Chapter 2: Someone New?

Being in a bus for such a long time can cause some pretty bad and embarassing things to happen. After three hours on that bumpy bus, I started to get motion sickness. That God it was a Coah bus, or I would have puked everywhere! Then Derek got all grossed out after he figured out that i just got sick and made me switch seats with Trevor. That made my heart practically sink down to my stomach and while it was down there, I could feel it breaking (again). Maybe I was wrong. Maybe going to Niagra Falls wouldn't be such a good idea.

"Emily! Wakeup! We're almost at the hotel." Casey said while shaking me.

"Case, stop! You're gonna make me puke again!" I said, sick to my stomach.

"Oops, sorry!" said Casey appoligetically.

Just then the bus pulled up to this decent sized hotel, but it had a really big pool. Once everyone filed off the bus, we were given our rooms. Our room was B116, and we had a view of the pool, so right away Casey went straight to the window.

"Look Emily! There are a whole bunch of guys down there that are way better than Derek. You just have to chose one and go boy crazy." said Casey

"If only it was that easy. I'm starting to second guess chosing someone other than Derek." I said. Casey, would couldn't believe her ears, said:

"EMILY! Did you see how he treated you back on the bus? You are very far from being that guys girlfriend right now. Friends, sure but not in a relationship." said Casey.

"I guess you're right." I said.

I hated to admitt it, but Casey was right. Having a crush on someone who doesn't even care about you as a friend is hopeless. So from that moment on, I decided that my liking Derek was long over. Me and Casey got dressed in bath suits and headed out to the pool. Casey was right, there WERE hot guys! There was this one particualr guy that caught my eye. I saw him hanging around three other guys. They all seemed to be related and they seemed inseperable. There was an older brother and two younger brothers.

"Case, do you see those four guys over there?" I asked.

"Yeah... Oh my God, Em! You finally found someone other than Derek, didn't you!" exclaimed Casey.

"Yes, I did. He's the second oldest one in that group of brothers over there." I said.

"Well, they're in the pool, and we're not. Lets jump in." said Casey. She was determind to get me with someone else so I wouldn't drift back to Derek.

We jumped into the pool, making one big splash. Some of the older adults looked at us in disgust, but we didn't care. We casually made our way down towards where those brothers were swimming. Since Casey is more outgoing than I am, she went right up and starting talking to them.

"Hi. My name's Casey, but you can call me Case." said Casey to the brothers.

"Hi." said the middle brother (my guy!) "I'm Anthony, my older brother's name is Harold, the next youngest one is Robert , but we call him Bobert, and Robbie." said Anthony. He was even hotter in person!

"This is my best friend, Emily." said Casey, introducing me.

"Hi." said Anthony.

"Hi. So where are you guys from?" I asked.

"We're from New Jersey. We're here on vacation. Where are you guys from?" asked Anthony.

"Canda. We're here on a school trip." said Casey.

"Oh. So THAT"S why there are so many people in the pool today!" said Anthony.

"Yeah, we have a really big sophmore class." said Casey.

All of the sudden, there were a bunch of guys laughing and pointing at Casey.

"That thing over there with the blue boxers is my stepbrother Derek. He doesn't care about anybody, especially Emily. you should hear the story about what he did on the bus..." I cut Casey off.

"CASEY! I'm SURE they don't want to hear about that. Anyway, we better get going because dinner's soon and we don't want to miss it. See you later!" I said.

"Yeah, we really have to go. Bye!" said Casey

Me and Casey went back to our room to change for diner. About twenty minutes later, we were all dressed and ready to go to diner. We walked down six flights of stairs! I almost fainted before we got down there and Casey almost tripped down one who flight of stairs. It was quite a workout. When we got downstairs, everyone was separated into the usual school cafeteria groups. Derek was with his group of guys and surrouding that table were a bunch of girl tables and in them were the girls that practically throw themselves at Derek.

"Look at how Derek treats all of those other girls. He goes out with one a week." said Casey. "Thank God you found Anthony." said Casey.

"Yeah, he really is nice. But you know, i can't really make that judgement yet until I get to know him better because a two second conversation isn't enough to really know if you like someone or not." I replied. I guess I was kind of holding on to Derek until I knew that it was totally safe to let go. Not long after Casey and I sat down to eat our diner, Derek came up to annoy Casey.

"You know, if you think you have a chance with any of those guys, you're dead wrong." said derek from behind. "You'll annoy the shit out of them."

"I don't want a chance with any one of those guys, but Emily does." said Casey. I don't know why but my stomach started to tighten up.

"Yeah. One of the guys was named Anthony and he was really nice, even though we didn't talk for very long." I said.

"Well at least Klutzilla isn't the one trying to impress anybody. She'd probably kill him my toppling down the stairs or something." said Derek. "Oh, and by the way, don't think that I don't know about you almost tripping down a whole flight of stairs when you were coming down to diner!" said Derek to Casey's dissapointment.

"How the heck does he always find out when I trip? I swear to God, he's got like spyware or something." said Casey.

While Casey was trying to figure out how Derek knew about her trip, I looked outside towards the pool. It was still kind of light outside and the pool was light up. Anthony and his three other brothers were still in that pool. I watched them swim around for a while, until Anthony looked this way. he smiled in my direction and I smiled back incase he saw me. Then I turned back and resumed my comversation with Casey. The whole time at diner I couldn't help but think if I had really found someone new and if I was truly over Derek.