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Chapter 17 working

The ship had left Peru and they were now sailing along the west side of South America before they would be sailing towards New Zeeland and Australia.

Alex had been working in different places on the boat and she had found a place that she liked to work at better than some other places. The blonde hoped that that she would be able to work there more times.

"So, Alex." A man said as he walked up to her as she sat at a table. "I have heard someone say that you liked working with me."

"I did and I think that working like that would be something for me when I get back home." Alex said with a smile.

"So what do you say about working with me today."

"you mean that I can work with you in the kitchen?" Alex asked.

"Yeah that was what I asked." The chef said.

"great." Alex said with a smile. "So what are you planning on making today?"

"We will see what we can make." He said.

"We?" Alex asked she couldn't believe that she would be able to be in the kitchen and really help with planning the meal for the day.

Working in the kitchen on the ship was the closest thing Alex could get to working in a bar as she had done earlier and maybe that was the reason that she liked working there.

/

"Marissa!"

"Yes dad." Marissa said as she saw her dad coming walking towards her, he looked like he had something that he wanted to share with her.

"So I have been thinking." Jimmy started as he and Marissa sat down. "I think that I'm going to make some changes around here but before I do that I need to talk to you about them."

"Why would you need to talk to me about that?" Marissa asked looking a little confused at the man that also was her father.

"I was thinking that you and Alex should be working more with each other so that you spend some time with the ones that are in the same age as you yourself are." Jimmy said.

"You are the boss so you decide on that." Marissa said and she was about to leave and she turned around. "Maybe you should talk to Alex too."

/

Jimmy had talked to both Marisa and Alex about what he was thinking and they ahd n't said anything about that not working for them so that had made him continue on with this plan of having them working together.

"I didn't know that you knew how to cook." Marissa said as she and Alex were standing in what was the kitchen, slicing different vegetable that was needed for the dinner that day at the boat.

"I'm full of surprises." Alex replied with a laugh.

"you aren't kidding about that." Marissa said and laughed. "but when did you learn how to cook?"

"There are some things that you don't have to know just yet." Alex said with a smirk. "And I'll tell you about that when the time is right."

"I think that the time is right now." Marissa added like it was the most natural thing in the world for them to be acting like this.

"Hey." Alex said as she heard what Marissa said and threw a carrot on the lanky girl. It didn't take that long until Marissa threw a potato back at Alex. This was what started the food fight with that was later to be named as… well it had yet to be named.

/

The day passed by in a slow but steady pace just like it always did for Marissa, she was happy that the days didn't drag themselves that would have been too boring for her. The girl had an idea on why this was not going to slow and was too boring.

It was that she had a blonde by her side during the days that she could talk to and joke with, that is what she needed and then of course it didn't hurt that said blonde was the girl that she just so happened to like more then she should.

"I have an idea on what we can do." Marissa said as she sneaked up behind the blonde.

Alex turned around quick and grabbed Marissas' arm and twisted it.

"I thought you knew what I think of people sneaking up on me." Alex said as she had Marissa in a grip that the lanky girl had trouble getting out of.

"You might have said something about that earlier." Marissa said trying not to laugh.

"I know that I have told you but you can always ask Seth what I think of that." Alex said and before she let go of her grip she had to add one thing. "But you don't scream like a girl like he did so maybe you are a bit tougher then he is."

"I'm the cool one." Marissa said and tried to give Alex some kind of pose. The only thing Alex could do when she saw Marissa was to laugh; this was just too much for her.

"Not to burst any bubble or so but you are not that cool so you can pull that off." Alex said and laughed and she saw something in Marissas' eyes that she had learned to recognize. This meant that she had to run, and run for her life.

"You are so dead." Marissa yelled after the blonde as she started to run after her.

"Like you can catch me." Alex yelled and turned her head around and at that moment she managed to find her own foot and trip herself. The fall and the landing were just as graceful as you would expect from her.

Marissa just stood there laughing and when she finally had stopped laughing she just had to add to Alex blushing. "I would give the fall a ten but that landing is nowhere near that, I thing that would be a negative ten instead."

"You do it better." Alex said and winced as she tried to stand up.

"You okay?" Marissa asked not sure on how she should be acting.

"Yeah I'm fine; my elbow just took all of the fall."

/

Marisa was sitting on her bed having a video call with her sister. They had decided on that they should be talking about something every week and Kaitlin would give her some news on what was going on in Newport.

"You wanna know something?" Kaitlin said with a voice that sounded much like she knew something that Marissa would love to know.

"You better tell me what is going on." Marissa tried to threaten her sister but it was not as affective over a camera.

"Mum has been acting weird." Kaitlin said.

"Like that is anything new." Marissa said with a snort. "She is always weird."

"you might be right about that but she is acting weirder then normal." Kaitlin said. "It almost scary."

"Mum is scaring you?" Marissa asked not believing what she was hearing. "You know you can talk to Summer about that she know what you can do."

"Thanks for that advice but know I want to know about what is going on with you and the hottie." Kaitlin said trying to get her point across.

"The hottie?" Marissa asked.

"You and Alex." Kaitlin said. "So know just spit it out. How is everything going?"

"We are friends, that is all there is." Marissa said.

"Great, so when I come and visit you on the boat I can make a move on her." Kaitlin said like it was the most normal thing to say to your older sister, about the girl that just happened to like the girl and the girl was even her ex.

"I didn't know that you liked girls that way." Marissa said.

"I might do that and I might not but she is hot." Kaitlin said, Marissa didn't like where this was going.

"So you are coming to visit?"

"Yeah, everything is done and booked." Kaitlin said. "I'm boarding after your next stop. It's going to be awesome."

"Yeah awesome." Marissa said not liking this.

"I know and we are going to have so much fun." Kaitlin said "and I can get to know Alex so much better."

"Kait, can you please talk about something else and not Alex." Marissa said.

"Sure thing but it's so much fun seeing you wanting to jump through the screen to strangle me but you can't do that."

"I know that but you are coming here so if you want to leave this ship a live after that I would recommend that you don't act like that when you are here."