Chapter 23

Ruthanne's Point of View. <3>
Nothing has been better than the time I've gotten to spend with Kris. And I feel like I could never spend enough time with him.
It's almost 3:00, we've just been hanging out. I haven't convinced him to go swimming with me yet. But I don't really want to get a sun burn anyways.
"Let's go for a walk." I say.
"Let's go swimming," he says back. I lean back on the couch, surprised.
"Didn't you just...?" I look at him.
He shrugs. "Let's go. Hup hup hup!" He says, jumping up and running to his suitcase. I go to the dresser where I stuck my favorite blue bikini in the top drawer. He hasn't organized anything yet, still living out of that ugly brown leather suitcase.
We walk down the side, looking at the water. There' not much to see, but water, but the weather's nice and we're enjoying ourselves. I keep a towel wrapped around me and Kris just carries his, showing off his super hot body. I try not to stare as we make our way around the people (not only girls) who can't stop staring.
I laugh when we're out of earshot.
"Huh?" He looks at me.
"They're just funny. They didn't even try to look inconspicuous." I laugh again.
"Oh." He makes a show of looking down at his "gut" which is really some hot rock solid abs. I laugh at him again and we throw our towels down by a lounge chair.
"You go in first." I say.
"Why?" He asks, stepping in.
"So you can tell me if it's cold!" I say, sticking my toes in the water, knowing it'll be warm, but so used to being in Pittsburgh.
"Come on, Ruthanne," he grabs my hand and I follow him in. He wraps his arms around me when we get in and I wrap my legs around him as he walks backwards through the pool. We only bump into everyone that's there. It's sooo crowded.
We have fun lounging and talking. There's really no room to swim, the pool's just crawling with huge fat people and their kids.
After maybe half an hour I say, "My fingers are getting all wrinkly, let's get out." He grabs my hands and walks backwards through all the people again. We head back to the suite, dripping wet. Kris hangs the towel over his shoulders, masking most of his chest, so no one stares. When we get back and in the room I wrap my arms around him--barely able to get them all the way around-- and kiss him.
He kisses me back. "You're the best, love." He says when we pull apart. I just smile and walk over to the dresser, dropping my towel on the way. I grab another pair of shorts and a cute tank I've never worn before.
He gets some shorts and a shirt out of his ugly brown suitcase. "You really should unpack. Or at least get a new suitcase." I say.
He laughs. "Why?"
"I don't know.. It's just, ugly." I say, scrunching up my nose and regretting momentarily that I said it.
He scrunches up his nose and says "I like it." Then laughs. I run to the bathroom so he can change in the main room. I fix my hair a little bit, putting some gel in it, and change into the outfit. He's sitting on the couch fiddling with his phone, his hair wet and beautiful, falling around his face. I sit by him.
"Hey." I say.
"Huh?" He says, putting his phone back in his pocket after pressing the SEND button. I kiss him on the cheek. He's expressionless when I look at him. I can't understand why I'm so happy and he's not.
"What's wrong?" I ask him.

Caitlin's Point of View ;)

Sidney and I slept for almost 2 hours. It's like 5 when I wake up, phone in hand like right before I fell asleep. I look at it, the screen's blinking.
3 texts.
Where are you? we're hunggggry!!!! From Ruthanne a few minutes ago
What are you guy's doing tonight? Mind if I join? From Max like half an hour ago. My heart skips a beat, half from nervousness and half from the happiness that he sent me a text.
went swimming... had fun. Hunggry... call me or something, let's go! From Ruthanne. I laugh, that was 45 minutes ago. I wonder if they're gonna go without us. I roll over and see that Sidney's still asleep. The huge couch makes for lots of room to move, so I get up without disturbing him.
I sit on the bed and text Ruthanne back. Sorry just took a nap.. waking Sidney up now.
I go back to the Max text and hit reply. I have no idea what to say, but I have to say something. Going to dinner soon.. text me. Idk what we're doing tonight. There's something going on at the theatre. Caitlin
I figure something like that will be safe, so I hit send. "Sidney." I say. He groans and rolls over. I throw my phone on the bed and lean over the back of the couch. when he opens his eyes he almost screams. "Good evening sleepyhead." I come around the side and sit on the arm as he sits up. "Ruthanne and Kris want to go to dinner soon." I leave out the little part about inviting Max. My phone goes off.
Well LET'S GO!!! I'M STARVING! Ruthanne replies.
Sidney's up.. no worries. I invited Max, soooo, yeah, he'll be there. I say, just so somebody knows why he'll be there. I don't want to tell Sidney because of that little convo. we had earlier. The phone goes off again as I'm about to put it down.
K... what hall? I want to talk to you
Max replied. I sigh, setting it down as Sidney walks by into the bathroom. He's still so zombie-ish.
idk what it is.. just the one close to our suites. Going at like 5:45. See you there. I say back sighing. I really don't want it to be so hard and awkward to be around Max. He's so much fun. Sidney comes out of the bathroom and sits by me. It's five minutes til we need to be there, so I run to the bathroom to check my hair.
It looks kinda scary, since I just slept. I find a little drool on the top of my head, where Sidney's chin was laying. I grab some toilet paper, trying to get it out. I fail miserably, only getting some. So I just try to blow dry it. That spot on my head ends up being kinda poofy, but at least it doesn't have anymore drool on it. I brush it out and everything looks ok again.
I come out with a couple minutes to spare. Sidney's playing with his phone, but I think it's mine for a second. I'm paranoid when I don't tell the whole truth. "Ready?" I ask him.
"Sure." He says, standing up. I grab my phone off the bed and stick it in my pocket.
"What'do you need that for?" He looks at me funny.
"Nothing?" I look at him funny.
"Then why are you taking it?"
"Habit." I say, and touch it from the outside of my pocket. Sidney laughs and we round the corner to the dining hall. I see Ruthanne and Kris and Max already at a table, laughing at something. I guess we're a few minutes late, but I didn't expect them to be on time.
"Heyy!" Ruthanne says, pointing the seat next across from her, next to Max. I don't know if she did it on purpose, but I sit down not wanting to make a scene. Sidney looks at me funny, probably wondering why I didn't sit by Ruthanne, but I just shrug.
I'm tired of eating out every day already, but I guess that's basically the only choice we have. I get some kind of Enchilada thing. Our feminine waiter recommended it so I guess it must be good.
I'm feeling pretty tired, even after that nap. Sidney looks at me, since I'm the only one not really talking. He touches the poofy piece of hair on top of my head. "That's from your spit you know." I say. I feel Max flinch behind me and feel bad for a second.
"what?" He looks at me.
"that piece of hair.." I say, "you drooled on it." I smile sillily and Ruthanne laughs.
"Sorry." He says, and grabs my hand, holding it under the table. I kick his foot and grin at him, feeling happy all over again. I sit up straight when the waiter comes back. I can feel Max looking at me and glance over at Sidney to make sure he doesn't see. I look back at Max and give him a half smile. He touches my foot with his making a tingle run up my leg--an unusual feeling. I don't want to feel that way about Max right now. I'm with Sidney. I look away and at my enchilada which is absolutely gigantic. I'll never be able to eat it all.
I find that it's absolutely delicious too. Sidney makes me eat a bite of his fish, which is good, in a weird way.
For dessert we all have some kind of sundae. I stuck with my favorite Mexican sundae, even though it's sooo bad for me. We had all decided on the show at the theatre at 7:30, so we were basically burning time right now.

The show at the theatre is some kind of musical. Whatever it is, I can't concentrate on it. I'm sitting between Max and Sidney and I've got tingles all over partially because I am cold, and then there's Sidney and Max. I sigh. Max and Sidney both look at me. "What?" They both say at the same time, and then laugh together. I laugh too, but it's fake.
"Nothing." I put my head in my hands. "I'm just really tired." I explain, which is truly half of it. I don't know what's going on with me. It's like I'm never happy when I should be. Max touches my hand when Sidney looks away, and that makes everything worse. And better.
The show ends sometime around 9:00 and we all decide to hang in one of the giant jacuzzis on the top deck. We run back to our suites and change, going to meet there.
I'm half awake, sitting beside Sidney and Max, Sidney's arm around me. Everyone leaves at around 10:00 and we have the whole thing to ourselves, laughing and carrying on. I wake up a little bit more, just because everyone's being so loud. I'm so lucky just to be here right now and I've hardly been living it up. I make a secret vow to myself to do so.
After a long time in the jacuzzi, it's about 11:30, we all decide to head in. My head's been nodding for the longest time and Ruthanne used that as her excuse to want to leave. "She needs to go to sleep." To tell the truth, I actually feel a little sick. I'm probably just overtired.
We head back to the suite and I plop down on the bed after changing into pajamas. Sidney lays beside me. "Did you at least have fun?" He whispers, his lips touching my cheek, then my eyebrow.
"Yeah," I say, eyes closed. "I'm just tired." Again, I don't tell the whole truth. I'm feeling even sicker now, and I'm hoping it's just exhaustion. I'm asleep in his arms before I know it.