In the first part of my prediction- that Ruby would try to run away, but not succeed- I predicted correctly. Ruby waited in her new room, for a very long time pretending to be asleep. Her thought was that she would wait until Cora and Jaime went to bed, and then make a break for it. Cora went to bed and Ruby thought, one down, one to go. But Jaime (Cora's husband) would not go to bed. So Ruby waited and waited and waited. Finally she heard the light switch go off and the door close, the bright red light from the clock saying 12:46 PM. It was dark and the only light that she had was the glowing, shimmering blue light coming from the neighbors yard. She got her bag out of the dresser that had all of her stuff that she had gathered earlier that day. It was just enough light that she would be able to navigate around. She tiptoed passed Cora and Jaime's room, down the hall, and down the stairs without making a peep. She opened the door, thankful that the alarm did not go off, and who does she see walking the dog? Jaime. Ruby panicked, but only in her head, thinking of the choices she had. She could just bolt out in front of him, hoping he would not notice her, or just turn around and go back up to her room. She decided to bolt to into the back yard and climb over the fence, to the neighbors yard that had the light. She runs as fast as she can, but gets to the fence and looks up. The fence was very high, too high for her to climb. She throws her bag over and attempts to climb over. Roscoe, the dog, was now outside because Jaime let him out. Ruby was hoping the dog did not see anything, but sure enough he came running towards her, barking loudly. Why all of this was happening, the blue light turned out to be a pool, and coming out of the pool was a boy, about Ruby's age, and a cute boy too. He said hello, and introduced himself. He knew what she was trying to do, but he was cool with it. Ruby had a big problem, Jaime was coming outside now! He asked her what she was doing out there. Ruby was speechless. Nate, the boy, covered for her and told Jaime that she was just coming out here to ask him to turn down his music. Jaime went along with it, thankfully. Jaime went back in and Ruby thanked Nate as he gave her the bag back. Ruby thought it was too risky to bring her bag inside, and the balcony was too high for her to throw it up there. So she left it by the grill. She went in the house and when she got to her room, the bag was on her balcony.

When i was reading this, I could just see when Roscoe was running towards Ruby barking. His little body sprinting all the way over to the fence in just seconds. He is one of those little dogs, and I can just hear him yapping at Ruby. Ruby stuck there not knowing what to do, her face just speechless. It kind of made me laugh because in movies, that is normally what happens when they are trying to escape. I had a really good idea of what was going on.