Author's Note- OMG! I haven't updated my story in SO long. I'm SO sorry to keep you guys waiting. It's just that school is hecka busy, and I have so much homework to do...Well, here's the next chapter. It's REALLY long...Hope you enjoy it though! R&R!
Maui
Paradise Hotel
Saturday- 9:30 A.M.
Beeeep! Beeeep! Beeeep!
The loud, discordant sound of the alarm woke Massie up the next morning. Massie rolled over and glanced at the alarm. It was 9:30 A.M. Massie groaned. She was still tired from yesterday's chaos. Some idiot next door was blasting their music as loudly as they could. Massie groaned again, the music was hurting her ears.
"Shut up, you jerk!" Massie yelled, as loudly as she could.
However, since the music was too loud, the person next door couldn't hear Massie. The music continued to blast.
Massie sighed, and went to the desk to get a piece of paper and pen. On the paper she wrote,
'Turn off your freaking music! It's bugging the hell out of me!'
She then opened the door, and peeked outside to make sure no one was in the hallway to see her in her pajamas. When the coast was clear, Massie quickly tip toed to the room, and slipped the note under the door.
When Massie got back in, she went back into her bed, preparing to go back to sleep for at least a few more minutes.
But then, before she could fall back asleep, suddenly, someone knocked on the door.
"Who is it?" Massie called out.
'Room Service.' a woman's voice replied.
Massie got up and pulled back her hair into a ponytail as best as she could. She then opened the front door.
A young woman stood before Massie, holding up a tray of croissants, fresh fruits, and juice.
"Here is your breakfast, miss." the lady said, holding out the tray to Massie.
Massie took it. "Um, thanks." She assumed that her parents must have ordered it for her.
Massie put the tray onto the table, and first changed into her clothes. She decided to wear her bikini underneath her tank top and shorts, because she wanted to go to the beach later on in the day.
She then ate her breakfast as quickly as she could. She wanted to do some shopping before going to the beach.
She called her parents' room to tell them where she was going.
"Hey mom, I'm going out to do some shopping." Massie said.
"Where are you going?" her mom asked.
"I'm going shopping."
"Oh, ok. But you have to be back before 5 P.M." her mom said.
"Why?" Massie asked.
"Because you have to get ready for tonight's dinner."
"Again? Another dinner? Wasn't yesterday night bad enough already?" Massie rolled her eyes.
"Massie, don't start with me. Just be back before five." her mom said, sternly.
"Fine." Massie grumbled and slammed the phone down.
Massie grabbed her Prada purse and cell phone, and then left her suite.
The shopping center was just around the corner from the hotel, so Massie could just walk there by herself.
When Massie arrived there, she immediately noticed that all the shops were all Hawaiian based, except for a few. Most of the were souvenir shops.
Massie walked around, browsing the windows of shops, trying to find a good place to stop and shop.
Finally, Massie spotted a shop called Mia's All You Can Buy Shop. Massie rolled her eyes at the title, but she thought it looked pretty good, so she decided to go in and take a look.
Massie went the teen's section and started browsing through the pants section.
Half an hour later, Massie had picked out five pairs of jeans. Massie decided that five pairs of jeans were good enough for now. She went to the changing rooms to try them on.
In the end, three out of the five jeans Massie picked looked good her. She went back to the rack to put the two other pairs back. The rack was packed with jeans and other pants, so when Massie tried to put the jeans back on, it just fell off.
She bent down to pick it up, and in the process of doing that, she accidentally whipped someone behind her in the chest with the jeans.
'Ow.' a boy's voice complained to her.
Massie turned around to apologize to him. But she nearly stopped when she saw the person that she had hit, was really familiar.
"De-Derrington?!?!" Massie managed to choke out.
Massie hadn't seen Derrington since the end of school.
"Massie?!?!" Derrington exclaimed, "What are you doing here?"
"I was just about to ask you the very same question!" Massie said.
"Um, well, I'm here with my family on a vacation for a while." Derrington explained.
"Ehmagawd! No way! I am too!" Massie screeched, hardly believing Derrington was actually here in Hawaii.
"Yeah, I can tell." Derrington said.
"Wait, what hotel are you staying at?" Massie asked, quickly.
"The one right around the corner. I forgot what it's called. I know it starts with a P." Derrington answered.
"You mean The Paradise Hotel?" Massie squeaked.
"Yeah, yeah, that one. I'm staying in that one. Why?"
"Because I'm staying in that one too!" Massie yelled.
"Really? What room?" Derrington asked, totally shocked.
"I'm on the tenth level, and my room is 141. What about you?" Massie asked.
"I'm on the tenth level too! And my room is 142, right next to you!" Derrington exclaimed.
"Holy crap!" Massie yelled. A few costumers in the shop were staring at her like she was a crazy person. "Sorry." she said in her normal voice.
"This is like a freaky coincidence." Massie stated.
"Yeah, I know. It's so weird, that we both ended up in the same place as each other." Derrington said, shaking his head in disbelief.
A moment of awkward silence passed between the two people. Then Massie spoke,
"So you were the one who was blasting the music this morning!" Massie accused.
"And you were the one who slipped the really rude note under my door!" Derrington accused right back.
"Yeah, but that's because you couldn't hear me yelling at you to stop at first." Massie said, rolling her eyes.
"Whatever." Derrington said.
"So, what are you doing here?" Massie asked.
"Here? I thought I just told you." Derrington said, looking a bit confused.
"No, I meant, here, as in this shop, dumb ass." Massie said.
"Oh," Derrington said, his face immediately clearing up. "my mom is somewhere here in this shopping place, and I didn't want to stick with here the whole time. So I just left her and explored the place."
"I see."
"Yeah, what about you?"
"Um, isn't it obvious?" Massie asked. "I'm here to shop." She held up her pairs of jeans.
"Right." Derrington said.
"Mhmmm." Massie said, not quite sure about what to say next.
"Well, I guess I should go now, to find my mom." Derrington said, turning around.
"Wait," Massie said, putting a hand on Derrington's shoulder to stop him.
"What?" Derrington asked, turning around.
But before Massie could answer, someone behind her called out her name.
"Massie! Hey, I found you! Where have you been this whole time?" a very familiary voice called out to her.
Massie immediately recognized the voice, and winced. It was David, the boy who had nearly killed her back at the beach. She turned around and saw David at the other end of the shop, slowly approaching her.
Derrington, clearly seeing Massie's discomfort, came closer to her, and asked, "Who's that boy?"
Massie winced again, and said, "It's a long story. It's just this boy I met at the beach."
"Ok," Derrington said, "But, why don't you want to see him again?"
"Because he almost killed me." Massie quietly said.
"WHAT?" Derrington exploded.
Massie sighed, "Well, I don't really mean killed."
"Then what?" Derrington asked. "What did he do?"
"He just threw me into the ocean, when I was totally unaware."
"Oh." Derrington calmed down at this piece of information.
"Yeah, I guess it was nothing big, now that I think about it." Massie said, "You know that I can't swim."
"Yeah, of course." Derrington said. "Remember two years ago, when you were at my house, and you didn't want to go swimming?"
"Yeah." Massie laughed at the memory.
Massie remembered that when she went to Derrington's house two years ago, and Derrington wanted to go swimming. But, Massie didn't want to, and at that time, Derrington didn't know Massie's secret. So, he bribed her into going swimming with him. But when Derrington noticed that Massie wasn't really swimming in the pool, and that she was just standing in a corner, shivering, Derrington stopped and had asked her what was wrong. Unable to contain her secret any longer, Massie told Derrington that she didn't know how to swim. Derrington had just laughed, and told Massie to hang onto him, and that he would teach her how to float.
From that day on, Massie went over to Derrington's house for swimming lessons, and Massie had become ok at swimming. But then, she didn't go swimming for a long time, and so lost all her skills at swimming, and she went back to a person who didn't know how to swim at all.
Derrington was about to say something, but then David approached Massie and interrupted him.
"Hey Massie!" David said, hugging Massie as tightly as he could.
"Hey." Massie said, as enthusiastically as she could. Massie could see that now Derrington was kind of uncomfortable at the sight of the two people hugging.
Massie broke away from David, and said, "What are you doing here?"
Strangely, it seemed like that the question, 'What are you doing here?' seemed to be asked today more frequently.
"Nothing. I'm just browsing the area." David paused. "And I was looking all over the place for you."
Derrington coughed. "Ahem."
David finally seemed to notice him. "Who's the little man there?" he asked, jerking his head in Derrington's direction.
"I'm not little." Derrington hissed.
David just laughed and shook his head. "Whatever."
"Oh, this is my ex-boyfriend, Derrington." Massie introduced.
"I see, so Massie, you're single." David said. "Nice."
"Don't even think about it." Massie growled.
"Come on, Massie, let's go to the beach." David said, pulling Massie's arm towards the exit.
Derrington took this as his cue to leave. "So, I guess I'll see you around then."
"No, wait. Derrington-" Massie started to say.
Derrington interrupted her, "Don't worry. I'll probably see you tonight at the hotel, anyways."
"What hotel? Which hotel is Massie staying in?" David asked.
Massie was frantically shaking her head, to signal Derrington not to tell David. But Derrington didn't notice, so he said, "The Paradise Hotel."
"Oh, the one around the corner." David said, nodding his head. "Now I know where you stay."
"Damn it." Massie whispered under her breath.
Derrington said, "Bye Massie." and then left the store.
As soon as Derrington left, Massie whipped out of David's grasp, and punched him in the stomach. It didn't hurt him one bit.
"Leave me alone, you jerk." Massie hissed at him.
She quickly went up to the cash register and gave the cashier the jeans.
David followed after her, and said, "Why?"
"Because, I don't want to see you. I don't want to see you ugly face or your ugly body." Massie said, as she swiped her credit card, and signed the receipt.
As soon as the cashier put the jeans into a bag, Massie practically ran out of the shop, with David behind her.
As Massie ran down the street, she turned around to see if David was still following her. Sure enough, David was right behind her, and he was quickly catching up.
Massie ran as fast as she could, and a few minutes later, she was inside the hotel. She could hear David calling her name, as he kept on running. Massie quickly ran to one of the elevators, and jabbed the Up button. The elevator door swung open, and Massie walked into it.
She then quickly pressed the Close button repeatedly. The doors were beginning to close as David caught up, and for a second, Massie thought that David was going to come in . But fortunately for Massie, the doors closed before David could get in. Massie sighed a big breath of relief. An elderly couple who were standing next to her, were looking at her cautiously.
"Sorry, I just had to get away from someone." Massie explained, breathlessly.
The couple just nodded, and the rest of the elevator ride up, everyone was quiet.
When the elevator reached Massie's floor, she got off, and walked down the hallway to her room.
Massie slid her key into the door, and her door opened. Massie threw her stuff onto the couch, and went to her bedroom, and collapsed her bed.
For a second, Massie laid there for a while, not moving at all. She was still out of breath from all that running earlier.
Then Massie got an idea. She went to the phone, and called Derrington's room. No one picked up, so she assumed that Derrington was still out with his mom. She hung up without leaving a message. She then took her cell phone and called Derrignton's cell. But the same thing happened as before. He didn't pick up, so Massie decided to leave him a message.
Hey, this is Derrington. I'm not here right now, so leave me a message. Later.
BEEEEEEEEEP!
"Hey Derrington, it's Massie. I guess you're not back at the hotel yet. Well, when you get back, call me. We haven't talked in a while, and I just want know what's up. Ciao!"
Massie wondered if her encounter was just a big coincidence, or if the encounter was sending her some kind of message. She wasn't the type of person who believed in all the spirit, magic type of stuff. But, she found it quite hard to believe that Derrington and her just happened to be in the same state, same island, and same hotel.
Whatever, Massie thought, I'll probably find out later.
For right now, she needed to get ready for tonight's dinner. She would think about this whole thing later, when she got back.
