Roadtrip

Izzie’s POV
Matt was guiding me inside. I barely even noticed his arm around my shoulder, I was pre occupied with Josh on my mind. I looked up to him as we walked into the dressing room “Matt, I really need to talk to Mia, can’t I just get over there for a bit? I will work even harder after that!” I heard myself beg and I hated how my voice sounded. Matt looked at me with a confused face “I just told you, you can’t. The owner was already pissed that we weren’t here earlier, if we don’t do as he tells us, we will be out of here in a second and we need the money. What’s so urgent?” I got out from under his arm “Nothing” I started muttering under my breath “Can’t even talk to my own best friend anymore...”
“So you want to talk to everyone except for me” Brian said to me in a hushed tone, making sure no one heard him.
“Brian, I told you. Leave this the fuck alone”
“You don’t talk to me, you didn’t even let me touch you over at the gas station and then you let a stranger touch you first” I flinched at the thought of Josh, why didn’t he just do as I asked and leave this be “and then Matt can put his arm around you and you are practically running from me”
I snapped my head at him in the middle of pulling my pants down.
“Wow, you must be lonely there on Planet Brian!”
Brian’s pursed his lips into one thin angry line as he threw his clothes into the bag angrily.

Matt and Zack were already in their shorts and flip flops, pulling the life guard shirts over their heads. Matt threw us ours “We will get out there already, you two hurry up and join us”. As soon as Matt and Zack were out the door, Brian started again.

“I didn’t hear you complain about Planet Brian, last night!”
“Oh god, not the sex again!”
“You were just too happy to accept the sex, don’t say I was the only one who wanted it”
“So you do remember last night? For a second I thought you forgot all about it!”
“WHAT THE FUCK IZZIE! EXPLAIN!?”
“THE NO JEALOUSY RULE!?”
Brian looked guilty for a second and then regained himself “THAT WAS BEFORE I KNEW YOU WOULD FUCKING RUN INTO SOMEONE ELSE’S ARMS THE FUCKING NEXT DAY!”
“I DIDN’T EVEN KNEW THE GUY!”

Okay, that was a lie, but we were far past the point of handling this like adults. We were full on screaming at each other right now and I just couldn’t believe how he made this all about him again. I had enough on my mind and he just couldn’t let it go.

“ARGH! You frustrate me, get out of my sight, I don’t want to even look at you right now!” I pushed myself past him to the door and walked out, trying to stick a smile to my face. I needed to put this fight aside, at least for the outside world.
“This is not over yet!” I heard Brian catch up to me
“Yes it is!”

I made my way over to Matt and Zacky who were talking to some guys in the same shirts we were wearing now. I put on a fake smile and walked over to the most handsome and second broadest of the guys, I mean, let’s be honest, no one could beat Matt, and put on my most seductive voice “Can I team up with you?” I batted my lashes at him...
Oh yeah, I was full on bitch at this moment, he wanted to act jealous, I would fucking give him something to be jealous about.
The guy smiled at me, as soon as he was done looking me up and down. Matt looked at me surprised and then at Brian who’s face got darker within the minute.
“As much as I would like that” he smiled at me smoothly. Ugh, he was one of those dirty slick bastards.... I didn’t like him, but I needed to see this through “but we need girls like you on a whole other side of the pool. So I will take... you and you...” He pointed at Matt and Zack “And you two, can watch the kiddies pool. Kids respond better to girls” he explained. Brian opened his mouth to argue that. Of course he would argue that, the guy was talking in generalities, but Brian probably thought the guy called him a girl to his face, seeing the world was only revolving around him.
“Okay” I replied, putting my hand on the guys arm “But maybe we could talk later? Your profession seems very interesting”

He smiled at me as he walked away and I started to walk in the other direction to find the paddling pools and all the other kids oriented activity pools. Brian soon caught up to me, mocking my voice
“Are you kidding me? ‘Maybe we could talk later? Your profession seems very interesting’” That guy only wants one thing from you!” he whispered loudly.
I turned around to him “That is the only thing YOU want from me, so what’s the fucking difference!”
We had reached the paddling pool in the meantime and I walked over to a group of moms, putting a smile on my face, asking them if they had everything they needed, admiring the kids, helping the bigger kids get of the slide, completely ignoring Brian.

He was standing on the side, overseeing all the kids pools and I stood next to him as soon as I was done with this group of kids.
“I don’t want to get a fucking STD, because you are sleeping around” he whispered to me
Was he fucking serious?! “Did you just call me a slut to my face?!” I snapped at him. A few parents were watching us.... Yeah.. that was probably a little too loud. He opened his mouth
I held up my hand “You know what Brian? I don’t need to hear it.” He wanted to start again “No, really, I don’t want to hear it, just.... don’t speak to me again, okay? That would make it so much easier for the both of us!”
I walked away from him, fighting the tears. I always did this, crying when I was too mad to do anything else, leaving the people I was mad at to think I was sad or crying because I was regretting what I said. I wouldn’t give him the satisfaction of seeing my angry tears, he would never ever see me cry.

Mia’s POV
Jimmy, Johnny and I were working the shop of this pool and I didn’t know it would be, but it was actually a lot of fun. They had so many stuff for people to use and play with in this pool. There was this whole range of goggles, all different kinds of inflatable animals, little balls to play with in the pool and water guns.

The guy who was showing us around told us we could pretty much do anything we liked, as long as we were selling. We didn’t even think about it twice and started inflating a few animals to play around with. Jimmy had this great shark which he lovingly called ‘Lenny’. Johnny had soon laid his hands on turtle. “I will call him “teenage mutant ninja” and then he can keep his last name” he said matter of factly, which made Jimmy laugh like a crazy man, but to be honest, them playing around with the animals in front of the shop, sure made the sales rise through the roof. I was soon out of sharks and the stock of turtles was slinking so fast, we were down to selling “teenage mutant ninja”.

“I don’t want him to go” Johnny stated pouting. “Johnny, he has to, this sweet little girl will take very good care of him, I’m sure!” I smiled at the little girl who really wanted the turtle.
“It’s not a him, it’s a her and her name is Molly!” This wasn’t a sweet girl, this was a tiny daughter of Satan! I looked over to the girl’s mother, who gave us a disapproving look.
“Come on Sally, mommy will pay for this. These big men are a little stupid, adults don’t need to play with toys anymore” she said with a patronizing voice.
I held my hand to Jimmy’s chest who was ready to give the woman his two cents.
“That would be 20 dollar, m’am”
“What?! That’s seriously overpriced”
I smiled at her sweetly “I’m really sorry, that’s just what we were told to charge”
The girl started whining “Mommy, I need to have it!”
The woman threw a 20 on the counter stormed out. As soon as she was out of sight Jimmy lifted me up and twirled me around, kissing me “You are too damn amazing! You just charged her double!”
“Teenage mutant ninja deserved it!” I winked at Johnny.

The rest of the afternoon we sold like crazy, having a lot of fun. I couldn’t even think of a better job to do. An hour before our shift ended we even had a water fight with all the water guns we sold in the store. It was amazing and I discovered a side of Johnny I would’ve never expected... he was damn good in these games and I made a mental note for a future laser tag or paintball game... I would definitely go with Johnny’s team.

When our shift finally ended we went over to the dressing room, where Matt, Zacky, Brian and Izzie were already back into their normal clothes.
“He guys, we made 700 dollars today, because you guys sold so amazingly well, good job! And.... I arranged another show for tonight. We will have to meet up with the guy directly after this and then we can play later tonight”
Izzie quickly got up and stood next to me “Ah, we will meet you guys again in the hotel then, are we having dinner over there?”
“Sure, Matt said, we will probably be there around 7 again”

Izzie started dragging me out of the room, what the hell was wrong with her and why wasn’t Brian all over her? Since their past night, he hadn’t been able to keep his hands of her for a second. What was going on? Jimmy grabbed my hand and stopped Izzie from dragging me outside “Wait up! I will go with you!” Izzie turned around with panic in her eyes “No, Jimmy, you have to go with Matt and the others... I mean... you have to check the drumkit, right?” His face fell and I knew he had to do it if he needed to play tonight
“Okay... But only because I really have to” He pulled me against his body, looking into my eyes deeply “Wait for me, okay?” I kissed him and let him deepen the kiss, when I heard Matt clear his throat we parted and I blushed “Of course”. He smiled and gave me a little peck.

As soon as we sat down in the car and Izzie had turned on the engine I looked at her “What the fuck is going on? You act really strange”
“Josh is here”
“WHAT?!”
“Josh is here, he came up to me this morning when Brian and I were getting coffee at the gas station”
My heart started racing and I could barely breath anymore. He was really here, he even made contact, fucking hell, this was bad.
With every bit Izzie told me about their meeting this morning, the nagging feeling in my stomach was getting bigger and bigger.
“If I don’t hand you over to him within 48 hours, he will find us and he will hurt Brian and Jimmy”
“No....” I whispered “I will get back with him, I will call him right away”
Izzie put her hand on my hands “No, you are not getting back to him, we will move on, if we leave, Brian, Jimmy and the others will be safe. We have 48 hours to get away from him as far as possible, we can outrun him. I won’t let you get back to him!”
“What do we do?”
“After we have dinner with the guys, we will hang back in the hotel, telling them we will meet them later, we will pack our stuff, go over to the show and leave before they end. This way we will be able to get away without them knowing” I heard what she said, I knew she was right, but for a minute I hated her for saying it out loud.

“I have to leave Jimmy?” I said quietly
“I’m so sorry babe”

Notes

Oh boy...