Chapter 4: The Trip

She woke up the next day thinking that it was going to be an ordinary day like every other but then remembered a dream that she had about Rick and her on their trip to Egypt. They had just arrived there and went out into the desert to find something of historical importance or something worth keeping and they found a body in the sand. Evy was horrified to find Jonathan's eyeless body laying in the sand half decade and full of sand. All of a sudden the body jumped up at her and started speaking in a foreign language that Evy didn't know and Rick was no where to be seen so she couldn't scream for help. Then she started to fall into what seemed like a bottomless pit and finally hit the floor of her room waking up instantly. She got up to put her self back in bed but it was no use, she couldn't go back to sleep. She went to her dresser and picked up her undergarments and then made her way to the closet to find something to wear when Rick arrived to take them to the airport. Just as she put her jeans on and was buttoning her blouse, the phone rang which scared the crap out of her. She went to answer it but apparently Jonathan had already picked up the phone.

"Wait a minute, Jonathan's never up this early." She sneaked out of her room fully dressed and buttoned. She went down to the living room to find Jonathan sitting on the couch, "What are you doing up? You're sleeping about now."

"Couldn't sleep. I was to excited about what you said. Jenny is actually going to meet with me? I have this feeling in my stomach, it feels as though my stomach doesn't exist." Jonathan rubbed his stomach making sure it was still there.

"It's called butterflies. You get butterflies in your stomach when your nervous." Evy smiled and went to the kitchen to make some tea. When she got back Jonathan was fast asleep. She was quiet as possible when she went outside with her mug of tea to wait for Rick.

It was almost 1 in the afternoon and Rick still didn't show up. Evy had brought the phone outside after she finished her mug of tea just in case he called to tell her something about the trip. She waited and waited till she couldn't wait anymore and called Rick.

"Hello," it was a female voice on the other end.

"Is Rick at home?"

"No he just stepped out. May I ask who's calling?" The voice sounded familiar to Evy but she couldn't quite get it.

"This is Evelyn Carnahan. He was suppose to meet me at my house so we could go to Egypt."

"Oh, his trip was cancelled this morning. He just left to go to France and find out why."

"Do you know when he'll be back?" Evy was getting agitated. She thought that Rick was her boyfriend and the fact that the trip had been cancelled and he didn't tell her.

"He'll be back tomorrow at 5 p.m. but I don't know if he will be able to call. He has some work waiting for him here." Evy didn't know what that meant and didn't think she wanted to know. She hung up without saying good bye to the woman and stormed off to work. If she got there early enough she might be able to catch Jenny and talk about her and Jonathan. The only problem was that Evy was 4 hour late. By this time Jenny had been and gone from the library. Evy was so frustrated with herself and the woman that she had just talk to. Was Rick cheating on me with some woman he met just last night! She was so mad she couldn't even put the returned books in the right places. How could he do this to me! Wait, we weren't going out in the first place were we? If not why would he have asked me to go to Egypt with him? Just as she started to tear up, Jenny walked in and walked swiftly to her desk.

"I thought you were suppose to be gone? And what's the idea of not storming over to his place of business, break down the door, and start smacking him around?" Jenny seemed really upset but why would she be mad when Evy was the one who had just talk to a lady at Rick's work and been stood up.

"Three reasons: 1. Rick has a new girlfriend and stood me up, 2. I have to work, and 3. Rick's not at his place of business as you put it. He is out of town, in France to be correct." Evy went red from embarrassment and rage toward Rick and his new girl.

"Oh my god, Evy I'm so sorry. You should send that slut a threat, and I mean Rick. First telling you that he wants to go out with you then meeting another woman. Men these days aren't as good as they use to be." Jenny rolled her eyes and went to the reading room just as mad as Evy was.

After 4 hours, Evy couldn't take it anymore. She told Jenny to lock up when she was done and stormed out of the library. She drove and drove and drove but didn't know where she was going. She wanted to get as far way as possible. She soon ran out of gas and had to call Jenny to come get her and take her to Rick's work. Jenny drove strait to Rick's work and things began to get strange. Evy didn't know how and didn't want to be rude and ask.

"You're probably wondering how I knew where he worked aren't you. The truth is I am the one that you hung up on. I work with him, he's my brother." Evy just stared at her with a great amount of surprise.

"I am so sorry that I hung up on you. I didn't know you worked with him or that you were even related to him. Why didn't you tell me? I knew your voice sounded familiar over the phone." Evy was still in the shock stage of what was being said.

"I never told you because I thought that you would back off of him because you didn't want your best friend to get mad knowing that you were going out with her brother. It's just something that his last girlfriend did. She left after she found out that I was his sister just because she wanted our friendship to last. I went with what you said just to see if you would ask me to go with you and take you to his work that way you would find out that something was weird and ask me if I was the one going out with him. I thought it was funny when I was saying that Rick was a slut but you just sat there and didn't do anything. Sorry I didn't tell you earlier but I wanted to see how far it would get before you found out and I didn't want you to break it off with Rick. I think you make a good couple actually." Jenny smiled and to her surprise Evy smiled back.

"Maybe I should have done that with Sheila and then she would have been gone faster." Evy laughed as Jenny let out a little snort.

"Rick should be back tomorrow and I'm sure that he'll try to explain himself."

"Maybe I should go with this whole thing and make him think that I am mad because a girl that I don't know answered the phone. Just to see what he does." Evy laughed again and Jenny turned the car around taking Evy back to her home.

"If you want to you could stay at my place for tonight. How far is it to your house?" Evy was collecting her things from the now deserted car that she left at the side of the road.

"Sure. It's about 15 miles from your house. I followed you one day to find out where you lived that's how I know that. Maybe then I can meet and talk to your brother."

"I forgot that you had to do that. I was so mad to find out that the Egypt trip was cancelled that I forgot to tell you that my brother had trouble sleeping because he was thinking about you." Evy caught Jenny's laugh, "I'm serious he did. He was up when I was suppose to leave for work which is unusual for him because he usually sleeps till 4 in the afternoon. He's probably worried to death about me but then again he doesn't know that I went to work instead of going to Rick."

When they got to Evy's house, she went strait to bed not only to sleep but to give Jenny and Jonathan time to get to know each other. Evy fell asleep and was awakened by Jonathan's voice, "In the morning, don't walk around the house naked, Evy hates that." Evy thought to herself, "OH MY GOD JONATHAN! That is not the way to start a good relationship," but she heard Jenny laugh and thought, "At least she laughed instead of smack him." Everything went quiet and Evy assumed that Jenny and Jonathan were getting ready to sleep and fell to sleep immediately.