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Smooth Criminal

seventeen.

“I spy with my little eye something… Red.”
“Jack Bassam Barakat if you do not get your nasty feet out of my face, I will climb back there and murder you.”
“Mom, when are we stopping next? I’m freaking starving.”
“I have to pee so bad, dude.”
“You peed, like, thirty minutes ago.”

We were somewhere in Tennessee and everyone had something to complain about by this point. Of course a good majority of the complaints were aimed towards Jack and his many smells… I swear to God, that boy could not go a single minute without burping or farting or shoving his feet in someone’s face. Amanda was about ready to strangle him and I felt slightly sorry for her for having to be right next to the boy. Kara was snuggled up next to Rian, fast asleep on his shoulder, while he fidgeted with his fingers and was constantly shaking his leg up and down next to Alex, who was to my right, sitting me by the window.
“I have a drummer’s twitch, asshole,” he defended himself when Alex yelled at him for the habit. Zack sat quietly in the back with Matt, Jack, and Amanda, not making a single peep, other than to ask when we were stopping for food. I’m not quite sure what had possessed the two mothers perched in the front seats to take on the responsibility of babysitting seven high schoolers for three days, but I definitely owed them big time for agreeing to this. We were not an easy group to be reckoned with.
“We’re stopping in about ten or fifteen minutes at a gas station. You can pee there, Amanda. And you can all get snacks or something,” Mrs. Dawson said as she eyed Mrs. Barakat with an exasperated look. Mrs. Barakat just shook her head with an exhausted grin. I looked up at Alex from where I was resting my head on his shoulder and he smiled down at me with a wink.
“Hey you,” he whispered, leaning down to plant a kiss on the top of my head.
“Hello,” I said quietly, absentmindedly playing with his fingers that were intertwined with my own. “Are you excited?” I asked him.
“I’m so beyond excited,” he replied with a giddy grin. I met his smile with a similar grin of my own, but the cause completely different from his. Alex had one of those smiles that just totally melted your heart. It made my brain go fuzzy and he was all I could focus on. The way his dimpled smile reached all the way to his chocolate brown eyes and made them sparkle with happiness was completely hypnotizing. I could stare and study him all day long if given the chance.
“What’re you thinking about over there?” Alex asked, breaking my train of concentration with the squeeze of my hand.
“You,” I replied honestly and watched his grin triple in size.
“All good things, I hope.” He sends a wink in my direction and I wink right back at him.
“Nothing but the best.”
I nuzzle my head deeper into the crook of his shoulder as he wrapped an arm tightly around my shoulders, laying his head on the top of mine. I could feel his breath hit my hair as I closed my eyes and felt myself fall asleep.
“Do not wake them up like that,” I heard Matt’s voice say sternly somewhere in the back of my head.
“They’re so cute. Just let them sleep,” Mrs. Barakat’s voice sounded somewhere close to Matt’s.
“But we can’t just leave them in here while we all go inside,” Rian argued. I felt my nose twitch as my body began to wake up. I heard a camera snap relatively close to me and I finally woke up, rapidly blinking my eyes as I stretched out my arms.
“She’s awake!” Amanda yelled excitedly from outside the van, where I then noticed everyone else was also standing. Everyone cheered at the news and I rolled my eyes and nudged Alex until he woke up.
“W-Wha…?” He mumbled, rubbing the sleep from his eyes. I pointed to everyone standing outside and he followed to where my finger was. “Oh. I guess I have to piss.” I giggled at his blunt statement and waited for him to get out so that I could remove myself from the van as well.
“So we should reach Dallas sometime between twelve thirty and one AM,” Mrs. Dawson informed us as we all piled into the gas station. A few of us let out annoyed groans, not wanting to be locked in the van for much longer. I was all for bonding with my friends, but this was getting to be too much bonding. We were borderlining suffocating each other, all being forced into such a small amount of space at once. Especially with Jack, who thought it was funny to fart every two minutes. I don’t even understand how that much gas can be contained in such a small body…
“Stells, come over here and look at this!” Amanda yells from where she’s standing on the other side of the gas station. I glared at her for the unnecessary volume but head over to her regardless.
“What’s up?” I asked her as I scan the area for what could possibly be so important. I watch as Alex and the guys walk straight towards the bathrooms and then avert my attention to my best friend.
“So,” she started with a deep breath. “Jack wanted me to ask you if it’s okay if you and I switch rooms so that I’m with Jack and you’re with Alex.” I stare at her, trying to comprehend what the fuck just came out of her mouth since she said it all so fast.
“Wait what?” I finally ask her.
“Jack wants to share a room with me. And, I mean, it’ll work if you want to share a room with Alex,” she repeated herself, offering me an angelic smile. I mule this plan over in my head and realize that there is no way in hell that Mrs. Barakat is going to let her son share a room with a girl over the weekend. So that’s what I tell Amanda.
“The moms are not going to be okay with this plan whatsoever. There’s no way it’s gonna happen,” I told her, shooting her a very stern look.
“We already figured that much out. So we make it seem like we’re staying in our original rooms. And then we switch when the moms are in for the night. It’ll be perfect.” Amanda gives me an insanely toothy grin and I can’t help but think that we could actually pull this off.
“If we get in trouble,” I start to say, “I’m going to murder you. You will die a very slow, painful death.”
“Yeah, yeah.” She brushes me off, not too concerned about her brilliant plan falling through the cracks.
“I’m serious. Very slow and very painful. Do you hear me?” I raised my eyebrows at her, no trace of joking in my expression. She nodded her head at me, not really listening to anything I was saying; she was way too excited about the fact that I had actually agreed. “Weren’t you the one who had to pee oh-so badly?” I finally question her as she sifted through the assortment of chips. She looked up at me with wide eyes and then made a mad dash towards the restrooms, leaving me chuckling at her. I will never understand that girl sometimes.
I make my way towards the restrooms shortly after, figuring there’s no telling when we were going to stop next so I might as well try.
“Has Amanda talked to you yet?” Alex asked me when we both came out of the restrooms at the same time. I immediately found my hand naturally grasping his own as we made our way to find snacks.
“Yeah, she said something about switching rooms,” I answered him, gazing at the multiple types of Bugles they had on the shelf, my hand still safely interlocked with Alex’s as he rubbed his thumb tenderly over the top of my hand. The feeling of his hard, calloused hand formed a series of goosebumps to break out on my skin and I shivered.
“I don’t have a problem with the plan if you don’t,” Alex tells me as he picks up a bag of cool ranch Doritos, tucking them underneath his free arm. I smiled up at his tall figure and shrugged.
“I really don’t have an issue with switching. I just don’t want to get into any trouble,” I admitted to him. Even though I was in this whole “rebellion” phase, I still had somewhat of a conscious and I didn’t like upsetting adults that weren’t my father. I didn’t want to be a hassle to the two mothers that had agreed to take a break from their lives to babysit us obnoxious teenagers.
“We should be fine,” Alex assured me as I grabbed a bag of original Bugles and the two of us made our way to the front where everyone else was already waiting.
“I swear to God, we can’t take them anywhere without them disappearing to go have sex,” Jack laughed jokingly, earning a slap to the chest from me.
“I was having a hard time deciding what chips I wanted, Bassam,” I spat at him. He gave me the look one would receive from a wounded puppy and immediately backed off. The moms payed for our snacks and the ten of us piled back into the van.
“I’m going back to sleep,” I announced to no one in particular, resting my back and my head against the window behind me, my feet resting in Alex’s lap. “If I wake up with anything on my face, I will kill you all.” As I said this, I glared directly at Jack and he gave me a sheepish smile.
“I’ll make sure that no one touches you, baby,” Alex assured me. My heart fluttered at the name and I happily closed my eyes, falling into a content, deep sleep.

Notes

Yay for more boring fillers. I swear there's a purpose to all of these, though.

Comments

This was one of my absolute favorite stories. I am very curious to know if you are going to continue with this? Because I have to know what happens next.

BreaClift. BreaClift.
6/14/21

I want to know if there is going to be sequel to this story?

BreaClift. BreaClift.
3/26/19

I don't remember anything. I need to restart this. Damn, all I remember is loving this. Only more reason to read it all again.

Haha, keepin' it real. :) No worries, the only one that was kind of concerning was the Blink-180 because I think that's the first time I've ever seen that. XD But I figured it was a typo.
:)

Nanook Nanook
1/4/19

@Daydreamers her big reveal will be in the last chapter ;) hang tight.

katybear18 katybear18
1/4/19