Twist: What a Diff'rence a Day Made
Chapter2
A Week Later
We're now in Cairo. Well actually in Hamunaptra. This is our second day here and already things are on the other side of bright, but I am actually going ahead of myself. I should probably tell you about the not so smooth trip here.
Because of Mr. O'Connell and his being frightened by planes we got stuck on some happy go lucky cruise. I have actually been waiting for this trip my whole life; so when it actually came time to get ready let me say that my bags were packed the night that O'Connell agreed to take us to Hamunaptra. I also made certain that Jonathan was ready too. With a brother like mine, one has to be certain of the important stuff and no way was I going to let him act like he does with everything else in his life.
We arrived at the docks quite early, and expected O'Connell to be early as well, as we told him. But no!!!!! The idiot was over two hours late. When he arrived he was all nice and a complete guy!!! And I don't mean that in a nice way. So he comes up to us, talks to me as if I were a child and then carries my luggage to the ship. Like really!!! Urghhhhhh. At the point my dear brother just insinuated that I like him. I love my brother but sometimes he just says the stupidest things.
After getting settled in my semi-comfy room, I headed over to my brother's room to check out how he was doing. I should have known he would head for the casino room. So without the company of my brother I headed for the top deck to try to relax a little and to get some reading done. Then one of these "i'm so smart because I am a guy" guy, sits next to me. He is such a freak. Because he had seen that the book that I carried was about ancient Egyptian history, he all of a sudden felt inclined to start to lecture me, ME! I don't mean to say that I am the all-knowing powerful Evelyn when it comes to Egyptian history, but I do know my stuff. And this idiot with half a clue starts talking off my ear about things that were completely off. When I tried to straighten him up on his facts he just told me to shove off. And then while leaving mentioned something about women, our lacking judgment.
By this time I was exhausted and pissed off so I went to my room for a nap. Lets just say that I leave my room till the next day. I hate happy go lucky boats with stupid brothers, guys like O'Connell and also lecturers who have no idea what the hell they are talking about.
Day Two in my Boat adventure
I really wasn't up to putting up with anymore from the people in that boat. I would have just preferred staying in my room the whole way to Egypt, but I guess that was way too much to ask for. I had gone out to the deck that morning for a little while after breakfast and then headed back to my room to continue my research on Hamunaptra. I can sometimes get a little bit too much into my work, so I was surprised when I realized that someone was standing in front of me.
"Hey, what are you reading?" ask the inquisitive interloper.
I could have screamed my guts out. You just don't go into someone's room without them knowing or giving permission and then all of a sudden start a conversation. But I held back my initial thought and instead.
"Oh its you. Hey! How did you get into my room?"
"The door wasn't locked. I knocked but you didn't answer and I knew that you were in here cuz I could hear you reading aloud."
"So you just decided to come in"
"Yah. How come you haven't been out today? It's a really beautiful day"
"As you can see I am busy, and don't really have time for beautiful days"
"Oh come on. Why do you always have to act like such a bitch?"
"Excuse me?"
"Listen I'm sorry, but why cant you just relax. You know be nice to others. I'm sure you have a great personality but you keep hiding it under this bitchy attitude"
"Since you seem to know me so well, why don't you just move towards that door and leave," normally I don't act like this but something about this guy just brought out the bitchy, as he said, side of me.
"I'm not letting you do that"
"Do what?"
"Throw me out and expect for me to leave without taking you to have a good time and a bite to eat. You're coming with me."
At that point he pulled me by the hands making the notes and books that were on my lap to fall all over the floor.
"You can do what you want but not before I take you out."
So I let him take me out just to keep him away from me for the rest of the trip as he promised. I do have to agree that I did have a good time that night and the ones that followed. When I overlooked the guys macho side, he was pretty good company and he seemed to know more about things than he let know.
Two nights away from getting to Thebes and things got weird. O'Connell had just left me at my door. I walked into my room closed the door and then some robed character comes from behind me. Holds a knife to my throat and begins asking for a key and map. How can one think in moment like that? He then proceeded to ask the question again putting more force on the knife that was to my throat. I pointed towards the table when the funny box with the map. At that point O'Connell walks into my room with guns and starts blazing bullets all over the place. Things got really rough because the place was full of those evil robed guys. It was crazy!! I could have died!! We ended up having to jump off the boat, which was now in a really crappy condition. Luckily for us we were closer to shore than we thought.
We made it on shore. There we saw O'Connell's pimp looking friend. You know the one that was outside the club. A couple nights before we realized that he was on the boat. My brother who as you can tell is really into gossip, told me that pimp boy's name is Benny and that he was leading the crazy lecturer guy and some other barbarians to Hamunaptra as well. I knew I didn't like pimp boy Benny and his whole crew. Right away they got into their macho thing of my stuff is better than yours and made a bet whoever made it first to Hamunaptra would get some outrageous amount of money. I really didn't care at all. All I wanted to do was get out of my wet clothes and get a nap before starting on our journey. But seeing as everything went down with the boat, I was stuck with wet clothes and some wet bills that I had in my pockets.
Because of all the craziness of this day, we had a very limited amount of money and because we couldn't get to my place in Cairo, which was on the other side of town, because of the time of night we stayed in the most horrible place in the world. It was some sort of a motel where by the looks of it was where unmentionable activities took place. O'Connell and my brother were sharing a room and I was in the on next door. They had decided to keep me company, which I gladly accepted because I mentioned before this place was a rough one. My brother had bought some really cheap home made liquor, which I was completely against from the beginning.
He and O'Connell started on that one and soon there were two empty bottles. They were really used to the cheap stuff as both were in perfect conditions. On the third bottle I was persuasively made to drink some. They had kept offering the stuff before, well my brother anyways, but I had refused it.
"Come on Evy, look at you. You're all nervous. Just have some. It'll calm you down," those were Jonathan's words right before I accepted and decided to drink some.
The stuff wasn't that bad. It kinda tasted sweet. But I should have quit it at the first drink. Our bottle was almost done and my brother seeing as we had no more decided to go grab some more. Lets just say that he never came back. I was sitting there with O'Connell drinking the last of our alcohol. We weren't really saying anything in particular. Then without realizing how hard the stuff really was, I started blabbing my whole story.
"You've been to Egypt before the?" he asked.
"Yes, I come practically every year. My mother was Egyptian." Then I showed him a picture of my parents and followed that by throwing myself at him. I told him I was going to kiss him, which I did and then all of a sudden we were on my bed and hands were all over the place. Unluckily for me that is all I seem to remember.
The next morning he was still on my bed. I think he was dressed. I hope he was. I hope nothing happened. Jeez, why did I have to listen to Jonathan? Why did I accept the drink? Why couldn't I have blanked out moments earlier, before the blabbing and throwing myself at him? Well, my head hurt like hell. I couldn't get enough water. And there was a half naked man on my bed. I think we did, but maybe we didn't. I hope we didn't.
I dressed ASAP and left him sleeping. I hope Jonathan doesn't decide to come to my room before he is gone. As I tried to get these thoughts away from my head, which was really hard to do, I decided to head to my place and from there I would call Jonathan so that he and "him" could come and meet me there.
When they arrived to my apartment I tried to have as little conversation with O'Connell as possible. Instead I turned it all to the expedition and business. He has tried getting near me but I with some difficulty have avoided him. We are now in hamunaptra, thank goodness so now we can get going on what we came here for.
A Week Later
We're now in Cairo. Well actually in Hamunaptra. This is our second day here and already things are on the other side of bright, but I am actually going ahead of myself. I should probably tell you about the not so smooth trip here.
Because of Mr. O'Connell and his being frightened by planes we got stuck on some happy go lucky cruise. I have actually been waiting for this trip my whole life; so when it actually came time to get ready let me say that my bags were packed the night that O'Connell agreed to take us to Hamunaptra. I also made certain that Jonathan was ready too. With a brother like mine, one has to be certain of the important stuff and no way was I going to let him act like he does with everything else in his life.
We arrived at the docks quite early, and expected O'Connell to be early as well, as we told him. But no!!!!! The idiot was over two hours late. When he arrived he was all nice and a complete guy!!! And I don't mean that in a nice way. So he comes up to us, talks to me as if I were a child and then carries my luggage to the ship. Like really!!! Urghhhhhh. At the point my dear brother just insinuated that I like him. I love my brother but sometimes he just says the stupidest things.
After getting settled in my semi-comfy room, I headed over to my brother's room to check out how he was doing. I should have known he would head for the casino room. So without the company of my brother I headed for the top deck to try to relax a little and to get some reading done. Then one of these "i'm so smart because I am a guy" guy, sits next to me. He is such a freak. Because he had seen that the book that I carried was about ancient Egyptian history, he all of a sudden felt inclined to start to lecture me, ME! I don't mean to say that I am the all-knowing powerful Evelyn when it comes to Egyptian history, but I do know my stuff. And this idiot with half a clue starts talking off my ear about things that were completely off. When I tried to straighten him up on his facts he just told me to shove off. And then while leaving mentioned something about women, our lacking judgment.
By this time I was exhausted and pissed off so I went to my room for a nap. Lets just say that I leave my room till the next day. I hate happy go lucky boats with stupid brothers, guys like O'Connell and also lecturers who have no idea what the hell they are talking about.
Day Two in my Boat adventure
I really wasn't up to putting up with anymore from the people in that boat. I would have just preferred staying in my room the whole way to Egypt, but I guess that was way too much to ask for. I had gone out to the deck that morning for a little while after breakfast and then headed back to my room to continue my research on Hamunaptra. I can sometimes get a little bit too much into my work, so I was surprised when I realized that someone was standing in front of me.
"Hey, what are you reading?" ask the inquisitive interloper.
I could have screamed my guts out. You just don't go into someone's room without them knowing or giving permission and then all of a sudden start a conversation. But I held back my initial thought and instead.
"Oh its you. Hey! How did you get into my room?"
"The door wasn't locked. I knocked but you didn't answer and I knew that you were in here cuz I could hear you reading aloud."
"So you just decided to come in"
"Yah. How come you haven't been out today? It's a really beautiful day"
"As you can see I am busy, and don't really have time for beautiful days"
"Oh come on. Why do you always have to act like such a bitch?"
"Excuse me?"
"Listen I'm sorry, but why cant you just relax. You know be nice to others. I'm sure you have a great personality but you keep hiding it under this bitchy attitude"
"Since you seem to know me so well, why don't you just move towards that door and leave," normally I don't act like this but something about this guy just brought out the bitchy, as he said, side of me.
"I'm not letting you do that"
"Do what?"
"Throw me out and expect for me to leave without taking you to have a good time and a bite to eat. You're coming with me."
At that point he pulled me by the hands making the notes and books that were on my lap to fall all over the floor.
"You can do what you want but not before I take you out."
So I let him take me out just to keep him away from me for the rest of the trip as he promised. I do have to agree that I did have a good time that night and the ones that followed. When I overlooked the guys macho side, he was pretty good company and he seemed to know more about things than he let know.
Two nights away from getting to Thebes and things got weird. O'Connell had just left me at my door. I walked into my room closed the door and then some robed character comes from behind me. Holds a knife to my throat and begins asking for a key and map. How can one think in moment like that? He then proceeded to ask the question again putting more force on the knife that was to my throat. I pointed towards the table when the funny box with the map. At that point O'Connell walks into my room with guns and starts blazing bullets all over the place. Things got really rough because the place was full of those evil robed guys. It was crazy!! I could have died!! We ended up having to jump off the boat, which was now in a really crappy condition. Luckily for us we were closer to shore than we thought.
We made it on shore. There we saw O'Connell's pimp looking friend. You know the one that was outside the club. A couple nights before we realized that he was on the boat. My brother who as you can tell is really into gossip, told me that pimp boy's name is Benny and that he was leading the crazy lecturer guy and some other barbarians to Hamunaptra as well. I knew I didn't like pimp boy Benny and his whole crew. Right away they got into their macho thing of my stuff is better than yours and made a bet whoever made it first to Hamunaptra would get some outrageous amount of money. I really didn't care at all. All I wanted to do was get out of my wet clothes and get a nap before starting on our journey. But seeing as everything went down with the boat, I was stuck with wet clothes and some wet bills that I had in my pockets.
Because of all the craziness of this day, we had a very limited amount of money and because we couldn't get to my place in Cairo, which was on the other side of town, because of the time of night we stayed in the most horrible place in the world. It was some sort of a motel where by the looks of it was where unmentionable activities took place. O'Connell and my brother were sharing a room and I was in the on next door. They had decided to keep me company, which I gladly accepted because I mentioned before this place was a rough one. My brother had bought some really cheap home made liquor, which I was completely against from the beginning.
He and O'Connell started on that one and soon there were two empty bottles. They were really used to the cheap stuff as both were in perfect conditions. On the third bottle I was persuasively made to drink some. They had kept offering the stuff before, well my brother anyways, but I had refused it.
"Come on Evy, look at you. You're all nervous. Just have some. It'll calm you down," those were Jonathan's words right before I accepted and decided to drink some.
The stuff wasn't that bad. It kinda tasted sweet. But I should have quit it at the first drink. Our bottle was almost done and my brother seeing as we had no more decided to go grab some more. Lets just say that he never came back. I was sitting there with O'Connell drinking the last of our alcohol. We weren't really saying anything in particular. Then without realizing how hard the stuff really was, I started blabbing my whole story.
"You've been to Egypt before the?" he asked.
"Yes, I come practically every year. My mother was Egyptian." Then I showed him a picture of my parents and followed that by throwing myself at him. I told him I was going to kiss him, which I did and then all of a sudden we were on my bed and hands were all over the place. Unluckily for me that is all I seem to remember.
The next morning he was still on my bed. I think he was dressed. I hope he was. I hope nothing happened. Jeez, why did I have to listen to Jonathan? Why did I accept the drink? Why couldn't I have blanked out moments earlier, before the blabbing and throwing myself at him? Well, my head hurt like hell. I couldn't get enough water. And there was a half naked man on my bed. I think we did, but maybe we didn't. I hope we didn't.
I dressed ASAP and left him sleeping. I hope Jonathan doesn't decide to come to my room before he is gone. As I tried to get these thoughts away from my head, which was really hard to do, I decided to head to my place and from there I would call Jonathan so that he and "him" could come and meet me there.
When they arrived to my apartment I tried to have as little conversation with O'Connell as possible. Instead I turned it all to the expedition and business. He has tried getting near me but I with some difficulty have avoided him. We are now in hamunaptra, thank goodness so now we can get going on what we came here for.