Continued
Okay so Dan left. Just drove off. Sent me a text saying "Your car key and apartment key are in the mailbox." I ran back into my car and followed him, driving like a maniac. I'm calling him, texting him getting out of my car at every red light. But he wont talk to me finally he texts me.
Now I believe we should start from earlier in the night. Previously my cigarette lighter in my car had stopped working, now I don't smoke but I do use it to listen to my iPod and charge my phone when need be. Well we were taking my car to Florida the next day, I didn't want to be without a way to charge my phone, and honestly it sucks trying to find a radio station when driving through Georgia!!! Or anywhere else really. So I asked Dan if he could take a look at it and see if he could fix it before we left, he said it would take too long, so I was at work the night before we're supposed to leave and I'm talking to my friend Greg and he thinks he knows what's wrong and that he can fix it. Well Dan and I are supposed to spend time together before I leave when I get off work, so I text him and tell him that Greg's going to take a look and see if he can fix it. An hour later Greg's fixed it. So I text Dan and tell him, he doesn't text back, I figured he'd fallen asleep. So I'd wake him up when I got home, Dustin a friend of mine called me and asked me for a ride, he said it was really important. So I went to get him, got railroaded (fucking trains). Finally got to his house and he shows me where to go, which is forever away, something he forgot to mention, and what was so important was him having to go to a friends house!! I was pissed. I didn't know Dan was waiting up for me. He was angry that I took 2 hours longer than I said.
He say's "See it is easy to forget about me." I texted back "What are you talking about? What've I done? I haven't forgotten about you!" He replies "Then why are you 2 hours late?" I say, "Just pull over and talk to me, please."
He finally pulls over into some random parking lot. I park quickly, badly. Get out of the car and open his door. Damn, did he look pissed. I explained what happened. He asked why I didn't text him to tell him and I told him how I thought he'd fallen asleep. So we talked. I apologized. He admitted to feeling vulnerable and hurt. (one thing you need to know about Dan, he's been hurt and cheated on by every girlfriend he's ever had. He's got trust issues. I've told him I love him, he never said it back. Said he never would, but I still said it.)
We went back home and made love before I had to leave.
So everything with Dan and I is fine when I leave the next morning at 5am. I take first shift driving, they're all sleeping. Finally around 3pm Alex offers to drive. I don't fall asleep but I enjoy the break from having to stare at the road. I've driven to Florida a few times, usually alone, so I never really get to look around and when I do bring friends I usually end up doing all of the driving anyways. Now Alex only drove for 3 hours and then he was tired again, so I took over for the rest of the 15 hour drive, so I drove 12 hours total. We only stopped for gas and nothing else, we brought snacks with us so we wouldn't have to stop for food.
We arrive at my mom's house in Florida at 11:30pm. Party time!!! A few people came over, Michael, Mylissa, Andrew, BW, Chris, Brad, and Josh then of course it was me Alex, and Jayla. We stay up till about 3am. We'd planned to go to the beach the next morning, if you're going to the beach you have to leave the house by 9am, to beat traffic and get there by 10.
We don't wake up till noon. There's no point in going now. So we just hang around doing stuff in town, not that there's much to do anyways. What do you go to Florida for besides the Sun??
The whole time I'm missing Dan like crazy.
If you know Chris and I's history, you'd understand why Dan worried a little bit. Nothing happened with Chris and I though. I told him about Dan before I went down there and we talked about it when we hung out, so he knew nothing was going to happen with us. All I did was kiss him, and Dan knew about it. I've never lied to Dan, and I'd like to keep it that way, I feel very comfortable being honest with Dan. He makes it easy, he's very understanding. One of the day's we were down there Dan asked me to be his girlfriend, officially, and to go with him when he left for the next job. I said yes. He told me he loves me. I don't think I've ever been so happy in my life.
I woke Jayla up and told her, acting as girly about it as possible then told my mom. Then, I called Chris. He understood. He knows he missed his chance. He knows he fucked everything up.
The time goes by fairly quickly, we keep ourselves intertained, I hangout with Chris a lot, I've known him for years, he's a good friend. We're close.
The last night we're supposed to be there I say to Jayla and Alex "If you guy's want to leave at midnight instead of 5am we can, but I'm not driving till 6 or 7." Alex say's "Yeah, that'd be great. I can drive till then."
Now we had a problem, I looked at my account where I deposited all the gas money, that was the only thing I used my card for. I'd gotten $110 from everyone, including myself, for gas. Mapquest told me it would be $135 each way. That's $270 round trip, I had $330 in my account, we only spent $20 on gas while we were driving around Florida, somehow I only had $73 dollars left in my account...
That's not enough to get back, Jayla and I were broke cause we went shopping. So I sat them down and we talked about it, Alex says "I can cover us the rest of the way, I have the money." I say "Okay, we get paid Friday so I'll pay you back, there's no reason you need to pay more for this trip than anyone else."
Problem solved.
Or so I thought.....
We leave at midnight. I give Chris my sketch book so he can finish drawing my back tattoo, I got what he'd originally drawn on my back already, but he say's it's not finished and I love what he said he wanted to add. Alex takes the first shift driving, I'm laying in the passangers seat and Jayla's in the back seat laying down. Chris texts me and begs me to turn around and stay with him, he tells me how he wont fuck it up this time, how much he loves me, how happy I'll be there with him. I tell him, I've told you, I can't I love Dan, I want to be with him. He just continues to beg me. I care for Chris, I love him, but not like I do Dan, and Dan has been great to me, never hurt me, whereas Chris missed his chance. I told Chris no. He agreed to stop asking me, and that we'd just be friends. I like that idea. He also says he'll never give up and he'll always be fighting for me. It kills me to hurt him, but I'm doing what's best for me this time, what I already know wont hurt me and will love me. I've picked whom I love like no other, Dan.
We fill up before we leave $40. That means we have $33 left. I don't get to sleep till 2:30, when Chris finally stops texting me, Alex wakes me up at 4 saying he's tired and wants me to take over and I say "No. I told you I wouldn't drive till 6 or 7, you chose to drive."
Seriously, he can't handle driving for 4 hours! Pussy. I really can't stand Alex. He's like, "I guess I'll keep driving then." I got Jayla to switch me spots so I finally fell asleep, cause she was up text Biz anyways. I guess Alex was swerving a lot so Jayla took over driving at 5am. I wake up at 8am and get Alex to switch me so I'm upfront with Jayla, we're already in Georgia. We need gas. I tell Jayla to take the next exit. We put $33 in the tank, that's about 3 quarters full. I use my last 5 dollars to buy some cheesy poofs and a soda, Jayla looks worn out, I take over driving, I'm up now and I've slept. Jayla falls asleep(Alex sleeps the rest of the trip. He also slept till 4 every day we were in Florida and he slept the whole day before we left. Lazy ass.)
Somewhere in Tennessee we have to stop for gas again. I wake up Alex and ask him for the money, he sits up and is like "About that, I did the math again before we left and I only have like 5 dollars left on my card, I can't pay for gas."
We're in the middle of nowhere bumfuck-Tennessee and he decides to tell me this now? We're right above E.
I turn around I look at him, "YOU COULDN'T HAVE TOLD ME THIS BEFORE WE LEFT?!?! YOU WAIT TILL WE'RE HALF WAY THERE AND THEN YOU TELL ME?" He's like "I know, I should've told you before we left." "YEAH YOU SHOULD'VE FUCKING TOLD ME BEFORE WE FUCKING LEFT, ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID?" I've never been so pissed. "I could've borrowed money from my mom before we left, now I have to over draft my card and pay not only the 40 dollars in gas, but also an additional 35 dollars in overdraft fees every time we fucking stop for gas."
I fill up $46. I ask Jayla, "Can we leave his ass on the side of the road." She's like "I don't know, I think we'd feel bad. I mean, what if he got butt raped or something?" I say, "Honestly, if he got butt raped, I'd piss myself and then suffocate from laughing too hard."
We decided to let him stay in the car. Although, I still believe we should've ditched him. I think he thought we would, cause for the next like 5 hours he never got out of the back seat. Somehow that $46 lasted us the whole way home and I still have half a tank, I don't know how.
Miracle.
On the trip back Jayla and I get happy, hahaha. Like a road trip should be. We both have to pee so we stop at a gas station and their bathrooms aren't working. Figures. So we get back on the highway and take the next exit, no gas station close by, but there is a Walmart! We're driving towards there and a car in front of us in full of cute redneck boy's (not my type, but it's fun to flirt.) They're smiling at us, waving at us (at this point Jayla's driving) Jayla's excited, she parks right next to them. We get out of the car, they're hooting and hollering at us, we go to the bathroom and when we get out we start walking towards the exit when the 2 cutest guy's walk by us and say "We left you a present on your windshield." We're so curious, we walk out and there's a cute little card sitting there (I give them props, this took guts.) we open it up and it has their phone numbers in it.
They actually went inside Walmart bought a card, wrote in it and put it on my car, just to run inside before we were done peeing and walked past us to tell us. It was so cute.
Jayla calls them. It's hilarious. We're back on the highway, we see yet another cute boy. I grad a notebook and write Jaylas phone number in big bold print, wait for him to catch up and put the number in the window, he smiles. New text message. It was hilarious. I had so much fun pimping Jayla out. We get home at 3:30pm. I unpack, clean up and wait for Dan to get off work. I'm so happy to see him!
All last night we just indulged in each other. Took a break, indulged in iHop, then went back home and indulged in each other again.
An amazing night.
That was my trip, without too many details, just the important, histarical, and i-can't-believe-you-fucking-did-that moments.
-Tabitha.
Now I believe we should start from earlier in the night. Previously my cigarette lighter in my car had stopped working, now I don't smoke but I do use it to listen to my iPod and charge my phone when need be. Well we were taking my car to Florida the next day, I didn't want to be without a way to charge my phone, and honestly it sucks trying to find a radio station when driving through Georgia!!! Or anywhere else really. So I asked Dan if he could take a look at it and see if he could fix it before we left, he said it would take too long, so I was at work the night before we're supposed to leave and I'm talking to my friend Greg and he thinks he knows what's wrong and that he can fix it. Well Dan and I are supposed to spend time together before I leave when I get off work, so I text him and tell him that Greg's going to take a look and see if he can fix it. An hour later Greg's fixed it. So I text Dan and tell him, he doesn't text back, I figured he'd fallen asleep. So I'd wake him up when I got home, Dustin a friend of mine called me and asked me for a ride, he said it was really important. So I went to get him, got railroaded (fucking trains). Finally got to his house and he shows me where to go, which is forever away, something he forgot to mention, and what was so important was him having to go to a friends house!! I was pissed. I didn't know Dan was waiting up for me. He was angry that I took 2 hours longer than I said.
He say's "See it is easy to forget about me." I texted back "What are you talking about? What've I done? I haven't forgotten about you!" He replies "Then why are you 2 hours late?" I say, "Just pull over and talk to me, please."
He finally pulls over into some random parking lot. I park quickly, badly. Get out of the car and open his door. Damn, did he look pissed. I explained what happened. He asked why I didn't text him to tell him and I told him how I thought he'd fallen asleep. So we talked. I apologized. He admitted to feeling vulnerable and hurt. (one thing you need to know about Dan, he's been hurt and cheated on by every girlfriend he's ever had. He's got trust issues. I've told him I love him, he never said it back. Said he never would, but I still said it.)
We went back home and made love before I had to leave.
So everything with Dan and I is fine when I leave the next morning at 5am. I take first shift driving, they're all sleeping. Finally around 3pm Alex offers to drive. I don't fall asleep but I enjoy the break from having to stare at the road. I've driven to Florida a few times, usually alone, so I never really get to look around and when I do bring friends I usually end up doing all of the driving anyways. Now Alex only drove for 3 hours and then he was tired again, so I took over for the rest of the 15 hour drive, so I drove 12 hours total. We only stopped for gas and nothing else, we brought snacks with us so we wouldn't have to stop for food.
We arrive at my mom's house in Florida at 11:30pm. Party time!!! A few people came over, Michael, Mylissa, Andrew, BW, Chris, Brad, and Josh then of course it was me Alex, and Jayla. We stay up till about 3am. We'd planned to go to the beach the next morning, if you're going to the beach you have to leave the house by 9am, to beat traffic and get there by 10.
We don't wake up till noon. There's no point in going now. So we just hang around doing stuff in town, not that there's much to do anyways. What do you go to Florida for besides the Sun??
The whole time I'm missing Dan like crazy.
If you know Chris and I's history, you'd understand why Dan worried a little bit. Nothing happened with Chris and I though. I told him about Dan before I went down there and we talked about it when we hung out, so he knew nothing was going to happen with us. All I did was kiss him, and Dan knew about it. I've never lied to Dan, and I'd like to keep it that way, I feel very comfortable being honest with Dan. He makes it easy, he's very understanding. One of the day's we were down there Dan asked me to be his girlfriend, officially, and to go with him when he left for the next job. I said yes. He told me he loves me. I don't think I've ever been so happy in my life.
I woke Jayla up and told her, acting as girly about it as possible then told my mom. Then, I called Chris. He understood. He knows he missed his chance. He knows he fucked everything up.
The time goes by fairly quickly, we keep ourselves intertained, I hangout with Chris a lot, I've known him for years, he's a good friend. We're close.
The last night we're supposed to be there I say to Jayla and Alex "If you guy's want to leave at midnight instead of 5am we can, but I'm not driving till 6 or 7." Alex say's "Yeah, that'd be great. I can drive till then."
Now we had a problem, I looked at my account where I deposited all the gas money, that was the only thing I used my card for. I'd gotten $110 from everyone, including myself, for gas. Mapquest told me it would be $135 each way. That's $270 round trip, I had $330 in my account, we only spent $20 on gas while we were driving around Florida, somehow I only had $73 dollars left in my account...
That's not enough to get back, Jayla and I were broke cause we went shopping. So I sat them down and we talked about it, Alex says "I can cover us the rest of the way, I have the money." I say "Okay, we get paid Friday so I'll pay you back, there's no reason you need to pay more for this trip than anyone else."
Problem solved.
Or so I thought.....
We leave at midnight. I give Chris my sketch book so he can finish drawing my back tattoo, I got what he'd originally drawn on my back already, but he say's it's not finished and I love what he said he wanted to add. Alex takes the first shift driving, I'm laying in the passangers seat and Jayla's in the back seat laying down. Chris texts me and begs me to turn around and stay with him, he tells me how he wont fuck it up this time, how much he loves me, how happy I'll be there with him. I tell him, I've told you, I can't I love Dan, I want to be with him. He just continues to beg me. I care for Chris, I love him, but not like I do Dan, and Dan has been great to me, never hurt me, whereas Chris missed his chance. I told Chris no. He agreed to stop asking me, and that we'd just be friends. I like that idea. He also says he'll never give up and he'll always be fighting for me. It kills me to hurt him, but I'm doing what's best for me this time, what I already know wont hurt me and will love me. I've picked whom I love like no other, Dan.
We fill up before we leave $40. That means we have $33 left. I don't get to sleep till 2:30, when Chris finally stops texting me, Alex wakes me up at 4 saying he's tired and wants me to take over and I say "No. I told you I wouldn't drive till 6 or 7, you chose to drive."
Seriously, he can't handle driving for 4 hours! Pussy. I really can't stand Alex. He's like, "I guess I'll keep driving then." I got Jayla to switch me spots so I finally fell asleep, cause she was up text Biz anyways. I guess Alex was swerving a lot so Jayla took over driving at 5am. I wake up at 8am and get Alex to switch me so I'm upfront with Jayla, we're already in Georgia. We need gas. I tell Jayla to take the next exit. We put $33 in the tank, that's about 3 quarters full. I use my last 5 dollars to buy some cheesy poofs and a soda, Jayla looks worn out, I take over driving, I'm up now and I've slept. Jayla falls asleep(Alex sleeps the rest of the trip. He also slept till 4 every day we were in Florida and he slept the whole day before we left. Lazy ass.)
Somewhere in Tennessee we have to stop for gas again. I wake up Alex and ask him for the money, he sits up and is like "About that, I did the math again before we left and I only have like 5 dollars left on my card, I can't pay for gas."
We're in the middle of nowhere bumfuck-Tennessee and he decides to tell me this now? We're right above E.
I turn around I look at him, "YOU COULDN'T HAVE TOLD ME THIS BEFORE WE LEFT?!?! YOU WAIT TILL WE'RE HALF WAY THERE AND THEN YOU TELL ME?" He's like "I know, I should've told you before we left." "YEAH YOU SHOULD'VE FUCKING TOLD ME BEFORE WE FUCKING LEFT, ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID?" I've never been so pissed. "I could've borrowed money from my mom before we left, now I have to over draft my card and pay not only the 40 dollars in gas, but also an additional 35 dollars in overdraft fees every time we fucking stop for gas."
I fill up $46. I ask Jayla, "Can we leave his ass on the side of the road." She's like "I don't know, I think we'd feel bad. I mean, what if he got butt raped or something?" I say, "Honestly, if he got butt raped, I'd piss myself and then suffocate from laughing too hard."
We decided to let him stay in the car. Although, I still believe we should've ditched him. I think he thought we would, cause for the next like 5 hours he never got out of the back seat. Somehow that $46 lasted us the whole way home and I still have half a tank, I don't know how.
Miracle.
On the trip back Jayla and I get happy, hahaha. Like a road trip should be. We both have to pee so we stop at a gas station and their bathrooms aren't working. Figures. So we get back on the highway and take the next exit, no gas station close by, but there is a Walmart! We're driving towards there and a car in front of us in full of cute redneck boy's (not my type, but it's fun to flirt.) They're smiling at us, waving at us (at this point Jayla's driving) Jayla's excited, she parks right next to them. We get out of the car, they're hooting and hollering at us, we go to the bathroom and when we get out we start walking towards the exit when the 2 cutest guy's walk by us and say "We left you a present on your windshield." We're so curious, we walk out and there's a cute little card sitting there (I give them props, this took guts.) we open it up and it has their phone numbers in it.
They actually went inside Walmart bought a card, wrote in it and put it on my car, just to run inside before we were done peeing and walked past us to tell us. It was so cute.
Jayla calls them. It's hilarious. We're back on the highway, we see yet another cute boy. I grad a notebook and write Jaylas phone number in big bold print, wait for him to catch up and put the number in the window, he smiles. New text message. It was hilarious. I had so much fun pimping Jayla out. We get home at 3:30pm. I unpack, clean up and wait for Dan to get off work. I'm so happy to see him!
All last night we just indulged in each other. Took a break, indulged in iHop, then went back home and indulged in each other again.
An amazing night.
That was my trip, without too many details, just the important, histarical, and i-can't-believe-you-fucking-did-that moments.
-Tabitha.