Vacate

vacate
verb, transitive. To leave a place that one previously occupied. (Legal): To cancel or annul a judgment, contract or charge.

After the weather warmed in the spring, Ron wheeled the motorcycle out of the front room.

"Come on!" he cried to Marcy as she closed the storm door behind him. "Let's go for a spin and see if my fix worked."

"Not too far," she cautioned as she straddled the seat and encircled him with her arms. "The front door is unlocked, and neither one of us is wearing a helmet."

She could feel his sigh through his light jacket. "You need to learn to be more spontaneous, Marce," was all he said. He jumped on the starter and the cycle's engine roared into life for the first time in months. "Sounds good!" Marcy thought.

After the brief and uneventful ride, Ron parked the motorcycle beside the car in the driveway and the two of them headed toward the house. Marcy glanced at the now nearly-empty living room as she entered and cringed at the black greasy dirt on the carpet, ringing the plastic mat that was supposed to have protected it as Ron worked on the cycle's innards all winter.

"Guess we're going to be asked to vacate this place soon," she griped through gritted teeth. Oh! How she hated having to move.

"Only if Clark comes here and sees this," Ron responded, referring to their landlord.

"In other words, it's only wrong if you get caught?" Marcy turned at the doorway into the kitchen and faced him, feeling her resentment grow. "That sounds like something Al Gore would say."

Ron grinned. "You mean, old 'No controlling legal entity' Al Gore?" he clarified.

Marcy spoke before she thought: "I suppose you think that makes it all right." She knew from the way Ron's face changed that she had said the wrong thing. "Great. Another fight. Way to go, Marcy," she thought, and steeled herself for his next words.

Definitions adapted from The New Oxford American Dictionary, Oxford University Press, Inc., 2005 (eBook Edition, copyright 2008), and from Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam Company, Publishers, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, 1965, depending on which is more convenient to hand.