Love On Holiday

*Athens calling*

Athens International Airport - half and hour later

"Have a nice vacation," I say to Mrs. Maria, a 64 years old women from the center of Barcelona, with whom I spent a flight towards Athens. "The same to you," she says back to me, while I am looking at the crowd of the people to trace Victoria. "Ava!!" I hear her somewhere near. I turn myself and see her how she is breaking past all passengers with both suitcases in her hands. We meet halfway. "I took your bag," she says with a smile. "Wonderful flight, I see," I say and take my bag off her hand. "Yeah, Alex is so funny," she said dreamily. "Mhm, and he is a little younger than you," I nod. "How do you know? Well, he is younger just two years. It's nothing," she swing with her arm. "How I wouldn't know. I watch sport regularly," I said when we step out and breath new, fresh air of Athens. "So, you probably know, that he has gorgeous brother?" she asks. Obviously, I nod. "And do you know that he is five-..."
"He is a five times world champion, three times in motoGP. His name is Marc and he's 24 years old," I end her sentence. "Whooaa, Ava, you are totally obsessed, I see. You hide that very well," she smirk. "Look, I just love sport," I say in defense. "Yeah, volleyball, football, swimming...not motocross, motoGP." She is smart again. "One hour before I did not even know that this sport exist," she adds. "And then you said that you are proudly Spanish girl!" I said to her when we sit on the bus. "Where did you lost Alex?" I ask. "After landing he met with his fans. We exchanged numbers, so we'll keep in touch," she smiles. "Wow, what an honor. I follow him only on Instagram and on Facebook," I laughed. "His brother also? Show me your phone, let me see if you have him in the background." Now she's laughing. "Do you even know where do we drive with this bus?" I ask more seriously. "Yeah, sure. The last stop is direct in front of our hotel." Satisfied with the answer I get lost in my minds. Do you really want to know what am I thinking about? You're right. I thought it would be nice to meet him. Marc, of course. "Ava, do you heard me?" Vicky pokes me. "Yeah, we stay one night at the hotel and tomorrow morning we sail off to the Zakynthos," I bluffed. Victoria starts laughing. The whole bus starts staring at us. "Vic, stop!" I say all red in the face. Only she can embarrass us. "You are so funny! If you could see you now, hahahahaha!" she laughs to tears. She took a deep breath and try to become serious: "Okay, sorry. I said that Alex texted me if we want to go on double date." I stared at her: "Hilarious. Give mi that phone." Vicky starts laughing again. This time I laughed too. "Sorry, friend. But I saw his photos and he's soo hot, and you are hot. Actually, you both are hot. How sexy would be your children!" She said in one breath. I roll with my eyes: "Fine, Vic. It's enough. Be quiet if you don't want to tell me what you said before when I didn't hear you." I take my phone and text my parents. "Believe me, I would tell you, but I forgot," she honestly says and texts her dad too. "Last stop," bus driver yells. We pick up our luggage and get out of bus. "Oh, now I remembered. He'll be here, too," Vic says. She picks the right moment. I just wanted to drink a sip of water when I choked. "Oh, this love," Vicky says and pats me on the back, to cough out. "Here, how here? In this hotel?" I ask when I can breathe again. She shakes with her head: "No, not in this hotel. On Zakynthos. I think that we'll go with the same ship. I can ask Alex," she says and smiles. "Oh, it's unnecessary," I say unconvincingly.
Tired from travelling, we get to the reception. After quick and short check-in, we are on our way to our room. "If you don't mind, I will take a quick shower," I say to Victoria. "Go ahead. I will take a little nap. My legs will fall off and every muscle on my body hurts me," she says and falls on the bed. I laughed: "How it will be if the top athlete soon be your boyfriend. Then your muscles going to hurt." I go to the bathroom and take a 10 minute shower. Ready for new adventures I wear bathrobe and stepped into the room. Victoria lays across the entire bed and she is sleeping like a baby. Someone knocks on the door. I go to the door and open it. There is Alex: "Hi, sorry to disturb. Is Vicky here?" He looks me from head to toe and I realize that I am wearing only a bathrobe, but I have nothing below. "Uh, yeah. Physically she is here, but mentally not," I say and smile, "she fell asleep." He smiles too: "Poor thing, she is tired because of the travel." I nod and still wondering what he is doing here. It's nothing wrong, but it's little awkward. "I will not stay any longer. I just want to texted her, but I was just passing by. Would you please tell her that we are going on the same ship like you two tomorrow."
"We are going?" I ask. He nods: "Yeah, my brother and two friends." I think I blushed. So, he is here too. I smile. When I see how he looks at me, I get serious: "Amm..., are you in this hotel?"
"No, we are just walk down the street. Well, I should probably go now. See you tomorrow. Please say hi to Vicky," he says and leaves. I just looking at him when he is leaving. Is that really him? It was yesterday when I watched him on TV. I sighed and close the door. "Who was it?" Vicky asked sleepily. "Good morning, sleeping beauty. It was your prince charming," I said and sit on the bed. She jumps up: "Alex was here???"
"Yep, he came to tell that tomorrow we sail with the same ship," I say and start blush again. "So, we are going to finally meet his famous brother," she applauses and get off the bed. "Now I will take a quick shower, then we can go out to the city," she says and go to the bathroom. I look for my phone and check Instagram. Alex posted that he's in Greece, he's brother didn't. "Don't be a stalker!" I said to myself and put phone on my night table. I stepped to the suitcase and take it from him fresh underwear, T-shirt and shorts. I knit hair in plait, wear white all-stars and rubbed eyes with mascara. I am waiting for my friend with the camera around the neck. After ten minutes, she is ready to leave. We see the most of the local sights, we afford a late lunch and at 8:15 pm we came back at the hotel. "I can't believe that we haven't met with the boys," she says little disappointed when we enter to the lobby of hotel. "I think that they are waiting for tomorrow," I said, when someone steps in front of us. "Good evening, are you from the room 165 and you travel tomorrow on Zakynthos?" he asks with a Greece accent. We both nodded. I blushed again - it's probably the fourth time today! "My name is Sakis. I am one of the tour guides. I would like to present you the whole program," he says and smiles. "Ava, I'm soooooo tired. Can you talk to him?" Vicky says and winks with her eye. "Absolutely, you just take some sleep," I say and hug her. "Good night, Sakis. See you tomorrow," she says and waves at us. "Good night," he says and then looks at me. "Can I invite you to drink?" I nod and we walk up to the hotel bar. We sit down at the table on a beautiful terrace. "So, Ava, right?" he asks and smiles. "Right," I smiled back to him. The waiter approaches us and we order two cocktails. "We will sail nine o'clock in the morning. Navigation will last less than two hours, because we'll pick some other tourists from two others islands. The ship has catered food and beverage, there will be live music and we are going to dance a shirtaki," he says. I smiled to him: "I love dance, but I am not the best dancer. But I would like to be taught."
"I can be your teacher," he says and takes my hand. Wohoo, in real life I will punch him in the face, but we're on vacation, so conquering feels good to me. "Deal. What is the continuation of the program? When we arrive, where do we sleep, what are we going to do?" I ask. "Around noon will we arrived, then we will have a check-in in the most luxury hotel on island. The whole two weeks the days are going to be free, you can do whatever you want. The evenings are reserved for socializing. We are going to dance again, we'll take a quick look to Greek tradition, we are going to have a toga party, traditional Greek dinners and so on. Of course, none of this is not obligatory, but the animators we really do our best and prepared a really great program." I give him a big smile, because I realize that we are going to have a lot of fun. "Sounds awesome, I can't wait," I said and drink the last sip of cocktail. "Thanks for drink. I have to go now, it's being late. I would like to take a rest and prepare for tomorrow." We both stand up. "Do I walk you to the room?" he asks. "No, it's no necessary, thanks. See you tomorrow morning. Good night," I said and walk to my room. When I step close to the door I realize that I don't have the card to unlock. "Sh*t, I forgot it in the room," I say and gently knock on the door. Nothing. I knock a little bit louder. Still nothing. I grab my phone and call Victoria. I hear ringing in the room, but Victoria sleeps like she's dead. I sit down next to the door. It's 10:45 pm and I'm locked out of my room. I remember at Sakis. He probably has access to all the keys. I walk through the reception and ask about him. They refer me to the basement where employees have wardrobe. When I just enter, I met him, he's wearing only a towel around his hips. "Oh, sorry," I say and turn away. "What's wrong?" he asked and stood up to me. "Can you please help me get to the room?" I ask, still turned away. "Yes, sure. Your friend locked you out, huh?" We both laughed. "Well, don't know if on purpose or accidentally," I said. "Wait a minute, please. I just have to dress up," he says and steps close to his locker. "I wait for you outside, okay?" I said and step on the hall. Two employees walked by me and talking in Greek. Soon come Sakis. "Okay, I'm ready," he says. He wears a white T-shirt and brown Bermuda shorts. Greek god, I say. I smile: "Nice, can we go?" He smiles back at me and we walked through the reception. He exchanges few words in Greek with his co-worker. When I listen to them, I realize that probably the Chinese is more understandable. Sakis waves to me with the universal card: "Let's go save you."
"This means, that you have access to any room in any time?" I ask when we enter into elevator. He laughs: "It does not sound bad, right?" I smirk: "It depends." He steps closer to me. It's only five centimeters between us. He leans over to me, gently grabs my chin...and...kisses me. My heart starts beating like crazy. When he moves away from me, he looks me in the eyes: "You are so beautiful, Ava. I liked you in the second when we met."
"I-I-I..." I stuttered. "Psst, please don't say anything. It's too fast, I know. Look, we are here," he says and we step out of the elevator. We walk in silence. Sakis puts his card on the lock and opens the door: "Well, you're home," he says and smiles. I smile back to him: "Thank you very much. What can I do for you?"
"If you want, you can do whatever for me in the coming days," he says. I step in the room and when I want to close the door, he holds them: "I am very sorry for that what happened in the elevator. It just drifted me. I hope you don't mind." I smile to him: "Good night, Sakis," I say and close the door. I lean on them and close my eyes. I am thinking about that what happened into the elevator. What this kiss mean to me? He's really a gorgeous man but everything is going too fast. And then I think about the person, I will meet tomorrow. I really want to talk with that person, know him better. I want to hear his voice in live, and his laugh...I want to make sure that this person thwart the ground under my feet, even before we met.
Vicky is sleeping like a baby with lit nightlight. I see that she has already packed everything. I took my pajama out of the suitcase and take a quick shower. When I lay to the bed it's almost midnight. I turn off the light and stare in the dark until I fall asleep.