I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY BESIDES THE OC'S.
Tara's Point of View-
Alex and I stepped in front of Chris's door before I knocked on it to let Chris know we were here.
"One moment!" We heard Chris yell on the other side of the door along with him cursing and a bang coming from inside the room before the door was opened.
"You okay?" I asked curiously.
"Yeah…fine…" Chris said, I could tell he was pretending to be okay or that something happened and he didn't want to admit it.
"You ready to go?" Alex asked.
"Yeah…" Chris said as Alex and I stepped apart to give him room to hobble out of his room, I leant in shutting his door for him.
"Are you going to be able to climb a ladder with your cast?" I asked as I turned around to head back to where Alex and I just came from.
"Psh! I am perfectly able to climb a ladder…cast be damned." Chris said.
"I told her about our band." Alex said.
"How'd you like it?" Chris asked curiously.
"It was pretty good…"
"Pretty good?" Alex asked offensively.
"Fine, it was amazing….better?" I asked looking to him.
"Much." Alex said.
"Would you like to buy a CD?" Chris asked.
"Not now…maybe next week when I see you." I said.
"Okay, I'll make sure I'll grab one before I come in." Chris said.
"Do you guys have each other scheduled into each others calendars?" Alex asked.
"No, but like you said you guys perform every Monday and Tuesday at certain times, and it never fails he is always in my office at the same time on the same days of every week." I said.
"It is always during her lunch break too." Chris said chuckling.
"That's because you found out when my lunch break was and became a dick about showing up at that time." I said.
"It was quite entertaining at first seeing you get pissed at me about having to miss your lunch break." Chris said.
"Until I begun to expect you to do that from now on so I rearranged my schedule to where my lunch break is earlier…" I said smiling.
"How much earlier?" Alex asked as I gave him a dirty look.
"If I say, this jerk will make plans to show up and ruin it." I said as Chris chuckled.
"That I would." Chris said as we arrived to the ship waiting area to take us inland, no one was there to board the boat and we saw the boat coming back with a family on it.
"When do we have to be back by?" Alex asked.
"I think the last boat back is at 11." I said honestly as Alex checked his phone.
"What time is it now?" Chris asked.
"5ish." Alex said as I looked out to the sunset to see if that was accurate, I turned back realizing that Alex had his phone up taking a picture of all three of us.
"What the heck? You couldn't have told me you were taking a picture?" I asked nudging him.
"No, because that'll be too easy." Alex said smirking as he was typing stuff into his phone, he was probably going to text it to us.
"Don't we have that ball thing tonight?" Chris asked changing the subject.
"That isn't until 6 if you want to get dinner or 8 if you aren't doing dinner." Alex said as the boat stopped below and the family of four in the boat below begun climbing up the ladder to get aboard the cruise ship.
"I am going to love to see you climb up this later." I said, I figured climbing down would be the easiest but climbing up would be harder.
"I got a lot of upper body strength…it might just take me a little while…" Chris said.
"Don't overdo it." I said.
"That's why your coming with me." Chris said smiling.
"Boy, do I feel the love…." I said as I stepped up to climb down the ladder, "Hand me your crutches, I'll carry them down with me and Alex can help you get over this." I said.
"Why do I get volunteered for this? What if I want to climb down with the crutches?" Alex asked.
"Your stronger than I am." I said.
"Guys, I'm not that heavy." Chris said.
"Fine, Alex you climb down with the crutches and I'll help Chris down." I said as Chris handed Alex the crutches and I wrapped Chris's arm around me for support as Alex begun climbing down the ladder holding tightly onto the crutches. I helped Chris up onto the side of the boat to stand in front of the ladder that will take him down to the boat.
"You better not drop those!" Chris said.
"And if I do?" Alex asked stopping on the ladder to look up at us.
"I will kick your butt." Chris said.
"With what? Your bad leg?" Alex smiled his adorable smile. 'No Tara, don't think that way! I do NOT think he is adorable!' I thought to myself.
"I will do just that." Chris said as I rolled my eyes, I held onto him as he tried to position himself to climb down the ladder.
"Be careful, please." I said as Chris was now facing me on the ladder, I was concerned that he would fall or lose his balance due to the heaviness or instability of the cast.
"I will…don't worry Tara, I got this." Chris said giving me a confident smile.
"You are so crazy." I said not believing that he is doing this as he begun to climb down, I looked over seeing Alex just getting onto the boat and Chris was well on his way.
"Come on Tara!" Alex yelled up to me, I took a deep breath and begun to climb over the ladder. 'Stop worrying Tara, you are not working this weekend and let the medical worries and knowledge you have go for just this weekend. Have fun with these guys and they are just as crazy as you were before you got Xavier.' I thought to myself. I begun to climb down the ladder getting closer to the bottom, when I got there Chris just sat down in a seat holding the crutches that Alex handed him. I climbed into the boat and walked over to where they were sitting down next to Chris.
"Why are sitting next to him?" Alex asked.
"Because he smells better." I said.
"Thank you." Chris said taking it as a compliment.
"We are going to make a Tara sandwich." Alex said as he stood up moving over to sit on the other side of me.
"I do not like this…" I said.
"Why not? You uncomfortable?" Alex asked.
"Yes…this is very uncomfortable…" I said.
"We can make it more uncomfortable…" Chris said as they both started scooting closer to me squishing me between them.
"Stop it…I don't like being squished…" I said as I was trying to push them away but they kept scooting in, I eventually stood up moving further away from them.
"Your no fun." Chris said pouting.
"I am fun…" I said.
"Prove it." Alex said.
"How do you prove that?" I asked confused.
"Move back over here." Alex said.
"Fine…" I said standing up and walking back over to them sitting down between them.
"Much better." Alex said as he rested his arm behind me.
"I don't get how me sitting here is better." I said.
"Because he likes you." Chris said as I looked from Chris to Alex who couldn't make eye contact with me.
"Shut up Chris." Alex said smacking him in front of me.
"Land ahoy!" The captain of this boat said stopping the conversation at that, I couldn't stop thinking of what Chris had just said.
"Land!" Chris said in excitement.
"Calm down woman!" Alex said as he stood up as the boat was anchored, he stuck his hand out to help me to my feet.
"Dude! What about me?" Chris asked as I took Alex's hand as I stood up.
"Ladies first." Alex said winking towards me.
"Whatever." Chris said as we both helped him up and over to the ladder to the dock, Alex climbed up first with the crutches.
"Be careful." I said in a worried tone as I watched Chris pull himself up with his arms.
"Like always…and that's why your below me to catch me if I fall." Chris said looking down at me smirking.
"Chris, seriously." I said as he chuckled before he begun climbing back up the ladder.
"I swear he's going to give me a heart attack." I mumbled to myself as I begun to climb up the ladder stopping to watch Alex help his friend over and prop him up on his crutches. I finished climbing up rest of the ladder seeing a hand being lowered in front of my face.
"Let me help you." Alex said.
"Thanks." I said taking his hand as an offering to help.
"When did you become a gentleman?" Chris joked as Alex helped me onto the dock.
"The day you became a jerk." Alex said.
"I'm not a jerk." Chris said.
"Your being jerk Alex." I added as I adjusted my shirt a tad now noticing that the sun was down more than earlier.
"Why do you get to be so mean?" Alex asked.
"Cause your being mean to Chris." I said as I helped Chris sit down on the edge of the dock across from where we just got onto the dock from.
"I thought you wanted to go back onto the beach?" Alex asked pointing to the sand with his thumb.
"Chris can't, neither his cast nor his crutches will allow for it, we'll stick to being here." I said but Alex went to pout, "Alex, its fine." I said smiling and sat beside Chris putting the crutches behind us, Alex joined us by sitting down beside Chris.
"Only if it was darker, then I will be able to dazzle you with my ability to find the zodiac signs." Alex said.
"I was never good at finding the zodiac signs nor the constellations like the dippers or the North Star." I admitted.
"Have you ever tried counting the stars? There are so many of them." Chris said.
"I have never swam in the moonlight." Alex said randomly.
"Me neither." Chris said.
"I dare you to jump in." Alex said.
"Chris, you can't." I said grabbing Chris's arm.
"Why not? My cast? What's the worst thing that is going to happen?" Chris asked.
"You'll have to get a new cast and your scar may get infected." I stated.
"Would that delay my healing?" Chris asked.
"Who cares? Dive on in." Alex said nudging Chris a tad.
"I do…" Chris said as Alex rolled his eyes and jokingly pushed Chris in.
"Alex! He can't swim due to the weight of the cast!" I said as I jumped to my feet quickly stripping down to my swimsuit diving in and was able to catch Chris bringing him to the surface, Chris begun to catch his breath.
"Your such a jerk." Chris finally was able to say.
"Oops." Alex said before he begun to chuckle, Chris splashed Alex from where we were and I begun dragging him towards the ladder.
"Your such a dick man." Chris said.
"We need to get you back to the cruise ship, ASAP." I said worried about his cast and scar as I helped him up the ladder and begun pulling my clothes back on.
"Your no fun." Alex said.
"Don't talk to me Alex." I snapped.
"OoohhH!" Chris said as he pushed his now wet hair out of his face.
"What's your issue?" Alex asked.
"Sorry, I'm just miffed at you for not listening to me…why would you push your best friend in knowing that he can't swim?"
"I was joking!" Alex said.
"Joking or not, it was very rude and disrespectful…" I said as I saw him lock his jaw, the boat pulled up, I helped Chris down and Alex was the last one in. I got Chris situated before turning to the driver, "Can you go fast? We need to get him to first aide stat." I said.
"Yes ma'am." The guy said as he went to the wheel, Alex was looking out into the ocean and I sat down beside Chris checking his cast for any drying spots but there wasn't any as of yet.