Road Trip

Summer time and so far...lets just say it sucks. 17 years old and the last 3 months I've done nothing but plan my summer out, me and my boyfriend we were going to spend almost the whole summer together, and its all gone downhill. My parents are on a cruise, they really wanted me to go and who wouldn't want to go on a Caribbean cruise? This fool! He gives me butterflies and him whispering in my ear let's spend the summer together kept playing in my head over and over. I even turned down a trip to go to Florida with my bestie and friends. My parents gave me money and of course went over the rules of no parties.

Summer so far it sucks, boyfriend was supposed to come over to start spending some quality time, but he had to go to a party. Knew he must of passed out when I didn't hear back from him. I woke up elevated ready to start my day. I check my phone and there is way too many messages, I scroll to my boyfriend Josh's message first saying..."I'm so sorry I can explain. I start to panic, I cant stand, talk, breath. I proceed to scroll past other messages from concerned friends and go straight to Laila's along with the missed calls and voicemails. Its a video of my man making out with his ex! My heart was beating outside my chest, tears wouldn't stop, I was humiliated. Another text comes in and its him again, "please call me back, I'm sorry, I was drunk can I please come over so we can talk?" Let's just say the phone went across the room, I was throwing stuff everywhere like this house belonged to me. I was furious. Cried myself to sleep.

It's 3am, Laila's calling. "Hey girl are you ok, we are worried", "I'm fine, but I need to get out of this house! She said, girl get in the car and just come here, clean the mess when you get back, we can go out and help clear your mind, you don't need this girl, come party with us! Honestly It's not a bad idea but by myself? I've never done that before and my parents would be pissed, but would they? I mean they didn't say I couldn't leave the state and no one is in the house and I have money, honestly how bad can it be all the more reason to have a hot girl summer I'm down to do anything. I texted my friend Brandy who's been wanting a girls trip so maybe this is the perfect time she could definitely come for the ride.

He kept texting me, so I deleted him off all my photos just so he can get the hint grabbed all my sexy outfits and bikinis, grabbed the cash, checked the locks and bounced. I've never driven for more than an hour, but my emotions were controlling my thought process, I just had to get into something. After two hours of driving we stopped to grab food and Starbucks. That cost $20.00 and to be honest at that very moment I didn't care, I was just happy.

We just crossed over to Florida, ETA 5.5 hours left. The weather is great, not too much traffic but I ran over some tire debris, I didn't think it damaged my tires it just looked scuffed up so what's the big deal. 10 minutes later and here we go. My car starts making this violent noise I almost felt threatened by the damn thing like I hurt it the way it started to shake. ''Maybe we should've checked on the tire?'' Brandy says anxiously. I pull over on the highway and yes indeed it was a very flat tire. I've only seen my dad change a tire but it shouldn't be so bad. I just imagined a car that automatically can change a tire.

"I'll go on google and we'll go from there" I said.

"You sure you don't want to just keep starring at it?" says Brandy.

"shut up"

Brandy laughs she then looks up nervously and then back at me.

"Great" I said with annoyance like I didn't already have a cheating ex and now a very flat tire.

A growl comes from the sky and a dark cloud forms over our heads out of pettiness!

Rain then starts falling from the sky.

After 30 minutes of getting soaked the tire is finally on, dripping hair, drenched car seats, 5 missed calls from my ex...life couldn't be better. Ready to get there, as we get closer I look over and Brandy is loosening up her seatbelt sticking her head out of the window for 10 minutes now like she's in a 2018 summer coming of age movie. She looks over at me, "Fix your face where in Florida!" She had a point, I came here to have fun and basically run away from my problems turned up the music and just let it all go.

We made it to the hotel and met up with Laila and my other two girlfriends Maya and Sasha I felt the tension go down, I felt calm, I felt ok. We met up with people and bought a lot more liquor and stuff to smoke, we all put in $75.00. "Hey maybe we should go night swimming at the beach" says Brandy. It's the beach, what could go wrong?

Music blasting on the speakers, our drunken selves screaming singing, bon fires and grilled hot dogs. We walk into the soft sand and the girls start running and screaming but the thought of what happened and the hurt he made feel crept up. Trying not to ruin everyone's night, because he sends a photo of us hugging and holding a kiss. Felt like a forever kiss but whatever! I send back a middle finger emoji, and stuffed my mouth with hotdogs, danced like no one was watching, raced random strangers, and tried not to drown in the ocean, so far my night is going amazing. The next day waking up on the pullout couch with nothing but a headache and a pillow, no one but me in the hotel room I try and remember what happened but the night felt so blurry.

I reach over to check my phone and see that my mom left a message saying they were headed back because a bad storm was coming and they are turning back and should reach home in 2 days. Oh no! The house is a mess, I got to get back and this tire has to be fixed! I have $335.00 left, I call the girls and freak out on them because we got to get back and they are out shopping. Its already 3pm, yea I really slept in and I have to find a tire place before they close, so I went and found one. $110.00 for a tire and installation, I wanna cry.

It's 4:30, the girls are trying to get me to stay because it's not safe to travel at night and if my parents found out they would take my car and throw away the keys. Laila convinced me to leave early in the morning. My parents wouldn't reach home until that night. We got dressed and went out to eat and take selfies! My girls really know how to make you forget about someone you love, someone you thought you would spend your life with. However now I'm down another $80.00 freaking dollars. We say are goodbye's, me and Laila shed some tears, I would much rather be with her on this road trip, Brandy is thinking the same she was not ready to go back and even suggested she stay because dropping her off would be 20 minutes out the way to my destination. SMH. Laila shut that down and told her she had to bounce especially because she ran out of money and we all had to contribute to her meal last night. I was embarrassed, I had to bring a broke friend. She will be sending me money for gas, this trip was not a cheap one.

Made it home, parents will be here in 4 hours. House is a mess and I started to panic. I hear someone in the driveway and its the ex. Forgot to disable my location, he knew exactly where I was. I let him in because I didn't want to yell but the neighbors... WTF are you doing here? He grabs me to pull me close but I pushed him, he starts to explain what happened and I just cried. I told him I didn't have time for this and that my parents were on the way. His eyes lit up and was about to run out the house, but I told him now for another couple of hours. I cried as he was helping me clean, next thing I know we had sex. I don't know what came over me because I didn't want to have nothing to do with him. I still don't want to be with him. Maybe I needed to get him out of my system. Maybe it was thanks for fixing my house back up after I destroyed it from being angry at him. I needed him to leave so I told him to give me space and let's see how he would make this up. Honestly I can forgive but the fool cheated and I cant trust him so I doubt it will ever work.

My parents came home we hugged and they were exhausted so they went to sleep. Not the way my summer was planned, and road trips are not fun. But Laila finally gets back and comes over and we start to plan are next getaway. She says that we have to do a better road trip and I am so down to trying it again! Beach please because I had so much fun. Checking to make sure my flow isn't around that time and noticed. I'm late.