You & I: Autumn Cupid

Chapter 9: All About the Tank

"We filming the challenge right now?" I ask from the back of the tank.

"Why not?"

"Alright, but we don't really have any supplies."

"Well let's go get some!"

The guys all jump out of the tank and run around the property to get stuff for the video. I laugh and shake my head before running after them. As a fun idea by Nathan, we start by running over a monster truck.

"What did we hit?" Nathan asks, knowing full well we just ran over a monster truck.

"That's a fat june bug," James says from next to me.

"What kind of june bug is this?" I ask getting bounced around the back. 

"That's what we hit," Gabe says while looking out the back hatch at the destroyed monster truck.

"It's a monster truck. So, we are going to spend 24 hours in the Sherp," Nathan starts the intro. "However we might need to hop outside because we gotta fill it with gas, might need to go get groceries. This thing isn't really street legal so I don't know how we're going to do that. We'll think of something. We've got 24 hours."

We drive to the Unspeakable half court where Nathan has a challenge for James.

"James is on top. He's gonna try to make a basketball shot. And if he does make a basketball shot I'll give him $1,000, but I'm gonna be doing donuts. Ready James?"

"Yeah," my boyfriend responds from the top of the tank.

"You want more than one ball?" Nathan asks before he starts driving.

"Not right now cuz I'm gonna make it on the first shot."

"We've got Mister Confidence up there," I snarkily remark from just behind the driver's seat.

"You quiet down in there," James jokes in retaliation before Nathan starts his donuts. "Can I shoot yet?"

"Yeah!" Nathan yells over the drone of the tank.

"Make the shot!" we all yell from inside.

When we're right over the Unspeakable logo, James throws the basketball and it easily goes in. We all start cheering inside for him.

"I made it! Let me back in the car!" James yells, trying to find the hatch to let him back inside.

I stick my head out through the hatch. "Does this mean you'll take me out somewhere fancy? Maybe a nice steak dinner?"

"What you mean? I take you to nice places."

"Not recently." I sweetly bat my eyelashes at him before I feel a tug on my shirt. I pull my head back inside and see Gabe holding another basketball.

"Alright, do it again," Gabe says launching the basketball over the open hatch of the tank.

"Oh, he missed," Gabe declares as the ball rolls off into the grass.

"Yo, this is too hard!" James complains from the roof.

"Alright. So to be fair, James did make a shot so I'll give him a thousand bucks."

"Wait what?" Gabe says from the passenger seat. "Give me a basketball."

"Hold on, hold on. We have one more thing for James. (Y/n), can you get it out of the back?"

"You mean this?" I ask, holding a fishing pole with a basketball duct taped to it.

"Bring it out, bring it out."

I hand the rod to Gabe and he can barely get it to James on the roof. After missing his first shot, James reels it back in and makes his second. According to Nathan's rules, he doubled his money.

"Now I get a real nice steak dinner!" I yell from inside the tank.

"James take this girl somewhere fancy," Gabe jokes from the passenger seat.

Nathan drives around a bit before we all get out and set up chairs on the roof of the Sherp. Gabe and James are sitting up there, and I'm just crawling up when Nathan decides he wants to drive into the opposite bank of the moat. Gabe, James, Cedrick, and I all hold onto the bars when we realize Nathan wants to eat one of the steepest banks on the property.

"Ok, hold on, hold on," Gabe repeats as we all grab hold of the metal abra running across the top of the Sherp. "Hold on cameraman, we're going down.

James laughs after throwing his arm around mine. "Why is that always the sketchiest thing?"

"How's it going up there boys?" Nathan asks, sticking his head out of his side window.

"Bro that was scary."

"Did you almost fall?"

"Bro I'm underneath the chair right now. The chair is sitting on me. The opposite of chairing.

I stand up and sit in the chair my boyfriend is talking about.

"Does this mean I'm sitting on the chair sitting on you?"

"Technically I think it means you're sitting on him," Gabe says from below me.

"You're probably right."

After a bit, Nathan wants to crawl up on the roof of the tank so I slip back inside. I take the two chairs down with me and lay on the back seat of the Sherp, reading a book I had the foresight to bring. I hear yelling from the roof and stick my head up only to get water hitting me in the face. Apparently James has a giant net.

"Stop it! You're getting me wet!" I yell at him. "Not on the merch!"

I watch James throw it off and he does a better job. Once I'm sure they're not gonna kill each other over a little water, and passing the chairs back up to them, I go back inside to read my book.

Nathan crawls down after what he claims is forty-five minutes, but in reality I've only read about four pages so probably more like ten. After a while James's yelling makes me open the back hatch.

"Did you catch a fish?" Nathan asks while I already grab the net.

I hold the net out the back and scoop the fish up. When the fish is back in the net, James reaches down to grab the handle.

"Hold on, it's slippery when wet. Now we have a fish."

I chuckle before going back to my book, determined to finish another chapter before Nathan inevitably decides to drive and mess me up.

"We catch and release," I hear Nathan say from the front.

"Do you wanna give him a kiss?"I hear James ask.

"I ain't giving him a kiss," Nathan says back.

"How about you (Y/n)?" James calls down.

"The only person I'm kissing is you, Sugar," I respond before turning a page.

After some more conversing, I hear Nathan spitting. I chuckle when I realize James threw the fish on Nathan. That poor fish.

We spend the whole day doing other crazy stuff. I mean, Nathan actually gets a police escort so we can go get food. And gas. And groceries. When we get back to the house, Nathan decides he wants to play hide and seek. The boys take off running and I act like I am, but in reality I climb back inside the tank and lay flat on the floor. James is found in the trunk of Jordan's convertible before they find me in the back.

When the sun goes down, we get the charcoal grill fired up on the roof. The boys make the food up there while I peacefully eat in the tank. After the craziness, and Gabe yelling chia as loud as he can, Nathan grabs the Unspeakable tank and sets it up on the roof. James and I curl up on one of the back seats, me laying on top of him.