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Where are you looking to go?

[She makes a grandiose gesture with her arm.]

The horizon!

[This seems to be a metaphorical statement, as a great deal of trees in this area obscure the actual horizon.]

I'm game for a joyride to the horizon! Provided we can grab a blue raspberry slushie on the way?

I think that can be arranged.

[Leans over and opens the passenger side door for him.]

[Bart smiled for a moment and suddenly appeared in the passenger side seat, with the door closed and his feet kicked up out the window.]

Oh man, this is gonna be sweet! Been a while since I just chilled.

[Hmm. That super speed really does look pretty cool.]

Soooo point me to the nearest blue raspberry slushie.

[He considered it for a moment and finally grinned as he pointed.]

There's a cool little convenience store three blocks from here. The manager is pretty chill, he even turns a blind eye from time to time when I mix the blue raspberry with cherry!

Oh man, we should totally grab some snacks for the road! Maybe beef jerky, cheesy poofs, a few dozen of those hostess cupcake things, twenty hot dogs or so...and a tray or five of nachos, with extra nacho cheese!

Sweet, that sounds perfect.

[She turns the car in the direction he points – she's a little heavy on the gas, but otherwise her driving is decent. And perhaps to anyone else that sounds like an awful lot of food for an afternoon jaunt, but Athena is used to looking at the long term when it comes to convenience store food.]

You can't have nachos without extra cheese!

[Bart chuckled when she agreed and winked at her before he went back to staring out the window.]

Heck yeah! Nachos need their extra cheese or else they get all sad! Maybe some of the hot peppers too and some of that chili stuff smothering it too.

[She pulls up in front of the convenience store, breaking a bit abruptly. She turns off the car and hops out.]

Okay, let's go.

[He smiles as he hops out as well and races to hold the door open with a cheesy grin. A moment after he steps inside the kid grabs a baskest and fills it with the road trip "essentials", pausing at the slushie machine long enough to fill up a giant plastic cup with red and blue awesomness.]

Learned the hard way not to down this sucker as fast as I do just bout everything else! A superspeedy brain freeze is nasty as heck!

[Bart chuckled for a moment as he recalled his run in with Baskin Robbins, and finally stood beside her to see what else they'd need.]

[She's filled her basket with snack cakes and Pringles and other assorted snacks. She looks up at him seriously.]

Did you get the nachos?

As if I could ever forget the nachos!

[He stuck out his tongue as he held up the basket and showed her the plastic container stuffed to the brim with nachos, cheese, and all the fixings.]

Anything we need before we set off to cruise the roads?

Awesome.

[She grabs a chip and pops it in her mouth. Smiling, she motions with her head toward the clerk behind the counter.]

You wanna distract the guy, or should I?

I uh...wait what?

[It took him a moment to catch on, but when he did Bart turned red and started to chuckle. After a few seconds the kid managed to regain his composure and shook his head.]

No worries chica, I got plenty of cash so I got this covered!

Oh.

[She looks disappointed.]

You don't want to do it anyway? Just for fun?

[Bart conisdered it for a second and smiled as he laughed again.]

Nope, already did more then my fair share of stealing stuff when I was out living on the streets. Really did it to just survive, so it's not really a fun thing for me.