The door opened with a peculiar creek as the four teens drudged inside, not a pleasant creek either, the kind you think of when you watch a c-list horror movie. They'd only made it about five hours outside of Taos putting them right on the outskirts of Albuquerque, and to be blunt they had no idea where they were heading.
Too tired to even think after about three or so bad pick up drivers, the first two weren't exactly rude but they weren't particularly kind either. The third however, the one Ed and Tye had well… commandeered, was a goddamn nightmare. The driver kept making passing glances on Virgil the whole time, ordering him not to touch anything and kept pestering Tye about his religion.
The last straw however was when Asami (assumedly) made a passing comment on the scenery around them, "Sore wa koko ni furattonanode, oka dake no ana wa arimasen". The driver turned abruptly, pulled over, and glared, "If y'all wanna keep on truckin' with me, you best tell her this is an english only vehicle". Asami matched his intense glare and turned away, a deep frown cutting into her usually upbeat face.
Lightning crackled between Virgil's fingers, the white-hot intensity of the electricity mirrored by his snarl. But before he could open up his mouth (or to short circuit both this ratty ass truck and the driver), Tye cut in , "Look here, you better lay off her and my friends if you feel like keeping this broken up piece of shi-" "You threatening me boy? If so, it is my god given right to say whatever the hell I want about that chink back there."
But as he raised his hand to grab at the collar of Tye's shirt, Eduardo grabbed his outstretched fingers and teleported both himself and the redneck outside the truck. As the bigger man caught his bearings, he saw Ed suddenly appear in the passenger seat and Tye take the wheel, he ran futiley as the vehicle began to sputter up as Ed gave him a parting flip of the bird as it drove out of the man's sightline.
They'd ditched the vehicle about seven miles outside of Albuquerque, deciding with better judgement that having S.T.A.R,The Team, and The Reach after them was more than enough bounty hunters without adding the police to it. So, skating (or in Virgil's case hovering) to the nearest vacant motel, they began to feel stupidly drowsy. After saving the team earlier that night and coupled with the five hours of hitchhiking, it was a wonder they hadn't already passed out.
But there was a light at the end of the tunnel, The Lazy Haboob motel sign read: 1 Vacancy, and that was enough motivation for the four teens to move just a tad bit faster.
The receptionist's head perked up at the electronic ding of the door opening but instead of an irate father yelling at his two brats and a disheveled mother putting up a plastic smile, she saw four teens barely able to stand. One, a native american, walked up to the desk and opened up the duffle bag strapped around his back and slid three twenty dollar bills across to her. "Whichever that one vacancy was, we'd like it please".
She took the money and placed it within one of the drawers, "Yes sir, however there is a problem with the room, it onl-" "Look I know you're trying to help" Tye replied " But whatever the problem is, we can deal". "Yes sir, however I think you need to know it o-"
"Amiga," Ed cut in, "Unless the room is literally radioactive, we really couldn't give less of a-" Virgil then decided to speak up, "what my friends mean," he shot a warning look at the two, "is that we're really too tired to care, heck we'd even sleep in the parking lot if you let us."
"Of course, sorry to bother you all, here's the key to your room" She sat up to point outside the window "it's the room marked sixteen, next to the pool". As the teens began to walk outside, she added "if you have any problems let me know".
Which brings us to now, the runaways barely walking into their temporary home when their eyes collectively open wide and land on the "problem" the receptionist had warned them of, the one singular bed.
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
Salutations, this is my first YJ fic sorry if it sucked but I'll Update this either later today or about midway through tommorow. I'm sorry if the dialogue seemed clunky, it's my first time writing these characters. Please critique me so that I might write better someday.
TRANSLATIONS:
Japanese: It's so flat here, no hills only holes
Spanish: Female friend
See ya on the flip side, Jade