The hotel room felt confining, everything about it unwelcoming. The two beds, gold framed mirror, water colored coastlines hanging on the walls. The night ticked away, yet one girl laid awake tossing and turning. A hand shot out form underneath the covers, pushing her off the bed.
"You're not staying in the bed if you are going to keep me up all night." A voice grumbled.
The girl couldn't stand the room anymore, it was maddening. She stumbled into the bathroom changing into a bikini, pulling a skirt on over it. The hotel pool was open all night on weekends; the girl hoped it would be empty. She needed some kind of an escape.
She left the room after grabbing her purse and room key. She pressed the down button of the elevator. She tapped her foot anxiously waiting for the elevator to reach the eighteenth floor. Technically, she wasn't suppose to be out after curfew which was two hours ago at ten.
The doors opened noisily. The girl slipped in, pressing the button for the lobby. She looked at herself in the mirrored walls. She adjusted her skirt over her bikini, and then threw her black hair up in a messy bun, again adjusting the skirt.
The lobby was empty except for a small man at the information desk. His eyes hung heavily about to nod off when he heard the girl speak.
"Can I have a towel for the pool?"
"Isn't it a little late to be going for a swim?" He asked grabbing a towel from behind the desk.
"I suppose so, but I needed to clear my head." The desk attendant watched the girl disappear behind the automatic doors. He sighed to himself.
"She is the second one to go out there tonight. What is it with teens these days? Do they not believe in sleep?"
Out in the pool was a black haired boy, doing exactly what the girl wanted to do, clearing his head. He was floating on his back in the shallow water. He had been in the water for a while now musing over what he should do next. His friends had forced him into going on this vacation. They said he needed to get his mind off of everything that had happened.
He was brought out of his reverie by the sound of the automatic doors opening. He stood near the wall melting into the shadows of the dimly lit patio. Stealth had become second nature to him after everything that ad happened to him. His green eyes studied the girl, looking for anything about her that was threatening. Everything about her seemed normal, not a spy sent here to get him while he wasn't paying attention. But he was always paying attention now.
After removing her outer clothes, the girl stood at the edge of the pool, shaking her long hair out of the bun. She dove into the pool, arching her body with a form that had only been perfected by practice. She disappeared underneath the water, swimming the length of the pool before resurfacing, after taking a few breaths she disappearing under the water again. The black haired boy looked around the water trying to find her.
"You know it not nice to spy on people." A voice said from behind him.
The girl had known there was someone in the pool since she dived in. She saw the shadow while she was underneath water, nothing defining, just a dark figure in the corner.
Had it not been so dark in the pool the girl would have seen the boy visibly blushing.
"Well…I…er…I…you know…didn't want to disturb you…yes, I didn't want to disturb you. You looked very deep in thought." He stuttered out in his British accent.
"Is that so," the girl said taking a step closer, "You seem to look troubled. I can see it in your eyes; do you want to talk about it?"
"No, I just needed a couple minutes alone, get away from it all."
"Does that mean you want me to leave?" The girl turned to leave but the dark haired boy pulled her back.
"No, maybe I don't want to be alone anymore." He said pulling her close in the water. The girl looked into her green eyes that seemed to glow in the moon light.
"Then what do you propose we do" The girl asked feeling rather bold.
"I can think of something." The boy said grinning. He leaned in slowly, his face close to the girls. Their lips met softly. The girls wrapped her arms around the boy's neck. The boy ran his hands through her hair. When they broke apart they were both smiling.
"I wouldn't mind doing that." The girls said before kissing him again.
"Well, I certainly feel better." The boy said grinning foolishly.
"Yes, it was certainly nice, but I think I should be going." The girl climbed over the edge of the pool. She started to walk away her body covered I her towel.
"Wait! I don't know your name."
"Maybe if you meet me here tomorrow at the same time I'll tell you." She said before once again disappearing behind the automatic doors. The green eyed boy pulled himself out of the pool, sitting on the edge with his legs dangling in the water. He was surprised with himself; he wasn't like that, not like that at all. He didn't understand what had come over him, the urge to talk to people on the outside, people who weren't afraid that he would break down. Hadn't he proven he was strong enough to handle anything.
He hadn't acted that way with someone n a long time, a very long time to him atleast. The girl was so familiar, yet so different. He didn't know how he could tell how she was, it was a sense. It was second habit to try and decipher people real intensions, if they were honest. There was something about he that made him feel lighter, freer, even if he didn't really know her. And it scared him. He couldn't just kiss random girls he met in the pool, it was completely out of character. What would his friends think; certainly he's lost his mind. That could be the only explanation, unless, unless he was finally coming to terms with what happened. It still hurt, but maybe, just maybe he let himself live, stop hiding from the world. Maybe, just maybe…