American Honey
Chapter 31
Sam grabbed onto the counter as the RV took a sharp turn, for some reason Jason thought it would be a good idea if Maxie had a turn to drive. They had only been on the road for two hours and Sam already was miserable. She quickly grabbed three beers and turned to go back to the master bedroom, Jason called out to her.
"Babe?" Jason called as he spared Sam a glance from the passenger seat, "A little early." He smirked as he nodded towards the bottles, "I know this is isn't what you though, but it just started."
"Don't tell me what I am feeling it's petty." Sam snapped as she turned towards the room and slammed the door behind her.
"She is just unhappy about being stuck with a sick Johnny in the back." Maxie dismissed as she laid on the horn and quickly cut off the Focus in the next lane.
"This isn't the honeymoon she had in mind."
"This isn't the honeymoon you are giving her. This is an interruption that my senseless brother came up with." Maxie laughed, "My sister will come around." The blonde promised as she switched lanes again, "Coffee me." She ordered as she held out her hand.
"This is your fifth cup." The man observed as he handed her the travel mug.
"Coffee keeps me busy until it's acceptable to drink wine." Maxie smiled as she took a long sip which caused the large truck to swerve.
"At least we are traveling with a bathroom." Jason shrugged as he moved to mess with the GPS.
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"Should I be nervous that Robin hasn't sent me a text? Wondering where I am, I mean I am supposed to be on the RV with them."
"Robin is a lot smarter than Jason and Maxie, both who don't know you are in here." Sam started, "I think that Robin has an idea where you are and just doesn't care."
"I think that Robin will start wondering where you are in a few more hours, stuck with the old married couple." Johnny added as he took a beer from Sam's hand.
"I thought this bus would be more fun. Plus if I had things my way, Robin and I would be here and Maxie and you would be over there."
"Have you replaced me?" Johnny asked a little hurt.
"Well we aren't the three musketeers anymore." Patrick started as he opened his beer, "Sam is in a relationship now, so that changes things."
"I am not just in a relationship I am married." Sam argued.
"We know and thank you for that." Johnny said sarcastically, "I now have one more thing for Maxie to harp on."
"What I meant was that we now are forced to do more couple related things and I would pick Sam over Maxie. Not Jason over you." Patrick tried to explain.
"I can understand that." Johnny nodded, "But, you are going to have a fight on your hands there. Maxie and I are more fun. So Jason and Sam will choose us and you can be best friends with the wounded gazelle." Johnny laughed as he took a long sip of beer.
"Robin and Sam are pretty close." Patrick challenged.
"Maxie likes schemes and wining, something that Sam is very good at." Johnny smirked, "So, we are going to win this."
"You might be capable of giving me a run for my money, but Maxie and you are not capable of going ten minutes without a fight." Patrick disagreed.
"Sam and Jason are going to be our couple friends and not yours." Johnny declared as he knelt on the bed.
"Do I get a say?" Sam asked as she laid down on the bed.
"No." Both men said in unison as they glared at each other.
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"I will get Sam and Johnny." Jason offered as Maxie parked the RV next to her brother's an hour later. Jason eased out of his seat and moved towards the bedroom and was shocked when he pulled the door open.
"Are we here?" Sam asked as she jump off the bed and clumsily threw herself into Jason's arms.
"Yeah." He caught her, but the movement had caused the pair to slam against the wall. He wrapped one arm around Sam's waist to hold her in place and used the other to push her hair back.
"Miss me?" He asked with a smirk, before he brought his attention to the two men who were clearly intoxicated on the bed.
"Jason, which of us do you choose?" Patrick interrupted as he motioned between him and Johnny as they were sprawled out on the bed, "For your married best friends." He clarified.
"You have to be married for that." Sam said as she stuck her tongue out, before she began to nuzzle against Jason's chest.
"Johnny is too cheap to propose." A female voice interrupted as she shoved her way into the room and rushed to the bathroom, "He doesn't even buy men products, and he uses my shampoo and soap."
"You know that Cinderella got married, had babies and went right back to cooking and cleaning right? She also never went to another party." Johnny countered.
"What does Cinderella have to do with anything?" Maxie yelled through the door.
"You are always saying that she is the example that a pair of shoes can change your life." He answered, "So, if you want to be pregnant and do all the cooking and cleaning then I will propose right now." Johnny added.
"I pick Patrick." Jason announced before he carried Sam out of the room and threw her down on the couch, "Are you really angry with me?" He asked as he looked her in the eye.
"What did one ocean say to the other?" Sam asked as she had an innocent look on her face.
"What?"
"Nothing, it just waved." Sam said she started to laugh, "Patrick told me that." Sam added.
"Maybe Johnny would be a better choice."
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"Did you see where Nikolas went?" Emily asked Robin as she sat on the couch of their RV.
"He muttered something about food and left with a book, I think Johnny went with him." Robin replied as she took a long sip of water.
"Oh, that is going to end well." Emily laughed, "So?" She added as she gave the woman and knowing look.
"I was worried at first, but then I figured that Johnny must have smuggled him onto his RV." Robin answered thinking that Emily was talking about Patrick. She leaned into the cushion and glanced out the window to where Sam and Maxie were placing plates on the picnic table that rest between the two RVs.
"I meant about the other little issue." Emily corrected as she nodded towards the other woman's stomach, "You might have gotten away with avoiding the subject at the house, but now you are sharing a small space with three other people.
"I know." Robin sighed, "I am just waiting for the right moment. I don't know how Patrick is going to respond."
"If you are worried that he is going to leave you, I think you are crazy." Emily assured her, "I mean he might faint or something, but he's so in love with you."
"I know and we are the best we have been in years. I just…..a kid is a big deal. I don't know if I am even ready for something like that." Robin admitted.
"You are not going to be alone in this. We are all going to be there for you." Emily smiled as she pulled the older woman into a hug.
"Going to be there for what?" Maxie asked as she popped her head into the open RV. As she lifted up her sunglasses he looked from her Emily to her sister very carefully as she waited for an answer.
"Robin wants to go to Medical School and is worried that she will not be able to get it." Emily exclaimed as the idea popped into her head. It wasn't that far from the truth, the pair had talked about Robin going back to school the following semester.
"Don't tell me, that's fine." Maxie scoffed, "I am going to hang out with my favorite sister that doesn't keep anything from me!" The blonde continued as she stomped into the kitchen area and opened the cabinet under the sink. "I am going to need this since, she has a head start on me." Maxie added as she swipe a wine bottle and stomped out of the camper.
"Since you can't drink, I will be your sober buddy." Emily comforted as she stood up, "I brought Bridesmaids and Identity Theft." Emily said as she moved over to the TV and held up the DVDs with a smile.
"You are the one thing that my brother did right." Robin smiled as she grabbed a blanket and snuggled into the couch.
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Jason took a seat across from Sam as he handed her a bottle of water and a burger, while he took the other one in his hand. Johnny took the seat next to him and was about to dig into his burger, when he felt a pair of eyes on him. He slowly glanced up at Maxie, "I was just going to taste test it for you. You know because you are my princess." He smirked as he slid the plate over to the blonde, who just rolled her eye and poured herself another glass of wine.
"I am Hungry." Sam smiled as she held her glass out to Maxie. Jason just looked at Sam and then at the plate in front of her.
"I'm Russian to the kitchen." Maxie smiled as she filled her sister's glass.
"Is there any Turkey?"
"We have a bit, but it's covered in a layer of Greece." Maxie laughed a she took a sip from her glass.
"Ew. There is Norway, I am going to eat that." Sam finished as she took a bit of her burger.
"What just happened?" Jason asked Johnny not understanding what the girls were talking about.
"That's Maxie and Sam drunk together. Let's just be glad we are away from civilization. These two have a habit of having sticky fingers when they are drunk." Johnny answered as he make up another plate for himself.
"How about some water?" Jason offered as he watched Sam inhale her burger and finish off her wine. Sam looked at him for a minute, before she took the bottle and then shared a look with her sister.
"How about so water, Maxie?" Sam smiled as she opened the bottle and then chucked it over the table, with Maxie following the same idea. After the two bottles had been empty the two girls had taken off down the path in the woods.
"Great, now I am wet and have to go get limes disease." Johnny muttered as he slowly stood up and followed after the girls, with Jason behind him.
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"We need to stop." Maxie gasped as she leaned against the tree, "That is the most exercise I have had in like two years. I might even be a little sober." She rattled on as Sam turned in the opposite direction, when she heard something.
"I don't know how to read these arrows." Sam muttered, "Which was is back to camp?"
"I should know that how? Do I look like I know anything about hiking?" Maxie countered as she slumped to the ground, "Do you think that Emily and Robin are hiding something from us?" She asked after a second.
"What do you mean?" Sam asked as she gave up and went to sit next to the blonde.
"Ever since the wedding they have been whispering together." Maxie explained, "They wanted to be paired together."
"You don't want to be couple partners?" Sam asked as she faked being hurt.
"Of course, I do. Jason and you are just as fabulous as Johnny and I." Maxie said with a huge smile, "I just don't like being left out of secrets."
"Well, well, well, how the tides have turned." A voice echoed as he came out from behind the tree the girls had been resting on. Which cause the two woman to jump in the air and turn to face there brother.
"What the hell are you doing?" Sam yelled as she threw a stick at her brother.
"I was gathering berries." Nikolas answered as he shifted back and forth on his feet, "When I heard your problem."
"That we are lost?" Maxie questioned as she crossed her arms and glared at the man.
"No, because I am lost as well. I was talking about the secret my wife and sister have."
"How the hell would you know what it is?" Maxie spat, "You can't hold water."
"How do you think I got Emily to agree to this trip? I blackmailed her with what I overheard them talking about and it is something you want to hear." Nikolas explained as he scratched his butt.
"Do you want us to leave you alone, while you deal with your problem?" Sam laughed as she shared a look with Maxie.
"He wiped himself with poison ivy, guess he didn't read this guide book to well." Patrick announced as he joined the three and chucked the book at the man, "Thanks for leaving me."
"We thought you two might have died in the woods or have been eaten by something." Maxie observed with a smirk, "But, this is so much better."
"I'm not useless I can be used as a bad example." Nikolas smirked as he took the book and placed it in his pack and dug around for the calamine lotion that he knew was in there somewhere.
"You are bragging about having poison ivy on your ass. You really are a hopeless cause."
"Do you know how to get out of here?" Sam asked as she glanced at Patrick.
"I have been following wounded gazelle, over there, for the last hour. So, safe to say we have no idea." Patrick shrugged.
"The book says that you have to put it right on the spot." Nikolas answered as he looked up from the book, "One of you is going to have to put it on me."
"You can touch your one ass." Maxie frowned, "Why the hell did you come out here for berries?"
"To be one with nature and to live off the land. The book tells you what ones you can eat and which ones are not good for you."
"You didn't read far enough in the book, I mean I even know what poison ivy looks like." Maxie shouted as she grabbed his book and threw it down the path, just as Johnny and Jason were walking towards them.
"There is my husband." Sam smiled, "He had come to save us and now we don't have to eat Nikolas." Sam added as she ran towards Jason, who opened his arms.
"Yeah, because people are like potatoes they die when you eat them." Patrick added with a smirk as he glanced at Nikolas.
"Why am I the one you would eat?"
"Sam is a survivor and my bestie." Patrick answered, "Maxie is nice to look at, so we could offer her up for food and she talks enough to scare anything away."
"While you are the one that wiped his ass with poison ivy." Maxie added.
"What happened?" Jason asked as he pulled Sam towards him, "Just so I can get my facts straight, in case I have to fill out a police report." He added as he tightened his hold around Sam's waist.