The next morning we all tried to convince Caden’s mom to let us go to the beach again that last day, but she wouldn’t let us. We all still had lots of extra money since none of us bought anything at the pier, so we finally convinced Caden’s mom to let us stop at Tilly’s on the way back. Tilly’s was pretty close to the house, and we left at about 10:00. But when we got there, there was a sign on the door that said it didn’t open until 11:00. All the stores had shorter hours because of Covid-19. That was really disappointing, but we continued our drive home. When it was lunch time we stopped at Chick-fil-a to eat. The three of us watched a movie in the car, and then we all took a nap.
We weren’t that far outside of Las Vegas when I woke up and started to read. Kamen was still asleep, but Caden was awake. Eventually, we all started hearing this weird noise coming from somewhere. It was getting louder and louder when Caden opened his front seat window and looked out towards the back of the car. When he opened the window, it smelled like burnt rubber. He put his head back in the car and told us that the tire was destroyed. I looked out the window directly behind him and saw little pieces of black flying off of the tire. Caden’s mom pulled over after that. Kamen finally woke up when we pulled over and he asked what happened. We all went outside to inspect the tire. We were in Nevada, so the temperature was a little lower than 110 degrees. Compared to the California weather, this was a nightmare.
We started moving around luggage in the back seat to get to the spare tire in her car. Kamen said he knew how to change a spare tire, but once we got the spare out, a cop pulled over and helped us put it on. After it was fixed, the officer left, and we all piled into the car. We weren’t too far out from Vegas, so Caden’s mom decided to stop at a tire repair place since we wouldn’t be able to make it all the way back home on a spare. When we made it to the place and pulled up to a worker, he said that we would have to wait in line about two and a half hours.
We were next to an outlet mall, and I turned around to look at it. Sure enough, right where I looked, there was a Tilly’s. Caden’s mom asked if there was another location of the same store somewhere else in Vegas with less of a wait, and he said that there was one about 10 minutes away. I tapped on Kamen’s shoulder and pointed at Tilly’s. We all really wanted to go because there were really cool things that we didn’t get the last time when we thought we should have saved our money for the pier. Kamen proceeded to do the same thing I did to him to Caden, and Caden asked his mom if we could go. Caden’s mom didn’t say anything, and we all assumed that that was a no. We were all disappointed the whole way to the other tire place. The worker at the other place said we would have to wait an hour for them to put on the tire. While we waited, me, Kamen and Caden went to look around at other stores nearby. Eventually, Caden’s mom found us and we all went over to Panda Express to eat since it was dinner time. I had a lot of Chick-fil-a, so I wasn’t hungry when they got some food, but Caden shared some of his orange chicken with me anyway.
(To Be Continued...)
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