Virago ~ The better wrong

Chapter-7

“And did you see how the snake almost touched my foot?” Tris said again, 20th time, almost dancing with excitement.

“Yes, I did saw it, I mean it was huge.” Lillian said looking at her.

“Tell me about it, but what a scenery, hard luck it was almost dark.” Owen said, pulling out some peanut packets and passing them to everyone.

“How long Deb?” Lillian asked leaning forward towards her seat.

“Still 280 miles to go Ms. beauty.” She replied rolling her eyes and driving straight.

“What is it between you and Lillian btw?” Liam asked.

“Nothing.” She said.

“Ok; desperately changing the topic, have you read this book, one of us is lying?” he asked.

“I don’t read books, I watch movies and series.” She replied.

“Yeah right, which one, the old rom-coms or the Disney one?” Liam asked, smirking while Owen and Ben gives him a fierce, you are dead look.

“Why are the X-men called so?” Deb asked grinning mischievously.

“Because that’s their name?” Liam said, shrugging

“No, smarty, because there leader is Charles Francis Xavier.” Deb answered. “Okay, another one, easy one this time, who dies to retrieve soul stone in Endgame?”

“Umm…” Liam began scratching his head

“Look, who is sweating.” Tris howled loudly and all of them except Liam sniggers.

“Well, whatever, just drive.” Liam replied crossing his arm and looking out of window.

“The answer is Black Widow and Gamora btw.” Lillian answered earning an amused look from Deb in the rear view mirror.

“Whoa, babe, you are a fan of MCU too!” Deb said, grinning.

“Did you call her babe?” Liam asked, whispering so only she can hear.

“Shut up!” Deb answered and turned back to silently driving straight, realizing that she was starting to like miss-overly-beautiful-and-intelligent.

***

“Left.” A voice from back startled everyone except a sleeping Owen and Deb. Lillian and Liam turned 180 degree to stare at the back and Tris choked on her water.

“What?” Ben asked looking up from his phone.

“Okay, did you really just speak?” Tris asked finally staring at him as if he were an alien.

“Wait a minute, so you can actually speak?” Lillian blurted out.

“You are not dumb?” Liam adds equally shocked, only to hear an offended hey from Deb. “Sorry.” Liam replied.

Ben just nods in answer and goes back into his silent mode.

Lillian looks at Owen, sleeping with his head on the window and with his hat on. She reaches to take his hat off and her hand wanders in his smooth hair curling just above his shoulders. She smiles at his stupid beach T-shirt as Owen stirs suddenly shaking her thoughts off as she takes his hat and shifts back to her side, uncomfortably.

“So” she cleared her throat, “Are you going to take a left?” she asked Deb.

“Yes! Definitely, you see Ben is an expert in technology and remembering stuff. That phone of his is his lifeline.” Deb replied. “He is like a tech expert, once he hacked the Ordinary café’s network too.”

“That’s unexpected.” Liam said.

“You have no idea what we siblings can do.” Deb smirked. The sky had now turned completely dark and all she can see was the small hotel at the end of the road for night stay.