"M-mo-mom I-I-I-I do-do-don't un-und-under-understand w-why I-I'm go-go-going t-t-to a-a-a bo-boa-boarding", Courtney whined.
"It's okay Courts are you finished packing?", Mrs Whinters asked.
Courtney eyed his parents "I-I-I f-fi-fin-finshed sc-sc-school".
His father sighed "You'll understand when you get there, right now I want you to know that your mother and I love you".
Courtney wanted to boycott, to run anywhere but he knew he couldn't.
Stasy ran up to her dad "I'm writing examinations I can't get a transfer".
"This school teaches better and has better exams, you don't need your old school it's of no use".
Stasy nodded.
"Do I make myself clear", Mr Johnson asked.
Stasy nodded again.
"I said do I make myself clear", he yelled.
Stasy looked him in the eye "Yes sir" her voice a bit husky.
Her father spun on his heel and walked outside.
"Courts did you take your synthetic? ", his mother asked.
"Y-yes".
"Get in the car, we don't want spend to many days on the road", Jessica yelled.
Courtney rushed for the Johnsons car he didn't want to get on Jessica's bad side.
This was a game of Simon says in this case if Jessica said jump Courtney will oblige.
In minutes Courtney was staring out the window waving at his parents, and in no time they were on the road.
"M-mr-mrs Jo-Jo-Johnson w-wh-whats t-th-the na-Nam-name o-o-of t-th-the sc-sc-school", Courtney asked.
Jessica exhaled "I'm afraid this school doesn't have a name".
'What',Courtney thought.
He wandered whether it was a kidnap.
"We are not kidnapping you", Mr Johnson said.
"How far is it?", Stasy asked from besides Courtney.
"It will take a day approximately, but once we reach the climax of Mount Klinja we'd be close".
"Klinja", Stasy repeated "Never heard of it".
"You wouldn't have", Her father replied.
Stasy looked at Courtney who had now fallen asleep, he had just turned twenty he had dull green eyes. Courtney Whinters was an idyllic boy, one that lived a perfect life 'Stringent with joy', people would say. No one knew how fallible he was besides his dog, so from an early age his parents exhorted him to see the best in himself invigorating him day by day but all he saw himself as was a stammerer. Each day he'd freak out and run outside until he found comfort in watching his neighbor.
"Stasy", her mother snapped.
"Huh yes".
"Stop going through the boys mind".
Stasy nodded and leaned further into her seat slowly drifting to sleep with each tree that passed.
COURTNEY WHINTERS sat with his head against Mr John son's headrest, he was now famished and he left his food in the trunk.
"M-m-mrs Jo-Jo-John-Johnson c-c-can I-I-I-I p-pl-plea-please ge-ge-get so-so-some-th-thing f-r-from t-t-the b-ba-back? ".
"And what would that be?".
"Food", her husband replied for him.
Jessica stopped the car "wake Stasy up".
Courtney shook her shoulder. "No", Stasy snapped turning away from Courtney.
"It's OK let her sleep".
Courtney opened the car door and clambered out, when he reached the trunk he pulled it open and grabbed his bag.
He shut it and walked back to the car.
Stasy was now awake she watched the she watched Courtney enter the car, when he took seat he placed his backpack on his lap.
Courtney widened his his but still gave her the bottle.
Wrapping her manicured fingers around his flask she eyed it 'Curiosity killed the cat', she told herself.
Stasy closed her eyes and gulped.
"Ew... Oh my gosh, what is that?",she screeched taking out her phone to look at the screen "is this blood? ", she asked sticking her tongue out.
Her father chuckled.
"S-syn-synthetic", Courtney replied both questions with an amused expression.
Stasy scrunched her face up and dared to take another sip before handing it back to Courtney.
She took out her phone and scrolled through her contacts, she tapper on Courtney's name.
:that's nasty:.
Courtney's phone gave a muffled ding from inside his bag.
He pulled it out and tapped the fingerprint ID he looked at the unknown number.
It beeped again.
:It's Stasy:.
He chuckled. :honestly it's literally the best, tastes better than pizza, ice cream you name it:.
Courtney looked at Stasy and laughed at her reaction.
She had placed a hand on heart and gasped dramatically. :Ice-cream is the best it's a philosophy :
Courtney rolled his eyes :let's reserve the word ice cream for emergencies:.
Stasy pulled out her bottom lip :ice cream:, she typed.
"TWENTY KILOMETERS AND WE'D be there", Jessica informed them.
Stasy groaned, she looked at her phone it was 5 in the morning.
'For Christ's sake', she thought.
Courtney woke for the fifth time in the entire journey.
He looked around and like Stasy did checked the time on his phone. He ridded the sleep from his eyes and sat up.
:I'm sure you know what this school teaches, perhaps you've even been there:, Courtney typed.
Stasy's phone vibrated.
"You know you could just speak your mind, instead of sending gibberish messages to each other, we know what you youth think",Mr Johnson said.
Stasy forced a cough.
Courtney took his flask out of the bag, he inhaled deeply and almost choked at the first thought to cross his mind.
'She knows'.
He clumsily grabbed his phone from his bag :what are you :.
:a girl :.
Aggrived Courtney took a drag of the air
:I'm being serious:
Stasy huffed :if you think I know what you are, you're wrong hell I've been wondering ever since I tasted your synthetic, I surely know you not human neither are you like me:.
:what are you:, Courtney repeated.
:you tell me first:.
:I cant:, he replied.
:then we both have secrets:.
"God these stray animals are always are always impeding traffic around here!", Jessica yelled slamming her fists against the hooter.
Courtney and Stasy simultaneously peered out their windows, there was a deer in the middle of the road, it merely looked at the vehicle and stayed rooted there.
" That's it, I'm running it over ", Jessica said accelerating.
"Mom!?", Stasy screamed.
The collision sent a strident noise throughout the area.
Everybody rushed out of the car.
Jessica gave the deer a gruesome look "it dented my car and smeared it's blood all over it."
Jessica walked to the front seat and took out a cloth.
She wiped the bumper clean.
"Alright guys let's get going", Jessica snapped disposing of the cloth.
Courtney was shook, he was traumatized, he staggered to the car and entered his pupils blown.
Stasy was crying a part of her felt like it was ripped while she stared at the lifeless deer.
"Stasy enough with your antics, wipe those tears or walk the rest of the way".
Stasy wiped her face dry before they got back into the car.
'What was a deer doing in the middle of the road in the middle of nowhere', Courtney asked himself.
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