8:00 AM.

Time is of the essence.

We need to catch the bus.

One last check.

Do we all have our tickets, our passports, our luggage?

Have we all checked our rooms, closed the windows and made our beds?

Great. We are ready and nothing is amiss.

We leave the house and run: the bus is early.

We run and run and run and, luckily, make our bus.

We take a seat side by side near the end of the bus.

I look at her and she looks at me.

We smile.

As the house grows tinier and tinier as the bus leave the neighbourhood, I laugh. We both laugh.

We left!

We are finally free…