When You Look Me In The Eyes

Olive Branch

*B lays on the hotel bed watching a lifetime movie about gymnastics*

Bailey’s Inner Monologue

Well isn’t that just peachy….this tv gets all of four channels that arent advertisements….ESPN,Weather channel, Lifetime and Discovery and seeing as how I'd rather poke out my eyes than watch the weather channel….I've already watched ESPN loop three times and Discovery is showing some guy drinking his own urine...Lifetime it is….not that I don’t love me some Lifetime…but seriously? SERIOUSLY? A gymnastics show? I'm being punked by God right now for real.

*Knock on the door*

*B hops up and peeks through the peephole and rolls her eyes before opening the door*

(Bailey) Nick isn’t here *goes to close the door*

(Isabelle) I know…I was just with him downstairs…I was wondering if we could talk

(Bailey) about?

(Isabelle) Nick told me you got grounded

(Bailey) so…you are here to what? Rub it in?

(Isabelle) no...I…*sighs* can I please come in

(Bailey) *sighs* whatever…*turns and plops back down on the bed to watch the movie*

*Isabelle walks in and sits on the edge of the bed…the Lifetime movie immediately catching her eye*

(Isabelle) what are you watching?

(Bailey) its called Little Girls In Pretty Boxes…It's about your glamorous gymnastics like popping pills and throwing up to stay thin but I'm sure you know ALL about that…*bitchy*

(Isabelle) some girls will do anything to keep their BMI down…they will get dropped otherwise…*watching tv intently*

(Bailey) K…sure…whatever that means…so you vomit and take pills, congrats…I can't imagine why you would ever want to leave that life

(Isabelle) I don’t do that…I said some girls…C would kill us. *Intently watching tv while talking* bulimia and anorexia are unfortunately a part of the sport…it's socially unaccepted but always present…at least with some coaches…NOT Chris

(Bailey) well, nice to know you aren't wasting all that food my brother keeps buying you

(Isabelle) *sighs* I know you are upset with me…could we please start over

(Bailey) and why would I do that?

(Isabelle) look, I will be perfectly honest with you…I have no idea what I want in my life. I used to think it was gymnastics until your brother came along and suddenly now I'm not so sure. I just want to be able to make my own decisions about what I want, I am tired of having them made for me. I really am falling in love with your brother and I KNOW that you are the most important person to him on the planet…he tells me that all the time. I…I am new to this whole relationship thing. I'm not even sure how to make myself happy…let alone someone else…or two someone elses. I know you overheard my conversation yesterday and that’s what kinda started this whole thing, I was on the phone with Taylor. She was trying to convince me to come home…she thinks I'm making a huge mistake being here and that I am throwing all my hard work away for a crush. I don’t feel that way…T just has man hate issues…she had a bad boy experience so she thinks all boys are evil and shouldn’t be trusted

(Bailey) ok the bad boy experience I can understand but if it really was that innocent of a conversation why did you hang up when you saw Nick?

(Isabelle) *sighs*….I can't keep track of two phones, it's just too confusing carrying both, I kind of neglected mine and it was dead so I called T from my work phone…which I know I'm not supposed to do and then I saw Nick and panicked

(Bailey) you panicked because you made a personal call on the runner cell and you thought you would get busted?

*Isabelle shrugs*

*B busts out laughing*

(Bailey) wow….you rebel. Better be careful, that kind of rebellion is just a gateway to harder things like eating fries

(Isabelle) DONE *smiles* delicious

(Bailey) wow…I was joking…you really don't eat fries?

(Isabelle) that’s the same look your brother gave me…like it was the most ridiculous thing he had ever heard

(Bailey) no…the most ridiculous thing would be if you never ate candy

*Isabelle is silent and then shrugs*

(Bailey) *wide eyed* that’s not funny

(Isabelle) *giggles* you two have the same faces sometimes…it's kind of creepy

(Bailey) no candy? Like NONE? Skittles? Starbursts? Dots? Twizzlers? M&M’s?

(Isabelle) *shakes head* Chris is very “Food is fuel” high protein…good fats…whole grains that sort of thing…

(Bailey) *blink* *blink* I….I don’t even know how to respond to that

(Isabelle) definitely on my list of things to do

*B gets up and walks over to her bag ,pulls out a bag of sour patch watermelons and offers one to Izzy*

(Isabelle) what is that?

(Bailey) think of it as an olive branch. Go on….all the cool kids are doing it

*Izzy smiles and takes a melon*