Here's to the Night
"Meep meeeeeeeep!!" Jo stuck her head out the small tour bus' window. The rain splashed against her rosy cheeks, "Full steam ahead Phea!"
"Willow Carrie Marie!!" Phea practically shouted at Jo, "I'm trying to drive, I'm not going fast in this weather, and it's a BUS for cryin' out loud! Why am I the one driving a BUS in the first place?!"
"Look...I get it's a bus and I get you're not the best driver this side of the Atlantic...or that side of the Atlantic as a matter of fact..." Jo pulled her head in the bus, "But lighten up...jeez...and I told you, if your gonna 'scold me'--"
"Use your full name I know, I know. But I get so tired of saying the whole thing...wait does Geene come before Alexia or after."
"After, my good friend. And that's why I shortened it all up...to Jo." She dropped down onto the couch and propped her feet onto the little fixed table in the middle of the bus' 'living room'. She grabbed a hand full of popcorn from the bowl next to her and shoved it in her mouth
"Uuugh...how can you even eat that?" Jinx watched Jo with a disgusted look
"Stale popcorn has more flavor...you're not feelin' road sick again are ya Jinx?"
"Yes...I am..."
"Did you pop pills?" Phea asked, not taking her eyes off the road
"Yes...they should be kicking in any minute..." Jinx leaned over her worn blue and white Gibson SG (The special one she had gotten for her 17 birthday, signed by some...one shot loser who's band never made it, but it didn't matter. She loved it anyway, the guitar too) and groaned, "Why does everything feel gross?"
"Cuz we haven't bathed in five days." Jo said happily, wiggling her toes in her flip-flops
"Ewwww, don't remind me." Jinx made a sick face and shuddered, "Why haven't we bathed in so long?"
"We've been driving straight through, and the bus' shower doesn't work for some reason." Phea answered her, clutching at the wheel like a drowning person clutching at a life raft
"Bleh, I wish I could get a shower..."
"Careful what you wish for Jinx." Jo teased playfully, "You may just get what you want." Not a few minutes after the words left her mouth...
"H-hey guys...I think something's wrong with the bus..."
-"-
"You're kidding right?!" Jinx glared out the window of the now dark bus, she had wrapped her trench around her shoulders, "Of all the places this stupid thing had to break down, it chose here...IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE!! And now we have nothing no light, no heat...we're gonna die! And there's no reception, we can't call anyone to save us!" Jinx continued ranting, as Phea paced the bus chewing her nails down rapidly, and Jo looked out the windshield. She stared into the near distance, at a large dark mass rising from the ground, a hill, and there almost was the illusion of light atop it
"G-guys...I think something's over there..." she said, unheard over Jinx's loud complaining rant. Jo shook her head, turned on her heel and walked over to Jinx. She grabbed the other girl's shoulders and shook her a time or two, "Shut, up, a, second. There are lights on that hill over there. Maybe there's a house, with a phone, and perhaps a shower." She couldn't help adding that little joke, to...lighten the mood
"Really?" Jinx looked out the windshield, "Man! You're right there is! We're saved, hurry guys, grab your stuff, we're getting out of this miserable place!"
-"-
"To an even more miserable place" Phea grumbled, clutching her keyboard to her chest, "Guys! This hill is further away than planned!"
"I'm sorry." Jo looked at the muddy ground, "I thought it was closer than this..." she adjusted the strap of her guitar case
"It's okay...well be there soon..." Jinx smiled over at Jo, she hated to see her sunny friend's spirit dampened
"I hope so..." the three walked in silence for a bit, until they arrived in front of a large iron gate. Jinx looked up at it and read the lettering
"Kong? What is this, the English dwelling place of DK?" she scoffed
"T-this is kinda creepy..." Phea huddled behind Jo, "Maybe we should...go..."
"Go where Phea, back to the broken down bus?" Jinx walked up to the gates, "There's a definite building, and I'm gonna see who lives there. Are you two coming or not?" she grabbed one of the gates and looked back at her band mates. Jo nodded and walked forward, until she was next to Jinx, they both looked at Phea
"Fine." Phea rushed forward to her friends
"Alrighty then..." Jinx pushed and the gates swung open, revealing the barren land in front of them "Oh look...a cemetery, that adds to the amazing charm of this place. Come on let's go." Jinx began her trek to the hill, she didn't seem to be fazed by the head stones, unlike Phea who clung to Jo like a small child, she suddenly screamed and pointed to a dead tree
"D-did you see that?!"
"See what?" Jo looked at where she was pointing
"It looked like a zombie gorilla!!" Jinx made her way back to the stationary two
"What are you guys doing?!"
"Phea saw a zombie gorilla over there." Jo said, still looking
"You're kidding right?" Jinx looked over at Phea
"I could swear I saw it! It was lumbering and..."
"It was the tree dolt! You saw it out of the corner of your eye, now let's go, I'm freezing!"
-"-
"My god that hill was exhausting." Jo said, dropping her guitar case next to the door of the building. She looked over at the other girls and laughed, all three of them were covered in mud from the waist down, well except for Jinx, who was coated in mud. She had slipped on the way up and fallen face first
"Exhausting is an understatement...I just want a stupid shower!! And all this has to happen...this can't get any worse..."
"Careful what you--"
"Jo! Shut up and just ring the bell or knock or whatever!"
"I can't"
"What?" Jinx glared at Jo, she almost looked like a demonic mud beast. Jo just shrugged and pointed to the large sign on the door, the red lettering was running but it could still be read
NO ADMITTANCE, THAT MEANS YOU
"You're gonna listen to that sign? We have an issue." Jinx walked up to the door and slammed on the metal, no response. She slammed on it again, the small screen next to the door lit up, it was dark what they could see, but there was a silhouette
"Can you bloody nobs not read er sompthin'? No admittance means no one gets in! Now sod off...bloody fans." The screen died again
"We're not fans!! We just need a place to stay!" Jinx pounded both her fists against the metal. Phea and Jo looked at each other
"We're doomed." They both said
-"-
"At least the rain slowed down..." Jo said, as she held her jacket up. The three girls had made a makeshift covering out of their jackets and were dry for the most part
"I can't stand this!" Jinx stood leaving her trench coat lying on the ground. She stood in front of the door, stood steady, got her fists ready and then...she began to pound on the door rapidly, screaming at the top of her lungs, "THE CAKE IS A LIE, THE CAKE IS A LIE!!" it startled the other two. Phea jumped up
"Um Jinx? Why are you screaming that?" Jinx stopped and looked over her shoulder at Phea
"Because...if I were at my house, and in the middle of the night I heard pounding on my door and someone screaming 'the cake is a lie' I'd go see what the hell was happening."
"Good point..." Phea walked back to Jo who had stood up too
"Well?"
"It's official...she's lost it."
-"-
The sky, while still cloudy was clear in some places and the gold from the rising sun shone through. Phea and Jinx had fallen asleep and were snuggled up against the wall, while Jo stood in front of the door, just in case someone, by any chance, opened it. She ran a hand through her spiky blue hair, which had amazingly stayed that way through the rain "Wow...what a sky..." she mumbled, then fell silent, she swore that she heard the door open.
"2D-san?" a sleepy voice asked, "What are you doing outside? It's cold out, come in." before Jo could see who was talking she felt someone grab the back of her shirt and start pulling her inside
Well she thought This is one way to get in
Moments after Jo had been drug in, Phea opened her eyes slowly, she looked around "Jo? Jo, where are you?" she stood and looked around, then knelt next to Jinx, "Jinx, Jinx wake up! Jo is gone!"