"Refreshments?" Jonah said. His short hair spiked out of his visor cap and his wiry biceps strained under the weight of the clipboard he read from. With his slim build, curated outfit, and constant proximity to us girls, Jonah looked every bit the closeted gay man we loved teasing him to be.
"Right here!" Brooke replied, raising a bulging Quickie Go bag like it was a pom-pom. Her short crop top accentuated the length of her lean, tan belly.
"Gas?" Jonah called.
"Check!" Misty replied, slamming the gas cap on my small SUV. Her red curls weren't the only thing that bounced as she joined our huddle in the canopy shade. Somehow, despite being half a head shorter than anyone, she managed to look down at us--our own curvy Napoleon.
"Bladders empty?" Jonah said, looking at me.
Misty and Brooke looked at me, too.
I put my hands on my hips and flipped my golden hair. I leaned forward for Jonah's benefit--I wasn't "busty," but cleavage was cleavage and Jonah was easy to knock off balance.
"Screw you guys, I just went and I won't need to go for hours!" I sneered.
"Goldie, you made us stop thrice last time--on a two hour drive!" Jonah protested.
I folded my arms and stuck my tongue out. "I've been practicing."
Misty laughed and Brooke guffawed.
"How can you practice that?" Brooke said.
"You just can," I replied indignantly. "Just you wait, you bitches will be begging to stop, hands on your pussies, while I'm lounging, legs spread, and fully immersed in an audiobook."
Jonah raised a hand as if we
weren't
on spring break. "Not me! I don't have a pussy."
We all rolled our eyes and he hunched as his joke landed awkwardly.
"Anyway," he said, rolling his shoulders back, "we aren't stopping for you Goldie, seriously."
"See if I care."
"We aren't stopping until we absolutely need gas... in nine hours."
"I promise not to tell your momma when you wet your khaki shorts."
Jonah shook his head and walked to the driver's seat. Misty and Brooke leaned toward me conspiratorially.
"But like, seriously," Misty said, "you gonna make it? I think he's serious this time."
I felt a twinge of embarrassment as I remembered how much I had squirmed, begged, cried, and threatened on our last trip. I may have even let a tiny trickle out just to prove I meant business.
"Alright, how about this? If I don't make us stop, you both owe me fifty bucks."
"Wow, cocky," Brooke said.
Jonah honked the horn and we all held a finger up to him. Misty and Brooke were kind enough to use their index fingers.
"Ok, but if you lose, you have to wear diapers for a week," Misty smirked.
I rolled my eyes. "So?"
Misty looked at me sideways, then rolled her own eyes. "Brooo, I mean you have to
use
them."
"Ah, sick!"
I considered it.
"Ok, but only pee. I don't think anyone wants to deal with..."
"No one in this universe, that's for sure," Misty said, looking directly into the camera lens.
I stuck my pinky out and the other two girls hooked theirs onto mine.
As I buckled into shotgun, I casually asked, "How should I spend my hundred? Maybe a spa day?"
"What hundred?" Jonah asked while the other girls blabbermouthed their hands at me.
"The girls have to cough up when they need to pee first. You want in? I could always use a mani-pedi, too!"
Jonah shook his head and smiled as he pulled the car onto the long, long road.
"I've got a better idea."
***
6 HOURS 'TIL PIT STOP
***
"I can't believe this," Jonah muttered.
He was fidgeting in the driver's seat, glancing at me to make sure I didn't see him rearranging what lay just beneath his zipper.
I looked back at Misty and Brooke. They both had worry lines etched around their eyes.
"What's the matter?" I asked, slowly raising my Sprite to my lips. I took the longest, slurpiest sip I could, getting more air than soft drink in my mouth.
"How the fuck are you still going?" Misty all but shrieked from the back. "It's been three hours!"
"Factory settings," I said, leaning back and putting my feet on the dashboard so the sun could leave warm kisses on my soles. "I'm just built better."
"Goldie, you sure you don't need to stop?" Jonah asked, glancing at my feet, then kneading his crotch again.
I spread my legs. "I'm Gucci."
In the back, Brooke was fighting sobs. "But she always goes first! Goldie, we
need
you to go so we--"
"Shut the fuck up!" Misty screeched, jumping on Brooke and wrestling a hand over her mouth.
"I fucking
knew
it!" I yelled, turning to kneel on my seat. "You guys always tease me for needing to go, but you go in secret when I do!"
Brooke's eyes, panicked and smushed from Misty's mitt, darted around the car in a guilty flurry.
"Let her go, Misty, she only confirmed what I suspected," I said, putting my ass back in my chair.
Misty got off Brooke, who kept whispering, "What?
What?
"
"Okay, yes, our bladders are only a tiny bit better than yours, so you were our scapegoat," Jonah admitted, one hand still under the wheel.
"
Were,
" I corrected. "Were only a tiny bit better."
"Yeah, how the fuck does someone practice holding it in?" Brooke said, looking at me like I was a goddess.
I basked under her gaze. "Well, pretty much what you just said. You just practice holding it."
"Guys, I'm 'bout to gargle," Jonah said.
"Huh?" Brooke said.
"I'm so full of piss it's going up my--"
"We got it!" Misty snapped.
"Let's stop then," I shrugged.
A collective sigh of relief went around the car.
"Should I collect now or later? I'm flexible," I said.
"Seriously?" from the group.
"Oh, as if you tiddlywinks weren't going to make me soak a week's worth of diapers? Of course you owe me, fuck you very much!"
"Tiddlywinks?" Jonah said.
"Pay up or piss off."
"Fuck this," Jonah said reaching for an empty Powerade.