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Beau asked. “Yes, and I had him in California,” I told him. “You and the dad didn't work out?” Beau asked. Ugh. “No, we didn't,” I said sharply. I rolled my eyes. Beau was surprised by my irritation, but he shrugged and looked away. River was talking to David, and River paid us no attention. “So, California, what's that like?” Jordan asked. “Hot, busy, earthquakes, beaches, pretty much like you see on the TV. There was nothing special about it,” I said. I sounded almost angry, and it caught River's attention.

“California isn’t all bad, really,” Willie MacQuoid said, munching on a ramen burger. Ever since they arrived in Los Angeles, she had fallen in love with the city’s unique culinary delights. “You all just said California; nobody told me we’re coming to LA.” “I told you,” Mr. MacQuoid replied, sitting across from her at the dining table, his eyes on the magazine gifted to him by a friend he met on the plane. “I’m good with locations.”

The way California hits her, it seems like the kind of place that could crack open this woman who's stashed away all her feelings under layers of the past and refuses to budge. He really feels for her. And he knows she's got a bunch of feelings too; he's caught glimpses of them under that tough shell she's got going. If California can help her open up, if it's the spot where she'll finally deal with the past she's been dodging, if it's the key to unlocking all these emotions, then yeah, California it is. He's set on dragging her to California. Today.

I mutter with a sigh. "Or maybe not. Let's just leave unimportant stuff." She changes her mind, and I'm not even surprised. "I don't think there'll be swimming over there, right?" she asks and I sigh. We spend some time packing, making sure we haven't forgotten anything important for a vacation. I'm not really excited about the trip, but I do like the idea of travelling outside California for a change. Good thing I'm so organized so packing doesn't take forever as Sam is in charge of the department.

As if it wasn't already obvious from my accent. “Ye mean the colonies?” he pressed, his suspicion mounting with every word I spoke. I scoffed out a laugh. "The colonies?! No dude. I'm from California," I replied with a confident smile. He didn't smile back. "California? Where's that?" I stared at him in disbelief. Everyone knew California, right? We had the Golden Gate Bridge! The Hollywood sign! Disneyland! Alcatraz! Fuck, we even had Arnold Schwarzenegger as our governer at one point!

When we'd landed in Eureka it was below freezing. For those of you that think of palm trees and bikinis when you hear "California," understand that it is a very long state. Southern California gets nice weather pretty much year round, but we were then just south of the Oregon border, and the weather can get pretty shitty at times. Not Michigan shitty, but not pleasant, either. Tonight was particularly bad.

"I mean, why would she come all the way from California to Los Angeles, what for exactly. I didn't know what to say to ease their curiosity and I certainly didn't want to bring any more attention to myself. Anna's brows clapped together as though seeing reason with Winters' idea "You are right though why would Kayla leave California to school here." I had to find a way to get their attention off Kayla with her being at school, I had a feeling why Anna would figure out sooner than later. " Guys, are all of you all know how much that book actually means to us right And what he will do with it, if he figures out the real power of it."

While none of us seven is anywhere near as capable as the rawest Marine recruit with any of these weapons, at least we may have a fighting chance to survive in a pinch. The rest of our time has been devoted to learning all we could about the geography between San Diego and San Francisco and about Alcatraz. While I had heard of Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, my head is now stuffed with names like Morro Bay, Hearst Castle, Big Sur and Monterey. Most of the coastal area north of Santa Barbara was wooded and hilly even before The Incident brought society crashing down. We’re assuming that by now it’s become far more wild and untamed—which is why I’m glad we plan to bypass it all traveling by sea

she blinked. "Why do you want to go to California?" I demanded. "Because it's a beautiful city. I've been in Rome my whole life; it's time I explore before I settle down with you. Once I have kids with you, my focus will be on them, which is why I want to make the best out of the time I have now, and I chose to go to California. With the both of us together, we can see the amazing places in California. What do you think?" she smiled at me, but my mind drifted back to Lisa's words when we were still dating and when I was so obsessed with her.

"...California," Julian announces, opening his eyes and squinting at the map with the satisfaction of a man whose ridiculous methods have once again, somehow, produced a reasonable result on the second try. "Specifically somewhere near the coast, from the look of it." "California," Caspian repeats flatly. "California," I echo, and something warm and enormous unfurls in my chest at the word, so big and sudden it nearly steals my breath. Flying cows, I did not expect a dart to make me feel like this.