I found myself sat in a car between Dalton and Nick again but this time we were in Blake's car which was so much roomier and no injured legs from the number of times Dalton had kicked me in Wade's car.
The heat from outside was radiating through the car making me a little irritated, that and the face we were stuck in traffic that looked never-ending I considered getting out of the car and walking.
"Dude, it's over," Nick told Blake from his seat next to me as he leaned his head out of the window "It'll move" Blake replied with hope in his voice but we'll need a little more than Blake's hope to get us to the game in time.
"It's not moving" Paige moaned after a few minutes of us still not moving "We'll make the second half" Blake sighed trying to convince us to wait for a game that none of us cared about except Blake.
"I'm not sitting in this," I told him sitting forward in my chair glaring at the front window "What do you want me to do?" Blake sighed frustrated as we all started to shout at each other.
"I'm not missing this game," Blake told us with finality but we continued to shout at him "Turn the car around, okay?" Nick argued over us as Blake dropped his head onto the steering wheel setting off the horn.
After 10 minutes of pure stubbornness, Blake finally turned the car around and headed back to the camp "Thank god" I muttered leaning into Nick who nodded at me.
"Hey Paige you'd better call Carly and tell her that we're coming back" I instructed the blonde who looked back at me with a raised eyebrow "Why can't you do it" she questioned as I made myself comfy.
"Because I don't want to and I told you to do it" I sarcastically smiled widely knowing she knew I wasn't really being mean "Okay, bitch" she said rolling her eyes whilst pulling out her cell phone to call Carly.
"Thanks, jerk" I replied with a shit-eating grin feeling Nick starting to rub little circles on my waist as Paige talked to Carly where they agreed on us camping out again.
Paige put away her cell and turned to Blake "they haven't got the fan belt thing but they said to just head up the road that we got off at for the campsite but it's washed out at the end so they'll meet us there".
"Wait so they don't even have the stupid fan belt yet?" I asked her frustrated blowing my hair out my face "No, but hopefully they'll have it by the time we get there don't worry" Paige said back to me a little frustrated herself but looked at me for a minute before saying "just calm down".
I presume that it was supposed to comfort me in some way seeing as she didn't say it in a patronizing tone I guess she had noticed all the times Carly had tried to calm me down when I get angry.
I just hummed and put my head back against Nick's shoulder, my legs on Dalton's lap and closed my eyes hoping that if I fall asleep we'll be there when I wake up.
"You're seriously going to sleep on us?" I heard Dalton's ask but my eyes felt too heavy to reopen so I just opted for a gentle kick "Shut up Dalton".
Wade and I finally made it to the garage in Ambrose which I didn't think actually existed when that creepy guy started to get, well, creepy on us.
So now I kinda feel guilty for being suspicious of him when he was just trying to help us, I guess hearing Ashley's warnings put me in a weird mind frame, she was usually freaky accurate about that kind of thing.
"Hello?" Wade shouted through the garage shutter door as I looked through the front door window but it was empty inside "Hello?" I called opening the door.
I glanced at Wade who was still looking through the windows on the shutter door "You see anybody?" I questioned but he shook his head "No, nobody" I felt my phone vibrate and ring in my pocket and pulled it out to see Paige's name on the caller i.d.
"Hello?" I answered walking away from the door "Hey, it's me. We're heading back" Paige's voice greeted me as I frowned "Really? Why? What happened?".
Paige sighed and I could hear beeping in the background "Traffic. Did you get that fan belt thing or whatever?" Paige questioned reminding me to look around for someone "No. There's no one at the gas station. I don't know where we're going right now".
"So where do you want us to pick you up?" I stood and put my hands on my hips looking back towards the washed out road "Just head up the road that we got off at for the campsite, it's washed out at the end. Call us when you get there" I dictated running a hand through my hair.
"We'll camp in the same place as yesterday, but away from that pet cemetery" Paige laughed as I grimaced remembering the feeling of entrails squelching between my fingers "Cool. See you then".
"Hey, there's that house of wax," Wade said pointing out the creepy looking building as he walked up behind me "Wade, what about the fan belt," I asked him trying to divert his attention.
Wade stopped in front of me and shrugged "well there's no one at the station" I looked around again spotting a church to my left "Why don't we ask someone in the church?".
"All right. All Right" Wade gave in as we walked to the church that also seemed old looking like the wax house, pushing open the doors we both stopped at we saw in front of us.
There was a service going on and we had just walked right in the middle of it, the man kneeling next to the coffin turned to look at us as did the priest who gave us a look of scrutiny for interrupting.
"Oh! Um, we should go" I whispered to Wade who just replied with a quiet yeah as we backed out of the church quietly feeling equally as bad for what we had just walked in on.
"What should we do, just wait out here?" I asked him feeling a little uncomfortable about our current situation "I don't know. I feel kind of messed up waiting outside a church waiting for a funeral to end." Wade commented kicking a few of the stones with a shrug.
I heard the church doors open behind me and turned to see that guy who was kneeling come out of it with a kind of sad look on his face pulling out a pack of cigarettes "Hey, sorry about walking in. we didn't know…"
"You shouldn't have walked in," the guy said cutting wade off mid-sentence and started to smoke looking pissed "Yeah, I know. It's just that we have car trouble. We're not from this town" Wade told the guy trying to apologize.
Seeing Wade getting nowhere with this guy I pitched in "we're actually looking for a guy named Bo, he works at the gas station" I asked gently trying to antagonize the obviously grieving man.
"You found him" Bo informed us shortly as Wade gave me a look of happiness and surprise before turning back to Bo who did not share the same joy as my boyfriend.
"Really? Well um, we need a fan belt" Wade told him awkwardly clearing his throat and pointing back in the direction of the camp "We were camping up the road…".
Bo laughed in disbelief through the middle of Wade's talking causing me to wince knowing if he wasn't pissed off at us before he probably was by now.
"A fan belt? You walk in on a funeral for a fucking fan belt?" Bo spluttered looking like he couldn't believe the audacity of us interrupting his loved one's funeral.
Wade and I just stood planted to the ground looking anywhere but Bo's face "Well, let me just go dump the casket in the ground. I'll be right there" he hissed as he threw his cigarette on the ground.
"Look we're sorry" I tried to apologize as Bo started to walk past me but he just looked at me indifferently "yeah" he muttered in a disbelieving voice and carried on into the church.
"That's twice today. I'm an asshole" Wade groaned following me down the path as I passed him "Let's just go back to the road" he sighed sounding put out.
"Hey" I heard a voice call out to us from behind, we turned to see Bo walking to us "Hey, I'm sorry. You know, someone very special to me just passed. And I didn't mean to take it out on you" he apologized looking mournful.
"No, no, no. it's totally understandable." I replied to him with a sympathetic smile as he nodded with a grateful expression, it must be horrible to lose someone so close to you, is this ever how Ashley felt loosing all of her family in one swoop?.
"I reckon things will wrap up soon. Why don't I meet you guys back at the station in about a half?" Bo asked looking down at me as I nodded quickly "That would be great if that's okay?" I accepted politely him not wanting to put him out after the walking in on the funeral thing.
Bo looked at me softly as he nodded "yeah" he agreed quietly before walking off back to the church looking less pissed off than the last time, I turned to Wade with a triumphant smile "Great".