The Unexpected Road Trip

‘‘Excuse me?” I say, my voice is shaking, weak. The guy registers my voice as he jumps slightly in his seat.
‘Hmmm’ he says, he’s not listening to busing delicately changing the radio to his favoured station.
‘‘I’ll pay you $1000 to drive me to California’’ This caught his attention, his face turned towards me ,staring, his eyes were unsettled. ‘’Fine, $2000’’ I’m pleading now, I hate showing desperation. I needed to leave soon.
‘California is 3000 miles away!’ his voice sounds doubtful, he stares at me through furrowed eyebrows.
‘Fine, $3000’ I say.
‘I don’t even know you’ he voices echoes through me. I don’t have time for this, I have to leave soon. ‘Why don’t you buy a plane ticket?’ his voice laced with sarcasm. Right, arsehole like I hadn’t thought of that.
‘My passport is in California, I can pay you when we get there’ I say this with disbelief already knowing his answer. I begin to walk away, scanning the car park for a new person, a new hope.
‘Wait-‘ he says leaning outside his car window. ‘Make it $4000 and we have a deal’
‘Fine’ I say, what’s $4000 of $100,000.