Road Trip// h.g

Prologue

I woke up to my phone playing My Type by Saint Motel. My signature ringtone. I unlocked my phone and groggily spoke into the phone.

"Hello" I said into the phone as I stared at the wall, running my hand through my light brown hair.

"SAWYER GET DOWN HERE!! I MADE BREAKFAST. AND A LETTER FROM....NYU?" It was Hayes. He was yelling so loud I could actually hear him downstairs yelling into the phone. But the sound of a letter coming from NYU woke me up.

Let me explain. You see when I was 15 I decided I wanted to be an astrophysicist. Yes I know I'm a nerd. But a few months ago I had decided to go to NYU. But since I waited 2 years to even apply to a college, I thought I should apply to a good one. So the sound of the letter arriving meant I had a fifty-fifty chance of getting in.

I ripped the covers off of myself and flew down the stairs. I like to sleep in socks so when you run over hard wood floor in socks. You have to be prepared to stop yourself. But I was not. I ran up to him. Tried to stop myself but slipping and falling on my ass. He started laughing and I started laughing. But my laughing was immediately replaced with nerves when I remembered what I came down here for.

"HAYES GIVE ME THE LETTER. NOW!" I yelled breathlessly. Getting off the floor.

"NO! Not till you tell me what it's for!" He said pulling it into his chest. I tried to snatch it away. But failed, and with that, he started to run around the apartment. Holding the letter.

"Hayes give me the letter and I'll explain everything. Ok?" I asked. He stopped and stared at me.

"Everything?"

"Everything."

He gave me the letter. And we sat down at the table. I told him about putting off college and then applying to go to NYU. I told him that if I do go then school starts at the end of August. It was August 1st. When I finished he sat there in silence for what felt like hours but what probably 2 minutes.

"We need to go and do something before you leave!" He said. His eyes wide and his face beamed with a smile. I could almost see the light bulb above his head.

"I don't even know if I got in." I said.

"Then look. Open the letter."

"Ok. I'll open it." I reached for the letter that sat on the clear glass table in between us. I pulled the letter towards me and held it in both hands. He started at me intently. I gave him a long look and he he just smiled. I ripped at the envelope. The letter fluttered out and onto the floor. I picked it up. It was still folded, I could see faint black blurrs of ink from typing the paper.

I unfolded the paper and began to read the paper. I barely got through the first paragraph before saying.

"Hayes you should probably tell me what we should do because iM GOING TO NYU!"

"YAAAAA," he said while hugging me. "ok we need to go on a month long road trip through every state, except Alaska and Hawaii. But the best part is it will be driving you to New York as well."

"That's actually kind of genius!" I said. With that we began to eat our breakfast.