Holly, Jay, Bree- 19 ½

Cynthia, Leon- 19

College Blues

"Are we there yet?" Leon whined sleepily and immaturely to his sister, he was squished in the backseat with Cynthia and Jay, the other two teens both asleep, Jay's cheek pressing against the window while Cynthia was asleep on Leon, her head resting on his shoulder a bit awkwardly. Brad was in the seat in front of them snoring slightly, with Bree in her seat next to him, propping her arm up against the car door, amber eyes drooping closed.

Holly shifted slightly in her seat keeping herself wide awake and aware, "No Leon, we aren't almost there. Just go to sleep already." She'd been dealing with his whining for the past two hours and it was grating on her nerves. Despite the begging and pleading each one of the teens did -Holly, Leon, and Cynthia- Skylar had refused to let them each drive separately to the college campus and Holly was chosen to drive a good chunk of it before she switched with Skylar. Bree's mom Miley had asked them to take her daughter because of the ramp Jay and Holly had built and rigged a few years back onto the van.

"I'm tired of being in a car!" Leon whined not noticing his friend asleep on his shoulder, "It's boring!"

"If you'd stop complaining you'd see that your girlfriend is asleep on you and your noise is waking her up," Holly tells him, glancing at the rear view mirror as she commented, noticing the slight furrowing of her best friend's eyebrows and the frown forming on her previously peaceful face. That managed to shut Leon up for the time being as he glared at his sister before wrapping his left arm around Cynthia's waist and resting his cheek on her head. Minutes later Holly breathed a relieved sigh as her brother dropped off asleep, the car was mercifully silent for the first time since they had started the whole trip. She drove for about half an hour longer before Skylar switched with her and Holly took out a book in the passenger seat, using the still existing silence for a quiet reading session.

It didn't last too long when Leon woke up again and started bugging his girlfriend bored, poking, prodding, and tickling her trying to wake her up so she'd entertain him. The sleeping girl didn't react to anything besides the Wet Willy he gave her, and that was just an annoyed twitch.

"Leave me alone," She mumbled as he nipped her ear, "I'm sleeping." She pushed his face away from her ear and returned to her previous position.

"But I'm bored!" The nineteen-year-old boy whined to her, nuzzling her nose and bumping his nose against her cheek.

"You're being a pain, let me sleep," Cynthia groaned burying her face further into his shoulder, hiding her face as an attempt to sleep. Leon tickled her neck and she swatted his hand away, "Stop it!" She whined to him, not removing her face from her warm and poke free spot. "I'm not playing with you, no matter how much I love you you're not ruining my nap." She grunted as he tried tickling her sides.

"Please!" He begged, feeling like he was going insane from sitting in a car for so long.

"No.

"Please!"

"No."

"Please!"

"Shut it, Leo."

"Please!-"

"Leon!" Holly growls, "Shut up!-"

"Leonardo Landan Bramble." Skylar interrupted, looking at her golden blonde son through the rearview mirror, "Go to sleep or I will make you walk the rest of the way." Leon meekly listened to his mother despite being old enough to pull the "I'm an adult now" excuse. Taking his hoodie he draped it over Cynthia's shoulders before putting his head against the window and reluctantly closing his eyes again.

Holly settled back into her seat and continued reading content in the silence. Even the sound of Bree's head smacking into the window didn't bother her, too content in the silence of her annoying brother sleeping. Bree lifted her head, looking confused on how she woke herself up.

"Ugh," Cynthia grumbled as they finally got out of the car, she stretched her stiff muscles, "Sitting still for that long isn't my style."

"Well you're pretty tall Cindy," Holly said, she was leaning against the car, finishing her book. "That's probably why you're uncomfortable."

"What about me?" Leon complained he was rolling his shoulders and neck, trying to remove the kinks there. "I'm taller than all of you!"

"By only half a foot," Cynthia retorted, moving over to help him by massaging his shoulders and lower neck.

"If you guys are complaining about sitting in a chair for three hours try sitting in one every day," Bree said gruffly, her attitude temporarily matching Jay's, she was rubbing the side of her head that had smacked into the window and grumpy from being woken up like that.

"Bree wins that one," Jay commented curtly, he was stretching his arms over his head, being almost a foot shorter than his brother he didn't have issues being cramped in a car.

Holly closed her book with a gentle snap before tucking it into her bag, "Let's get going, mom said our cars are already here." Leon and Cynthia both froze, staring at her in worried shock.

"Somebody drove our Honda's?" Leon asked. Both he and Cynthia had gotten cars for their birthdays about six months ago courtesy of Bracken Lawson Cynthia's father. Cynthia had a light blue painted Honda Civic with white rims with a white leather interior while Leon had a dark silver Honda Civic Ridgeline with black rims and a black leather interior.

"Maybe, I have no idea how they got here." Holly shrugged, amused at the horrified looks on both their faces, she knew very well that those cars meant a lot to both of them, they didn't let anyone drive them and sometimes refused to let others go with them, it was probably the only thing Leon kept clean on a daily basis while it was the only thing Cynthia had from her family, even her sisters had stopped doing anything for her on her birthday. -Holly suspected Sarah influenced that-

"I swear," Cynthia growls, "If I have to spend an entire afternoon cleaning out my car because of the idiot who drove it here I'm going to strangle your mom." She grumbles frowning.

"Same here." Leon agrees, scowling with his blonde eyebrows furrowed adding to the scowl forming on his face.

"I'd probably do the same thing," Holly agreed, she had gotten a Civic Sedan by her aunt handed down from her cousin Tyler because he never used it. But she wasn't as paranoid about her vehicle, hers was plain silver with normal rims and a black leather interior, while she did take good care of it and had it organized in her own quirky way she wasn't as crazy as her brother and her best friend.

"Well, my wheels are attached to me." Bree shrugs, still grumpy, but unintentionally being witty and outwitting all three of the other teens.

Leon laughed as Cynthia mumbled under her breath, "Ouch. She smoked us again."

"Bring out the barbecue Holly, Bree's providing the fire, We're providing the smoke, and Jay's bringing the food." He laughed.

"I'm not being your fire, you already have your fire. It's called being hot headed." Bree matters and the entire group starts laughing as they walked into the main building.

Cynthia and Leon went to check on their cars after they were given their timetables, dorm card key, and a campus map. "What's going on here?" Cynthia asked, noticing the crowd gathered around the parking lot.

"Have no idea-" He stopped mid-sentence hearing the sound of a familiar car engine revving.

"That better not be," Cynthia spoke in trepidation coloring her tone, "My car." Sure enough, as they pushed through the crowd her blue Honda was one of the cars having the engine revved. Who was in the driver seat? "Isa." She gritted her teeth, shoving past the crowd and going to her car, pulling open the driver's door and snatching the key, blue eyes gleaming with anger. Her car's usual purr died down and came to a halt without the key in the ignition.

Leon hurried over to help avoid bloodshed between the two girls. "Woah you two, we just got here, there's no need to get off on the wrong foot." Cynthia didn't listen to him, instead glowering at Isa.

"Get out of my car." she hissed fiercely, "You know it's mine Isa."

Isa sighed but got out of the vehicle, looking reluctant. "Sorry Cynthia, couldn't resist it after driving it up here to the campus." Cynthia's eyes narrow, Isa was the last person she wanted in her car. "It's really comfortable, I mean it's pretty decked out, did you get modifications for it or something? As far as I know it normally doesn't have a hidden cooler with a temperature regulator." Isa asked in a bit of curiosity. "Or a hatch under the seats with a multitude of different supplies like blankets."

"Yes, I've modified it," Cynthia said coolly, blue eyes narrowing as Isa kept describing her car, other college students were getting excited, curious about the car and wanting to get inside and check it out for themselves.

"But I have to ask, why's there a duffel bag of Leon's stuff in one of the back?"

Cynthia's cheeks turned a delicate shade of pink but she spoke in a cool tone, "Because he's lazy and forgets things at Holly and I's apartment all the time. Why were you digging through my car? You drove it up here, you weren't supposed to search it."

"I was looking for something I brought but couldn't find it." Isa shrugs, "Why? You hiding something?"

"Illegal? Course not, but I'd rather you didn't go through my personal belongings and the belongings of my friends."

"Belongings of your friends?"

"I have what Leon and Holly couldn't fit in their vehicles or forgot in Leon's case."

"What about the weird panels at the passenger's feet?"

"It's for Leon," Cynthia jerked her thumb in his direction, "He's too tall and his legs are too long for him to be moderately comfortable so the panels fold back for more leg room." She pushed past Isa and moved inside her car, inwardly seething at the huge mess left inside it, wrappers were everywhere, A few things of Isa's was lying on the seats. Getting out-out of and shutting and locking the driver's door she scowled at Isa before whipping around and leaving, growling under her breath.

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Leon – athleticgoldenboy

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