Emma continued to travel around the ship with Brodie, talking about people he had seen and such. He finally left when his girlfriend, Gina Martinez found him, but he left a message with Emma saying that three people had passed by Emma's room and had asked him to tell her that they wanted to talk to her. He handed Emma a list on a folded piece of paper. After he had gone Emma opened the note up. She then told herself to remind Brodie he had very sloppy handwriting.
Emma,
While you were out three people walked by and told me to tell you to look for them. They only told me their first names but they said you'd know who they are. …Well here ya go.
Lauren
Emmalee
TJ
Emma sighed and tucked the note under her hat. Now she had eight people to find on this deathtrap instead of five. These were going to be fun final days for her.
She started walking by herself on the deck and soon stopped on the one side to stare out onto the ocean. After about twenty minutes she found a clock, and seeing that it was only four decided that a nap would be the best idea until seven, in which dinner would be served.
Deciding not to go back to her room (she was afraid Mary would be there) she sought out a chair on the first class deck and placed herself in a comfortable position. Within moments she had fallen asleep from exhaustion.
The time was six as Bri walked around the ship looking one of her two still M.I.A friends. She had found Kristen, Ashley, and Courtney but she still had yet to find Chelsea or Emma. It was almost dinner time and Bri had hoped that they all could go to dinner together.
After about two more laps around the ship (it was now about six thirty) Bri had almost given up when she saw what she had been looking for, curled up in a ball in a chair, and asleep. She let a smile escape its mental imprisonment as she thought about what she could do in this situation. Without notice she turned to a man taking pictures, she grabbed his camera (almost choking the poor guy) and snapped a shot of Emma. She then proceeded on apologizing and paying the guy, and once she turned back around Emma was sitting up and blinking quite stupidly.
"What were you just doing?" Emma yawned. Bri tilted her head to the side and Emma looked at her confused. "What?"
"Well aren't you happy to see me?" Bri asked with a fake hurt expression, which Emma could see right through.
"You left me alone with scary Mary. Let's just say I'm less than thrilled." Emma said standing up. Bri let another smile escape as she nodded to Emma's response. She then thought about something she had seen earlier.
"Hey Emma let's go for a walk. I found something I'll know you'll like." Bri stated and then started to walk in the opposite direction in which she had just came from. Emma quickly fixed her hat, making sure the note was still under there, and followed after Bri.
"Ashley for God's sake let me in!" Courtney shouted at the red oak doors.
"No way Courtney, not until you find me another dress cause I am certainly not wearing this PINK one!" came the response.
"Courtney sighed and was about to try to break the door down when another idea came to her head. With an evil grin she began talking to thin air. "Oh hello Dalton, Matt, yeah I know where Ashley is. She's right in-" before she could even finish she was pulled in the door and thrown on the floor quicker than a lightning bolt.
"What were you about to say!" Ashley shouted at her and Courtney smirked. Everyone knew that when it came to Ashley, not to mention her relatives in her presence.
"Calm down cat girl," Courtney said calmly referring to Ashley's nails. "There was no one out there. You need to seriously learn to relax."
"Relax, RELAX? How can I relax? I wake up on this God forsaken ship, find out I have a fiancée, look and see that I can only wear dresses, and then you pretend that THEY are out there. Oh yeah Courtney I can defiantly relax." Ashley said slumping onto the bed.
"You need to learn to ease up a little Ashley. Ok so we're on this ship, and it's gonna sink in four days. As for your fiancée we haven't seen him yet and all we know is that his initials are R.B. The whole dresses thing is already handled because Bri said that she believed Emma would know where we could get jeans, once we find her. As for the idiots, we haven't seen them yet. I mean really Ashley; we're going to die in four days anyway. We should do things that we would never do." Courtney finished.
"Well you're cheerful to talk to." Ashley said as she looked at the menu for that night, and Courtney replied with a peace sign. Just then there came a banging on the door and Kristen fell through. The stick thin girl then promptly turned around and kicked the door shut.
"Thanks for knocking." Ashley said sarcastically. Her eyes went back to the menu for a second before turning back up. "What happened to you?"
"I don't know who I am on this ship but I really would like to know why people are asking me the most ridiculous questions!" Kristen yelled as she stood up. Ashley rolled her eyes but Courtney looked at Kristen. The tall girl sighed and looked down at her now ruined dress. "Ugh, could one of you please ask a steward to go get me a new dress?"
"We have a maid Kristen not a steward." Courtney corrected quickly but the glare she was getting from Kristen shut her up quickly. "Fine I'll go." The blonde girl stood up and opened the door. "Yo, goth girl." She commented as Bri walked in.
"She really shouldn't be calling me that here." Bri sighed and then looked at Ashley with a cautious eye. Ashley, who was not stupid and picked up on these things easily, turned to her.
"Did you find them?" she asked referring to Emma and Chelsea.
Bri sighed softly and closed her eyes. "Well yeah I found Emma but.." she trailed off as her bravery gave way.
"But?" Ashley asked prompting her to continue.
"But… she went off stalking." Bri finished and the look on Ashley's face told her to run now.
"Don't…"
cricket
"You…"
cricket
"And they're…"
cricket
"That means…"
gulp
(Translation)
"Don't tell me."
"Yep"
"You found them."
"Oh yeah."
"And they're definitely here."
"Definitely."
"That mean's we're going to die with them."
gulps "I'm thirsty."
"Excuse me but I have to go somewhere." Ashley said mournfully and walked out the door. The two other girls stood in silence for about two minutes before she re-entered holding an amber colored liquid.
"What's that?" Bri asked.
"My medicine." Ashley said as she began to drink.
"Whiskey?" Kristen asked looking disgusted.
"Gin." She said as she finished the whole bottle. "And I'm going to find some more." Ashley turned to go out the door but Courtney stopped her.
"No way Ashley. By the way your breath smells I can tell you've had enough."
"Ok…hiccup Christie." Ashley said sitting down.
Courtney shook her head. "Yeah you've definitely had enough." She then turned to Kristen. "Is this ok?" she asked holding up a ruby dress.
"Perfect." Kristen said grabbing it and going into the closet. Right then the dinner call sounded.
"Right well we should go get ready." Courtney said as she left the room but five seconds later she came back. "This is our room. You get out." She said pointing toward Bri.
"Alright, alright." Bri said as she got up and left, closing the door behind her.
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