"Jon," I yelled. "Sam! There's a storm coming. There's lightning over the water!"
Jon and Sam were catching some waves when they heard me scream. They turned and looked up at the ominous, fast moving clouds. Thunder rumbled. They paddled in and grabbed their boards.
Torrential rain fell down and I wiped my eyes as I ran to the rental car. I opened the trunk and threw in my bags. The roof rack was missing. WTF? The boys ran to me, panting.
"Guys, someone stole the roof rack."
"Who steals a rental car roof rack?"
"No time. What do we do?"
I could barely see them. They could barely see me.
"Put the front seat back and lie the boards through the hatch to the front floor board. The back seat should drop," Jon said.
"Good idea," Sam said and he got to work with the seats. Jon slide the boards in from the hatchback.
They barely fit. Jon hopped in the driver's seat and put the keys in the ignition. Sam and I looked in the backseat.
"Uh, there's not enough room for both of us," Sam said.
"I could sit on Jon's lap and you drive?"
"I didn't add any drivers to the policy," Jon said. "If we crash in this weather, I'll be in so much trouble."
"You plan on crashing," Sam asked.
"Hurry up," I said to Sam, motioning him to sit. "Jon, I'm sitting on Sam's lap because you are a rule-follower."
"That's fine. It's only 20 minutes to the hotel."
We had flown to Hawaii for what was supposed to be a vacation for two couples. Sam's girlfriend dumped him three weeks earlier. He asked her about the Hawaii trip since they already paid. She told him it wasn't worth waiting for, because she was going to Europe with a musician she fell for.
Sam was devastated. Jon told him to still take the trip, that it would be amazing, and there are plenty of women in Hawaii. I just rolled my eyes. But he was right. It was better than staying in Texas and wallowing at she moved out of their apartment.
I slid into the back seat and sat sideways, my feet resting in the incredibly small middle seat area, my back to the window, my butt on Sam's lap. Jon stepped on the gas and we were off.
The gravel road from the secluded beach to the main road was a few miles long and as we sped over the bumps I couldn't help but bounce against Sam's lap. I turned to apologize and noticed he was watching my breasts jiggling. Of course I wore the skimpier of my two bikinis that day. I apologized anyway.
"Sorry if I'm hurting you."
"You're not."