"I remember what you wore on our first day, you came into my life and I though hey you know this could be something?"
-Boys Like Girls, Two is Better than One
Disclaimer: House of Anubis is not mine.
Dedication: To my other cousin Colette, who I am now skype-ing with. She's awesome and has a pretty smile :D
"Nina!" I hear a pounding on the door. Amber. One of the bitches that ditched me with him today. What does she want now?
"NINA OPEN THE DO- What? You should have told me?" I could hear Amber arguing with someone on the other side of the door. I heard the look click and Amber walked in with Patricia on her tail, "I would have been here faster but I didn't know someone had a key."
"It is her room too."
"Nina, I just spoke with Patricia. She said you flipped out." Amber said, crossing her arms.
"I did not flip out!" I argued.
"Nina. Really?" Amber asked, "Shall we review the events? You were in his lap, Patricia made a comment and you got angry with Fabian and spilled the ending of the Hunger Games to him before storming out of the pool area."
"Okay maybe I flipped out."
"That's what I thought." Amber said as Patricia smirked behind her, "Patricia was telling me that she thinks Fabian's your soul mate. I agree. You and him have something that not a lot of people are lucky enough to find. Why are you letting that slip away?"
"He's not my soul mate!" I shout as I put my wrap on and grab my beach bag.
"Nina…" Amber said a bit slowly, "He loves you."
"Fuck that!" I scream, "If he loved me, he'd be fighting to get me back! If he loved me, he would have said it back to me at the gala. If he loved me, we wouldn't be yelling about this right now!"
"Nina, you've changed since you lost him." Patricia said gently, "You snap so easily now. We think that you need some time away from men in general."
"Why?" Amber shouted.
"Shut up Amber," Patricia said, "Since we're going to Paris, as much as this pains me, we should all have a girls day and go… shopping."
"Girls day?" I question.
"Yes."
"I'll do it."
After that, the three of us made our way back down to the pool where Fabian was still reading The Hunger Games.
"We'll see you guys later, okay?" Patricia said.
"Yeah, Neens, Fabes. Have fun. Go in the pool again." Amber offered, not knowing just how I got in the pool.
I silently sit down in the chair next to Fabian and take out Catching Fire. We both read in silence for a while, before I hear Fabian sigh and put down his book.
"Finished?" I ask, not looking up from my pages.
"Yes." He sighs, "I'm going to get the next one at the onboard book store. You know, if of course the ending doesn't get spoiled for me." He sends me a friendly glare and I blush.
"Sorry about that."
He just shrugs and gets up, then looks toward me. "So, you wanna check out those water rides?"
I nod and take the hand he extends to me, feeling waves of electricity flow through me. He releases my hand and we walk together. I find myself struggling to remember the gala and why we aren't together again as we do. We reach the tube pick up and there are no tubes left.
"Damn." I mutter.
"You guys need a tube?" a small girl and someone who looks like her older brother walk to us, holding a double tube.
"Oh thanks!" I smiled and she hands the tube to Fabian.
Fabian eyes the tube in his hand and says, "Well that was lucky."
"Which one do you wanna do first?" I asked, eyeing the many different rides.
"We can just go in order." Fabian shrugs and we get on line for the first one, which is a river rapids type of thing.
The line move fast, since all anyone had to do was put they're tube in the water and let the current start to pull them. Now that I think about it, it's more like a big mass of people instead of a line.
Fabian and I finally get in and begin to float down the river with the currents pulling us along.
"So, we get to Paris tomorrow, I think it'll be good. But I think I'm most excited to see Rome and Athens. What about you?" I say.
"I'm actually looking forward to Taormina, because the whole city is on this hill. It's totally going to be awesome." Fabian said.
We heard load crashing and screaming, so we look forward and see the rapids start. We're bobbed and thrown around like crazy until a big wave takes us far forward and we're lazily floating again.
"Whoa." I mutter.
"Yeah." Fabian agrees, shaking out his hair.
I just watch and feel myself smiling. He looks toward me and smiles too, "What are you smiling at?"
"You." I answer before I can stop myself.
I see Fabian flush and I turn back, seeing another round of rapids. We emerge again and hear something.
"Jesus, shit! What the hell? That's freaking crazy!"
"Oh calm down, Kruger."
I roll my eyes and me and Fabian glance at Eddie (who's flipping out) and Patricia (trying to calm him down). We paddle over to them before more rapids start.
"Do you guys recommend anything?" we ask.
"Hey guys!" Eddie says, "What's up?"
"Nothing, just floating." Fabian answers.
"Yeah, we won't be just floating for long." Patricia said, eyeing the next set of rapids.
As usual a wave took us up and we splashed back, but the river was over.
"We were just going to head to the high dives. You guys wanna come?" Eddie offered.
Fabian and I shrugged and joined them. The high dives were conveniently named the "Free Falls." They were pretty much cliffs that overlooked a deep pool. It was pretty cool, considering we were on a boat.
The boat rocked slightly and I clutched my stomach. "I'm not feeling too well. I'm gonna head back."
Turns out, I walked in the completely wrong direction and went off the edge of the cliff. The wind was knocked from my head and I faintly heard someone calling my name before I was submerged into the water and everything
turned
to
black.
"Is she gonna be okay?"
"Can someone explain to me what happened?"
"I've told you a hundred times! What aren't you getting?"
"Everyone shut up! I think she's starting to get up!"
I heard the voices and turned a little. What the hell happened? Eddie was the first voice, followed by Amber and Patricia, then Fabian. I gripped the bed sheets. Okay, I can feel, which must mean I'm alive. I opened my eyes and found everyone staring at me.
Well that's not awkward at all.
"The hell…?"
"Shh." Fabian spoke, "You're okay, everything's fine."
"What time is it?" I asked.
"It's a little after seven." Amber answered.
"What happened?"
"You got dizzy and fell off the Free Fall." Eddie said, sitting on my right side. "Fabian dove in and pulled you out."
I look to Fabian, who was rubbing his neck in an embarrassed way. I smile at him, "Thank you Fabian."
"It was nothing." He shrugged.
"It wasn't nothing." I tell him.
He just smiles as I sit up and announce that I'm hungry. We all order room service that night and hang in mine and Patricia's room. Eddie's against the wall, with one knee up and his arm resting on top of it as he eats his burger with his other hand. Patricia's against the bed next to him, her legs crossed as she eats her pasta with sauce. Fabian's laying against my bed, with his legs out in front of him. And I'm resting back against my knees, right next to him.
"Well, that was a lovely first day." Eddie comments.
Patricia scowls at him and I laugh, "It's not the first time I've fallen off of things." I add.
"Remember when we met?" Fabian laughs, recalling the fact that we'd fallen for… I mean into each other on more than one occasion.
"I do." I say. I do. Those words lingered in my head. Why is it, that with a plate of vegetable fried rice in my lap and a fortune cookie next to me, I just say two simple words and I can picture him and me in the future? Except, in my visions, it's me in a white dress and veil looking at him in a tux.
Fabian nudges me with his shoulder, "Open up you're fortune cookie."
I smile and break the cookie in half, stopping myself from gasping when I read the words written.
"What does it say?" Patricia asked.
"It says… be the change you wish to see in the world. It's by Gandhi."
I wouldn't admit it out loud, but that's not what the cookie said. I look down at it again before I shove it in my pocket.
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Two things to guess today! Why does that quote have so much significance to Nina? And the next preview!
"Hey BLANK? Did you ever feel like you were about to tumble over but you weren't falling?"
"Yes BLANK. Elaborate on your situation."
"They say giving someone a second chance is like providing them another bullet to shoot with. But, when I'm with BLANK it feels like I'm tumbling and I felt the same way when I fell in love with him."
"Well, what you said is true. You would be giving them a second bullet. But you don't give them that second chance, or bullet, unless you trust them with a gun. If they're worth a second chance, the only thing they'll be using that bullet for, is to shoot anyone who's going to hurt you."
Okay, it's easy as hell but it's there so guess away! Oh, and I'm going to put up a poll on my profile to vote on the next dress Nina's going to wear. It's not gonna be for a few chapters so you've got time to vote, but I'm just letting you know!