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2. The Kombi

"Babe, you do use a lot of that lip balm" Noah said, smirking. "Shut up" Ella replied, while giggling. They were the power couple of our year. Everyone knew them and everyone wished they had what 'Noella' had. Noah was tall and fit. He was studying ballet at our school of the arts and was in good shape because of it. Ella loved that. He was very kind and funny. He was perfect for her. They'd been in love since year 8.
"Guys this music sucks, let's put on some Green Day" Cadeyrn yells over the alternative 'Gang of Youths' from the backseat. Everyone sighs. Cade's music taste consisted of anything punk rock. He was everyone's gay best friend. Cade was an average height, taller than all of the girls. He had the lightest blue eyes I'd ever seen. He was gorgeous. No one remembered his natural hair colour as it was always dyed. He was extremely thin, although he ate like a cow and his addiction to coffee was at the point where normal people would've been worried for his health. "Cade we love you, but we're listening to Triple J", said Oscar as he was in charge of the radio station. Harriet turned up the volume, "I second that". Cade put in his earphones and stuck up the finger to all of us. It was like his signature move.

We'd been driving for 4 hours and everyone needed to get some fresh air. Oscar pulled over at a servo and we all got out. Cade went to go buy coffee, Jude filled up the petrol tank and Tom was complaining about his sore shoulder. Frankie had fallen asleep on him. Frankie (Frances) was absolutely stunning. She had brown hair, darker than her natural colour because she dyed it. It was just longer than her shoulder. She was gay too. She dated this girl named Sky in year 8 but she was with Eboni during the road trip and complained about missing her 24/7. Frankie and Ella were best friends back in the day but they had a huge fight in year 8 and things went south from there. She was the lead singer in our band. Jude was in it too, he was the drummer. This cool chick Lucinda was our bassist although she wasn't really in our friend group. I played the electric guitar and sang sometimes. It was a good band that started in year 8 and we just kept getting better over the years.
Ana finally came out of the dodgy toilets after throwing up for like 10 minutes. She was a ballerina. At school she always wore her light pink tights underneath her rolled up shorts with her hair in an extremely neat bun. Her hair was medium length and had a blonde ombré at the bottom.

"Rubi can you please go and buy some chocolate, here.. uh here's 5 bucks", Harriet said to me with puppy eyes. "Fine" I said and left into the store. I suppose I was never very interesting. I was at school for music and I played the guitar, my hair was red after years of dying it various dark colours and I wore glasses. I was actually with a guy who lived in Melbourne. His name was Gene. We started talking in year 7 but started dating when I was in year 9, he was in year 10. But that wasn't why we chose to drive to Melbourne. We all agreed that it'd be heaps of fun and that it was far but not too far. When everyone was ready we loaded up in the kombi. It was Jude's parents' kombi and I was surprised when they let us use it for that trip. I was also surprised that we all managed to fit in the bloody thing. It was a pale/pastel yellow colour, very aesthetic. We all loved that kombi. Especially Harriet, she had a thing for kombi's. I got the front seat and it was a relief after sitting next to Ella and Noah for the last 4 hours. James was driving and my god was he funny when he drove. He was always yelling at people doing stupid shit on the road. We all got a laugh out of it.