Daily Excerpt Post: Day Three

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Aaron sighs and sinks into the stiff leather, his eyes slipping closed until Alison nudges him. "Sorry, no sleeping," she comments, unphased as he glowers at her. "We need to be on top of our game here. Who knows what we need to do to help Nick, after all. It could be a number of things..."

"What do you mean?" he asks, yawning against his fist as she shifts uncomfortably.

"Well, sometimes the easiest thing is best... sometimes it requires a lot of thinking and planning ahead of time. Unfortunately, a lot of times it takes a split second decision or it's just too late to do anything." She smiles confidently at him. "But you're a smart boy, I'm sure you'll be fine."

He pulls a face at her before returning to look out at the town passing them by. "I just realized I never got a straight answer as to where we're at," he mutters, careful to keep his voice down due to the taxi driver who's obviously listening in.

"Oh," Alison says, looking surprised as she thinks over their conversations from the night before. "You're right, I was distracted. Red wine does that to me." Bolstered by the short smile he provides her, she sighs. "Andover, Massachusetts."

"Oh," he says quietly. What else, after all, is there to say?