A/N: I'm TOO sorry for the REALLY long time it took to update! I couldn't think of what to put in this chapter, and what to save for later, how to connect scenes. I'm a horrible author. I apologize. Thanks to Daisyduke80 for reviewing! I really appreciate the enthusiasm! Anyways I only own Rose, and most the OCs that pop up. There'll be a lot of OCS on the trip so yeah.
Rose POV:
"Open up your mind and let me step inside, rest your weary head and let your heart decide, so easy when you know the rules, it's so easy all you have to do is fall in love play the game, everybody play the game." I murmured the lyrics with Bobby as we all leaned back waiting on the last ten minutes of the plane ride. As the song turned to an end around three minutes later, Bobby's dad stood. "Okay, guys we're going to land really soon and we're landing at my friend's hangar here. Watch your step and buckle up as we land, there might be a little odd bit of feeling on the way down, alright? Good." He nodded sitting back down. I could tell her parents were excited to shake us off at the house and ditch us for some island he bought her. Dang Bobby's family is rich. I mean her dad owns chain, after chain of places. Apartments, hotels, restaurants, and he even owned a yachting company. This is why they had a great house, a few getaway homes, a jet, and why Bobby was so committed. Determined. Stubborn. She had her mind made up, she was going to Julliard and becoming a great dancer, and she'd love to be on Broadway.
"So Rose, you excited? Huh? Huh? Huh?" Bobby nudged me. "Of course!" I reply putting my magazine back in my hand bag. Filing off the plane I found it a little creepy then how eager her parents were to rid themselves of us teens. In the car when we pulled half way up the drive way the parked and helped us with our bags handing Bobby the keys telling her the rules again in a very fast manner, and waved goodbye. "Bye, guys." She muttered blowing her bangs out of her face. I smiled in sympathy; her parent's seemed to be ignoring her I guess. "It's okay, kid. Come on let's get inside before we die of excitement." I say taking her arm and my friend Ally's. "Let's go check it o-o-out!" Ally exclaimed. "It doesn't matter; we have so much relaxing to do! I mean no dancing for six whole days!" She exclaimed. "I love dance don't get me wrong, but taking a break is a great relief believe me." Our friend Courtney exclaimed beaming at the kitchen, and then to me. "Every cook's dream." She grinned. "Bobby you have the best kitchen for us to cook in!" I shouted throwing my bags down sprinting towards the kitchen with my baking/cooking buddy Courtney. "Yeah." Bobby sighed. "I guess we do."
I counted the friends we had. Seven. Bobby, Courtney, Ally, Felicity, Lola, Elizabeth, and me. "So we have enough bedrooms, but some will have to bunk. Take your pick. Though I've been told by my sister Morgan that the room with the door labeled 'Morgan' in silver is off limits. Oh, and Rose I want you to have the room labeled Bobby. I totally think it's yours. Besides, I'm taking my parent's room because they told me they trust me not to trash it. We'll see how that works out." Bobby smirks. We race off to complete our assignment but I just poke along down the hall hearing the girls shout with glee on how their room was the best. I finally found the oak door painted silver that in white lettering neatly spaced across the center of the door said, ' y'. When I opened the door I smiled to myself. It was my dream room. And my best friend gave it to me. It had dark oak wood flooring and a big white fluffy rug with white furniture. It went one step up and had a great terrace with huge doors and a table and two comfy looking chairs on. I stepped hesitantly into the bathroom. It had a tub with a shower and double sinks. This was odd since there was only one Bobby. There was a small closet behind the door with towels and more shampoo, razor blades, lotion, soap, and shower gel. The countertop was smoke colored granite. "Wow." I whispered smiling to who I thought was myself.
"Like it?" I jumped at Bobby's voice. "Like it? I love it, Bobby! You have such good taste." I rely softly. "Thanks. Wanna come down with us to check out the beach. It's pretty cool…plus I have hot neighbors." She shrugs. "Brothers." She grins sheepishly. I roll my eyes at her but I slide into my silver flip flops and follow her out the main back porch, around there infinity pool and hot tub which felt useless unless you used it during the night and we all file down into the beach taken by it's beautiful white glistening sand, and shiny rolling waves of sea water with it's sparkling bubbly filled green majestic foam sticking around after the waves pushed back. "Bobby this is…beautiful…and amazing. You're parents know how to pick a place." I grin. "I think it was a good investment." She shrugs, laughing. We all go back inside and check the time. It's three o'clock. "I have an idea." I stood up on the tan L shaped sofa and announce. All the chattering stops and fourteen eyes rest on mine, "If we go swimming now and Courtney and I come back inside at 5:30 we can have dinner ready by 6:30 or 7." I declared. "Awesome." Everyone agreed. So we sprinted down the hall and I changed out of my tan shorts and green tank top with silver palm trees on it into black athletic shorts, and my purple bikini that had beautiful white flowers on it. The one time I wore it in front of Riley he could not stop staring. It was funny to me, and it reminded me of the other night. I wish Riley were here to take in this beautiful house, and it's awesome bed. We grabbed a beach ball, our towels and stepped outside back onto the still glistening sand. "Hey neighbors! Why don't you come down for a swim?" Bobby calls up fluttering her eyelashes. "Sorry, sweetheart we got practice. We'll be back in an hour though so stick around." He tosses his football up and back into his hand and winks at my best friend from the terrace. "Okay, but don't leave us too impatient!" She calls back with another charming smile. "Don't make me run out will power! We'll back soon girls!" He calls flashing us a grin and disappears into the house. "Wow, are you guys-?" Ally started.
"No. But I want to be." Bobby shrugs. "I think he does too." I laugh and she splashes me and we end up in a water fight. Ally goes with Bobby, along with Elizabeth and Lola, while Courtney and Felicity go with me. Soon we all end up soaking, and it's already five o clock. Apparently the 'neighbors'' names were Michael, and he had his two brothers Gale, and Terrance, Michael also brought his friend Cameron. Michael and Bobby seemed to lean towards each other, Lola got Gale, Cameron started talking with Elizabeth, and Terrance took Felicity to the pier to watch him catch fish with his hands. Cool. Courtney and I both have boyfriends so we just kind of made friendly interaction. Less friendly then the others did. "Guys we'll go dry off and go make dinner! Does steak sound good?" Courtney called out to Bobby who was in front of Michael as he guided her hands gently over the fish they found. "Yeah! Can the guys come?" She called back. "Uh, sure!" I respond after consulting with my co-cook. "Steak!" They all bellowed. We rolled our eyes and tended to dinner.
Finally after cooking the mashed potatoes, mushrooms, and making salads, plus grilling the steaks, Courtney and I sighed content with ourselves. "Dinner!" I called pushing the wind chimes gently together. "Coming!" They called coming back and drying themselves.
After dinner and the guys went home, it was eight o'clock. "Who wants to watch Edward Scissor-hands in the movie room?" Bobby announced. "Everyone!" We all exclaimed. We all changed into our pajamas and instantly popped in what felt like the best movie ever.
Five A.m. That's the time I got up and sprinted to my bathroom (for the next nine days), and threw up. Dang it! It wasn't the steak was it? Hopefully not. Otherwise there'd be a good chance the other girls would get sick. I was still sick at six thirty in the morning and Bobby still half asleep walked in. "Rose, are you feeling okay?"
"What do you think? I'm sitting here at the toilet puking my guts out. Sure, I'm great!" I snap sarcastically heaving up again. "Sorry. But…I'm up." She splashed freezing water from a sink on her face. "Ok, do you need anything? Can I help? Here." She ties my hair back for me. "Thank-"
I heave up what seems to be left, and I feel a sudden tremor in my stomach and I lean back after flushing away the disgusting bile. "The only time I've ever puked that hard is when my mom died." I say frowning at the memory. "Well, maybe it was something you put in the food. My sister's stomach cannot handle any sort of red meat." She shrugs. I shrug again. Hmm. I guess. "Maybe." I muse. "I think I'll just sleep a little longer, okay?"
"Me too." Bobby stretches, helping me up and we hobble to the bed. "Mind if I crash here for the next few hours? I'm too tired to go back to my parent's room."
"Doesn't matter to me." I shrug drifting off again.
When we wake up again Courtney has a huge breakfast going. I grab an orange and take a seat at the counter. "Thanks." I murmur peeling the outer side off. "Rose, aren't you going to eat something else?" Ally asks concerned. "Nah. I'm not really hungry. I'll just have a bigger lunch." I shrug. "Well okay. We were thinking of going to this dolphin riding place, today. Sound okay to you?"
"Not okay." I reply shaking my head. "Great. It's great! That sounds awesome." I finish laughing as everyone's expression goes from sadness, and confusion at my comment, to mock anger. "You're not funny." Lola mocks. "No. I'm hilarious." I grin. "Okay, so dolphin swimming it is." Bobby says. I get dressed for the day in tan shorts, a red and white striped cami tank top, and put a baggy red lifeguard sweatshirt Elizabeth lent me on over that, with gold flip flops, putting my hair in a pony tail. I grab a one piece swimsuit, and towel just in case and throw it in my Joyrich Haring bag, along with my phone, lip gloss, and some money. Bobby plucks the keys to her Dodge Durango off the hook (she was a great driver actually, we were all kind of surprised when we heard this), and we all climb in. "To sea world, or to see world." Elizabeth jokes climbing into shot gun as quickly as possible. I'm in the middle in the back, and as Bobby has Elizabeth hook up her iPod to the car radio we start singing Hawaiian tunes the for the twenty minute drive to the place. Like my favorites were probably Pineapple Princess, Lahaina, My Little Grass Shack, Coconut, The Old Hawaiian Way, and lastly Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride.
Swimming with dolphins, was probably one of the most fun things I've done in the past couple days. We also got to pet stingrays, and watch a whale show. When we were done it was eleven o'clock. "What now?" I ask. "Hmm…." Bobby mused. She jerked her pen in an orderly manner towards Courtney. "You decide what's next, Court." She smiles at her old nickname. "Well, I think we should do a quick horseback ride, since we only have an hour until lunch." She says. "Oh, great." Lola moans. She has this big thing against horses; I pull my phone out in the car and text Riley, as they sing along to 'Rock a Hula'.
Hey. Whatcha doin?
Nothin much. Just buildin a new software thing. Wbu?
Just finished up at the Maui Ocean Center. Off to horseback riding with the girls.
Sounds fun. So no guys have been like…hitting on you rite?
I wrinkled my nose and frowned at the text. Even though it felt like I normally would be getting hit on along with the rest of the girls at every corner of the street, we hadn't been. Well I hadn't been. Everyone else was pretty much by our neighbors.
No, no don't worry Riles. Nothing like tht. There are too many other pretty girls here.
You're still the prettiest.
And you're still the hottest, cutest, charming-est. :)
And don't you forget it! :)
Ha-ha I gotta go, I'll call ya later tonite tho, k? C ya. Luv ya.
Luv u 2 Rose. Have fun! Ttyl. I think that's it…I'm not a gr8 person with txtin terms. Bye.
I hated my horse. Her name was Poppyseed. She kept bending her head down, and she refused to walk over the log on the trail! Afterwards when I was to help place her back in the stall, she shoved me into a wall! I hated her and afterwards, I scolded Courtney for it. It was twelve thirty, and time for lunch. We went to a restaurant called 'CJ's deli'. Wow it was really good, and as we sat back at the diner/deli, Bobby informed us of the next activity. "Next, my dad's friend Ahonui is giving us a helicopter ride over the island. Sound fun?" she asked through bites of her turkey sandwich. We all nodded, and muttered "Yeah." With full mouths in agreement.
After the helicopter ride, we went back to the house and got dressed to meet our 'dates' (Really it was just Gale for Lola, Felicity and Terrance, Cameron came back for Elizabeth, Michael was very excited to see his neighbor Bobby again) for the luau where I only ate a garden salad checking every bite over before I ate it to make sure sickness wouldn't come again. That'd be bad. Through out the next two days we snorkeled, went crab fishing, then a very classy restaurant for dinner (NO dates thankfully), and yesterday was a huge spa day for us girls, and last night we picked up Chinese, and fell asleep in different positions watching 'Lilo and Stitch' movie marathon for the heck of it. Ally was in a huge arm chair, Courtney squished on the sofa, Lola fell asleep in a fuzzy bean bag chair, Bobby stretched on the couch, and I fell asleep in the other huge arm chair, while Elizabeth had a fuzzy blanket on the rug overtop the dark hard wood, and a pillow from the couch.
When the sunlight peeked through the windows I squinted and a pain lurched forward in my stomach, and it notified me what was to follow; I sprinted to the bathroom where I was violently sick. "Rose?" Bobby asked. "Sick again? What's up?" She asked. I looked up. "Go away." I groaned. "That's not nice; I'm trying to be helpful." She scolded. "Fine, fine. Nothing is up." I groan. "I don't think it is. I've been reading the signs. It's…well adding up. I may not be a cipher-decoder-person, but I can make connections. And I think I need one more piece to add to the puzzle before I make the assumption. Are you by a chance….late this month?"
I gape at my best friend, all sickness gone. "I…I'm…n-n…there's no chance that-"
"Answer the question Rose; we have to figure this out!" She hisses, eyes fulfilled with sadness, and pity. "Yes." I whisper. I gaze up slowly and she's frowning at the tile on the floor. "Okay. It's decided. You have to take that test. Now." She nodded. "I won't tell them that it's for you, I won't utter a word-they're not even awake yet, the bums- but I'm going to the drug store just out of the neighborhood-"
"No. I-I…I'm not taking a…a…a pregnancy test." I spat. She regarded me running to the key hook and left. I slowly walk out to the kitchen to see what was on the agenda for today. Zip lining through Wai'anapanapa State Park, surfing lessons from the guys, and a dinner show (magic show and, some comedian). Bobby silently tip toes back into the house and hands me the box motioning her hand towards the bathroom. I nod sighing quietly, and silently walk to the bathroom elegantly.
Five damn minutes. That's how long it'd take to process my results. I couldn't believe how irresponsible I had been! If this was positive…Ben would be so mad, and disappointed. Riley would….I didn't even know what he'd do, or think. Riley was…Riley. He was unpredictable in situations. Most of the time he'd laugh it off and joke around teasing, but this…he couldn't joke about. It was…me…giving…birth! Possibly. If it was negative Bobby would be sworn to secrecy about the whole thing, and we'd burn the test either way. For some reason…I thought of my mom. I…I guess I was like her. Ben was always saying how much alike her I was, but remembering her was hard. She was always so…young. She was sixteen when she gave birth to me, and she told me my flippin' dad had chickened out when he heard about her pregnancy. Would Riley do that? I wasn't sure. I couldn't tell. I was just so….so….so….FRUSTRATED! Confused! Angry! Sad! I banged my head against the counter sitting on the floor, I began to cry. Because of one slip up, I could loose the best guy in my life altogether. I hated myself. I hated myself, and I hated myself! There was no way he'd-
Five minutes was up. I didn't dare look at the small object in my hand. I slide the sapphire ring around on my right hand trying to calm myself. Once you graduate to the next stone team in dance you get a small ring with the gem on it. So far I had ruby, emerald, and now sapphire. A shudder ripped through my body and I closed my eyes bringing my hand with the test up to my face, and sighed. But as soon as I closed my eyes I remembered. Everything. Good. Every good memory I've had with Riley. From kissing him in the tunnels, comforting me when we were kidnapped by Ian Howe together, whispering words of comfort in my ear, the most recent being our night alone in my bed. But I landed on the memory of the first time he said that he loved me.
I glanced at the test. I took another look. The words were like cold water splashing me soaking my body, they were like a slap to the face. I now knew I was awake. And yet somewhere deep inside I was happy with the pink words that said:
Pregnant.
