kayy so this kind of a short sweet chapter i wrote on a road trip....it exhibits a profound lack of New Yearsyness. Ill get to it...

Darren was woken up rather suddenly by his seat being cranked forward so suddenly he narrowly escaped being snapped in half. The culprit turned out to be Arrow, who claimed he didn't know how it worked. The entire population of the Escalade was in an uproar.

"WHAT HAPPENED?" Seba howled.

"Where did we sleep last night?" Larten exclaimed.

"Um...here?" Darren said nervously.

"HERE? In this filthy parking lot? Ewwwwwwww." Kurda moaned.

"The doors aren't even locked, we could have been picked off by Vampaneze!" Arrow roared.

"Really, Darren, how would you feel if we all got killed off last night? What kind of fate would the Vampire world have then, huh?" Paris reprimanded. "We'd be screwed, thats right, srcrewed!"

"Ewwwwwwwww." Kurda continued.

"We could have succumbed to hypothermia!" Seba added.

"I had the heat on." Darren muttered.

"We could have suffocated." Larten added. "I do not see any open windows!"

"If I opened the windows, we would have succumbed to hypothermia!" Darren protested.

"Yeah." said Seba, unsure as to what he was agreeing with.

"Irresponsible little prick." Mika growled. Darren highly doubted he cared about sleeping in the vehicle, he just liked making things difficult.

"It is...ok." Hakat interjected. "Darren did...something stupid...but nobody got...hurt, and it...won't happen...again."

"It will not happen again, will it Darren?" Larten said threateningly.

"Nuh." Darren mumbled.

"Alright then." Harkat concluded. "Let's go...find some...breakfast."

This brightened the mood considerably. However, Darren's misery was only incensed. For it was time to instruct his "children" in the usage of a Drive-Thru.

***

"Okay, Harkat is slowly going to pull up to the speaker, which appears to be a metal cube with holes. You will hear a voice coming from said metal cube, do not panic. The voice is produced by an actual person who is located within the building. At this point, we will take turns informing the person what we wish to eat for breakfast. Following this procedure, Harkat will drive up to the first window, where I will pay an exorbitant fee for our breakfast. When the transaction is complete, we will drive to the second window, and we will recieve our food. Then we hit the open road again!" Darren instructed his comrades as they waited in the drive-thru line.

"Oh-kay!" Kurda said happily.

"Yup." Mika yawned. Being a young, hip Vampire, he had some experiece with such things, as did Arrow.

"Sounds fairly straightforward." Larten said, sounding slightly suspicious.

"The metal box is an abomination!" Seba informed Darren.

"Seba, what have I told you about judging before meeting?" Paris scolded.

Seba growled.

"Let's do this thing." Darren said determinedly.

Harkat stepped on it. The Essie squeeched forward slightly. The minivan ahead of them was currently occupying the metal box, taking a terribly long time. Kurda, however, mistook the garbage can for the ordering device, and proceeded to introduce himself. Mika rolled his eyes and rolled up the side window, thus ending Kurda's life story.

When they finally arrived at the actual ordering device...

"?"

Seba screamed like he was being stabbed to death and tried to jump out the window from fright.

"I WANT AN EXTRA LARGE MOCCACHINO, 5 CREAMS AND 6 SUGARS!" Larten yelled as loud as he possibly coud. "CAN YOU HEAR ME?"

"Ummm, can I haaaave..." Kurda twirled his hair. "...a diet water?" he said with a completely straight face. Darren was ashamed to know him.

"A hashbrown...and...cinnamon melts." Harkat said simply.

"Gimme about 8 of those cinnamon melt things, and a bacon burger." Arrow ordered.

"4 Cinnamon melts, and2 bacon burgers. And a steak." Mika added.

"WeDontHaveSteak." the voice entered the vehicle again, causing Seba to convulse.

Mika rolled his eyes, opened the window as wide as it would go, leaned all the way out, and ROARED into the metal box. He held the note for about 30 seconds, then calmly re-entered the Essie.

"SteakComingRightUpppp!"

"A small fries and fruitopia." Darren said feebly. "And about 20 packs of barbecue sauce." he added, thinking of Seba who was currently rocking and moaning in the back seat."

"A BLT and a McFlurry." Paris concluded.

"OkaaaayYourOrderComesTo70.47."

"Was that really so hard?" Darren said in a strangled voice.

"You tell me, dude. It looks like you popped a blood vessel in your eye." Arrow noted.

poooooor darren

i enjoyed writing this... hope you had a happy and safe new yeaaarr :)

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