Stellam Matutinam

A Happy Turnout: Part II

Sitting in silence for a couple of seconds whilst Arachnoia plays quietly in the background, he's now pulling into a lane which takes us to a turn off where I spot another service station and wonder if we're having a pit stop since I drank a little too much of my drink.

"I'm just gonna pull in here and grab that phone charger, you need anything while I'm in there?"

"No but I do need to use the toilet."

"Alright awesome, I was wondering how long it would take you." he chuckles as we finally make it to the servo and pull in to one of the many car parks they have since it's connected to a McDonalds.

"Funny." I state dryly with a hint of a laugh in the back of my throat as we get out of the car, Luca sniggering to himself as he locks the car behind us and make our way towards the brightly lit building.

Saying a quick hello to the middle-aged lady currently wishing she was at home sleeping, I brush off the fact that she ignored me and went straight for Luca since the need to pee is more concerning than the chick clearly having the hots for Luca. I don't blame her, he is quite an attractive guy.

Reliving my bladder and washing my hands with the hospital smelling soap they have in that weird pink colour, I try and work out what flower it's trying to imitate before discovering Luca's nowhere to be seen.

Heading straight for the car and not bothering to say goodbye to the woman watching my every move, I jump back into the car where Luca is waiting for me like I thought he would be with another drink being handed to me.

"Man you gonna have to make a few more toilet trips if you're keeping me this hydrated." I comment when I take in the bottle of flavoured water.

"Just let me know and I'd be more than happy to pull over." he offers before finishing the rest of my Mountain Dew off.

"And now I see why you got me this one." I grin when he chuckles the empty bottle in the backseat of his sparkling clean car.

"For someone who has a clean car I did not expect that." I smirk when he gives the tip of his nose a quick itch.

"Only because I cleaned it today, anyway has the MD hit you yet?" he semi-frowns as he looks me straight in the eyes to see for himself, yet again forcing me to stare back into his bright stare.

"No not yet but we still have another ten minutes or so I think left." I explain once I'm done plugging in the new charger he also brought me into a USB port and checking the time.

"Ah okay sweet. Good to see the charger works." he observes the further we head down the road and my eyes drink in the sort of rural area we seem to be heading into.

"Oh yeah, forgot to let you know that it's the right one. Tha-"

"You don't have to thank me. I know you're grateful Lil it's one of the many things I like about you." he interrupts with a full smile this time instead of his shy half ones he does which I'm starting to think are his nervous ones, but why would he be nervous around me?

"Oh you wait, I'll annoy you soon." I joke with a nudge to his arm which only results in him nudging me back.

"I dunno, I've been told by mates I'm pretty f*****g annoying myself." he counters as I shake my head and drag my hands down my face, only to realise at the last minute I'm wearing mascara still.

"Nice look by the way." he points out before I can argue his last comment, my eyes rolling while I rub the f**k out of the areas under my eyes until my brain's telling me that I've got it though I need a second opinion.

"Is it gone?" I ask and look up with my brows expressing sadness a little at the fact that not only don't I have the energy for this, but now my makeup's f****d.

"Almost, just a little here." he states then licks the pad of his thumb and starts removing the stain on my cheekbone I missed.

"Thanks, this stuff is a fucker to get off." I pipe up quietly when I sense his touch on my face linger a little longer than needed, heart racing as he pulls his hand away to fully focus back on the road only I can still feel the overly heated touch of where his hand was.

"Aren't you a bit warm in those extra layers? Your hands are boiling dude." I voice once I finally decide to take my cardigan off since it's now dark enough to hide my arms in plain sight, the MD creeping in on me and slowly breaking me out into a sweat.

Even if Hell was on earth, I'd never take my jumper off in front of you unless it's in the dark like now where I'm able to rest the cardigan over my arms.

"No not really but I know you are, here I'll turn the heater o-"

"The heater has been on this whole time? f**k me man, I thought there was something wrong with me." I exclaim and instantly he's pissing himself laughing.

"You didn't know?" he demands whilst continuously cackling away.

"No Luca, I fucken didn't. But now that it's off I might not overheat so bad." I point out as he ends up losing a layer just for my sake, revealing his plain black neck jumper with the rounded neckline that hugs the bottom of his neck.

"We can't have you overheating, I don't think I could handle finding a dead body in my car right now." he jokes and earns an eye roll from me in return with my head slightly throwing itself back.

"Now this next stop I don't know how long I'm going to be, is your phone charged enough?"

"Yeah it should be, now go and don't stress about me. I shall be fine." I assure him a little too loosely than I'd like considering I don't want him thinking I'm a fuckhead when on MD when in reality, I'm just an overly bubbly person on it.

"Great, I knew you would be." he grins as we start to slow down and pull into a driveway this time, my over ecstatic behaviour clearly not affecting him, if anything it's bringing him to my level for he's now throwing his head back and groaning.

"You wanna do this for me?" he complains when we continue to sit in his driveway, the car now off as I stare at him with a smirk and wonder if he's serious or not.

"No because I'm bad at meeting new people. Now go on, it won't take you long." I press which eventually gets him out of the car once he has the MD and scales on him.

"Alright I'll be back." he sighs then exits the car, only to start patting his hands all around my side of the window to try and scare the f**k out of me.

"Go and sell those cookies ya f*****g Girl Scout!" I shout from the inside of his car, my eyes trying to register his face in the darkness of the outside before hearing one of his smug laughs instead.

Grinning stupidly at my own joke as I unlock my phone and choose one of the many games I downloaded, I can't help but feel relieved ever since stepping away from the Nessa and Josh bullshit. It just sucks it took me this long to realise that I honestly don't need them.

But who's to say things won't change and I have a weakness of heart again? It's just a matter of being sober around them at all costs until I can get to the bottom of why Josh and Nessa feel they need to do what they're doing to one another, let alone me.

Though are they getting me back for sleeping with both of them? Did they know I was going to fall for both of them and that's why they did what they did?

Hoping it isn't true I sit in Luca's car praying it isn't that and if so, then I might as well cut all of them off to save myself from getting hurt further down the track.