Journey to Cheshire Bay by H.M. Shander

Author:H.M. Shander
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: growing up, road trip, contemporary romance, finding love, life journey, new adult, teen roadtrip, enemies love
Publisher: H.M. Shander

Chapter Ten

I had to make the best of a tough situation. Regardless of my growing feelings for Holden, it would never happen. We were too different to make it work. Rather than make misery for the remainder of our road trip, I set my feelings aside. For my sanity, I had too. Dissociation was my middle name.

“We’re about an hour outside of Kamloops.” I tossed a gaze over to the gas tank. “Think we’ll make it that far?”

Holden stared at it before flipping his attention back to the road, his lips mumbling as he performed some calculations in his head. “We’ve gone 260 on this tank, and roughly another 100 to go, and we’ve used just over half the tank which is always bigger… Yeah, I think we’ll make it. It’ll be tight but provided we don’t have to slow down for traffic snarls, we should be good.”

“Should we stop outside of Kamloops?”

“Nah, the gas will be more expensive than in the major centre. We’ll keep going. If I think it’s getting dangerously low, then I’ll stop quickly and pump in five or ten bucks to keep us going.”

He dug around behind my seat.

“What are you looking for?”

“My bag of treats.”

“From this morning’s convenience grab and go?”

“You make it sound like we stole things.” He winked. “But yes, that bag.”

“Oh, you finished everything off a while ago, and I’d tossed the bag of garbage at the rest stop back at Roger’s Pass.”

“Dang, I’m hungry. I need a snack.”

I had nothing to offer. My banana and lone chocolate bar were long gone too. “Are you always hungry? Or is this just a road trip thing?”

“I snack a lot on road trips. It’s all part of the experience.” Holden one handed the steering wheel. “Want to play a game?”

“You love games too, don’t you?”

A sly, mischievous grin stretched from ear to ear. “Who doesn’t? You don’t?”

“No, I do. I’ve just never played games on the road.”

“That’s because you’ve never travelled with me.”

I heartily laughed because it was totally true. “Sure, what’s the game.”

“It’s a form of the license plate game, except, instead of seeing how many different provinces or states we see, we’ll take the first three letters on the plate and make a reverse acronym.”

“I don’t follow.” I twisted in my seat to get a better look at him.

“Like the car ahead, the first three letters are AJG, so you could say always jog graciously.”

An unexpected laugh burst out of me imagining that. “No one jogs graciously, but it’s funny. I like it.”

“What do you mean? I jog graciously.”

My eyebrow went so high it likely joined my hair line. “Let me guess. Your Apple watch monitors your steps and speed, sending data to you through your ear pods, all the while your breathing is evenly paced with controlled inhales and exhales. Your arms pump just so, and you’re light enough on your feet to resemble a gazelle.”

Holden didn’t speak; however, I didn’t miss the upward twist of his lips.

“Am I right?”

“Not about the gazelle part.

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