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When I woke up again, Katy was gone and the bus was no longer moving. I stood up and made my way for the front of the bus. I stepped out and found out we were at a Denny’s restaurant. My stomach growled. I think I am hungry, why didn’t they wake me up? I made my way inside the restaurant and searched for my friends and girlfriend. It wasn’t that hard, the place was almost empty.

“Hey! Pierre! You woke up.” Seb announced the whole restaurant about my presence.

“Keep it down, Seb.” Chuck whispered. I walked to our table and sat by Kate and Azelia, they were chatting, I guess they get along too… This is just getting harder, I mean, I really like the kid.

“Hi, ladies.” Kate giggled.

“Hi.” Azelia smiled at me. David instinctively wrapped his arm around her shoulders. She looked at him over her shoulder. He smiled and she smiled back. She turned to face him and they started talking. I chuckled and looked at Kate.

“Hey, hon. Why didn’t you wake me up?”

“We tried…”

“Yea, man. You were snoring like hell and you wouldn’t wake up.” Seb added taking something from Chuck’s food. What’s with the guy? He’s all hyper today…

“Oh…” I sighed. “I am hungry.” I rubbed my stomach.

“Yeah.” Chuck said in a low voice and then waved his hand to get the waitress’ attention.

“Yes, on what may I serve you?” She took out a small notebook.

“Uh… Yea I want a double cheese burger, please.”

“French fries or onion rings?”

“French fries all the way!” Seb screamed jumping out of his seat and then taking a seat again. He is really hyper… Or… Drunk?

“Uh… ignore that. I want onion rings. I apologize for the jumping monkey…” I chuckled and the waitress just made a face.

“Something to drink?” She asked a little freaked out this time.

“Coke.”

“Sure. It’ll be done soon.” She walked away.

“Thanks.”

“Why didn’t you get French fries!?” Seb argued me.

“It’s my food, dude. I choose onion rings.” He glared at me.

“Ugh.” He sighed and started talking with David and Azelia.

“He is really weird… I think he drank coffee or something… red bull probably?” Jeff tried to find an explanation for Seb’s behavior.

“Something like that…” I sighed and looked back at Kate.

“So. We in SD already.” I stated.

“Yeah…” She sighed.

I finished my meal a few minutes later. Chuck, Seb, Jeff, David and Azelia went for a walk. It was only Kate, Pat and I left. I sighed and ate the few onion rings left. I looked out the window and saw it was dark outside, it looked cold.

Jeff’s P.O.V.

“Dude, it’s getting cold out here.” Chuck complained about the weather.

“Yeah. Are you cold?” David asked Azelia taking off his hoodie and handing it to her before she shuddered in response. “There you go.” He put it over her shoulders and then told her to put it on.

“No, David…”

“Shh…” He put his finger on her lips and shushed her. “No arguing.” He smirked. Azelia giggled nervously and put the hoodie correctly.

“Thanks.” She smiled shyly.

“Hey I bet none of you can get me!” I started running towards a park across the street. The place was pretty empty.

“I’ll get you!” David ran behind me, Azelia followed. Then Chuck and Seb. It was pretty fun; she was pretty fast, after all. David got my arm and threw me to the grass. He started kicking me playfully. It tickled me so I was laughing. She was giggling as she kneeled next to me and started tickling me. I laughed harder and tried to stop them, I don’t like tickles. Ugh. Haha.

“Stop it!” I said between laughter.

“Nah!” David giggled. “Let’s finish him!” David screamed and backed away. She was still tickling; I took her arm and rotted her over me, now she was the one on the floor. I started tickling as she laughed.

“Oh no! Soldier down!” David got on my back and started pushing me off of her, I was being careful on not hurting her. David pushed me off her and helped her up. Chuck came from nowhere and kind of hugged her to stop her from tickling me. Now I had Chuck and Seb on my side! Seb managed to get David. We were having fun and pretty much being stupid.

David’s P.O.V.

“I think you guys had too much fun without me.” Pierre pouted.

“We really did!” Chuck laughed as he pushed Jeff playfully.

“Haha. Knock it off Comeau.” Jeff pushed with his arm.

“Hey! You are pretty fast.” Chuck put an arm around Azelia.

“Yea, I have to agree. That caught off guard!” Jeff added. She smirked.

“Ugh! Fuck!” Pat screamed.

“What?”

“I stepped on… shit!” He looked at his shoe as he made a disgusted face. I exploded on laughter and so did Pierre, Jeff and Chuck. “Oh! Shut up!”

“Guess you should watch where you’re going.” Chuck laughed.

“Yeah.” Azelia agreed giggling as we arrived at the bus’ door.

“You’re not coming in with that smell on your shoes… clean ‘em up.” Chuck closed the door on Pat’s face.

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I woke up at the sound of some car speeding outside; I never realized I’d fallen asleep. It still felt it was way too early or late, I wasn’t sure of the time lapse that had passed, but there was something that didn’t let me sleep. I sight to my left and saw Azelia lying next to me on my bunk. I rolled onto my left side, to look at her. I could watch her sleep forever… It made me feel so… alive.
She rolled to her right and she was my way now. Her face soft and her lips moved weirdly in a cute way. I watched her as I heard some steps from the other side of the curtain on my bunk. The steps stopped close to the bunk. Someone opened the curtains and then I looked up.

“Hey, dude.” Pierre whispered. “We’ll be leaving in about 5 minutes. You want to bring her over to the car?”

“Yeah. I’ll be there in a sec.” I whispered back.

“Sure.” Pierre walked out; again his’ steps were the strongest sound that I could hear.

The steps disappeared soon, now the only sound was our breathing. I moved closer to her and kissed her cheek. She opened her eyes slowly.

“I’m sorry I didn’t mean to wake you up…” I said in a low apologizing voice and looked into her sleepy eyes. She smiled, sleepily.

“It’s ok.” She blinked and opened her eyes wider. “What time is it?”

“I have no idea.” I chuckled. “But Pierre said we might be leaving-” I choked on the last word… it wasn’t getting easier. I sighed and finished my sentence. “in 5 minutes.”

“Yeah…” She sighed and looked away. After some seconds she looked back at me. I stared into her eyes, she stared into mine for seconds, minutes, I don’t know… I moved my head towards her slowly; my face became closer to hers, for one second I was totally conscious of what I was doing, and I still planned to do it… I couldn’t let her go, not without knowing… My eyes closed, I’d like to presume our eyes closed, as I leaned closer I could feel my breathing growing faster with anxiety. Then, Snap! A door flew open hitting with the walls of the bus; our eyes went wide open as a reaction.

“Shit…” Someone whispered, I think Chuck. Again steps heard toward us. I went back to the distance we had a few seconds ago. The curtains flew open. “Hey you guys, hurry up!” Chuck said, irritating me. I glared up at him and he walked out slowly.

I took a deep breath and made a bigger space between us. “I guess… we should… get going…” I mumbled nervously.

“Yep… I… think so.” She jumped off the bunk and I followed, we walked out the bus and saw a black car parking right next to the bus. We got in; it wasn’t as small as it seemed from the outside. Pierre had the wheel, Kate at his side. On the back there was Jeff, Seb and Chuck. There was still a small space for the 2 of us. I gestured for her to walk in first and then got my turn.

“What time is it?” I asked as soon as I sat, in comfortable position.

“12:00 am.” Jeff answered yawning.

“What!? Why are we leaving so late, cant we wait for tomorrow?” I looked back at Jeff.

“It’s Wednesday. School week, she’s got to go to school. David.” I looked at Chuck, who had answered my question.

“Ugh, you suck, Chuck.” I looked out the window as the car started moving.


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We finally got there the barrier between the US and México… One step more towards not seeing her anymore… The car went slower in front of the little traffic in front of us.

“So…” Chuck sighed. “Is it close?” He looked at Azelia. “Your house, I mean.” He blushed lightly.

“Yeah… I’ll tell you how to get there…”

“Can’t you take us somewhere to eat first…? I mean, you must be hungry… and so are we… Am I wrong, guys?” My stomach growled, we laughed.

“Sure… What kind of food are you thinking of?” She asked.

“Anything.” Pierre’s stomach growled. We all laughed.

“Mexican food would be nice.” I chuckled.

“Yup!” Seb agreed.

“Well, sure. Take this street.” She told Pierre and he did what she told him to. “I just hope its open, since it’s 1 in the morning…” She murmured. I giggled; she looked at me and smiled.

“Good point.” Chuck muttered.

Pierre finally got there and parked the car. We got down and went inside. She talked and translated everything for us. I liked it when she talked in Spanish it was pretty cool.

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She didn’t eat much, she said she wasn’t hungry. She ended up falling asleep on my shoulder just for some minutes. When she woke up we decided she should go home… to rest. She told Pierre how to get to her home, half asleep as she was.

“Here.” A three story white house, all the other houses around with the same exact design; all the same, the only difference was the cars on the outside, and some changes some people made, and the curtains; but the garage of this house was empty… No cars…

“Ok…” Pierre parked the car, got off the car and went to open Kate’s door as I got down too and helped Azelia out.

“So… Here it is…” I sighed.

“Yeah…” She looked at the house and pouted. The rest of the guys joined us in seconds; there we were just staring at the house. It was still dark outside. There were no lights around but the few neighbors who kept their front light on, but most of ‘em were off. This feeling was killing me.

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