This is written for a challange over at the Marissa/Alex board.
And I hope that writting this will help me with some inspiration to some of my other stories, first and for most A year to remember, so that I can finish that one.
disclaimer: I don't own the OC or it's characters.
feedback: I would love to know what you all think of this.
Hitchhiker
Rooster fights
Her car had broken down on the road in the middle of nowhere, and her cellphone had died an hour ago or so. And if she was going to be honest with herself, there was probably no reception out here anyway.
She looked both right and left but she couldn't see a car anywhere in sight and she couldn't even hear a car.
It was dead, there was probably no traffic here. She had no idea why she had chosen this road instead of the high way and now she was going to be late to her sister's graduation.
She walked to the passenger side of her red mustang that she now had to leave behind. She grabbed the backpack that lied on the seat and her purse that was next to it. All she could do was to start and walk and hopefully that was run into someone that could give her a ride or at least let her borrow a phone and call someone that would be able to come and pick her up.
She continued to walk along the road with her thumb out, hoping that someone would stop for her but she hadn't had any luck on that so far, sure it hadn't been that many car that had passed her by but with every car that drove past her she lost a small amount of hope. It didn't take her that long before all of her hope had vanished.
"Just one more car." She said to herself as she saw a jeep coming down the road. "if this car doesn't stop then I am walking all the way back to Newport." She closed her eyes and stuck her thumb out and the jeep passed her, without slowing down.
All she wanted to so was scream after the car and she promised herself once again, like had done so many times for the last couple of hours that the next time she saw a hitcher she would stop and let them ride along.
She took one last look in the direction that the jeep had been heading and she saw that it had stopped. She could see that the jeep had stopped and someone was getting out of the car. It looked like a girl, and she was happy that the driver had been a girl she somehow felt safer if it turned out to be a girl.
She quickened her pace; it didn't take that long for her to be next to the car.
"So where are you going?" The driver asked as she had reached the car.
"Newport." She answered. "Can I get a ride?"
"Sure, I'm passing through or well I am now."
"Thank you." She said as she looked at the girl. "You are a lifesaver and the next time I see someone hitching a ride I am stopping." The girl just laughed, and she couldn't help but to smile. "I'm Marissa by the way."
"Nice to meet you Marissa." The girl said and smiled. "And I guess that it was your car that I passed by a while ago."
"Probably so." Marissa answered and she looked the girl over real quick, blonde and blue eyes, like any California girl that she had seen. "So what's your name?"
"Alex." The blonde said and she was about to climb back into her car. "So you did want a ride, right?" She asked as she leaned out the window.
"yeah." Marissa said and thanked whatever higher power that had sent Alex her way.
"So you better hurry up 'cause this doesn't stay put that much longer." Alex said and laughed, Marissa threw her backpack in the back of the jeep before she climb to the seat next to Alex. "So you are going to Newport…" Alex waited for Marissa to continue on with that sentence and maybe tell her why she was heading there. "I can't say that I have been there."
"Oh, not much to tell." Marissa said as she tried start up her phone again but she had no such luck with that. "I was born and bred there. I can say that I was happy to get away from there."
"So why are you going back then?" Alex asked as she gave Marissa a quick glance.
"My sister is graduating. So according to my mother I should be there." Marissa said but she didn't sound that ecstatic about that.
"you know even if you don't like your mother you should be there for your sister." Alex said, and she wanted to tell the girl next to her so much more but she wasn't sure if that would be the best idea. "But I can help you with your mother if you like."
"I take any advice about how to handle her that I can." Marissa said. "but I am not sure if you could help me with her, she is like any other Newport housewife."
"And that means almost an alcoholic and she has way too much money to spend and goes to spas and those kinds of things." Alex said and laughed, when she saw the look on Marissa's face.
"I thought you said you had never been to Newport." Marissa said and Alex couldn't help but to laugh at the girl.
"That is true but that doesn't mean I know about the housewives." Alex said as she changed the song on the stereo. "They are the same everywhere, and have you seen one you have seen all of them."
"Okay." Marissa said and looked at the blonde. "Let's say that I buy that, how would you tackle my mother."
"just agree with all what she is saying." Alex said, and she thought back to what she had done with her own mother. "Let's say that she wants to take you and your sister out to dinner after graduation." Alex looked at the brunette that was in the seat next to her.
"I know that she would do want to do that." Marissa said as she leaned her head back against the seat. "So how should I act about that."
"My guess is that she thinks that you want agree to that." Marissa just nodded as she heard what Alex was saying and at the same time trying to get the blonde to move one. "Just tell her that it's a delightfully idea and that you would love."
"I don't think that she will by that." Marissa said and looked at Alex like the blonde was crazy.
"Just try it and I will even give you my number when we get to Newport so that you can call me and tell me how it all went." Alex said.
And the car ride was silent for almost half an hour.
"So you know where I am going." Marissa said as she looked at Alex. "So now I want to know where you are going."
"I'm on my way to Mexico." Alex said and Marissa just looked at her waiting for the blonde to say something more. "You know to see some real rooster-fights."
"Please tell me that you are kidding." Marissa said, Alex was just laughing; she kind of liked trying to get a rise out of the girl next to her. Alex had tried earlier but Marissa hadn't gone for the bait but this time she had.
"Yeah, I'm kidding with you." Alex said. "I kind of need to go and pick up a friend at the border."
"What happened to the friend?" Marissa asked.
"I think she was the one that lost her car in those rooster-fights." Alex said and she could see that Marissa was about to say something. "Before you say something, she is crazy and the only reason I am picking her up is that she said she was paying and I kind of need the money."
"Okay, I am not going to judge you." Marissa said and smiled, she really liked this girl and they had just been talking for a couple of hours. "At least not out loud."
"Fine by me." Alex said and she saw that they passed by a sign that told them that they were in Santa Monica. She couldn't believe how fast the time had passed by. It felt like it had been a minute or so ago that she had picked Marissa up just outside of Gover Beach or at least around there. "So, it's about an hour left of this drive then you will be in Newport."
Marissa glanced on the clock and tried to remember when the graduation would start and it looked like she would be able to make it, with a couple of minutes to spare but she wouldn't have the time to change or take a shower.
"Thanks so much for all of this." Marissa said and looked at Alex. "I just have one question for you."
"Okay." Alex said looking at Marissa waiting for her to say something. "just ask away."
"You don't happen to have some wipes." Marissa said a bit guilty as she looked at the blonde.
"Look in the glove compartment, if I have any it would be there." Alex said as she turned left so that she was driving in the direction of Long Beach, that was how she was supposed to drive according to the GPS.
"I can't find any wipes but you have some other interesting things in here." Marissa said as she grabbed brown bag, Alex tried to remember what she could have in the bag and before she had a chance to say anything Marissa had opened it and was about to get whatever it was out of the bag. It was then the blonde remember that her friend had borrowed the car before the friend had gone to Mexico.
"please just put it back." Alex said and she didn't want to take her eyes of the road. "And before you say anything it doesn't belong to me."
"That is what they say." Marissa said and laughed, she had looked inside the bag before she had said anything and it was just an empty bottle of tequila that was in it.
"I would almost say nice reference but it was kind of wrong wording." Alex said and smiled. "And it is my friends I promise."
"I will believe you if you can explain that reference thing to me." Marissa said and smiled.
"You haven't seen Dr. Horrible's sing along blog." Alex said, she was shocked that Marissa hadn't seen that.
"The what?" Marissa asked, she had no idea what Alex was talking about.
"You should be lucky that it's not that far until we are in Newport." Alex said. "And I am going to be nice to you, and drop you of that school."
"Thank you so much." Marissa said. "And as soon as I have the chance I will watch this sing along thing."
"that is all that I am asking of you." Alex said and they had now passed the sign that was welcoming them to Newport. "And of course that you will call me when you have pissed of your mother with agreeing to what she is asking."
"That is somthign that I can agree on." Marissa said, and she could see the school, "you need to make a right the next chance you get."
"That I can do." Alex said and a couple of minutes later the two of them were on the parking lot at Harbor High, Marissa's old High School and them same school that her sister was graduating from.
Marissa jumped out of the car and she was about to run to the doors to the school so that she could get to the field where the graduation ceremony was going to be held, as always. She could hear Alex calling for her.
"You need my number if you are going to be calling me"
Carp, she was going to be late now, but she had no choice, she needed that number. "Sorry about that." Marissa said as she was at the jeep again.
Alex grabbed a marker from one of the compartments on the car door and wrote a number on the brunette's arm. "You call me when you have the chance."
"I will do that and when you are passing pass this little town from your trip back from the border you can stop by so that I can get a lift back."
"That might happen." Alex said and Marissa ran to the doors, she was going to make it to the ceremony and she was going to make an entrance. "It was nice having your company."
"I can say the same." Marissa yelled as she heard what Alex had yelled after her, and she turned around and waved.
Who knew that you could meet someone that nice when you hitchhiked so you would be able to make it to your sister's graduation that you in the first place hadn't wanted to attend. Marissa was sure that she was going to use the number that Alex had written on her arm, she looked down on the arm, so that she would be able to see the number and as she did a phone number wasn't the only thing that she could read.
Go on a date with me. And then it was the blonde's number and a big smiley face.
There is one more part written to this and I will post it if there is anyone intrested in reading that part.