Mischief

Chapter Sixteen

Blaine

Luella and I walk side by side into the gas station that Eddie takes care of. As the door chimes to signal our arrival, all eyes land on us.

"What are you two doing together?" 3 voices emerge front the crowd together.

"Why can't we be together?"

"Because that's weird." Johnny walks from the back of the group to the front.

"Why is it weird?"

"Because you hate everyone."

"I don't hate you guys."

"Sure. Hey Lu." When Johnny looks at Luella his eyes light up and it's fucking strange.

"Hi Johnny. I was walking here and saw Blaine on the way. That's why we're here together." She lies to every single fucker in here. But why? Is she embarrassed? Ashamed?

"Alright. Well, I was thinking we could all just go for a ride? It'll be a while so we'll come back tomorrow." Eddie chimes in.

"Yeah. I've got to go home and pack a bag first though."

"Alright that's fine. You need any help?"

"No it's fine. Thanks." Luella leaves us all and I feel the urge to follow her wherever she goes.

***

We all meet back at the gas station and Luella is the last to arrive.

"Sorry, I had to run to the store last minute."

"Don't worry about it." As we all start to get on our bikes, Luella tries to throw her bag onto her shoulder but it must have been open without her knowing because everything flew out.

"Shit!" She bends down at the same time I do and we hit heads. "Ow. Sorry. Are you okay?"

"Yep. Are you?"

"Yeah." As I gather her things and put them back in her bag, I come to one item. A box. A box with tampons in it. Fuck. "Uh, thanks." She snatches all her things out of my hands and shoved it all into the bottom of her backpack. The box was unopened so I'm guessing that's why she had to go to the store.

We all start to drive off and I can't help but think about Luella. The first store I see, I'll stop and get her some things.

***

"I need to pee guys!" Of course JJ has to pee.

"There's a gas station coming up. We can stop there!"

"Thanks!" We all pull into the station and this is my chance to get Luella some snacks.

I enter the store and a young girl is at the counter with a large bubble of bubblegum in her mouth. She looks at me and winks. Gross. I head straight for the snack section and grab anything and everything I see that I think Luella with like. Chocolate, chips, candy, soda, water, gum, coffee, literally everything.

When I head back out, nobody is there except for Luella and JJ. They're laughing about how grumpy I am. Not fucking funny. They see me and Luella's eyes go widen.

"What is all of that?"

"Snacks."

"Why? We're only like 30 minutes away from a motel."

"Because motels have shit snacks."

"True. You're really going to eat all of that by tomorrow?"

"It's not for me."

"Who is it for then?"

"Someone." I don't really want JJ to know that I've bought all of these snacks for Luella because then he would suspect something and clearly, Luella doesn't want anybody to know that we're a "thing". If treats what we even are. I have no fucking clue what we are.