Once A Memory ( Editing )

Chapter 4

"So where are we going?" he asked.

"Somewhere both of us have never been before." I answered.

"That would be hard since both of us travel quite a lot." He said while searching through his phone.

"Do you have any ideas?" I asked.

"There's this camp it's near the mountains but it's not that far from here." he said whilst reading the directions to go to the place.

"Have you been there?" I asked.

"No but I saw it when I was trekking last year" He simply said.

"So the mountains it is." I stated while sending him a smile

He just nodded and smiled at me.

After we ate, laughed and talked. We decided to stop by my house and his house as well to get some stuff and to change into an appropriate attire. I settled on some yoga pants a plain shirt and some running shoes decided to bring a backpack full of things that we might need. While he wore some jogger pants a white shirt and shoes that were very similar to mine.

We settled to the car and we dashed away into our destination. The camp is just about half an hour away so while driving we couldn't settle on which radio station we were going to listen to until a familiar song came. We started singing along to every word in the song. When the bridge of the song came He stopped and just let me hit every single note in that song until the song ended.

"It's good to hear you singing again." He said with his eyes on the road.

I just smiled at you and changed the topic to release the awkwardness.

"Are we the yet?" I asked.

"Can you not wait?" He answered with a mocking tone.

"Why cant you just answer the damn question!" I shouted in a joking manner.

"Were quite close." He said while laughing.

We drove for a few more minutes and I was getting antsy on where you were really taking me. I waited for a few more minutes before I asked.

"Are we there yet?" I asked again.

"Were quite close." He said.

"But you said that an hour ago!" I said sounding frustrated.

"Is it really half an hour away? Because we have been driving for about an hour and a half." I added.

"I'm sorry its really 3 hours away not 30 minutes, I did not tell you earlier cause I know that you wouldn't agree to it, I know you hate long drives but this is the closest place we could go to for us to enjoy. I don't want to bring you to the carnival or the zoo or maybe the museum, I want to bring you somewhere you've never been before. I'm really sorry. If you don't want to continue there is an exit nearby we could go back and forget this whole thing." He rambled with his voice lowering towards the end.

"You could've just said it earlier." I said sounding quite pissed.

We sat in the car in silence. Nobody said a word. The only thing we could hear was the engine and the cars that are passing by. The faint sound of the radio is what's keeping the awkwardness at bay. While he was driving I noticed that our car is slowing down...

"Why are we slowing down?" I asked.

"How am I supposed to know?" He said with his voice laced with panic

"Well you're the one driving!" I shouted at him.

Thomas maneuvered the car onto the side of the road and both of us got of the car, He popped the hood of the car and smoke instantly came out. He knocked a few screws for a good twenty minutes before I got off the car and went to him.