Close Encounters of the Fictional Kind
Road Trip Part 3
A/N: Okay, so once again, as with the first part of this story, time is indicated in hours then minutes. For example, 6.34 = six hours and thirty four minutes. Let us commence…
18
The girls stop to fill up with gas at a station near the interstate.
27
The blue Ford Focus accelerates up the entrance ramp, all three are somewhat relieved to be going home. However there is a tension in the car as well, because they all know that the prank war is about to resume.
43
Marie passes out in the back seat.
47
Sarah and Elise are in the front seat singing along with Matchbox Twenty.
54
Traffic in Sacramento. Marie is still asleep.
1.13
Several pictures are taken of Marie curled up in the back seat with her stuffed cat, Salem.
1.15
The pictures are uploaded to Facebook.
3.35
Marie is awake and laying in the back seat playing her new 3DS that Wyatt helped pick out, along with a few games. Her feet are on the ceiling.
3.36
Marie refuses to take her feet down until Sarah can give her a "legitimate" reason. Reasons already deemed to be "not legitimate" include: "because I said so" and "because you'll get it all footy".
3.39
Sarah begs Elise to make Marie put her feet down. Both Elise and Marie give Sarah identical you've-got-to-be-kidding-me looks.
3.43
Marie's feet are off the ceiling and she is complaining about the pins and needles sensation.
3.44
Sarah is secretly enjoying Marie's discomfort. And Elise is telling Marie she kind of deserves it.
6.12
They stop at a gas station in the small town of Elko, Nevada to get out and stretch and use the facilities. Elise is checking out the college age attendant behind the counter from behind the chip rack. Sarah is cleaning the car's windows. Marie is looking at the magazine racks.
6.19
Marie walks up to the counter to pay for her copy of Decibel Magazine. She asks the attendant if he'll go out with Elise. Elise runs up to Marie and punches her in the arm, trying to tell the attendant she was just joking. The attendant smiles and says "Sure…"
6.26
They're back on the road. Elise is driving now. Marie is in the front seat and Sarah is resting in the back.
8.03
Sarah is asleep in the back seat. Marie and Elise are having a discussion on future trips.
8.05
It is agreed upon that they will be stopping in Wyoming on this trip.
8.07
Sarah is still asleep in the back seat, unaware of the sudden side trip.
10.46
The group stops in Salt Lake City, Utah. Sarah and Elise are impressed by the lake. Marie is wondering why they stopped to see a salty lake.
11.22
The group is back on the road. Marie is driving. Elise is now in the back, and Sarah is in the front. Sarah is informed that driver picks music and shotgun shuts her cakehole.
11.25
In This Moment is being played on the radio quietly so Elise can sleep.
14.23
The girls pull off the interstate and onto a narrow gravel road in southern Wyoming. The night seems darker somehow and the headlights don't seem to be doing a very good job of lighting their path. Sarah is wondering why they are going here, but Elise and Marie are insistent.
14.37
Elise parks the car outside an old run down cemetery. Both she and Marie get out of the car and approach a mausoleum with an intricate star in a circle design on the door. Their eyes widen as the wind picks up and it sounds like something is scratching at the other side of the door. A chill runs down both of their spines and they run to get back in the car.
14.42
Sarah asks what that was about. Marie and Elise exchange looks and Marie says something about paying their respects to Samuel Colt's handiwork.
18.56
The girls stop for food in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The diner is a small place on the outskirts of town and it specializes in burgers and onion rings. Elise and Marie think it's the best place ever and vow to come back. Sarah would prefer a salad.
19.28
The girls are just pulling out of the diner's parking lot when a black 1967 Impala pulls in. Elise and Marie shout for Sarah to stop.
19.29
Elise and Marie watch out the back window as Sam and Dean Winchester enter the diner. Sarah pulls out into traffic because there is another car waiting behind them. Marie whimpers. Elise makes small noises and reaches back. She says something that sounds like, "Dean…".
24.34
The girls make their way across Nebraska. Elise is snoring softly in the front seat. Marie is jamming out in the back seat with her headphones on. Sarah is taking a large sip of Rockstar, grateful that she bought it at the last gas station.
26.48
Sarah gave up driving as they got to Des Moines. Marie took over. Elise is still snoring softly in the front seat.
28.23
They finally reach the Minnesota boarder.
29.48
They finally reach Marie and Elise's apartment. Sarah has decided to stay the night at Marie and Elise's. Altogether, this trip wasn't nearly as bad as the trip out.
The next day
Sarah is back at her apartment. She goes to use the windshield washer fluid and screams when it comes out blood red. Marie is chuckling in her apartment, eyeing a red food-coloring bottle.
oxoxoxoxo
Sarah Williams (c) Jim Henson & Co.