~Part One~

It's a nice day to sail off, or so Maria says. The overcast is bright and shiny with a bit of jumbled clouds and a slight breeze. As I inhale the fresh sea air, I start to panic. The last time I was on anything buoyant, I ended up in bed for the day; yeah, that was after eight barf bags and two doses of Bonine. I frantically look around for Maria. Maria sees my distress, "What's up chica?" she asks.

"Do you remember what happened the last time I was on a floating object?" I ask my face going white as the clouds above. Maria starts laughing. Ha ha ha, shut up. I see nothing humorous in this situation. In fact this situation sucks the big one, possibly the biggest of the biggest. I cannot believe this, she's laughing at me. Well she's not going to be laughing when she's the one cleaning up my barf. "What's so funny?" I snap at her.

"Y...you!" She barley gets out. Wow, no kidding! Didn't figure that one out.

"I'm sorry?" I ask. You know, if she wasn't my best friend, I'm afraid I'd lay her flat.

"Lizzie, sweetie, a cruise ship is too big to toss you around like when you were in that paddle boat." What are you looking at? So what if I was on a still lake? Have you ever looked down while you're on a floating thing? All the water moving around is enough to make anyone hurl.

"Yeah but I didn't even bring Bonine just incase. I can't believe I forgot." I groan looking at the huge ocean liner. Maria gives me a big grin and pulls a small box out of her pink purse.

"I was roaming the isles at the drug store and spotted this. I know how you are with your motion sickness so I pick it up. I was going to call and see if you had any but I figured what the hay, the more the merrier." She smiled handing me the box. My eyes light up as if I am a kid in a candy store and I jump Maria. Literally, the people around us are giving us weird stares as I pepper feather light kisses on her cheeks, my legs wrapped around her waist. Maria falls to the floor laughing and pushes me off of her.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you! You are thee absolute best friend a girl could want." Giggling, we get up and I replay the last few moment's events in my head. "Hey, I do not have motion sickness!" I spit out. "I only get sick when I am on liquids."

"Yeah, liquids such as Absolute." Maria retorts throwing me a devilish grin. I roll my eyes. "Seriously Liz, take anyone who gets as sick as you do when swinging on a swing and I think it's safe to say they have motion sickness."

"Yeah, yeah." I say suddenly switching my priorities around so that taking a dose of Bonine is number one and actually getting on the ship is number two. Water, I need water. I don't know how some people do it. They can down pills like there's no tomorrow without water. It's kind of funny really, in order for me to get rid of my sickness of water, I have to drink water. Maybe it's like one of those circle of life thingies. Yes I know, I have recived the 411, no need to look at me like that, I already know I'm insane. "Maria, I'm going to go find a soda machine." I mumble as I try to pop the pill out of the foil it is packaged in.

"All right, I'll be here waiting, and hurry would ya? I don't think we have much time before the ship sets sail." Maria says looking at her pink watch. No, she's not obsessed with pink, she just likes to match. She has pink glasses, pink shoes, pink earrings, a pink belt, and pink flip flops to go with her ensemble. This kind of follows for anything else she wears. She has every clothing item in every variety or color of the rainbow. What else would you expect from an eighteen year old with cash flowing out the wazoo?

So I walk away from her, two Bonine pills in my hand wandering around aimlessly for a soda machine. I've checked everywhere and now I'm starting to get this dropping feeling in my stomach. Actually, I feel as if my gut is ready to jump out of my mouth at any given moment, I just heard the ship blow its horn thing signaling that any passenger not on the ship needs not get on pronto and I still haven't even found so much as a drinking fountain.

Aww screw it, I'll just take it when I get on the ship; so much for my priorities. I rush out towards the dock, really, I'm running because I see the crew workers pulling up those bridge things that connect to the ship and I can hear Maria's piercing scream in my ears, "Liz, you better run your ass off girl, show them how you got that soccer scholarship!" Yeah, she actually just yelled that from the top deck of the ship, I'm just as shocked as you are. "Hey, you better put that bridge back down buddy unless you want me to open a can of whoop-ass on you." Yupp, that comment was directed to the big man pulling the bridge up. Everyone aboard the ship is looking over the edge watching me running like a raving lunatic towards the ship.

Almost there, and yes, he's putting the bridge back down. I'll thank Maria later, right after I beat her ass. She can be so embarrassing at times.

Wait what is that pulling on my shoe? Oh damn, gravity sucks ass, of all times, it has to put a force on me now. As the ground comes closer in contact with my face I curse under my breath. Well this vacation is off to a pleasant start now hasn't it? I close my eyes and pray I don't break anything, 'Dear God, I'd really appreciate being able to keep my nose fully intact. Thanks.'

Some kind force stops my fall and it's not the ground. I recognize the feel of strong arms around my waist and I slowly open my eyes to find a pair of amber orbs gazing at me full of concern. Have I mentioned how much I love gravity?

TBC

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~Melody~