The Holiday
It was the middle of summer, and the ARC team was still working. Nobody had had any days off since Christmas, apart from the occasional sick day. One day, when everyone was walking out of a whole team meeting, Connor suddenly called them all. As they turned round, they saw Connor on a table, waving his arms. He looked rather unbalanced, and Abby was slightly scared he would fall off. Once he saw that everyone was listening to what he had to say, Connor began. ' I have noticed, that not even one of us has had a day off since Christmas. This is against our human rights. We deserve a holiday. We risk our lives everyday for these people. The least they could do is give us two weeks of holiday, even if that means we still have to keep our phones and a black box on us at all times. We deserve better than this. Who's with me?!' declared Connor from the table.
Suddenly the team burst out laughing. 'wh...what did I do?' stammered Connor. 'Hey Connor, you haven't read your emails yet have you' said Abby. 'No why? Asked Connor. 'Lester sent an email last night saying that we have all been given 3 weeks holiday, but you should have already known that, Lester talked about it in the meeting' she said. 'I fell asleep.' Connor admitted. 'so Connor, what was that big speech all about anyway?' asked Matt. 'Well, After that I was going to tell you that I am inviting you all to me gran's holiday house up in a remote island of Scotland.' Said Connor sheepishly. 'That will be so amazing!' squealed Jess, and she quickly hugged Emily. 'So who's in?' asked Connor. 'Oh lets go Matt' Emily pleased. 'Alright' he said as he gave in and put his hand up. Abby and Jess's hands were all up, and everyone turned round expectantly looking at Becker. 'Fine' he grumbled, 'but NO singing on the way there'. 'We will be going on the first week of our holidays, until the end of the second if that's alright with everyone.' And he was answered with a great cheer. 'Oh, and there's one other thing... me gran will be there too for half of the first week.' Abby smiled. She wondered what his gran would be like, as she knew nothing about Connors family, and he knew nothing about hers, even though they were getting married. She hoped this holiday would give them time to talk about it.
One week later, and they were all packing for their upcoming holidays, well, all apart from Connor that is. Connor was sat on the sofa, having a heart to heart conversation with Sid, Nancy and Rex, telling them that they would be going away for a while, but that they would be back soon, and that they were only going to stay with 'Uncle Lester' for 2 weeks. Abby meanwhile, was packing his suitcase, as she had gone through his previously packed suitcase, and found it full of sweets, socks and pants. She had asked him about it, but he had just said that his gran never bought sweets, and he had 'forgotten' his jeans and t-shirt. When she asked him about his swimming trunks, he just said that he had hoped that they could go 'skinny dipping' instead. And kissed her hungrily. They were distracted for a while after that, and all of Connors packing had been knocked on the floor, but Abby was pleased, because it meant that she could re-pack it, even if Connor had been mildly annoyed, even though it was him who had thrown her on the bed after tearing her clothes off.
Jess however, was having better luck. She was just packing her spotty bikini, when there was a knock on the door It was Becker, who had kindly come to drive her to the ARC, so her car did not have to stay there for 2 weeks. They were all going in a camper-van. Jess invited Becker is as she tried to shut her suitcase, but it would not shut. She called Becker in her room, and he helped her shut it, but just as it was nearly closed, she remembered she had forgotten to pack her white bikini. She rushed to grab it, and Becker's eye's widened as he saw the flimsy, skimpy material in her hand. He wondered how it could cover any part of jess. He suddenly realised that he was staring at her, and she was blushing. She had already put the bikini in, and was waiting for him to close the case. He hurriedly did so, and they walked to the car.
Once everyone was at the ARC, Connor, Becker and Matt started to load the cases into the Camper van.