Our love like heaven, but we went through hell to get here

Oceanna

"Ocean-san!" Luna whined from the back seat. I gritted my teeth, trying to ignore the noise she was making. Normally I don't get so mad but for crying out loud I was driving!

"Luna, please don't yell like that while I'm driving. I already know what your going to ask and no we are not there yet. We're not going to be at the convention for a few hours."

Luna sighed heavily and Amber turned around and bonked her on the head. "Quit your bitching! I'm just as tired as you are but this is what we get for wanting to go to a convention five states away!"

The three of us are headed to Ohayocon and this year it's being held in Chicago. Unfortunately for us we live all the way in Washington. We were just leaving the state of Idaho and going into Wyoming. Today was the first day of the drive and I'm the only one who's driving during this whole excursion because firstly, this was my car, and secondly, neither of my two friends have drivers license.

This is because Amber is easily angered and her license was revoked because she couldn't stop screaming at other drivers. She is twenty-one.

Luna is eighteen, the youngest but oddly enough, the tallest. She has ADHD to a life-threatening level and it's not safe for her to drive with the amount of medication she has to take, even with it her insane side still shines through. Which leaves the job to me, the semi-normal one.

I have dyed my normally black hair blue in honor of my favorite character and I had my Akatsuki cosplay cloak at the ready. Amber was dumb enough to get into her entire outfit even though I told her we wouldn't be there for a few days. Her hair was slicked back and sprayed silver, and because of her flatness and overall boyishness she could easily pass as her favorite. If I didn't know any better I would've thought she was a boy.

And then there was Luna, she had her mask in place but she took off because she couldn't breath very well inside of the thing. She stands at five foot eleven, just under six feet. Still, much taller then the two of us. Amber was an even five five and I was exactly five feet, on the dot. I haven't grown since fifth grade, and Jashin-damnit I was the oldest, my twenty-eighth birthday was in two days, at two o'clock on the dot.

Which was the reason we were going to Ohayocon. For years the three of us have wanted to go but never have we found the time. It was going to be fun, different, exciting and we knew it.

I pulled into the rest stop and we got out and stretched. I went to the gas pump and filled my almost empty tank. Luna bought a bag of trail mix and Amber got a twelve-pack, I rolled my eyes.

"What?" she said, "not like I'm driving," I didn't like the grin on her face.

By the time I had stepped back into the car and we were back on the road Amber had already finished the first can.

"Sheesh could you drink it any faster?" I said with a mocking tone.

Amber retaliated by crushing the can and throwing at my face. I threw it back to her. Luckily even she knew the dangers of driving, however she then threw the can out the window…

I sighed, knowing that there was no possible way to change her ways. She had taken a liking to Hidan and had become even more of a ruff housing idiot then normal. The three of us have been friends since, well, forever it seems.

As long as I can remember, we've been friends. Of course, Luna was the last to join us but before her, even before Amber, I was alone for the longest time.

Perhaps I should tell you how we met. It is quite an interesting story.

Well, in sixth grade, Amber was just starting first grade. Our school ran all the way from kindergarten to high school. Two school decided to form together because of some contractor mistake, anyway at first I thought she was the shy, quiet one. A nice girl who had a bright future ahead of her.

Was I wrong.

She was a little pain in the arse. She did everything she could to tick someone off. Unfortunately for me I was her bus buddy, and damn it was not fun riding the bus with her every. Single. Day. All year, she screamed, she shouted, and she just about got us all killed when she made the bus driver a little too angry.

She lived only a few houses away from me. It was surprising and sad at the same time.

After the first few years and she was in fourth grade, I was in tenth, she still stuck around. Why I didn't know and it bugged me. Then one day I took a walk outside, I found Amber sitting on the sidewalk. Shaking from the cold for it was the middle of December.

I hurried over to her and noticed the red splotches around her body and splashing onto the white ground. I pulled her into my home and she sat by the fire I had started, shivering profusely.

She saw my collection of anime and her eyes widened. I rubbed the back of my neck sheepishly. "Heh, yeah I guess I never mentioned that I like Naruto now did I?"

"Oceanna?"

I looked at her bruised face, "yeah?"

She suddenly smiled, "I like that show too." It was the first time I had ever seen her real smile. No sadistic smirk, no fake image, that night I saw her smile, and that night was the night we became true friends.

And then Luna came to us.

She transferred in the middle of the year, she was only a second grader, incredibly young. However what struck me as odd was that she came to school with a strikingly familiar mask attached to the side of her face. I recognized it immediately.

So had Amber and me had instantly stuck to her. By the time I was on my last year, Amber was queen of the sixth graders and no one dared mess with her. She was basically the demon spawn according to them. We had broken Luna of the habit of cosplaying even though we always dressed up together.

In the beginning she was the most picked on, but just because I was an upperclassmen and Amber was the evil queen she was left alone quickly. And then that summer was my eighteenth birthday, there was a party with all my friends. Two parties, with my fellow upperclassmen and a separate one with Amber and Luna.

And that night was the night Luna became an only child.

The three of us had sat together in melancholy silence. At the funeral we learned it was a car crash. No one had told us anything in fear of breaking poor Luna further then she was.

Luna had no other family, so I took the younger party in and we became greater friends then we already were. When I turned twenty-one and got my first sip of alcohol I was a crazy fool. Doing plenty of dumb stuff to last a lifetime twice over. Amber got her first boyfriend and without me at school Luna reverted back to her mask-wearing ways.

After Amber left it was a torturous three years for her. Now though, with me fully suited to take care of both of us, Amber still a complete idiot, and Luna freshly out of high school, nothing could possibly go wrong.

"Oceanna!"

Was all I heard before the winsheild came crashing down on us.