Maria waited as Carey buckled in. "What will happen?" Maria's eyes danced. "Anyone will tell you I'm an excellent driver."
Carey tested the seat belts and then turned to Maria. "In this car? I doubt it." Carey grinned, showing Maria he was only playing.
Maria tossed her head back in laughter. "Yeah yeah yeah." Maria pushed the tape in. "Santa Fe or bust!"
*I want you to want me
I need you to need me
I'd love you to love me
I'm beggin' you to beg me
I want you to want me
I need you to need me
I'd love you to love me
I'll shine up my old brown shoes
Put on a brand new shirt
Get home early from work
If you say that you love me
Didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'
Feeling all alone without a friend you know you feel like dying
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'
I want you to want me
I need you to need me
I'd love you to love me
I'm beggin' you to beg me
I'll shine up my old brown shoes
Put on a brand new shirt
Get home early from work
If you say that you love me
Didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'
Feeling all alone without a friend you know you feel like dying
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'
I want you to want me *
Carey's eyes had a dazed look in them as he listened to the lyrics of the song. Carey cleared his throat and stared out the window, trying to hide the look on his face from Maria. God this girl was driving him insane. "So Maria, what is a girl like you living in a small town like Roswell?"
Maria giggled. "I try to escape as much as possible." Maria smiled, the tips of his ears were bright red. "Do you like being on the road?"
Carey nodded silently. "It's okay. It's just sometimes, living a normal life without all this 'stuff' happening, would be kind of cool."
"Normal." Maria nodded. "What's normal?"
Carey turned to Maria and smiled. "I have no idea whatsoever." Carey then tilted his head and eyed Maria with an amused look on his face. "So I heard you're not a Molly Phillips fan."
"Oh god!" Maria's cheeks turned red. "Yeah, about that..." Maria bit her bottom lip.
Carey smirked and then let out a laugh. "It's cool. I think Fi blowing up on you, is enough punishment."
*When I ask you to be nice
You say you gotta be
Cruel to be kind, in the right measure
Cruel to be kind, it's a very good sign
Cruel to be kind, means that I love you
Baby, you gotta be cruel to be kind
Well I do my best to understand dear
But you still mystify, and I wanna know why *
"I, uh geesh." Maria spat. "That was bad, wasn't it?" Maria asked as she pulled onto the main highway.
Carey shook his head. "Nah, not many people like Molly, well except the hardcore fans. I'm just happy to be in a band. To think, if I wasn't in Molly's band, I would never be on this car going to... where are we going again?"
"You're in the BAND?" Maria exclaimed. "Oh man."
"Yeah I'm the guitarist. Actually Molly is like a second mom to me." Carey smirked, god he was loving the look on Maria's face.
"Oh my god." Maria bit her bottom lip, as she sped up. "Do me a favor." Maria turned up the radio. "Will ya?"
Carey nodded. "Sure, what is it?
*And when I ask you to explain
You say you gotta be
Cruel to be kind, in the right measure
Cruel to be kind, it's a very good sign
Cruel to be kind, means that I love you
Baby, you gotta be cruel to be kind
Well I do my best to understand dear
But you still mystify, and I wanna know why
I pick myself up off the ground
And have you knock me back down
Again and again*
"Don't impregnate me and split."
Carey looked at Maria oddly but then nodded. "You got my word, miss DeLuca."
"Long story." Maria called back. "LONG story."
Carey smirked. "Someday, you'll have to tell me."
"Nope." Maria shook her head. "Nope nope nope nope."
Carey nodded. "I have my ways."
Maria stopped the tape to rewind it. "My dad..." Maria said awkwardly. "He was a guitarist."
Carey propped his chin in his hands. "Go on..."
"I've learned to be cautious." Maria answered. "I can't believe I'm telling you this!"
Carey smiled. "You can trust me."
"Famous last words." Maria said quietly. "Words I've heard before".
Carey looked away. "Nice cactus." Carey pointed to a cactus they just passed by.
"Sorry." Maria laughed. "I ruined the moment, didn't I?"
"Nah, I'm just really engrossed into that cactus we went by."
"Liar!" Maria laughed. "You liar! Do me a favor, press play." Maria bit her lip.
Carey nodded, and leaned over to the radio and pushed play. "Why you couldn't do that, I have no idea." Carey pushed himself back up and smiled.
"Sing with me Carey." Maria moved her head to the music. "I want you to want me."
Carey stared at Maria, with a little shock in his eyes but then he shook his head. "I don't sing."
"I need you to need me." Maria mouthed. "I love you to love me."
Carey watched Maria's mouth move along with the song, and he felt his whole body start to burn with nervousness.
"We're here." Maria laughed. "Come on Carey, guitar man."
Carey unbuckled himself from the seat belt that had him secured in Maria's car. "Where is here?"
"Rest stop. You look like you need some fresh air."
Carey walked around the car. "Yeah, my legs need some room to breathe."
"We're almost to Santa Fe." Maria climbed to the top of a picnic table. "We're going to have some fun."
Carey walked over to the picnic table Maria was sitting on and sat down next to her. "What do you have in plan Maria?"
"That depends," Maria felt her cheeks burning, *you can do it!* she told herself. "Do you mean in life, for me, or for us?"
Carey thought for a second. "I guess for right now, us."
"Had to think about that?" Maria chuckled. "Us," Maria looked away for a moment. "You really wanna know?"
Carey stretched out his legs. "Wouldn't ask if I didn't want to know."
Maria jumped off the table and stood in front of him. "Do I look as crazy as I feel?" Maria asked quietly.
"No you look incredibly beautiful." Carey said in a hushed tone.
Maria nodded. "Okay." Maria stepped in front of him and kissed him gently. "I just wanted to take you away."
Carey was shocked at first by the kiss but then kissed Maria back slowly. After a few seconds, Carey pulled away and smiled at Maria. "And you did that perfectly."
Maria's eyes got huge, Maria took a deep breath. "Thank you." Maria smiled. "Now what Carey Bell?"
"Now the real fun begins." Carey reached out his hand for Maria's car keys.
"Oh no." Maria shook her head. "You've got to be kidding me." Maria laughed. "Have you ever driven before?"
"Of course I have! I am the best driver, I gave Jack and Fi their first driving lessons and it was on a bus, so yeah I have driven before!" Carey smiled.
"You've driven a bus." Maria licked her bottom lip. "Something entirely different from Daisy."
Carey arched his eyebrow up at Maria. "Daisy?"
"Daisy." Maria punched Carey's stomach playfully. "Got a problem with that?"
Carey hunched over, pretending to be in pain. "Daisy it is."
Maria held her hands to his face. "You've got to do better than that."
Carey looked over at Maria and grabbed her car keys from her hands and walked over to the car. "Come on, if we are gonna have any fun today, we can't stand around here arguing about your weird name for your car."
"Weird!"
Carey hopped into the car, buckled himself up and started the car. "Yep weird."
"If I didn't like you so much Carey Bell," Maria got in the passenger's seat reluctantly. "I would have hurt you by now."
Carey smirked. "Then I feel happy, that I am so lucky." Carey pulled out of the rest stop and continued their way to Santa Fe.
Maria closed her eyes, enjoying the sun on her face. "You're something else, you know that?"
Carey glanced over at Maria for a second before turning his gaze back onto the road ahead of them. "Yeah? Well right back at you Maria DeLuca."
"Keep your eyes on the road, 'cause if you kill me in this car..." Maria teased.
"What will happen?" Carey smirked. "Anyone will tell you I'm an excellent driver."
Maria opened her eyes and squinted at his shadow. She tossed her head back and laughed, reaching for his free hand.
Carey kept his free hand away from Maria. "If I give you this hand, you promise not to break it?"
Maria rolled her eyes. "With all my human restraint."
Carey smirked and handed his hand over to Maria, keeping his eyes on the road.
Maria smiled, he was cute and funny, Maria stopped and looked at Carey again, intertwining her fingers with his. "That dorky surfer guy was your brother, huh?"
Carey stared at Maria in the corner of his eye. "He's not dorky, just unique and yes he's my brother. Clu."
"Clu?" Maria giggled. "Carey and Clu Bell?"
Carey turned his gaze to her. "Be warned that I have control of this car, so if you make fun of me or my brother I might accidentally, well ya know..."
"And you'd probably blame little ol' me."
Carey smirked, and turned back and stared at the road in front of him. "Well that is going to be my story."
"Pull over." Maria said. "Pull over right now Carey."
Carey laughed. "Calm down, I'm not going to crash, I've only done that once, and it was entirely not my fault. It wasn't my fault that Fi didn't see the tree."
"Seriously." Maria squeezed his hand.
Carey pulled over and stared at Maria. "Okay, what's up?"
"I had this unbelievably bad urge to kiss you right then." Maria unbuckled her seat belt. "And I didn't want to do anything stupid."
Carey put his hand up. "No way, me and Daisy are having a bonding moment here, you can't take over." Carey smirked. "I know I am handsome and desirable and all, but woman control your urges!"
Maria rolled her eyes, crawling over the arm rest and onto his lap. "I don't want Daisy back" Maria said quietly. *Oh my god, what the hell am I doing!* "You're asking me to do the impossible." Maria laughed nervously. The only other person she had talked to like this was Michael, and that wasn't something she wanted to bring up right then. Or ever.
Carey smiled. "Well she doesn't want you back either." Carey looked down at Maria.
"On your way boy scout."
Carey lifted his hand and brushed his fingers across Maria's hair. "You expect me to drive with a beautiful woman in my lap? That is kind of impossible."
"Right." Maria climbed over Carey, accidentally kicking him in the chest. "Sorry, forgot."
Carey bit his lip and leaned over and kissed Maria on the lips suddenly. A few seconds he pulled away, and started the car up and started driving again.
"You're a spur of the moment kind of guy, aren't you?" Maria laughed. "Oh my god Carey!" Maria flung herself back in the seat. "I don't know what I'm going to do with myself!"
Carey looked at a road sign saying that Sante Fe was only a few more miles more. "Yep, that's me, full of surprises." Carey smiled.
"Just make sure you get me there in one piece."
Carey nodded.
"Affirmative."
Carey tested the seat belts and then turned to Maria. "In this car? I doubt it." Carey grinned, showing Maria he was only playing.
Maria tossed her head back in laughter. "Yeah yeah yeah." Maria pushed the tape in. "Santa Fe or bust!"
*I want you to want me
I need you to need me
I'd love you to love me
I'm beggin' you to beg me
I want you to want me
I need you to need me
I'd love you to love me
I'll shine up my old brown shoes
Put on a brand new shirt
Get home early from work
If you say that you love me
Didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'
Feeling all alone without a friend you know you feel like dying
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'
I want you to want me
I need you to need me
I'd love you to love me
I'm beggin' you to beg me
I'll shine up my old brown shoes
Put on a brand new shirt
Get home early from work
If you say that you love me
Didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'
Feeling all alone without a friend you know you feel like dying
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'
I want you to want me *
Carey's eyes had a dazed look in them as he listened to the lyrics of the song. Carey cleared his throat and stared out the window, trying to hide the look on his face from Maria. God this girl was driving him insane. "So Maria, what is a girl like you living in a small town like Roswell?"
Maria giggled. "I try to escape as much as possible." Maria smiled, the tips of his ears were bright red. "Do you like being on the road?"
Carey nodded silently. "It's okay. It's just sometimes, living a normal life without all this 'stuff' happening, would be kind of cool."
"Normal." Maria nodded. "What's normal?"
Carey turned to Maria and smiled. "I have no idea whatsoever." Carey then tilted his head and eyed Maria with an amused look on his face. "So I heard you're not a Molly Phillips fan."
"Oh god!" Maria's cheeks turned red. "Yeah, about that..." Maria bit her bottom lip.
Carey smirked and then let out a laugh. "It's cool. I think Fi blowing up on you, is enough punishment."
*When I ask you to be nice
You say you gotta be
Cruel to be kind, in the right measure
Cruel to be kind, it's a very good sign
Cruel to be kind, means that I love you
Baby, you gotta be cruel to be kind
Well I do my best to understand dear
But you still mystify, and I wanna know why *
"I, uh geesh." Maria spat. "That was bad, wasn't it?" Maria asked as she pulled onto the main highway.
Carey shook his head. "Nah, not many people like Molly, well except the hardcore fans. I'm just happy to be in a band. To think, if I wasn't in Molly's band, I would never be on this car going to... where are we going again?"
"You're in the BAND?" Maria exclaimed. "Oh man."
"Yeah I'm the guitarist. Actually Molly is like a second mom to me." Carey smirked, god he was loving the look on Maria's face.
"Oh my god." Maria bit her bottom lip, as she sped up. "Do me a favor." Maria turned up the radio. "Will ya?"
Carey nodded. "Sure, what is it?
*And when I ask you to explain
You say you gotta be
Cruel to be kind, in the right measure
Cruel to be kind, it's a very good sign
Cruel to be kind, means that I love you
Baby, you gotta be cruel to be kind
Well I do my best to understand dear
But you still mystify, and I wanna know why
I pick myself up off the ground
And have you knock me back down
Again and again*
"Don't impregnate me and split."
Carey looked at Maria oddly but then nodded. "You got my word, miss DeLuca."
"Long story." Maria called back. "LONG story."
Carey smirked. "Someday, you'll have to tell me."
"Nope." Maria shook her head. "Nope nope nope nope."
Carey nodded. "I have my ways."
Maria stopped the tape to rewind it. "My dad..." Maria said awkwardly. "He was a guitarist."
Carey propped his chin in his hands. "Go on..."
"I've learned to be cautious." Maria answered. "I can't believe I'm telling you this!"
Carey smiled. "You can trust me."
"Famous last words." Maria said quietly. "Words I've heard before".
Carey looked away. "Nice cactus." Carey pointed to a cactus they just passed by.
"Sorry." Maria laughed. "I ruined the moment, didn't I?"
"Nah, I'm just really engrossed into that cactus we went by."
"Liar!" Maria laughed. "You liar! Do me a favor, press play." Maria bit her lip.
Carey nodded, and leaned over to the radio and pushed play. "Why you couldn't do that, I have no idea." Carey pushed himself back up and smiled.
"Sing with me Carey." Maria moved her head to the music. "I want you to want me."
Carey stared at Maria, with a little shock in his eyes but then he shook his head. "I don't sing."
"I need you to need me." Maria mouthed. "I love you to love me."
Carey watched Maria's mouth move along with the song, and he felt his whole body start to burn with nervousness.
"We're here." Maria laughed. "Come on Carey, guitar man."
Carey unbuckled himself from the seat belt that had him secured in Maria's car. "Where is here?"
"Rest stop. You look like you need some fresh air."
Carey walked around the car. "Yeah, my legs need some room to breathe."
"We're almost to Santa Fe." Maria climbed to the top of a picnic table. "We're going to have some fun."
Carey walked over to the picnic table Maria was sitting on and sat down next to her. "What do you have in plan Maria?"
"That depends," Maria felt her cheeks burning, *you can do it!* she told herself. "Do you mean in life, for me, or for us?"
Carey thought for a second. "I guess for right now, us."
"Had to think about that?" Maria chuckled. "Us," Maria looked away for a moment. "You really wanna know?"
Carey stretched out his legs. "Wouldn't ask if I didn't want to know."
Maria jumped off the table and stood in front of him. "Do I look as crazy as I feel?" Maria asked quietly.
"No you look incredibly beautiful." Carey said in a hushed tone.
Maria nodded. "Okay." Maria stepped in front of him and kissed him gently. "I just wanted to take you away."
Carey was shocked at first by the kiss but then kissed Maria back slowly. After a few seconds, Carey pulled away and smiled at Maria. "And you did that perfectly."
Maria's eyes got huge, Maria took a deep breath. "Thank you." Maria smiled. "Now what Carey Bell?"
"Now the real fun begins." Carey reached out his hand for Maria's car keys.
"Oh no." Maria shook her head. "You've got to be kidding me." Maria laughed. "Have you ever driven before?"
"Of course I have! I am the best driver, I gave Jack and Fi their first driving lessons and it was on a bus, so yeah I have driven before!" Carey smiled.
"You've driven a bus." Maria licked her bottom lip. "Something entirely different from Daisy."
Carey arched his eyebrow up at Maria. "Daisy?"
"Daisy." Maria punched Carey's stomach playfully. "Got a problem with that?"
Carey hunched over, pretending to be in pain. "Daisy it is."
Maria held her hands to his face. "You've got to do better than that."
Carey looked over at Maria and grabbed her car keys from her hands and walked over to the car. "Come on, if we are gonna have any fun today, we can't stand around here arguing about your weird name for your car."
"Weird!"
Carey hopped into the car, buckled himself up and started the car. "Yep weird."
"If I didn't like you so much Carey Bell," Maria got in the passenger's seat reluctantly. "I would have hurt you by now."
Carey smirked. "Then I feel happy, that I am so lucky." Carey pulled out of the rest stop and continued their way to Santa Fe.
Maria closed her eyes, enjoying the sun on her face. "You're something else, you know that?"
Carey glanced over at Maria for a second before turning his gaze back onto the road ahead of them. "Yeah? Well right back at you Maria DeLuca."
"Keep your eyes on the road, 'cause if you kill me in this car..." Maria teased.
"What will happen?" Carey smirked. "Anyone will tell you I'm an excellent driver."
Maria opened her eyes and squinted at his shadow. She tossed her head back and laughed, reaching for his free hand.
Carey kept his free hand away from Maria. "If I give you this hand, you promise not to break it?"
Maria rolled her eyes. "With all my human restraint."
Carey smirked and handed his hand over to Maria, keeping his eyes on the road.
Maria smiled, he was cute and funny, Maria stopped and looked at Carey again, intertwining her fingers with his. "That dorky surfer guy was your brother, huh?"
Carey stared at Maria in the corner of his eye. "He's not dorky, just unique and yes he's my brother. Clu."
"Clu?" Maria giggled. "Carey and Clu Bell?"
Carey turned his gaze to her. "Be warned that I have control of this car, so if you make fun of me or my brother I might accidentally, well ya know..."
"And you'd probably blame little ol' me."
Carey smirked, and turned back and stared at the road in front of him. "Well that is going to be my story."
"Pull over." Maria said. "Pull over right now Carey."
Carey laughed. "Calm down, I'm not going to crash, I've only done that once, and it was entirely not my fault. It wasn't my fault that Fi didn't see the tree."
"Seriously." Maria squeezed his hand.
Carey pulled over and stared at Maria. "Okay, what's up?"
"I had this unbelievably bad urge to kiss you right then." Maria unbuckled her seat belt. "And I didn't want to do anything stupid."
Carey put his hand up. "No way, me and Daisy are having a bonding moment here, you can't take over." Carey smirked. "I know I am handsome and desirable and all, but woman control your urges!"
Maria rolled her eyes, crawling over the arm rest and onto his lap. "I don't want Daisy back" Maria said quietly. *Oh my god, what the hell am I doing!* "You're asking me to do the impossible." Maria laughed nervously. The only other person she had talked to like this was Michael, and that wasn't something she wanted to bring up right then. Or ever.
Carey smiled. "Well she doesn't want you back either." Carey looked down at Maria.
"On your way boy scout."
Carey lifted his hand and brushed his fingers across Maria's hair. "You expect me to drive with a beautiful woman in my lap? That is kind of impossible."
"Right." Maria climbed over Carey, accidentally kicking him in the chest. "Sorry, forgot."
Carey bit his lip and leaned over and kissed Maria on the lips suddenly. A few seconds he pulled away, and started the car up and started driving again.
"You're a spur of the moment kind of guy, aren't you?" Maria laughed. "Oh my god Carey!" Maria flung herself back in the seat. "I don't know what I'm going to do with myself!"
Carey looked at a road sign saying that Sante Fe was only a few more miles more. "Yep, that's me, full of surprises." Carey smiled.
"Just make sure you get me there in one piece."
Carey nodded.
"Affirmative."