Spider Quinn 05: the Trip to Freemont - Part 2

Upon arriving home, Daria got into the car that formerly belonged to her father, but which her mother said she and Quinn could use. She turned on the engine.

“Okay, let's do it!” Quinn said as she got in.

“Quinn, what are you doing?” Daria asked.

“I'm not gonna just sit here while you drive off to some far, unknown land to get your friends out of jail! What if something unexpected happens?”

“You're worried about me?”

“Let me rephrase that: what if something cool happens?” Quinn responded.

“Well, I suppose it would be smart in case there's some emergency,” Daria allowed.

“Great! I get to choose the music,” Quinn said as she turned on pop music.

“Isn’t there something else on?”

“Forget it. This is the only music I can listen to.”

“Well, can you turn it down?”

“You're not the boss of me! Now, are we busting your friends out of jail or not?”

“Of course,” Daria said as she pulled out.


Once out of Lawndale, Daria was driving slowly.

“Tense?” Quinn asked.

“No. There's a lot of stuff going on. You have no idea how complicated driving is.”

“It’s not that hard.”

“How would you know? Dah! A giant truck!” Daria said in panic.

“Pull over Daria,” Quinn said with annoyance. She wanted to get to Freemont with time to spare.


As they pulled away into the drought-stricken region to the west of Lawndale Daria wasn’t sure why she was allowing Quinn to drive. “I can't believe I'm doing this. I can't believe I'm letting you do this. I can't believe we're doing this. Hey, when did you learn to drive?”

“God, Daria, what do you think people do on dates?”

“Aren’t you terrified.”

( Quinn thought for a moment. )

11th January 2024 Writings

11th

Excerpt from: Mystery in the Forest
“Does this happen a lot?” Illana asked.

“No,” the Doctor answered.

Clara looked at him.

“Yes,” he admitted.

Illiana sighed again. “We need to do better than that if we are to find out what it is.”

“I agree,” Clara said.

Words: 41


Excerpt from: Convergence on Lawndale
The Doctor lead the way, although Kaelyn knew the way through Lawndale much better than he did. It didn’t take them that long to get to the High School.


The third period finished and Lunch started.

Words: 36


Excerpt from: Spider Quinn
“This is good too,” Ben said.

“Thanks!”

“So, is it true?” Anna asked.

“What is true?”

“That you fell out with Sandi?” Anna answered.

“It’s more that she fell out with us,” Quinn answered. “It was just a long time coming. It’s just that me being in grief brought it about.”

“Grief does change people,” Ben added.

‘There’s something there,’ Quinn thought.


They talked for another ten minutes before Anna had to go and Quinn grew antsy.

“See you later,” Anna said as she left.

“I better go too,” Ben said.


Soon, SpiderGirl left Lawndale High from above the library. She headed to the south, towards downtown. She wasn’t sure what to make of Gerald leaving when he did. What was it that he refused to hear? She wasn’t sure. ‘But what can I do to connect with him and to help him connect to Anna and Ben?’

She needed a second opinion. She paused and turned to the west, to head towards the Pizza place.


Daria was alone at the Pizza place again, when Quinn entered. “The same?” she asked as she came up to her sister.

“Jane was here, but she had to leave early,” Daria said.

“Oh.”

“But that isn’t why you’re here, is it?”

“No,” Quinn admitted.

“Was it to do with those ‘misfits’?”

“Yes. It’s going well with Ben and Anna, but not Gerald.”

“What happened?” Daria asked.

“Like I did an icebreaker thing, meeting them in the library and asking them to find books they were interested in.”

“You got one on fashion?”

“Close,” Quinn said with a slight giggle. “One on drawing.”

“Got it,” Daria said. She saw that Quinn was shifting her interests.

“But that wasn’t the problem.”

“One of them didn’t want to share.”

“Oh, he shared,” Quinn said.

“When you shared,” Daria said.

“Yes.”

“I see.”

Words: 306


Total: 383