Thanks to all of you who reviewed. The q and a idea seems to be wokring pretty well lol. Anyways I'm sorry I havn't apdated but I was in turtle lake for new years anyways I'm not gonna keep you waiting any longer so here it is.

The first day of the trip was long and quiet. Alex was disappointed that her aunt and uncle couldn't drive to pick her up the first day. Alex wanted very much to go on this trip just to get away from her parents (or rather her fathers) constant yelling. Yet the plan seemed to be backfiring. After her parents got a call from her uncle telling Alex's family to meet them in Kamloops because they couldn't drive to pick Alex up. There was alot of yelling over the phone after she had handed it to her father, until Aunt Celine agreed to pay for and book a hotel room for Alex and her parents to stay for the night. After ten silent hours in the car it finally came to a halt in front of a sign that read Boston Pizza Kamloops.

Still mad at her daughter from the night before Darren handed his daughter five dollars and pointed down the street. "Six blocks that way four right and two left you'll be at the hotel buy yourself a candy bar and wait for either your aunt and uncle or your mother and I," he said pulling his wife out of the car and heading inside of the restaurant.

"Darren, she six not sixteen. We can't let her walk there!" but before her husband could reply Alex hadalready gone almost two blocks. Smirking to himself Alex's father got him and his wife a table.

"I spy a large brown building off to the right," Jimmy Cooper continued his daughters game of I Spy in the car.

"Gimme' a clue!" the eager six year old brunette almost screamed in excitement.

"Gimme' a clue what?" Jimmy smirked.

"Pleeeaaaaaasssssseeeeeee."

"It has a room reserved for you, your mother, and me."

"Our hotel!" Marissa literally bounced in excitement.

"Yep, you win," Jimmy said pulling into the parkinglot As soon as they stepped into the building Marissa saw another girl that looked about the same age as her. Not knowing why all she could do was stare at the slightly taller girl. Jimmy noticed this and smiled to his wife squeezing her hand as they walked to the front desk leaving Marissa to stare at the other girl. Finally noticing the brunette, Alex was fairly annoyed. As well as hungry from the walk ove to her hotel making her grumpy.

"Take a picture, it'll last longer!" the blonde shot at Marissa like a snob.

"She seems nice," Marissa mumbled sarcastically before running off to join her parents. Afterwards in the hotel room Marissa remembered the pool by the lobby. "Can I go swimming?" she asked.

"Sure honey just go get changed and I'll meet you by the pool." Jimmy said getting up from his spot on the bed and heading towards the door.

Jimmy took a lawn chair by the pool beside a middle aged woman seemingly watching a little blonde that looked about the same age as his daughter. "Jimmy Cooper," he greeted from his chair never taking his eyes off of the blonde girl just splashing around and having fun. She reminded him of Marissa.

"Stacey Kelly," the woman spoke in a soft tone, her eyes, like Jimmy's, following her daughter around in the pool.

"That's some swimmer there for such a young age. She yours?" Jimmy watched in awe as the little girl started her third lap around the fair sized pool.

"Yes, mine and my husbands actually. He's in the lobby arguing with the clerk." The two adults shook there heads quietly giggling.

"Reminds me of my wife," Jimmy chuckled, "our daughter should be coming down soon. She'll be seven in September. Marissa's her name.:

"Alexandra here will be eight in just nine days, she's very excited."

Marissa walked into the pool area seeing only the blonde girl from earlier and her father talking to a woman that Marissa assumed to be the blonde's mother.

"Daddy, will you come in the pool with me?" Marissa questioned nervously.

"Sorry sweetie I didn't bring my swimsuit besides maybe you could join Stacey's daughter, ummm-"

"Alexandra" the woman finished flashing Marissa a smile.

"Umm maybe." Then the little girl skipped off and jumped into the pool.

"Ahh!" the little blonde screamed putting her hands up to shield herself from the flying water.

"Sorry," Marissa blushed nervously. Alex didn't seem to notice that it was the same girl from the lobby.

"It's fine. Where are you from?" the small blonde child asked swimming towards the other girl.

"Newpowt Owange County," the brunette replied blandly unable to grasp the r's.

"Cool. I'm from Las Angelas."

"Really? That's big," Marissa replied whilst the blonde climbed out of the pool and headed towards the diving board, "Where are you heading?" Alex jumped off of the diving board with a splash and stayed underneath the water fir a while. Alex's mother, Stacey Kelly, and Jimmy Cooper got up and ran to the pool, but right before they jumped in Alex popped up.

"Naramata summer camp," Alex managed out of breathe.

"Really? Me too!" Marissa squealed excitedly.

"I'm going to go upstairs and meet up with my Aunt Celine and Uncel Joe so, I guess I'll see you at the camp?"

"Sure," Marissa shrugged and started to head for the hottub. After ten minutes of soaking Jimmy finally decided to get his daughter upstairs to their room and pick out a movie for her.

Marissa fell asleep halfway through Meet the Robinsons. She awoke the next morning to Jimmy's gentle voice.

"Marissa, sweetie, it's time to get up you can sleep in the car on the way up to the lake." Marissa grunted and layed in her bed for a few minutes before remembering Alex.

"Alexandra," she whispered to herself jumping out of bed and into her casual clothes. Marissa was excited about last night even if Alex had snapped at her first. She was hapy that technically her vacation hadn't even started yet and she already had a new friend. Despite how much she had missed her best friend Summer she knew summer would be fun with our without her.

"Alexandra, wake up."

"Aunt Celine? Where's mom and dad? And I told you only mom can call me that!" Alex countered tired and momentarily forgetting about the vacation.

"They went home after breakfast. It's two o'clock pm come on Alex!"

At that second it came back to Alex, "Oh, right." The little girl got up and put on her clothing then grabbed her iPod and left the hotel greeted with a six hour car ride with her Aunt Celine and Uncle Joe.

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