Okay well here's chapter 2.
Drake walked around in front of the car in an almost nervous manner making sure to do as Josh had said and kept his arm straight.
"How much time till the wedding starts?"
"Less than fifthteen minutes," Josh replied after looking at his watch, "There's no way we're going to make it now." Josh finished with a shake of his head.
"Well look even if we're late maybe if we get the cake to the reception on time Aunt Catherine won't be too mad." Drake suggested.
"Yeah or maybe she'll be furious and we'll never get that beach house." Josh said with a hint of annoyance in his voice. The whole family wanted the beach house.
"Man it's getting cold out here." Drake said changing the subject. He was surprised that Josh wasn't cold as well. After all Josh wasn't cold at all but he had no jacket on. Drake was cold and he was wearing a jacket.
"Hold on," Josh said giving Drake a light tap on the back, "I think I saw an old blanket in the back of the car." Josh said before climbing in to the back being careful not to hit the wedding cake.
Silence came over the two as Josh looked around the back of the car while Drake pulled his jacket up around his neck as best as he could manage with one good arm.
"Hey," Josh paused and looked in Drake's direction, "Hey guess what I found."
"Fried chicken?" Drake half asked, half guessed hoping that Josh had found some thing that would actually warm him up.
"No," Josh looked at Drake for a moment before putting his hand on the handle of the red box and lifted it up so that Drake could see it, "but I did find a tool box."
"So what are we going to do with tools?" Drake asked. Josh knew Drake could be a little stupid, but when Drake was cold he was even more stupid than he normally was.
"We can use them to get us in to the car that you locked us out of."
"Okay just open the box." Drake said feeling another argument rising between them if that conversation continued down the path that it was taking.
"Any thing good?" Drake asked his brother who was bent down on the ground looking through the tool box.
"Yeah, yeah an emergency kit."
"See and you always say Trevor's an idiot," Drake said receiving a small smile from Josh and returning it with one of his own, "Alright open it up and see what's inside."
"A quarter, a can of salmon. Open. An ice tray and half a shoe," Josh said holding up each item as he said what it was, "Well so much for our emergency supplies."
"Dude a hanger." Drake said as he picked up the item.
"How's a hanger going to help us?" Josh said as Drake took the hanger apart and made it straight.
"We use it to unlock the car." Drake said.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah right."
"See you just put it in over the window like this." Drake told Josh as he worked on the door with the hanger.
"I can't believe you know how to do this." Josh said surprised that Drake knew how to unlock a car with a hanger, but didn't know much of the things that they taught you in school.
"How do you think I got the squirrels in Mrs Hayfer's car."
"Ah." Josh said as he realised how Drake had done that now.
"Okay almost there."
"Come on, come on your so close," Josh mumbled as he looked over Drake's shoulder, "Just a little to the left, a little to the left."
"Okay, right I think I have it on the lock."
"Okay now what?" Josh asked as Drake thought he had the hanger in the right place to unlock the car.
"Now I just have to pull it back like this-" Drake stopped speaking as he pulled the hanger back accidently hitting Josh in the eye with the hanger and face with his fist.
"Josh." Drake shouted as he turned to his brother dropping the hanger.
"Thank you for puncturing my pupil." Josh said as he covered his left eye with his hand.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry," Drake said before noticing headlights he pointed ahead before speaking to his brother again, "Look, look another car's coming see."
"Uh yeah I can see it with my eye that's not bleeding." Josh replied following the direction that Drake was pointing in.
"Look let me see," Drake said as he turned his brother round to face him, "It's not bleeding. How's it feel?"
"Oh ur it feels a little like this." Josh said as he flicked Drake's eye.
"Ow," Drake said as he covered his eye with his left hand, "You thumped my eye."
"Yeah no charge." Josh said his annoyance was really pushing through in his tone now.
"Dude, dude it's a tow truck." Drake said attempting to point with his bad arm as his other hand was covering his eye.
"Finally some thing good happens." Josh replied as his annoyance disappeared being replaced instead by happiness and slight relief that they might finally get some where tonight.
The truck pulled closer to the pair as they walked towards the end of the car Josh attempting to kick the tool kit they had found earlier out of the way of the road as the two of them no longer needed the tools.
"Hey, hey, hey, hello, hey, hey, we need help please stop!" Josh shouted out as loud as he could while the two of them waved their hands in the air.
The tow truck slowed slightly as Drake started to walk towards the front of the car. Josh placed a hand on his step brothers shoulder to stop Drake from walking away any further.
"Yes, yes, yes he's gonna stop."
The tow truck stopped and the red door opened. A man stepped out of the truck and started to walk towards the pair.
"Hey there." The guy said as he jumped out of his truck and came over to stand next to Drake.
"Hi." Drake said.
"Hey." Josh replied.
"Hello." The guy said covering his eye like Drake and Josh were doing not realising what had happened before he had arrived at the scene.
"No, no, no see our eyes-" Josh stopped speaking as Drake started to talk.
"Yeah we ur," Drake paused before he and Josh removed the hands covering their eyes.
"It doesn't matter." Josh finished the sentence that they had made.
"We are just really glad to see you."
"Yeah look's like you boys could use a tow," He said with a smile, "Lucky for you I've got ten of them." He started to laugh as he tapped the toes on his right foot.
Drake and Josh stood looking at him with slightly shocked, slightly dumb founded expressions on their faces not quite getting the point to what this guy was saying to them.
"It's just a joke we tow truck drivers say." He explained.
Josh laughed fakely for a second as the pair wiped the expressions off of their faces as best as they could although that was quite hard to do as this guy was very stupid by the looks and sounds of things.
"Any way um could you tow us to the nearest garage?" Josh asked.
"Forget the garage could you tow us to the first Prespriterian Church on Shady Grove Road?" Drake asked just trying to get the them to the wedding as quickly as they could as well as trying not to let the opportunity of getting a tow slip by them.
"Yeah we're really late for a wedding." Josh explained to him.
"Oh a wedding huh," The guy paused for a second looking at the two, "So uh which one of you is gonna to be the bride and which one's the groom." He finished before bursting in to laughter again Drake sighed a looked away in Josh's direction. This was turning in to a nightmare.
"Could you please just tow us?" Josh half asked and half begged. His voice sounded desperate as he was aware that they were losing their options of what else to do.
"Sure, sure," He said as he pulled on a pair of yellow gloves, "I just need to see your car registration."
Drake and Josh sighed together as they realised that the registration was still in side of the car.
"It's probably in the glove compartment." Josh said as he pointed to the car.
"And we kind of locked the keys in the car."
"We." Josh said making a gesture to indicate that the sentence his brother had said had nothing to do with him.
"Can you just open our door." Drake said he was now getting annoyed with the guy.
"Yeah, yeah shouldn't be any problem at all," He said as he walked back towards his tow truck and picking up a metal object that Josh recognised as a jemmi. Some thing that they used to get in to cars by doing some thing to the lock. "This ought to do the trick."
The guy swung the item at the window breaking the glass of the drivers side front window on the car not realising that when Drake had asked him to open the door he meant for him to actually open the door and not break the glass on the window.
"Well we could have done that!" Drake exclaimed as the broken glass shattered every where in side of the car with a few odd shards landing on the out side or on him or Josh.
"Well why didn't ya." The guy said as he laughed before walking back to his tow truck. Drake went to follow him with anger now running through his veins.
"Okay man look we have had so much-" Drake was stopped as Josh pulled him back and to the side of the car in to the middle of the empty road knowing full well that his brother was angry and Drake had good reason, but the tow truck guy didn't know that the car wasn't theirs.
"Look we'll get the window fixed later right the important thing is that that guy will tow us to the wedding."
"Right okay." Drake replied now calmer than he had been a moment ago.
"I'll get the registration." Josh told the guy as he and Drake turned back around to face him and Josh pulled the now window less drivers car door open while Drake stood by the bonnet of the car with the very smiley tow truck driver.
"Leslie's towing company." Drake read off of the back of the tow truck.
"Yeah been in the towing business for twenty three years." He replied to Drake's question.
"So ur who's Leslie, your wife?" Drake asked.
"No Leslie's my name." He said before Drake started to burst in to light laughter enjoying the small moment of laughter. Josh however didn't like the sound of the conversation as he picked up the drivers licences and shut the car door before heading back over to stand with the two.
"Some thing funny about that?" Leslie asked Drake who was still laughing slightly as he spoke.
"Well yeah, Leslie's a girls name." Drake replied his laughter had now seized.
"Oh is that what you think!" Leslie replied anger obvious in his tone.
"What my brother meant to say was we don't think that Leslie's a girls name we think it's a guy's name dude. A man's name. A very mans name." Josh said adding gestures to try to prove his point just to keep on this guys good side.
"No it's not Leslie's totally a-" Drake was interrupted by Josh putting a hand in front of his face.
"Silence." Josh said trying to get Drake to drop the subject and shut up as Josh could already see which road this conversation was headed to go down and it was not a good road for it to head down as it would probably only bring up trouble between Drake and this Leslie guy which Josh would have to try to resolve with more of his unconvincing lies.
"Listen boy," Leslie said seriously, anger following through his voice as Drake and Josh turned to stand side ways to look at him propably, "I was named after my father. He was named after his father and they both fought in wars."
"Okay all I'm saying is I've like five Leslie's," Drake told him, "all girls." He added at the end to further prove his point that Leslie was a girls name and not at all a guys name.
"Okay you know I'll tell you what you can rot in a sack for all I care." He said as he started to walk away towards his truck and jump in the drivers side of the truck
"No, no, no, no, no please wait please don't leave." Josh begged as he ran after Leslie for a bit before getting down on to his knees in a begging like form.
"Rot in a sack." Leslie shouted back as he started the engine and drove off.
"You had to make fun of the man's name." Josh said his hint of annoyance back on his voice as he spoke to his brother.
"I'm sorry Josh, but I couldn't help it." Drake said to his brother as he walked from the front of the car towards the back of the car minding the glass that covered the floor before walking back up to the front of the car. Josh sighed as Drake turned around to walk back and grabbed his brother carefully, minding his injured arm, pulling him over towards him to stop Drake pacing back and forth as it was annoying. It also told Josh that Drake was worried about some thing or that there was some thing on his mind that was making him nervous.
"What's up Drake?" Josh asked his brother who was still pulling his jacket around him to keep him as warm as he possibly could be.
"It's just Trevor let us borrow his car as long as it's back exactly as it was when he lent it to us and I don't think the car looks exactly as is was when Trevor lent it to us about an hour ago." Drake replied. He could always tell Josh every thing and even if he got angry Josh usually didn't care. It was moment's like this that Drake thought about things he liked about Josh. However when Josh was insulting him, Drake thought of him like all the other people who had ever insulted in or been mean to him in the past.
"Look Drake don't worry we'll fix the window and the car some how and we'll get it back to Trevor exactly as it was when he lent it to us alright just don't worry about it. Instead just try and think of a way for us to get to Aunt Catherine's wedding." Josh said trying to get Drake not to worry to much about the car. Which is Josh was honest didn't know whether it was actually able of being repaired in the state it was in and considering the amount of miles that it had already done before he and Drake had borrowed it, but Josh tried not to let that show as Drake needed to be reassured that the car would be returned to Trevor in perfect condition. Well as perfect as that car could get.
"Your right Josh," Drake paused at looked down at the ground and Josh's shoes, "Josh how's your foot now since earlier I, well dropped a big rock on it?" Drake asked his brother. Josh was being so kind and reassuring to him at the moment he felt that he at least had to ask Josh how he was. After all Josh had asked him earlier when those guys injured his arm.
"Well it's not okay, it could be broken, but we can look at that later after we get to Aunt Catherine's wedding and return this car to Trevor. Oh and get your arm looked at."
"So we can get your foot looked at at the same time." Drake replied with a slight smile.
"Well yeah," Josh said smiling back, "You know we could always beg Aunt Catherine to give us her beach house."
"I doubt that that would work."
"You know what she should try to make work?" Josh asked.
"What?" Drake asked.
"Trevor's car."
Drake nodded after all they need some way to get there and if they could get the car to work they might just make the reception. But what they really needed was some one to give them a lift to the church.
Sorry for the long wait hope you liked this chapter.
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All of my others stories will be updated this week either Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday at the latest and then I'll update them again on Friday or Saturday.
