The 378 (Camren)

Chapter Two - LJ Perspective

I love car rides, there is something about driving through nature with your headphones on that makes me feel whole. Seeing the animals live their daily routine, seeing nature evolve, that is if you're driving a familiar road, it's the perfect opportunity to get your ducks in a row. You see so many things; houses, cities, flowering fields, animals, all these things can remind you of the events occurring in your life, therefore I find myself intertwined with my deepest thoughts. Some light, some heavy. What am I thinking now?

What the fuck is going on?
I have no music, all I see is asphalt, I'm surrounded by criminals and next to me there is a girl freaking the fuck out. I start counting, but the stressed tapping on the floor of the girl next to me makes me loose count. So naturally I start to go over songs I could 'force' to get stuck in my head. Since music is the second option when it comes to calming myself. Naturally I think of Carmen, since I sang it right before I went on the van. I lean my head against the dirty window and start to hum the song.
'Hhmm hhmm h-h-h-h-h-h'
'Carmen, Carmen staying up till morning,' a voice next to me sings.
I quickly look over to see who was singing to me. The girl, whom I was making fun of earlier, looks at me with an extremely fearful expression forming her face. She is clearly afraid that I might snap at her. But instead I smile, and let her know that all is good. As soon as I do, I see the muscles in her face relax, the apples of her cheeks rise, a beautiful Rosie pink glow enhances them. Her eyes get this beautiful spark in them; her deep, dark mysterious, chestnut brown eyes suddenly light up like the sun hit them. She licks her lips, pulling her tongue back in and scraping her lower lip. The '12 year old girl form the Disney store' suddenly turns into this beautiful young women whom I can't seem to keep my eyes of. Realizing I haven't said anything for about ten seconds, I open my mouth,
'You know that song?' I ask her surprised.
'Yeah it's my little sister's favorite, she can't stop playing it,' she says.
I can't help but chuckle nervously. Something about her makes me feel al warm and fuzzy inside. Some ridiculous girly side is coming to light and I don't know if I like it.
'Your litte sister?' I laugh with a surprised expression on my face.
'Yes, yes my little sister haha, she has no Idea what she is singing to,' she says with a baby-like glow on her face. I raise my hands intending to shake hers. Not out of politeness but just because I can't ignore the raging urge to touch her. Nothing sexual, I just want to feel her, her warmth, her skin, I want to know more about this girl. Who is she and why am I feeling what I am feeling.
'So what's your name?' she asks me.
'My name doesn't matter, I've been in hold-up for four days and not once was I called by my name. They usually use your cell number. But since we don't have one as of right now,' I look down searching for a number to use as my name, the first thing I stumble upon are our inmate numbers.
'Call me 37864' I say with a teasing yet mysterious smirk on my face.
'Why would I do that?' she asks, clearly going in on the tease.
'It's my inmate number, I'll call you...' I look down at her number, I get distracted by her cute posture. She is probably the only one, out of all the women on this van, who fits into her jumpsuit and actually looks cute in it.
'37868,' I say.
'That's a little long don't you think? 378 is the same for both of us so why don't we just make it: 64&68.' She says with that same cute innocent smile on her face. Everything about her behavior is telling me she is new at this, Chatting with random people. She seems incredibly nervous, she can stop looking down, batting her eyelashes and smiling from ear to ear.
'Why can't I just call you by your name though?' she asks innocently.
'I would usually say my name when greeting, and give my other personal information to people I'm not interested In. though I like to keep myself a little more private to the people that interest me. My name for example is one of the many things you are going to have to find out.' I say teasingly. I have no idea what I'm doing, the words are falling out of my mouth without me actually approving of them.
'So... what are you suggesting?' she asks shifting her legs towards me.
'I want you to stick around and unravel me.'