The Bucket List by RJ Scott

Author:RJ Scott
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Publisher: Love Lane Books Limited
Published: 2015-01-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Mark paid for the rental car, a compact five-seater with a large trunk to hold their bags. Jason decided to take first turn at driving, probably because Mark was yawning after not being able to sleep on the plane.

“I’ve never driven in a foreign country before,” he admitted.

Mark shrugged. “Me neither. I guess all you have to remember is they drive on the left, and you can’t turn on a red light whether the road is clear or not. Oh and roundabouts…” He flicked through the information they’d been given. “At those you give way to the right,” he said finally.

Jason shook his head. “Maybe I’m too tired to do this,” he said. Mark saw his hands and how he gripped the wheel tightly.

“Then we play it by ear. We get out of Heathrow, get onto any road the GPS takes us on, and find the first hotel instead of making it all the way into the city and the hotel we actually booked.”

“They have hotels in the airport, you know,” Jason supplied helpfully.

“Where’s the fun in that? I deliberately set the GPS to avoid their freeways,” Mark said.

“Motorways,” Jason corrected him.

Mark chuckled. “Come on, Jase, let’s do this thing.”

Jason looked directly at him. “You haven’t called me that since…”

Mark finished the sentence in his head. Since I came back, since I was so young and you were just Andrew’s little brother. There was no way he was saying any of that out loud.

“Sorry,” he said instead. “It just slipped out.”

Jason nodded. “It’s cool,” he said. “Andrew sometimes calls me that. Called me that.”

Mark said nothing when he heard the slip. Andrew hadn’t been gone long; it must be hard for Jason to think of his brother in the past tense.

Jason loosened his grip on the wheel and started the car, pushed the lever out of Park. Slowly but surely, they followed the white arrows on the road out of the parking lot with its automatic barriers, and onto the main Heathrow road. The GPS gave helpful instructions, and soon they were driving down back roads in bright daylight. Before they knew it, they were almost halfway to London itself.

Traffic worsened as they got closer, but Mark was quite relieved as joining a slow-moving snake of cars was better than clinging to the door every time Jason changed lanes. And it wasn’t like Jason was a bad driver, just there were cars everywhere. The GPS led them down side streets to a concrete and steel NCP parking garage under the hotel. They were staying in the Hilton on Hyde Park, just at the entrance to Kensington Palace. Or at least, that’s what it said on Jason’s iPad. All he’d seen so far was the parking and the walkway to the hotel.

They had adjoining rooms with a connecting door and a view of the park. Jason opened the door between the two and knocked on the doorframe before strolling in.

“It’s very different from LA,” Mark said. If he was looking

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