The Adventures of Strawberry and Twinkie

Chapter 8

"I'm sorry, but she's a bit mentally challenged," I said to Jackson.

"HEY!" Twinkie said. I snickered and Jackson just laughed.

"It's okay. If my best friend were here, he would've done the same thing." he said, smiling. Ugh, he had such a cute smile.

All of a sudden, I remember something. We left our puppy, Kiwi, stuck in our room!

"Twinkie?" I look over at her with a worried expression on my face.

"What?" she asked.

"Do you remember if we left Kiwi stuck in the room?" I ask.

"Oh crap!" she says. I quickly pull out my phone from my pocket and try to text Matt, but of course, I have no service.

"I guess we'll just have to feed her when we get home," Twinkie says. I nod my head in agreement. I put my head on Twinkie's shoulder, and I watch Jackson take out his phone. He looks at me with a puzzled face.

"Hey, there's something wrong with my phone," he says.

"What's going on with it?" I ask.

"It doesn't have your number in it," he says smiling.

"Mine has the same problem," I say as we both trade phones and put each other's numbers in. We trade back phones and put my phone back in my pocket.

"How long do you think it'll take for the train to get to Manhattan?" I ask.

"Probably an hour," Jackson said.

"Ugh. What are we gonna do in the meanwhile?" I say.

"Sleep," Twinkie says as she's dozing off.

"I'll join," I say as I sit back and fall asleep...

•••

"Veronica?" I hear Jackson's voice as I feel someone shaking me. I open my eyes and sit up.

"Are we here?" I ask.

"Yeah. This is the stop for Manhattan," he says. I shake Twinkie to wake her up and I pick up the suitcase.

"Twinkie, let's go," I say.

"Ugh... I don't want to get up," she says. I see that the doors are about to close.

"TWINKIE THE DOORS ARE GONNA CLOSE COME ON!" I quickly yank her arm and practically run and drag her through the doors. Jackson quickly follows us and the doors almost close immediately.

"Strawberry! That hurt!" I look at Twinkie and see she banged her arm on the subway's door.

"Sorry about that..." I say.

"Ugh, first it was the sabotage at the date and now you're just dragging me around! What are you trying to do, kill me?" Twinkie says. I sort of giggle, and she does too.

"Hey, um, Veronica, I'll see you around." He smiles and waves and then walks away.

"We should get going, too." I say. I grab the suitcase and start to roll it. We reach the service, and I quickly take out my phone. It was almost 9:00 a.m., and I was really hoping Jetzabel was awake, where ever she was.
I quickly call her, and she answers the phone.

"Hey!" she says.

"Hey, Jetzabel. We just got to Manhattan. Where are you?" I ask.

"Oh, um. I'm at an inn. It's called Lori's." she says.

"Okay, we'll be there in a few," I say as I hang up. Twinkie hails a cab, and we quickly get in and the driver drives us to the inn. Once we get to the inn, I pay the driver and me and Twinkie get out of the taxi and we go inside of the inn.

I quickly walk up to the front desk.

"Hi there, um, do you happen to know where Jetzabel Alba is rooming? Or in what room she is?" I ask the front desk lady.

"Um, according to the records, there's no Jetzabel Alba rooming here," she says. I look at her with a puzzled face.

"Are you sure, lady? We just got off the phone with her and she said she was here." Twinkie says with a bit of attitude.

"Um, ma'am I don't like your tone," the lady said.

"EXCUSE ME BUT I DON'T LIKE YOU! Lady, do you really wanna throw some hands? You wanna brawl?" Twinkie says as she raises her fists. I try to hold her back.

"SECURITY!" The lady yells. All of a sudden, two big guys come out of nowhere and they grab Twinkie and take her outside.

"DIRTBAG!" Twinkie yells at the lady. I giggle and turn back around to the front desk.

"I'm sorry about her, ma'am. She's...tired. You see, we came all the way from New Jersey because my friend, Jetzabel-" the lady immediately cuts me off.

"Look, no offense, but I don't care. There's no Jetzabel Alba in the system, okay? Now, if you could, please leave." she says, smiling. I give her a dirty look.

"Excuse me?" I say. This lady was being an absolute butthole.

"Okay, I'm sorry. I'm just losing my patience." The lady said. She grabbed her phone and called someone.

"You can let her back in," the lady said on the phone and hung up. All of a sudden, I see Twinkie being dragged back in.

"THAT'S RIGHT YOU DIRTBAGS! LET ME BACK IN! I WILL NOT TOLERATE THIS!" Twinkie said to the security guards. I just giggled.

"No! You're cute!" I hear a familiar voice say. I look over and see Jetzabel...and she's not alone. She's with a guy...Jeromy. I look over at Twinkie and both of our jaws drop.

Whoops, sorry I haven't updated since like, last year. But, I'll try to update more frequently now. Anyways, gotta blast! 🚀