The Wedding Ring

Chapter 4: Middle of nowhere

"Oh my gosh are you alright?" the old lady said and walked right past Gerald and helped me up.

"what I... yeah yeah" I said confused and Gerald stared at her.

"What?" he said and the old lady looked at him.

"First you cheat on her and then you push her out of your way and let her fall on the dirty gas station's floor, what is wrong with you?"

"cheating? what are you- OW" he said as the old lady hit him with her purse. "You young boys, don't respect anymore" she said and stooped hitting him.

"Have a nice day sweetie" she said before leaving

"You too" I said smiling

Gerald then looked back at me with a confused look and raised his hands shrugging.

"Where the hell am I?" he asked placing his hand on the back of his head.

"California, still, not sure where but we're headed to Denver"  I explained.

"Denver? what the hell I have to get back to LA, I have to call Jack I... I" he said walking past me and stuffing his hands on his pockets.

"where's my phone? wait MY CAR, WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO ME?" he yelled pushing me against the car and hovering over me, Gerald was somewhere over 6'4, I was merely  5'5.

"Hey get off my sister and get back in the trunk" Alex said pushing him off me and getting into the driver's seat.

"Hey where the hell were you Alex! you were supposed to take care of the car!" I yelled and he closed the door.

"Nowhere" he said then Natalie and Hannah showed up.

"Oh of course she came" Gerald said and walked away into the convenience store.

"Who let him out of the car what the hell?!" Natalie yelled out and Rian came back.

"Wasn't that the guy we just kidnapped?" he asked rolling a ticket in his hands and throwing it away.

"So now what, are we leaving him here?" Hannah asked and we all looked at each other.

"Well he has no money, no phone, no car, and we're in the middle of nowhere California" Natalie said.

"Let's leave him" Hannah said getting into the car then Gerald came back out.

"Look who's back" I sarcastically said and he looked away from me crossing his arms.

"Yeah well, apparently I have no money, no phone and no one will buy the '3 girls kidnaped me' story" he finally admitted and I smiled widely.

"Looks like you have no choice" I said and opened the door.

"Hey just don't make me go back there again, I'm not exactly small and there's a weird rancid smell" he said and I hopped into the back seat.

"Fine, scoot over girls" I said and he got in the car.

"Alright Vegas here we go" Alex said and then Gerald looked at him.

"Are those my sunglasses?" he asked and got closer to him.

"Hey hands off" Alex said and they started fighting over a pair of sunglasses.

"OH MY GOD ALEX JUST GIVE HIM THE STUPID SUNGLASSES!" Hannah yelled out and took them from Alex throwing them at Gerald. "There now can we leave?"

"Fine" Alex said and we started driving again.

After an hour and a half of Natalie and Gerald fighting and road trip songs we were a few miles outside of Vegas, everything seemed to be going good after a while then it happened, the car started slowing down.

"What's going on?" Alex said and stepped on the accelerator, "oh come on" he said and then the car went slower and slower, he switched lanes into the emergency lane until the car completely stopped.

"What the hell" Alex said and then we got out of the car, Rian checked out the engine and Hannah and I went around checking the tires.

"Well it's definitely not engine damage" Rian said

"Nor the tires" Hannah said.

"Wait a second" Rian said and got into the car trying to turn it on. After he failed he hopped off and walked over to Alex.

"Alex" he softly said.

"Yes?"

"YOU FUCKING FORGOT TO PUT GAS IN THE STUPID CAR!" Rian yelled out at Alex pushing him.

"What?!" Natalie said

"Are you serious?"

"Oh come on!"

"Great" Gerald said throwing his hands in the air. "We're in the middle of nowhere with no gas, miles outside of Vegas thanks" he said.

"what the hell are we going to do?" Hannah said.

"Well we could try to hitch a ride" Natalie.

"Yeah because that always works, especially with a huge group of 6 people" Gerald said.

"Shut up and stop being so negative" Natalie said back.

"I'm just being realistic, I mean if SOMEONE hadn't decided kidnaping me was a good idea and leaving my wallet and phone God knows where I could have gotten us out of this situation!" Gerald said and Natalie and him started fighting again.

"OH MY GOD JUST SHUT UP, HERE'S MY STUPID PHONE, GET US OUT OF HERE MR. I'M THE SHIT AND I CAN DO EVERYTHING" I yelled throwing my phone at Gerald.

"I need my phone for that" he said throwing it back at me.

"Fine, you're useless, just admit it and stop blaming us all for this shitty day!" I said and turned around.

"Now if you'll excuse me I will fix this" I said dialing a number on my phone.

After making a phone call I walked back towards everyone.

"I got someone coming for us in like half an hour" I said and leaned on the car.

"Oh half an hour sure I'm the bomb dot com" Gerald mocked, after about forty minutes no one had come yet.

"You see? you were useless too now we'll be left out here to starve and die" Gerald said and around ten minutes later a car pulled over right in front of us, two guys got out of the black suburban.

"Chriiiiiiiss!" the first guy said and came over to me.

"Yo guys sorry we're late we were at taco bell and well ya know" the second guy explained.

"We got you tacos bitches"

"I'm sorry you were saying?" I said turning to him and crossing my arms.