The Road Trip (Colby Brock)

Chapter 28

Me and Colby ended up taking a 5 hour nap. I watched him sleep for a few minutes, not in a creepy way though. I put my hand on his chest and propped my head up while admired his softened facial features as he laid there. I played with the few strands of purple streaked hair across his forehead for a while then traced the bone structure of his face with my index finger. After a few minutes he woke up and smiled sleepily before stretching. "Morning beautiful" he said winking "Afternoon handsome" I corrected him "What time is it?" he asked pulling me s little closer. "3:28, I need a shower before we go look around" "Me too" he agreed so I got up and hurried through the shower and got ready while Colby took his. I got dressed in my ripped mom jeans and a vintage thrasher t shirt. I put on my black vans and brushed through my hair. Colby came out of the bathroom shirtless. I looked at the rose tattoo he had gotten, I had only seen it once but I liked it. Then I saw the kingdom hearts tattoo on the left side of his chest. I didn't realize I was staring again until he cleared his throat "How many do you have?" I asked kind of embarrassed, he just gave me a confused look. "Tattoos" "9" he said walking towards me and turning so I could see his back. I traced over the X at the base of his neck, then the wolf and moon on the back of his arms. He turned around and held his arms out, I traced from the bird at his thumb to the crown on his wrist then to the flower under his bicep. He held out the other arm and I studied the two skulls connected with the 3rd eye. "I like them, the skulls are sick though." he laughed "Thanks, I got that one for me and Sam actually" "Woah" I looked at the rose one more time admiring the detail "Do you have any?" "One" I said holding my wrist out, he grabbed my hand and rubbed his thumb across it "Thorns have roses?" he said looking up at me. "People say that all roses have thorns but to me that's like looking for bad in a good situation. I tend to do that a lot so I needed a reminder to always look for the good in bad situations," I said looking at my tattoo "it has my dad's ashes in it" I said quietly looking down trying to keep the tear from escaping. Colby grabbed my chin and met my eyes "it's beautiful, I'm sure he'd love it" he said quietly before closing the space between us. I melted almost immediately, I felt my knees go weak and I thought they were going to give out. He held my waist and I was thankful because without him, I'd be on the floor. He pulled back way too soon and turned to finish getting dressed. He put on a Protect Your Heart t shirt and some black jeans with his black vans. "You wanna walk around down town and look in the little shops before the carnival opens?" he asked "Sounds fun, can we stop and get some food first?" "I thought you'd never ask" he said dramatic.

We found a little burger place and ate there, the food was amazing. "This burger is all I need in life" I said taking the last bite and sitting back, Colby grabbed his heart "Ow, I've been stabbed" "You know what I meant." We both laughed and Colby payed for the food. "Thank you for lunch.. dinner?" "Snack?" "I don't know but whatever the hell it was was delicious." We walked around the little tourist shops and I got a little bear with a shirt that said "Welcome to the Bayou" in red letters. We found the carnival around 6:30 and we bought tickets. There were lots of different rides and games. "I wanna go through the mirror maze" Colby said eyeing one "Okay but if this turns into some Pennywise the clown type shit, I'm leaving your ass in there. I don't do clowns." He shook his head and laughed through his nose "I'm serious" I said lightly slapping his arm "It's okay, I'm not a big fan either" he grabbed my hand and we walked to the mirror maze. The lady at the front took our tickets and handed us trippy glasses. Great there were a million clones of everything, I couldn't even walk straight. I reached around for Colby's hand eventually grabbing it and we walked through. I ran into a few walls and it sounded like Colby was about to pee himself he was laughing so hard. "Shut up, I can barely see anything." As soon as the words left my mouth I heard a thud and Colby was rubbing his head "See, told ya." After what seemed like forever, we finally reached the end. "Two eternities later" Colby said in the spongebob narrator voice "Just about" I said agreeing. "What next?" I looked around until I spotted the roller coaster. "I've never been on one of those" I said pointing "You haven't lived until you felt like you were about to die on one of those, come on" he said walking us over to the roller coaster. The closer we got to it, the bigger it seemed to be. There was a huge drop and a loop near the end. Great. We got seated and Colby helped me with the safety strap. The voice over the intercom was mainly static but I could make out "Hands and feet inside the ride at all times..blah blah blah..make sure strap is tight" "They should really get those fixed" Colby said laughing. A few minutes later we were moving up the hill to the big drop, I grabbed Colby's hand and he looked over at me "Scared sweetheart?" "I've never done this before so yes I'm a little scared" I said making a face at him. Then we dropped. It wasn't that bad actually, it made my stomach drop but I didn't scream. Colby on the other hand. When we got to the loop I closed my eyes tightly and Colby was still screaming his head off. When the ride was over I looked over at him and raised my eyebrow "Scared sweetheart?" I said mocking him. We both started laughing "Hey...ok yeah I have no excuse. That drop was terrifying." He grabbed my hand and we walked around looking for something else to do. We passed little shacks with lots of junk food and drinks. There were a bunch of bright lights and people everywhere. Colby walked us over to the giant swing that takes you up super high. "I love these things" I said looking up. We walked to the seats after the people got off and found two seats next to eachother. The girl walked around and made sure everyone was buckled in correctly and she lingered around Colby. "Excuse me, can you check mine now please? Kinda don't wanna die." Colby mouthed "jealous?" and I shook my head. I trusted Colby, I just genuinely didn't want to fly off this thing and die. The swing started once she was done and we were up in the air looking down at the sea of people and lights below us. I took a few pictures, they would be cool to edit later. I looked over at Colby who was already looking at me, I smiled and he returned it. This is perfect.