Chapter 16

                                    

                                          
[1 hour later]
"Finally, you guys are back." Corey said as we walked into my house. "Why is everybody here?" I asked. "You should know why." he replied, leading me into the living room. "Actually, I don't. And why are you acting like this?" Once we got to the living room, I realized not only were all the guys there, but their parents too. "We've decided, since it's Bella's birthday Tuesday, that we would all take a trip to Missouri to go to Branson." my mom explained. There was a chorus of cheers from all of us kids. "Bella, you need to go pack. We're leaving at 1." she said. I ran upstairs, with most of the guys behind me. "Guys, I think I can pack without supervision." I teased.
 I grabbed my duffel bag and grabbed a few shirts out of my drawer, along with 3 pairs of jeans, pajamas pants, and socks. I went into the bathroom and got my eyeliner, mascara, hairbrush, a few hair ties, and my toothbrush and toothpaste. "Hurry up Bells!" Corey said, just to irritate me. "Shut up! I'm trying." I replied. I put everything I got out of the bathroom into my bag, then grabbed a small crossbody bag. In there I put my phone charger, earbuds, wallet, and chapstick. I grabbed both bags and went back downstairs. Branson, here we come!
{3 hours later}
*1 new text message*
Sid: Join the video call gusy. I'm bored.
Corey: gusy
Sid: stfu
I opened instagram and joined the video call with Sid, Joey, and Corey. "Now we've got 4 people." Corey said. "Make that 5." Paul said after he joined. "Bella, where are we?" Sid asked. "I don't know!" I exclaimed. "How do you not know? You said you've been to Branson a million times!" Corey said. "Yeah, driving from Oklahoma! I've never driven there from Iowa!" I paused for a second. "I think we're lost." The guys all kind of laughed. "No seriously I have no idea where we're at." I looked out the window to see, well, nothing. A bunch of dead grass and a few trees here and there, but that's it. "We're in the middle of BFE." I said. "Where's BFE?" Joey asked. "Joe, don't! It's probably a DN joke!" Paul said. "The hell is DN?!" Corey asked. We all went silent before yelling "DEEZ NUTS" at the same time. "Not even funny." he replied, but you could hear it in his voice that he was trying not to laugh. "You never answered my question. What is BFE?" Joey asked again. "Bum fuck Egypt!" I laughed. "What does that mean?!" Sid asked. "It means we're in the middle of nowhere!"
"How much longer until we get there?" I asked my mom in the front seat. "About 2 more hours." she said. I groaned and laid across both seats. Since both of the girls were in the backseat, I got the entire 3rd row to myself. "Are we there yet?" Corey whined. "Gee, I don't know. Do you see ANY buildings anywhere?" I said sarcastically. "And did you not just hear my mom say we have 2 more hours left?" I adjusted the pillow under my head and pulled my blanket over me. I would love to take a nap right now, but between the guys blowing up my phone and the girls finding SOMETHING to argue about every hour, there's no way I'm getting any sleep. That's what I thought anyways, until I found myself fighting to keep my eyes open. I closed out of the video call and felt myself fall asleep.
[2 hours later]
"Bella wake up!" Bailey said. I opened my eyes to see her peeking over the back seat. I sat up and looked out the window. Finally, we had made it to Branson. I threw my bags over the seat and climbed out of the car. When I looked up, I realized we were staying at Grand Country, which is a resort that has a water park, an arcade, and a crap ton of music shows. None of us were really interested in the music shows though, considering they were probably all country music. I had stayed at this resort once when I was 11, and I had liked it a lot. Once we were all checked in, everybody went to their rooms to unpack. "What are we gonna do after everyone's done unpacking?" I asked. "Bell, relax. We just got here!" my mom said. I flopped down on the bed and laid there until I heard my phone buzz.
Jim: Anybody else bored?
Joey: Yeah
Sid: My mom said 'chill out we just got here'
Bella: My mom said the same thing!
Chris: I wanna go ride go-carts
Bella: Same
Clown: Me too
Mick: Clown you can't be trusted on a go-cart by yourself 
Clown: Hush
"Mom, can we go to the go-cart place? Pleaaassee??"
I begged. She looked at my dad and sighed. "I guess."   
Bella: My mom said we can go!!
Paul: Yes!
Craig: Let's go!
Bella: Woah Craig can text??
Craig: ;)
a/n: this was written with no rough draft and 2 paragraphs were written at 1 am lol. i'm stressing myself out more than i should be over getting the chapters out on time