Here is the next chapter of this story and I hope that you all will like it, thanks for the feedback on the previous chapter and let me know what you think of this too.
Chapter 18 Family affair
Kaitlin had taken a flight down to Easter Island, where she was about to board the boat but before that happened they would spend some time on the island, there was just some things that they wanted to see and who was Jimmy to deny them that.
"Did you see those?" Kaitlin asked as she walked with her sister.
"You do know that those are kind of hard to miss, right?" Marissa asked, she had a hard time believing that Kaitlin actually meant what she said when she had pointed to the stones, which was what the Easter Island was known for.
"I know that but I just had to make sure." Kaitlin said, "You have been acting all kind of strange."
"I'm acting strange?" Marissa asked. "I don't think that I'm the only one that has acted like that.
"What are you talking about?"
"Have you seen how Alex has been acting?" Marissa said like Kaitlin would know what she was talking about.
"Actually I haven't spent that much time with her and I don't know what normal is for her." Kaitlin said. "But the truth is that you just are below mum on the weird at the moment."
"You didn't just compare me with our mother." Marissa said, almost pushing her sister.
"Actually you two are both weird." Kaitlin said and left her sister behind. "I need to find someone more normal to hang out with."
/
Alex was waiting for someone to call her; she wanted to know what was going on back home in LA. There was just so much that she had left behind that she shouldn't have left.
"Jodie."
"Alex, I thought I told you that I would call."
"You did but you haven't called and I want to know what is going on." Alex said with a hint of anger in her voice.
"You don't have to be scared, she is doing great." Jodie said.
"I just miss her." Alex sighed. "I just wished that I could be there with her."
"Hey, don't be like that." Jodie said. "You are doing the right thing; this is going to help both you and her in the end."
"Thanks." Alex said, with a lump building in her troth, she felt like she was about to cry.
"You wanna talk to her?" Jodie asked, knowing what Alex wanted.
"That would be great."
/
They left the Easter Island after just a couple of days and Kaitlin was with them on the ship but she didn't work in the same way that both Marissa and Alex did.
The younger of the brunettes' enjoyed the time that she spent away from Newport and the possibility have almost have Marissa attend on her hand and foot like a server. She couldn't help but to mess with her sister during the days.
"I need some water." Kaitlin yelled when she saw Marissa walking by.
"You know where to get that." Marissa said, she was fed up with her sisters' antics and she wanted Kaitlin to go back home.
"Yeah I know but you are working." Kaitlin said. "And if you don't want me to tell you know the blonde that you work with what you want to do with her…"
"Okay what water do you want?" Marissa said, she could tell that Kaitlin Cooper was the daughter to Julie Cooper; she had knowledge of using blackmail to get what she wanted to perfection.
Marissa didn't get an answer from Kaitlin instead she heard her sister yell, "I'll take an ice-tea instead."
"Fine." Marissa mumbled to herself as she walked in to the lounge where Alex was working.
Alex saw Marissa walking inside not looking that happy. The blonde couldn't help but to laugh when she saw the expression on the lanky girl.
"I guess that you wish that you hadn't had Kait here at the moment." Alex said.
"You know, you can always help me with her." Marissa said, and went behind what looked like a bar, trying to find and ice-tea for her sister. "Do you know if there are any ice-teas here?"
"What are you her own personal butler?" Alex asked. "She is your sister and she has you whipped."
"What did you just say?" Marissa asked looking at the blonde.
"No one acts like that if they aren't whipped." Alex said and broke out in laughter she couldn't hold it in anymore.
"Well, you would know." Marissa said looking at Alex.
The two of them continued on with what could be looked at like banter, and it didn't take that long before Kaitlin was there and she saw for the first time how her sister and Alex were acting around each other and if she didn't know any better, she would say that they were a couple or something like that.
This could be fun, Kaitlin thought, slowly trying to make a plan on how to get the two other girls to understand what was going on.
"So where is my drink?" Kaitlin said looking at Marissa.
"I sent you to get me something to drink not to make some kind o flirty eyes with her." Kaitlin said and pointed at Alex. "No offense but I want my drink, now."
"None taken." Alex said looking over at Kaitlin. "You should just tell her that she has to hurry up and stop trying to be funny."
"I can do that." Kaitlin said. "And I know that she will listen to me too."
"I can tell." Alex said with a smirk and then looked over at Marissa and the lanky girl could tell that Alex was about to say something. "After all you have her…"
"Don't you dare finish that." Marissa said jumping over the bar towards Alex and putting one of her hands over the blondes' mouth.
"I'm not going to say anything." Alex said, but it was hard to hear what she really said when Marissa had her hand over the blondes' mouth still. This was too much of an opportunity for Alex to let it go, she had to do something.
"That's disgusting." Marissa said as she felt something wet on the palm of her hand.
"What are you talking about?" Alex asked as Marissa had taken her hand away from the blondes' mouth. "I didn't do anything."
"You are not going too far." Marissa said and dried her hand on Alexs' shirt.
"Hey!" Alex said. "Don't do that."
"I can do that, it's your own drool." Marissa said. "You didn't have to lick my palm."
"What else was I supposed to do get you to take your hand away?"
"You two are acting like a married couple." Kaitlin said and both Marissa and Alex had forgotten that Kaitlin was with them still. They had acted like they always did when they were alone together.
"We are not a couple." Both Marissa and Alex said on the same time, both looking at Kaitlin and then at each other.
"I'm not saying that you are a couple I'm just saying that you are acting like one." Kaitlin said and left. This was what she had been waiting for. She could tell that there was something more there between them but she was still not sure on how she should approach this situation. There was some tension between her sister and the blonde but it looked like neither of them wanted to acknowledge that or see that part.
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Back in Newport Ryan had something that he had a hard time get his head around. In some strange way he had agreed to go out with Taylor.
He knew that there was something that drew him towards her but he couldn't understand what it was and why he did follow that.
"So what are your big plans for tonight?" Seth asked and rubbed his hands together as he sat down on the bed in the pool-house where Ryan was trying to get dressed for the date that he had with Taylor.
"Not much." Ryan said, he was after all a man of few words and hoped that he could be that tonight too.
"You must have some idea on what you are going to do." Seth said he had to live through Ryan. Summer was away and he should be leaving soon too but there was still this small problem of him not getting in to the school that they all thought that he did.
"Not really."
"You are so boring." The curly haired boy said grabbing a control to the game console that Ryan had in the pool-house.
"At least I'm having a date on a Friday and not sitting inside playing some videogame." Ryan said.
"Well, it's not my fault that Summer has to be at Brown over the week and weekend." Seth said, not really thinking about what he said.
"Shouldn't you be there too?"
"Um… maybe I should." Seth said not looking at Ryan; he focused his eyes on the screen not wanting to talk about what he just had said.
"You didn't get in to brown." Ryan stated. "And you should tell your parents, you do know that they will find out sooner or later."
"I know that but when they do find out I going to use the Jewish guilt on them." Seth said and paused the game he was playing.
"And you think that will work for you." Ryan said looking a bit skeptical at Seth. "Sandy won't by that for a minute.
/
Julie was at the mansion that she shared with Kaitlin when the younger of her two daughters where home and Summer had been living with them for a time but now she was all alone in that big house and she had no idea on what she should be doing.
What the redhead knew about Alex Kelly was also something that was eating her away in some ways, but she knew that this was something that the girl had to tell them all by herself but at the same time she wanted Alex to know that she could talk to he about what was going on in her life with someone else and not just the ones that knew about it in LA.
Making a call was all that she could do and then she could get to know some more things.
"Does everything work out like it should?" She asked as someone answered the phone on the other side.
"Yes, everything is going like expected."
"And Kaitlin and Marissa are getting along?" Julie asked.
"Yes, they are getting along and they haven't tried to throw the other over board."
"That is great Jimmy but there is just one more thing I have to ask you and I'm not sure if I should be asking this." Julie said.
"You are not sure if you should ask me or tell me something-" Jimmy said, more to himself then to Julie. "I think that you are going soft."
"Is everything okay with Alex?" Julie asked.
"I think so; sure she is a bit of some days but who isn't." Jimmy said.
"I understand." Julie said. "She is getting along with everyone and not keeping too much to herself?"
"Not that I have noticed, not more than anyone else." Jimmy said. "What do you know?"
"All I know is that she has some debts, hospital bills and they are in her name but from what I can tell from the information that I have she isn't the one that have been at the hospital." Julie said, not sure if she should be saying anything more. She had an idea what this could be about.
"Jules, what do you know." Jimmy said. "She is working for me, if there is something that I should know about her I think that you should tell me."
"If I do tell you." Julie said. "You have to keep it to yourself and not tell anyone about what you know."
"And you think that you can keep what you know to yourself?" He asked over the phone.
"I know that I can do that." Julie said. "I have known about this ever since they day you left Newport the last time."
"Okay, I won't tell anyone." Jimmy said. "Maybe I can get Alex to open up to me about what is going on with her if I know what kind of questions to ask her."
"I'm telling you but don't try and force this out of her." Julie said. "That would just hurt her."