A River Flows Through Us

Highway to Hell...

    "Oh HELL NO!" Willie screamed at 7 in the morning. "I refuse to be suck beside with Ms. PissHerself on a long car ride!" Steve, Jax, Kayden and me busted out into laughter at the memory from the way up to New York.

Everyone was wearing some form of sweat pants or comfy clothes for the long ride ahead. I chose to wear my gray sweatpants, and a black AC/DC cropped top. I was wearing thick gray socks that bunched up where they met my pants, and my brown Birkenstocks.

    "Ms. Piss. Her. self?" James said slowly, questioning what that meant.

    "Your girlfriend was gonna piss on Willie on the way up here." Jax said through laughter.

    "Do I want to know why?" James replied.

    "No" The boys all said in unison. Making me and Lizzy laugh even more. I didn't notice that Knox was standing behind me, until I heard him chuckling.

    I tried to ignore it. Willie came up to me and picked me up, throwing me over his shoulder, causing one of my shoes to fall off. "I call sitting it the back with my FAVORITE sister!" Willie said. Making sure Lizzy heard the favorite part.

     "PUT ME DOWN YOU DUMBASS!" I yelled at Willie, while trying to get back on the ground. I pushed up on Willie's back, but this caused his grip to loosen and I started to fall off his shoulder. Thankfully Steve was there to catch me from fall on my face.

     Once I was finally back on the ground, I let out a frustrating breathe, and put on the shoe that fell.

"Okay load up peoples, we got a long way to go and a short time to get there!" Steve said with a clap at the end.

     I grab my book bag, climb in next to Willie in the very back. And as fate would do me dirty once again, Knox got in the SUV next to me. I rolled my eyes. Might as well make the most of my life. The rest of the people climbed into the car and we were off. Steve and Jax were in the front with Steve driving. The next row was Kayden, then Lizzy, and James on the other side of Lizzy.

      I slid off my shoes, and pulled out my laptop from my bag. If i'm gonna be stuck in a car for the next 12 hours, I might as well get some work done. I pulled up the notes I typed before I left.

     "Hey Kayden?" I say.

    "What is it Gracie?" Kayden said.

    "Can I interview you tomorrow?" I ask, hoping he would say yes.

     "Is this about the bullying piece your working on?" Lizzy said, joining the conversation.

     "Yes," I say. "And it's really important to understand how bullying in schools effect the young adult mind. Please Kayden, i'll do anything."

     "Bring me lunch tomorrow and we can do it during my lunch break." he said.

     "Deal!" I say. I put in my headphones and push play on my music. I type out the beginning of my article, and make some notes of questions I want to ask Kayden tomorrow. I was getting a lot done in the car. I even started looking into what article I could write next. Im not sure how much time has passed at this point.

    There was a tap on right shoulder. I look up to see Knox looking at me. I pull out both of my earbuds so I could hear him.

     "You were so focused in your work, but we stopped for food." He said. I looked around the car to see that we were the only ones left in the car. The time on my laptop said 12:43pm.

     "How long have we been stopped?" I said turning back to Knox.

     "Well not long, just the last 10 minutes." He said.