The Journey: Second Ride

14

"So like what's this play even about?" Eddie said trying to find some sort of explanation in these papers they were given.

"Who cares? Let's just get tonight over with." El rolled her eyes, she was obviously still tense about the whole Mike situation.

"Yeah about that guys, I haven't a good experience with like bars and stuff. So like can we just go back to the beach house and drink there?" Max suggested, which made Dustin's jaw dramatically drop.

"Your not ruining my night just because your a bunch of lame bozos!" Dustin crossed his arms and huffed.

"Yeah, I wanna go out! I think it would do El some good as well. Get everything of her mind." Will patted El on the back.

"Okay well.. drop me and max back at the beach house and then you guys go out and enjoy yourselves!" Lucas nodded, "problems solved."

Dustin rolled his eyes, "okay! I see what's going on now. You and Max are gonna have to control that lustful craving, because 1. Your our designated driver and 2. It totally ruins everything all the time!"

"Your just max Suzie dumped your ass." Eddie chuckled, Will hit him over the head since Dustin was still sad about that.

"Me and Suzie just weren't right for each other!" Dustin shouted out.

"Weren't right for each other? Dude you made us listen to a never ending story duet at 14 years old just to prove to us that she's real. And ever since then you bragged and bragged that she was so perfect and when she came down you were inseparable." Lucas gave him a soft smile, to try and calm him down.

"HOW THE HELL DID WE GET ONTO THIS TOPIC!?" Dustin yelled at the top of his lungs.

"Excuse me! We ask you use indoor voices please." The person behind the counter shouted over to us. Will put his hand up as an okay gesture.

The lights suddenly went down, meaning the play was starting.

"Yay, 2 hours of complete bull crap." El said sarcastically.

2 hours passed, they all look drained. Eddie has obviously been asleep, not being interested in the plot of the play. And max and Lucas looked just about ready to leave.

During the intermission they came to an agreement that Max and Lucas would be dropped back and Will would be the designated driver this time round as he wasn't in the mood to go through all the stages of a hangover.

They waved at Max and Lucas as they drove off.

"What do you wanna do?" Lucas asked looking at Max as they walked into the house.

"Something different, but how about a date. On the beach!" She gave him a smile, he felt his heart pounding. She was beautiful, he loved it when she smiled. He felt like time stopped that very moment.

"Lucas? Lucas are you okay?" She shook him a little. He snapped back to reality. Not saying a word till they got inside. Max was about to sit down on the sofa that was until Lucas practically tackled her and dragged her onto the sofa on top of him.

"AH LUCAS WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" Max screamed, she felt his arms start to tightly squeeze her and his smile in her neck.

She started to laugh, "what's got into you Lucas?" She put her hand on his shoulder and managed to sit up slightly.

"I love you so much." Is all he said, staring into her eyes. Max felt her cheeks go warm, she turned her head downwards to hide her blushing.

"Come on! To the beach??" He jumped up, bringing her with him. He started to walk off towards the door and as he walked out Max jumped on his back and tucked her head into his shoulder.

He smiled and walked along the beach with her on his back. After about 5 minutes, Lucas collapsed and let out a huge gasp.

"God Max." He chuckled as she crawled on top of him.

"What?" She laughed moving her face closer to his. "I wonder what the others doing right now."

"Being stupid as, who wants to get pissed on a Tuesday afternoon?" Lucas shook his head.

Max shrugged and responded, "I don't know, probably a lot of people."

"You're really pretty." Lucas was always amazed with her beauty.

"Stop being weird." Max was one of those people who was bad at accepting compliments. She didn't know how to respond to them.

"Smile more, you have a nice smile." He put his hand on the back of her head.

"Lucas, just stop." She laughed and put her lips on his. He moved his hands to her waist as they continued to kiss. She pulled away, "but thank you." She kissed his cheek and laid down on his chest.

"We should've brought like food." He laughed, max sat up. "Probably, this isn't much of a date." She looked at the sea view.

"Well how about.. we go back to the house. You can pick what we do and I'll cook us dinner." He smiled, Max literally started shaking in excitement. "What do you wanna do? Seems you already have an idea."

"Harry potter marathon!!" Max shouted out putting her hands on his chest. Lucas' smile dropped.

"That takes like 20 odd hours." He shook his head, no way was he gonna sit and watch the same movies he's watched like a million times before in a row.

"Wel we better get started then!" She jumped ups and already started sprinting to the house.

"Harry fucking Potter. Great." Max (just like me) was a huge Harry Potter fan. She had a whole load of merchandise. The amount she's spent on Harry Potter stuff would
Probably add up to atleast $2000. Lucas on the other hand, was not a fan. He only watched it because Max made him.

He moped his way back to the house and by time he was inside Max was already sat buzzing in her seat with the first Harry Potter movie ready to watch. "Hurry your ass up!!" She shouted at him.

He walked over and sat next to her, "want me to start dinner after this movie?" he asked, putting his arm over her.

"Cant we just order food? Less work for you." She suggested, grabbing her phone.

"I was kind of hoping you would say that." He laughed, looking at the food places she was showing him.

"Oh! McDonald's!! Please please!" Max kept asking practically shoving her phone in his face, "okay okay!" He responded putting her phone down.

They ordered their food, Max was happy. Lucas was becuase he was hungry, not about the Harry Potter.

5 hours passed, the others returned. They came back to both Max and Lucas passed out on the sofa, McDonalds wrappers on the table. The 3rd Harry Potter movie playing.

"This is why they didn't want to come out?" Dustin groaned.

"Sh sh!" Will covered Dustin's mouth, there was sounds coming from the kitchen. A voice. They couldn't tell who's it was. Will looked around to see if everybody who went to the bar was at the door.

"Shit- did somebody break in!?" Eddie whisper shouted. They heard footsteps approaching them, the voice getting louder and louder. They recognised the voice but it couldn't be.

The person walked around the corner and smiled at us. El thought she was having a nightmare and punched herself.

"Holy shit." Dustin's jaw dropped.

"Hey guys! Been a while." Mike responded.

A/N
Been a while for us indeed. I'll get the next chapter out soon. I wrote this so fast so sorry if it seemed rushed and bad 💀 I hope you enjoyed the little cameo though. He's back 😱