Two Girls in West Egg

Chapter 4:Sliding in Socks

Karmen and I soon found ourselves sitting in a small, cozy café waiting for whoever Nick wanted us to meet.
"She should be here any second now!", Nick stated excited.
So this person is a she, I think to myself. Nice. I already had a guess of who it was, considering I watched The Great Gatsby.

Suddenly, we hear the café door open. I turn my head to see a tall woman with dark brown hair cut in a bob walking towards us. Jordan Baker. What a "surprise."

Karmen turns to me. "Wow, didn't see that one coming.", she says with a smirk.

I laugh quietly as Jordan makes her way closer to us. Finally, she stops in front of us.

"Jordan!", Nick says. "So glad you could make it!" He gets up and hugs her. She gives a cool smile and gingerly hugs him back.

Now, from the movie, I recognize Jordan to be cool, hard, and cynical. I expect no different from her in real life, seeing as though everything else from the movie is the same so far.

I give a quick look to Karmen and we both discreetly nod. Time to put on a show.

Nick turns to us. "Karmen, Kelsey, I'd like you to meet Miss Jordan Baker." She gives us a sly smile. Karmen and I both smile.

"Nice to meet you.", I say kindly. "I'm Kelsey." "And I'm Karmen.", Karmen responds.

She keeps the smile on her face. "And you both know who I am." , she says smoothly.

That was one of the things I loved about Jordan in the movie. You could never tell if she was being rude or kind, and she was always calm, cool, and collected.

We sat for a while just chatting, me and Karmen pretending the whole time not to know a thing about Jordan. Finally, the topic of Gatsby and his parties came up.

"You know," Jordan began, "Gatsby is having one of his infamous parties tomorrow night.", she says to both of us.

Well, today was Friday so, that made sense. I smirked slightly. "Really? That sounds exciting!", I say pretending to be oblivious.

Jordan smirks. "You three should go."

Nick smiles. "We'll be there." Jordan stands,"I'll see you there.", she says. And with that she leaves the table and walks out the door.

Karmen looks at Nick. "Well, she's nice.", she says.

Nick grins. "Yeah, she's something alright.", he responds.

The three of us stand and walk out the door. "So, shall we head back to Gatsby's?", I ask.

Nick nods. "Yes, let's go."

I look to Karmen excitedly. She smiles. We'll finally get to see Gatsby's house.
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Nick, Karmen, and I walk up the steps to the gigantic house. Once we get to the front door, Nick knocks on it. As the door slowly opens, a man in a suit appears, I'm guessing his butler.
Upon seeing Nick he steps to the side letting us in.

To say the house was more beautiful in person would be an understatement. The high ceiling made you feel like you were looking up into space, and the shiny floors made the perfect surface to slide on in socks, something I planned on doing very soon.

Soon, Gatsby rounds the corner and meets us in the main hall. He smiles. "Hello Old Sport, Girls. I see you're back."

Karmen nods. "You're house is amazing!", she says. I agree.

Gatsby smiles once again. "Thank you. Would you like a tour?", he asks.

Karmen and I look at each other. We both had that look on our face. A look of complete and utter happiness and excitement.
"Yes, that would be wonderful!" , I say trying to keep it together.

"Well, you three go ahead.", Nick states. "I'm just going to go back to the house, I'm quite tired."

We nod as he soon leaves and walks out the front door.

Gatsby turns to us with a charming smile.
"Shall we start the tour?", he asks. We both grin and nod. He laughs. "Follow me."
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The best part of the tour was the laughs. All three of us were laughing and having a great time. I even got to take off my shoes and slip and slide on the floor in my socks like I wanted to. Of course, Karmen joined me. It ultimately resulted in me and Karmen lying on the ground in a bundle of laughs and Gatsby staring at us amused. He probably now realizes we are complete and utter weirdos. Oh well.

At the end of the tour Gatsby looks at us. "Would you two like to live here with me? Old Sport probably doesn't have enough room at his house, and I wouldn't mind you two being here."

I didn't even have to look at Karmen to know she was totally on board for this.

I smile at Gatsby. "That would be fantastic!"

Gatsby gives a relieved smile, almost as if he thought we would say no. Which, we never would.

"Great.", he says while his eyes twinkle.

I can already tell me and Karmen are going to be sliding on the floor in our socks quite often........
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Ladies and gentlemen, Jordan Baker is here!

~kelso~