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-miano53
Aqua's Birthday: the Road Trip
That Friday of November 16, Ven came home from school to see Terra packing up his things.
"Hey, Ven," he said, carrying a large bag of clothes.
"Terra, what are you doing?" Ven asked.
"I'm packing. What does it look like?" Terra said impatiently.
Ven looked around and saw Eraqus packing his things as well.
"Ventus, please pack your things. You've been procrastinating lately," Eraqus told him.
"Okay," Ven said in a huff and headed to his room.
Once there, he threw his book bag on the floor and said to himself, "For my five day Thanksgiving vacation, technically nine, I'm spending the time getting frostbite out in the cold."
Ven looked around and said to himself, "Oh well. That's better than being here all day."
Ven found his two suitcases Terra packed for him and went into his closet. He packed all of his winter gear, jackets and other clothes. After packing his toothbrush, pillow, chocobo plushie and other essentials, Ven headed to the back of his closet. There, he opened a small, hidden door that led to another room. There, he found his 150 jars of peanut butter. He threw about two weeks worth of peanut butter in his suitcase and smiled evilly.
'Yes, I shall now have my peanut butter. And no one's gonna stop me,' he thought, "Vanitas" coming out again.
On the day of the trip, Eraqus had rented out a large RV that sat up to 10 people for the family to use. Unbeknownst to him, some of Ven's friend had "invited" themselves to go on the trip. Zack, Yuffie, Lea and Isa had come over to the house with everything they needed packed.
Eraqus saw this and said, "What are you all doing here?"
"We heard that you guys were going on a trip," Yuffie said, putting her stuff in the back of the RV.
"What? This is a family outing, not a fairground attraction," Eraqus said to the four.
"Don't worry, Prof. P. We're not gonna do anything wrong," Zack told him, helping Yuffie with both of their things.
"Besides, you'll be busy with Aqua and Ven will have nothing to do. So, we have elected to watch over Ven and to make sure that he doesn't go berserk," Isa said, completely ignoring what Eraqus had said.
"And, since Aqua's Ven's sister, she's kinda our sister too. So, can we go?" Lea said.
"Yeah, we've asked our parents and everything!" Yuffie said, pleading with Eraqus.
"I need to speak to your parents before I let you all go," Eraqus said, getting a headache. So, Yuffie gave him her new cell phone and Eraqus called the teens' parents and guardians. Much to his surprise, each of them had allowed their children to go.
"So, can we go now?" Lea asked. Sighing, Eraqus said,
"Yes!" the teens cheered and went inside the house to find Ven.
After the eight were packed, situated in the RV and the house under lockdown, Terra, who was the first driver, pulled off and headed to Squall's house. When they arrived, Terra saw Squall standing outside, wearing his usual outfit and holding several suitcases.
"Squall!" Terra yelled.
Squall looked in the direction of the RV and headed towards it. Once he had entered and placed his things down, he saw the group of teens.
"Nope, I'm not going," he said and was about to leave when Aqua stopped him.
"Squall, c'mon, it's my birthday and I want you to celebrate it with me," Aqua told him.
Remembering a death threat Rinoa gave him earlier, he said, "Oh, alright. As long as I don't have to babysit, I'm fine."
"Hey, we're not babies!" Zack yelled.
After the little "misunderstanding", the RV took off towards Radiant Garden University. The group picked up Rinoa, who had at least seven suitcases filled with God-knows-what. When she was on board, the RV sped off towards the nearest interstate.
Since Twilight Town was about 15 hours away, the group made use of their time either eating, sleeping or staring out in the window. About three hours into the drive, Terra noticed something odd. Every five minutes, at least ten cars would pass them up. Since he was driving a RV, he could only go so fast. Terra, frustrated, thought, 'Next car that tries to pass me, I'm not gonna let them.'
Just in the nick of time, a small, white car with three people inside.
As the white car came up behind the RV, Terra began blocking any attempts at the smaller car in passing him up. Whenever the white car tried to go in another lane, Terra would move the RV into that lane. Whenever the car tried to speed up, Terra went faster.
While all this was happening, Isa knew something was wrong as the hairs on the back of his neck began to stand up. Noticing that he was pale, Ven asked, "What's wrong, Isa?"
Isa's reply was, "I feel a disturbance in the Force."
"The 'Force'?" Squall asked, seemingly interested.
Ven and the other teens knew exactly what Isa was talking about and Ven began screaming, "Terra, speed man! Speed!"
Terra, already going at speeds at 100 mph, began to slam his foot on the gas. Having fun blocking off the smaller, white car, Terra began to go a bit crazy.
"Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!" he laughed maniacally, scaring Squall and the others.
The white car began to honk its horn at the RV as the RV blocked its path. Terra didn't care and began to blow the horn on the RV, still laughing insanely.
"Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!" Terra laughed like a madman.
Squall, worried that Terra went crazy, asked, "Dude! What are you doing?"
"It's okay, Squall. Don't worry. I'm having fun," Terra said.
"Terra, you're gonna get us pulled over," Squall said to him.
The two began to arguing over the whole laughing like a maniac and speeding like crazy situations. Unbeknownst to the two vehicles, a patrol officer was creeping up on the two. Once the officer was close enough, he sounded his siren. Terra looked at the speedometer and noticed that he was going at least 125 mph. Screaming, he panicked and pulled the RV over on the shoulder. The car that was behind them went just as fast and was also pulled over.
Meanwhile…
In the white car, a certain lancing coach and his two friends, a rugby coach and a professor, began seething with hatred over the driver in the silver and white RV. The colleague in the front seat said to the driver, "Dilan, you could've slowed down. If you simply did that, we wouldn't be in this mess!"
"Shut it, Ice Boy!" Dilan, the coach of the Radiant Garden High School's lancing team. The colleague that he referred to as "Ice Boy" was none other than Prof. Even of Radiant Garden University.
"Dilan, dude, you could've tried slowin' down," the passenger in the backseat, Coach Jecht of Radiant Garden High School.
"Shut it, meathead!" Dilan roared at Jecht.
"Well, I hope that you have your paperwork in order," Prof. Even said to Coach Dilan.
"I said, 'Can it, Ice Boy'," Coach Dilan roared at him, fumbling through his wallet.
After he had found his driver's license and registration, the officer came to the window and did the usual.
Back in the Pellegrino's RV…
Terra was on the verge of tears. "Oh man, I gonna go to jail. I'm gonna go to jail," he said, nearly crying at the steering wheel.
Lea, just recovering from falling from Terra pulling the RV over too fast and sitting next to one of the left side windows, said to Terra, "What'cha you cryin' for? Terra, what're you cryin' for? You're not the one with bootleg DVDs in his suitcase, are you?"
Everyone turned to him in shock and Isa said, "You brought your bootlegs?"
Lea shrugged and said, "Squall told him to slow down, didn't he? But no, 'Earth Boy' knows everything."
"Oh, shoot! Everyone act normal. Ven, fart. Do something, man," Terra said panicking.
The officer came up to the driver's window and looked at Terra. Surprisingly enough, Terra was recognized by the officer.
"Hey, I know you. You're that quarterback from Radiant Garden High School that helped the team win 24-0 during your junior year," the officer said to him with a heavy country accent. Terra turned to the officer and did a goofy smile.
The officer, an alumnus of Radiant Garden High School, said to him, "Oh, I liked how you won that one game in two years against Traverse Town's team and how you shot down the field like a bullet! Whoo whee! That move was so smooth, I almost dang near pissed myself! It was just that good!"
As he said that, Terra thought, 'He recognizes me from my rugby days in high school. Maybe if we crack some jokes with him, he won't take the RV. I don't care in getting a ticket, but as long as he doesn't take the RV.'
"Sorry, son. I hate to do this to you, but since there were two cars involved, I need your license and registration," the officer said to him.
"Okay, here you go," Terra said and gave the officer his paperwork and license.
The officer took the info and headed back to his squad car to produce the tickets.
As he did that, Terra turned to the group and said, "Hey, he recognizes me from rugby. If we crack some jokes with him, maybe he'll let us go. I don't care if I get a ticket, as long as he doesn't take the RV."
Eraqus, still somewhat injured from Terra's quick stop, said, "This better work…"
"Don't worry, Dad. It'll work," Ven said in reassurance.
"But first things first. Zack, Yuffie, Ven, crack a smile. Be funny. Isa, hide any of Lea's stuff. Squall, stay cool. Aqua and Rinoa, help Isa. And Lea," Terra said.
"What?" Lea said.
"Shut the heck up!" Terra yelled, censoring himself.
The officer came back to the car and said to Terra, "Boy, what the heck were you thinking driving that fast?"
Before Terra could say anything, Lea said from the back, "Dude, he was testing the suspension on the RV. The RV's new, got it memorized?"
Terra shook his head and slammed his head onto the wheel, thinking, 'Man, this idiot's gonna get me arrested.'
He lifted his head and said to the officer, "I'm sorry. That's one of my little brother's best friends. He's just trying to get me in trouble. I'm really sorry."
The officer was satisfied with answer and headed back to his squad car to produce the tickets for the two drivers. As he walked back, Lea, as if possessed by stupidity, yelled out of one of the windows of the RV, saying, "Hey officer! Thank God you got a computer! Last week, Terra got stopped over in the castle district and that dude had a typewriter!"
The officer, hearing this, began laughing hard and nearly doubled over.
Terra noticed this and said, "Where's my 'Knights' soundtrack?"
Ven shuffled through the CD pouches, found the CD and handed it to Terra. Putting it in the player and turning it to the theme song to the show "Knights", Terra told the group to open up the windows as he turned to music up. The music flowed out of the RV and the officer heard it. As he was walking, he began walking to the beat of the song.
In the little white car…
After getting the ticket, Coach Dilan and his colleagues began hearing music coming from the RV. "Is that…the theme song to 'Knights'?" Prof. Even asked.
"Yep!" Coach Jecht yelled happily and began singing the lyrics to the song, albeit horribly.
"Bad boys, bad boys, what'cha gonna do? What'cha gonna do when they come for you? Bad boys, bad boys, what'cha gonna do…!" Coach Jecht began singing loudly.
"All my respect points for you just went down the drain, Jecht," Dilan said.
"So? This is my song!" Jecht yelled and continued singing.
As he did that, Dilan drove off, mumbling a series of curses under his breath.
Back In the RV…
Terra and the others, excluding Squall, Isa and Eraqus, began singing and dancing to the lyrics to "Knights".
"Bad boys, bad boys, what'cha gonna do? What'cha gonna do when they come for you? Bad boys, bad boys, what'cha gonna do…!" the group sung loudly, with most of them singing off-key.
"The Knights don't give me no break…" Zack sung loudly and the officer was in the middle of the highway, laughing extremely hard.
Sadly, the group of singing young adults euphoria was halted when the officer came to the window and screamed, "Shut it off!"
"Aah!" Terra screamed and shut off the music.
The officer handed Terra back his info and said to him, still laughing at bit, "Mister Terra Michael Pellegrino, I need to tell you something. This, so far, has been one of the funniest dang traffic stops I've ever had in my 15 years of knighthood. Do you know how hard it is to give two meatheads and a nerd a ticket while listening to 'Knights'?"
Ven and the others began laughing when the officer yelled, "Quiet!"
The officer looked at Terra and said, "Just do me this one favor. Just keep doing what you doing and keep this 'tank' under 100. Could you do that for me?"
Terra nodded and the officer said, "Alright, now you all just have a nice day."
Terra, shocked, asked, "What? No ticket?"
"No ticket," the officer said, breathless.
No one knows, not even Terra himself, what possessed him to ask this one question.
"Why?" Terra asked in a goofy voice.
'Why? Is he stupid or what?' Squall and the others thought.
"How come the other car got a ticket?" Terra asked, pissing off the others.
"Like I said before, this was one of the funniest traffic stops I've ever had in my 15 years being on the force. Most officers and knights don't get a laugh after seeing all the things we've been through. So, you all made my day," the officer said, making the whole group proud.
As the officer began to walk away, no one knows why Lea asked this one question. "So, does that mean I can keep my bootlegs?" Lea asked.
Terra and the others were about to yell at him, but it was too late. The officer was back at the window and said, "You wanna run that by me again?"
"You heard what I said," Lea said, being defiant.
"Oh, you think this is funny? You think that just 'cause your friend here didn't get a ticket, you could get away with stuff," the officer said.
"I don't know you. I don't like you. Step out of the car, son," the officer said.
"Uh oh. Oh no," the group said.
Lea, still defiant, said, "Ooh, I'm so scared."
The officer pulled out his gun and everyone muttered things like, "OMG, Lea's about to get arrested! Welp, he's going to jail. Oh no…"
"Ooh! Ooh, he's good, guys! He is good! He's really tryin' to get me to cry," Lea said.
The officer then pointed the gun at Lea. Lea's face immediately went pale.
"Step out of the car," the officer said.
Lea slowly got up and headed outside. When he was next to the officer, he burst into tears, saying, "Oh my god! I'm gonna go to jail? I'm gonna go to jail?"
The officer put away his gun and said, "Nah! But that was funny, huh?"
The group in the RV was dying of laughter. Squall was even laughing extremely hard. Lea got back into the car and the officer left. When he was gone, the group then headed back on the road, Lea not speaking to anyone.
Well, that was a close one for Lea, wasn't it? Alright, for all you guys who aren't reviewing, I NEED those reviews or else I'll get a writer's cramp. Writer's cramps are bad. Do you here me? B-A-D! Okay, now since that was said, read and REVIEW, please.
-miano53