"You should have gone on the last stop, I told everyone in the car to go just in case. We're in the last hour stretch and I'm not stopping." Michael shouted to the back of the car where the kids were sitting hoping he didn't wake Denise up sleeping on the first row.

"I don't think I can hold it, just pull over and I'll pee out of the window," Marty called back.

"I don't think so, young man. Michael, pull over and he can pee behind the car or something." Ramon instructed from the pa.s.senger seat. Darya was laughing hard in her seat at Marty's uncomfortableness and his answer to that situation. "Please pull over, Michael, I can't stand his bouncing up and down. I'm surprised my mom hasn't woken up." She looked down at her mother stretched out on the bench of the first row. She didn't blame her for sleeping so hard, she had a late night before the packed up the car this morning.

"Fine, I'll pull over but it better be quick. We've already missed the first meeting for orientation." He grumbled under his breath before picking a spot on the shoulder to pull onto and stop gently. The car barely came to a complete stop before Marty jump out of his seat and climbed over the back of the first row to get to the door. Denise finally woke up when her legs were accidentally knocked off.

"Are we there?" She asked in a gruff tone while wiping the sleep from her eyes. She looked at the two up front then at Darya in the backseat. "Good morning, suns.h.i.+ne, we're not there yet. I think we have about forty minutes left." Darya told her mom while resting her chin on the back of her seat. Denise pinched Darya's nose right before the door swung open again and Marty crashed into the seat before rolling over the back to his original seat again. "G.o.d, Marty, be more graceful," Darya complained.

"I'm full of grace, you were in the way." He stated with a point which earned him a slap on the back from Darya next to him. "Let's get back on the road, we're late as it is," Michael complained before turning back onto the road and getting back on track.

The large expedition pulled into a busy driveway and as Michael dodged students and their parents he looked for a spot to park in. "There's one," Ramon pointed to an empty spot and right before he pulled into it a car zoomed in and took it before him. "d.a.m.n it, sorry hun we'll need a new one. Try down there." Ramon pointed towards the end of the line while the kids looked out the window at who took their spot.

"Darya, isn't that the kid that ratted you out?" Marty whispered in Darya's ear who was already staring at Tyler Weiss getting out of his car. She fought the urge to tell Michael to turn the car around and head home. She didn't feel safe at this college anymore. "Don't tell my mother, she'll make me attend the college at home like she did." She whispered back to him and looked behind his head to make sure their parents didn't hear them.

"We'll just avoid him, can't be too hard it's a big school." She suggested and Marty agreed before they turned around once Michael found a good parking spot.

Everyone filed out of the car and stretched their tired muscles, it was only a three-hour drive but driving anywhere for them was long since most of them didn't leave the city very often.

"Okay, since we missed the first meeting we can still get to your dorm room and set things up, then go see where your cla.s.ses are," Michael told them as he read off of the map in his hands. Both he and his husband wanted Marty to go to the local college but once Darya and him got it in their heads that they had to go to this nicer one with the better marine biology course that would help them graduate sooner.

"Let's get your stuff out, guys," Ramon spoke over the hatchback he lifted up and started taking duffle bags out one by one. Darya had two bags where Marty had three, what he needed that much stuff for, none of them knew. Darya took her two bags while her mother picked up the hamper and lamp she brought along for her. They may or may not have been the same ones she used while she went to the local college.

The five of them walked along the path according to the map Michael had stretched out like he was lost in the rainforest. Squinting his eyes he tried to find the direct path to where they needed to go but when he looked up his family was quite a ways in front of him and nearly at the dorm room.

"You guys could have at least waited up for me." Michael folded the map back and put it away after catching up with the group.

"You were taking too long and that map is embarra.s.sing," Marty told him over his shoulder and the moment their dorm came into view he grabbed Darya's hand and ran to the entrance before their parents could catch up. Denise stopped for a moment and let Michael and Ramon catch up with her. She told herself all day that she wasn't going to cry when she dropped her daughter off at college but the tears br.i.m.m.i.n.g in her eyes threatened that promise.

"Hey, it will be okay. We'll have so much free time we can get wine drunk and watch dirty movies since they'll be gone." Ramon nudge her shoulder making her laugh. "Oh stop, I will have too much time on my hands now. Maybe I can actually get some reading done and even pick my surfing back up." She thought about the things she could do to distract herself from losing her little girl and it was working slightly.

"I didn't know you surfed, I'd like to see that." Michael b.u.t.ted in.

"I did, her father was teaching me before he left and then I was pregnant and did a little while still in college but I always wanted to really master it. Maybe this is my chance." She held the hamper a little tighter and the lamp closer to her chest.

"Do you think they still don't know that we know about them being together? It's a little hard to ignore." Ramon spoke up making the other two nod along. They've known for a long time now, probably since it started but they wanted them to tell first before they said anything. "They don't have a clue, they still think they're hiding it from us," Ramon answered before picking up a duffle bag and heading to the entrance with Denise and Michael bringing up the rear.