I have received inspiration! it won't end up in the story…most likely! But I just got back from graduation…not mine of course…a few of my friends graduated tonight. I love them so much! But yeah….saw a few of my old friends…He's a great friend…no matter how many times I've deleted his number from my phone! So here's another chapter. …hold on…let me remove all of these bangles from my arm so that I can write!
Lydia had rented a room at a local resort. She and Paul were now sitting out on the porch. The doctors had marveled at his quick recovery and had let him go a few days early…on the condition that he stayed in the country until he was well enough to fly. Paul was lying in the hammock when Lydia got up to answer the door. She came back out with two drinks. Handing him one, she sat down and faced the water front. The two sat in silence. Paul loved silence, but not when it was like this. Uncomfortable. He had realized that Lydia and Lena had never met. Of course, Lena would be mad. He knew this…but why didn't she tell him? And why did she go see Kostos by herself? Something must have happened there to spark the bit of rage Lena was experiencing. She hadn't been like that earlier in the day.
Lena walked into her house without saying hello to her parents or her grandmother. She found Effie in their bedroom. Effie noticed the look on her face. "Are you ok?" Lena stared at her sister with a scour upon her face. Effie turned around and went back to what she was doing. "Ok…geez I was just trying to help." Lena had had it. She didn't think she couls survive on the island. Lena knew she was having a breakdown. She reached under her bed and grabbed her suitcase. She didn't even bother to refold all of the clothes when she threw them into the suitcase. Effie didn't do anything. When she was finished tearing up the room, Lena ran downstairs. Effie could hear her sobbing. Within five minutes Lena's dad had come up stairs to get the suitcase for his daughter. They would have to take her to the airport. They knew that if she stayed she would be endangering her own health.
When Lena got to the airport, she called Carmen. Carmen's voicemail picked up. Lena left a message saying that she needed to be picked up from the airport, and then followed her dad to the ticket counter. She was going to need the quickest way back to Bethesda possible.
Carmen hadn't noticed her cell phone ringing. She had been doing the laundry. But now as she picked up the phone, she noticed that there had been an international call. She dialed her voicemail to listen. It was Lena's voice. Carmen could tell she had been crying. "Hey Carmi…I'm coming home today. I've had enough. Paul is fine…he was released today…Lydia came to get him early. Actually it was a week earlier than expected. But he won't be back for a while…at least I hope. I just need time away…by myself. Well, and with you guys. I'll need someone to come pick me up…its important. I will call when I touch down in London…oh crap…London…the agony still exists! At leastKostos won't be there. I love you Carmen."
(Love is like a river, always changing
but always finding you again somewhere
down the road. -Kelly Elaine )
Bridget and Eric hadn't spoken about the kiss. But now that the two were alone again, she couldn't help but bring it up. The two were sitting by themselves in the corner of the dining hall at dinner time. Bridget pushed her plate away. "Why?" Eric knew what she was talking about. "I don't know…I felt the urge?" Bridget laughed. "I thought we were just going to be friends…no benefits?" Again Eric knew what she was talking about. "Yeah Bee…I know we said that, but I do want you in my life." He stressed the 'want'. Bridget just looked at him. "Do you want to go for a walk? We're off tonight anyways." Eric got up from the table and Bridget followed him out the door. She waved bye to Diana before leaving though. Diana winked at her.
Eric walked down to the pool, with Bridget in tow. They sat down on the edge and placed their feet in the water. Bridget waded her foot in the water and then pulled it back out. She pulled it up and wrapped her arms around it. "I'm so glad that I could be here this summer." She said to Eric. He made a circle in the water with his foot and smiled. "So am I. Quit trying to change the subject." Bridget hadn't realized it, but she had tried to change the subject…even thought they never had said a word about it. "I'm sorry…I guess I'm just nervous." "You nervous?" Eric questioned. Bridget shrugged her shoulders, and then she saw a look on Eric's face that didn't look very angelic. "Eric what are you going to do?..." She trailed off and then tried to get up. But Eric had already grabbed her and had started to throw her into the water. She shrieked as she hit the cool blue water. "You jerk!" She yelled playfully. He dived in after her and grabbed her feet from under the water. She went under and kicked him. He popped out and grabbed his leg. Bridget came out laughing. "I guess that's what you get!" She turned around and started swimming toward the ladder. "Well are you coming?" Eric let go of his leg and swam over to the ladder. Bridget was smiling. "Now who changed the subject?" He swam closer to her and ran his hand over her wet hair. "I did." He leaned in and kissed her again for the second time in the past three days. This time she didn't pull away. He eventually did pull away though, for lack of air.
They got out and grabbed two towels from the rack in the shed. They walked back to the dining hall and got into Eric's golf cart. He drove her to her cabin and let her out, telling her he would be back in ten minutes to pick her up again for the nightly staff meeting. She ran inside and found Diana sitting at her desk again. Diana turned around when she heard the noise. "Holy crap Bee…what did you guys do?" Bridget let a guilty smile play across her face. "Nothing…what?" Diana rolled her eyes and went back to her letters. "I would dry your hair…I told Craig that you guys had gone outside to talk about a personal issue involving your family…I didn't tell him that you guys had gone outside to make out." Bridget walked over to her bunk and pulled out her hair dryer. "Who said we made out?" Diana rolled her eyes again. "I'm not stupid Bee…I've seen that face before." "But…that's not why we went outside…we went outside to talk about the other night…and some other things. But one thing led to another and well I got pushed into the pool. I'll be ready in ten minutes." Bridget tried to explain. She walked off to the bathroom closing the door behind her. Why was it that the first time she had been told that she would be seeing him she threw up…but now she was over elated by the fact that they had just made outby the pool? She was having a hard time dealing with the whole matter. Why did they have to start the whole romance thing over again? Why was she letting it happen? She just wanted to be his friend…that's all she wanted. Bridget jolted back to life. She had to dry her hair to disguise her and Eric's mysterious disappearing.
Zahra had invited Tibby to New York City for the day. Stephen had tagged along. Brian knew she was going…but he thought it was family business. Now, as Tibby and Stephen were entering Zahra's hotel room, it hit Tibby. This could be a career making decision. She could be discovered in London…she wouldn't even have to go to college. She and Stephen could get an apart….wait…she and Stephen could do what? What was this world coming to?
Zahra had to be at a meeting with one of the US business partners for the company. So that left Stephen and Tibby alone for the next two hours. They decided just to wait in the room for Zahra. She said she wouldn't be gone the entire two hours. Stephen lied down on the bed and grabbed the remote. Tibby lied down beside him and made him scoot over. She was the first to say something. "Thanks for doing all of this…Phen." Stephen smiled. "It was all you Tibbs." Tibby smiled. "You called me Tibbs." Stephen sat up. "Well, I don't have to…I can call you Tibby!" Tibby laughed at him. "No! It's fine…it's just that my closest friends are the only ones who call me that…along with Tibbster, Tibbaroo, Tibby, and a slew of other names. But thanks for calling me that. It just makes me feel more comfortable around you." Stephen had a look on his face. "I didn't already make you feel comfortable?" Tibby sat up and rested her hand on his shoulder. "Don't worry about it Stephen. You look like you are going to have an aneurism."
Two hours later Zahra walked in the room. But she was followed by someone else. Tibby looked at the guy. He was the same nationality as Zahra…maybe he was a family member. But if that was true why did he come up behind Zahra and wrap his arms around her. Zahra was giggling. "Hey Tibby…this is Nitesh." Stephen had already gotten up to shake the man's hand. Tibby got up and came to stand beside Zahra, and shook Nitesh's hand. Zahra slid her arm around his waist. "Nitesh is my fiancé. Nitesh this is my new friend Tibby…and I know you haven't seen Stephen in a while." Nitesh nodded his head. "Yes that's right. And it's nice to meet you Tibby." Tibby noticed that he didn't have an accent; well he didn't have a British accent. He was most likely from India. Zahra walked over to her dresser and grabbed a different pair of earings, placing them in her ear lobes. "He decided to surprise me. We haven't seen each other in a couple of weeks. He's been in Sri Lanka filming a documentary. My uncle tore me away from him to come to the states, and my parents needed me here for last week….they still don't know about our engagement." Stephen looked shocked. "I thought would have told them Zahra." Zahra looked at her right hand. It had a diamond on the ring finger. "I did tell them that Ni gave me this for my birthday…they just don't know why…plus I can't tell them yet. They are too busy traveling the world to worry about me…plus they would say that I was too young, and that I would be throwing my life away, or that it's against our religion to do things the way we have been doing them…" Nitesh grabbed Zahra's shoulders from behind. Zahra froze. "But it's important…" "No," He said, "It's important that we spent he next twenty four hours together…I'm leaving in the morning."
Ok…so this was an ok chapter….I'm now off to make a cd mix for mi Amiga ….if I can figure it out. Where is my brother when I need him? I don't know…but his blank cds are right here beside me!