together we will be unbroken

For the rest of the day, I pretended to sleep and Ronnie played with my hair. "What time is it?" I ask.

"Two thirty why?"

"Oh shit! We were supposed to be at sound check two and a half hours ago!" I spring up. "Cleveland is at least an hour drive!!" I'm really freaking out.

"It's okay Tum, everything is going to be fine." Ronnie soothes.

"Yeah everything will be fine after we get there and everything works out! Come on!" I pull him out the door. Everyone is gone. "Ugh shit come on!" I grab the keys to my Prius and sprint out the door.

Ronnie's phone goes off. "Hello? Yeah we just left. I'm sorry I didn't want to wake her up. Don't worry we'll be there, okay bye. Tum, I think you're going a little to fast."

The speedometer reads one hundred. "Shit." I go down to ninety. "Why the fuck did they give me a powder blue Prius? Do I seem like a powder blue Prius kind of girl? I miss my Jag..." My Uncle Derek bought me a black Jaguar for my eighteenth birthday. It's the best thing ever.

"No, no you don't." Ronnie whips off his shirt and replaces it with a black one that says 'boobs up' I see our exit and turn without signaling. "Geez I thought I drove fast."

"You haven't seen anything. Back in Ireland, my brothers and I would tear apart cars, replace the engines, add nos, and race."

"You've used nos before?" Ronnie's eyes pop out of his head.

"Yeah." I nod.

"Dude can you put that in my car?"

"No. It's illegal." I wish it wasn't. I turn right onto the next highway, and go back up to one hundred again.

"We're not going to get there any faster if we get pulled over."

"Look who's being motherly." I chuckle but don't slow down. I pass people like crazy.

"Well I always look out for your well being."

"Yeah especially when you come into my house in the middle of the night and just stand in a corner until I notice." I laugh.

"Well..." He smiles. I playfully hit his arm. A sign reads twenty miles until Cleveland. My foot put a little bit more pressure on the pedal.

"I didn't know that Priuses could go so fast. It sounds like a guy that hasn't come out of the closet yet."

"What?" Ronnie laughs.

"You know how they try to act tough so people don't notice? That's what this car sounds like." I state. I turn onto the exit, and slow down a little.

"You're so stupid." he chuckles. I stop at the light and tap my fingers against the steering wheel. It turns green and I'm off again. I see the venue, and turn. I had barely parked the car before I jumped out.

"Hey there they are!" Andy exclaims when we walk in.

"How did you get here so fast?" Jake asks.

"Tum drove one hundred the whole way here." Ronnie laughs.

"And you didn't get stopped." This guy with mocha colored skin looks impressed at me. "I'm Kyle, the production manger."

"Oh, I'm Laci." I shake his hand. "Sorry for the crazyness."

"No problem." He smiles.

"Oh shit I have to do lights!" I run out back to the bus and unload my equiptment.

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