun", she wrote once in her journal "it had to happened".

They moved away, and she had the cafe, even...