THE CRUISE

Ch 7

Chrissy hung up with Brian. They'd made a date for that night. Since all the girls were hanging out with their respective guys, she wasn't going to be left alone to sit in the room and watch old movies. She was happy for them, she knew, but sort of made her angry that they'd come on this vacation to be with each other, and she had a feeling that most of their time would be spent with the guys. "Stop it" Chrissy said to herself. She knew she was jumping the gun a little bit, but she couldn't help it. Just at that point Danny knocked on her door.

"Hey Chrissy." He said as she answered and put back on her happy face.

"Hey Danny, what's up?"

"I was wondering if you wanted to hang out, swim or something. Everyone's gone and I'm just feeling a little bored."

Chrissy looked around at the empty room. "Yeah sure, sounds like fun to me. Let me just change into a swimsuit." She let him in and he got comfortable on her chair as she changed.

Katrina lay peacefully on her bed. The day in the sun had made her drowsy so she'd decided to take a nap. Dreams of Jonathan floated around in her head. Kasey came in and saw her friend sprawled across her bed. She snuck over and without warning hit her over the head with a big fluffy pillow.

"What the!" Katrina screamed being jolted awake. She looked around groggily at Kasey who was laughing hysterically on the floor.

"Your face! You should see your face!"

"Whatever Kasey! Did you notice I was trying to sleep here?"

"Never crossed my mind" Kasey looked at her angelically. Kasey could play the innocent very well and she knew that. As much as Celly and Suzi were the drama queens, Kasey was the innocent one...or so everyone thought. Her chicas knew her quite well and didn't fall for that big-eyed smile look.

"If I wasn't so weak from sleep I'd be suggesting you run right about now!" Kat flopped back down on her bed. "Who knew vacations could be so tiring."

"Vacations? Or Jon?" Kasey asked imploringly. She wondered how the two were doing. Of course it had been one night.

"Vacations, gawd who do you think I am! Me and Jon are fairing. He's such a sweetie Kasey. We're going to dinner tonight. I'm so in love." Katrina got that glassy feeling she got every time she talked about Jon. Some people didn't understand her feelings for him, but her chicas certainly did. How Celly felt about Joe, Suzi about Donnie, Kasey about Miguel, Mindy about Jordan, Kat felt equally, if not more, about Jon. He may not be the sexiest or most talented, but he definitely had many qualities that attracted her to him.

"So enough about the greatest guy in the world, how's Miguelito? Are you over the initial shock of how fine he really is?"

"Fine? Gee, hadn't noticed" They both busted out laughing.

"He's Gods gift to Puerto Rico man. And he's just a downright sweetheart. I'm glad I had the good taste to fall for him before actually seeing him thought. I fell for the man, not the face. Even though, the face...hot." Kasey pulled out her suitcase again. One day they'd actually get to unpack but right now there was just so much to do. "Enough chit chat, I've got about an hour to get ready for our dinner. Me, Miguel, Jordan and Mindy are going out. Why don't you and Jon join us? And where's Celly, Chrissy and Suzi. They get men and disappear like ghosts."

"I have no idea where they are. I think we need chica pagers, seriously. But I'll see what Jon wants to do, that sounds like fun. Get to the shower, because I've got to get in there too." She threw her pillow at Kasey's retreating figure as she walked into the bathroom.

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