CHAPTER 10: A Trip Around the Globe
Disclaimer: I don't own VM if I did then Logan and Veronica wouldn't have broken up at all along with Lilly and Cassidy would still be alive.
*Thoughts are in italics*
AN: Half way through what I have planned for this story. Everyone please review and let me know if what you think.
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-Dick's Point of View-
"Beav, Cas I am getting ready to leave." I yelled up to my younger siblings. "We are leaving from the dock at 9:30 and should be back around maybe 6 or 7." I knew that they were upset with me because I was getting out of school for the day and they had to go still. I told them that it was an advantage being a senior and they would get their turn next year. Yeah they weren't having it. I think it also has something to do with the fact that both Wallace and Mac were going to be with me and everyone else out on the yacht today and so they were also without their lovers for the day also. Oh Mac. Why couldn't I get her out of my mind? I thought for sure that after Lilly and I had hooked up the other night that I would forget Mac, but no such luck.
"You know Dick you could just call and get us out of school for the day." Cassie came down the stairs giving me her best 'you know you want to' look.
"Not happening Cassie." I tell her. I was still trying get used to this being responsible thing down, but even I knew that it wasn't good idea to allow my little sister to skip school to go on a boat trip. "Besides I am out the door now." I said as I hear Logan honk the horn on his SUV "Go to school. Both of you." I say looking back and notice Cassidy coming down the stairs.
-Cassidy's Point of View-
"You know we don't technically need him to get out of going to school today." I tell Cassie as soon as I see Dick and Logan pulling out of the drive.
"What do you mean?" Of course we need him. How else are we going to get out of going to school today?" She asked me.
"Oh how naive you are my dear sweet Cassie." I say as I pull out a zip drive. "This is the answer to our problem."
"How?" she looks even more confused. "What good is a zip drive going to do."
"See the thing about me being a genius and also dating a computer whiz like Mac is that this little old zip drive contains the files needed to break into the school records and make sure that we are excused from all of our classes without anyone raising an eyebrow." I tell her as I walk over to my laptop and open the files.
"Oh… I knew I loved you for a reason Big Brother." She says as she runs off.
"Were you going?" I ask her as she disappears up the stairs.
"I am getting my suit and anything else I think I might need for the day. You want me to grab you some board shorts and stuff out of your room?" she yells back.
"If you would please. I will work on this while you do that." I tell her as I work on getting us excused from school for the day. It is 8:45. Just enough time to make it down to the pier. "Hurry up Cassie. We only have fifteen minutes to beat Dick to the Yacht. We will hide until they sit sail. No one will go down until after they launch so we can just hang out down there until then.
"Okay I have everything we could possible need. And hopefully anything we have forgotten someone else that didn't have 5 minutes to pack will have. Let's go." She says as she throws me a bag and runs out the door and to my car.
"Okay so if we park where no one will see my car we should be fine." I said once we got to the pier. "Hurry up. We only have a minute before they will be her." I tell her as we rush off and sneak onto our father's yacht.
-10 minutes later-
"I will be right back" I hear Mac yell. Oh no she is coming down here. Why? What are you doing Mac.?
"I can't believe that you forgot your suit. Cassie should have some extra ones down there." I hear Dick yell back. Cassie and I look back and forth between each other and dart to hide.
"What cupboard?" I hear her yell back up to Dick
"Um the third on the left." He yells back.
Crap. I am hiding in that cupboard. Why do I keep getting put in this situation? As she opens the cupboard I give her a small smile and shush her quickly.
"Did you find what you need Mac?" Dick yells a minute later.
"Yeah I did." She says with a big smile across her face.
"Okay we are launching now." He yells again.
"What are you doing here?" She asks me in a soft whisper. "Come out Cassie I know you are here to."
"Hey Mac attack." Cassie says as she steps out of the bathroom. "We wanted to go to." Cassie explains.
"You didn't use the files did you?" She looks at me. I just give her a sly smile and hand her a swim suit.
"You would look great in this one." I say handing her a royal blue bikini. She glances at it and gives me a look like she wanted something with a little more fabric. "I have some extra board shorts in the top drawer." She quickly grabs the suit and gets out a pair of my board shorts that match and goes into the bathroom to change.
"I will go up first. Wait about 3 or 4 minutes before you guys come up." She tells us as she makes her way up to the top deck.
"Well she didn't seem to upset." Cassie says as she steps back out from the bathroom after she changed. "You're turn." She said as she pointed to the bathroom.
"No I don't think she minded too much." I tell her. "Are you ready to go up? I ask returning from the bathroom. As we make our way up the stairs I can hear them all starting to talk.
"Wow Mac Attack. If Cassidy were here I think he'd like your choice of swimwear." I hear Dick say. I can only imagine the look on her face after that comment.
"You know Dick I think you're right." I say as Cassie and I make our way toward them. I wrap my arms around Mac wait and give her a soft kiss on the shoulder.
"What the hell are you two doing here? I made it very clear that you were to go to school." Dick replied trying to sound pissed but we all knew that he couldn't. I give him a look and he says. "What did I expect? When has anyone ever told you two no. Here" He said as he handed me a beer and Cassie a hard lemonade.
"So I think we should play a game." Logan says. "what do you all think?"
"Well what do you have in mind?" Dick asks.
"I vote we don't play 'I never' because we don't need to be completely plastered and on the open sea." I hear Veronica suggest.
"We could always play poker." I hear Dick suggest. But before anyone else can speak up Logan and Weevil are disagreeing "Why not?" Dick asked confused.
"Oh they are just afraid that they would lose… again." Veronica says with a small smirk on her face.
"See Dick the thing is, Ms. Ronnie here is a bit of a card shark." Logan explains as he pulls Veronica back toward him.
"How about we play a modified version of Strip poker." Lilly suggests
"What are you think Lil?" I ask her as she grabs a deck of cards and we start to play.
-Cassie's Point of View-
"Let's stop here for a while." I ask Dick. "I want to swim."
"Okay, everyone good with that?" Dick yelled back.
"Yeah I could use a swim. Maybe it would cool me off." Veronica says as she gives Logan a small grin. By the end of the game most of the guys were down to near nothing. With Lilly's plan to have us in teams we decided boys against girls. So the losing team would have to take turns losing an item of clothing. Veronica was better than any of us knew and out play the boys a majority of the time.
"Okay let's drop here for a while." Dick yells back. As he pulls off his shirt and does a back flip off the side of the boat.
"You know Weevil, I don't think I have ever seen you in swim trunks." Veronica said as she shimmed off her shorts and took off her tank top.
"Yeah you know I am not big on it but I am hoping Lilly and I can work things out." Weevil tells her as he jumps off the side.
"Cassidy you have to get more sun you are the whitest white boy I have ever seen." Wallace tells Cassidy as he helps me down to the jump deck on the back of the boat.
"Ha Ha. Very funny Wallo." Cassidy says as he grabs Mac's hand. "Will you jump with me?" Cassidy asks her
"You Jump I Jump Jack." She says as she quotes one of our favorite episodes of Gilmore Girls. She grabs Cassidy's hand and the jump off the end of the boat and into the water. Before I could comprehend what was happening Wallace had a hold of me by the waist and we were going over the edge.
"Wallace!" I yell at him as we submerged from the water. We were all laughing and having fun so about 20 minutes later, I took this opportunity to pull Wallace back up onto the boat and down to the rooms while everyone was in the water. "So I need to talk to you about something."
"What's up babe?" he asks as he grabs a beach towel and wraps us into it together.
"Well before you freak out I am not 100% sure yet. But I am late." I tell him he gives me a look and I realize that maybe he didn't get it.
"Late? What are you talking about Cassie?" He says with a small laugh
"Late as in my period is late." I tell him hoping now that he would get it.
" Oh no… no… no… Cassie are you trying to tell me you think you're pregnant?" Wallace asked as he barely got the words out of his mouth.
Before I have time to even respond I see my two brothers launch toward Wallace.
-Cassidy's Point of View-
"Come on Mac attack. Let's go see if we can find a first aid kit." I tell her when I notice that she is bleeding pretty heavily from the scrap she just got from the ladder on the back of the yacht.
"What's up?" Dick asked as he saw us coming back onto the boat and noticed Mac's leg. "What happened?"
" I am clumsy and fell up the ladder and cut my leg." Mac explains "I am fine."
"Where is the first aid kit?" I ask my brother.
"Down in the rooms I think." He says "here let me help you." He said as he puts Mac's arm around his shoulders so she could balance on both of us. When we got to the stairs we realize that we all can't fit down the stairs like this so I go to pick up Mac to pick her up but Dick beat me to it.
"Hang on Mac attack." He says as he picks her up bridal style and carries her down the stairs. When we get to the bottom he puts her down and we continue walking the way we were before. We quickly go to looking for the first aid kit after we sat her down on the bed. All of a sudden we realize that we aren't alone down here. We hear Cassie and Wallace talking. Well at least Dick isn't completely freaking out. Or at least that's what I thought until I heard what they were talking about. Before I knew what had hit me I was going throw the room divider and had my hands around Wallace's neck. I can hear Mac and Cassie yelling at me and Dick trying to pull me off of him but at the same time trying to get a piece of him also.
" I know I didn't hear that right Wallo." I said fuming as Cassie got us separated. "What were you thinking Cassandra!" I yelled at her.
"Cassidy calm down please." I could hear Mac, she was upset. I could tell just by the tone in her voice.
"Mac what's wrong. Is it your leg is it hurting more?" I asked as I went to hug her and she pulled away and tried to run away.
"Mac what is it?" I asked as I caught her as she was about to fall.
"I have never seen you like that." She said and I realized that I had scared her. I have never shown her that side of me before. It was something I hid well. It was one thing that I didn't have to deny that I was like Dick. If I was upset enough or someone was threating my family I attacked.
"I am so sorry Mac attack." I say as I try and calm her down." I am sorry that you had to see that. " I apologize to her. "Are you okay Wallace?" I asked through gritted teeth.
"Yeah I am okay." Wallace said. "I understand you two are protective of Cassie but can we please not kill me."
"You guys it's not like if I am pregnant that it's all Wallace's fault" Cassie points out to us. "Besides I am only about a week late so It could be a false alarm. So can we please just keep this between us for now?"
"Yeah." Mac tells her as she slips her hand into mine. I can tell she is really trying but that she is also a bit scared.
"Dick?" Cassie asks to see if he would agree to the terms
"You are going to the Doctor tomorrow. No questions. And if you are pregnant then we will sit down, you, me and Wallace and talk about it." Dick says. "I guess I am really getting a test in responsibility."
I guess Wallace thinks it's a good time to joke around with Dick because the next think I knew Wallace made some little comment and I had to hold my brother back again. I am just regretting letting Mac see me that upset. I feel so bad for scaring her.
_An. Well here's the next chapter. R&R