We always borrowed her dad's minivan. It had enough room to store all kinds of food and our suitcases without feeling like we were sitting on each other's lap.
                              
"ROAD TRIP!" Gwen shouted as I opened the car door.
                              
"TRIPPIN THE ROAD!" I shouted back. Gwen had a weird look on her face. I mimicked her expression. It was weird. We decided to ignore what I'd just yelled.
                              
An hour later, everyone was seated in the car, ready for an adventure.
                              
"So... where are we going?" Jake asked. I'd been dying to know.
                              
"Well... you see..." Gwen answered.
                              
"Oh God," Jake muttered quietly.
                              
"I wanted to do something fun this year so-"
                              
"OH GOD," Jake facepalmed so intensively I almost worried about him.
                              
"Shut up, Jake!" Gwen pouted. "Anway, I wanted to visit cities that had something to do with our names but that was harder than I thought it would be. So, I put glue all over a map and threw some paper at it. Aaand... that's where we're going," Gwen explained.
                              
"That's something Code would do," I snorted.
                              
"OH. MY. FUCKING. GOD," Jake said as if he knew what was gonna happen. Maybe he did know. Didn't matter though, it was pretty clear what he thought.
                              
"I KNOW RIGHT, it's amazing!" Gwen laughed nervously.
                              
"You're so lucky you're driving right now," Jake sighed.
                              
"Hey, it could be fun. I mean, it's us. We're awesome. We don't need cool cities," I tried to assure my friends. In reality, I was kinda concerned too. I mean, we'd probably end up in some stupid town filled with people possessed by demons. And then we'd die.
                              
That was the most realistic conclusion I could come up with.
                              
"We're gonna die!" Snake shouted with an amused spark in his eyes.
                              
As if he'd been reading my thoughts. Freaky. Very freaky.
                              
"Adventuuuure," Code said slowly.
                              
"Look, if you all say we didn't have fun after this week, I will.... I will..." Gwen got lost in her thoughts.
                              
"No no no. We're gonna decide what you'll do," Jake smirked.
                              
Poor Gwen. We hadn't even left town yet and she already had a shit ton of criticism thrown at her. I was convinced we'd have a great time. I mean, we could have fun in junkie park and that's probably the most crappy place in the world.
                              
"Things will be fine. We have booze," Snake said calmly.
                              
"We have booze," Code nodded.
                              
The first town we went to consisted of a church and a grocery store. That was about it. It was actually amusing how much fun we made of that poor town. The people definitely weren't possessed. We survived.
                              
"For fuck's sake Code. For fuck's sake!" Snake yelled as we got back on the road.
                              
As I mentioned, Snake was the first one to go insane. Hearing fifty songs over and over again was kinda annoying. Especially because I sang along with them every time.
                              
"I made a mistake," Code deadpanned, probably referring to me always singing along.
                              
I didn't care.
                              
"Ooh, pretty lights. I like this town," I told the rest of the group. We'd never been there and never even heard of the name before. But it was dark and all kinds of lights were welcoming us.