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(2) "I'm ready for Dinny"

When Mason and X boarded the truck I started the car immediately and we were on the road once more.

Psych!

The car wouldn't start.

I don't know how to fix anything and I don't have money to get this thing fixed, so I decided to push the SUV into the rainy oblivion.

It was only 11 am, but it looked to be 11 pm by how dark it got.

I didn't really get what was making Robin upset out of her and when that happens, she's got to play her music.

Music we all hate.

"Turn it off!" Mason yelled.

She didn't listen though.

She continued and started to sing along horribly to Aretha Franklin's Oh Baby (Smokey Robinson dueth version) and I have no idea how she found it.

I wasn't into it at first, but then it's familiarity came to light as I faintly saw the pad-mounted transformer that me and my friends used to hang around in junior high and high school.

I got sappy too and continued to walk until I found the nearest parking lot.

"Henry, I'm hungry!" Mason yelled to me as he rolled down the window.

"Mason, you want to be a man one day right?"

"Ya."

"I suggest you be quiet then."

...

"Is that a threat?"

"It can be, but no. Men don't whine when they're hungry."

"Diddo." He rolled up the window and was quiet after that.

I slipped on a rock that I didn't see and my ankle did a 360.

I was sure it would be broken or at least hurt (a little), but it didn't.

Then was my opportunity.

I dropped to the cold, hard, bumpy road and yelled as loud as I could.

I knew they heard my yells and were just ignoring me, so I yelled again, louder this time.

"Yow! Oh! Ow! Mommmmyyyy!"

It took a whole minute for someone to roll down the window.

"Are you okay?" Robin asked with not much concern at all.

"I had to refrain from laughing as I put my acting skills to use."

"Oop-"

Oops. I said that out loud. Hopefully they didn't hear.

"What was that?"

"Noooo..." I moaned out in pain.

I didn't say anything else for dramatic effect, but they took that information and was about to seal it in the truck when the window began to roll up again.