Holiday of a Lifetime (A Josh Cuthbert/Union J fan fiction)

Chapter 20

"I love you, Josh" I said to him, staring up into his eyes as I leant out of his embrace, "and I read the newspaper article" I told him, smiling.

"I love you too, more than I can tell you. Do you mind about the article?" He asked, a look of worry across his face.

I kissed him quickly, "Of course I don't mind." I told him, smiling from ear to ear.

He took my hand and led us out of the store, "So where are George and Lucy? I need to get out of this airport" he laughed, suddenly looking quite tired.

"Come on, they are just up stairs. I drove here, you can sleep in the truck on the way back" I said, smiling at him and cuddling up to his arm as we walked.

"That sounds like a good plan" he said, yawning as if on queue.

I laughed and jumped onto the elevator, pulling him along with me.

When we got to the top I headed towards the starbucks, "what a surprise, George is in starbucks" Josh laughed, "let me guess, he brought himself a coffee?"

"Yeh and so is Lucy" I laughed. As we turned into the cafe we saw George and Lucy sitting across from each other, holding hands, their heads close together.

"Oh, looks like we are about to interrupt" giggled Josh.

We wandered over and they didn't even notice us standing next to the table. Josh stood behind me, wrapping his arms around my waist and resting his head on my shoulder. I leaned back into him and coughed, trying to get their attention. George looked up and gasped, "Josh!"

"You found him, Lily!" Exclaimed Lucy, a huge smile across her face.

"Well, he sort of found me" I giggled, wrapping my arms around his arms.

"I knew you would stay here" said George, smiling and starting to stand up, holding onto Lucy's hand as he did so.

"I was hoping you would come and find me somehow, I had already told myself that if you hadn't come by this evening, I was going to get a taxi back. I couldn't wait to see you, Lily" Josh said, squeezing me tight.

We all smiled at each other and had a huge group hug. I felt so happy, I could burst.

"Come on then, let's get going back to the apartments!" I said enthusiastically, twirling out of Josh's arms and taking his hand. We walked back to the car park, and when Josh saw the truck he burst out laughing.

"You came in that? It doesn't even look road worthy" he giggled.

I playfully punched him in the arm, "don't make fun of it, it got us here" I giggled and winked at him.

"And I'm so glad it did" he said, kissing me.

"Oh get a room you two" George giggled, only making Josh kiss me more.

I started laughing and broke away from him, walking over to unlock the truck door and letting everyone climb in. This time, George and Lucy sat at the back and Josh sat next to me at the front. I started up the truck and pulled out of the car park.

"Lily, do you need me to get the map out?" Asked Lucy from the back.

"No, I think I'm fine" I replied, certain I remembered the way back to the apartments.

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After driving for about an hour I started to get worried. I wasn't recognising any of the surroundings and we were heading onto more and more deserted roads, away from any main roads. Josh seemed to sense my uneasiness and asked if I was ok.

"Umm, guys I think we are lost" I confessed, pulling over at the side of the road and turning to face them.

Lucy quickly got the phone out of my bag, but when she tried to turn it on it had run out of battery. "Oh no" she said quietly.

"My phone has ran out of battery too" exclaimed Josh, and as George turned his on it had no signal and only 20% battery left.

"Ok, I'm going to keep this turned off to save the battery, until we get to somewhere that I will have signal" said George, turning it off and putting it back in his pocket.

"Shall we go back the way we came?" Suggested Lucy, but I had no idea what direction we had been coming from, "we can at least look out for signs?" she continued.

"Yeh, ok, I think that's going to be our only option" I replied, turning the car around and heading back the way we had come. By now it was 6pm and the sun was starting to go down, it was going to get dark soon and we had no idea where we were.

We carried on driving in silence until we came across a junction in the road. We had two options; left or right. The directions were all in Spanish and none of us recognised any of the place names. We decided to go in the direction with the most names on them; left.

We carried on driving, still with no sign of towns or even villages; just the occasional farm house dotted around the countryside. The sun was really starting to go down now and it was starting to get increasingly dark, there were no street lamps on the roads and so the only thing lighting the way was the light from the moon and the dim lights from the truck. It suddenly dawned on me how worried our parents were going to be, we had no way of contacting them to let them know we were ok. They were going to be so mad at us.

"Lily, I think we should pull over so you can get some rest" said Josh, gently stroking my arm as he spoke.

I nodded and pulled over in a safe place. Endless fields and mountains spread out in front of us and I started crying, "this is all my fault" I whispered, in between tears.

"No, no it's not your fault" Josh assured me, pulling me into a hug and kissing my head. George and Lucy agreed, reaching over to place their hands on my arm.

"It's an adventure" giggled George, trying to lighten our mood and make the best out of our situation.