Chapter 44

Mary's P.O.V

I don't remember how long I was awake after we left, but I know it wasn't long. Car rides always made me sleepy, and in all the years, I have not once managed to stay awake long enough to see the whole trip.

The calming sound of the tyres on the road just lulls me to sleep with its calming lullaby.

Being shaken awake, out of my calming sense of sleep, wasn't something that I wanted. Smacking the hands away from me and murmuring for them to leave me alone also didn't seem to work because I was still shaken even after that.

"Dora is picking the snacks alone, and we both know she doesn't have the best taste. You might want to go and help her."

That had me awake almost immediately. She never chooses the speckled eggs and always goes for kale chips or something healthy and sugarless that has no taste at all. Smiling and eating it just to make her happy is what dad and I did, but for the last while it has been becoming increasingly more difficult.

Jumping out of the car,