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Vacation Interrupted
Jackie Stokes was excited, for her birthday her husband Nick had bought her a plane ticket to go visit her best friend Lucy who recently moved. While on the plane Jackie grew more and more excited. It had been hard on Jackie since Lucy had moved, the pair were more like sisters instead of friends, which is why she was so excited for the upcoming visit. When the plane finally landed she grabbed her carry on luggage and hurried to find Lucy. She found her without a problem, and after a long and excited embrace she followed Lucy out to her car.
"It is so good to see you again" Jackie said as they were driving along.
"Tell me about it, it feels like we haven't seen each other in five years, instead of only 8 months." Lucy said back.
"Well, it's your fault; you are the one that moved after all." Jackie said teasingly.
"I know, but I had to go to grad school, and Vegas didn't offer the program I want to study, so I had no choice." Lucy said.
"Yeah but after you graduate, you are moving back right? You are homesick, I can tell." Jackie said with a grin.
Lucy laughed "You can huh?" she said, and then she added "Yeah eventually, I'll move back to Vegas, but it won't be for a couple of years or so."
Jackie grinned and said "that's good enough for me, plus that gives us an excuse to go on vacation to visit one another."
"That's right" Lucy agreed. Lucy then changed the subject "so how was your flight?" She asked.
"Good, nothing too exciting." Jackie answered.
Lucy chuckled "that's always a good thing on an airplane." She pointed out.
"Very true." Jackie agreed. "That reminds me, I should call Nick and let him know that I landed safely, do you mind?"
"Nope, not at all, besides, with this traffic, I should probably pay attention to the road a little better anyway." Lucy admitted.
Jackie laughed and got out her cell phone, to her surprise Nick answered on the second ring.
"Hello" he said.
"Hey Nicky, I made it safely, Lucy and I are just driving to her house now."
"That's good, I'm glad you are safe, how was your flight?" He asked.
"It was good" Jackie answered.
"Good, thanks for letting me know you made it safe, have fun, love you." Nick said.
"Love you too" she answered.
With that the call ended. They made it to Lucy's house just minutes after that. Lucy showed Jackie around her new house, and then Jackie unpacked. After that the woman sat and had a glass of orange juice on the patio, it was nice and warm, and being outside felt good. It was nice to just sit and talk to Lucy again. The thing that Jackie missed most since her friend moved was their weekly coffee dates, at least once a week they would go to a coffee shop, drink coffee, and sit and talk for hours. This wasn't the same, but it was nice none the less. The other thing they did a lot together was go to tons of movies.
"So what do you want to do tonight?" Lucy asked.
"It's up, to you, I don't have a preference." Jackie said.
"Dinner and a movie then?" Lucy suggested.
Jackie grinned "Sounds good to me, I miss my movie buddy."
Lucy laughed "yeah me too." Then she asked "So do you still go to a lot of movies?"
"Nah, not many of my other friends like to go to movies." Jackie answered.
"What about Nicky?" Lucy asked.
"Yeah he goes once in a while, but he always complains when I take him to chick flicks."
Lucy laughed.
"We better go get ready to go then." Lucy said standing up, and going back into the house, with Jackie following her.
When the women got all ready Jackie asked "Can I call Nick before we leave, by the time we get back he might be at work already."
"Sure" Lucy said so Jackie went into the bedroom she would be sleeping in for privacy. Nick answered, and they talked for a couple of minutes but not long into the conversation there was a knock on the bedroom door. "Come in" Jackie called.
"Hey sorry to interrupt Jackie, but if we want to go to dinner, and still make the previews before the movie we better get a move on." Lucy said.
Jackie burst out laughing "you and your previews, you are the only person I know that cares more about the previews for upcoming movies then the actual movie they are seeing" She said.
"The previews are the best part." Lucy said, then she glanced at the phone in Jackie's hand "Hi Nicky" she shouted.
Nick laughed, "Hi Lucy" Nick said.
Jackie interrupted the mini conversation her best friend and her husband was having.
"Nick, sorry but I gotta go, she is freaking out about missing the previews"
"What is it with her and previews?" Nick asked.
"I don't know, but remember the last time we missed a couple of the previews because you couldn't find a place to park the car, she got so mad I thought she was going to decapitate you." Jackie said.
"I remember." Nick said with a chuckle.
Lucy crossed her arms stubbornly, "If he would have just parked the car a couple of blocks from the theater like I told him too, instead of trying to find a closer spot, we wouldn't have missed any of the previews" Lucy said defensively, then quickly added "come on Jackie, hurry."
"Yikes Lucy, that was over a year ago, you still haven't forgiven me for that?" Nick asked in disbelief, loud enough so Lucy could hear.
"Nope, nobody gets in the way of my previews." Lucy said, and then all three of them laughed.
After that, Jackie quickly ended her conversation with Nick, grabbed her coat, and followed Lucy to her car. Lucy took Jackie to one of her favorite restaurants, one that was not in Vegas. After dinner the two friends quickly went to the theater. They bought sodas and hurried to the room where their movie was being shown.
"Hurry up, the previews have already started" Lucy said literally sprinting down the isles to find a seat.
"Lucy relax, these are not the previews, they are just advertisements, now slow down before we kill ourselves in the dark." Jackie demanded, breathing heavily from trying to keep up with her crazy friend.
They finally found a seat, just as the first preview was starting.
"Success" Lucy happily whispered to her friend.
Jackie just rolled her eyes, but inside she was laughing hysterically, this is why she missed Lucy so much, there was never a dull moment with her around.
The movie was great, a chick flick, both of the ladies favorites.
When they got back home it was nearly midnight and both of them were tired so they decided that they should go to bed. Jackie was awoken in the middle of the night, something sharp was pricking her toes.
"What in the world?" She thought to herself as she threw back the covers, almost afraid of what she would find.
"Prince" she exclaimed.
Lucy's little Yorkshire Terrier was biting her toes. Upon hearing his name the dog looked at her and quickly scurried onto her pillow.
Jackie chuckled, "go sleep with Lucy" she told him, but instead he licked Jackie's nose, and stayed right on her pillow. "Or make yourself at home." Jackie mumbled.
When Jackie woke up in the morning, he was snoring right beside her. She gave him a friendly pat on the head before getting out of bed. Lucy was already in the kitchen when Jackie walked in, and Jackie noticed right away that seemed upset, and she was looking under the table. "Morning Lucy, is everything ok?" she asked.
"No" Lucy said near tears.
"What's wrong?" Jackie asked.
"Prince is gone" she said.
Jackie chuckled, and for that Lucy's usually warm and friendly face shot her best friend an icy stare.
"Relax Lucy, Prince is asleep in my room, more specially on my pillow." Jackie said.
Lucy smiled, and immediately raced into the bedroom, almost knocking Jackie over as she ran past her. She came out a minute later with Prince safely in her arms.
She set the dog down, and looked at her friend "sorry about the dirty look I just gave you" she said with a grin.
"Yeah if looks could kill, you would've had a 419 in your kitchen" Jackie joked.
"Well that would be one way to get Nick out here to visit." Lucy said with a laugh.
"That's very true." Jackie said chuckling.
Lucy poured both women coffee and asked "do you mind if I watch the morning news?"
"Nope not at all, I like to watch the news in the morning too." Jackie said.
Lucy turned on the T.V and the headline caught their attention immediately: CSI finds grenade in his own front yard.
Jackie looked at her friend in complete horror as she exclaimed "My God Lucy, that's my house."
To Be Continued….