Car steam

Steph scowls, arms crossed—a high school road trip trashed by bad directions.

“You guys ready!” Jess cheers from her place on top of the car. Her hands wave in the air excited for the trip.

“Obviously!” Brittany runs past Stephanie and hops into the car. Stephine rolls her eyes at the idiots in front of as she climbs into the backseat as well.

“This is going to be so radical, hurry up Brad!” Troys yells from his place in the front seat. Stephine and her friends wait as her boyfriend hops into the passenger seat.

“I can't believe you convinced your parents to let you have the car for the weekend” Jess points out.

Troy scoffs as the car begins to start up. “Those losers will believe anything I say, I just told them it was for school”.

Stephine crosses her arms and leans back. She wishes she had something to take the edge off right now.

“Lucky, I wish my parents were that gullible.” Brittany grumbles by her side.

Stephine glances to the side and sees a perfectly unsuspecting loser passing by the back of the car. Her eyes scan the tacky bell-bottom jeans and the totally clashing colours of the shirt.
Bingo.

Stephine leans forward and puts her hands to her mouth. “Hey Troy, rev up.” Troy looks back at her and does as he’s told.

The whole group looks back just in time to see the dweeb jump in fear, Stephine snickers as they pull off out of the school parking lot.

She folds her hands behind her head. A smile spreads on her face. Today is going to be a great day.

At least that’s what she freaking thought.


Steph tugs the varsity sweater sitting on her shoulders tighter as a cold breeze brushes past her skin. Her nails dig into the school leather as she sits with a scowl on her face. They’ve been on the road for three hours already. This was supposed to be a thirty minute trip at most.

“Pull over.” Stephine mutters

“Did you say something steph?” Jess leans forward past Brittany to look at her.

Stephine glares steadfast at the car seat in front of her. she raises her voice to shout over the roaring engine. “Pull this car over. Now.”

Troy and Brad jump in their seats and the car slowly comes to a stop. Stephine takes a deep breath. The car is quiet.

“Anyone want to tell me why we're still on the gosh darn road?” Stephine speaks candidly. Her voice is frigid leaving no room for patience. She huffs, it's almost like she's in a car with children for goodness sake.

Further proving her point, Brad raises a slow hand into the air. Stephine raises an eyebrow, she turns her gaze to him. Brad looks away, unable to meet hers while he answers. “It's because we gave Brittany the map-”

“Yes, it's because we gave the darn bimbo the map.” Stephine hisses, she raises a hand rubs the bridge of her nose.

She holds a hand out to her side. “Brittany, give me the map.” Brittany bites her lip and hands it over.

Stephine looks down at the paper and waves a hand. The scowl on the face slides away, her expression fading back into disinterest.

“Okay, you're no longer in trouble. Get back on the road. “