He ledme to my room and opened my dresser droors. He threw out some shirts and a few pairs of pants.

"Taylor, what are you doing?"

"Get a gym bag."

Although I never take orders from males, It seemed like I loved him so much he could just order me around as much as he wanted to. I wanted to make him happy so badly. I grabbed a gym bag out of my closet. He stuffed all the clothes he had picked out into the bad.

"Why---" Before I could even ask, he replied.

"We've got to get out of here."

"Because of what your parents said?"

"Yes. They can't except that I'm growing up! And it's like, there's 5 more kids waiting, why don't you pick on them?"

"You know what I think?"

"What?"

I thought about what I was going to say, then held it back. Whatever I could say or do wouldn't change his mind. "Uh, I think that-that-maybe you do need a break from them."

"Exactly." He zipped my bag. "You know my friend Justin?"

"Uh, I think so."

"I'm feeding his cats and dog while he's on vacation for a week. He left yesterday. Why don't we just stay there one or two nights?"

I wanted to say that it was a bad Idea, that he shouldn't run away from his parents. I wanted to say that he should talk things out with him. I wanted to tell him he was wrong and we needed to stay here. But something inside me told me he was right. And I knew he was. Not anyone else in the whole world in this situation would have been right to do this, but I knew he was. His parents were overwhelmingly overprotective and he did need a breather. Allthough sneaking out of the house to stay at a friends a couple streets away wasn;t the best way out, I admired him for having his own mind and opinion. "Ok." Was all I could come up with. Ok.

neither of his parents came up to his room all day that day. In the meantime, we stayed in my room and did nothing.

Around 8:00 PM, we heard the door to his parents' room shut. "You ready?"

I nodded yes. He took my hand and led me down the ladder of my balcony. About a half an hour later we arived at his friend justins house. He put the key in the door and put my stuff down. He showed me the house and then took me out back.

THey had a hot tub. He eyed the bubbles and asked "Want to get it?"

"I didn't bring anything to wear in it."

"Don't wear anything."

I smiled and stripped down to nothing. I turned around. Taylor was already in the hot tub.