Part 7

A few days after Mr. and Mrs. Dauwn's anniversary, Randylynn was healthy again.

Downstairs in the kitchen, sitting in the corner was Noah, holding a newspaper. He wasn't reading it though, he was too busy thinking about his last day at the Inn and he was happy that Randylynn finally was better.

Randylynn took a shower and got dressed, did her hair up in a ponytail and went downstairs to help her parents get ready to clean up 4 rooms. She spotted Noah and went over by him to sit down.

"Hey." She said quietly.

"Hey," he answered back. "Today's my last day here and I was wondering if you'd like to re-do that date again."

It took Randylynn a second to think up her answer. "I have to help my parents with the rooms."

Noah frowned. "Ok, maybe some other day. I live close by, I could just come up and see you again."

"Where do you live?" Randylynn asked.

"Across the bridge and on Whicter Drive, in the mansion."

"You live there?" Randylynn asked. The mansion was at least a million dollars and was owned by only the wealthiest couple in the town.

"Actually, my grandparents live there and I'm just staying here for the summer." Noah said.

"Then why are you staying here when you have a whole house like that? I mean, this place is a heck of a lot more boring that what you're used to." Randylynn said, astonished.

"The house isn't all that fun. Since my grandparents live there, there isn't anything to do besides 'explore' but I've been in that house dozens of times and I know every room that there is." Said Noah.

Mr. Dauwn looked over at Noah and Randylynn and told his daughter to help out.

"See ya later." Randylynn said to the heart broken Noah.

She and her parents slowly stepped up the stairs to get to the rooms, carrying loads of cleaning supplies and extra bedding. Once they got to the top, they each took a different room, Randylynn took Noah's.

All of his belonging was placed in a suitcase, which was now close to the door. She moved all of the cleaning things to the middle of the room and began to take off all of the bed sheets and but it in a heavy-duty bag. She sighed, and got to work.

In about an hour's timing, Randylynn had finished dusting, vacuuming, making the bed, cleaning windows, and all of the other work that she had to do almost weekly.

Randylynn went back to the kitchen, but Noah wasn't there. Instead was a piece of the newspaper with the words 'shops' written on it with pencil. Randylynn knew Noah went shopping, so she figured she'd go to the stores also, find Noah, and apologize about the missed date.

Randylynn strolled up and down the streets, looking in every store for Noah. As soon as she walked into the store called 'Koltez Jeweler' she saw a boy standing near a glass case. Randylynn's heart sunk happily as she gazed at the backside of him, she slowly walked toward the case to the left of it and-

"Randylynn, I was just looking around and uh..." He continued on with his well-obvious lies, but Randylynn stood there with nothing to say. Why did she feel like she was suddenly floating when she first saw Noah? Of course, she must have thought it was someone else, but did she?

"That's just why I'm in here." Noah finished with a trembling voice. He'd been just as shocked as Randylynn was.

"I'm going to go get something." Noah's voice drifted away and Randylynn walked out the door with questions continuously popping in her head.

Noah came outside and sat down on a bench next to her. He was holding a bag in his hands when he saw Randylynn looking up at it he just replied, "it's just a gift for my mom. Um, do you want to get something to eat?"

"Like another date?" Randylynn asked, smiling. "Sure."

The two decided to eat at an Italian place. Randylynn loved the atmosphere of the restaurant. It'd been designed to make you feel you where in Italy, with a large painting on the wall that looked like the city, Venice, with rivers and gondolas floating on top of them.

"You can follow me." Said a waitress, talking to Randylynn and Noah.

She had them sit in a table next to the window. The waitress handed them menus and asked for their drinks.

"Just a coke for me, thanks." Noah said.

Randylynn replied, "Water."

Later on the two ordered their meal. In the long period of waiting for the food to come out, Noah started a conversation.

"So what's it like to live in a Inn?"

"Tough sometimes. During the summer we have to work 50 times more than what we usually have to because there's so many tourists." Randylynn paused, and added, "My friends are gone and I'm lonely a lot."

Noah grinned, "We can hang out a lot then."

Randylynn was beginning to feel Noah's comfort and smiled too.

Later on, Noah talked about staying with his grandparents and how he lives back up in Oregon, across the US. He nodded to himself like he was ready to say something important.

"I've only really liked one girl before-" But before he could finish, the food was brought to them.

They ate until everything was gone, except the bill, which Noah paid.

As they left the restaurant Randylynn decided to take a detour. She took him to a familiar spot, the Vackeria Lighthouse.

He followed her to the back, where the brilliant lake was shimmering in the afternoon sky.

Randylynn laid on the lighthouse's side and watched the waves crash into the shore below her.

"Isn't it beautiful? But we should really be here at dusk because everything's more-" But until she could describe the sunset, Noah leaned in front of her and kissed her gently.

It'd been Randylynn's first kiss and she never wanted it to end, but they broke loose and Randylynn opened her eyes to see Noah standing next to her smiling, which made her smile too.

"My grandma's going to pick me up soon, maybe we should go back to the Inn."