It was late in the evening when they got there. The guest told the girls that they were going to have to ask people for gas money. He told them it would be better if they were the ones that asked because people usually won’t give money to men. So he stayed near while the 2 girls asked drivers for gas money. This was one of the most difficult things the girl had ever done. She had never asked a stranger for money before. She had barely even asked someone for the time of day or directions. She was embarrassed and couldn’t believe she was doing this.
The 2 girls did fairly well asking for money. They were only there about 2 hours and had enough money to get pretty far.
They drove through the night driving over the border and into Louisiana. The slept at the rest stop for the night and continued on to Texas, stopping here and there to beg for money. Just over the border in Anthony they stopped at a Flying J truck stop. This was early Sunday morning. The girls again tried to beg for money from drivers. One of the drivers had given them money in Florida and they were really embarrassed. They didn’t get as much money and they were invited to the truck stop ministry.
After a while they decided to quit asking for money. They sat in the TV room for quite a while watching TV. One time when both Don and the guest went out for a smoke break, the girl called her friend, DK. She told her that she was okay but that her call to the Flying J in Florida got her in trouble. She told them that the guest had forbidden her to call DK after that. She told her of the plans she had in Florida but now couldn’t get in touch with her friend to help her out. She told her she would call when she could but that didn’t seem like it might be soon and that the guest kept telling her they were headed home.
The girl was so scared she was going to get caught by the guest while she was on the phone. She was able to sneak out of the booth and say she had been in the bathroom. The guest looked at her suspiciously but decided not to say anything else.
All day long they tried to figure out what to do about the lack of money situation. Don finally decided she would call a friend of hers that really liked her and wanted her to come be with him. He sent her some money for the couple to drive her up to meet him. He lived near Dallas. The 3 of them got food, cigarettes, gas, and headed toward Dallas.
They drove most of the night then stopped at a rest stop to sleep. They were almost out of gas and no anywhere near where they needed to be. They stopped in Huntsville, TX at a Pilot truck stop. The 2 girls sat next to each other in the McDonald’s. They were sitting there talking when Don started talking with a driver sitting at a table next to them. Somehow it came up that he would love to have someone with him on the road. She said she would love to go. The next thing the girl knew she was helping Don get her things out of the SUV. She was scared to be with the guest alone again and she didn’t know what would become of her and the guest but she didn’t have much of a choice in the matter.
After Don left the guest and the girl discussed what they needed to do. The girl ended up asking driver’s for money. They got lucky. A driver put gas in their tank. When they were ready to leave the girl asked if they should try to get to the guest’s house he supposedly had in Texas. They should have been close to where the house was. The guest said that they would have no power or food at the house so it was a bad idea to get there. He said it was better to just continue on to Utah and get her home.
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