Long Way Home

Chapter 2

I don't know how we did it, but somehow Ashton, Luke, Michael, Calum and all their luggage plus me and my sacks of poo from the farm all managed to squeeze into my little SUV. We tied the sacks to the roof, but the strong stink still managed to waft into the car through every crack imaginable. Ashton wanted to drive so I sat in the front seat next to him and in the backseat Michael sat behind Ash, Cal in the middle and Luke behind me.

"Ow! Your sitting on my arm!"

"I can't breath!"

"Control your legs!"

I looked at Ash expecting him to say something to the boys who were making enough noise to scare away a herd of elephants, but he just sat back with a very relaxed smile.

"I'm can't tell you how glad I am that I'm driving right now"

"I can tell"

I glanced back at the boys who by this point had tired themselves out and were all on their phones. Luke looked up and smiled at me.

"By the way thanks for helping us out Grace"

He flashed me a cute smile complete with dimples and I could feel myself blushing.

"It's ok"

"Wait! Stop the car!"

I just remembered the poo sacks tied to the roof and I hurriedly climbed out of the car, untied the sacks and dumped them on the edge of the road. I honestly didn't care about them. Why should I? I was too glad to have gotten rid of that awful stink.

I got back into the car very in gracefully.

"Hey can we play some music?" asked Michael.

"Yeah, of course"

I switched on the radio to my favourite station and Weightless by All Time Low came on. Michael and Calum burst out singing, soon followed by Ashton drumming his fingers loudly on the steering wheel and Luke playing the air guitar. Feeling a bit out of place, I summoned my inner party animal and proceeded to whip my hair around. This continued for the rest of the song and when it finally finished my previously straightened hair resembled something somewhat similar to an afro.

"That was mad", laughed Ashton. "Let's stop for a toilet break"

We turned off the highway at a public toilet and it was only then that I realised that we hadn't passed a single car in the 3 hours we'd been driving.

The toilet block was the only building as far as the eye could see. And I could see a lot from the top of the hill.

After I had been to the toilet I stood in front of the dirty mirror and ran my fingers through my hair.

"They wouldn't find out.....would they? They're not even my friends, I'll drop them off somewhere and then get on with what I have to do."

I walked back outside to see Michael, Luke and Ashton scanning the air for one bar of wifi or phone signal.

"We were gonna ask you to leave us here, but it looks like you'll be stuck with us a little longer" smiled Michael

"Sorry" mouthed Luke leaning against the car.

Ashton clapped his hands together then jokingly bowed in from of me.

"Anyway.... Shall we continue our journey your majesty"

"I think we shall"

"SHOTGUN" yelled Michael racing to the front seat before I could.

Ashton ran to the drivers side.

"I'm driving. Sorry it looks like you'll be stuck in the back. Wait.....where's Calum?"

Luke wasn't it the car yet so he jogged back over into the toilet block emerging a second later pulling a vomit covered Calum by the arm.

"Yuk bro" snickered Michael.

"Shut up. I think it was the milk I had this morning. It was kinda yellow."

"You're such an idiot" I joked. "And you might wanna change your shirt."

His fashionably ripped Green Day shirt was now covered in vomit that I will not go to describe. And his jeans were also splashed with it.

I opened the boot and pulled out the suitcase with his name on it, and Calum came over and picked out some tracky-daks and a sweatshirt to change into. He didn't even bother to walk back into the bathroom he just took off his pants and shirt dressed in nothing but some red boxers in the middle of the highway. I could feel myself blushing as I stared at his toned tanned body.

"Ummm Cal.....just to remind you...we have company" said Luke blankly from the window of the backseat.

"Oh yeah. That might have slipped my mind" said Calum smiling directly at me.

I looked away and climbed into the middle of the backseat next to Luke. Calum sat next to me finally clothed and we started driving again.

We had only been driving for a few minutes and already I could feel my eyelids getting heavy. I had had a really big week and finally it was all catching up with me. I had a final thought before I fell fast asleep in my car being driven and occupied by a group of boys I had only met earlier that day.

I hope they aren't rapists.

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