Fast and Furious: Future (editing and adding to)

Chapter 7: A World Away

Itturned out that Brian's family had also brought along their owncamper vans, three as it turned out to be. Not all of them werestaying the entire weekend, Tej and Rome had some business or otherback in LA. That meant Dom, Letty, Brian and Mia had a camper vaneach and I guessed Jack was in the smallest one.

'Aren'tyou staying all weekend?' he asked me as the sun was nearing thehorizon and the sky had turned an orangey pink colour.

'Ididn't plan on it. Besides, I had to give Ali and Jas a lift up.'

'Can'tyou ask your friend, André, to take them back?'

'Meh,I could though I don't know what he'd say to it. He's been allfunny with me lately.' I huffed. 'I dunno.'

'Andyou have no idea why?' he asked, folding his arms and leaning backonto his passenger door.

'Whatare you on about?'

'Ohmy god, even a blind man can see.' He shook his head and chuckledpretty loud. 'He fancies you.'

'What?No way. André's just a friend. That's all.'

'Maybethat message hasn't got through to him.'

Therewas a beep of a horn to my right. 'We're going to eat out. Youwanna come, Ella?' It was Fern asking, with Carl driving and Alisonand Jasmine in the back.

'Erm,sure. Where were you thinking of?'

'Don'tknow. We were just gonna drive around until we found somewhere.'

Jackhad been here enough times so he decided to help them out on that.'There's El Tacocho on the right just past the hospital on ThirdStreet. Just past that there's a Domino's and past that, on thecorner with North Lena Road, is Phil's Burgers. Reach the Sheriff'sOffice and you've gone too far.'

'Tacossounds good,' Fern said. I knew she'd like to go there more thanDomino's. After all, she was half Mexican herself. Fern was just anickname from her surname of Fernandez; her real name was Ayva.

'I'llcatch up.' Carl drove off. Oddly, I hadn't seen André for awhilethough he could just take care of himself. 'You wanna come along?'I asked Jack.

'Erm.'I turned my eyes to the ground. 'Alright but can we walk?'

'Sure,fine by me.'

Youcould never tell with Jack, I figured out, if he ever had a plan forthings or they just unfolded along the way without any previousthought. We trekked our way along Third Street. There were a coupleof Auto Repair shops right next to each other and by the amount ofcars parked outside of them, they were in the perfect location fortheir business.

Itdidn't take us too long to get to El Tacocho and there was onceagain another Auto Repair shop which was also surrounded by sportscars. El Taco was busy but it appeared that my friends had arrivedjust in time since we joined them at a table for eight. They hadordered but it was so busy that they had to wait awhile. That wasfine for Jack and me as we had ordered at the door (we had pointed tothe table as we could see them from the door). A lot of laughter andtalk passed between them, even Jack seemed comfortable enough beingaround my loud friends.

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Aftera lot of mince meat and beans, I was very full and, seeing as the sunhad set hours ago, was rather sleepy.

'Youweren't thinking of driving back home, were you?' Jack asked as Iyawned in the chilly night air. We decided to walk back since Carlcouldn't fit us in his car.

'Iwas but I'm far too tired.' Somehow, I knew what he would saynext (near enough). 'And before you say anything. I'm gonna booka cheap hotel room nearby. Think I can manage doing the wholeweekend... just about.'