Chapter 33

Noen decides to switch targets midswing, and instead bashes Jacob. Jacob passes out in his seat, and drifts onto Sebastian who is sitting next to him. Jacob starts drooling all over Sebastian which makes Sebastian vomit on himself. The guide stops on the side of the road, and kicks Sebastian out of the car. Minutes later, Sebastian comes back, dazed.


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"Time to wake up kids!" The guide sings, "we're going to Gold Coast!"


We all collectively groan, all still wanting to sleep. Jacob is the only one out of all of us that seems even remotely excited to be going to be leaving cairns.


"Oh yay!" Jacob grins, "we're gonna go see the CaNE tOaDsSSssSsSssSssS!"


"Aren't cane toads considered a pest in Australia?" I tiredly say, rubbing my eyes. Jacob's eyes enlarge at a rapid speed, his hands flying to his mouth.


"Don't say that!" Jacob says, "cane toads are my love!"


"How do you love a... I'm sorry, how do you love a toad?" Lauren asks, "they're kind of... ugly..."


"So is your boyfriend's spray tan," Lil huddy calls out from his bunk. I snigger a little under the covers.


"Cane toads are not ugly," Jacob frowns. "They are beautiful. I love them so much. They are a part of my spirit, the cane toads and I are one."


"What about koalas?" Sarah pipes in, "I thought you loved koalas as well!"


"I do!" Jacob grins, "but I also love cane todas!"


The guide leaves us to pack and get ready for our long trip. By usual, Danielle and Paris hog the bathroom all morning, and I'm forced to use the TV as a mirror for makeup. Trinity and Paige follow me, while Lauren gets Sebastian to do hers. She ends up with caterpillar eyebrows, and extremely pink lips, but doesn't have a mirror so she can't see how much she looks like Sebastian


Moments later, Danielle emerges from the bathroom wearing her signature Harvard sweatshirt and sweatpants. Paris comes out later wearing some bland outfit that no one really cares about. Mychael compliments it, which makes Paris ecstatic.


The guide later comes to get all of our luggage, and to put us in the van. When the guide starts the car, Jacob starts talking endlessly to Sebastian about how excited he is to see the cane toads. Sebastian agrees, and he starts talking about how he's now excited to see them. Sebastian infects Lauren with his new passion, and soon the three are trying to get us to like cane toads.


I remind them that cane toads are considered a pest in Australia, and are also highly poisonous, but they're too happy to care about anything that I have to say.


"Do you think that they have orange cane toads?" Sebastian gushes.


Jacob thinks for a moment. "I don't actually know, maybe when we go see them we might find one!"


"We should've gotten cane toads for our wedding," Lauren dreamily sighs. "We could've added them to the animal zoo..."


"We were too focused on having goats and cows," Sebastian breathed. "We didn't know how amazing cane toads were back then."


Charli starts sniggering in the back of the car. Then she shows us a video of a cane toad poisoning someone. Paige faints because it was too violent, and Maverick cringes. The guide gets her to shut it off later, muttering under his breath something about how it wasn't PG13, and was disgusting behaviour. He went on a long rant about how he didn't want us to show any more inappropriate videos to each other for 9 minutes before Payton got to shut him up with talking about different car models.


The two ranted on and on about their favourite cars, and then got into a debate about which one was the best. I fall asleep halfway through their argument, but from what I made out before I slept, they were fighting about whether or not a ferrari or a lamborghini was better.


Eventful.

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