Uncharted Waters
Disclaimer: This is just a story I thought up using my very own imagination. The events from this story are from my mind only. Any resemblance they have to real events are truly accidental. The only thing I own it a wild imagination and a huge crush on Johnathan Hillstrand and the Time Bandit.
As the night wore on, the bar began filling up with more people who were there for Karaoke night. Charlie and Lily decided to join in with the good and bad singers. When they were through singing, they went back to the bar to refill on their beer.
"Hey! You actually did a pretty good job up there. Why don't you come join us."
Charlie turned to go back to their booth but Lily grabbed her arm and hauled her over to the table the guys they had been looking at where sitting.
The gray haired man introduced himself as Bill, the balding dark haired man at Neal, the light haired man as Andy, and the last (and Charlie thought the most handsome of all) man as John.
"So", Bill said, "are you new in town?"
Before Charlie could even open her mouth to answer, Lily piped up, "Actually, I'm from Dutch and my friend Charlie here is from Texas. I finally got her to spend some Christmas time with me rather that sitting at home being insulted by her family."
"Why would you be insulted by your family?" Neal asked ordering another round of beer.
"Well, I'm not exactly what my family would consider normal. No one in my family has to work. All of our money comes from the oil business that my grandfather started back in the 50s. Mostly my family travels the world and avoids each other. Then there is me." Charlie answered.
"What do you do?" John asked.
"I guess you could consider me one of the crazy people who finds teaching high school an adventure."
Bill began laughing. "Darling, you aren't' crazy. If anyone is crazy it would be us and what we do."
"What do you do?
Andy took a long drink, "We're crabbers...you know, we go out into the Bering Sea, cheat death, freeze our asses off just to bring in a couple of hundred thousand pounds of crabs so civilized people can eat at fancy restaurants."
"You're right...you've got the award for being crazy." Charlie laughed.
John was entranced by Charlie's laugh. But he knew if he started anything with Charlie all he would wind up doing would be hurting her or her hurting him. That was something he was not willing to go through again.
Lily's cell phone started ringing so she quickly excused herself from the table to take the call. In a few minutes she came back to the table and explained to Charlie that she had to go and help down at the news station she worked at. Charlie got up and hugged her friend and assured her that she could make it back to her hotel on her own. They made plans to meet up with each other tomorrow around noon at Larry's Fish Shack.