Chapter 55

Caleb's POV

Brianna woke up first that morning. She hated waking up early so the fact that she woke up before I did attest to how badly she wanted to leave. We woke up and started to gather up our things slowly. Once we had taken everything out of our time, I instructed Brianna on how she would take down the tent.

Nice she got the hang of it, I left her to go inform dad and Eric that we were leaving.

I started with dad because I figured that it would be easier. He was an unbelievably light sleeper so he heard my footsteps before I even got to the tent and called out, “who’s out there?”

“It’s Caleb. Hey dad, could you come out here for a second? I want to talk to you.”

I heard some shuffling in the tent before he finally emerged from within it. When he got out, he saw Brianna taking down our tent and looked very confused.

“What's going on?” he asked as he rubbed the sleep from his eyes.

“We have to leave.”

“Oh! That’s a shame. Is everything okay? Can we help?” he asked genuinely.

“Bri