Road Trip Across the U.S. of Gay (gxg)

Chapter 4: Wilks' Garage, Pennsylvania

I look at Kel with wide eyes and he reciprocates before I turn to the confident girl in front of me. "Excuse me? I'm not going anywhere, I'm sixteen, it's not possible. Kel's comment earlier was just a joke." Rolling her eyes she gives me an unbelieving look.

"I know that you want to get away for a while. So do I, I need to. We come up with a lie, tell our families that we're going to...tour colleges or something like that, and then we just get away. Take a road trip." She explains it as though it's the most simple plan in the world. It is anything but.

"And where do you say we go?"

"I don't know...somewhere stupid. Something that isn't stressful, that not everyone sees. We'll make it a big trip, see different things that make no sense...like," she types on her computer, clicking on what I assume are different sites. "This. The 'world's largest collection of world's smallest versions of world's largest things'. That is something just stupid enough to make for a fun time, especially since we can see the actual real things along the way."

"The...the what?" I scrunch my brows together, going through whatever she just said in my head.

"The world's largest collection...of world's smallest versions...of world's largest things. So I'll fix your truck, and you'll bring me on the trip. We don't even have to go there, you can pick anywhere; that thing was just the first thing that came up when I searched stupid attractions. We could go and see the fucking school from High School Musical for all I care." She looks at me and I look back, challenging her. It seems that she is doing the same though, because she isn't backing down. When you think about it, it's a good deal. Sure, I have money saved up. But I'll never be able to leave if I spend all of it fixing up the car. Plus she would probably pitch in money for the trip. Drive some of the time, too, and help make the story more believable.

"I'm not saying yes...but you can come by my house anytime to look at the truck. Just text me first."

Smiling at me, she hands me back my phone with a text message sent to what I'm guessing is her number. "Sounds good."

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"Are you really going to do this? Lie to your parents so you can go see some stupid thing that means nothing to you? It makes no sense."

"Exactly, Kel," I exclaim as he pulls into my driveway, putting the car in park. "This is something that hasn't been forced upon, something that I decided to do myself. It isn't required for me to live some meaningless life, it hasn't been pushed upon me by my parents...this is something I need to do to keep sane. She also said that we don't even need to go there, but I looked it up on the way back and it seems just stupid enough to work. This could be the thing that will finally make myself settle and work for the rest of my life. It's nice to think about."

He rests his head back, shutting his eyes. "Just think this through."

"I will." Saying an awkward goodbye, I get out of the car and smile widely at him as he backs out into the road, skidding away.

This will be good, I can feel it. I take back saying that I'm not going to do this.

I'm gonna fucking do it.

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