Toto and the Boys II: George

Chapter 23

She just actually asked the question because she wanted to get rid of the feeling the song was giving her.  Jordan tilted his head to look at her curiously, waiting for her question.

She cleared her throat. “If you were to name your car, what would it be?”

“I don’t know,” he answered.

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V-I-C-K-Y! Her name is Vicky, bro.

“That’s your question?” Jordan asked Georgie.

Yeah, stupid, right? I told you, she asks the wrong questions. She’s weird that way.

Georgie nodded, her eyes on the road.

“I don’t really think I should name my car,” Jordan uttered, looking disappointed.

“Well, try to think of a name. Be creative while you’re at it.”

“I really can’t think of a name.”

VICKY.

“Just try,” she urged.

Jordan looked out the window, deep in thought. I wasn’t sure I wanted them to name Vicky after all. For me, she was VICKY forever until her metals give up on her.

“I think I’d start it with something that sounds like ‘vehicle’,” Jordan finally said and all hopes rose up my gas tank.

VICKY! VEHICLE, VICKY!

Georgie was nodding her head in agreement.

“Ve…Veh…Vehicks? Vector?” Jordan tried.

“Vector? As in Vector in physics? Come on,” George scoffed.

VICKY! I’m telling you, name her VICKY!

“Victor?” Jordan tried again.

My gas almost drained down my pipes. NO!

George slowly nodded her head. “I like it.”

Jordan arched an eyebrow. “You do?”

“It sounds like an old name. Victor. It’s good. We’ll start calling your car Victor then.”

NOOOOOOOOOOO! Your car is a vic, man! It is not a masculine car! Go for feminine! VICKY!

“Victor it is then,” Jordan said with a grin.

I am not telling Vicky about this. She’ll cry all her gas out when she hears she has just been baptized with a male name!

I tried to think of the best possible consolation I would tell Vicky once she found out while Jordan and Georgie started talking about Troy’s history with them.

Don’t you like it? You’re one of the boys now, Vicky. Your name now sounds masculine just like Jackie, Dannie and George. But if you don’t like it, I will still call you Vicky, I tried to practice my speech. I was thinking of more things to say when Jordan’s sudden change of topic almost threw me off the side of the road if not for Georgie’s amazing driving skills.

“What?” she asked.

“If you don’t want to marry me, then who do you think you’ll end up with?” Jordan repeated his question.

“I don’t know,” Georgie answered. “Probably someone I haven’t met yet.”

Jordan stayed silent after that.

“But I don’t really need to marry, you know. I like the way I live my life at the moment.”

“Your parents will have a heart attack,” Jordan commented with a scoff.