Livid Love

"Accept It Love"

Price jolts the car forwards making us push into the seats behind us. We speed to the gate and he takes a hard left following the red truck, sand and dust fly out from behind the wheels leaving a dust cloud at the gate. 

We don't seem to be catching up with it even after about a minute of driving, the truck is at the horizon now, suddenly it disappears from our sight, the car is slowing down at an alarming rate, i take a peek at the dashboard to see a red symbol telling me we're out of fuel

"FUCK" Price hits the wheel with his hand as the car comes to a complete stop, the horn beeps making us all jump in our seats, there's silence in the car as we sit there waiting for someone to say something. We lost him again.

Price gets out of the car and starts walking around with his index and thumb pinching the bridge of his nose, I look to Ghost beside me to see he's staring out the window at nothing, Königs leg is rapidly bouncing up and down as he looks down to his hands. Alejandro is sitting in the front texting someone on his phone, probably about what just happened. Gaz and Soap are crouching In the trailer attached to the car quietly talking to each other.

I get out of the car and look around me, there's absolutely nothing but sand and dead grass everywhere apart from the few tree stumps and rocks along the side of the road. The sky is blue and the sun is hot and bright, beaming down on my head making my hair hot to the touch. I sit down on a tree stump and pick up a small rock. A pit of anger opens up in my stomach and I through the rock as far away as I can, it lands far away from me in the distance.

"You've got a good throw"

I look up shielding my eyes from the sun to see Ghost leaning cross armed against the car

"Thanks I used to play baseball as a kid"

"Were you good at it?"

"You'd have to ask my mom"

"So you're saying I should meet your parents?" He jokes

I make an amused face at him

"I think they would be scared of you"

"Well who wouldn't be scared of a six foot four man" he shrugs his shoulders

"You're six four? Hm I thought you were taller" I tease

"Now excuse me" he uncrosses his arms and walks over to me "how tall are you then?"

"Around *y/h* probably" I look up at him *your height*

"Hm I though you were smaller" he says as he takes my chin in his hand

"I'm not small" I smirk trying to hold in the butterflies setting off nuclear bombs in my stomach

"Accept it love, you're small"

"Love?"

"What, can I not call you love?" He says in mock shock

"No, you can it's ju-"

"Alright love, come on we need to see what we're going to do because were stuck in a desert if you can't tell" he lets go of my chin still keeping eye contact.

"Wow I thought we were in a rainforest" I say sarcastically 

"Funny one" he pats my head mockingly and starts walking back to the car

I get up off the tree stump following him.

..."-no signal or anyone to help us, we're stuck"

"We could go back to the castle?" Suggests Soap

"Not a good idea, there will be ten times more guards there now that they know we are in the area, we cant go near them" says Price

"So we're sleeping here tonight"

"We're going to have to"

"But Alejandro, how were you sending that text message earlier?" I say

"I was trying to but it wouldn't send tristemente"

"We have no food or water and we don't know how long we're going to be out here for"

"I have a flask of water" says König holding up the dark flask for us to see

"That's good but not enough for all of us"

"So will we have to drink our own piss like in the movies" 

"No Gaz you idiot, we can try to dig a well"

"That's not going to work, the ground is way too hard and dry" I say stamping my foot into the gravel

"We need to find a telephone tower for some signal" suggests Soap

We all look around and see not one but zero telephone towers.

"Ok fuck this I'm out of ideas" Price throws his hands up in the air. "Try figure something else out"

We all stand in our little circle looking at each other hopelessly

"Let's try move the car over to the tree stump so we can have some shade, because I'm boiling in this gear." I say