Eyes Behold

30. To Him

All too soon it was time for the semester exams. Rose spent her day taking lectures, completing her shifts at the hospital and talking to Jordan at night.

Jordan was quite busy on his tour. As usual it was taking its toll on him as he continuously travelled from one corner of the world to the other . His schedule was hectic . He was either on the stage or in a press meet or in a fan meet . He barely got time to breathe .

The only two times he got time to himself was to go to the washroom or talk to Rose . He rarely called his mother who was living happily with her new husband and their two children.

He didn't despise her . It was just right for her to move on . She deserved to be happy too . But since she started her new family , she had grown distant from Jordan, not intentionally but naturally .

Jordan was mostly on trips and so rarely got time to visit her or her husband. Slowly but surely they drifted apart . Jordan missed her at times like these when he wanted someone to be proud of him like she should have been , someone to whom he could talk except for work purposes, someone he knew away from business ties . He found that someone in Rose.

He was excited, really very excited to have her and her friends over for his tour. When he wasn't on stage , he was preparing everything for their arrival, for her arrival. His staff had never seen him this giddy . He was nervous one minute , excited the other or yelling at someone for even the slightest mistake. He wanted everything to be perfect.

Rose couldn't keep her excitement too. Even though she was secretly excited unlike a totally crazy level excited Amelia , Catherine and Carlos. Ryder was only interested that he was getting to go on a trip with his friends but what made him really happy was a squealing girl who couldn't keep her excitement.

Amelia was just too happy about this trip . She and Catherine were like springing bunnies who were either jumping from their floor to Rose's or from one shop to the other .

Claire was her normal self .
Happy , yes .
Excited , yes
Squealing like it's the end is the world. No.

So the day they finished off their finals , all boarded the plane to their first location. Rose somehow was able to digest this in till now but for the sake of her own sanity and to gauge that much awaited reaction from Amelia , she finally gave in and told them their first stop.

Paris , the city of love , the city of dreams and the place Amelia wanted to visit drearly since forever. So Rose chose that on the list and as expected, Amelia brought the place down squealing like she had got the world.

Rose was afraid that with the amount of squealing she was doing all these days , she would for sure lose her voice all too soon.

"OH GOSH ROE!!! I love you ! I love you ! I love you girl ! You are the best ! Paris ? You remembered? Shit girl ! You should be glad I'm straight or else I would have definitely gone for you ."

Rose shuddered at the thought while Ryder mumbled a small ' I'm glad too ' .

To this the whole group laughed out loud while Claire hooted and Amelia blushed a deep red . Guess he wasn't that discreet and everyone including Amelia were glad for that.

Amelia was definitely in for Ryder . A talented basketball player , soon to become doctor , a decent guy who respected everyone and most of all bore with all Amelia's tantics, why would Amelia let go off such a guy ? And she was mainly glad other than a bit shy whenever he reminded her that he was equally gone for her too.

The journey was spent lazing around , munching on the food and talking about everything and anything. Everyone except Rose were getting exhausted with time. As if she was on a backtrack , she was getting even more excited and energetic. This was foreign to her but she was enjoying it , a lot .