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Chapter 8

I woke up the next morning, feeling groggy as per usual. I quickly got dressed into 3 tops, a hoodie and my sole pair of jeans, and I shivered. It was really cold in there when the engine wasn't on, a fact I had only just noticed that morning.

When I was dressed, I was still freezing cold, so I wrapped up warm in my duvet. I was still cold.

"Anyone awake?" I asked
"No... we're all asleep..." Anita said.
"Anita, can I borrow your duvet?"
"No... I'm using it..."
"I'm bloody freezing."
"But I'm asleep..."
"But I'm cold."
"No..."
"Please?"
"No..."
"Please?"
No..."
"Please?"
"Shut up, you're giving me a headache..."
"Okay... I guess I'll just speed this up..." I said, whilst going over to grab her duvet.

I ripped her duvet off her, sat down on my bed and wrapped myself in both duvets.

"Kaisha... why am I cold?"
"Um... go wake Mandy up... maybe she can tell you..."
"It's, like, 6 am, I'm surprised we're awake. Now give me back my duvet."
"Come here and fetch it, but I'll freeze..."
"Now you mention it, it is a little cold..."
"Well... want to share the duvets?"
"Okay... but I'll go get changed in the bathroom first. I'll put about 4 or 5 layers on."
"Good idea."

While Anita got changed, I got as warm and snuggled as I could, the temperature seemed (somehow) lower than whenever we were in the tennis courts in our miniscule school uniform back in England.

"Okay... lift up the duvets." She said when she came back in.
"Ok..."

She climbed in. A few moments of silence later, Anita finally spoke up.

"This is... awkward..."
"Yeah..."
"Let's go wake up Mandy..."
"Yeah, go shove a glass of water on her face..."
"What, really?"
"Yes, really."
"Okay."

I wasn't being serious, but I guess Anita thought I was... I found that out when I heard...

"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO?"
"I poured a glass of water on your face to wake you up. We're cold. Turn on the engine? Maybe get an early start?"
"Oh... well, I guess. Just don't do that again..."
"Okay!"

Anita then came back over to the beds, and took her duvet back.

"Mandy's turning the engine on." She said, whilst throwing her duvet back onto her bed into a lovely little pile.
"How neat!" I said sarcastically.
"If you want to make my bed, then you're welcome to. I'm not gonna."
"Me neither!"
"Will you please be quiet... one of us is trying to sleep up here..." Lolly said from her bed.
"Sorry Lol!" I said.
"It's, like, 6, I want to sleep."
"We'll shut up now..."
"Thanks..."

The engine turned over, and we began our day's travel. I didn't exactly know where we were, well, there was no point asking. I didn't know how many hundreds of miles we had travelled, nor did I care, I just wanted to get to Forks as soon as possible, but I also wanted to savour every moment.

A few minutes later, I was all snugly warm again, so I took a few layers off and picked up my book from where I had left off the previous night.

"Anyone want to be read to?"
"Ooh! Me! Me!" Lolly said, emerging from the covers.
"Count me in too!" Anita said.

Anita and Lolly climbed on to my bed, then I joined them. I was then in the perfect position to notice Jess leaving the bed area, and going to the sofas, to stare out the window.

"So are you going to read us the entire series?" Lolly asked.
"Yep! And when, not if, we finish the Twilight Saga, we'll move on to the other book series I bought along with me."
"Which one?"
"Now, Anita, that would be telling."

I really liked reading books, and I thought it was neat to read to others. Especially Twilight. Reading Twilight made me feel like I was Bella Swan, especially when I read it aloud. Plus, it was more interesting.

I read another chapter before I had another fantastic idea.

"Anyone want to take over reading in a bit? It's only because I thought it wasn't fair on you to have to listen to my voice drone on and on for two days in a row."
"I'll do it!" Lolly said.
"Do you want to take over now, or later?"
"Now."
"Okay," I said, handing the book over. "We're at the top of the first paragraph on the right hand page."
"Okay, Kaisha."

And Lolly continued reading. I found it hilarious how she did little voices for all the characters, like for Alice, she made her voice really high and squeaky for some reason, and for Emmett she made her voice all deep and mannish. Much better than I did, anyway.

However, our laughing soon came to an end when Lolly started having about 50 billion coughing fits at once, and couldn't read anymore. We then decided that we would stop reading for a bit, and put a DVD on... Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. It was exactly what I wanted to wanted to watch, it was sweet, romantic, funny and there was a bit of a road trip in it. Basically, it had most of the genres I love in it.

"Kaisha!"
" Yeah, Lolly?"
"Did you bring any more Disney?"
"I've got... Bolt? Camp Rock? Princess Protection Programme? Cinderella? Snow White? I have a load, go take a look."
"Oh, can we watch Bolt?"
"Yeah, of course."

I grabbed Bolt from my DVD collection and put it in my laptop.

We all loved it, and reacted as if none of us had seen it before, when in reality, Lolly and I had both seen it. By far, the cutest scene was the first one, in the pet shop. Bolt was just the cutest puppy! Okay, so we were being a little immature, but it's so boring to be sensible, hence why I'm only (somewhat) sensible at school, but not very much in music, but that's only because she's so... nice and she's far more like a friend than a teacher, and when we're in our music class of 18 people (including the teacher) it feels like we're with our family and friends.

At the end of the film, we all sang along to the song. Who could blame us?

There was then an awkward silence, which, somehow, lasted almost an hour, finally broken by Jess.

"Jess just texted me. She wants to talk to Kaisha." She said. I grabbed her phone off of her, and texted Jess a few times, before throwing it back to Jess.
"HEY! Don't throw my phone, K!"
"You know, I'm beginning to regret inviting you. In fact, I might just send you back now and have someone come replace you!"
"Fine, but see how everyone reacts when I tell them why you're really in America."
"You wouldn't!"
"Try me."
"I tell you what, Why don't I just throw you out of the car here and let you find your own way home?"
"Doesn't sound any worse than being stuck here with you!" she said, grabbing her things, and heading to the front of the caravan. She asked Mandy to stop, and stepped out. within seconds she was gone, stood on the side of the road, and I was left to wonder, had we gone too far?

Soon we were miles away, and I had no option to change my mind. I noticed that a silver Volvo, like Edward Cullen's, then overtook us, oh my god, it would have been so cool if it was Edward's Volvo, wouldn't it, but I only worried about my ex-friend Jess. I just hoped that some psychotic freak hadn't murdered her.

I had to get my mind off it, though, so I went back to reading books. Jess... Urgh, why couldn't I get that girl out of my idiotic head. I only gave her what was coming to her... actually, it was her choice to leave. I didn't make her, and it was her fault we fell out. Okay, maybe there was a... slight possibility that I was... a little bit at fault... but she wouldn't apologize, I would apologize if she apologized first. I hoped we'd somehow find her again, but I didn't think it was likely... unless Alice had a vision and that was Edward's Volvo...

"Kaisha, are you okay now?" Lolly asked.
"I just hope Jess is okay... I think I made a rather bad choice..."
"I know... but you just wanted some time away from her... I guess... you have her mobile number, right? Call and/or text her?"
"I guess... but I need to leave her time to cool down... okay... that's enough time."

I picked up my mobile and called her, but her annoying ringtone swam through the bus. She had left her phone behind.

"Oh shit!" I said, grabbing her phone and stopping it ringing. I really wished I hadn't kicked her out then.

It was time for lunch after that, and all the other bagels had miraculously disappeared, so we went to McDonalds again, but this time had 2 large fries, a McFlurry, and a large drink each. Not particularly healthy, but much easier than one of us attempting to cook.

After I ate, I began to feel tired, so I put on a few DVDs to watch. By the time I had gotten through the pile, Mandy had stopped the van for a quick break, and informed me that, at this rate, there was every possibility that we could arrive in Forks late the next day, or early on the day after. I was ecstatic. She soon began driving again, and we were closer to Forks by the second.