Swallowing The Spider

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It's been two days since my little drunken fling with Lorina Dodson and today was the first day back working on the car with Johnny since then, getting dropped off by Earl I walked up the path towards the garage entrance but became confused when I notice that the garage doors are still closed and Johnny isn't here. Trying the door by futilely pulling on it in the hopes that it's just jammed or something doesn't pan out when I hear the door dangerously creak from me using a bit too much of my strength, deciding to not test my luck anymore I decide to just sit on the steps and wait for Johnny to come while maybe playing some time wasting apps on my phone (mind numbing activities to occupy your mind, a constant in every universe).

After I don't know how long of playing a variety of different apps on my phone I finally hear the rumbling of a vehicle approaching, looking up from my phone I look around in confusion because there is nothing in sight despite the motor noise and it is a bit befuddling. Eventually some kind of white vehicle slams to the ground on the street in front of me taking me by surprised from the suddenness of it, looking at the car or whatever it is I am momentarily speechless from what I am seeing mostly just because of how ridiculous it looks. Sitting neatly on the ground in front of me is some kind of weird contraption that is obviously meant to be some kind of vehicle, it is kinda circular in shape and there would not be that much difference when compared to a bathtub, it is fully white in colour with a big blue number 4 on the front of the white tub though the interior does look a little different from a bathtub.

The inside of the weird vehicle is made up of three compartments, the first compartment that sits at the front of the vehicle is a comfortable seat where the driver sits along with all of the vehicle controls, the compartment behind that looks to be normal with two seats in it and then finally behind that one is a final compartment which looks to have just discarded the notion of a seat and made itself into a couch kind of like the booths you see at a restaurant. Sitting smugly in the front seat of the vehicle was Johnny looking like he was excited for some reason or the other and he just called out for me to come over to the car while relaxing himself in it acting like he wasn't late for the appointed time to work on my car.

I then got up from my makeshift seat on the steps and walked down the path to the street where Johnny was sitting in his weird jacuzzi-racer, getting closer to him I call out with some frustration in my voice. "Hey man, you were supposed to be here ages ago! What the hell took you so long and why aren't we walking towards the garage right now?" I ask because given all intents and purposes we should be in there working on Chantelle right now no matter what, even if Johnny did decide to show up in a big white flying bathtub that's no excuse to not work on bettering my baby. Johnny just self assuredly smirks at my query, sometimes this guy can be really annoying. "Don't worry dude I know we were supposed to be working on the car but I have some good news. News which I think you'll really like especially after that fiasco at the bar a few days I mean with how drunk you were it was a surprise to find out that you slept in a bed let alone with a girl." Johnny smiles at me.

"We're not going on another date are we? Because this time you shouldn't let me drink so much, I mean what the hell you even lost track of me afterwards and didn't give a crap!" I shout at him in annoyance, the thing annoying me the most being that he showed up late but I can't show much anger for such a little thing so I decide to mention the other night to justify my anger even though I'm not that mad about it because I ended up getting laid. "No we're not going to go on another date and I'm sorry I let you drink so much and then lost track of you but in my defence I was going to come and find you but the gymnast sisters wanted to go back to my place and I couldn't let that opportunity go. Y'know how it is man, you can't say you wouldn't have done the same thing as me but I'll promise the next time I'll make sure you don't drink so much that this would be another issue."

He's right goddamn it, I would have forgotten all about him if gymnast sisters were wanting to go home and get freaky with me so who could blame him, I know that he broke the bro code (ditching me) but one could say that I ditched him with the two dates and somehow he got lucky and it worked out for him which is pretty much what happened. "Fine, I'm not that angry about it anyway. If I didn't end up spending the night with that hot blonde then I would be so much angrier right now but I did so I don't really have anything to get upset about, just make sure I don't drink so much next time, alright?" Johnny just smiles at me excitedly and bypasses what I just said. "Yeah no problem dude, I will totally make sure next time but right now you need to hop in so we can get going to the Baxter building, we wouldn't want to be late for the surprise!"

I proceed to hop into the middle compartment with the two seats and buckle myself into one of the seats, I'm pretty sure I know what the surprise is but assuming make an a.s.s out of you and me so I'll hold judgement for now and just ask about the origin of this weird vehicle. "What the hell is this thing anyway? It looks like a glorified bathtub with a giant blue number four pasted on the front of it in equivalence to rubber ducky stickers stuck on a child's bathtub, did I mention that it looks like a bathtub?" I ask as he starts up the vehicle from the drivers seat. "Well you said how much you wanted to see the Fantasti-car so I thought hey why not show Nick the ol' girl.. Ta-dah, how'd you like the myth, the legend, THE FANTASTI-CAR!!!" He shouts in a grand dramatic fashion to which I am flabbergasted.

"What the hell, this isn't the bloody Fantasti-car this is a flying bathtub! I've seen the Fantasti-car on the news before and it looks nothing like this!" I shout in askance when he tells me what the vehicle is which I can't believe, how can such a vehicle have the word 'fantastic' in it. "Wow dude, why're you shaming the car for. This is the original, the OG, this is The Fantasti-car MKI. I admit that it might not look too good at first glance but give it a chance and it'll grow on ya, nothing beats a classic." Johnny says as het pats the front of the glorified bathtub, we are currently flying through the air in the Fantasti-car MKI. It might not look too good but you can't say that the technology the went into making it wasn't the best there was at the time, it's so smooth that I didn't even notice it take off and flying through the if while talking to Johnny (which might be more because of my lack of situational awareness but who cares).

Johnny just looks back and gives me a thumbs up. "Don't worry, you'll be able to see the newer versions when we get to the Baxter Building and maybe with a little luck you can even help me with building a new one." Johnny reassures me but all I can think of is that we're going to crash, he's acting like this is a fast and furious movie and he's speeding through the air while looking back at me, what the f.u.c.k Johnny watch the road.

This isn't a fast and furious movie and I'm not a s.e.xy Hispanic undercover agent that tasked you to infiltrate an underground organisation you asshole...

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