Chapter 6 - The Fire Inside
Saturday 6th April - Staff Restaurant at Lunchtime
"Hey Doc, you look good, considering." Dyson said as the doctor joined him and Tamsin at their table for lunch.
"Yeah, I'm sorry about that. Just a question thou guys, I woke in my pyjamas' with water and aspirin beside me. Thanks for that by the way, but how did I get undressed exactly?" Lauren looked embarrassed at her own question and darted her eyes between them both.
"Hold up Doc," Dyson raised both hands in the air, "I got you to your bed and left, that must have been Tam, I honestly had nothing to do with it. Shame though as I would have stuck around to help if I had known." Dyson joked.
"Ahh good, that's fine, just didn't know what to think and it's already a long day but I could die if I thought that you'd seen me naked." Lauren signed out
"No, that pleasure was all mine." Tamsin added in, "Although you kept your modesty and your underwear on Laur, so don't fret babes. It's all still safe with me."
"Good, so what are you plans now then? I 've the rest of the day off. Doctor Maged is taking over the shift and we finally have a weekly shift pattern. Not bad as now I get a few nights off, a full day off as well as a couple of afternoon's off. I still need to rota being on call during the night, but it's better than before with it just being just me, like it has been all this week." Lauren smiled, "I fancy a look around if you fancy it?"
"Yeah I'm up for that, Dyson?" Tam asked over
"Me too, I had nothing else planned. I'm off now till my next shift tomorrow." Dyson answered.
"Great, then what about we have a look around the hotel and go to the beach?" Lauren suggested to which they both agreed.
Fifteen minutes later they were walking round the largest pool, towards the infinity pool. Lauren loved this pool as it looked directly to the ocean and wondered if she would be able to spend her time off lying round it. Tam and Dyson were in conversation about their shifts, Dyson still not pleased that he had more night shifts than her, but Tamsin pointed out that she was in charge.
Just then Lauren saw her, it was Bo. Lauren knew immediately, she knew from her walk, the way her body moved and then she turned around, Lauren caught her breath, those eyes. She was walking with the girl she was with at the airport. Lauren froze in her spot, only to have Tamsin and Dyson walk into her.
""Watch it Laur, what's up? You ok?" Tamsin asked
"It's her." Both Lauren and Dyson saying those words in unison.
"What?" Lauren turned to Dyson "What did you say?"
"Lauren it's 'Her' from the beach," Dyson pointed over to Bo, "the girl I told you about last night, remember?"
"No Dyson it can't be! As it's 'Her' the girl I told YOU about last night" Lauren added.
"Ohh the one who 'Spoke to Your Soul'," Dyson used his fingers as exclamations points at the last part
"Better than the one 'with the great tits' Dyson," Lauren mimicked her exclamation points
"Dearie dear, don't look now but I think she has spotted you." Tamsin pointed over the poolside.
Bo and Kenzi - The other side of the pool
"Bo, come on we're late, keep up, Bo? Why have you stopped" Kenzi looked round to see Bo looking over the pool and skirting closer to the edge.
"It can't be Kenzi, it can't be" Bo said tiptoeing closer to get a better look
"What? what you looking at Bo?" Kenzi asked.
"Over there, it's 'Lauren' from the airport and its him, the one I told you about the other day who was unmercifully flirting with me at the bar, " Bo said pointing firstly at Lauren, then Dyson. "It's really her, I don't..."
*SPLASH*
"BO" Kenzi raced to the poolside but couldn't stop Bo from falling in.
"And there she goes" Tamsin watched from the other side as Bo fell into the pool.
"I have to help her." Dyson ran around the poolside to Bo.
"She may have fainted; she may need medical help." Lauren followed after him.
"Oh this is going to be interesting, and I'm talking to myself?" Tamsin sighed as she followed them both.
Dyson had got there first and was already pulling Bo out of the water when Lauren arrived. Lauren had asked her to sit on the nearby chair to give her a look over, although what she was looking for exactly she didn't know as she rested her palm over Bo's chest.
"Erm Doc, you can get her pulse from her wrist you know?" Dyson said, eyeing down at her hand.
"Yes, erm, yes sorry. So Bo, are you ok? Did you faint? Have you felt dizzy recently? Drank any alcohol in the sun?" Lauren asked, finally removing her hand from her body.
"No, No. I just fell in. I wasn't paying attention." Bo smiled, "So are you holidaying here Lauren, nice that you remembered my name."
"No I work here, I'm the hotel doctor. And yes, I remember you from the airport last week, and nice you remembered my name also." Lauren smiled back not removing her eyes from Bo's.
"And I work here also," Dyson stepped forward "We've met, though not formally. I'm Dyson, though my friends call me 'Wolman', from when I played college ball. " Dyson smiled down at Bo, talking her hand and kissing it.
"Ergh and I'm Tamsin and blah blah blah, work here, Security and blah blah blah" Tamsin not amused and grabbing Lauren out the way to stand next to her.
"And bit-at-ches I'm Kenzi. What are we now the Brady bunch. We have to go and get you changed Bo, we're already late." Kenzi pulled Bo from the chair.
"Hi all, I'm Bo and again this is Kenzi, we work at the beach bar. I really hope to see you there later tonight?" and leaving a killer smile she allowed herself to be pulled away by Kenzi.
"Just so you know Dyson, she was saying that to me." Lauren looked at Dyson.
"Just keep saying that to yourself Doctor, just keep saying it." Dyson teased.
"Oh really I feel like I'm back at school and I'm witnessing the strangest triangle alive." Tamsin said "Let's do our thing and we can see tonight who she really likes later can't we?"
Bo's Beach Bar
"So you want to tell me what that was all about Bo?" Kenzi asked when they finally got the beach bar, dry and thankful it was quiet.
"Well you know Lauren, the one who corrected us at the airport and he, Dyson, he's harmless, just a bit of flirting, and I guess by the way she is protective of Lauren the other one, Tamsin, must be her girlfriend, not to mention what we saw in the car that day." Bo spoke while drying the bar glasses. "It's strange though as I feel a really weird connection to her, Lauren, I mean. It's like indescribable"
"Well she is all pow-wow-chica-pow with the other one and we have a plan remember?" Kenzi reminded
"Yeah about that, it's quiet now, and after the last time I don't really know if I can do it. I felt awful after Lachlan. I know we need money, but I will think of something else Kenz. Trust me, also if I so happen to find the one on this piece of paradise who's loaded then of course that's great, but I can't keep offering it out, you know." Bo looked sadly at Kenzi hoping that she did understand. She owed everything to her best friend and wouldn't let her down, but she knew that there must be another way.
"Yeah I know. Anyway you have other interests now. That Wolman is hot BoBo. He is all strong, muscular and cute." Kenzi pretending to flex her muscles, "And now you know Lauren bangs lady parts with Tamsin, so she's out the equation."
"I know and I actually feel jealous, can you believe that Kenz? A woman I met for two minutes and spoke to once makes me feel jealous. Like I said before it's indescribable" Bo continued to wipe and wash the glasses and Kenzi turned back to waitressing the beach.
Lauren's Room
"Come on Tam, we're meeting Dyson there and I know it sounds crazy but I don't want him there before me." Lauren was shuffling from foot to foot.
"What is wrong with you, crazy lady. I've known you ten years and this is the first time you're both not composed and acting like a teenager. Yes, yes you told me, it's indescribable and you don't know how to explain it. I heard that from you all through dinner and again five minutes ago. But seriously Laur, you don't even know if she would like you that way. She's been flirting with Dyson, a man! She may not like the lady violin, she could be a trumpet kind of girl?" Tamsin pulled on her knee high boots and looked at herself in the mirror. "And if she did then I look smoking hot right now and she may surprise the both of you and want me?"
Tamsin did look good, in her dark jeans, knee high boots and a grey sleeveless top, hair pulled back at the sides and her blue leather jacket. Tamsin looked over to Lauren who was wearing light blue jeans, white t-shirt and a pink cardigan.
"Is that what you're wearing?" Tamsin said, more of a statement than of a question.
Lauren eyed her outfit, "Yeah, what's wrong with it?"
Tamsin sighed, "Nothing if you've been dating a while and visiting her granny on a Sunday afternoon."
Tamsin walked over to her friend's wardrobe, and scanned a few options, "It's like a nun's wardrobe in here, where's your slutty stuff?"
Lauren giggled, "I don't have slutty stuff, as you well know."
Tamsin grabbed a few things, "Right keep on your jeans, remove the cardi and tee." Tamsin handed her a vest top and oversized white shirt. "Put this on."
Lauren did as she was told, removing her top Tamsin started to laugh. "Is that your work bra, Lau?"
Lauren looked down, "It's comfortable, it's a t-shirt bra."
"Well the t-shirt has gone so say goodbye that that thing. I need you in colour with lace, draw attention to your tits, what do you have?" Tamsin asked.
Lauren pulled out a white balcony bra with a purple trim lace, "This one?"
"Perfect, now let's slut you up," Tamsin beamed.
Bo's Beach Bar
They arrived at the bar, and to no surprise, Lauren saw that Dyson was already sat there with Bo leaning down onto the bar. Dyson was right she did have great breasts. Lauren let out a sigh and Tamsin quickly, yet gently, squeezed her hand.
"If it's any consolation, you look hot tonight Lau." Tamsin stood in front of her best friend and pulled the vest top down lower to reveal the top of Lauren lacy bra.
"No, it's not a consolation Tam, I was too late." Lauren pulled the vest top back up.
Bo had noticed this exchange and a pang of jealously shot through her. Bo had acknowledged Lauren with a friendly smile when she got to the bar but the sexy glances were gone, so Lauren decided that maybe Tamsin was right and moved them on to a nearby table. Dyson joined twenty minutes later to state, matter of fact, he was taking Bo out after her shift to a club and it looked promising.
During the night Lauren looked over at Bo only the once and she was given another friendly smile in return. Lauren smiled back, she could do with more friends and if that was all that was offered then Lauren would take it. Dyson seemed happy and so did Tamsin. Kenzi had joined their table after her shift, not being invited didn't seem to bother the young Goth. They all sat together till Bo had finished at 2am. Dyson stood up to greet her and placed a hand round her back.
"Well then ladies, the pleasure was all yours, but I'm going to take Bo out now for a well-deserved drink of her own." Dyson said before smiling down to Bo.
"Pleasure was all ours was it?" Kenzi had her hands on her hips "Well I think now the pleasure will be all yours." smiling between Dyson and Bo "Should I not wait up for you Bo?"
"Erm, no, I may be out late." Bo grabbed her black leather coat and flung it over her arm.
"Got it." Kenzi smiled at her friend.
Bo blushed, she didn't mind if people thought she might sleep with Dyson, but to say it in front of Lauren bothered her. Bo had already decided she was not going to sleep with him anyway, as she didn't want to look trashy in front of Lauren, she would take it slow and see where it went, she really wanted was a distraction from seeing Lauren with Tamsin, or at least until she got used to the idea.
Lauren looked back at Bo embarrassed, then put her head down and Tamsin rubbed her back. Bo needed to get out of here quick as this feeling of intense jealously was killing her.
"Come on Wolman, show me a good time" Bo took Dyson's hand and turned around.
"Guaranteed" Dyson said winking back at the table and leading Bo off.