For exactly twelve hours and thirty-seven minutes, I had not uttered a single word to him. Instead, I found other ways to annoy him. I messed with the radio, said I had to pee at least once every few hours, even when I didn’t have to go, and I even tapped my fingers against the dashboard to the beat of almost every song. Needless to say, he was completely over being anywhere near me now. “I have to make a phone call, do you think you can stay put for a minute?” Even after twelve long hours, he was still aggravated with me. I nodded my head in his direction, and silently laughed as he slammed the car door behind him. Apparently I had read all the signals wrong back at my house. If I could annoy him this badly in less than thirteen hours, just imagine how bad it’ll get when we have to spend the next couple of weeks or months together. I watched him intently as he paced back and forth in front of the car. My nerves weren’t on edge as they probably should have been, but his obviously were.
