Chapter 12: Breakfast with Randy
"Stacy! Don't worry! John just left." Randy told her. It was cutting his heart to see Stacy looking for John and almost not even notice he was there.
"Oh!" she just said.
"What happened to you? You were tossing around the bed and moaning. You were almost crying. That's why I came inside immediately to see if you're okay." Randy explained to her worriedly.
"I'm sorry, I was just having a bad dream. Thanks for waking me up." She replied and gave Randy a hug, which Randy returned gladly.
"So, John said, he was going somewhere and wants me to be with you while he's gone." Randy told her as he pulled away from her, afraid that she might know what he really feels for her.
"He said he's going to meet an old friend. What time is it anyway?" Stacy answered and felt herself blushing for hugging Randy seconds ago.
"Oh, it's nine twenty-five in the morning. John just left moments ago. Why'd you wake up so late?" Randy asked her while standing up. Knowing that Stacy has always been an early bird.
"I guess I was just so tired. I spent the whole day yesterday hanging around with the girls and John." She explained and started to keep the bed.
"You'd better change and let's take breakfast. I'll just wait for you on the other room." Randy said referring to the mini living room of the hotel room John and Stacy are sharing.
"Yeah. I'll just take a shower and I'll be back in a few minutes." She replied and went inside the bathroom while Randy made his way towards the other direction. Stacy studied herself in the mirror for a while before taking the shower. She usually sings in the shower but that morning she didn't feel like singing. She was still shaken up by her dream.
"It's never gonna happen! John would never leave me!" she said through the sound of water hitting the floor.
Randy just picked up a magazine and started to flip the pages and looked at some pictures that might interest him while waiting for Stacy.
Stacy came out of the bathroom ready to go after a few minutes. She wore something casual, white jeans and a pink top. And matched it up with a pair off light pink flip-flops. She wore the necklace that John bought her for her birthday last year. She looked at herself in the mirror and was pleased by what she saw. She brought the necklace into her lips and kissed it, thinking of John.
"You ready?" Randy asked her, slightly mesmerized by what he saw standing in front of him.
"Yeah, let's go." Stacy replied and they went outside the room ready to go down for breakfast. They stepped inside the waiting elevator. Both of them were lost for words that morning. Again, Stacy felt uneasy around her boyfriend's best friend. But then again, Randy is also her best friend so she tried her best to act casual around him.
"Are you sure we're not bothering you Randy?" Stacy broke the silence between them and trying to strike for a conversation like they normally do.
"Nah, it's okay. I'm bored too and I need to hang out with someone." Randy turned his head towards her as he answered her question. She just nodded in reply and they stepped out of the elevator and headed to the dining area.
"What do you want for breakfast?" the both asked simultaneously to the other. When they realized they just said exactly the same thing they laughed.
"You go first." They said together in the same time yet again. And they laughed again, realizing that they said the same thing together again.
"So what do you want for breakfast?" Randy asked Stacy when he noticed Stacy waiting for him to speak first.
"I guess I'll just have some pancake with maple syrup and a cup of hot choco." She replied while looking at a list the hotel provided.
"You sure that's all? I mean…" his voice trailed off after he asked her.
"Yeah, I'll just have some pancakes with maple syrup and a cup of hot choco." She repeated what she wanted to eat that morning to Randy.
"You really don't eat too much do you?" Randy asked her and smiled at her. He had always known that Stacy isn't into heavy breakfast.
"What's that suppose to mean?" Stacy asked defensively.
"I mean, you should eat more. You're becoming too skinny you know." Randy laughed at her reaction. He was happy that Stacy is warming up again to him. Maybe Stacy thought that he didn't notice her sudden change of treatment towards him. She had become shy around him.
"Randy! I'm not skinny!" she said as she slapped his arm playfully.
"Alright! Alright! You're not skinny! Just stop slapping my arm! You're hurting me you know." Randy answered and smiled again to her.
"Let's just get ourselves breakfast. I'm hungry. I just ate a donut and popcorn for dinner yesterday." She told Randy as she made her way to a vacant table while Randy told the cashier what they wanted for breakfast.
"Hi Stace!" Trish greeted her.
"Oh hi Trish! How are you? I'm sorry if I forgot to get the things that I shopped yesterday at your room. I totally forgot." She told her blonde Canadian diva friend.
"It's okay." Trish replied as she took the seat opposite to Stacy.
"I'll just get them after I took my breakfast." Stacy said.
"So where's John?" Trish whispered when she spotted Randy walking towards them and smiling.
"He said he needs to meet a friend who's in town so Randy's stuck with me right now." Stacy answered. "He asked Randy to keep me company while he's not here." Stacy explained further when she saw Trish's puzzled expression.
"Oh! So I'll just wait for you in our room okay? But don't take too long Amy and I have to go somewhere too." Trish said as she kissed Stacy on the cheek goodbye and got out of her seat. "See you around! Randy." Trish nodded at Randy and waved goodbye to the two of them.
"See you!" Stacy called after her.
"You two going somewhere?" Randy asked Stacy curiously as he sat down at the seat Trish vacated earlier.
"No. Speaking of somewhere, you'd better accompany me to Trish and Amy's room after breakfast. I have to get the things I shopped yesterday. I left them at their room yesterday." She explained.
"Oh! Sure, no problem. And breakfast will be here any minute from now." Randy told her cheerfully. The two of them waited patiently and true to Randy's word, their food arrived. Randy ordered fried rice, bacon and eggs. Not to mention smoked meat and a cup of coffee.
"You're still into heavy breakfast?" Stacy asked Randy when she saw Randy's food.
"Well, yeah." He answered. "I always believe breakfast is the most important meal of the day, that's why you have to eat a lot for the energy to start the day."
"Yeah, yeah. Enough with the lessons professor Orton." Stacy teased him before she took a bite from her pancake.
After half an hour the two of them finished their breakfasts. But they didn't head towards Trish and Amy's room. They just chatted for a while about life in general. The two of them never get to speak frequently with each other anymore.
"So, how's life?" Randy asked her as he gulped down the remains of his coffee.
"Well, you know, never been better. What about you?" Stacy asked him back after answering his question.
"Still the same. You know we never got to talk like this anymore." Randy thought out loud.
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