The Rickshaw Run

Day 1 1/2

"I think I should be able to use my get out of jail free card" I persuaded the security guard. He rolled his eyes and walked away from me. I took out my wallet and pulled it out.

"You keep a monopoly get out of jail free card in your wallet?" Ben asked.

"THAT'S where that went!" Finn exclaimed. "We needed that a week ago!" "Finn was stuck in jail for three turns" I smirked.

The jail doors opened to a rather annoyed looking Phillip and an even more annoyed Max and Will.

"Seventy five pounds!" Max exclaimed. "Give him another half hour of Grace and he would've taken the get out of jail free card" Jack joked. "Hey!" I smacked him in the arm and he ruffled my hair.

We boarded our flight to Gwaharti and sat. I opted for a five hour nap this time, laying on Jack's shoulder. He moved some hair that had fallen in my face and tucked it behind my ear. I smiled at my best friend and closed my eyes.

We arrived and met our driver, who led us outside to the car to load up.

India was BEAUTIFUL. Ben and Max started filming while we loaded up. I heard a strange noise and looked behind me. It was a goat! Just wandering the streets! 

I took out my camera and filmed the side of my face as I walked. "Just in case you're interested, that's a goat, right there." I turned the camera to the goat and filmed it for about two seconds before shutting off the camera. Finn laughed at me as I shoved the camera back into my bag. 

After three hours of driving through gorgeous Indian countryside we finally arrived in Shillong. We made it to the hotel and went to check in. I stood, extremely exhausted, leaning against Harry with my arms around his torso. I could fall asleep right here.

As we checked in Jack looked at me with a terrified expression. "What?" I asked, picking my head up off of Harry's chest.

"I lost the Canon 5D." He said. "Jack that's our main camera!" I said. "I know!" He put his head in his hands.

"t'salright we'll find it yeah?" I said, putting a hand on his shoulder. "Did you leave it on the roof of the car?" Finn asked. Jack stood and we walked down to the car. No camera. 

"Check the footage Louis filmed." Will said. Louis opened his laptop and we looked through the footage. "PAUSE IT!" Jack said. There, right behind Louis' head, was the camera sitting on the car.

"Let's check the security footage" I suggested. 

We checked the footage, and there it was, our camera, being carried away by a taxi driver. "We'll see if we can contact this man." The manager assured.

"What's the next course of action?" Louis asked, filming Jack.

"The hotel's trying to work out if they know him. But even if they call him up, like, he's not gonna just bring it back, or he could snap the sD card which has the footage on it" Jack said. He stood and put his hands behind his head, pacing.

"Ma'am?" I turned around and a hotel worker smiled. "Follow me please" I gestured for Jack and he followed alongside me to the reception counter. 

"We contacted the man who took your camera, he is bringing it back." The manager explained. "No freaking way" Jack said. "Thank you!" I said to the manager.

A few minutes later the man arrived with our camera, completely unharmed and still containing our sD card. We thanked him and made our way up to our rooms.

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"That was crazy, what're te chances" I said in my thick Irish accent, taking a bite of the rice I ordered from room service and scrolling through twitter on my MacBook.

"I can't believe we got it back" Jack said, walking out of the bathroom in flannel pajama pants and no shirt.

It was nearing 10 o'clock and we were all in our separate rooms, Will and Max sharing one, Ben and Harry sharing, Louis and Finn sharing, and Jack and I sharing. Yes we were sharing a bed, but it wasn't really uncomfortable considering we were such close friends.

Jack slipped into bed as I put away my MacBook and laid his head on my stomach, wrapping his arms around my torso and instantly falling asleep. I took out my phone and put it on snap chat. I took a picture of sleeping Jack and captioned it "Slumped". I sent it to my mum and put it on my story.

I pulled up my email.

To: Mum

Hi mum! I hope you are well. We landed in India today, it was rather eventful. Let's just say the airport security guard didn't like my paper airplane. We're okay though! Will and Max bailed us out. We also almost lost the Canon 5D, but the man returned it to us. I am currently being crushed by a sleeping Jack. It's safe to say we are all exhausted from the plane trip. Tomorrow we meet our tuk tuks, and make them all pretty and easy to travel in. Well, not easy. It's a glorified lawnmower. 

I hope you are feeling much better, I'm thinking of you every day. I'll visit the minute I get back. Tell the nurse I sent a little package from India for you. I love you mum.

All the best,

Grace