Into The Night

Twenty-Eight

The ride was an absolute mess. . .

"Are you kidding me?! That was the only station that plays decent music, put it back on!" Berlyn yelled, it's one of the few times when she's actually really more frightening than anyone. Apparently she gets to be this way when the discussion is about music.

"Alright." I agreed because judging by her scary glare right now, I wouldn't want to oppose her.

"No! Styles, you touch that button, you're dead!" Jhanelle threatened so I backed away and raised my hands. I wouldn't want to mess with Jhanelle either.

Berlyn suddenly said in rapid French something that kind of or closely translates to, "You used to hate that channel! What the heck is going on?!"

While Jhanelle replied in English, "My goodness, I just want to listen to just one Little Mix song! You love SLS!"

"Guys! Can't we just plug someone's phone in?" Aerielle suggested and I gotta say it was a stupid thought that nobody came up with her idea.

"Okay, I'm plugging my phone." Marshal said.

Berlyn scoffed, "You wish."

"My car, my phone." Marshal retorted which makes his argument much better.

"Let it go, Bers." I said, "Your phone on our way back, how's that?"

"Deal."

Marshal gave me his phone and I plugged it into his stereo. For a few songs, it was just us singing along. And it was fun, it was a mess sometimes because no matter how good (or bad) our voices were, we always sound like we were crying during high notes. Chandelier was not an exception.

I almost got deaf and my throat is getting hoarse but I don't think I'm the only one.

"Why are you guys crying?" Jhanelle asked after the song and we all bursted out laughing. To be quite honest, we really did sound like wailing babies whilst singing that song.

After a few more songs, we got quiet once we started listening to a song with no musical background whatsoever.

"What song is that?" Niall asked with a wrinkled nose in absolute disgust. I mean, the a capella thing kind of sucks because the singer could have used a minus one but there were times when the notes were a little too flat.

"Shh." Berlyn shushed.

"Daylight, by Maroon 5." I said. But in this instance, it sounded like a cover.

"Shh." This time, it was Aerielle who shushed me.

"Oh God! Take it out! Plug it out Harry!" Marshal ordered.

"Why? What's--"

"OH MY GOD! IT'S MARSHAL'S VOICE!" Jhanelle yelled and the whole minivan turned into a chaos of laughter and teases.

I was literally already crying because of laughter. I tried holding it back more than a couple of times already. I don't think I'm alone in it either.

It was a long while before we've calmed down. . . and we haven't even fully calmed down.

"Oh come on guys, at least that was—"

He wasn't able to finish as someone from the back bursted out laughing again and almost the rest of us laughed as well. It is one of those contagious, can't-stop-laughing moments that I really enjoy.

And it happened a couple of more times.

My stomach hurts, tears are coming out of my eyes and it's one of the funniest things in the whole dang universe. Of course, Marshal was teased but in the end, he started throwing teases too and started playing recordings of the rest of the crew, most during their training days in middle school as not everyone was like Berlyn who was that gifted. Her voice was beautiful, even back then. The rest were not so bad back then but now they're all great.