"Wait", I manage to say after our little make out session. This felt so wrong, so I had to stop it. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done that."

Norah looks at me with a dazed expression and smiles before she talks.

"It's okay, I don't blame you. I was the one teasing you, after all", she smirks after finishing her sentence.

"True, you suck", I tell her jokingly, calming down a little.

"Literally", she adds with a wink. I shake my head at her silliness, trying to hide my grin.

"No but seriously, this was so weird", I say.

"A little" she confesses. "Don't overthink, Chloe, We're just having fun", she adds, after seeing my still worried expression. She's right, I shouldn't make a great deal out of this. We're just friends having fun. Doesn't matter if we're both gay, my relationship with her has always been just friendly and we're both satisfied with that. I'm pretty sure this won't change anything between us. Just relax, Chloe.

My train of thoughts is interrupted by Syria's voice, appearing near us.

"Oh. My. God. That was... hot", she says amazed and both, Norah and I, smirk at her.

"Want a taste, too?" Norah asks her in a flirty tone. Syria smirks back, taking a step forward and leaning her face closer to Norah's. But just before their lips almost touch, she moves her head and begins to walk away, leaving Norah with a bewildered expression. Before disappearing in the middle of the crowd she turns to us, walking backwards and shouts mischievously, "Maybe, one day. Who knows?"

"What a tease", Norah turns to me, still baffled. I scoff and look at her with an 'are you serious' look. She really has the audacity to call Syria a tease, when just two minutes ago, she was the one teasing me.

"Yeah right, says the biggest tease of them all."

--

After a few hours of partying, we decide to head back to the van. Arriving outside, we see a girl sitting on the ground with her back against the wall and another one crouching in front of her, trying to hold up her friend's head. As we get closer, I recognize them from earlier. The girl by the wall looks like she's unconscious and the other one seems overwhelmed with the situation.

"Let's help them" I decide and tell Eleanor, who had also seen them earlier. She nods and we both head over to the girls.

"Jasmine, can you hear me? Please, Jasmine, open your eyes" we hear the girl saying to her unconscious friend, Jasmine, while slightly slapping her cheeks. However, Jasmine doesn't react. Eleanor and I crouch down beside them.

"Hey, do you need help? Is she okay?" I offer my help and Eleanor adds; "Should we call somebody?"

The other girl acknowledges us and answers in a trembling tone.

"I don't know, she was fine a few minutes ago. I mean, she was drunk but not to the point of just passing out at any minute. She said that she needed some fresh air, so we came outside. That's when she lost her strength, sat down and passed out. And I still haven't called anyone, her parents would kill her if they saw her like this, I can't call them. But now I don't know how to take her home, her being in this state" she begins rambling worriedly.

"Hey, hey, calm down. These things happen, she'll be fine, don't worry", Eleanor tries to calm her down. "Is there anyone else that you know, that could come and take you girls home?"

She thinks for a while before speaking out.

"My cousin lives nearby, I could call him."

"Yes, call him" is what Eleanor and I say before she takes her phone out and begins to call her cousin. While she does that, I decide to go tell the other girls, who had been standing behind us, what's going on and to wait a few minutes. Syria and Norah go back inside to get Jasmine a glass of water. When the other girl finishes the call she informs us that he's on his way.

"Good, we'll wait here with you, until he arrives", I tell her.

"Thank you so much uh..." she says questioningly, waiting for us to announce our names.

"Oh, I'm Chloe" I introduce myself before the other girls to the same.

"Well, thank you so much girls, it's very kind of you to be doing this. I'm Emily by the way", she introduces herself shyly.

"It's nice to meet you", we say back and give her a genuine smile. In that moment, Syria and Norah arrive with the glass of water and hand it to Emily. She goes to sit on the ground next to Jasmine, and tries to get the girl's attention.

"Jasmine, come on", this time Jasmine begins to move slightly and to mumble something barely audible. Emily uses this chance to get her to drink, "here, we got you some water, drink it."

Her friend faintly opens her eyes to look at the glass of water before grabbing it from Emily's hand and taking short gulps, closing her eyes again.

"Jasmine, listen, can you please keep your eyes open? It's very important for you to stay awake now", I tell her after I sit next to her. So she tries to open them again and looks confusedly around her before she focuses on me.

"Who... are you?" she manages to say weakly. I smile at her amusing expression and then I introduce myself.

"Hi Chloe, I'm Jasmine", she says with a wide grin. Then she looks at the other girls and at her friend Emily before she keeps speaking. "Have we met before? I'm sorry, it's just, your faces don't seem very familiar. Why are we hanging out with them, Emily? This water tastes good, did you put sugar in it?"

After speaking all of her thoughts out loud, she looks at her glass again and drinks from it. She is clearly coming back to her senses, but still visibly drunk.

"Yeah, do you guys live here? I've never seen any of you around here, and this city is pretty small" Emily asks this time.

"Oh, no, we're not from here, we're doing a road trip together and decided to make a quick stop, to party a little" Norah answers her question.

"How cool, where are you guys planning to go?"

"We wanted to drive without a specific destination. Just stumble upon some places that seem interesting to visit." I answer this time.

"But we're driving towards the coast. We couldn't miss the beach on this trip", Eleanor adds.

"Wow, we should do that sometime, Jasmine" Emily turns to her friend, suggesting the idea. Meanwhile, jasmine is looking at her empty glass, with a pout on her face.

"I want more sweet water" she says in a sad tone. Emily sighs and tells her that she will have some, as soon as they get home, which instantly changes her mood. After a few minutes of talking to both girls, a tall, handsome guy appears near us.

"So, where's the girl that couldn't handle her drinks?" he asks no one in particular, looking at each of us, probably checking the foreign girls out. I notice how his eyes linger a little longer on Syria, before he gives her a flirty smile. She returns it. Oh well, maybe someone is going to get some, after all.

"Jasmine's doing better, but she looked really bad a few minutes ago, believe me. I actually think she might've been roofied", Emily tells the guy who I suppose is her cousin.

"Hey that's rude, I don't look bad, I'm pretty", Jasmine whines, frowning at Emily. Emily just closes her eyes, pinches the bridge of her nose and shakes her head, probably used to her drunk friend's silly comments. I, on the other hand, find it amusing, because usually I'm the one who talks nonsense while being drunk, making my friends wish that they could just drop me in the middle of a deserted street and hope somebody would drive by and kidnap me. But they love me too much for that.

"Don't worry, Jasmine, you still look good", the guy reassures her while approaching us and holding out his hand for Jasmine. "Now come on, I'm taking you guys home."

Jasmine grabs his hand and lets him pull her up. In the process, Emily and I stand up, too and Emily places her hands on Jasmine's waist to help her keep balance while I approach the other girls. Then we all begin to make our way to the parking lot until the three of them stop near a grey car.

"Thank you, again, for helping out and staying with us", Emily turns to us and gives us a genuine smile. We smile back, letting her know that it wasn't a big deal. In the meantime, her cousin opens the door of what I assume is his car and lets Jasmine step inside. Then he turns to us.

"Yeah, thanks for taking care of them until I arrived. These girls can be quite a pain in the ass when they go out" he tells us before sending Emily a playfull smile. She just scowls back while Jasmine is totally oblivious to the conversation. „I'm Jacob, by the way", he holds out his hand for us to shake, starting with Eleanor and ending with Syria. And I think I see him whisper something to her ear just before I turn my attention back to Emily.

"Take care of Jasmine, and be more careful the next time you guys go out to drink", I say good-humoredly. Emily chuckles before nodding and saying that they will. Jacob walks back towards his car and opens the driver's door but before he gets inside, he takes one last look at us and says, "Nice to meet you girls", before he steps inside and closes the door.

"Yes, it was nice to meet you. Have a lot of fun on your road trip", she smiles and starts walking to the passenger seat, waving goodbye before getting inside the car. We return her wave and thank her before heading towards our van, which is parked at the other side of the parking lot.

"Should we just go to sleep now? There's no point in driving to a rest area now. We're already at a parking lot and I'm kinda too tired to drive", Daisy suggests. I turn to look at the girls, realizing that all of them look pretty tired. So I agree and the others do the same. Arriving near the Van, Daisy gets inside and opens the pop-up roof of the Camper, where three of us are supposed to sleep. The other two will sleep on the mattress that's over the backseats of the van. We easily decide who's going to sleep where, leaving Eleanor and Syria and me sleeping on the roof while the other two sleep downstairs.

I quickly put on my pajamas and remove my make-up before climbing to the pop-up roof. I could really use a shower right now but since everyone is tired, we're just going to take a shower in the morning. After I lay down and plug my phone to the charger, I turn off the airplane mode that I had turned on to save battery for emergencies and check for new messages. Two messages and one call. The call is from my mom and so is one of the messages. I guess she opted for texting me after I didn't pick up.

Birthgiver: Hi honey, how is the road trip going so far? I hope you're having fun! Take good care of yourself and call me as soon as you can, don't leave me worried, you know I can't sleep without knowing if you're okay!  x

I text her back saying I'm okay, that I went to a club and that my phone ran out of battery. I also tell her that I'll call her in the morning to tell her more about the trip. After I press 'send' I check the other message. It's from Adrianna.

Adri: Tell me you weren't serious about ending things. Tell me you were just joking. Please, tell me you still want me.

I sigh. Of course this was coming. Of course it wouldn't be so easy to get rid of her, she does this all the time. She asks me to come back when I want to move on. But I won't. Not this time. I decide to ignore her text before putting my phone away. While I was checking my phone, I was totally unaware of the fact that Syria and Eleanor had layed down beside me. Eleanor has her eyes closed, probably already asleep while Syria is still on her phone. Then I remember something from earlier.

"What did Jacob say to you when he was introducing himself?" I ask curiously. She only smiles and answers without taking her eyes of her phone.

"He asked for my number."

"I knew it! Are you texting him right now?" I say. She shakes her head before talking.

"I didn't give it to him," she answers simply.

"Why?" I ask confused.

She finally turns her head to look at me. "First of all, he's not my type and second, didn't you smell the fuckboy out of him?" She's right, he actually had some kinda fuckboy vibe.

"Yup, he was one of those." I chuckle. She gives me a short smile before turning her attention back to her phone and ending whatever she was doing. After a few seconds she puts her phone away and tells me goodnight.

"Goodnight Syria" I say back. Then I turn my back to her to find a comfortable position before closing my eyes and letting myself drift off to sleep.