hitchin'

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hitchin'

Going my way? When you find yourself on some lonesome strip of road with no way to get where you’re going, you stick out your thumb and hope the kindness of strangers pays off. It's a hitchhiking meme. Find a lift or offer one.

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as a hitchhiker or a driver. or both.

Hitchers tell your potential driver where you’re heading and see if they're willing to make some room.
Drivers pull over and lay down some ground rules for riding with you.

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on the hitchers you’ll stop for or the drivers you’ll hop in with.

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[unshakencowboah]

Arthur became quickly aware of how long Eli was watching him, and knew it wasn’t just a glance.

He tried to ignore him, unsure of how to take it, never much seeing himself as attractive even when he was younger.

Fortunately the knock of their food interrupted things and he sat up, opening up the bag on the bed and spreading out what they got and setting the drinks on the nightstand. When everything was divided up, Arthur hungrily tucked into his burger.

“So you’re just makin’ your way over the country? No end to your journey?” He asked to try and keep some conversation, and avoid thinking about other things...

[drakestone]

Eli sat back down and happily went ahead and took a bite of his burger and then a fry or two before Arthur broke the silence between them; the two men were both clearly hungry.

"Mm, yeah, I guess you could say that. I mean, I hope there's an end." His tone growing more than a little somber, and he realized that and forced a smile and ate another fry. El had no intention of delving into his past, the few people he actually told about his past had betrayed him, and after a couple of times, he just stopped trusting people with it. "I saw you were writing in a book earlier, do you keep a journal, or, working on a novel or something?" he decided he'd try to redirect the conversation.

[unshakencowboah]

Arthur picked up on the change of topic immediately, but, being one who didn't like to talk much about his past himself, he respected it and didn't pry further.

"Journal, yea, way to organize my thoughts, get them out, sketch a little if I see somethin' interesting." he had his burger halfway to his mouth again when he paused and quickly added, "And no, you can't see."

Had enough of the gang trying to pry into his head to know when someone's curiosity might make them ask.

[drakestone]

"Okay, heh, I wasn't going to ask." That was a lie, he absolutely was going to; wasn't like there was a surplus of entertainment at an old motel in a small middle of nowhere town.

"I was just wondering, I used to keep a journal too, until I lost it." It was actually stolen. He went ahead and finished his meal, took care of both of their trash once the other man finished his as well, then walked over and looked out the window. A blinking yellow light at the four way stop, the truck stop their food had come from with no more than two cars total in the parking lot. Beyond that he could see a distant valley and the silhouette of mountains.

[unshakencowboah]

Dinner done, Arthur went to wash the grease off his fingers and face in the bathroom before settling into bed, tired after the long drive.

He glanced to Eli as he watched out the window, but put any other thoughts that had drifted to mind, out. One bed did not equal nothing.

He made sure he was taking up an even amount of room before laying back and closing his eyes, able to sleep even if the lights were still on.