Shane pulled her leather jacket closer to herself, feeling the icy morning air more than usual. It was times like this that she hated not having a driveway.

She picked up the pace a little and pulled her car keys out, shoving them into the driver’s side door. As soon as it was unlocked she jumped in and turned over the engine, immediately turning the heater on, holding her hands as close as possible.

When she deemed the car warm enough and could feel the tips of her fingers she placed her seat belt on and pulled out onto the quiet road, bopping along to whatever generic song was playing on the radio. It was mostly a silence filler on her way to pick up Alice. As soon as her best friend was in the car Shane could guarantee that a decent song would be playing.

Shane must have gotten slightly lost in her thoughts or just switched to auto pilot because before she knew It she was in front of Alice’s place.
She pulled her phone out and typed in Alice’s number from memory, after a few short minutes a groggy voice answered.

“Jesus Christ Al, have you even gotten out of bed yet? Have you showered?” Shane wasn’t angry, despite what her tone might entail. This was her usual morning routine and she wouldn’t change it for the world.

“Whaaaat? I’m totally up and showered and yeah…..” the sentence was left hanging and there was a pause, indicating that Alice was well on her way to falling asleep.

“ALICE!” it was a half-hearted shout, in fact Shane was supressing a chuckle.

“I’m up”. There was the sound of movement on the other side of the line and then the dial tone.
Shane chuckled lightly to herself, this had been their routine ever since she had passed her test and it didn’t look  to be changing anytime soon, at least not if Alice kept failing hers.

She shook her head amused and unlocked the passenger side door for Alice to get in. Five minutes later Alice was perched in passenger seat, already scrolling through the iPod trying to decide on a song or album.

Before Shane knew it she was driving along to the docile tunes of Mumford & Sons.