Okay, so this is, yet again, just another filler chapter. I couldn't really do any research or anything because college marching band is just that awesome and we went to our first game (it was an away game) and I was sort of sent to the hospital. But research will start soon and hopefully I won't get anything wrong and stuff. Enjoy!
The research really didn't take as long as I thought it might have. Since I had been to France so many times before, I had a fairly general idea of where I think we should go to, I just wanted to double check and be sure that everything was going to run as smoothly as possible, though I'm sure with the GHI team we would have found something to do if something didn't go as planned and because of who all there was it would be fun regardless of what we did.
"Well, that didn't take as long as I thought it would." I said, just to try to start up a conversation.
"Yeah, I thought it would take a lot longer than just two hours." Barry said, feeling a similar awkwardness I was feeling.
"Think we should get all this to Robb?" I asked.
"Yeah, that would probably be a good idea. We can take my car if you want, I'll call him and make sure he's home." Barry said, pulling his phone out. Apparently Robb was home because the next thing Barry said was, "Okay, he said we can come on over with what we've gotten so far."
"Okay cool. Let's go." I said, smiling, and grabbed my notebook I'd been taking notes in and followed Barry out to his car.
When we got to Robb's house, he was already outside waiting for us.
"Hey, did you get some good stuff?" he said as we walked up to him.
"Yeah I think so. I already had a general idea of what I was looking for and everything there looks like it'll be good." I said.
"I think everything will go smoothly as well. I just looked up some back ground information of everything so that we all will have a general idea of each place we go." Barry said, handing Robb both of the notebooks with the research in them.
"Sounds good. I'll look through this later and get back to you about everything and I'll see you tomorrow I guess." Robb said and me and Barry headed back to place.
"Well, I guess I'll see you later." I said as Barry pulled into my driveway.
"Yeah, see you later." He said. "Wait, I was wondering if maybe you would like to get some lunch again tomorrow or something." He said as I started to get out of the car.
"Um, yeah, sure. I'd like that." I said, smiling slightly.
"Okay great. I'll pick you up around 11:30 then." He said, also smiling.
"Okay, sound good. See you later." I said.
"Yeah, see you." He said and I walked into my house with a big smile on my face. 'I really think I'm going to like GHI.' I thought to myself, sitting on the couch and turning the TV on.
The next morning I woke up earlier than I had originally planned so that I would be sure I had time to get ready before Barry came to pick me up. I decided to wear a black skirt with red/scarlet colored flowers on it with a white shirt and red/scarlet tank top under it. I had just bought a new pair of flats a couple of days ago and was going to wear them, but soon found that if I wore them for too long, the backs of my ankles would be completely raw and I knew that would not be fun so I opted for a pair of orange sandals instead. I put on very little makeup, deciding that just some eye liner and a little bit of mascara would do. When I was done getting ready it was just 11 o'clock so I sat down and started an episode of Ghost Hunters International until Barry go there.
Right at 11:30, there was a knock on my door. I smiled and stood up to open the door, smoothing out my skirt before I did so. When I opened the door, Barry was looking a little nervous for whatever reason. He looked really nice, wearing a blue and white shirt with a pair of nice, dark blue jeans and his normal shoes.
"Hey." I said since it didn't seem like he was going to say anything to me as I noticed that he just kept looking at me.
"Hey. Ready to go?" he said, coming out of a daze when I spoke.
"Yeah, let's go." I said, smiling, and closed and locked my door and followed him to his car.
This time he chose where to go and we ended up going to Cracker Barrel, which is one of my absolute favorite places to eat.
"You like this place, right?" he asked as he parked the car.
"I absolutely love this place. But I won't eat anything except things from their breakfast menu. I think it is the best place in town for breakfast food." I said.
"I may just do the same. I've only been here a couple of times, but when I have it's been really good." He said as we walked in the restaurant.
"Just two?" the hostess asked when we walked in.
"Yes, thank you." Barry said and we were lead to a table meant to seat two people and sat across from each other.
"Your waitress will be right with you." The hostess said and left us to ourselves.
"So are you excited about your first investigation with GHI?" Barry asked me as we waited for the waitress to come take our drink orders.
"You have no idea how excited I am. I don't think I can even put it in words." I said, smiling even more than I already was.
"Good. You should be. I think it'll be a fairly interesting case. And everything's always fun with the team." Barry said, also smiling.
"Hey there, my name's Brittany and I'll be taking care of you today. What can I get for you to drink?" The waitress said once she came over to us.
"Um, I'll have hot tea please with cream and sugar on the side." I said.
"I'll just have some water." Barry said.
"Okay, I'll have that right out for you." Brittany said and walked away.
"So you like hot tea?" Barry asked me.
"I love it. Honestly Irish Breakfast Tea is my favorite but of the three kinds of tea they have here, the English Breakfast Tea is the best to me. And I do kind of load it down with sugar, but that's okay. I try to moderate myself with it and the cream." I said, beginning to ramble a little bit.
"Irish tea is very good. You've made a good choice there." He said.
"Oh yeah, you would know, wouldn't you?" I said, laughing slightly.
"Well, I would hope so." He said, also laughing a little.
When the waitress came back with our drinks, she asked, "Do we know what we would like to eat yet?"
"I do. How about you?" I said, directing my question to Barry.
"I think I'll just get whatever you do." He said
"Okay. Well, I'll get the Wholesome Mornin' Sampler with bacon and biscuits. Oh, and can I get some apple butter with that too please?" I said.
"Of course. So two of those?" the waitress asked and I nodded. "Okay, that'll be right out." She said and walked away.
"Well, what do you think so far about the team?" Barry asked me just to keep the conversation going.
"I like everyone. Robb's cool, I already know Dustin from his time with TAPS, Joe's pretty cool, I think me and Brandy will really get along well, and then there's this Irish guy who's name just escapes me right now and, well, I'm really not sure about him. Hopefully I'll get along with him, but he just really seems like the trouble maker of the team." I said, trying not to laugh.
"I think the two of you will get along just fine." He said, not holding back his laughter.
"Eh, we'll see." I said, still smiling. "Nah, you're pretty cool too. I think I'll get along well with everyone."
"Good. It helps to be able to get along with the whole team. I know there were some problems with Brian when GHI first started, but there's no one like that on the team anymore so it should be pretty good." Barry said, taking a sip of his water.
When the food got to us, Barry looked at it with the look of 'Woah, that's a lot of food.' Causing me to laugh a little.
"What? Looks like a lot of food?" I asked, amused.
"Well, yeah. How do you eat this much food every time you eat here?" he said with the same look on his face.
"I don't know. I just do." I said
"And of course you would stay skinny after eating so much." He said, rolling his eyes jokingly.
"High metabolism?" I said, making him laugh some more.
When we were done eating, we went to Robb's house to see what he had to say about the research we gave him (he had called Barry that morning and told him we could come over after lunch).
Barry knocked on the door when we go there and, or course, Robb opened it and let us in.
"Hey guys. The research all looks really good." Robb said once we were in his house. "I think everything you picked out for us to do will be fun, Josie. You have no idea how glad I am that you know so much about France."
"I hoped you would like it all." I said, smiling.
"It's all great. And everything you got is too, Barry. It'll all be really helpful while we're there." Robb said. "Okay, well, we leave in two days, so I'll see you two then." He said and we left for Barry to take me back home.
"I had a good time today," I said when Barry pulled into my driveway.
"I'm glad. So did I." he said, smiling.
"I think everything's going to be really great with GHI, I'm really looking forward to it." I said, getting out of his car.
"Yeah. So I'll see you in two days then." He said.
"Yeah, see you then." I said, smiling.
Well? What do you think? Maybe leave me a review and let me know how it is? That would be so wonderful! Part six should be up sometime soon (hopefully)!