“Shit.” Another wrong turn, the roads were so tight inside the city and Josie still was getting used to navigating them. The sun was beginning to set, the street lights turned on and the small beach shops began to close down. Josie was officially running late, something that she never liked to do.

Josie was the type of person to show up 10 minutes before the event was planned to start, just in case the host needed some help. She rarely is ever late, but now she is panicking which is only making it more difficult to concentrate on the directions her GPS is giving her. 

Suddenly in the midst of her panic, the GPS spoke the next turn “Turn right on Cass Street.” Josie, of course, darted her eyes back to her phone to see how close Cass Street was. Of course by the time she looked back up she had missed the turn and the GPS started to reroute. It seemed like she was never going to make it to the beach. If this was nearly any other even Josie probably would have given up trying to get there by now, but she was determined and she owed Charlie this one.

Just three days ago was Josie’s 22nd birthday, and of course, Charlie was there. It was really awesome for Charlie to show up since at that point they had only been dating 10 days, he defiantly did not need to go. It ended up being a pretty stressful night for him, with having to meet all of Josie’s friends who were all excited to meet the guy that stole their drinking buddy. So when Charlie had asked her to meet his friends and go to the big beach party she could not refuse.

Back in the car, Josie seemed to finally calm down and was making the correct turns when the GPS blurted them out. Eventually, she was pulling up to the beach and could see Charlie, reasonably anxious, waiting for her. 

Josie quickly pulled into an empty spot, shutting her car off as she placed it in the park. Quickly she unbuckled herself and grabbed her phone before jumping out the side of her open door Jeep. Her bare feet hit the ground only to get poked by tiny sharp rocks that sat on the ground. She winced with pain as she continued to make her way to the back of her Jeep grabbing her large back pack, filled with random items that she may need for the rest of the night, and a lukewarm 6 pack. 

Josie wore a plain gray tank top, a jean jacket which was wrapped around her waist, and some jean shorts which had some natural tears in it already. Her hair fell down a few inches past her shoulders and was a dark brown shade, which matched her eyes perfectly. 

A large smile crossed her face as she made her way to Charlie. After placing her bag and the beer on the ground she gave him a large hug. “I’m sorry it took so long. I am really bad with directions.” As she released the hug her face seemed genuinely sorry about her tardiness. “Did I miss anything?”

Josie quickly picked her bag and her six pack back up, her smile quickly returning back to her face as she looked at Charlie. Sure she did not know him that well, but he was sweet and that was all that truly mattered. “Alright, where should I put my crap?”