Chapter 46 : Curfews and Traffic.

Dylan scratched his head lightly as he looked at the bags, " What exactly did you girls buy "? Peach laughed lightly, taking the forth bag and running out the store, " I'm not entirely sure ". Kofi suddenly held the bags and they disappeared.

She pointed at herself smugly, " You forget I have a storage space. You're awesome Coda ". It was silent for a few seconds when she replied [ Thank you master ] When they did get to the cab, there were already people in it and they seemed to be from their school too.

Chase groaned as he looked into the car, " We'll just have to lap then. Dylan ". Dylan quickly shook his head and took a step back, " Nuh uh. It might be cute when girls do it but I will not have you sit in my lap ".

Peach sighed as she stood between the two [ Why am I always playing peacemaker? ] " Then boys with girls ". Dylan nodded with a slight smirk, " Yes ". Chase shook his head, " No ".

Kofi was just looking at the three, when she saw the others in the car were getting annoyed. She gave them sweets she'd bought earlier and smiled, " We're so sorry for the delay ".

That seemed to appease them and Dylan sat in the back seat, " Peach, please get in here ". Chase shook his head fervently, " You're leaving me with Kofi "! [ She loves to tease ]

Dylan sighed, helping Peach in " You expect that monkey to be in my lap? We'd be hurling insults at each other the whole time ". Peach nodded in agreement, " And you two seem to get along well together ".

Chase sighed as he glanced at Kofi who was chatting with the driver and mumbled to himself, picking her up " Fine ". He put her in his lap and she looked around, " Ow! You guys are ready ".

Chase was glad it was so dark, cause he could feel how red his cheeks were. Luckily for him, Kofi was behaving herself. He was a bit startled when she leaned into his chest and kept looking around.

" Is the electricity always constant here "? Chase nodded, looking out the window, " Yeah, but we do have routine blackouts for emergencies ". Kofi snorted to herself, " That makes no sense ".

Chase couldn't help but laugh as he looked out the window, " Yeah, I think so too ". Kofi clapped her hands quietly, " This is the first time I'm having anything fun. I hope I can do it again ". Chase was a bit surprised but not by her words but by the way it sounded so sad.

Without thinking, he wrapped his arms around her [ What am I doing? ] " Don't worry, you'll get to have more fun ". She giggled, holding his arms wrapped around her neck " I'm counting on it ".

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They'd been driving for about twenty minutes when they suddenly hit traffic. Dylan frowned slightly, tapping the driver " Do you have any idea what's going on "? The driver shook his head, " I heard they found another night market a while ago. Probably a military roadblock or something ".

Peach sighed, looking out at the traffic " We've still got a while to go ". There were a lot of cars honking, as well as angry drivers yelling. Kofi kinda liked the chaos, it reminded her of Delvara but that didn't mean she missed it though.

Another twenty minutes had passed and they're progress was slow. Kofi sighed as she looked back at the others " We could make a run for it. I think it'll only take us ten minutes ". Peach shook her head, " It's a complete gridlock. We won't even be able to come out of the car, talk less of running all the way back ".

Chase was mumbling to himself in despair again, " I survive deadly mercenaries only to be sanctioned on my first official night ". Kofi pointed up at the sun roof, ignoring him " We can go through there and jump on the roofs of the other cars ".

Chase snapped out of his daze and looked at her doubtfully, " You can't be serious "? Dylan sighed, " Of course she is ". She convinced the driver to open the sunroof and she climbed out, then helped Peach out as well .

Peach laughed, her voice apprehensive " Ha ha. I've never been on the roof of a car before ". Dylan crawled out with Kofi and Peach pulling his long hands, " Yeah, I've never actually thought of it ".

Chase paid the driver and looked up at them, " But Kofi's a barrel of good ideas ". Kofi smiled mischievously and began to slowly close the sunroof, " Then you can stay here and be late ". He reached his hand out and stopped her, " Wait "!

They helped him out as well and Kofi stood up, hands on her waist as she looked out at the sea of car roofs ahead of them. Peach held on to the gaping window that was the sunroof tightly, " Is this safe "?

Kofi laughed, jumping to another car roof on her left " Nope ". She spread her arms out and jumped to another one, yelling over the noise " But it's fun ". The others looked at each other doubtfly when Peach jumped to another roof, " I can't believe I'm doing this ".

The boys nodded and jumped off as well. Though the annoyed car owners and drivers felt something like a slight turbulence, but it disappeared just as quickly as if it wasn't just there