//------------------------------// // Chapter 1 // Story: A Road Trip // by Thunder Light //------------------------------// Its the summer school holiday, sun is shining bright outside, birds singing their morning song as the neighbourhood is at its peaceful moment. You were staying at home reading a book as there's nothing much to do while your family are on a business trip while holidaying at the same time. You didn’t want to go since you weren’t a fan of flying due to the incident that happen on the plane. The reason you stay at home and read a book is because you love to read when there's nothing to do apart from watching random videos on the internet. The thought of walking was a great idea with the environment outside but however you were not walking mood today. Your friends were either on holidays or pretty busy doing their hobbies since it is the holidays after all. But since you have chores to manage and you have to take care of yourself, to clean the house once in awhile, go shopping for food and learn how to cook which at least it went well for you. Which slowly you learnt despite there’s no one else plus you can’t just eat takeaway food and spends hundreds per week. But on the bright side you get time to yourself and able to relax without the hassle of school and the dramas at home. Your living room is simple, a blue couch and a 40" TV and nothing else since you don’t bother decorating the place, but at least there a picture of your family on the wall. You can go out and buy more stuff, but you felt that you don’t need anything else at the moment. Same goes with your room except the bed with tea coloured blanket with a simple bed instead of a couch. You later decided to go to the mall cause why not, since you wanna buy some stuff for your car and some extra food so that you don’t need to later plus you btter get things over and done with. You went out to your car which is dark blue with a classic standard interior with dark grey dashboard. The reason why is that you just rather get started on a small and cheap car before you can move to the more expensive one. You hop into your car and you drove out heading towards the motorways which is oddly convenient that it place nearby your house but far enough away to hear the nosies. The traffic is pretty normal as usual, but you start feel a little bored so you decided to turned on the radio and listen to the morning tracks and news as you change the channels. As a romantic music comes on you start to end up thinking about having a girlfriend, but unfortunately no one you knew had shown interest in you, well if you know about it during high school but unfortunately you don’t have a crush on anyone at all. You were a nice kid since elementary after seeing a the nice things done to other people and to you as well and made so many great friends and you cared for everyone and also shared your things when others need most. You felt that you wanted a best friend, type relationship, but not just that, but a girlfriend who would care for you and look out for you. You arrived at the mall, you hop out of your car and headed up stair to the car/hardware store to buy things for your car. But when you walk off busy looking at some posters you accidentally bumped into a teenage girl your age. “Oof” “Hey, watch it buddy," said the girl. “Sorry… I, oh hi Rainbow,” you calmly spoke while recovering. “Whoops, sorry I didn’t know it was you Tim.” Rainbow Dash was a best friend of yours in high school, she hangs out with you sometimes, but however you sometimes get beaten on 1v1 sports especially soccer. You’re also friends with her other five friends with Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Rarity and Twilight Sparkle. “So what are you doing in this store Rainbow Dash?” Rainbow Dash started to blush, “Well, I am… just… well it just… well, I’m just getting stuff hehe.” “She’s just getting stuff for her car,” another voice said. “Hi Applejack,” you respond. “Hi Tim, we’re just getting some stuff since she’s getting her car ready for….” “APPLEJACK!” Rainbow shouted, but not too loud. “Hehe, sorry anyway, we best be going.” “Ok,” you say. “What just happen?” you spoke to yourself. “That was close Applejack” “What are we even doing here Rainbow?” “There’s a few things I need to grab before we head on out tomorrow.” “Really, you know we’re going in my car right?” “Why not mine?” “I don’t think it would be a great idea to bring a city car in a country town.” “Yeah, so.” “So when you gonna tell him?” “Tonight I guess.” “No, I mean the feelings you had for him?” “Let’s not worry about that for now.” You grab your things and pay at the checkout then left the mall to head home. Once you're back home, you started to tune up your car and fix up some things. And you head back inside and get back to reading. Until your phone rings and a text appear on your home screen. Hi Tim AJ was planning to visit her cousin Braeburn and since I’m coming along as well, but I was wondering you could come along as well since you don’t have much to do right? Plus, we need a mechanic so we can be safe if the car breakdown anyway because we’re going really far. Also we’re leaving tomorrow morning just to let you know. :) RD “Now, as least I have something to do during the summer holidays,’ you spoke to yourself. But however, there were questions in your mind, why did Rainbow Dash invited me to go on a road trip though? You shrugged and reply back to the text to say that you’re going. Also, you did study engineering in High school so you know how to fix up cars to be up and working as new. Next Day The alarm rang off early since you got about 1000 km to travel to get to Braeburn’s place. You get up at 6am and hop out of bed and pack your suitcase ready for travel. You take a quick shower and head to the living room and locking things up just in case. While you’re waiting patiently for your friends to arrive even though you have a car, but it's better to share one and not waste fuel, you were reading a book on tourism, travel just to see what’s there and along the way and it has a map as well. Suddenly you hear a honk outside your house which indicates that your friends are here. You grab your stuff and head outside with a backpack with camping gears (don’t ask me why) and you were kinda confused with the car they’re using. It’s a 4wd Toyota white Land cruiser which wasn’t what Rainbow Dash was gonna use though. “Um, where’s your car Rainbow?” you spoke. Rainbow Dash rub her neck, “hehe yeah Applejack said that we may be going off roading so my car is not a good idea for that.” You put your stuff in the trunk and head into the back seat which you’re alone for a while since the other girls are busy at the moment. Inside the car was pretty clean on the inside, even though the car was used in the countryside for awhile now and it’s pretty smell more of apples than anything else you can think of. The car was pretty basic with radios and standard climate control. The front has two cup holders in the middle, which wasn’t part of the car, but there’s an extra two seats in the back, which is not in use at the moment due to it being used for placing your stuff and your friends as well. “So let’s get going!” Applejack pulls out of your driveway and started to drive out of the city. You stare out the window and watch as the scene goes by. The car is quiet for the moment until Rainbow spoke. “How far is it gonna take to get there Applejack?” “Possibly a day cause we’re not gonna make in time if we go out exploring so a day I guess.” “That’s good news you know,” Rainbow whisper. “Anyway, what were gonna do while we get there?” Rainbow asked. “We how about let’s catch up on what you’re being done?” you spoke. “Not much for me except to help and hanging around with friends,” Rainbow replies. “Well, this is gonna be a long trip,” Applejack smiles.