Something You Should Never Try At Home

With that, the limo door opens. I expect to see my front yard, but I am quite surprised, along with Delaina and everybody else, to see that we're very far away from my house. We all slowly exit the vehicle.

"Alex?" Delaina asks.
"Yeah?" Alex turns from his conversation with the tall jock guy and answers her.
"Where are we?"
He walks toward her after excusing himself from the last conversation.
"We had to go to the safehouse. We're about five states over."

It clicks with me. "Wait, so we're in what state now?"
Alex stares us down. "We're in New York. Manhattan to be exact. Im making that judgement because we're standing across the street from that big pointy tall building on" here he looks at a street sign that's about half the block down. "Its a thirty something street."

I fight the urge to start screaming. I'm home. I'm back in the city where I've lived all my life. Yay!

Once everybody gets out of the limo, it simply drives away, then zooms effortlessly into oblivion.

"Okay, so where exactly is the safehouse?" the mohawk guy asks.
Alex smiles.

"Where no one would expect it." With that, he walks toward the bright lights on 42nd Street. Times Square.

~*~*~*~*~*~

We're all standing in front of the Port Authority train station, wondering where the hell we're all going, while Alex is scanning the area around, making sure nobody ws looking too closely at them.

"Okay, we're good, for now. Get in." he says simply, and we all comply. He leads us down the escalator to the MetroCard kiosks, where he takes out a hundred dollar bill, sticks it in the machine, and waits for a shiny new MetroCard to pop out.

"What's that card for?" Delaina asks. CLearly, she's never taken a train in New York before. I knew how to take these since I was about nine, so this is no surprise for me.

"It's a MetroCard. You pay some money, swipe it through, and you get to take whatever train until you exit whatever station you come out of. ALex is trying to get us all through the station, meanig that it's somewhere else in the city."

"I never said it was somewhere else." Alex said. "Now, walk through, I swiped you in."

I walk through, follwed by Delaina, and Alex after her. Everybody else had already gone through. Alex then leads us through the station, down the stairs to the actual terminal. The A was just leaving the station.

"Alex, what stop do we need?" I ask. A very valid question, in my opinion. Trains go places.

He smiles wickedly.

"We don't need a stop." he says. Everybody looks more than a little confused. He acknowledges this, but doesnt care.

"Okay, guys, a train's going to come in five minutes. We've gotta get into the tracks and get to the tunnel, and get to a door in the middle of the wall. It's toward this stop, which is why I picked this one. We've got about four minutes, so jump."

We're all looking at him like he's gone crazy. He actually has this time.

"Guys, trust me. WE've got to get to the safehouse, and it's here, and the longer you guys stand here, the less time we hav to get to the safehouse. So please, get in. Nobody's going to notice. I've got Lily and Anna rendering us all invisible, so nobody's going to see. And I've got Michael handling the electricity issue. So it'll be okay as long as you guys get down into the tracks right now, before our three minutes are up."

It's crazy, but we all see the sense in it. So wedo something that I was always warned to never ever do ever. We jump into the tracks and head straight into the tunnels.