Your back was aching and despite the lonely moon replacing the sweaty sun, you were sweating enough bullets to start a war. You were in the middle of the desert, why? Well let’s go back to the end of last week. You and your best friend Polly decided you were gonna spend the first half of the summer on a trip exploring the country together. She wanted to do something new, and you wanted to get away from home for a while, it seemed like a perfect way to celebrate your new free lives after graduating high school

You guys graduated, took your finals, and spent the last bit of the school year preparing for the trip. Truth be told, you were a little nervous, being set off into the unknown with someone as reckless and the transparent party animal wasn’t idea if you got into a sticky situation, or, in this current situation, your car stopped working. Not only did both the engine and battery crap out conveniently at the same time, Polly didn’t fill up your tank before leaving this morning. So you were stuck pushing it to your destination, while she ‘convinced’ someone to give her a ride to a nearby rest stop to schedule an appointment for the morning and find a place to rest tonight

Sometime later, you finally find the place Polly texted you about. It was small: a gas station/mechanic shop combo, sleazy three floor motel, a mom and pop shop restaurant and a general no name grocery store for all your needs. The owner of the station glanced over his magazine to see you arrive, saving his place before helping you move the car onto the lift, saying he’ll look at it in the morning and letting you get something to drink. Room 213 is the room you’d be staying in for tonight, having to dodged past a family of 5 with rowdy kids and some smoker’s Rottweiler trying to take a nice meal out of your calf. You exhaustedly open the door to your ‘luxurious’ room, you’re met with a generally ok room, the tv is blaring and Polly is sprawled out on one of the beds. She turns to you and grows her usual mischievous grin, but it dies down when she takes in just how miserable you look

“Oh uh…hey {{user}}, guess you made it ok huh?” she chuckles, but goes back to being silent when she sees you’re not as amused as she is “I got some water and some toiletries the bathroom didnt have, I already showered, missed you though boo”