Part 3 of the crazy road trip! And it gets even better when they actually reach the campsite :D
Disclaimer: Vampire Academy belongs to Richelle Mead
So there we were, driving down the motorway, laughing our asses off, when I heard the sound of a police siren, and looked in the rear-view mirror to see it signalling for us to pull over.
"Ah, shit." I said, which was echoed by everyone else in the car.
"I can use compulsion on them?" Lissa suggested, but I knew she felt bad about it. Plus, she was already using a lot of Spirit to keep us disguised, and I didn't want the darkness to get an even stronger hold on her.
"It's okay, Liss. I can use compulsion of another type." I said, waggling my eyebrows.
As I pulled over onto the nearest hard shoulder, I prepared myself for the coming confrontation, which meant unbuttoning my top 2 buttons on my shirt, re-applying lip gloss and fluffing my hair. I just hoped this cop was a guy.
We were in luck. A young officer walked over to the window, and I rolled it down, unhooking the radio form the dash and flinging it a Mia, who caught it silently. It wouldn't be good for them to see that, it would lead to awkward questions. True, we had a sort-of Alchemist with us, but Sydney really wasn't supposed to be here. I just hoped this guy was single.
"Hello ladies. Where have you..." The cop's eyes widened as he took us in. Let's face it; everyone in the car was really hot.
The cop cleared his throat and continued, his voice a little huskier than before. "Excuse me, Miss, but are you driving under the influence of Narcotics, stimulants or alcohol?"
I batted my eyelashes. "No officer, I don't drink." The less lies I told, the better. I mean, your soul mate's funeral doesn't count, right? "And I'm not on drugs, and coffee is way too, like, unhealthy. I'd get fat if I drank it." Eesh, I sounded like a proper bimbo. I hoped this guy liked that type.
"Of course." It seemed he did. "So, can you explain why your vehicle was not staying in a straight line, and why you were going 8 mph over the speed limit?"
"Oh, I'm so sorry! I didn't realise I was. I was just laughing about something my friends here said. We were talking about my ex,"I put extra emphasis on the word. "He cheated on me with this complete slut, and it turns out that she was cheating on him, with 2 other guys as well as her boyfriend at the time. It's like karma, you know? What goes around, comes around." I flashed my man-eater smile. I swear this guy was about to start drooling.
"Well, I'm sorry miss, but I'm going to have to give you a ticket-"
"Oh no, please. I swear, I won't do it again. I mean, it was just one of those moments, when you get carried away. It's just that this guy was such an ass to me, and it seems that guys never actually care about me, and they just try to use me because of what I look like. I bet you're not one of those guys, are you? I bet you respect women as individuals, and like equals. You seem like one of the good guys, which are so hard to find these days." I batted my eyelashes again, and I saw the decision in his eyes.
"You know what? I'm just gonna let it slide this time. But only this time, understand?" I nodded, wide-eyed.
"Oh, thank you so much." I turned around. "See, I told you girls that there were good guys in the world. They're not all like Adrian." Sydney gave me the evils, and I shrugged slightly. It was the first name that popped into my head. "Or Jesse." I turned back to the cop. He was actually pretty hot, but nothing compared to Dimitri. That gave me an amazing idea."Hey, could I get a picture with you? So I can prove to my other friends that good guys do exist?" I pleaded.
"Uh, sure." He agreed, and Lissa took a picture on her new camera. "Thanks so much. You just brightened up my day. Wait, no. My whole week." I gave him a killer smile.
"My pleasure. Always here to help." He dropped his voice to just above a whisper. "Seriously, you ever need any help, give me a call." He passed a card through the window, and I took it, deliberately brushing his hand. He looked like he might grow wings and fly away. "Thank you for your time, ladies."
"No, thank you." I blew him a kiss, and the young cop turned and walked back to his car. As he drove away I gave him a flirty wave, and then pulled back out onto the road myself.
We all burst out laughing again as soon as he was out of sight.
"Rose, that was awesome!" Shouted Mia, looping her arms over my headrest.
"I know, right! And I even got a picture. That's Dimitri's payback for letting Christian burn the donuts. Plus, his number will look nice in my scrapbook."
We drove off down the road, and when we saw the sign for a service station up ahead, Sydney spoke.
"Can we stop there, please?"
"Yeah, I need to pee, badly," said Mia.
"Yeah, sure. And I can get food." They laughed at me
"Oh, Rose. Always thinking about your stomach." Lissa sighed.
"Hey! Not always. I think about Dimitri quite a lot too. Though that does get me thinking about his family, and his mom's cooking..."
We pulled into the gas station, and went to open the doors. And failed. Not one door opened. I tried throwing all my weight against it, but nothing happened. Oh, shit.
DPOV
The only problem was that in our haste to find a gas station, none of us could remember where we had been driving for the last 20 minutes. In the end we gave up and turned on the SatNav, only to discover that all the writing and speaking was in Chinese. So we had to go back to basics, and we searched the car, looking for a map. It should have been in the pocket behind my seat, but it seemed it had been moved.
I checked the pockets in the door, and pulled out a crumpled up piece of paper that I passed to Eddie to read.
"Dearest Dimitri. I have a feeling that you and the SatNav might not be on speaking terms right now, and I know that as soon as you realised this you would turn to that ridiculously huge map that you insist on taking everywhere. Well, I put it in the glove box." Eddie rattled the handle on the handle on the glove box, but nothing happened. It was locked.
"Stop that, Eddie, it won't work."
"Psychic much?" Adrian asked rhetorically.
"It won't be that easy. If you want the map, and the other little treats we have hidden in there, you will have to find the key, using this riddle;
I look pretty gay, I have a big mouth-"
'Adrian!' we simultaneously shouted
"Usually full of air, but now filled to burst."
"Still Adrian!" Christian shouted, on his own this time.
"Shut up and let me finish reading!" Eddie shouted back.
"Take a look, if you've got the balls,
One thing's for sure, this'll end in LAWLS!"
Have fun, boys. Dimitri, do NOT drive all the way here without a break. I know you probably can, but you will be really tired and cranky, and so will I, which is never a good mix. I don't want you falling asleep and killing your lovely self. I don't care much about the others. Love you, R x" Eddie finished reading.
"Charming, so she doesn't care is we die because of Belikov?" Adrian asked, sounding annoyed.
Christian answered. "No, because you don't give her the sex like he does." Everyone else laughed, and I looked down, embarrassed. I still hated anyone talking about that, especially making jokes about it.
"Aaw, Big Bad Guardian's blushing! Christian helpfully pointed out.
"What, Belikov? Does she do things to you that-"
"I've got it!" Eddie suddenly interjected. "Looks pretty gay, big mouth, full of air- it's Adrian's man bag that he never puts anything in!"
"Ooh..." We all breathed in understanding, before making a mad grab for the bag currently between Adrian's feet. Which weren't on the floor like a normal person's, but on the headrest of Eddie's seat.
Christian got to it first, and ripped the zip open.
Several balls of scrunched-up paper fell out of it. Eddie picked one up and straightened it out.
"'How to keep and idiot amused... turn over to find out.' Seriously, Rose?" Eddie asked incredulously.
We pulled out several more screwed-up pieces of paper and photos, one of which was of Rose wearing her most angelic smile. I knew what that look was. She used it when she had done something particularly 'evil', and wasn't going to tell me what it was. Like hiding my duster or something. With that smile on her face, she could have burned all my westerns and I wouldn't have even cared. The things Roza did to me.
I picked up the photo from where it had been discarded on the floor and stuck it on the mirror, by my licence.
Suddenly hysterical laughter came from Christian.
"Guys, look at this!" He shoved forward a piece of paper, with a creased photo stuck to it. Adrian tried to grab it back, but was too late. Eddie held it out of his reach so that both he and I could see it. It was a photograph of Adrian in his boxers, and he seemed to be dancing around the room singing into a hairbrush. Eddie and I burst out laughing.
Adrian was complaining from the backseat. "Sydney said she wouldn't show anyone that photo."
I felt the need to defend his girlfriend, mostly because I was sure it was mine that had caused this.
"To be honest, Adrian, Rose probably did this on her own. This seems much more her style."
Adrian still looked annoyed. "Yeah, and you'd know all about her style." That pissed me off.
"Better than you, yeah. Everyone knows you wanted it, but never got it."
Silence filled the car, before Christian and Eddie started whooping and cheering.
"Belikov is out to play, everyone! I think he's been negatively influenced by a certain young lady, and I'm liking the feisty side!" Christian shouted.
Eddie snorted. "You have no idea how gay that sounded."
Just then, the intercom crackled, and I heard Roza's voice.
Hell yeah he has. Who could live with me all the time and not be influenced? Adrian, watch what you say, or I'm gonna kick your skinny ass when we get there. Dimitri, thanks for fighting for me, babe.
"I'll fight for you every day of forever, Roza. I love you."
I heard a chorus of 'aaw's over the radio.
Love you too, Comrade. But be warned, you will be fighting for your life when I get my hands on you. The thing with the doors was really low. Over and out, bitches.
Just then, we saw flashing lights behind us, and a cop car trying to pull us over. I drove into a lay by, and waited as a young blonde cop strode over to us.
RPOV
The doors were all locked. We were trapped inside the car after travelling for 8 hours, with no food and only water to drink. Needless to say, we had to get out of that car, now.
"I need the toilet so bad!" whinged Mia, bouncing up and down in her seat. We had done everything we could think of to get the doors open, and even Sydney's car knowledge hadn't been able to free us. She had indentified that the child locks on the doors had been stuck on in a special way, like a manual override, so they couldn't be taken off, unless there was a crash, and other emergency things such as the airbags were activated.
As soon as she said that we were still safe to drive, I knew who the culprit was.
"That complete bastard! I swear, if we don't get out of here in the next 10 minutes, then he ain't getting sex for a month!" I shouted. "I guess this is what you get for dating a guy who can hotwire any car in 30 seconds. And to think I found it hot at the time." I sighed regretfully.
Sydney bit her lip. "Well, there is one way out. We all turned to look at her, like she had the magical answers to every question in the universe. In truth, she probably had most of them.
"Uh, out the window." She said, and rolled it down to prove her point. I felt like an idiot for not noticing it before.
"Well, you go out first then Sydney, You're smallest, and you wanted to stop here first." Lissa told her, and with a groan, Sydney stood up as much as she could and stuck her head and shoulders out of the window. It was a good thing she was so skinny. She was my height, but otherwise the same build as the Moroi.
Once the top half of her body was out the window Sydney stopped, unsure what to do. We had pulled closer to the grass verge, so that she would have a soft landing, which is why I had no qualms about pushing her butt, and sending her flying out onto the grass.
She fell onto the grass and groaned. "Which evil creature of the night pushed me?" She asked, standing up.
I began to laugh, and she shook her head, anger fading from her face. "Nice to see you care, Rose. I was just wondering, do you spank Dimitri like that?"
Lissa and Mia burst out into hysterical laughter. It was such an un-Sydney like thing to say.
"Hell yeah. But, he likes it a little harder."
We were all in hysterics, but stopped laughing when Sydney tried the door handle from the outside. The door still wouldn't budge.
"Looks like we're coming out this way too. Who's going next? Mia?" I asked, looking between the 2 Moroi left in the car.
"Uh, Rose, I think you should go next..." Lissa said.
"Why? Mia has been complaining non-stop about how much she needs to pee."
Lissa looked awkward, but Mia just came right out with it. "Rose, you're the biggest out of all of us. You might need more pushing power to get through the window, it's kinda small."
"Ohhh. Meh, there's gotta be some time in life that my curves aren't the most practical. Now is my time, I guess."I climbed out of the driver's seat and into Sydney's vacated seat in the back, before sticking my arms, head and shoulders out the window, wincing as I squeezed my chest through. Sydney was waiting there to catch me, but I waved her off.
Allowing myself to tip forward, I placed my hands on the floor, and slid the rest of my body out, with a little help from Lissa. When only the bottom half of my legs were in the car, I pulled my knees into my chest and straightened my body into a handstand, walking a few steps on my hands before completing the forward roll and ending up on my feet, a few metres away from the car.
I heard giggling behind me, and turned to see Lissa and Mia still in the car, clapping and whooping, and Sydney standing watching me, phone in hand. "You get all of that?"
She nodded. I guessed she had been filming right from the start. Good, I wanted Dimitri to see how we had outsmarted him. Once Lissa and Mia were out, neither having exited the vehicle as smoothly as me, we split up to do what was needed, so we didn't waste any more time than we had to. Mia and Sydney went to the bathrooms, Lissa filled the car up with gas, and I went to get the food.
When Liss and I got back to the car from the bathroom, Sydney and Mia were waiting by the car for us, holding my camera.
"Let's have some fun with this." Mia said, waving the camera in the air. I immediately caught up to what she was thinking, and loved the idea.
"Nice." I said, and began climbing back through the window. When I was half way in, I turned my head to face Mia and the camera. Making sure that there was the best view of my ass possible, I winked. Mia took the photo, and I climbed the rest of the way in. Mia and Lissa did the same, with me helping to pull them through.
When it came to Sydney, she passed the camera through before her, and I snapped a pic just as she put her hands down onto the seat, in a way that pushed her cleavage up in a big way. One thing was for sure, Adrian would love this picture.
Once we were all in and settled, we left the gas station, and began to eat. We hadn't wanted to spend that much money yet, so Sydney, of course, had forgone a big meal to buy 2 coffees instead. The rest of us just drank the flavoured water we had brought with us.
Once we had finished eating, we decided to have a quick listen in on the guys. All was fine for a few minutes, until Adrian made a crack about Dimitri and I.
"To be honest, Adrian, Rose probably did this on her own. This seems much more her style." Dimitri said. He knew me too well.
"Yeah, and you'd know all about her style." Bitch please. He did not just go there.
"Better than you, yeah. Everyone knows you wanted it, but never got it." I was shocked. My Dimitri had made a successful comeback from one of Adrian's jibes, and it had been an awesome one.
"That's my man! Listen, he's all grown up and fighting back. I have trained him well." I pretended to wipe away a tear, and the girls laughed.
"Belikov is out to play, everyone! I think he's been negatively influenced by a certain young lady, and I'm liking the feisty side!" Christian shouted.
Eddie snorted. "You have no idea how gay that sounded."
I figured it was time to make my entrance.
"Hell yeah he has. Who could live with me all the time and not be influenced? Adrian, watch what you say, or I'm gonna kick your ass when we get there. Dimitri, thanks for fighting for me, babe."
"I'll fight for you every day of forever, Roza. I love you."
All the girls 'aawe'd, and I felt a warm glow spread through me. I missed him so much already.
"Love you too, Comrade. But be warned, you will be fighting for your life when I get my hands on you. The thing with the doors was really low. Over and out, bitches."
I cut the connection that allowed the boys to hear us, but left the other end open so that we could still listen to them.
I could hear a siren from the other end, but instead of passing, it grew louder and louder, until I heard a string of Russian words that weren't complimentary. That's when I realised that the police were after them.
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