My Lovely Murder

12

We heard George knocking on the door. "Hey, lovebirds! Dinner! Stop doing whatever you're doing!" Hazel got up and opened the door. "We were kissing, nothing else." Hazel told him, frowning. George smirked. "But I guess we shall go."

We got to the dinner area and we sat at a table. The waiter came by and explained her name was Shiloh, and she sounded American. "Hello, what would you like to drink?" she asked. "Oh, I would like wine, please." I told her. "Oh, sorry. A lot of Hindus stay here, so we don't serve wine. We mean no harm, just Hindus don't order it," Shiloh told us. "Oh, OK. I'll take water then."

"Hello, Mrs. What would you like?" she asked Hazel. "Oh, just water." Hazel told her. "And you?" Shiloh pointed to George and Lavinia. "Oh, we would like water please." George said, putting a arm around Lavinia. "OK, and the kids?"

"Orange juice."

"And we would like some bloody marys." Daisy and Amina told her.

Shiloh left and we all talked. "Isn't it great to be home?" George asked Jeremy. "Yes!" Jeremy said, hugging George. "I can't wait til we have that," whispered in Hazel's ear. Hazel smiled. "Oh, we should really think about what to name our kid," Hazel told me. Just then Shiloh came back with our drinks. Shiloh handed them to us. Shiloh bumped into a guy. "HEY, YOU LI'L RAT!" the guy yelled. "Oh, sorry, sir. I didn't mean to,' Shiloh said, turning to him. "YOU AMERICANS ARE SO RATTY!" the guy scolded. This hurt, considering I'M American. Shiloh just said sorry and the guy went back to sitting.

"I don't like her." the guy told his friends. They nodded. Daisy movd closer to Hazel. "Watson, something's up." she whispered in Hazel's ear. "I agree." Hazel told her. Shiloh came back and we saw the guy glaring at her. "Oh, Amin, don't you just hate Americans?" one of the guy's friends asked. "Oh, I do." Amin said, turning back to his friends. Shiloh looked like she wanted to cry. As an American, this hurt. Amin glared at Shiloh. "Are you OK?" I asked Shiloh. "Oh, yes," she said, a tear falling from her eye. "Just people look at me oddly." Hazel perked up at this. "Oh, I know how that feels. Im from Hong Kong, so people look at me like I'm a bad person, you'll be fine." Hazel told her. Shiloh smiled and went away.

George looked at me and Hazel. "What? I'm an American, I want her to feel better." I told him. "I suspose you and Hazel are soft-hearted. I knew from the moment I met Hazel, I'd like as much as you did, as a friend, of course." George told me. Hazel blushed. I looked and saw Amin had a woman next to him. "Oh, Seema, isn't India the best?" Amin asked. Seema, hs wife, nodded.

Lavinia scoffed.