More Than Miles

by DaydreaminAri

When it comes down to your dreams, most people will do anything to make them become a reality. When Robbie gets accepted into MIT to major in computer science he has to make the biggest decision of his life. Follow his heart, or follow his dreams. But by the time he decides, there's more than miles in his rear-view.

4. Chapter 4

"Can we have one last song?" Sikowitz asks. We share some looks and all smile.

I grab the guitar and Andre gets set on the piano. Beck sits behind the brand new drum set and picks up the sticks. Tori gets Cat, Jade and herself a mic. The music starts.

(Tori Bold)

Oooooooh

Here's to the Mondays

Watching all the cars on the freeway

I ain't got a thing to do

Can I sit here next to you?

And oh oh ohhh

(Cat italics)

Yeah, I kinda wish I got paid

'Cause my card got maxed out yesterday

Could you give me a shot?

And I'll work with what I got

Not a dollar in my pocket but I rock it like I ain't broke.

You know?

(All girls is regular text)

Oooooooh

Here's to us uh-oh

Here's to us

Ooooooooooh

Here's to us uh-oh

Here's to never winning first place

Here's to crying on your birthday

Here's to every single heartbreak

Here's to us

Here's to us

(Jade Bold Italic)

Here's to the mistakes

Somehow they always drop you in the right place

So, let's go another round

Till the sky is falling down

And we'll laugh at all the shakers and movers

Now who's the loser?

What a joke.

(All)

Oooooooooooooh

Here's to us uh-oh

Here's to us

Oooooooooooooh

Here's to us uh-oh

Here's to never winning first place come on

Here's to crying on your birthday

Here's to every single heartbreak

Here's to us

Here's to us

Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na

(tori)

I'm a player, I'm a hater

But I swear you would never know

Cause I got a smile on

(Cat)

I'm an ex-con

That just got off parole

Could've been a contender, a pretender

(Jade)

Like Brando Play the role

But I'm not so what? And that's just how it goes.

Yeah

(All)

Oooooooooooooh

Here's to us uh-oh

Here's to us

Oooooooooooooh

Here's to us uh-oh

Here's to never winning first place

Here's to crying on your birthday

Here's to all the bad first dates

Here's to every single heartbreak

Here's to raining on your own parade

Here's to showing up anyway

Here's to us

Here's to us

Here's to

Here's to the Mondays

Everyone starts clapping. "I see what you mean by talent Sikowitz." My Gramps says to him.

"They are an unforgettable group… My god I'm going to miss them…" A sad look comes over his face.

"Don't be sad Sikowitz. Even the most beautiful rose has to die…" I tell him. Everyone starts to leave. The people from school get into their parents cars after saying our last goodbyes. A few tears fell, but overall this night was the best.

"Hey kids come here." Sikowitz calls us over. "Can you all do me a favor? Promise me that you will follow your dreams." He looks at all of us.

"Tori… your voice, you personality, the way you push yourself and others… never stop being you…" He looks over at Andre. "Andre… You're a rockstar man… you can sing, you can play almost every instrument, stick with it and you will go far."

He pauses for a moment debating who should go next. "Beck… You play the drums, you dance, you can sing, you can act, you treat people well, you've got the hair, you've got the looks, you've got everything… but what's most important is love. Never let Jade go." Jade smiles at him. "Jade… you're terrifying, you play with sharp objects, you can find about 100 ways to kill someone with a roll of toilet paper, you've got some anger issues, and you can be pretty mean… but you've got an amazing voice, and when you need to, you can be one of the best friend I have ever met." Jade gives Sikowitz a hg which is not normal, and what's even more unusual is I can see the tears form in her eyes.

"No one has ever said something that nice… Thank you Sikowitz." She says to him.

Sikowitz continues. "Cat… ah my little red head. You've got the voice of an angle, you're funny, you're sweet, and you're amazing. Never let anyone put you down." He looks over at me.

"I like to save the best for last… Robbie… You came in here as the nerd. People through you had nothing but a sense of humor. You carried around a puppet. But your acting skills, your guitar playing, even your voice, it blew us all away. You are the reason people in our school don't judge a book by its cover. For 10 years you've liked Cat, don't let her slip away. I've seen the way you look at each other… it was the way I looked at my wife for the years before she died. It's love. You better treat her right Rob." I nod, and the one thing that pops into my head, is MIT. How is that treating Cat right…? We all give each other a big group hug and Sikowitz leaves. It was the last time we would ever see him as a group.

"So my parents and all of yours agreed to let us all stay over here tonight. What do you think?" Tori asks us.

Everyone nods in agreement. This was going to be a fun night. "So we have a bunch of tents, really nice ones, a fire pit, and a bunch of sleeping bags and blow up beds…plus it's gorgeous out… Who wants to do a backyard campout?!" Tori suggests.

Jade wasn't much of an outside person but she figured they would be farther away from Tori's parents so they wouldn't get caught making out. Cat agreed because I would be there and so would Jade. Andre and Beck were both outside people and I just went along with it because I thought it would be fun.

Everyone was gone at this time, out parents brought a change of clothes, and we were ready to go set up. We got a bunch of tents, some were circular, like half of a sphere and others where rectangular. We sipped all of them together to make a large tent city. Next came the lanterns. We got some flashlights and lanterns and put them all around to make it lighter. The guys did half of the tent city and the girls did the other half. We hung some of the really small hand held flashlights on the ceilings if the tents and put lanterns all around. We put a couple large police flashlights in there too.

For some reason, I'm not complaining, but Tori had about 20 packs of glow sticks in her room too. We connected them and lined the openings and middles of the tents with them to make it glow. By the time we were done, we were all laughing.

It felt like we were kids again. The guys were wrestling around and jumping on top of each other trying to get glow sticks. The girls were bickering about how immature we are but they were still laughing. We all went outside of the tents to observe it from the outside.

It looked like a glowing city. Lights everywhere and we color organized the glow sticks so each tent was a different color. It was amazing. It was bright and florescent, lighting up the area a good 20 feet around each side. We took some extra flash lights and went over to the wood pile in the back corner.

From the house it looks like Tori has no back yard, only a porch, but behind all the bushes in a huge, open, grassy back yard.

We throw some sticks and branchs into the fire pit and of all people, Jade pulls out a lighter from her pocket.

"Why do you have that?" Tori ask Jade.

Jade just smirks. "Do you people not know me yet!? I mean seriously, we've all been friends for awhile and you asking why I have this." We all laugh. She has a point. She is Jade. That's why she has the lighter.

We light a piece of news paper and stick it under the branches and twigs we got. Once those light up we throw some chopped logs on to it. We wait for those to catch. Tori runs inside and comes back out with her hands full.

She puts down some medal skewers, gram crackers, chocolate, and 3 bags of marsh mellow. Jade goes with Beck to his car. They come back a few minutes later. Jade's carrying a 6 pack of Budweiser next to beck who 2 other 6 packs, one in each hand. They hurry over to the tent and put them in so nobody sees.

"We came prepared." Beck explains. Everyone laughs. We talk about what were going to do and decide that after s'mores we'll do something with it.

It felt good to act like a kid again. We made a big tent city and decorated it with lights and glow sticks. Now we're making s'mores. But in about an hour we won't be kids anymore.

After laughing and singing some songs we go into the tents. Jade throws everyone a beer. She opens hers first and raises it in the air.

"To making it through high school and to chasing our dreams!" She says as everyone opens theirs and taps it against each others.

That was the beginning of the best night of my life