I'll be there in ten

I press send before I pull out of the driveway. After a minute my phone beeps again so I know he's seen the message. The weather was extra hot today so I opted for the windows down and a barely there outfit

I pull up outside Ryders house a few minutes later. Ryder gets into the passenger seat wearing red basketball shorts and a black T-shirt.

"Yo" he says closing the door

"Hey" I say pulling back onto the road "you ready for the best eight hours of your life"

Ryder laughs "with Sean? Sounds more like the loudest eight hours of my life"

"Speaking of Sean, tell him we'll be at his place in a minute"

"Yes ma'am"

Seans waiting at the side of the street when we get there "Your late" he says getting into the back of the car "and I swear to god if it was because you guys were doing it where I'm sitting right now I won't hesitate to kill you both"

"Oh my god Sean, get your mind out of the gutter" I retort "we are spending our whole day driving just so you can get a new car"

"If I remember correctly it was actually just supposed to be Ryder but you jumped on the idea when you found out he was going"

I roll my eyes "oh shut up"

"How's Molly?" Ryder asks throwing me a wink "your only salty because she wouldn't come"

"Not wouldn't, couldn't because she's working"

The next four hours consisted of Ryder and Sean bickering and fighting over the music, which I responded to by playing my favourite songs with the response to their protests "my car my rules"

Sean treated himself to a new Range Rover and once the dealings were done we decided to go for some food at a nearby restaurant

"What can I get you guys?" a pretty waitress around our age walks over to our table

"I have something in mind but it's not on the menu" Ryder says in an overly flirtatious voice

The waitress grins "I'm sorry about that sir, it's on high demand" she winks

"I'll have the chicken salad please" I interrupt my voice edgy

"I'll have the cheese burger" Sean says eyeing me warily

"Got it" the waitress says writing it down

"I'll have the same as him" Ryder adds

Once the waitress leaves our table is suddenly awkwardly silent

"So are you happy with your new car?" I ask Sean avoiding any sort of contact with the boy sitting beside me

Sean grins "it was worth every penny"

"Ryder will have fun in the passenger seat on the way home" I say looking at my phone

"That's impossible because I'm going home with you" Ryder responds

I turn towards him with a raised eyebrow "uh no your not"

"You literally drove the whole way here, there's no way you'll make it back without falling asleep"

"So what, I'll just pull over"

"Over my dead body" he gives me a stern look so I raise a questioning eyebrow "your not sleeping in your car alone on the side of a road in the middle of the night"

"Then your driving and I'm sleeping" I shrug. I may be coming off slightly cold but he was flirting with a random girl in front of my face less than five minutes ago

Ryder nods "suits me"

Sean looks between us "I've never wished Molly was here so much"

It's after 11pm when we leave the restaurant. We said a quick goodbye to a very happy and thankful Sean who took of in his Range Rover.

"I'll drive for awhile" I say sitting into the drivers seat

Ryder nods and sits in his seat

"Everything all right?" He asks once we're back on the road

I nod "why wouldn't it be?"

Ryder shrugs and I can feel his eyes on me "you've just been off since earlier"

The car returns to its usual silence the only noise from the radio. After an hour I get a message

"Can you check that for me?" I ask

Ryder agrees and picks up my phone. After a few seconds he speaks up "who's Mark?"

"Why does it matter?"

"I don't know you've been texting this Mark guy for awhile now? Is this why your on you phone so much now you're texting your new hookup"

I roll my eyes "it's Emily's best friend"

"Do you two have a thing?"

"He gay" I state "why are you so interested? You were the one flirting with the waitress earlier"

Ryder snorts "I wasn't flirting with her. Is that what's wrong with you"

I shake my head and pull over to turn to him "you were the one questioning me about Mark sixty seconds ago remember and come on how was that not flirting"

"What did I say that sounded like flirting?"

"Let me think. I have something in mind but it's not on the menu" I say the last part in a squeaky voice

"Ok, one I don't talk like that and two I was talking about the famous steak that restaurant was known for"

"And the flirtatious voice?"

"You got that out of no where" he laughs "I knew you were jealous"

"Do you two have a thing?" I mock his voice from a few seconds ago

He rolls his eyes "now get out of the car I'm driving"

I huff but get out of the car. Ryder takes off with ease before speaking "now get some sleep you look half dead"

"Always the charmer" I say but find myself nodding off almost straight away

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I'm stirred awake by Ryder tapping my leg. I flinch when I open my eyes because of the bright lights on front of us "where are we?" I mutter noticing the sudden change in weather since I was last awake

"At a motel" Ryder informs me "there's a really bad summer storm so people are advised to get off the road"

"What about Sean?" I ask

"I'm just off the phone to him, he's a few towns over at a different motel"

I nod. The rain doesn't look like it's going to stop anytime soon so we decide to make a run for it which ended up with us both soaked from head to toe

When we got to our room which was a medium sized room with two single beds and other basic necessities.

"You can shower first" Ryder tells me sitting down on one of the beds

"You sure?" I ask and he nods

Once I've showered, Ryder does the same. While he's showering I tried to find something good on the television but there was nothing on so I turned it back off

I have no clothes to wear to bed and I also don't want to wear the same outfit I'm going to have to wear tomorrow so I opted for just wearing my lingerie. I got under my blanket just before Ryder came out of the bathroom

"Nothing good on television?" He asks

I shake my head "if only"

"You got the remote?" Ryder asks walking toward me. Without realising he grabs the corner of my blanket and lifts it up to look for the remote but freezes when he realises I'm not exactly wearing much clothes

"Uh sorry" he says scratching the back of his head and turning around

I gulp "it's fine, not like you haven't seen it before" I attempt to joke but it doesn't exactly work

Ryder who's wearing only his boxers gets into his bed not far away from mine. We don't say anything until Ryders phone beeps a few minutes later. I watch him as an unreadable expression makes its way into his face. After a minute of him staring aimlessly into his phone, Ryder looks up at me with a nervous look on his face

"Sarah's waters just broke"