"Shall I ring Ness and see what's going on with her and Smithy?" Stacey asked her mother from the back seat of Uncle Bryn's Citroen Picasso.
"If you want to, love," Gwen replied cheerily. Bryn was keeping his eyes firmly on the road and refused to listen to any music annoyingly for the rest of the family. Though, in a way, Stacey and Gavin were quite glad as it meant Isabelle was happy and content for the majority of the journey.
"Alright Stace, what's occurrin'?" Nessa spoke casually as she answered her friend's phone call.
"Hiya Ness, you on your way down the wedding?"
"OH, SMITHY! Hurry up, we're gonna be late for crying out loud!" she bellowed. "Sorry about that Stace, doing my head in he is. Look, I'm gonna' have to let you go, it's mayhem down here!" she stated firmly before hanging up.
Stacey looked at the phone with a confused expression.
"You alright babe?" Gavin asked her, looking deep into her dark blue eyes. You could tell they were one of those couples that couldn't stop loving each other.
"Yeah, doesn't look like they've left yet. Nessa's stressing which isn't like her,"
"Smithy probably forgot to set his alarm or something- he never learns,"
"I know," Stacey said looking out of the window at the numerous trees they were passing at rapid speed. "Uncle Bryn, are we gonna' stop at services or something on the way?"
He narrowed his eyebrows into a frown. "Really Stace? We have got a wedding to get to! And not just any wedding, Pam and Mick's. Family. So no I'm afraid we haven't been able to schedule any stops this time around,"
She sighed. Nobody liked it when Bryn went into one of his rants. "I know that, but it's a long drive down, isn't it! We should've booked a hotel to stay the night or something."
"I would've brought an omelette each for the trip, Stace. But they do your breath no favours." Gwen added.
It looked like this car journey was going to be one long waiting game. A very long one