Cora's life was perfect...until it wasn't.
When her friends whisk her away on vacation she finally learns to let her hair down.
But when she comes home, the ghost of vacations past seems to follow her.....
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New Year's eve, December 31st 2000
As soon as the plane door opens the warm hot Caribbean air wafts through the plane.
" Oh that feels so nice" my best friend Ava smiles as she fans herself.
" I know it's warm in LA but this is just a different type of heat" My other best friend Samantha or Sam as we call her says pushing to grab her over head bag.
" Oh it's different alright and you know what else is different...the smell of peoples body odour" I complain looking up at her as she takes a small sniff of her armpit.
We all get off the plane and I take in the sunny blue sky of the Bahamas.
" See, bet you're glad you came with us now" Ava says smiling back at me as we move in towards the shade.
Okay, quick backstory. My name is Coraline "Cora" Daniels, I grew up in the sunny desert of Nevada but moved to Los Angeles to attend UCLA with my boyfriend Conner, or well now my ex-boyfriend but i'm sure we will get back to that.
We get through baggage claim quickly and before I know we are hailing for a cab to bring us to the resort.
" Take it all in Cora, this is healing energy right here" Sam says as she opens the back window of the taxi as we drive down the coast.
" I don't need healing energy I told you i'm doing fine" I lie.
" Seven years with Conner and a surprise dumping and you're telling me you're doing fine" She raises her eyebrows at me.
" I thought this trip was to make me forget about Conner" I point out rolling my eyes.
" It is" Ava says giving Sam a death stare.
" Look like I said before, yeah it's shit, We dated all through high school all through college even lived together or rather he lived at my place and still I wasn't enough for him" I say avoiding eye contact with the girls.
" But hey that's life, i'm still young..right, and I have a great job at Harpers entertainment, I have you guys, I don't need him nor do I want him that ship has sailed my friends"
" Good because us three are taking the Bahamas by the balls, and are most definitely leaving every ounce of dignity we have back at that airport, so for the weekend let's forget everything, we can be whoever we wanna be here" Sam says mischievously.
I look at her for a second, She's right no one knows us here, and I wasted so many of me teenage years and my earlier adult years with Conner, I never went to frat parties or got shit faced drunk...I've never slept with anyone only him.
