Kick's On The Road
Avery: No I do not own this show and no I have not given up on my other stories. So why am I writing a story about road trip across America you may ask? Well you can blame it on my love of adventure, my interest in other places, and Morgan Matson for writing "Amy and Roger's Epic Detour." So without further ado here is the first chapter of my story.
I was standing on the front porch of my house when I heard the wheels of the large red Dodge Caravan crunch the gravel as it pulled into the driveway. I dreaded seeing the face of the person who was about to park the rental car and step out, because the moment I did this would all become a reality. I didn't want to take this trip but in the end I had no choice. My mom had already planned out the route, starting here in Mellowbrook, Massachusetts then on to New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, and finally our destination, Seattle, Washington. My sister, Ember, was going to university in Seattle, with Brad Buttowski. I know Brad Buttowski got into a university, it was a big shock to all of us too. So now I was being forced to drive across the country with my childhood enemy, Kick Buttowski, to help our siblings pack up and drive home. You would think that after seventeen years of hating each other we could have learned to get along. But no, we are still at each other's throats, just like we had always been. The sound of a car door slamming closed caused me to wake up from my thoughts, and there he stood. He had gotten much taller and much more muscular since we were thirteen, but he still wore his trademark jumpsuit and helmet. His icy blue eyes locked with my brown ones and we stayed that way for a moment, as if we were waiting for the other person to say something.
"Hey" He said bluntly
"Hi" I replied, trying to smile
"So" He said, trying to fill the awkwardness in the air "You ready for tomorrow?"
To be honest, I wasn't. I had put off packing to the very last second just in case Ember changed her mind and flew home and got her stuff delivered via FedEx or something like that. But she hadn't, which meant that me and Kick were still taking this trip, starting bright and early tomorrow morning, which meant I would be spending all night packing. But for now we were just going to Cracker Barrel for lunch with some of our friends, talking to my friends would probably distract me from thinking about the trip. We have not really talked about this trip at all, we didn't know who would do most of the driving and navigating, who would pay for hotel rooms and food, or anything like that. I guess we would have to cross a bridge like that when it came.
"I guess" I replied as I opened the door to the passenger's seat
The short car ride to the nearby Cracker Barrel felt awkward, we were not talking or even acknowledging one another. If this is us alone in a car for eight minutes how are we going to survive eight days alone in a car? I pushed all thoughts to the back of my mind as we pulled into the parking lot. When we got inside we saw Gunther, Moxie, Ronaldo, Christina, Mouth, and Fiona already sitting around a long table, Moxie waved us over immediately. We sat down at opposite ends of the table and immersed ourselves in conversations with friends. Then Christina popped the question that had been on my mind all day.
"You two ready for tomorrow?" She asked, her always cheerful smile crossing her pink cupid's bow shaped lips
I looked down the table towards Kick, he looked up at me abruptly and our gaze met for a moment. I looked down at the remains of my lunch and, out of the corner of my eye, watched Kick slurp down the last of his sweet tea. I thought hard about my reply, and how there wasn't really a right or wrong answer but every answer still felt wrong.
"I'm not sure" I finally stated
"Well I know that if I were you I'd be excited times ten" Fiona said, Fiona had never been out of Mellowbrook once in her life. When she was in foster care as a little kid she would dream of the world outside of her foster home, and how she would one day see it.
"Well, I wish I could go" Moxie said "I've actually lived in some of the places your going, it would be nice to see my old home"
"And I wish I could go to Indianapolis, to see the world's biggest microscope" Ronaldo said
"Yeah, leave it to you to see the lamest things on the highway" Mouth said "I wish I could back to Yosemite, remember our first cross country road trip Christina?"
Christina looked at her twin, and then she cringed, as if she were remembering a bad childhood experience "I remember you and Pantsy getting car sick the entire drive and puking on me"
"Well I want to see the big apple" Gunther announced
"Well, New York City is a great-" I started to say before Gunther interrupted me
"No, I meant the actual big apple" Gunther said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world "it's a monument in Iowa"
"Wow, look at this Kendall" Kick said, a sly grin crossing his face. Oh, crud no, he was getting an idea, and even though I couldn't read his mind I feared that I knew what he was going to say next. "We have six friends who wanna see America, and a huge car with ten seats"
"Is he saying what I think he's saying?" Fiona asked in excitement
"Would you guys like to discover America?" Kick asked everyone at our table
"We're about four hundred years to late for that" I reminded him, but no one listened to my comment. They were all to busy wearing excited grins and exchanging thrilled looks.
"As long as I'm not sitting next to my brother" Christina said, giving Mouth a side glare "I'm in"
"Me too" Gunther yelled in excitement
"I'm in" Fiona and Moxie exclaimed loudly in unison
"Count me in too" Ronaldo said
"Well, if my friends are in I'm in" Mouth said
I wasn't sure weather I should have been happy or sad. On one hand I could avoid a long awkward road trip alone with Kick, and on the other hand I was now carrying eight people in one car. My road trip budget was already tight as is, how was I supposed to help pay for hotel rooms for eight people? And what about meals? Surely we'd want some souvenirs too. I weighed my options for a moment before looking up and the fourteen eyes staring back at me, as if they were waiting for my approval. I sighed.
"Alright fine" I said, this was followed by a wave of cheering and high fives "But you all have to be packed up and ready and meet at my house tomorrow at ten am, and bring money because I am not paying for your meals and souvenirs"
All of my friends were thrilled, and then they insisted that we look around the Cracker Barrel shop for candy, or as they liked to call it "Road trip food."
"Kendall, aren't you gonna get something?" Fiona asked me in the checkout line, holding her package of gummy shark candy
I didn't feel like buying anything, so instead I grabbed a complimentary map and headed towards the car. This was going to be a very long road trip.
Avery: Okay, I don't know if Mellowbrook is actually in Massachusetts, so lets just pretend its right next to Boston. Yeah, I know nothing about Massachusetts… But I also know nothing about most of the states they are visiting. So please if you live in the states tell me some interesting facts about your state, thank you. Avery out, peace!