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Introduction |
Previously
Saturday, noon-2pm
About 12.30pm. Da Wei is asleep on the passenger seat while Frank is driving along the long, boring road that is Highway 101, the drivers side window about half open since the car has no AC and it’s pretty hot weather. A sign shows up next to the road.
Frank: poking Da Wei Wake up, man. We’re in Caly.
Frank stops the car at the side of the road.
Da Wei : huh? oh right. end of the rainbow unicorn
Da Wei went out of the car, walked towards the california welcome sign all while his head was pointing upwards saying “yay yay rainbow roads”, until he headsmacked the sign. and fell backwards.
PTAANG!
Da Wei : BUGH OUCH, HUH? WHAT? WHERE? THE HELL AM I? THE FUCK IS HAPPENING?! WHERE’S MY STEADFAST FERRARI RED UNICORN!!
Frank: confused by Da Wei’s behaviour, trying not to laugh You awake yet?
Da Wei: HUH?! oh, right…… wait. why am i sitting on the ground? and why does my head sting like hell?
Frank: You just smacked your head against that sign in front of you. reaching Da Wei a hand to stand up
Da Wei : what? really? grabs frank’s hand and got up. i must’ve sleepwalked again, didn’t i?i only got some blurry memory about some ferrari horse. everything is blurry about that dream. except for the horse
Da Wei: anyway, where are we and what time is it?
Frank: It’s 12:30. For the where part, just look ahead. Goes back to the car, starts looking for something in their supplies.
Da Wei : wow we’re in cali already? damn i must be super tired to fall asleep like that then. though i’m plenty refreshed now. you wanna take a rest for the next stint?
Frank: Thanks. Yes I’ll do. Have one of those. Grabs an energy drink they’ve been carrying in the car, throws the can over to Da Wei.
Da Wei : catches the can thanks. so. break for 10 min then go again?
Frank: As you wish. Opens a pack of biscuits, starts eating them.
Da Wei : You opening these things. how much more snacks do we have left?
Frank opens the cooling box and points at the contents. It’s about half full with beer, energy drinks and different kinds of snacks.
Frank: Should be enough. And even if not, we can still buy stuff. Holds his pack of biscuits over so Da Wei can grab some out of it.
Da Wei : no thanks. the hunger will keep me awake. i hope. well then. i’m gonna try and look for a nearby coffee shop, if there’s any, and ask for the strongest coffee they have. want anything?
Frank: Uh, can’t think of anything. Ready to go then?
Da Wei : only AFTER i find some coffee
5 mins later
Da Wei : well. i got some coffee. but it’s really not strong. let’s go anyway
both of us got into the car and drove off towards the sunset…… kinda. we’re going south, not west. but it’s gonna be sunset in a few hour. ish.
4:30pm. everything was silent except for the thumping stereo that seems to have hold it’s quality even over several decades, proving the car’s overbuilt characteristic when i t was produced. but it was getting boring. Da Wei still on the driver’s seat started to sit slouching, several times he almost swerved onto the other lanea couple of times without realising it already. Then a few minutes after he starts to nod and getting asleep at the wheel.
Da Wei : Okay. that’s it. i can’t take this anymore. find us a hotel or a motel or whatever. right now. that we can sleep in that’s within an hour from now.
Frank: (asleep) zzzzZ
Da Wei : frank…… hey franks? looks to the side well then……. hmmmmm. i’m bored anyway
Da Wei pulled his vape out, and started vaping like crazy until the car was filled with clouds of vape “smoke” within minutes. and in the next few minutes, frank started coughing and finally wakes up
Frank: uuuuh … huh … what the … fuck. smoke. fire. panics, quickly gets out of the car Da Wei? Shit. Where does that smoke come from?
slowly realises what’s going on
Da Wei cant contain his laughter anymore and laughed hysterically and finally cranked down all the car’s window
Da Wei: sorry. a bit. i’m not that sorry, i just needed something to keep me awake.
Frank: struggles for words oh you …. damn asshole. you had to do that? you took that thing with you?
Da Wei: oh shit. knew it would happen, but i did it anyway. uhh… i can’t run can i? it’s worth it though. hahaha
Frank: Slaps Da Wei on the back of his head There. We’re even. Now what? Where are we even?
Da Wei: as i said while you were sleeping, and the reason i did that to you. i can’t take it anymore. we need to find a hotel that we can check in. at worst 1 hour away from here. we’ll sleep now, we’ll go at midnight again.
Frank: Okay, I’ll look for something. In the meantime, can you keep driving south?
A few minutes later
Frank: There seems to be a nice motel south of Redwood Valley. Should be 10 to 15 miles from where we are now.
Da Wei: good. we’re going. NOW. while i’m still somewhat awake. foot flat to the floor
15 mins later they arrived at the hotel very sloppily parked their car. left all the stuff except for wallet, phone, and some biscuits on the car. go the to recipient looking ragged. and fell asleep within 3 minutes of getting in their room.
Morale: +1 (+7 total)
Fatigue: +8 (+15 total)
