Vacation

Chapter one 1: No shoes, no shirts, but lots of problems

It was the road trips to end all road trips. Three blondes, one car, and the last summer before they went to college. In the driver's seat was Ruthie Ritland, she was the oldest, next to her was Danni Davis, and in the back seat, asleep was Rose Rhodes. Everyone had blue eyes except for Danni; her eyes were brown.

The car that they had rented was a convertible. At present, they had the hood down and the radio turned up so loud that they could barely hear. "Danni, I don't think that we made the right turn back at the sign."

"Well, the map-quest directions said turn left at Porter onto to Pine." She reached down to the floorboard and picked up the map quest paper. "That's what we did!" She cried.

"All right, but this dirt road better lead somewhere!" Ruthie warned playfully. Danni just laughed and turned the radio station until she caught the chorus of a Kenny Chesney song.

"Ohh, I like this song, but it's kinda old." She said. From somewhere in the back Rose sat up.

"Man, where are we?" She asked.

"In South Carolina" Ruthie replied. The girls were on their way to Arizona where Danni had family. From there, they would go to a small town where Danni's Spanish family lived. She herself wasn't Hispanic or anything, she just had family there.

So far, their trip was good, even though they had only been driving for a few hours, four to be exact. Since they were taking the scenic route, it was going to take longer to get to Mexico. At any rate, now they were on a dirt road that was devoid of houses only trees, many trees with Spanish moss.

They were half way down the road when the car started making funny noises. "Uh, I don't think the car is supposed to make those noises." Rose observed. Danni swiveled her head.

"Thank you Captain Obvious!" She growled. "Ruthie check the dash board."

"I am…" Ruthie replied. "I think we're out of gas."

"WHAT?" Both girls simultaneously cried. Danni whipped out her cell phone, but when she punched the number to AAA, her phone read call failed. "Oh common" she cried in frustration. "Rosie, try your phone, I'm going to see if we packed the extra gasoline." She said. Danni was usually the more mature one.

"I don't have signal," Rosie said. She pulled out Ruthie's phone. "Ruthie- bum doesn't either."

Ruthie and Danni stood at the back rummaging around in the trunk. "Oh common!" Danni cried. "I could have sworn that I put the gasoline in here before we left!" She moaned.

"Wait," Ruthie said. "You did but I took it out when we last gassed up to fill it up and- all three pairs of eyes widened. Danni slapped her forehead.

"Please don't tell me you-

"Yes" Ruthie cut her off. "I did leave it there. I'm so sorry!" She leaned against the car dejectedly.

"Not much we can do now," Danni said as she leaned against the car also.

Rosie got out and walked in back. "We can always push it. I mean the road has to end some where right?" Rosie ever the optimist, suggested to them. Danni shrugged.

"She's right." Ruthie nodded. "We can push the car until we find a house or something."

Two hours later, the thing that had started as a wonderful vacation for three blonde-haired teen girls was now turning into hard, grueling work for three blonde- haired teen girls. "I can't believe you left the" she grunted. "Stupid idiot" grunt "gasoline can" groan "at the gas station!" Danni cried as she shoved the car forward. It lunged forward and all three girls were now face down in the dirt.

Rosie groaned and sputtered as she pushed herself up. "Man, if we don't find somewhere soon that has cell phone service I'm going to scream!" She shouted.

"I thought we covered that subject." Danni growled. Ruthie sighed as she sat there with her head in her knees. Somewhere in the distance, there was the sound of thunder. They all turned and moaned audibly.

"I guess we better hurry, or were gonna get caught in the rain." Ruthie stood up and helped her friends up. All three started pushing the car for another few hours.

All the girls stayed bent over and when they stopped to take a break, Ruthie saw something in the corner of her eye. "Hey!" She exclaimed as she jumped up and ran to the right side of the road. She pushed the trees back and there was a house. "Look what I found!" She waved the girls over. Both girls trudged over to her. "It's a house!" Ruthie tittered. Rosie gave her that duh look.

A loud thunder clap sounded above their heads, quickly followed by tiny droplets of rain. "As if this could get any worse!" Danni screamed stamping her foot irritated. Murphy's Law: don't ever tempt the weather. The rain turned from tiny little droplets to huge a huge raging storm.

"Come on" Rosie shouted. "Let's get the car up to the house. Maybe we can stay there!" The other's nodded and Ruthie ran to the wheel and turned it so they could get it up the long drive.

By the time they reached the house, the girls were to exhausted and wet to care that it was a colonial and extremely old. They got their bags out of the trunk and lugged them to the porch. Rosie banged on the door, but there was no answer.

"I don't think any one is home." Ruthie said from her huddled position on the stairs.

"I say we just go in." Danni pushed Rose aside and tried the door. "If we get in trouble- that means we go back to civilization!" She kicked the door and it didn't budge. Just as she was going to give up, it swung open and she fell in. "Holy pooh on toast!" She cried, scrambling to her feet. No one cared and all the girls drug their luggage in.

"Hello!" Ruthie called. There was no answer. "I'm sorry if we're disturbing you but-

"Yo! Blondie!" Danni jerked her shoulder. "I don't think there's anyone home." She let go and started up the stairs. A few minutes later, she called back down. "There are no showers!" She cried. "Or beds for that matter." She added under her breath. She came back down the stairs. Ruthie and Rosie had changed into blue jeans and sweatshirts. Ruthie's read "Inner beauty is over rated" and Rosie's sweat shirt read, "I have attitude and I'm not afraid to use it." They threw Danni her clothes and she went into the kitchen.

She pulled the shirt so she could read the words. "I've got a temper and I like to break things". She laughed a little at it. That saying described her so perfectly. She pulled off her wet shirt. She pulled on a little white tank top and the sweatshirt, blue jeans. She went back into the main room.

Ruthie and Rosie were lying on the floor with their pillows, asleep. Danni grabbed hers and her I-pod. She pulled her hood up, stuck the things in her ear, and went to sleep.

TBC….

Yea… it might be an old story idea…. At any rate It's just a thought that popped into my head and now I'm hoping I can stick with it.