Reality ➳ one direction

Chapter Eight

"Hey do you know where our next stop is? I've misplaced my schedule." Carmen said. I was laying in my bunk and had it hanging on my wall. I rolled over and checked it.
"Umm, just a sec. Do you know what the date is?" I said skimming over the schedule.
"August 17th. I think our next stop is the 19th, I'm just not sure where." Carmen said. I look for the date August 19th.
I gasped in excitement. "Oh my goodness!"
"What?! What's wrong?!" Carmen said worried.
I laughed a little. "Nothing's wrong. Our next stop is in Italy!!"
"So?" She said dragging the "o."
"So! I've always wanted to go to Italy! There's something about it that I've always loved! Especially the food." I said laughing.
Carmen laughed as well. "Oh girl, me too! I love me some Italian food."
We both started laughing. "So, where's somewhere that you've always wanted to go?" I asked Carmen.
"Germany." She replied.
"No way! I want to go there too!"
"Oh you'd love it."
"So you've already been?" I asked.
"Yeah we normally go there on every tour. There was only one tour where we didn't go there."
"Oh okay. So, did you like it?" The poor girl probably thinks I'm trying to play 20 questions.
"Are you kidding? I loved it! I hope we ago back this year." She said.
I looked at my schedule again. I found Germany and looked at the date.
"Here we go. Germany- October 14th." I read to her.
"So we are going?" She asked with excitement in her voice.
"Yep. That's also my brothers birthday! I'll have to get him something from there as a gift."
"That will be cool. I can't wait. I'll have to show you my favorite places when we go!"
"Okay! I actually know someone else who used to live in Germany." I said.
"Really?"
"Yeah. They go to my parents church. He used to do some stuff for the Air Force and that's where they lived. He's used to tell me stories about it all the time. He's been to several places in Europe and he knows that I want to travel the world. I would simply tell him somewhere that I wanted to go, and he would tell me about it."
"Oh that's neat." Carmen said. She started telling me some of past experiences with Germany. You could tell she loved it because she would get this sparkle in her eyes when talking about it. The stories she told me were incredible. It definitely made me more excited to go.

Once we finished talking about Germany, we started talking about bucket list. I was telling Carmen how so many things had been checked off of mine just while being on tour. I mean, I'm getting to travel the world. That has always been a life long dream of mine. I've always had a fascination with different countries and their cultures. I love world history because I love reading and learning about them. I've also gotten to meet One Direction. Not only meet them, but become close friends with them. I have gotten to minister to people while having the best time of my life. Oh! I forgot to mention, Josh got saved too! It went a little something like this...
Me and Carmen were talking about the day she got saved. Justin had joined in on the conversation and started asking Carmen and I a bunch of questions. He eventually said, "I want to be saved too!" Me and Carmen prayed with him, and he got saved. He has joined me and Carmen in morning devotions too. Actually, several people joined our devotions. Well, I say several. We have about 10 people that come. Out of 50, that may not seem like much, but when you are in ministry, the smallest numbers can feel the largest.

"When do you think we will get there?" I asked Carmen.
"I don't know. Let me ask Tiffany." Carmen turned to face her, "Hey Tiffany?"
"Yeah?" She responded.
"When will we get to Italy?"
"Oh, I have no idea. Do you want me to ask Harvey?" Tiffany asked.
"No it's okay! I will go do it." I told her. No need for her to ask when I was the one wondering. I hopped down from my bunk and walked toward the front of the bus.

"Hey Harvey? How long will it be until we get to Italy?" I asked him.
"Oh, I'd say about seven hours. Why do you ask?"
"It's always been my dream to go to Italy. This is my first time going, so I am pretty excited."
"Oh, okay. Well, I'm sure you will enjoy yourself." He smiled.

I loved Harvey. He had become like an uncle to me. He treated me just like his niece too. He's already a Christian. I learned that a few weeks ago. There are often times when I will sit up in the front and just chat with Harvey. Not much people on the bus do that, so I make it an effort to. I'm sure he can get lonely at times. I don't do it all the time though. He says he thinks a lot when he's driving, so I don't want to bother him.