What She Wanted

Chapter 10.

      May sat on her bed in her hotel room on her phone. Juliza Oquendo liked one of her new pictures on Instagram. She looked through the rest of the new news and sat her phone down to charge.

      Her bed was soft. It had a ton of pillows stacked at the head and some extra blankets at the foot. She didn't ever use those extra blankets because it was very hot in Los Angeles. Sometimes she would think about the snow and ice back home and got home sick. She missed her parents and her friends, but most of all she missed Mat. She was going to be gone for another mo th and a half and he hadn't texted her once. Her mom and dad texted her congratulations and they are very proud of their little girl. Some of her other friends like Kevin and Nadia texted 'congrats'. But not Mat.

      A little later, after watching an episode of Adventure Time,  she got bored and layed down. She started to doze off until something stabbed her from inside her pocket. She reached in and found the fifty dollars she had received early. She placed it next to her phone on the night stand and went to bed, hoping she would remember tommorow, during her free time, to call Ethan and have a tour of the city.

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      The next morning, she woke up bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. She got a nice, cool shower and brushed her long, purple hair and gpt dressed. She choose to wear a pink. T-shirt that read "Pretty and Wild" and a pear of jean short shorts with matching pink converse. She was happy with her appearance and walked out of the bathroom. She ran down the hall to her room on the left and picked up her phone and the fifty dollars. Then, she ran back out to her living room, kitchen, dining room area amd sat on the soft couch. She layed down on the couch and looked up at the ceiling.

      As she scrolled down through her long list of contacts, she found Ethan and clicked call. She held the electronic box up to her ear and sat up.

       Ring

      Ring

      Ring

     It dialed for what seemed like hours until his voice said, "Hello?"

      "Hey, Ethan, its me, May."

      "Hey, May! How are 'ya?"

      "Good, how about yourself?"

      "Good, good. So...let me guess why you called."

      "Hit me. Why'd I call you on our free time?"

      "Do you want that tour of Los Angeles?"

      "I sure do! When do you want me to meet you?"

      "Nows good! I'm in room One Thirty-seven in The Sleep In Inn."

      "Oh my God! I'm in room One Thirty-six!"

      "Cool! Come on over."

      "Kk!" May hung up the phone. She got off the couch, grabbed her fifty dollars, and was out the door.

      She stopped. As soon as she stepped foot out of her door, she was three feet away from his. She walked over and knocked. She heard a light "Come in!" come from inside. She opened the door. The room looked almost exactly like hers. A large living space, a hall back to the bedroom, a bathroom right next to the kitchen, it was like hers almost to a tee. Ethan wasn't there though. Then she noticed the shower sound coming from the bathroom. "I'm in the shower, I'll be out in a minute!" May heard him call from in the bathroom.

      "Ok," she replied.

      She walked over and sat down on the couch. It was as soft as hers, with the same number of pillows stacked at each end. She felt the softness of the pillows as she reaxhed over to touch them. It was a little weird, so she quickly pulled her hand away as she heard the bathroom door unlock. "Hey, I just half to go get dressed and I'll be ready." Ethan said. He stood there with nothing on but a towel rapped around his waist. May blushed. He had a six pack mounted on his thin stomach. His long, wet arms dangled at each side. And his hair sat a top his head, wet and unbrushed. He was perfect, it seemed.

      He rushed back to his bedroom and got dressed. He came back out with a white Hollister t-shirt on with a pair of brown shorts on with brown flip flops. He rushed to the bathroom to brush his long, brown hair and they were off.