Chapter 28

Ruthanne's Point of View <3

I wake up on the edge of the bed because of the ship's stupid horn thing. Kris is nowhere near me. I sit up, scared for a moment. Kris is on the other edge of the bed. I lay down next to him and try to sleep again. I can't, because I don't know what time it is, so I have to roll all the way to the other side again to get my phone and check. 9:14. The ship's scheduled to dock at 2:30, so I roll back over to Kris to try and get some sleep.
I wake up again, in Kris's arms this time, at 10:45. "Hey."I say sleepily, looking up at him. He's propped up on his elbow, looking down at me.
"Good morning," he kisses me then gets up out of bed. "Are you all packed?"
"um. I think so." I say, getting up to look in the dresser and under the bed one more time. Sometimes, my clothes end up in weird places. One time, Caitlin and Sidney came over and I had to kick a bra under the bed before they noticed. I find it there, and put it away.
"How'd that get there?" Kris asks me, one eyebrow raised.
"You." I lie, even though that's how it got on the floor in the first place.
"oh." He laughs half-heartedly.
I get up and walk over to him and give him a hug. He looks at me funny. "My, you're in a good mood this morning." He says.
"I only get to go to Montreal with my favorite person in the world. I'm just glad I get to be there." I say. Kris kisses me.
"I'm glad you're coming with me. It'll make things a lot easier. You'll get to meet my parents." He says, smiling again.
"I can't wait." I hug him again, and then go to the bathroom to brush my teeth, really hoping my mouth wasn't nasty when he kissed me. Of course his wasn't. He ALWAYS gets to be perfect. ugh. "Are we going to breakfast?" I ask him as my stomach growls.
"Only if you want to." Kris replies, breaking into his suitcase again for a decent outfit. Living out of a suitcase didn't work for him, he never got to the bottom and instead wore a lot of dirty clothes this week.
"We're going then." I say. "I'm starving."
"ok then." Kris starts changing while I finish brushing my teeth and washing my face. I pull my hair up into a messy bun, not in the mood to contend with it right now.
"How cute." Kris laughs at me when I come out. I'm wearing ugly stained grey shorts and an old softball t-shirt. All of my hair is on my head. I'm sure I look hilarious. I just glare at him and get some more decent--but comfy--clothes to change into.

After breakfast, Kris and I still have a lot of time to kill. For some reason, I haven't ended up with a glorious tan this week, so we head out to sun bathe, like it would help now. At about 1:00 the little intercom system starts talking and never shuts up. they're all telling us how we should be ready to leave, and how things are shutting down. so we go find Sidney, Caitlin and Max to pass the rest of the time. We hang out til it's time to leave.

At the air port Caitlin had to have some kind of weird souvenir that would set off the x-ray machine that we have to put our shoes and everything else through. So we stand there, holding up the line while trying to explain what useless thing it is so it doesn't get confiscated. Finally, after like an hour she gets it back. If it were me today, I would just tell them to keep it, but I guess that's the only souvenir she got.
So, because of that ordeal, we get on the plane in a bad mood. I lean on Kris. "Uhhh." I sigh.
"Tired?" He looks at me, with that know it all look on his face.
"stressed." I try to say. But I really am tired.
"Riggghhhhht." Kris says. He grabs my hand and says. "Go ahead and sleep."
I love pictures of what's outside the plane, so I hand him my camera. "Take pictures.Since you got the window seat." I tell him.
"Fine." He says "It's not like you could take them while you're sleeping." He laughs. I just smile, still leaning on him.

I wake up just a little bit before we land. While I'm leaning on Kris, he's leaning on me, so I can't sit up. My neck has a crook in it and I'm really uncomfortable. I hear his soft snore above me. Great, he's asleep.
"Caitlin?" I say, to see if she's awake.
"Yeah?" She looks back at me.
"Get Sidney to say something to Kris." I point up at him.
Sidney totally defeats the point of me not wanting to wake him up. "Hey, you. Yoohoo, Ruthanne needs you to sit up buddy." Kris sits up, groggily.
"Sorry, love." He says, then leans against the window. We laugh and I lean back in my seat to enjoy some music before we get to Pittsburgh. I missed home, but I'm gonna miss the sun more, I think. Especially in Montreal. Then again, it wouldn't matter where I was, as long as I'm with Kris. <3

Caitlin's Point of View ;)

Boarding the plane in Florida was an experience. I got into an all out argument with a guard about my little souvenir thingy. It took us over an hour just to get on the plane.
Landing was a lot easier, and Philippe Boucher was there with a van to pick all of us and our luggage up. Kris and Ruthanne sat in the front 2 seats, me and Sid in the very back. There were suitcases stacked all the way up to the window in the back and then we had to stick some up front.
"You guys packed a lot. Jeez." Philippe says. "How did you even carry all this?" He loads another one into the van.
Ruthanne and I are notorious over-packers. We laugh quietly, a joke between us, then laugh a little louder when we realize we're both laughing. it happens to us all the time. The guys just look at us like we're crazy, so we stop. Philippe just takes us all to Mario's where most of our cars are. Kris's and mine, Max's and Sidney's are there, at least.
"I think I'm gonna go home and unpack I say, tired." Unlike Ruthanne and Kris, Sidney and I were too caught up in conversation on the flight to sleep. I never get tired of talking to him.
"I'll go with you." Sidney says. "I still haven't met your mom and dad."
"Yeah. Right." I say, not minding a bit that he wants to come over.
Ruthanne's over on the other side of the room talking to Kris. "See yinz later." She says. "well, maybe." she comes over and gives me a hug before walking back out the door we came in. "I'll try to come see you tonight or tomorrow, before I leave, at least.
Sidney and I follow after a short conversation with Mario. He wondered how the trip went, and wanted to see our awesome tans. Mine's considerably darker than Sidney's. I made a point to get some sun, while he wore a lot of sunscreen.
Sidney takes me home and I introduce him to my parents, who were also big fans before I started dating him. I told them both they had to act normal when they met him. They tried, really hard but I could tell they wanted to blurt out a bunch of questions. Sidney and I head up to my room with my suitcases after that.
"Thanks for the help Sidney." I hug him after all my clothes are successfully put in the dirty hamper or my closet.
"No problem." He says, sitting on my bed with me.
"I'm gonna miss you tonight." I whine in his ear.
"I'm gonna miss you too." Sidney says, hugging me close.
"How will I sleeeeeeeep?" I groan.
"Oh you'll manage darling. I know you." We both laugh at what he said and how he said it. He couldn't believe that he said "darling" and I thought his face was hilarious. Plus, I will probably be able to sleep.
"Stay for dinner?" I ask him. We hadn't eaten since lunchtime and it's 10:00 now.
"Sure." He says. We walk back downstairs and find that my mom had made some chipped ham sandwiches for dinner and that we had to make our own. I kind of groan, too used to being served all the time, but I'm almost glad to be back to reality. That week long cruise was great, but I can only be pampered so much.
Sidney leaves at like 11:00 because my parents are ready to go to bed and they don't go to sleep while guests are still in the house.
It takes me over an hour to fall asleep and I finally manage to do it at 1:30, because that's the last time I looked at the clock.