The Journey: Second Ride

13

Max woke up kinda late, Lucas was still asleep. He had his arms still wrapped around her stomach and he was snuggled really close to her. She slowly turned around so she was now facing him. "Lucassss" she whispered, he let out a quiet groan. "Lucas!" She said a bit louder. He slowly opened his eyes, and smiled when he saw her face.

"Hey," he had a morning voice. Max sat up, "Do we have to get up yet?" Lucas was obviously hung-over. "I suppose not, wanna watch tv?" Max asked. Lucas just nodded, one step ahead of her he turned on the tv. The news was on. "Ugh stupid ass news." Lucas rolled his eyes and turned the channel, the news was on that one. Matter of fact the same news report was on EVERY channel.

"Lucas stop-" Max took the remote and listened to the tv.. "I think it's about Mike.." she looked at Lucas then at the tv again.

"21 year old Michael Wheeler was found not guilty as the real killer of the 20 year old woman came clean and as police and investigators looked more towards the evidence all things were found true. Michael Wheeler will be freed from Prison later today, and the real killer will be put away for good." Max and Lucas' jaws literally dropped.

"Mikes innocent!?" Max shouted sitting up, Lucas also sat up. "Holy shit." Max jumped out of bed and ran downstairs, by the look of El's face she could tell she watched it to.

"El did you see it!?" Max shouted, El just nodded. She was starstruck. Max ran to the sofa and sat next to El and kept listening.

"We are off to go talk with Michael now, he is just in this room over here. Hopefully ready to explain his thoughts on all this." The reporter started to walk towards the room.

El felt tears start coming to her eyes, this is going to be the first time El has seen or heard Mike in a a while.

"Here he is. Hello Michael." The reporter sat down next to him.

"Oh hey." Mike was obviously still the same awkward person.

"How do you feel about being found not guilty?" The reporter held the mic up to his mouth waiting for an answer, it took him a while to answer he was thinking of a response.

"Relieved I guess." He shrugged, the reporter seemed disappointed with the answer.

"Anything else?" The reporter tried to get him to add on to his answer.

"I don't know." He looked away. The reported lost their patience.

"Mr wheeler, you were convicted of murder and have just been found guilty and all you have to say is you feel relieved??" The reporter was playing it right, hopefully this was annoying him and would eventually get an answer.

"Look I don't know!" Mike lashed out, the reporter sighed and stood up.

"Oh shit wait!" Mike shouted snatching the mic of the reporter. The reporter went to grab it back but Mike pushed them away and jumped in front of the camera.

"El!" He shouted looking directly in the camera. "Look I have no clue if your watching this I could be saying all this shit for nothing but." He nervously chuckled.

"It's me- he's talking about me!" El's eyes widened and she stood up.

"But El, if you are watching. Contact me.. I want to reconnect. I understand you may be mad at me, but I want to help you understand why I did what I did! Look I have a new number but I'll be at my moms house all week. You know my moms number just call her. I want to talk to you. Goodbye." He put the mic down and walked out the room.

El put her hand on the tv, Max has always been able to tell that El never actually got over Mike properly.

"El your not going to contact him are you..?" Will looked worried. El turned around and shrugged, "I don't know maybe.. it's been so long. I haven't talked to him since he left." El crossed her arms.

Lucas and Dustin both walked downstairs, "El did you hear that- Mike wants you to contact him!" Lucas said running towards her.

"I'm gonna do it, maybe after the theatre!" El nodded, "speaking of that- Max can we go get ready?" El asked looking at Max. Max just smiled and nodded. They walked off upstairs.

10 minutes later, they were all in the car. Max was sat next to Lucas in the very back. He had his hand all the way up her thigh, it gave Max butterflies. Lucas looked at Max, mainly her lips. Why was he turned on? They were in a car with their best friends! He shouldn't be turned on. Max turned to look at him to.

"This is going to fun!" Max smiled at him, Lucas was just looking at her lips. "Lucas??" He didnt respond. "For God sakes! Earth to Lucas!" She flicked him on the head. He finally snapped back to reality.

"Oh! Uh- yeah totally." He smiled. Max gave him a small smirk. Lucas looked nervous.

"I know what you're thinking Lucas." She just chuckled. "Eager." She looked up at him. She slowly put her hand on the back of his neck and leaned in and kissed him. Lucas slowly felt his pants tighten. He leaned away from the kiss and panicked.

"Shit!" He said looking down. Max looked confused, "what?" She asked. Lucas put his hand over it. Max looked down and noticed it, "Holy shit Lucas!" Max screamed out, everybody apart from Will (who was driving) turned to look at them.

"The hell is going on back there??" El looked at them. Both max and Lucas looked up at them.
"Nothing!" Max nervously said, "nothing to see either." Max smiled at them.

"Okay-" El turned around again. "Whatever." Dustin Sighed. "I don't care." Eddie wasn't really paying attention to begin with.

Max turned back to Lucas and said, this time whispering "sort that thing out! We are going to a fucking theatre for petes sake!" Max took his hand off of it.

"I don't know what to do!" Lucas whispered back, looking between her and his boner.

"Tuck it in your waistband or something!! I dont know!" Max was looking him in the eyes.
Lucas was still looking her lips, he wanted her really badly.

"Lucas! Stop staring at me and sort that out!!" Her heart stopped as she felt the car stop. Lucas quickly tucked it in his waistband and got out the car, finding it hard to walk without it moving out of place.

"Lucas why are you walking like that?" Dustin looked at him weirdly, as Lucas was walking with an odd limp.

"I- uh.." Max gave him an aggressive nod to carry on with a slight hand wave, "I- was getting busy last night." He gave a proud look, Max gave him a mad cold look. But it worked as they all just rolled their eyes at him.

"They walked into the theatre, it was huge." El's jaw dropped.

"Hey yeah we have tickets to see the next show." Will grabbed his phone and showed the lady behind the counter their tickets.

"Yes! Your door is just straight down that corridor. We ask that you sit over there in that waiting room for the time being as it is to early to enter the show." The lady pointed them to the waiting room. Will smiled at her and walked over to the waiting bit either everybody. They all sat down, Dustin and Eddie looked bored, apart from them though everybody was very excited for the show.

Authors Note
The very long awaited nezt chapter.. where the hell have I been- apologies I've been hibernating I guess. But it's here! Next chapter, I guess I've just been very busy. I'll try and be more active! TRY!! Im sorry if you can't remember anything that happened in this book.
I think I may start a one shots book so I can just write mini stories that you guys then won't have to remember things prior to this chapter. What do you think of that? Anyway, im gonna reread my own book and then get started on chapter 14!!
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