Spring Break [closed]

[JD Paerson]

So here's the story.

JD had gotten grief from Zac about spending too much time with Jalen, and he didn't really want to ditch her for spring break either. So he'd decided it would be a brilliant idea for them all to take a trip together. To New York. Three boys, three girls, one big trip. What could go wrong?

He'd started, of course, with Stella. And once she said yes, he asked Robbie. With those two supporting him, he took his request to Zac. How could Zac say no when Stella oh so wanted to go? Was he cold-blooded?

The result of all this was that on Saturday morning at the beginning of spring break, JD was loading his bag into the back of his car. He was a little early, but he didn't see anyone else around, so he sent off a mass text to the other five participants.

Hey guys, coming or not? Bus leaves in fifteen.

And they would have road trip songs and would stay in a nice hotel--two rooms or three, that had yet to be decided--and do all sorts of fun things in couples and as a group and as friends. He had nothing but positive feelings for this.

Which was, of course, why he was sitting on the trunk of his car, tapping the metal with a finger and biting his lip while looking up at the sky.

[Jalen August]

Jalen was thrilled about spending Spring Break in New York with JD, that was until he mentioned Zac would be coming as well. She could deal with the rest of the crowd that would be tagging along. But JD was so damn excited about the trip, she couldn’t say no. Was he using that to his advantage? She would never know. Jalen slept soundly the night before, right through her alarm, she was lucky JD had texted. She practically fell to the floor getting out of bed, getting ready quickly.

For someone who usually dressed so, intensely, Jalen was wearing jeans and a plain white t-shirt, her hair was down and instead of her usual heavy makeup, she simply wore mascara. A light jacket was over her shoulders, along with a duffel bag. Yes, Spring Break was a week, but the blonde travelled lightly. Every article of clothing was rolled, her purse on the inside, along with toiletries and a few other essentials.

“Heya handsome,” she said, spotting her boyfriend on the trunk of his car, happy as pie. Jalen let her bag drop to the ground, before sitting next to JD, placing a kiss on his jaw line. “You excited?” She asked, her feet on the bumper, leaning forward and looking back at the speedster. He planned the whole thing, he better be excited.

[Danicca Waylan]

[D]A[N]I[C]C!?

Dani hated road trips for several reasons, most of which were attributed to boredom and parents being parents. But she agreed to coming on this trip because, hey, no parents, more likelihood for fun, plus her boyfriend was there. She got the feeling, though, that LaRousse being there was going to set her on edge if she got to talking to him.

How Dani had convinced her parents to let her come was simple: half a truth. She told them that Stella wanted to go on a tiny little spring break vacation, and wanted to bring her friends with her. She left out the part where it was actually JD running things, Stella didn't really know her, and her boyfriend was coming on the trip.

Actually, her parents don't even know about the boyfriend part at all. As far as they know, she's going to be single until she graduates college.

Approaching the meet-up point, Dani threw a text at Robbie, since she didn't see him there. Sunshine, dude, get here NOW or we're leaving you behind and I'm sleeping in the room with your buddy JD and his girl.

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Her smirk dropped from her face for a moment when she got close enough to see who JD's girl was. "Oh. Blue girl. Heeeeyyyy." Well, this was bound to be awkward. "I... hope that washed out. And that your iPod survived and all." She hitched her duffle bag further up onto her shoulder, not caring about how much that would wrinkle the fabric of the dark blue T-shirt she was wearing.

Dani really hoped someone else would show up, oh say, now.[/blockquote]

[Robbie Wilkes]

As Dani's luck would have it, who was that showed up next?

Robbie himself.

When he heard JD had planned the roadtrip, boy was Robbie eager to say yes. And the next thing he did was rally his handy dandy girlfriend despite her...differences with Zac. Who knows, this roadtrip might make them the best of friends! Robbie, always the optimist.

He was pretty stoked as he packed his essentials [toothbrush, couple t-shirts, condoms[although this was more of a precaution than a presumption] last night and the adrenaline rush didn't let him sleep til five in the morning.

Which attributed to his tardiness that morning.

"Hey gorgeous people! And sexy." He grinned at Dani, nuzzling her from behind even though he absolutely knew she could very well wallop him at any given time. He didn't care. He got to nuzzle Dani Waylan in public. What was wrong with that picture?

His phone buzzed and he checked it, grinning it at the threatening message his girlfriend had left him. "Don't think they'd want anybody with them in their room. If ya know what I mean." He wriggled his eyebrows at the speedster and his sonic manipulator girlfriend.

"Who all else are we waiting for?" Robbie asked, dumping his bag on the ground before bumping JD by his side. He resisted the urge to do to Dani what JD was doing to Jalen for a second longer before pulling her towards him with his legs. "C'mere sexy."

[Zachary LaRousse]

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“You have got to be kidding me. Please tell me I’m only seeing things. Please, please, please,” groaned Zac as he got out of his car, taking his sunglasses off for a bit for that (supposedly) dramatic ‘checking the hunk of metal out to see if it’s really there or it’s just a nightmarish product of me having no sleep the night before’ gesture. Because even when Stella’s around, his fetish for the overly dramatic never fades. Ever.

JD (as expected) was smart enough to ask Stella first and get her to convince Zac to go with the speedster’s plans. ‘Cause though the mimic had no idea on how he’d wish to spend the last spring break of his life before he heads off to ‘the real world’, never in a million years would he have imagined he’d be doing it with the Jalen and Dani. The whiny baby still insists that he’s still working out the fact that the two witches are his best friends’ main squeeze(s), heaven knows he’s far from ready to spend a week (or two) with them. In close quarters.

But then JD told him it’d be a chance for Stella to make more girl friends other than Fifi, Naomi and Moe (Zac technically considers the sweet Japanese boy as more of a girl friend than a boy friend, as ignorant as it might sound) – something he’s been lamenting, albeit not in front of Stella herself, for quite some time now – and it’d give them more time together before graduation (read: hitting two birds in one stone, as it seems), Zac had to give in.

He only wishes the two wouldn’t corrupt his precious Glowworm’s mind.

“I gave you a credit card with virtually no limit and you rent us a bus? Seriously?” whined the boy once more as he opened the door for Stella and helped her out. “Stella, the guys. Guys, Stella.” He gave her a warm smile and motioned for her to go mingle, giving her a wink that he hopes would tell her that he’d just be grabbing the bags for a bit.

“We’re not waiting for anyone else, are we?”

[JD Paerson]

JD smiled at Jalen as she came trotting up. He turned his head when she kissed his jaw and kissed her back instead. "Hey beautiful," he said. "Getting more so, now that the most wonderful person in the school is next to me. You ready to see a little more of the states?"

He turned and gave a small wave when he saw Dani coming up, though he kept one arm wrapped around Jay's waist. "Wait, you know each other?" he asked, cocking an eyebrow. It sounded like an interesting story, and they had a whole drive together. That would be fun.

Robbie came up, bubbly as usual, though JD could've slapped him upside the head for the innuendo line. There was no need to make things more awkward. "Hey Robbie. Just waiting for Zac and Stella now. Then we can load up the rental car." He pointed a thumb across the way toward the only car he'd been able to find. Nobody was willing to rent to someone who was only 18, so he'd been forced to borrow this one off a family in town. Pickings were a bit slim.

That was why he didn't appreciate it much when Zac pulled up and made his "oh my god how could you embarrass me like that even though I do stupid sh*t all the time" face.

"It's not a bus," he said, crossing his arms over his chest. "It's a van, and thankfully it will seat everyone with plenty of room between people so not everyone is packed in so tightly. Because, as you might know, not all six of us will fit into a sports car."

Realizing his bad manners, he rose and went over to Stella, then stuck out his hand. "Thanks for coming, Stella. I'm hoping you can try to keep this guy in check, and that you have a fun time."

Then he looked over at Zac. "You guys make the last of it. Next time don't take so long styling your hair and you won't be the last one here. Now everyone in, and please don't make a mess of everything. If I don't return this in good condition we have to keep it and buy Mrs. Schaffer a new one. And I don't really want to keep it."

With one last regretful look at his own car, sitting unused in the parking lot, he got into the driver's seat of the van. "You're in charge of music," he told Jalen, sitting shotgun. "But it's suggested you take input from others."

He looked to make sure everyone was buckled up--because yes,even though this is a bunch of high schoolers going on spring break they are going to be safe and he is not going to get a ticket for breaking any laws--and pulled out. Now the only trouble was making sure they all survived to get back.

[Jalen August]

A familiar brunette bounced up to the car, and Jalen both mentally and actually cringed. Wasn’t this the girl she had that encounter with back at the beginning of the year? The one she rolled around on the floor with because she was so angry? “Yeah, we’ve met. You can call me Jalen,” she said, not giving the girl another option. Her raised eyebrow suggested that if Blue Girl was going to continued to be used, there was going to be a serious problem. She didn’t say anything about it washing out – obviously it had. As for her iPod... “I had to buy a new one,” she said a little bitterly. She already had to deal with Zac on this trip, and she really didn’t want it to be a drama fest.

Jay tried not to gag as a blonde boy, Robbie she remembered, glomped Danicca. She glanced at JD and rolled her eyes. This wasn’t going to be one of those trips was it? She wasn’t very touchy feeling in front of others with her significant other, and since JD wasn’t exactly the PDA type of dude, she thought she’d be safe, but his hand didn’t budge. Jalen sent Robbie a death glare as her face turned red. Presumptuous would be a perfect way to describe him.

Her dark eyes landed on Stella, and Jalen offered a genuine smile. Ah, someone other than JD that she didn’t hate. Stella seemed rather sweet actually. If anyone had Zac wrapped around their little finger, it was her. And she wasn’t even trying. Jalen gave a cool wave, seriously reconsidering this whole thing. “It’s probably a good thing we’re not all sitting so close together. Wouldn’t want anyone fighting,” she grinned, “or otherwise.”

Jalen picked up her things and passed JD on the way to the van. She whispered something to him which only he would hear. “If your friends decide to trash the van, I’ll help you clean it out.” She said, grinning softly. They were bound to get a little rowdy, it came with the territory. She put her stuff in the back and got in beside JD. Right on for not sitting awkwardly in the back. Blondie and what’s her face were bound to be making out any second now.

“Suggestions for the first song?” She asked, glancing around at the others in the back. Jalen would play nice as long as everyone else did. The van was on the road and Jalen was getting excited. Maybe she could forget about the others in the back.

[Stella Pinyin]

"I told you we were going to be late," Stella said gently as Zac helped her from the car. He had taken a long time packing, and had kept asking her opinion on clothes until she had been close to throwing a shirt at him, and reminding him again that she could hardly tell what he was wearing.

He'd cracked jokes that made her blush after that and she'd repacked her toiletries just to be able to hide her face.

To say that Stella had been on JDs side was maybe a little inaccurate. It was more that the tall teenager had approached her, had told her that he thought that she would love New York, then proceeded to tell her why, and then told her it would do Zac good. She had agreed of course.

Still, when she blinked around at the blur of faces and almost missed JD's hand when he held it out to shake, the rather shy girl reached out for Zac. "He'll be good," she promised, unable to help but smile. Both JD and Robbie seemed to think she had some sort of magical power when it came to La Rousse, which was of course untrue. Right?

It turned out her recently acquired boyfriend was horrible at introductions, and she sighed and shook her head. "Hi Robbie," she said quietly and smiled, then waved slightly at the other two girls going with them. This was good, hopefully. "Hi, ah.. guys."

Letting Zac help her into the van so she didn't miss a step and trip, Stella slid onto her chair and yawned slightly behind one white hand. "I made sandwiches," she offered after a moment, "They're in my bag. In case anyone is hungry."

[Danicca Waylan]

[D]A[N]I[C]C!?

Okay, Dani was going to have a good time as long as two things stopped happening right now:

A) Robbie needed to stop grab-assing her when she was in the middle of talking to someone she was in a bitch-stare-off with. Seriously, this wasn't going to go well with showing Blue girl who the Alpha female was if the PDA kept up. Not that she'd complain about a little face-to-face a little later, when Blu-- okay fine Jalen was occupied.

B) Zachary LaRousse needed to keep the hell away from her. At this point, if asked for a reason for her despising of him she would respond with something along the lines of "Holy hell he's an idiot and a jerk and I hate him." A completely unjust reasoning, but then once Dani makes up her mind to hate someone who gets on her nerves she doesn't just stop mindlessly hating said annoyance--it takes time.

So of course, this was going to be an interesting trip.

Dani elbowed Robbie jokingly, rolling her eyes. She'd get aggravated about it, but she was actually in a pretty decent mood for having to share a car with the rich snob with an ego the size of China and a blonde bitch with a stick up her woo-ha. She got JD, who was a cool dude and would hopefully keep his girl in check; Robbie, who she considered totally awesome whether she was biased or not; and Stella, who was... Stella. Quiet, but not annoying. Sort of adorable and fragile and cool-looking.

Yes, cool-looking is a deciding factor in whether a person is in Dani's good graces. She's secretly seven years old.

Dani smiled and waved at Stella, calling out a greeting. And then everyone was loading into the van and getting settled, and Dani decided everyone in the car was too fragile for the Fantasy Metal mix CD she'd brought along. One day, though. One day. For now, she made sure her boyfriend was buckled in--didn't need to lose those lovely lips to a randomized incident involving crash-bang-shatter noises--and brushed her lips across his for a moment before shouting in celebration of getting on the road.

If anyone had a wish to keep their car ride calm and their eardrums unharmed, Dani just wrecked it.

[Robbie Wilkes]

Robbie's gaze fell on everyone as he smiled away at the banter they all shared. Oh for sure, this would be a damned memorable road trip.

He was glad to see Stella again after so long. Clearly, Zac wanted to keep his little glowworm all to himself. The blond weather manipulator could not blame the heir, certainly. "Hiiiiii Stella!" He chirped, possibly much to the dismay of everyone around. Hey, someone needed to be the smiley perky one, why couldn't it be him? He was cute, dammit!

The offer of sandwiches had Robbie raising his hands, waving it around. "I get to pick which one I want!" He yelled as he jumped into the rental, pulling Dani after him.

It was then that he realised that not everybody got along with everybody and the only one everyone agreed they liked was Stella. New York better be as good as JD says it is.

And let it be public record that Robbie believed Dani was not secretly seven years old. She was five.

He let his girlfriend strap him in and enjoyed the chaste kiss she gave, laughing at her ear-splitting shriek. "I would suggest the obvious "500 Miles" but whatever's fine. Let's just get the show on the road suckas!"

[Oh yeah, I totally know I suck at timing so ^^ I'mcutedon'tkillme?]