the after party

chapter 5 On the road again..

     The bus was quiet, four sleeping in the back and Oliver trying to play cards while the bus bounced down the throughway westward to the next stop. Oliver had almost finished his latest game when the bus hit a particularly large pothole jolting the whole bus. A loud thud was heard from the back, followed by some very unladylike cursing. Oliver just chuckled and fixed his cards.

Michelle looked up at the bunk, and a still apparently sleeping till. Becky poked her head out of the curtain across the way and grumbled, then seeing Michelle on the floor laughed to herself and went back to sleep. Michelle pulled herself up off the floor. 'so that’s why he didn't complain about my snoring' she thought to herself 'hes a sound sleeper' She laughed to herself and made her way to the bathroom at the back of the bus, nature was calling.

After relieving herself she made her way past the still sleeping trio, noting on the way that Richard was sawing some logs of his own.

"Oliver" she said "Is there coffee?" she asked.

"Yup" and he pointed to a sealed pot.

"Thank god" she said and got a cup and sat across from him sipping it slowly. "how close to Rochester are we, do you know?"

"Pretty close i think, the driver knows where we are going. Till gave him directions before we started out"

"I didn't know he gave him directions, he pretty sneaky when he wants to be” she smiled and got up and went back to the bunk to find her phone and check it.

The smell of the coffee must have finally woken Till up because he sat up and tried to stretch in the bunk, yawning loudly.

"Good afternoon sexy" Michelle said, turning on her phone.

No messages yet, Till just grumbled something in German.

"You know i don't understand a word you say when you speak German" she said to him, smiling. "i still like the way it sounds tho" Michelle made her way back to the front and sat finishing her coffee with Oliver

Becky heard the rattle of the cups from the cupboard as Michelle served her coffee. She stirred in the bunk. Nature was calling, every single time she woke up she needed to go. She managed to climb over Richard without waking him up which was a bit hard since he was and made her way to the bathroom. She was still half awake, she used the restroom and decided not to go back to sleep but to join Michelle and Ollie for some coffee, she sure needed it. She went back to the bunk quickly and whispered into Richard's ear, “Hey there’s coffee” he opened his eyes, turned to her and smiled. He gave her a kiss on the cheek and she turned to the front of the bus to get some of that good black stuff.

"I am hungry" Michelle called out, still sipping coffee.

“fuck yea, I’m starving" Becky said.

"alright" Till called out, still grumbling from his bunk "well get food"

"Can't have you starving to death can we" Richard said coming out of his bunk

"I can't help it if you eat like a starving supermodel" Michelle called back, teasing him.

"I do not" Richard said, striking a pose, putting one hand on his hip looking disgruntled.

Michelle couldn't help herself and started laughing, almost falling on the floor.

Becky put her hands over her face, hold back laughter and tears.

Till chose that moment to appear and the confusion on his face just made the laughter worse, then Michelle really did fall on the floor, which started Oliver laughing, which made Till more confused and the laughter worse, eventually even Richard was chuckling too.

Becky had burst out laughing, and was gasping for air.

"You're all crazy" Till said, and headed back for the bathroom, shaking his head at the rest. "its too early for this" he called out.

Michelle picked herself up off the floor and called out "its afternoon sleeping beauty"

Till came back up to the front and pushed Michelle into the bench seat and sat down beside her

"can't have you falling out a third time can we" he said winking

Michelle sat there a moment, and sputtered "you were awake, you, you," she huffed and put her back to him sipping her coffee again.

Becky just laughed again, tears coming to her eyes

Just then the driver called out from the front "Pulling into a truck stop now, there are a couple good places to eat in here"

"thanks" Oliver called back.

Till leaned over to Michelle "are you still angry at me" She just stuck her tongue out at him "I’ve got a good place to put that you know" At that she couldn't help but smile at him.

Becky made her way back to her bunk to put her bra back on, get her shoes and purse as the bus came to a halt, her stomach was grumbling, aching for some food, its been a while since any of them had eaten something. They all single file left the bus, squinting their eyes with the sun. It was a bit chilly for a May afternoon, the hair on the girls arms stuck up and they rubbed their arms. Their men put their arms around their girls and held them close to warm them up as they walked to the truck stop entrance.

There was a TGIFridays, an Applebees, and a McDonalds. Richard pointed to TGIFridays and the other 3 nodded. They head in and was seated at a booth table fit for 4. Ollie had headed over to the nearest convenience store to stock the bus up with more snacks and coffee. They looked through the menu. Becky like always is the last person to decide on what she liked. The waitress came over and took their orders.

Michelle went first,

“Ill have a steak, medium rare and a baked potato please, extra sour cream”

Then Till,

“Ill have the same.”

Richard then went,

“Ill have a grilled chicken salad with dressing on the side.”

Becky finished,

“Ill have the spicy chicken Parmesan”

The waitress wrote that down, our drink orders and left the table.

“Salad Richard? Trying to keep that booty of your in shape?” Becky turned to Richard and said

“Hey now, my booty is fine the way it is, it doesn’t need to be in shape, its got a shape. Its the belly I need to work on” He huffed.

“Oh I agree about the booty, its always been the stuff of girls wet dreams. Your belly is fine with me, I love it, always have.”

Richard blushed as they looked across the table at Till and Michelle, they were just staring at them, about to either go 'Awe' and gag, or laugh.

"I must second that, you have a fantastic ass" Michelle said. "and if you two keep going the way you are, that 'belly' " she said quoting with her fingers,  "will disappear soon enough" and winked at them.  She turned to Till and whispered to him "yours is better" and took a sip of her soda and just smiled.

Till just looked at her strangely for a moment

"What?" Michelle said. "its true. Oh, sorry, my inner censor took a hike I guess" she grinned and looked completely unapologetic.

"well, at least I don't have to wonder what your thinking" till said, "you just blurt out whatever is on your mind don't you"

"Not always, just with people I'm comfortable with" Michelle said

The waitress chose that moment to appear with dinner and they all dug in, eating in a comfortable silence.

After dinner Till paid the check and they headed off to the bus and piled back in. They got back on the road and drove for a while, playing cards and listening to Till's iPod radio.

"Hey, were pulling up to your place" The driver called back

"wooohooo" Michelle whooped and got up, climbing over Till and out of the booth. He made a small oomph sound as she stepped on him. "oh, sorry" she said, kissing his cheek lightly, and headed for the door as the bus stopped.

Five kids of varying ages piled out the door as Michelle stepped off the bus. They looked a little shocked to see a very large bus pulled up in the driveway.

"Mommy" the littlest yelled and made a beeline for her, tackling her. "guess what, Daddy’s taking us camping"

"that’s wonderful sweetie" Michelle said picking him up. "Mommy needs to pack some stuff too, Mommy’s going on vacation too" she said heading to the house.

"don't make pests out of yourselves guys" Michelle said to the others as she headed into the house to get her bags and things.

It was about a half an hour later that Michelle reappeared with bags and a laptop case in hand.

The kids had since gotten board and headed back to the silver airstream to finish packing for their trip. Apparently famous German singers or their bus wasn’t too interesting to the kids.

She threw her bags onto the bus and waived to them as she got back on.

"Did you bring the whole closet with you?" Till asked, slightly amused.

"No, you have your bag of toys, I do too" Michelle said, smiling evilly at him. Till looked a little nervous for a moment. Richard just laughed at him.

"Looks like your in trouble Till" he said

"Hey Becky," Michelle said, " I brought that extra stuff I told you about with me. The stuff i ordered for ya"

Richard suddenly looked nervous, and looked at Becky.

without flinching Becky said "OH awesome, so you got the anal beads in 2 inches like i asked" she said  "and the 9 inch butt plug too?"

Richard made a choking sound and Till fell off the bench laughing so hard he was crying. Ollie made a choking sound and busted up laughing.

"Reesh," Till choked out "your face" 

Michelle couldn't keep a strait face anymore and started to laugh too. Richard looked a little disgruntled for a minute but seeing the humor finally smiled. He looked at Michelle and said

"You're evil, and I owe you one"

Michelle simply blew him a kiss and went to sit down with Till, dragging her laptop with her, steeping over till who was still on the floor laughing his ass off.

The rest of the trip went fairly quickly and before they knew it they were in Buffalo headed to the hotel.

It was a nice place, big and fancy looking. Upon check in they discovered they had connecting suites this time, and there was only one suite left, the others had gotten there before them and claimed rooms, Ollie must have called ahead and had someone claim one for him, he grabbed his stuff and headed upstairs like he knew where he was going.

"Well, lets get settled then" Till said and got the room key cards from the front desk and led the way to the elevators.

The suit was big and fancy looking, Till opened the mini fridge,

"damn, only tiny bottles" he said

"we can go get more if you want" Michelle said "I'm sure there’s someplace close"

"good idea" He said "party?" Till asked looking around

"PARTY"  both Michele and Becky said.