Road Trip

Chapter Three: The Motel Part II

THE BOYS:

POV

I decided to spare my personal space with probably the only person I could tolerate, Gen. We had two cheap beds, and two limp pillows, which would probably cause me to wake up with a serious back ache. We had our suitcases sprawled open on the floor and our clothes taken out, while Gen was in the shower, and taking forever. I could hardly stay awake.

I looked down at my phone again for maybe a text from Kai, and I had gotten nothing. I sighed and opened my text, typing out a small message, at least to let her know I wasn't dead.

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| Babygirl, are you awake? |

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I sighed and pressed send, locked my phone, and put it down, and setting it down on the table.

Gen walked slowly out of the bathroom, rubbing a towel on his hair, dressed fully. He smelled like...a girl.

"What kind of body wash do you use...?" I said, sniffing the air in front of him.

"Don't judge me, but this Dove soap Liyah has me using makes my skin really soft. Liyah likes soft skin." Gen said, shrugging.

I laughed and shook my head, gathering my things, and walking into the bathroom. I scanned the area closely, looking at the bathroom that looked more like a public bathroom than a motel one. I sighed, taking off my clothes and stepping the shower. I turned on the hot water and let it get hotter and hotter, and then I started adding the cold water. As soon as I turned the nozzle for the cold water, I'm pretty sure I went blind. Everything turned almost pitch black dark, and I heard Gen yell from the bedroom area. I could worry about him, but what I was mostly worried about was how I would dress myself in the dark. I stepped out and quickly started to dress myself, leaving my shirt off since I usually don't bring one to sleep.

"Gen?" I asked, slowly and cautiously stepping out the bathroom, feeling around for the walls.

I stumbled into the dresser that was next to my bed and got a grab on my phone, immediately turning on my flashlight. I shone around the room to see that Gen had completely disappeared, and the door was wide open. I walked out into the hallway and began to hear yelling from the room Ron and Zoc were occupying. I quickly ran down the hall before someone could take me. I mean, if this was like a scary movie, I wasn't trying to come into an encounter with the undead, or a crazed masked man trying to cut me into pieces.

"Gen? Zoc? Ron?" I yelled as I pushed myself into the room, and surprisingly, the door was unlocked, and there was Gen, Zoc, and Ron, huddled onto each bed.

"Why would you just go into a random fucking motel parking lot and book their rooms?" Zoc said angrily, shining his flashlight at Gen.

"It was-" Gen started.

"IT WAS CHEAP HE SAYS." Ron said, yelling and looking around cautiously.

"I appreciate how you left me to die, Gen." I said, still standing at the door since they hadn't even noticed me.

All of them jumped, completely mortified, and I had just burst into laughter.

"This is a serious moment, Pov." Gen said getting up and shoving past me, "We have to go find the receptionist."

The rest of us turned around and followed him out to the hallway, angrily.

"That man probably isn't a fucking human being, Gen." Zoc said, grabbing onto Gen.

"Well what else is there to do?! We have no other choice guys!" Gen said, turning around quickly, "Do you want to sleep in pitch black dark?"

We all exchanged glances, assuring that we definitely did not want to.

"Alright then." Gen said turning back around, "Come on."

He began to walk down the hallway to the staircase, walking down slowly.

"Ron is probably the one that's gonna die first." Zoc said, smiling and nudging Ron.

"That's not funny." Ron said, rolling his eyes.

"Pov is probably the only one that's going to live." Zoc said, touching my chest gently.

I sucked my teeth and shoved him away from me, wrapping my arms over my body. If anyone was going to die first, I'd hope it'd be me.

THE GIRLS:

KAI

As we entered the motel, the music got even louder. "Bring the Noize" blasted probably as loud as possible, and Karina had already started dancing by the time she was waiting at the receptionists desk.

Bright neon pink lights tinted the room, and streamers polluted the whole front room. The receptionist had came out, and was a fairly young, he quickly gave us tickets and cards and Karina had raced into the room.

"Woooooo!" she said, started to dance and roll her hips, walking towards the dance floor, where she got immediate attention by plenty people, all of them welcoming her in the pack and dancing with and around her.

Rahja rolled her eyes and walked to the wall, claiming her title for the night, the wallflower. She turned on her 3DS and began to play Animal Crossing. Zes had found her way next to Rahja, and laid her head on her shoulder, trying to fall asleep.

And I was just here, standing dumbfounded, by the dance floor. I scanned the room and sighed in relief as I found a small group of girls with a few buds in their hands, passing them around. I approached them and handed them my lighters for an offer, and they smiled at me, welcoming me in.

"Hey, what's your name?" said one of the girls, handing me the bud.

"Kai." I said before taking a long pull from the bud, handing it over.

"I'm Serena, that's Jenna and that's Victoria." she said pointing to the two other girls with her.

Jenna gave a shy nod at me while Victoria smiled welcomely.

"Enjoying the party? I mean, it happens every night." Victoria asked, passing the blunt to Jenna.

"It's not really my scene." I said, shrugging.

"Ours either. We've taken the role of the stoners every night we're here." said Victoria, "You seem cool, Kai. Only gonna be here for one night?"

"Yeah, gladly." I said, scoffing and looking around, "I'm here with my 3 friends. Zesenia and Rahja are over there, and Karina is....over there."

Karina smiled, walking, almost stumbling towards me, grabbing onto my shoulders. I could smell from her breath that she was freshly intoxicated.

"Are you having funnnn?" she said, her words being drowned out by constant giggling, "Oooooooo I smell illegal drugssss."

She laughed and slapped my face over and over again, before a girl grabbed Karina away from me.

"Take care of her! She has a boyfriend!" I yelled, as Karina giggled away.

"This is gonna be a long night." Serena said, smiling and handing me the blunt.

"Mhmmmm." I said, sighing before taking one long pull, "It definitely is."