Chapter 3: The Writing On The Wall
Attention all passengers we are about to begin or decent into San Juan, Puerto Rico. If you could all please ensure your trays are in the locked and upright position in preparation for landing and also ensure your seatbelts are securely fastened. On behalf of American Airlines thank you for flying with us today and we hope you had a pleasant flight."
Selena was woken up by the flight attendants voice and very slowly her eyes fluttered open. As she became more alert she noticed that Demi was also asleep, her head resting comfortably on Selena's shoulder. Selena's stomach fluttered at the sight but she quickly gained her composure back before attempting to wake Demi up. As the wheels hit the tarmac Demi was bumped awake and quickly sprung to life as the plane made its way down the tarmac.
"Good Morning." Selena laughed noticing Demi's still groggy state. Demi wanted to reply but her brain didn't function all that well after only being awake for a few moments. Looking out the window Demi realized they had landed and after the plane had finally come to a stop the passengers were let off the plane and by then Demi had become fully awake.
"So is tonight just eating then relaxing?" Selena asked as they made their way down to baggage claim.
"Yeah, we can just order room service or something if you want." Demi replied. She hadn't planned anything extravagant for their first night in San Juan since they would be battling Jet lag for the first few days but the next day she had a few things planned that would still be fun yet relaxing. The girls picked up their luggage and quickly caught a cab to their hotel.
"Where to ladies?" the cab driver asked.
"Hilton Hotel please." Demi replied once she shut the door behind her. Selena tried her best to hide her smirk at the mention of the infamous Hilton Hotel where they etched their names into the wall of the staircase but her smile couldn't be hidden and Demi was quick to notice.
"What?" Demi asked, wanting to know what was going through her best friend's head.
"Oh, nothing." Selena insisted and the two girls sat in a comfortable silence the rest of the ride. The driver helped the girls with their luggage and Demi thanked him as she handed him the money and the girls headed inside.
"Hi, reservations for Liz Peterson." Demi told the receptionist. Selena looked at Demi questioningly but the younger girl just waved it off.
"What? Would you have rather me used something stupid like Batman or something?" Demi asked and Selena only laughed at the younger girl. The girls were given their room keys and thankfully it was on the 3rd floor just like last time. Though Demi had become more used to using Elevators since their previous trip the girls still gave their things to the bellhop and took the staircase so they could search for their names in the staircase.
"I think it's just over here." Demi said as they made their way up the flight of stairs. Sure enough there it was
Demi+Selena=BFFs
Carved into the wall of the staircase.
"Oh my god." Demi laughed as she pulled out her phone to take a picture.
"I still can't believe we actually did this." Selena said looking at the writing on the wall.
"What do you mean we? You got freaked out someone would catch us and left me here just after I finished writing my name." Demi replied. No one did catch them in the end but none the less goody two shoes Selena didn't want their parents finding out they defaced public property so she bolted not long after Demi began writing their names.
Flashback-March 2008
"Come on Dem, someone's gunna catch us and we're gunna get in a lot of trouble." Selena warned her best friend as she continued to etch their names into the walls of the staircase.
"Lena, relax. No one's gunna catch us, we'll be fine. Besides I'm almost done." Demi said as she began to write Selena's name.
"How did you even get this idea anyways?" Selena asked.
" I don't know, lots of people do it and since we come this way all the time it'll be a nice reminder?" Demi replied not really having a specific reason for carving her and Selena's names into the stairwell.
"Well before we get caught I'm heading back to the room." Selena said as she continued up the staircase.
"It's not really "we" if you didn't do anything." Demi shot back before continuing her work.
End flashback.
"Come on, we still gotta get our luggage." Selena said and the girls ran up the rest of the stairs and as suspected the bellhop was waiting for the girls just outside their door.
"Thank you very much." Demi said with a million watt smile hoping to make it up to him for the long wait. After grabbing their luggage off their carousel Selena and Demi got into their room and threw their luggage on the spare bed (they knew right away that they were just going to share one bed and use the other to hold their things.)
"Okay, so wanna order room service now or in a bit?" Demi asked looking through her suitcase for something to change into.
"Um, how about now? I'm starving." Selena replied grabbing the menu off the table and looking it over.
"Okay, I'm just gunna change so just pick out what you want and I'll call down in a few." Demi said before heading into the bathroom to get changed.
"If she's in those cheer shorts again I swear to god.." Selena thought to herself as she tried to concentrate on the menu choices rather than what Demi would possibly be wearing . Selena decided she just wanted some simple pizza and just after making her decision Demi emerged from the bathroom.
"You have got to be freakin' kidding me!" Selena mentally groaned. Demi was once again in her cheer shorts and the V-Neck shirt she decided to wear with them just made her cleavage very much noticeable.
"And she thinks she has no boobs? I beg to differ."
"You okay Lena?" Demi asked noticing Selena's spaced out look.
"Uh, yeah I'm fine. Um I think I just want pizza, they have, like, the best pizza here." Selena replied handing Demi the menu so she could pick out what she wanted.
"Okay. Wanna just order one for the both of us?" Demi asked. The girls ordered a pepperoni pizza and while they waited they started unpacking some of their things.
"So what's the plan for tomorrow?" Selena asked as she started bringing her shampoo and conditioner into the bathroom.
"Well since we just got here I figured it just be easier to go slow with what we do so just chilling at the beach and maybe renting some skidoo's for a few hours." Demi replied.
"I was thinking Ocean Park Beach."
Ocean Park Beach was one of the girls favourite places in San Juan. It was a gorgeous beach with crystal clear water and a breath taking view of the sunset if you were fortunate enough to be there at the right time.
"Okay, what time did you wanna head out?" Selena asked.
"Well I don't wanna go too early so maybe, like, noon-ish?" Demi replied. She knew she and Selena would still be jet lagged for the first few days so sleeping in for a bit wouldn't be such a bad idea. A few minutes later there was a knock at the door and thankfully it was room service bringing them their pizza.
"Sooo much better than I remember." Selena said with a slight moan as she took a huge bite of her slice of pizza.
"Sounds like it." Demi laughed as she watched her friend take yet another huge bite of her pizza.
"Well it is!" Selena argued, her mouth still full of pizza.
"Selena Marie you are such a lady." Demi commented teasingly and Selena stuck her tongue out at Demi once she swallowed her bite of pizza.
"Please, like you belching after downing a can of coke was any more lady like." Selena shot back.
"Hey, that was once and you dared me to do it." Demi reminded her. The girls continued the playful banter for a while until they realized it was almost pushing 2:30. Selena was the first to fall asleep just before three but Demi seemed to still feel wide awake. Once Demi was sure Selena was fully asleep she decided to go on her computer to kill some time. Since she had decided to take her twitter break she had no reason to check that and after a while youtube-ing video's lost its appeal. Remembering some old files she had on her computer she went to find the folder of things from her old computer and found a whole bunch of video's she and Selena had made for their vlog but they had never posted them. Looking through the file Demi contemplated watching a few of the video's and finally she clicked one in particular called "Demi&Selena-The Lost Vlog", a title that was just supposed to be a filler until they posted it but the girls never ended up putting it on youtube. Letting temptation get the best of her Demi clicked the video and almost instantly the video popped up along with an image of her and Selena at 15, almost 16 years old.
"Hey guys it's Selena." Selena greeted.
"And Demi!" Demi greeted with a bright smile.
"We just wanted to make you guys a quick video to let you know that Puerto Rico's going amazing, every day it's just amazing to know I'm here with such amazing people and being able to be here with my best friend just makes it a million times better." Selena said, making eye contact with Demi as she mentioned "best friend."
"Awe." Demi cooed as she lay her head on Selena's shoulder for a brief moment before sitting back up straight
"Yeah, it's going amazing. I absolutely love it here it's so gorgeous and shooting with the cast is always so much fun, especially when you're shooting with your best friend it doesn't really feel like work." Demi added, again making eye contact with Selena that almost lasted too long.
"So here's our hotel room, nothing all that special just all our junk spread across the spare bed." Selena said grabbing the computer and showing the camera her room.
"Yeah, they tried to stick us in separate hotels but that didn't work, I just ended up over here." Demi added with a laugh.
"Their plan to separate us lasted maybe a week then slowly but surely I was over here."
"It wasn't even a week, like maybe 3 days tops." Selena added
"Well either way their plan still failed." Demi replied.
"So yeah, we just thought we'd send this quick video since we finally got some down time and hopefully we'll have a lot more video's for you guys cause this place is just amazing and we really want to share it with you." Selena said
"So keep your eyes peeled for some new video's."
"You know, I've never really gotten that saying." Demi said.
"What, 'Keep your eye's peeled'?" Selena asked.
"Yeah, it sounds funny, like why would you peel your eyes? It's just weird." Demi said. The girls were silent for a few seconds before they started giggling and looked back at the webcam.
"Anyways, so make sure you keep your eye's open for more video's and hopefully we'll talk to you soon." Selena said.
"Bye!" both girls waved to the camera and gave their biggest smiles before ending the recording.
The video came to an end and it was near impossible to wipe the small smile off Demi's face. Watching that video brought back so many memories from the first time they were in San Juan and it only reminded her why they were back in the first place. To come back to the place where their friendship really grew, and for a time became so much more than just a friendship.
"Dem?" Demi heard Selena's groggy voice call out. Demi turned around and saw Selena looking over her way with her half-awake look on her face.
"Yeah Lena?" Demi replied. Selena looked at the clock and then back at Demi.
"Dem, it's almost four thirty come to bed, you need your sleep." Selena said and Demi just rolled her eyes as she closed the lid of her laptop.
"Fine, if you say so." Demi said and she crawled under the sheets next to Selena.
"Night Lena." Demi said burying her head into the pillow.
"Night Dem." Selena replied. After a few minutes of silence Demi felt Selena inch closer to her and finally buried her face into her neck. With a slight smile Demi fell asleep, hoping that this trip would turn out even better than she imagined.
Hey everyone. so hopefully y'all enjoyed this chap and the lost Delena vlog that I tried my best to write haha, not sure how well I did but anyways, hope you enjoyed and don't worry the next chapter is gunna bring a lot of Delena goodness, and Selena acting like a complete teenage boy lmao.
R&R!