KawaiiGameFreak:Yeah! It's almost Christmas! Gotta by gifts, get a tree, all that stuff. After this chapter it might take longer to update because there's a good chance of me getting a Wii and a few games. Hopefully I'll quit being lazy and finish the fic by June. Enjoy!
"1 BOTTLE OF BEER ON THE WALL, 1 BOTTLE OF BEER; YOU TAKE ONE DOWN…""Finally!""…AND GET A NEW SHIPMENT…100 BOTTLES OF BEER ON THE WALL! 100 BOTTLES OF BEER ON THE WALL…""ARRRRRRRRRG!"-Me/all the smasher's, A Trip to Forget
Chapter11:Road Trip From Hell
LAURA'S POV
"Are we there yet?"
"No."
"Are we there yet?"
"No."
"Are we there yet?
"Yes! The bus drove across the Strait of Belle Isle(5)! What the heck do you think?"
"…no?"
"Good annoying little kid."
"Don't call her annoying!" I sighed with frustration. So far, so not good; 200 channels on the radio and nothing to listen to, Mica asking if we're there yet constantly for the past hour and having to look at nothing out the window.
"This sucks." I muttered.
"Then why don't we just teleport there and get this over with?" Artimus groaned.
"Because that would take all the fun out of a road trip."
"This wasn't meant to be a fun road trip. We're running from the law in a stolen vehicle…"
"What could be more fun?" Artimus groaned. "You suck all the fun out of everything, you know that right?"
"At least I have a straight head on my shoulders."
"Are you sayn' I'm stupid?"
"My, how perceptive of you." Everyone backed off while me and Artimus glared angrily at each other. Then Mica broke the silence.
"Why don't we sing some driving songs?" Everyone agreed half-heartedly, as most of were bored out of our minds. "Ok! I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves…"
"SHUT UP!" Ashley roared. Since our leaving, she'd shifted forms and was now lying on the floor. "I'm trying to sleep and I don't want annoying songs waking me up!"
"Um, I'm sorry…" Mica stuttered nervously. "I know! How about you pick the next driving song?" The wolf grumbled, then smiled evilly.
"Ok, how about this one. The wheels on the bus fall off and we, crash and burn, then we die. The wheels on the bus fall off and we, crash, burn and die. Now can I go back to sleep?" Note to self; never let Ashley pick driving songs.
1 HOUR LATER
"Where are we again?" Peach asked for the fiftieth time.
"Like I just said six seconds ago," Ryan growled, "we're in Manitoba."
"Oh…where's that?"
"In western Canada."
"Oh…"
"DON'T ASK WHERE WESTERN CANADA IS!"
"I was going to ask if we could turn on the radio." Ryan sweatdropped.
"Hehe, hold on a sec…ALECIA!" He sounded like a small child whining to his mom. "CAN YOU TURN ON THE RADIO PLEASE?"
"Hold on." She turned the knob as the radio spat out static. After a minute or two, she found a station.
"Next." Everyone called. She fiddled with the radio again and found another station. "Next." The pattern continued for a half hour before Alecia lost it.
"I DON'T CARE WHAT STATION IT IS! PICK A FREAKIN' STATION BEFORE I STICK IT ON THE CLASSIC COUNTRY CHANNEL!" We all hushed up.
"I know!" Mica was full of bright ideas today, "I brought along some CDs; we could listen to them."
"Yea! We get to listen to Brittany Spears and Backstreet Boys the rest of the way!" Ryan sarcastically cheered. Mica pouted in anger.
"No way! I don't listen to that kinda junk." Mica walked to the front of the bus and handed Alecia a burnt off CD. The music blared out through the speakers and everyone put their hands over their ears. "What? Don't you like Spice Girls?"
"OMG! I love this song!" Everyone stared at me and Mew in surprise. "What?"
15 MINUTES LATER
"SO TELL ME WHAT CHA WANT, WHAT CHA REALLY REALLY WANT…."
"I WANT YOU TO SHUT UP!" Link roared. We'd been driving everyone crazy for a while with our singing. Mew was the worst out of all of us (me, Mica and herself) and she didn't even know the words. "If you sing any more of those stupid songs I'll come up there and shut you up myself." He paused a moment. "Hey Alecia! Why don't you shut of the music?" Alecia apparently wasn't listening as her and Meta Knight were busy trying to navigate. "Do you have anything besides that…junk…on your CD?" Mica nodded, ran up front and changed the song.
"Got introduced, to you by a friend…" I started singing. I knew this song almost off by heart.
"Laura why do you insist on listening to this childish music?" I couldn't help but smirk.
"Why Mewtwo, you should like this song, after all, it is on your movie soundtrack." Everyone stopped what they were doing and stared at Mewtwo. "That's right, check it out." I took out my MP3 player and found the same song. "Let's see…artist:M2M…song title:Don't Say You Love Me…soundtrack:Pokémon the First Movie:Mewtwo Strikes Back…HA! Gotcha!" No one could help but laugh.
"What the heck does a song like that have to do with a movie about me (6)? And it's not like I myself picked it." He was embarrassed as anything.
"I perfectly understand that but, I every time I hear that song, I shall bug you immensely until the end of time." I smirked as the song continued.
"Don't say you love me, you don't even know me, if you really want me, then give me some time. Don't go there baby, not before I'm ready. Don't say your heart's in a hurry, it's not like we're gonna get married. Give me, give me, some time."
1 HOUR LATER
Boredom had sunk to a new low and we'd resorted to playing the license plate game. "Ontario!" I yelled.
"Saskatchewan!" Alecia cheered.
"New Brunswick!" Sakura shouted.
"Georgia! I win!"
"Ryan, Georgia is a state, not a province. Restart!"
"No far I was about to win!"
"Fine, no restart, but provinces only."
"No problem….Nunavut! I win!"
"I said provinces dumbass, not territories. They don't count."
"Why don't they count?"
"Because I said so!"
"How come you say so?"
"Because I'm the one who suggested we play the license plate game in the first place."
"ENOUGH!" Mewtwo was known as the 'peace maker', you know, the one who stops fights, though in order to stop a fight, he had to create a racket, which destroyed the peace, so it was all pretty pointless when you think about it. "Why don't you do something else for fun, that doesn't start World War 3?"
"Good idea." I walked over to Ashley, who was half asleep with an iPod on her ears, and yanked the iPod away, waking the beast up. "Come on, want your iPod back?" I held it just out of her reach. When the she tried to grab it back, I held it above my head. "Well you can't have it. Wanna know why? Because you're too short." I poked her on the head to irritate her farther. She struggled to reach the iPod, but I simply had to hold her head down. I even shifted forms to make myself taller and annoy her more. I continued to poke her. "Yer short, yer short, yer short, yer short, yer short, yer…" My taunting was interrupted by a feeling on the hand that held the iPod, a feeling like… "SHE BIT ME!" Her mouth was firmly clamped around my hand as I waved her around, trying to shake her off. "LET GO OF MY HAND YOU CRAZY DEMON BEEP!" I ran around the bus, jumping over seats, waving my arms in the air, acting like a complete retard to put it simply. With one last mighty swing, the wolf demon flew off my hand and crashed into a seat, almost knocking over Mica and Thunders. She staggered to her feet and laughed triumphantly.
"HA! You can't defeat me! This is what you get for taking my iPod."
"Speaking of which," Mew slurred. "where is it?" That question was answered by the sound of 3 Days Grace resonating from her belly. It was a Kodak moment when the look of realization came to her face; she had swallowed her iPod, and she didn't look too happy.
"YOU MADE ME SWALLOW MY IPOD!" Without word, she lunged at me and, exactly as Mewtwo had told me not to, I'd started World War 3. In the midst of the fighting, I could hear Link and Mewtwo muttering.
"And she's your girlfriend because…?"
"…to be honest, I have no idea."
2 HOURS LATER
LINK'S POV
It was a dead silence. Most were asleep and those who weren't were quietly looking out the window. The fighting had stopped and was soon forgotten. I could hardly remember a time when it was this quiet. Most of the time there's yelling, or crashing or some other form of noise. It was times like this when you could kick back, relax and just enjoy the peace and quiet.
"I LOST THE GAME!" So much for that.
"What the heck are you talking about?" I asked Laura. Everyone was awake and ticked off now.
"I LOST THE GAME TOO!" Ashley hollered.
"Once again, what the heck are you talking about?"
"Would you explain 'the game' to him, Laura?" Ashley requested as if this was something that everyone knew about.
"Ok. 'The game' is where you try not to think about 'the game' and if you think about 'the game' you have to yell "I LOST THE GAME" which causes everyone else to think about 'the game' so they have to yell "I LOST THE GAME TOO" and you can only play 'the game' once every half an hour."
"…well that's the stupidest game I've ever heard of. Who invented it?"
"I DID!" If there's one thing I've learned about Laura, it's that you should never ask a sensible question, you'll get a stupid answer. The winged anthro stretched and yawned tiredly. "It's getting late guys; we should turn if for the night, kk?"
"It's only eleven o'clock." Mew whined.
"But it's one thirty NST (Newfoundland Standard Time)."
"Since when did we go by NST?" Ryan complained.
"Because I said so."
"Since when are you in charge?"
"Since I said I was in charge."
"When was that?"
"Just now. I'm in charge. HA!"
"Don't start this again." Artimus groaned. "We should take her advice and turn in for the night. It's been quite a tiresome day and we would all benefit if we were well rested, agreed?" Everyone agreed as Alecia pulled over to the side of the road, then we turned off the lights and fell asleep.
ASHLEY'S POV
I couldn't sleep. Everyone else was asleep around me while I lay awake in misery. The bus was too warm and the snoring was driving me crazy (normally I'd just drown the snoring out with my iPod, but the problem in that's quite obvious). There was nothing to look at out the window, nothing to do, so I just lay on the floor of the bus, staring at the ceiling, bored out of my mind. "Are you awake, Ashley-san?" I looked up to see Sakura staring at me. I shook my head. "Can't sleep either?" I nodded. She barely said a word the whole time I'd been here, now she actually trying to have a conversation with me, weird. "Why can't you sleep?"
"It's too hot and too noisy, pure and simple." Those words came out harsher then they meant to.
"…there's another reason." I was a bit startled. The silent types are always the ones with mind reading powers. "There's another reason to your discomfort, is there not?" I slowly nodded, a bit embarrassed. "What would that be?" I was hesitant to answer, but I needed to tell someone.
"Look around you!" I gestured around the bus. "Everyone's with someone. It's not fair!" Every word came out crueler then the last. "Laura has one, Alecia has one even though she's in denial, Peach has one, hell, even Mica has one! It's not BEEPING fair!"
"…has one what?"
"A BOYFRIEND!" I instantly shut my mouth upon realizing the volume of my voice. Luckily everyone was a deep sleeper. "It's not fair. Everyone's partnered up with someone except me. But I guess it's obvious why. I'm a demon wolf thing, I'm a loner, I love Star Trek for God's sake! I'm queen of the underworld and the dorks." Tears couldn't help but form in my eyes.
"I'm not with anyone either, and I'm doing just fine."
"You may be doing just BEEPING fine, but I'm not!" I didn't care who I woke up, what questions they'd ask, I just needed to get this out. I banged the floor in rage, then slumped down and bawled my eyes out. "It's not fair!"
"Don't worry, I'm sure you'll find a boyfriend someday." Sakura was way too positive, or maybe I was way too negative; either way, her attempts to raise my sprits weren't working.
"Ya…" I muttered, drifting into sleep, "…the day after never."
KawaiiGameFreak: Sorry if that last part was too weird for anyone, but it needed to be said. I don't expect another update until late January/early February, so on behalf of everyone who's working on this fic, Happy 3 Year Anniversary "A Wish Come True?" (the fic will officially turn 3 on February 4th, 2007). Ja ne!
(5) The Strait of Belle Isle is the little bit of water that separates Newfoundland from Labrador.
(6) If anyone does have a reason why that song was on the soundtrack, TELL ME! I've been trying to figure it out for years and still no luck, IT MAKES NO SENSE!
