The rest of Chapter 4

Here's the rest of Chapter 4. The total word count for my novel is now 2,259.

“I don’t know, but I sure like this T.V. deal!”
“Oh come on! Kylie, you like T.V. too much! And look, our hour is almost up. Let’s get Mrs. Pinebaum to trust us with more privileges by going on bed on time!” Riley said.
“You know, you’re right! If we get her to trust us, we may have an easier time of leaving!” Nikki agreed.
They walked past Mrs. Pinebaum’s room, and saw her on the phone again.
She said, “Nikki, yes, I know, yes. And her friends Riley and Kylie, well they got her to start trying to figure it out. I know, yes, oh look, there they are, heading up to bed. Goodnight girls!” she called cheerily.
“Goodnight Mrs. Pinebaum!” They called, and scurried up to their room.
As Nikki lay in dreaming in her bed, she suddenly started. “Guys! We have to leave soon!”
“What? It’s like, Two o’clock in the morning!” Kylie grumpily grumbled as she rolled back over in bed.
“Wake up!!!” Nikki pushed Kylie over.
“Leave me alone!! Ugh!!”
Nikki ran over to Riley and pushed her too. “Get up!”
“What? Huh? Oh, hi Nikki. What’s up?” Riley rolled out of bed. “What do you need?”
“We need to leave, and get Kylie up.”
“Oh that’s easy! Kylie, pancakes!”
“Really? Cool! I want chocolate chips in mine!” Kylie rolled right out of bed.
“I told you it was easy!”
“Why is it so dark out? Why did you want me out of my nice, warm, comfortable-“
“Kylie!”
“Fine. But why did you want me out of bed? There’s obviously no chocolate chip pancakes.”
“Ask Nikki. She got me up too, though I actually got up!”
“Hey!” Kylie said as she whapped Riley with a pillow.
“Watch it!” Riley slammed her back.
“Oops!” Kylie exclaimed as her pillow hit Nikki when Riley ducked. “Sorry!”
“Oh, you will be!” Nikki growled as she pounced on Kylie. “Gotcha!!”
“Oof!”
“I got you both! Dog pile!!” crowed Riley. “Ha-ha! You can’t get up now!!”
“Just watch me!” grunted Nikki as she did a very complicated push-up.
“Whoa! You’re strong!” Riley said, amazed as she fell off of her friend.
“Yeah, I know. So?”
“That might be helpful if we run into any trouble when we leave...”
“Oh yeah! The reason I woke you up was because I was half-awake, and then all of a sudden I felt that we should leave. Soon.”
“Really?” asked Kylie. She was suddenly interested.
“Yes.”
“Oh, because I just had a dream, it was really vivid, and we were being chased by a bombed pine around the orphanage. And then I heard a voice saying ‘Get out! Now!’ and we left.”
All she heard was snickers from Riley and Nikki.
“Guys! Come in! I’m serious!”
“I’m sure you are, but being chased by a bombed pine? That’s totally supposed to be Mrs. Pinebaum, right? Then you heard a voice? Wow. You’re very creative. We know you made it up. It was funny though! But now we need to pack. Let’s aim for leaving at 5 o’clock, when it’s getting light.” Nikki said.