pss:the roads we would've traveled

so this is getting to the point of ridiculousness where i am over 100 blogposts and i am still blogging. what is wrong with me.
disclaimer: all names and characters are purely fictional. any overlap or coincidence with reality is accidental.

pss:

"we'll go to vegas, erica baby," sean used to say. "we'll go to vegas, and then we'll go to reno and just hit up cities from there. and we'll travel across the country and once we hit the nyc, we'll go worldwide."

when sean used to say that, all erica could do was smile brightly and nod. she had bought into the fact that she and sean would be together forever. they would get married, fulfill the american dream and get a medium-sized suburban house with a white picket fence, they'd have two children, and then they'd retire and get old together. so, it came as a surprise to her when sean just picked up everything and left her. 

"i'm sorry, baby, i just can't do this any more," he had mumbled, trying his best not to cry. erica had just let him go--what else could she have done? the instant those words had tumbled from his lips she had just gone on autopilot. she had been so numb and couldn't react. 

but now, three months after the breakup, she could hold herself extremely well. she had gone out for drinks with friends, partying with the neighbors, everything that she hadn't done when she was with sean. it was like she was an entirely different person. one summer day, she had decided to fulfill an old promise that she had heard. she called up her friend.

"hullo?"

erica giggled at her friend's groggy voice.

"hey valerie, wanna go on a road trip with me?" 

"sure, why--wait a minute, where did this come from?"

and then erica had told valerie of her plans to travel all across the country, and maybe the world if she wanted. valerie (being the adventurer that she was) had wholeheartedly agreed. they had gotten together a ragtag group of friends and had flown down from alaska to las vegas and had roamed freely around the country, taking in the sights and the smells of the entire u. s. of a.  and now, here they were at the jfk airport, waiting to get on their international flight to london.

"you know, val, i never thought that we'd go through with this," erica said, grinning happily. "and we all got to know each other so well!" 

her friend nodded. 

"i guess flaky sean was good for something then after all."