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I woke up to Josh wheezing as he drove down the road
"You- you sneeze in your fucking sleep" he was laughing so hard

"Where are we?!" I looked around the car, the last thing I remembered was looking at Josh as everything went black. "This isn't the same car"

"This one has a radio" Josh tapped the dash

I stared at it or a second, Josh went out of his way and got us a car with a radio..he actually cared enough to find a car with one "thanks" I whispered and grabbed the seat belt

"Oh yeah" Josh followed my lead and grabbed his own

"Your an adiot " I rolled my eyes "but like where are we?"

"On the road "Josh looked at the side mirror "we left like five minutes ago?"

"Are we going to California? Still?" I signed "we couldn't have taken a train. I don't wanna be locked up in a car all day. Alone. In the middle of nowhere"

"Well last time we took a train you didn't behave so we're not doing that again"

"A bus could work"

"Taking a bus to Kansas?" Josh thought outloud "to hot" he shook his head and turned up the radio

Kansas? I gave Josh a questionable look as he shifted the gears, he shrugged it off and changed the radio channel.

"That was a good song" I flipped it back and he growled

"I'm the driver"  he flipped it

"I'm the passenger" I flipped it 

"I will shot you" Josh warned and changed it and I grinned

"At least I'll die listening to a good song" I reached for the switch and Josh grabbed my hand pinning it against the stick shift and his own hand.

His fingers between mine as we both held into the stick

"Fine" I huffed "but I'm not signing along"

Josh chuckled and moved our hands as we stopped at a red light

"Why did you move the stick?"

"Because the light was red. Each number is for a certain speed. "

I peeled our fingers away slightly "but you aren't at a number?"

"Because" Josh changed gears as the lights changed"neutral kinda like just gliding along"

I nodded softly "And the other numbers"

Josh sighed "haven't you driven before?"

I shook my head and he sighed again

"Okay gear one is for 15 miles. Two is 20 through 25. Three-35 between 30.
Four 34 and40. five 40-50, and, very rarely, six -55 Through 60"

"Oh" I popped out  "the R is for reverse?"

"Yeah"   Josh removed his hand and pushed mine away "most of the new cars do it by themselves but I got this shit of a car"

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