Chapter 17: New York fun!
With the Rustbucket leaving Philadelphia, the gang's next destination is already decided.
"Well that was fun." Ben comments on stopping the robbers last night.
"Not to mention that I got some souvenirs." Gwen adds as she shows off a Philadelphia t-shirt along with a liberty bell necklace.
"Not only that, but we visited one of the historical cities in America." Max adds on not wanting to miss the conservation.
"Next stop, New York City!" Ben declared as Ben and Gwen high five one another.
Max drives for quite a while until around eleven when he pulls over to a rest stop.
"We'll stop here for the night." Max informed.
"Why can't we journey on?" Ben complained.
"If I was younger than yes, now no because I'm too fatigued." Max answered.
"Let's catch some shuteye." Gwen says as everyone goes to bed for the night.
When everyone is asleep, the only one wake is Ben, sleeping beside him is Gwen sleeping like Sleeping Beauty.
Ben just looks over at Gwen's sleeping body, he just loved it when she was sleeping like that, and just to tease her Ben attempts to wake her up at least a few pokes on her hip side.
Gwen just moves a bit but nothing major, Ben then tries to be romantic with her by wrapping his arms around her waist, Gwen sighs in relaxation as Ben hugs her around the waist while she slept and Ben kisses her on the neck softly as Gwen moaned in her sleep.
Ben just goes to sleep now, wrapped around Gwen as he enjoys his sleep.
The next morning, Gwen wakes up in a comforting embrace as she notices that Ben had wrapped his arms around her waist.
'Now isn't that sweet.' Gwen thought as she sees what Ben did last night.
Gwen gets rid of Ben's embrace, wakes up and gets ready for a day in the big apple.
Ben a few minutes' later wakes up and sees that Gwen is gone from her spot from where she slept last night.
"Looks like she beat me to it." Ben says as he gets up off the top bunk and then hears running water from the bathroom.
Ben goes and sits down at the table and knows that this isn't his usual way to start mourning by his standards, after a few minutes Gwen comes out and apparently she's washed her face, and by her smile on her face she feels great.
"Your turn." Gwen tells Ben as she walked by, gave Ben a peck on the cheek and closes the bedroom door where they slept last night.
Not wanting to waste any time, Ben goes in and gets ready himself for some fun in New York City along with Gwen and Max.
When Ben tries to get to his clothes, they were already laid out for him; surprisingly Gwen was the one that organized the clothes and Ben is surprised.
"I know that you're surprised, but I'm getting tired of seeing you in that same shirt." Gwen tells her cousin.
"Why Gwen?"Ben asks in curiosity.
"Just wanted to see the look on your face." Gwen answers teasing Ben a bit.
Ben walks up to Gwen, kisses her on the cheek, goes and changes while Gwen does the same.
Max finally wakes up for whatever reason later than the young kids first did, after Ben and Gwen got ready for the day a few minutes later Max was ready for the day.
"Did you too get up before me?" Max asked the kids with a confused look that you would expect from someone that normally gets up before you.
"Yeah grandpa." Gwen answered "It must be that time for you."
"Oh no Gwen, old age hasn't caught up to me yet." Max responds with a perk in his voice as he starts up the Rustbucket then drives around New York City for a while.
"Let it sink in, you're in the top five biggest cities in the United States." Max informs the young kids.
"I wonder what kind of fun we can have here." Ben theorizes
"Probably a lot fun for both of us." was Gwen's answer to Ben's theory, knowing that New York City is lit up at night like Vegas in at certain nights.
Then the family finds themselves in a traffic jam, like New York some states have way too many cars on the road at one time, Max wasn't fazed at this but Ben and Gwen were not expecting a jam at all.
"Now that's bad traffic." Gwen remarked.
"It's New York traffic for you." Max replied.
"How long are we stuck in traffic?" Ben asked.
"Depends on the jam." was Max's answer.
After being stuck in the jam for about ten minutes, the jam is over, "Finally." said an impatient Ben.
"Even for that long, that has to be annoying." Gwen added
"Trust me, it is." Max agrees with his granddaughter's statement about traffic jams.
When Max stops the Rustbucket this time, he has pulled up to a hotel, this hotel was about medium sized, it was about one-eighth the size of a skyscraper and had bright paint colors on the outside and had balconies for anyone who wanted to look outside.
"Nice choice Grandpa." Ben says.
"Looks in order." Gwen says.
"This is where we will check into later today, how about a drive around town?" Max offered
Both Ben and Gwen nodded at once never thinking about what kind of sights they would see, Max drives the Rustbucket to life as they went out on the town for quite a while, seeing the Radio City Music Hall, driving down Broadway and of course seeing the Stock Market.
"This is awesome!" an ecstatic Ben exclaims as they drove around New York City, Gwen especially is enjoying herself as the Rustbucket continues touring around New York City looking around like a couple of kids on a sugar rush.
"Wait till a special surprise." Max says to the cousins, now their smiles widen.
"Where we're going?" Ben asked, Gwen just nodded with the question.
"Wait until later on." was Max's answer to Ben's question, both cousins seemed disappointed at the answer.
A Few hours later...
Max currently has Ben and Gwen each with a blindfold on them, earplugs were put in their ear to prevent them from hearing the boat engine that was taking them to the Statue of Liberty and preventing them from seeing the statue itself.
"Can we see where we're at now?" Complained an impatient Ben, Gwen if she could see would have already said something smart, or punch him at this point but due to having a blindfold on she decided not to do anything at all.
"Not yet." Was Max's answer, he wanted it to be a surprise for them both before they had to head back home for school, obviously he had wanted their summer to be one of their best summers that they ever had in a while.
Once Grandpa Max leads them to a certain spot for the two to stand on inside, then he takes out the earplugs off Ben and Gwen, then he tells them "You can take off the blindfolds now."
When the two take off the blindfolds they are in awe of what is in front of them, after a few moments of the two soaking it all in the first one to speak was Gwen.
"Are we-"
"In the Statue of Liberty." Max had confirmed while the kids look around in wonder and in awe, Ben finally says "Now, this is a surprise!"
"It's a surprise all right, why you didn't tell us about this?" Gwen asks Max in curiosity; Ben's obviously is too busy looking around the statue to notice Gwen talking and going to buy some souvenirs for her and Ben.
After a couple of hours touring the statue Gwen obviously had brought souvenirs evidenced by the three bags she currently has with her, most of it was mostly t-shirts and souvenirs that she gave one bag to Ben to keep with him while she gave Max the other bag.
The trio leaves the statue of liberty then after two hours of driving around New York, Max pulls up in front of the hotel that he had shown the kids previously in the day.
Since they had left the statue everyone is fatigue from the touring that they done around the biggest city they've seen, once Max gets everyone checked in for the night the trio goes into bed for night, Max had his own room a few doors down while Ben and Gwen had a room to themselves for the night.
End of chapter 17
A/N: I know it's been a while for me to update the story because I'm in college now, now I know that doing school work and continuing the story won't be easy but it can be done, one more thing; I'll be changing the story's rating to T eventually so bear with me for the time being and I appreciate the support.
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