Maybe it won't be too bad

[Ohia_Lehua]

Maybe it won't be too bad (closed)

"You're sending me where?!?!" I shouted at my Mother after getting the news that I was going to Uncie Kar-Kar's for a few weeks. "I didn't even know I had an Uncle."

"He's your Dad's best friend."

"Oh great." I huffed throwing myself on the couch.

"Indiana." I hated that tone, hell I hated his voice all together. David was my Step-Father and I wasn't a fan. The same could be said about me in his mind but I didn't care.

I made a point of turning away from David and looking at my Mom. "It's what you wanted remember."

I did remember but this wasn't what I had in mind. "When I said I wanted to get as far away from him as I could I didn't think you would come up with some man that I haven't seen since I was, what, four?" I crossed my arms under my chest and kicked my feet up on the coffee table.

"Indiana!" I ignored him again.

"Honey, your feet, please."

"What about the plans I had with Elle?" I asked. Me and my girlfriend had booked ticket on the amtrak and spend the summer together traveling. My Mom cringed at the name. She was against this relationship claiming that I was only in it to upset her. I wasn't but it turned out that way.

Corelle aka Elle was the co-captain to my co-captain on our soccer team. She was open about being gay and I never had a problem with it. In fact we really didn't hang out much until our senior year as co-captains. We started to hang out for reasons revolved around soccer and the team but then as we got to know each other we started spending time together outside of the soccer team and then she kissed me and I found myself kissing her back. It wasn't planned, it just happened and about a week later we started to go out. And six months later we were still going out much to the discomfort of my Mom and her husband.

"Well you will just have to work around that." She sniffled. I wanted to push her off her high horse.

"Fine." I sighed standing up. "Can I go now?"

"I still have something I would like to say."

I looked at David with a flat face. I wasn't planning on listening to anything he had to say and my face told him so.

"You can go." My Mother said getting between us before it turned into a fight were she would have to pick sides and it was never my side so I always lost.

"Thank you."

"Oh and your Father will be here in a few hours to pick you up."

I jumped from house to house since my parents got a divorce and while I loved my Father I couldn't believe that he had agreed to this and I had plans to confront him about it.

When I got in my room behind locked doors I texted messaged Elle and told her what was going on. She wasn't going to be happy about it but there was nothing I could do about it but say sorry and promise to bring her back something.

I was right about Elle being mad but she was cool enough not to be mad at me, just at the missed out plans we had together.

'Bring me back something good. I'll miss you.'

'I'll miss you too.' I texted back so happy that she understood. I'm sure it would have been a different situation if we hadn't gotten into the same college but as it was, we were roommates and we would have our college days to spend together.

'I love you.'

I checked to make sure the door was locked and sent Elle my reply back. It listed all the things I would miss doing to her while I was away and I ended it with a sweet I love you with a heart.

'Dirty girl ;P Don't keep me waiting too long.'

I smiled and tucked the phone into my back pocket and quickly packed my leather duffle with a whole bunch of crap. This Uncie Kar-Kar lived four hours away and by the way Mom explained it I should be happy if I have indoor plumbing. I wasn't sure if she was making it sound as bad as it was but I was hoping that she was just being a drama queen about it and that it wasn't that bad. Dad would surely know more and I jumped on the railing and slid down the stairs once the duffle was all but bursting at the seams.

"Do you have everything you need?" My Mom hugged me.

"I think so but if I don't I'll just pick something up there."

"Oh." She made a face as if that didn't sound good to her and she walked over to her purse and handed me some money. "Just in case." She smiled hugging me again.

"Thanks Mom." David stood there in the entryway but I pretended I couldn't see him and opened the door. "Don't want to keep Dad waiting." I told Mom tapping her shoulder and prying her from me all the while thinking if she was going to miss me so much she shouldn't be sending me off like this.

"Yes, you're right." It looked like she was going to cry and I didn't at all feel for her.

"Bye." I waved kicking the door shut behind me as I ran to Dad's car and threw my stuff into the back seat,

"Ready?" If I had to pick a parent to love more it was my Dad. He was still young at heart with an easy smile. He was two years older then my Mom and they had me right out of high school, Mom being 18 and Dad being 20. For a long while things were great between them but when I turned 13 I started to notice a change between them and a year later they were divorced. At least it was a fairly civil breakup and while it sucked to live in two houses I went to the same school and now got two different allowances.

"And if I say no?" I questioned with a raise of my eyebrows as I buckled myself in. "I don't know why I just can't stay with you." I complained.

Dad sighed and ran his hair thru his salt and pepper hair. He wasn't old enough in my opinion to be getting gray but he was one of those men who happened to gray at an early age. I could remember being ten and Dad having to color his hair to hide the grays. Now he wore them like a badge of honor, saying that it made him look distinguished and wise, like Richard Gere. I just nodded with him not pointing out the fact that he and Mr. Gere had nothing in common. "I won't be in the states and you don't have a passport." He easily dodged turning up the music. He didn't want to talk about it anymore and I had a feeling that he was just as pressured into this mess as I was.

"I don't remember this guy." I tried at a different angle. "Don't you find it weird to pawn me off on some guy you haven't seen in years?"

"No." Dad's fingers drummed on the steering wheel as he merged onto the highway. "He's my best friend, hell a brother." He answered as if it was clear as day. "I'm sure when you see him you'll remember him." Dad assured me.

"Sure." I sighed shaking my head and looking out the window. I got motion sickness pretty bad if I didn't keep myself busy or asleep and because I didn't feel like reading or talking anymore I shut my eyes and willed myself to sleep.

"Hey Sweetie. Indi. Wake up we're here." Dad was nudging me awake and I was fighting him thinking maybe if I pretended to be in a deep sleep he would just turn back with me still in the car. My plan backfired when my Dad tickled me.

"OKAY! Okay I'm up." I snorted jolting up only to be smacked down because I was still buckled in the seat. I hadn't slept the entire way, though I tried but four hours after a good night's rest was even a bit much for me. I ended up reading, singing along to the radio, talking with Dad and texting Elle to make the time go by faster. "Where are we?" I looked down at my phone, I had been asleep for 48 minutes and the last thing I saw was highway and farmland. Now we were on a dirt road with trees and an old run down gas station. "Uncie Kar-Kar lives at a run down gas station?" This was too weird and any moment I expected to hear banjos.

"No he was out and said he would meet us out here to cut down on our driving time. He lives another half hour from here." I was informed.

"Oh." I looked around and saw woods and trees, old trucks and real beater cars. "He lives in a real house right?" I asked thinking maybe Mom had been right and I was being sent to some trailer park where they all shared a port-a-potty. I shivered getting myself sick with the idea and my Dad just laughed refusing to give me an answer.

"Do you want something to drink? A snack maybe?" He was still laughing as he walked into the gas station after I gave him a disgusted shake of my head no.

"Sure a can of tetanus with a bag of lassa fever sounds wonderful Dad, thanks!" I was talking to myself and made my voice high and cheerleader like with a large fake smile as I watched my Dad go into the "store" part of the gas station. I got out of the car and stretched. My body was cramped and my foot had fallen asleep. It was both a good and bad thing that Dad never has to stop on a road trip. Good because we got there in good time, bad because you never get the chance to just stop and get out of the car. I laced my hands together and raised them above my head yawning with the effects of my nap wearing off. "I wonder if I have service." I let my hands fall to my side and took out my phone, one bar. "At least it's something." I sighed putting my phone back into my pocket as a huge cloud of dust picked up from the road and blew my way.

 

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[Ohia_Lehua]

This was one of the few times I wasn't' happy that Dad was wrong. I didn't recognize the man I was being introduced to but I smiled politely never the less. "Why did I call you Uncie Kar-Kar if your name is Ben?" I ask simply seeming ignored as the men make a big production out of moving my one large duffle and backpack. The only other bag I have is my oversize purse which I'm wearing.

"I still think this is totally strange." I whisper in my Dad's ear as I give him a hug bye.

"You'll be okay. Call me every once and a while and let me know whats going on. Love you." He kisses me on the forehead and leaves waving his hand out the window as he takes off.

"Well... Let the adventures begin." I sigh following Ben to his truck and jumping in.

It was totally awkward and Ben tried to fill it with small talk when all I wanted to do was put my headphones on and pretend like I wasn't being hauled off in the care of a stranger. "Yup. Thanks." He was trying so I couldn't hate him. "What kind of cake is it?" Please don't say chocolate, please don't say chocolate. I chanted in my head waiting for an answer.

"Water is fine." I already felt like Ben was going out of his way just accepting me to stay at his place, I wasn't going to bother him with vitamin waters. As we pulled off the "paved" road on to a dirt road I looked behind me and watched as civilization got further and further away obscured by a cloud of dust and tire thrown gravel.

"Wow." Mom was wrong and so was I, having already prepared myself for a trailer. "Nice house." I don't ask if it has indoor plumbing but the question is just on the tip of my tongue. "So do you own just the house or does it come with the land around it?" I asked hopping out of the truck and up the front steps. Unsure if the door is locked or not I wait for Ben. Plus I had been raised not to just walking to someone's house when you don't know them. You never know what could be on the other side of the door.

 

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"I like strawberry shortcake." Indi smiles for the first time. It was in face her favorite cake followed by angle food cake drowned in fresh strawberries and whipped cream. "No. No food allergies. I don't like cauliflower but then again I don't know many people who do." She shurgs thinking that maybe this won't be so bad. 'He did get me my favorite type of cake.' Indi thinks to herself opening up a little.

"Health nut?" Indi shakes her head no. "I just don't like soda. It's the bubbles or something like that that makes my stomach sore. It's been like that since I was a child." She answers. "As far as working out. I like to bike and go for runs. If only to get out of the house and away from my step-dad. I like to swim and the gym had a really cool rock climbing wall." Again she shakes her head no. "I don't like beer but I like things like hard cider or lemonade." She felt comfortable in letting him know. Her Dad had caught her one drinking and while it was a big deal he did promise to keep it from her mother if she promised him a few things.

"Wow. Shotgun." Indi looks at Uncie Kar-Kar again. He didn't really seem the type to own a shotgun, he had all his teeth but then again what did she really know about this guy. "Thanks." She leaves it allow and walks into the house, following Ben into a room that turned out to be his. "I don't want to take your room." Indi starts to argue. "It's bad enough that you've opened your house to me. If it's only going to be one night you might as well let me take the couch. I'm not only smaller then you and will fit better but it'll make me feel better." She stated with her arms crossed over her chest.

But Ben just walked out of the room and left Indi following him out into the kitchen. She takes the water bottle and breaks the twist cap off. "Polite enough to get you a new one?" Her eyebrows lift waiting for the joke and when there is none Indi quickly rethinks her earlier thoughts about this not being so bad. She really didn't want to say yes because he had two legs of his own that looked sound. Plus if she said yes to this what else might he have her doing. "We'll see." She dodged not answering the question.

Back into the room they went with their drinks. "I'm sure all my things will be fine in the bag for one night." Indiana picks up her bag. "I'll just throw this next to the couch I'll be sleeping on and then you can show me around." She counters with a sweet smile.

Indi didn't feel comfortable with this arrangement to begin with and sleeping in this guy's bed didn't make her feel any better about it. Yes, the couch sounded much better even if it was for more then a night.

 

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[Ohia_Lehua]

"Okay. Only during the day." Indi agrees to pretty easily. She didn't know the area and could understand his concern if not his tone.

It seemed that Uncie Kar-Kar was kind of stubborn as he Indi watched him pick up her bag again and take it in to his room. "Fine." She went along with it knowing full well she had no plans on unpacking her bag if she was going to be roomless for only a night.

"Ummm... I don't know." This wasn't a question she had been expecting and she looked down at herself. "5' 3"." Indi answered slowly. "I would guess 32DD-26-34 with a size 7 shoe." She added with a sassy smile. In a normal situation she couldn't have answered the question but she didn't see the harm in letting her father's friend know. "Is that a sufficient answer?"

Indi nods at the drawers he points out. "Thank you." She thanks him letting him think that they will be used. "I guess I'll get dressed." She follows him to the door and shuts it behind him. There didn't seem to be a way to lock the door so Indi just hoped that Ben wouldn't have to get something and just walk in. So with that in mind Indo quickly strips out of what she is wearing and slides on her favorite pair of girl cut boxers that Elle got her for her birthday. The were cotton and had multicolored stripes on them with the hello kitty logo on the right hip. Along with the hello kitty sports bra and plain white tank top.

Using the time alone Indi checked the signal on her phone. It was a blinking bar of no signal. It wasn't surprising but Indi was disappointed at not being able to hear Elle's voice before going to bed. Maybe there would be somewhere close where there was enough signal to make a call. Elle's parted lips as she moaned Indi's name, her chest rising and falling as she panted and moaned. It was an image that made Indi's cheeks blush and her heart quicken along with other things.

Adding a growing sexual frustration to this mix was more then Indi could handle. This summer was going to be about her and Elle spending time together, alone. But now because of her psycho Mom she was out here in the middle of no where with a stranger. "Great." Indi sighed throwing her phone on the bed as she left the room.

Ben was in the kitchen and she made her way there slowly look and touching things as she walked past then before sitting down. "It smells good." Indi tried focusing on not getting mad and making this stay even harder on Ben because she was in a pissy mood. It even looked good when he set it on the table. As a habit Indi waited for Ben to take the first bite before she stabbed a piece of meat with her fork. "Wow. This is good." Indi smiled genuinely happy that this wouldn't be a trip where she would have to do all the cooking because he couldn't cook.

Indi shook her head chewing her food and swallowing. "No boyfriend but I do have a girlfriend. Her name is Corelle but everyone just calls her Elle. We went to high school together and were co-captains of the soccer team. I wouldn't say I was a lesbian but it kind of just happened with Elle." It was still hard to think that she was one or the other. While it was true she had feelings for Elle and she was sexually attracted to her, Indi also thought there were some guys that were cute and felt attraction for. Of course they were mostly movie stars and seen in theaters but she knew that she could have the same feelings towards a man. So did that make her bi? Indi didn't know and didn't like to title herself with her sexuality and took another bite of food to make the silence even longer. "I don't' know what to tell you. I don't think I'm very interesting and I haven't done anything worth telling about in my life. I'm just your normal run of the mill teenager."

"What about you? Should I have to worry about ruining your game or getting in the way of your someone special?"