Chapter 2
‘What the fuck are you doing?!’ I screamed at Maya as she stopped in the middle of the road. ‘Maya!’ I yelled.
‘Geez shut up Jacky. You’re annoying the fuck out of me.’ She hisses.
‘Get out, I’m driving.’ I tell her. She rolls her eyes but got out. ‘I still can’t believe you got a driver’s license.’ I muttered.
She kicks me before putting her leg on the dashboard kicking all of the hula dolls off. ‘It’s easy; you just need to sleep with the teacher.’ She shrugs before taking a long drag from her cigarette and blowing it to my face.
‘Fuck you Maya.’ That made her laugh. I looked at the rear-view mirror, Gem looks furious at Maya, Gem catches my eye and shakes her head, I sighed inwardly and rolled my eyes.
‘So where’ we off to first?’ Gem asked trying to lighten the tensed atmosphere. ‘Well, just out of Maine first then we can find a place to crash for the night.’ I answered.
‘I want to go to L.A’ says Maya. I frowned at her, ‘Why L.A?’ I asked.
She laughs at look at me like I’m crazy. ‘Are you shitting me? They’ve got drugs everywhere! Shit! You can even get it for free!’ she shouts happily.
Gem frowns even further, ‘But that’s not our route.’ Gem says. I nodded, ‘Yea, plus it will just waste our time, I really just want to get over with this spraying the ashes shit and drive home.’
We all stayed quiet until Maya speaks up, ‘Do you think they have a meaning behind this? Do you think they planned this?’
I laughed, ‘They’re dead Maya. I don’t think they can plan this.’
‘No- I mean, before they died, do you think that this would bond us together? Like what they always wanted us to?’
I stayed quiet. Maybe Maya’s right, maybe our parents did plan this, but we were never close, none of us were. So why? I don’t think they would love us, well Gem; maybe but me and Maya? We’ve never done any good to them; all we did was cause trouble.
‘Okay Maya, d’you need anything? I’m going to go grab some food at the store there with Gem.’ I say to Maya.
She shrugs, ‘A pack of cigarette, uh, a pack of gum, the yellow ones… what’s it called-
‘Juicy fruit?’ Gem asks.
Maya nods, ‘Yea that, uh a cup of Coke, and some snacks.’ She finishes.
I nod before walking into the store.
I grabbed most of the stuff we need, Gem walks up to me and smirks, ‘That guy’s checking you out.’ She says nodding at a boy near the refreshments.
I turn around and look at him, he smiles but I don’t return one which makes him laugh and shakes his head. What’s so funny about that?
I turn back to Gem and shrug, she frowns at me, ‘Hey, he’s cute!’ she yelled quietly. I rolled my eyes, ‘Yea, he’s like what, 15?’
‘Hey! I’m 15’
‘Yea, well, go get him darlin’ he’s all yours.’ I told her rolling my eyes.
She shrugs, ‘Nah, he’s too young for me.’
I frowned at her, ‘He’s your age.’ I stated.
‘I know, I like older guys, just like you and Maya do.’
I sighed, looks like that’s probably the only thing we have in common.
