Jase's Car
"How long?" Jay asked as she pressed a button for a different radio station.
"Why can't you tell me? You're the one who tells the time mentally or something like that." Jase said.
"Well, when you get me up at some ungodly hour in the morning my internal clock gets screwed up." She explained, pressing another button.
"Oh, and now eight in the morning is ungodly? We get up way earlier than that for training!"
"Maybe you're used to getting up earlier than eight in the morning on a weekend, but I am not! So, you never answered my question, how long until we get there?"
"About another half hour. And would you please find a station and leave it there!?!" Jase said, exasperated, when she switched the station yet another time.
"Jeez, somebody's grumpy! Did you get up on the wrong side of the bed or something?"
"The beds are two feet wide, max, there's only one side. And I am just tired of being the car, my legs are getting cramped."
"Well, pull over, I'll drive." Jay offered, knowing already that the answer would be no.
"After being in the car when you drive, you'd actually think that I would let you drive MY car?"
"Oh, please, it's only a Corvette. It's not like it's a Porsche or Lamborghini."
"Dad gave it to me for my sixteenth birthday."
"How could I forget? I was the one who helped restore it for four months."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. You'll never let me forget that."
"You know I'm just playin with you right?"
"Yeah I know."
After a few minutes of silence Jay spoke up, "I wonder what the new house looks like. I mean, I've seen pictures but…"
"I know what you mean. So much has changed. I haven't even told Dad about the team yet. Or my other decisions."
"What about Brit and Kade? I know that they're gonna be bigger than the last time we saw them, but how big?"
"Probably growing like weeds. And they are two years older; that would make Brit ten, and Kade is nine. Wow!"
"Take this turn off." Jay said, pointing to the off-ramp while looking at the directions that she wrote down.
They both grew silent as they got off the freeway; both thinking of the things that they were going see. How different are things going to be? Are they going to be totally different or just semi-different? Jay thought to herself.
"Hey, did you remember to call grandma and grandpa?" Jase asked looking at his sister.
"Yeah, they liked the idea. You know, they've never been to the new house either."
"Yeah I know. Did you call Uncle AJ and Bud and Harriet?"
"Yeah, they all think it's a great idea. Look, there's their street."
Jase nodded as he made the turn. "I can't wait to see them."
"Me either." Jay said as he shut off the car.