"I'm driving!" Lulu insisted. She sat behind the drivers seat, with the window halfway rolled down, and the door locked.

"No, you're not." Jason told her

Milo and Max watched the two bicker for a few moments.

"Am too!"
"Let me in."

"Say I can drive."

"Open the door. Now."

In a sweet little girl voice she implored, "Say it."

Jason let out a long breath. "You are working my last nerve, Spencer."

Lulu's face suddenly softened, her lip jutted out. "You're mean."

"Unlock the door!"

She wailed, "I'm not going anywhere with you!"

Milo stepped forward, "Lulu, Jason is only trying to help Sam. He needs your help in order to do that. You have to trust him. Can you please unlock the door now?"

Lulu looked at Milo, and said sweetly, " You are so nice. Why couldn't Jason just ask me like that?"

She focused on Jason again. "I'm not going on this trip without Milo."

"No way in hell that is happening." Jason said, jerking on the door. He turned to Max. "Go find the extra set of keys."

Max hurried inside just as Carly came running up.

Carly cried, "Oh, thank God I found you, Jase. It's awful." She scrunched her eyes, and sniffled, which made Jason's heart ache. " I can't believe this is happening!"

"What?"

Carly had tears on her face. "Jax says he is moving to Australia and if I don't come with him than the wedding is off. I said I couldn't move and he...left. He left me, Jason. He's gone." She fell into her best friends arms.

"I'm sorry," Jason murmured. And once again he was the one apologizing for the way another man had hurt her.

He pulled her closer and more into the hug. His leg throbbed from the wound that wasn't healed yet but he could only think of her pain in that moment.

"I can't deal with this alone," Carly moaned, with her face pressed against his chest. "Help me make this right."

He stepped back and looked at her. "We can talk about this later, okay? Figure out a way to get Jax to change his mind, if that is what you want."

"Later? I need you now."

Milo moved close to Lulu's window. He said happily, "Thanks for inviting me along."

Lulu said, "Sure. You are at least civil to me. I can not be stuck in this car alone with him for hours."

Carly raised an eyebrow. "Where are you two going?"

Jason explained why they had to go find Spinelli in Tennessee.

"I'm coming with," Carly announced. "I could use to get away from here. Sonny is going to have the kids for a few days anyway. And I can not sit at home, thinking about Jax and why he left me..." Her voice grew soft.

Max came out of the house again.

Jason stuck out his hand. "You got the key?"

Max looked down. "Uh...looks like we misplaced the spare set."

Jason groaned.

He turned back to Lulu. "Now you need to stop playing games. Let me in or else I'm breaking that window and we can drive down there with a permanent breeze messing up your hair."

She glared at him. "Not without Milo."

"Ugh! Fine, fine, fine! Milo get in. We are wasting so much time." Jason said

Lulu flipped the lock and then moved into the back seat, Milo climbed in next to her.

Jason started to get in the car.

Carly asked, "Jase?" She flashed her sad eyes at him.

He sighed, knowing he couldn't say no. "You can come."

Carly smiled and jogged around the car. When they were all inside, she said, "I haven't done this is years."

"What?" asked Lulu

"Gone on a road trip." Carly said "Won't this be fun, Jase?"

Jason shook his head, started the car, and drove off in silence.