"Good move slick." Emma teases Henry as she plugs in the GPS on her phone. In 1000 feet turn left onto Merry way. "Ok GPS lady to Boston we go!" Emma exclaimed as she kicked Bug into gear and took off with her son.
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It's around 8:30 and Emma is behind the wheel of Bug, and she is chugging along listening to her roadtrip mixtape. "That girl is pooooissssoooon." Emma laughs and bobs her head along. "That is the best line of the song." She looks over at a sleeping Henry. She nudges him awake and asks him about food and bathroom. "Hey kid, you gotta pee? Want some food or something?"
Henry is lost in his dreams of knights, dragons, princesses and nobles. His dream is just getting to the best part when he is brought back to the world of waking up. "Mnrson", he mumbles and Emma nudges him again. All of the sudden he jumps and his eyes fly open. "Huh? What? You ok Ma? What happened?"
Emma manages to narrowly miss her son's wild swinging of the arm in his sleepy attempt to 'protect' her. "Ok, you need to chill. Food? Bathroom?" She says as she giggles and pulls into a rest area and finds a parking space. "C'mon let's go stretch. We still got a ways to go." Emma exits the car and closes the door as she stretches her arms and legs. As she heads to the bathroom, she thinks about her wife and what she must be doing right about now.
Meanwhile, in her office Regina, is signing off on what seems to be endless forms of citizens who have no clue how to do anything. "My God these people would not survive without me." She puts her pen down and picks up her phone to fire off a text message to her son. "Henry, how are things on the road with your mother?" Regina presses send and takes a sip of her coffee. Right as she decides to delve back into her work, her phone dings with a new message. Regina picks up the phone and opens the message. It is a picture of them at a rest area and Emma has a candybar hanging out of her mouth. Henry has his hat on backwards and appears to be drinking water. The message attached to the picture reads, "All is well Mom. Still alive. We love and miss you." Feeling satisfied, she types back, "For God's sake, tell your mother to eat a healthy breakfast. I love and miss you two as well." Pressing send, she dives back into her work.
While they are walking back to the car, Henry decides to snap a selfie for Instaphoto and Facepage. "Hey Ma, smile!" He shouts as he catches her off guard. He captions the picture, "On the road with Ma and Bug." As the two of them climb back into Bug, Emma suggests some music and hits play on her mixtape. "Oh no no no." says Henry, "if we are gonna listen music, we do this my way." He pulls out his iPod and tape adapter. "I got some great tunes and these will def make the trip more fun." He scrolls through his playlists and clicks on his "Trip Tunes" list. As soon as he hits play, bass comes pouring through the speakers and he starts bobbing his head. Sliding his shades on, he sits back and watches the scenery go by.
Emma is stunned, did her son just hijack the radio and play a capella. "Wait a minute, since when do you like Pentatonix?" She can't believe it. Her son, Mr. Cool, like an a capella group.
Henry looks at her with a face so similar to Regina, it scares her some. "You know PTX?" he sits up and slides his shades off. "Ok, name two songs. From their latest album." He challenges her.
Emma fires back without missing a beat (hehe get it). "Jolene ft. DollyParton, Bohemian Rhapsody, and Take Me On." She looks super smug and looks back at her son who managed to not drop his jaw too hard. "Hey I have all of their albums plus a tshirt from tour. Don't play with me. I am a total Pentaholic."
Henry is almost buzzing he is so excited. "But Mitch's falsetto and vibrato, though, right?"
Emma joins in with, "And Scott's scruff. But we can both agree on one thing," she looks at Henry.
At the same time they echo each other. "Kirstin is hot!" They both laugh and continue to listen to music as they roll down the highway.
At around 10:15 or so, after all of the music has been played, and sang along too, Emma looks at Henry, who is playing some random game on his phone. "Hey kid, you like anyone?" She knows this is out of the blue but she just processed his comment about Mitch. "Any special girls, or anyone?" She didn't wanna out right say guys but she was curious.
Henry looks up and with the smoothness of a politician's son, he says, "I got some prospects, but as it unfolds, I will let you know." He smiles as he sees the satisfaction on her face. Being Regina's son, he has to add a bit of spice, "Oh and Ma?" He says innocently, "You may wanna tell Mom to not scream so loud. I mean, my headphones are good but let's be real. They ain't that good." He chuckles as he sees Emma's face blanch.
Emma's face goes so pale, she could put Casper to shame. She noticed that he didn't say guys or girls so she left it at that. "Ok, sounds good to me." Emma looks at her GPS, "Just under 2 hours, kid."
Man was she excited, soon she is gonna have a Ducati and riding leathers. Her wife may kill her, but she will look hella good being killed.
