Impractically Inseparable

Thinking Place (44)

(The last chapter is written and y'all are gonna want to kill me because of it....but hey, now I can start the alternative ending.)

Joe and I have been gone for over two hours, but we didn't care. The sun was gonna be rising in about an hour and I knew Bessy would be waking up soon and panic that Joe and I weren't there. Once we were on top of a hill, I turned the four wheeler off and took my helmet off. Joe did the same and we got off the four-wheeler. "What are we doing out here?" Joe asked after a few minutes of silence. I turned to him and smiled, "Every time I come here to the mountains, I go for a long ride and I always end up here. I call it my thinking spot. It's where I get to be alone with my thoughts and I can let my emotions out. I mean yeah, it's probably not a good idea considering I've tried to end my life and I'm alone here." I laid down in the grass and Joe laid next to me. He took my good hand in his and squeezed it tightly. We stayed in comfortable silence until my phone started blowing up with messages and missed phone calls. I sighed and sat up. "I guess we should get going before they all go crazy." Joe laughed and handed me my helmet. I slipped it on and got on the four-wheeler. Joe got on behind me and I looked at my phone to see Q calling me.

I answered it, "Hello?" Q seemed pissed because he snapped, "Where the hell are you guys?" I jumped a little and rolled my eyes. 'They worry too much.' I thought to myself. "We took a ride on the four-wheeler. Calm your balls. Joe and I are fine. We just had to get away for awhile. We're on our way back." I heard a door slam and someone yelling. I then heard the front door close. "Are you screwing Joe?" Q asked quietly. I sighed and started the four-wheeler, "No, I'm not. I wouldn't cheat on Sal. Joe is a father figure to me and I wouldn't do that to Bessy because I know she likes Joe and Joe likes Bessy." Joe slapped me and I slapped him back. I pressed on the gas and held the phone between the helmet and my ear. I flew down the dirt road and Joe quickly held onto me tightly. Q sighed and I'm sure he rolled his eyes, "Sal is going nuts. He forced Bes to find you guys, so you'll come across them." I frowned and asked, "How long ago did they leave?" Bri was silent for a few and then said, "Probably thirty minutes ago, but Bes flew down the road, so I don't know how fast she's going." I groaned. That's so Bessy. Why couldn't they stop worrying about me for one minute? It's so annoying. I then came up with an idea and started laughing. Joe tapped my shoulder and Q asked why I was laughing.

"What if I parked the four-wheeler in plain sight while Joe and I hide in the woods? They would see it and it would force them to come into the woods and we know how Sal is, so it would freak the shit out of him. It could be a punishment for him for Impractical Jokers." Q and Joe started laughing, but then Q stopped quickly, "We don't have the crew here, so we couldn't." Joe sighed, but then told me, "We could do what we did for the first episode of Impractical Jokers. We could use our phones, but we would have to have the others, so we could have every angle." I told Q what Joe said and Q agreed with Joe. "Tell the others then. Rose and K know where I go when I need to be alone, so let them drive my truck." Q said okay and we hung up. I then called Bes and she answered right away. "Hello?" "Bes, act like I'm Rose or K. I need to talk to you without Sal freaking out." "Okay, what's up?" She asked confused, but playing along. "We want to punish Sal by having him go into the woods because we know how he is. The issue is that someone needs to be with him at all times and secretly film him freaking out. Everyone knows except for you."

"Alright, I'll see what I can do." Bessy paused and I heard Sal ask, "Did they find them yet?" I laughed to myself knowing Sal would ask that. "No, but they will," Bessy told him. Sal said something I couldn't hear and Bessy sighed. "Okay, so you're gonna go to the spot I always go to when I need to think. My four wheeler will be on the side of the road, but I'll take the keys. Joe and I will hide in trees." Bessy laughed and said, "Okay." Then she hung up. Joe gave me a high five and we started laughing. I turned around and flew down the road back to my spot. I quickly shut it off and grabbed the key. I heard the other four wheeler coming and quickly got off the machine. Joe got off too and we ran into the woods. "Can you climb?" I asked Joe. He smiled awkwardly and said, "Barely." I nodded and pulled him to a nearby tree that should be easy to climb. I started climbing it and found a branch that would support Joe and I. Joe climbed the tree and I held my hand out. He grabbed it and I pulled him onto the branch with me.

I heard a sound of a car and truck and immediately knew it was the others. I heard branches snapping below us and looked down to see Rose looking up. "Where do you want us to park?" I shrugged, "Anywhere where they won't see the vehicles." Rose nodded and ran to park the truck. Suddenly, I saw everyone except for Bessy and Sal. They all held their phones up and I gave them a thumbs up. They then went in separate directions and Joe and I got our phones out. I moved to a different branch and yelped when my broken hand was caught in a few branches. "You okay?" Joe called out. I turned around and smiled through the pain, "I'll be alright." I then heard branches snapping below and heard voices. I glanced at Joe and held a finger to my mouth, shushing him.

"Sal come on! They have to be here!" I heard Bessy yell. I covered my mouth to not laugh and Bessy looked up. She smiled and then look back towards the opening of the woods. I could see through the branches that Sal was still sitting on the four-wheeler with his helmet on. "There's no way she'd go into the woods especially with the clowns." Bessy busted out laughing and fell to her knees. "It's not funny!" Bessy laughed harder, "Yes it is! That's a great joke!" Bessy wiped her eyes and stood up. She walked towards Sal and yanked his helmet off. His hair was all messed up and green eyes looked brighter than usual, which was fucking adorable. I then smirked and looked at Joe. He looked back and I opened my mouth and did a clown laugh. "Nope! I'm not going in there! There's a fucking clown!" Bessy started laughing and pulled Sal off the four-wheeler. "Bessy stop!"Sal whimpered. Bessy just laughed again and Sal yanked his arm away. "Fuck that shit! Haley can come back whenever! I ain't going in there!" Joe and I rolled our eyes and I pointed my head to the ground. Joe nodded, put hia phone away, and climbed down. He walked towards Sal and Bessy and causally said, "Hey guys, what's up?" The look on Sal's face was priceless. He was really pale and sweat was on his face. "Where's H-Haley?" He stammered. Joe had a 'sad' look on his face and whispered, "I don't know. She was with me like five minutes ago and then she was gone. I've been searching for her," he pointed towards the woods, "She's in there somewhere, but I need help to find her." After Joe was done talking, I did the clown laugh again and Sal jumped. "I'm not going in there with the clown!" Sal yelled. Joe grabbed Bessy's hand and pulled her towards the woods, "Fine if you don't want to find your girlfriend, we will." Sal gulped and then took a step forward. Joe and Bessy turned around and Bessy asked, "Are you coming now?" Sal nodded and then they walked into the woods.

Once they were out of sight and earshot, I jumped from the tree and ran to the four-wheeler. I then heard crunching and saw all the others coming closer and hiding behind trees. I then heard more crunching and saw Joe, Sal, and Bessy come into view. Joe smirked while Sal looked pissed, then relieved, then pissed again, and then Bessy looked amused. Sal stormed towards me and got in my face, "What the fuck is wrong with you?! I've been looking for you for like three hours! The sun is hardly even up and you're playing a sick joke on me! It's not funny! You could've got hurt! Why the fuck were you even out here with Joe!? Are you cheating on me?!" I sighed and placed a hand on Sal's arm. Sal pulled away and took a step back. "I don't even want to talk to you right now," he spat. I shook my head and reached behind me to grab my helmet. I shoved it on and then put my glasses on. I turned the four-wheeler on and flew down the road, kicking up dust. He's never going to understand the truth. He's always going to be like that.

(Guys! I finally updated! Are you proud? You should be! Anyways, this was usually a long chapter. I hope you liked it. Anyways, my birthday is on Monday, I have a chair audition due tomorrow, a sketchbook due Monday, and science shit due the 21st....so much shit to do. Anyways, you guys shouldn't be waiting a month for the next chapter...btw, there's like 10 chapters left...whoops...so yes, there's a few time skips...the last few chapters are important because they lead to the end of one character. Sorry y'all. Btw...I just saw IT and let me tell you all it's fucking creepy. Like bitch what the actual fuck?)