Chapter 6

The pictures that Amy, Sir Ian, and John took revealed some strange expressions on faces that were flying through the air, attached only to the rubber bungee cord. When the group came back down to earth, they were priviledged enough to see the pictures right away, thanks to the genuis of Amy's bringing her digital camera.

"I look like crap!" Roni exclaimed when they scrolled past a shot of her.

Orlando snorted, "Bull-hockey."

Roni glowed while the rest of the group oohed, ahhed and laughed at the rest of the pictures. When she had finally gotten back down to earth, she shouted, "Let's go again!!"

Billy echoed her, "Yeah, one more time!"

Roni echoed him, "Yeah, one more time!" because as we all know, Roni likes echoes.

Amy shook her head in disgust. She didn't know who was worse, the 20-year old acting like a child, or the 30-something year old acting like a child. She decided it was both of them before shaking her head and putting an end to their nodding heads.

"Awww, but Amy...why not?"

"We have reservations." Amy said, mysteriously.

Billy and Roni both exclaimed at the same time, "Food?!?"

"Maybe." Amy smiled. "You'll see when we get there." She started walking towards the cars. She could hear them trying to decide who would ride with who. In the end they had two tag alongs in their car, Billy and Orlando.

"But I have to have Shotgun. I have to give the directions." Amy said smartly to Orlando when he tried to sit in her seat. "Out."

"But..." He protested. "I want to sit by Roni!"

"Yeah, so do I!" Billy cried.

"But I have to give the directions." She said as she pushed the two out of the way and slammed the door in their faces.

Billy and Orlando pouted, then dejectedly climbed into the back of the Explorer, arguing about who was to sit behind Roni and who was to sit behind Amy. Finally, Roni put an end to all of their bickering by shouting, "Boys! You have all day! You can take turns, can't you? For right now, Orlando, sit behind me, Billy, behind Amy...I will give you both turns, so don't worry." Then she started to laugh. The looks on their faces were priceless. Orlando was estatic, Billy, depressed. "Oh, come on now, it's not that bad...we could just leave you two here, and go alone."

Billy and Orli both shouted, "No!" and put on their poker faces for the rest of the trip, which happened to put a smile on Roni's face.

Amy took out her portable printer and hooked it up to her camera. She scrolled through pictures after she pluged thier destination on the GPS.

"Hey! You didn't have to sit in Shotgun after all!" Billy shouted at her, in his Scottish accent.

"Oh yeah?" Amy smirked. "Neither of ya'll know where we are going, nor how to use this baby." She laughed at the faces they made when she pointed out those facts.

"But couldn't you have set the GPS before we left, and then sat in the back?" Roni asked.

"Yeah, but I felt like sitting in the front." She put out all ideas of furthering the conversation by putting on her headphones.

"Hey! That's not fair! She gets to sit by Roni, and now, we can't even complain to her about it!" Orlando shouted, indigently.

"Yeah!" Billy echoed, cause we all know, Billy likes echoes.

"I'm sorry, guys. I tried to convince her to leave those things at home, yet she brings them just to drown me out, so I guess my convincing probably didn't even reach her covered ears."

"Waaa." Orlando whined, sticking his bottom lip out as far as it would go.

"Waaa." Billy whined, sticking his bottom lip out as far as it would go, because (all together now...) Billy likes echoes.

"I know," Roni stated, "next time we get into the car, it will be Billy's turn to sit behind me, so he should get shotgun, and we will tie Amy down in the back, and Orlando can stay behind me...then, after that, Orli will sit up front, and Billy will sit behind me...Is that o.k., or are you two going to whine some more?"

"Yeah!" Orlando shouted.

"Yeah!" Billy shouted. (Billy likes echoes, really, it's not my fault, I swear, I'm just a poor, innocent instrument of his will ;))

"Yeah, what? It's o.k., or you are still going to whine?"

"I think it is a fine idea." Orlando stated from behind her.

"Yeah." Billy said, not quite echoing, just mimicing.

Unknown by them, Amy had never pressed the play button on her CD player, so she had heard every word they had just said. She tried to start her CD now, but she had dropped the player one too many times. She cursed softly. "Roni?"

"What?" Came the chorus from everyone.

"Remind me why I bought the ten dollar CD player when I have a laptop, portable printer, digital camera, and many other pieces of modern technology?"

"Uh... why did you buy the ten dollar CD player?" Roni asked.

"Hey, no fair about the front seat!" Orlando said.

"I already heard everything that ya'll said." She sighed. When she turned them loose, she was going to just plug in a few places on the GPS and hide at home. But then, of course, they may kill themselves...