Lost But Was It Found?

chapter 2

KIA'S POV

Looking at the sight outside the Euro rail I couldn't believe I was in Italy, where our first stop would be Rome or Roma as they call it. Feeling completely recharged I was taking in the beautiful sight outside the train when Ivy sat beside me,

Ivy May, with her long wavy brown hair falling elegantly on her shoulders and dark brown almost black eyes fixed on her favorite author's book. Her flawless fair complexion and cute round face added to her beauty and made her look younger than her real age even though she was the mature one among all of us.

Among the four of us Ivy was the problem solver, she would be the one every one banked on when it came to coming out of a break up, having last minute shopping problems,having trouble with an angry mom or an annoying sibling.

You name it and she had a solution to it all.

Sitting on her seat with headphones at the usual place was Reese,

Reese Bliss the tallest of us all even though we were all pretty tall ourselves, Reese was the one with the height and legs any model could kill for. But modeling for her was not an option at all, surprising every one she was the one who was the nerd of the group, with her bubbly and ever cheerful attitude it was a very easy job for her to mingle with both the populars and the nerds of high school apart from being with us. Her straight black hair were tied in a messy bun and her usually light brown eyes were a shade darker showing that either she was in deep thought over something important or she was angry, my guess was the prior one considering there was nothing that had happened to upset her in the journey until now.

I looked around to search for my last friend Siena Olive,

the one who planned this whole trip as something that we needed to do before we all left for college.

Only Ivy and I would be together and both Siena and Reese would go away to different places.

Lost in my thoughts I was looking around when I spotted curly blonde hair reaching the back of a tall girl in blue shorts and pink tank top flirting with a tall muscular boy and I did not need any second guesses to know where Siena was, only she was the one in our group who could walk up to a guy all alone and was capable of striking a flirty conversation with the opposite sex making her the only one who among all of us had a good amount of experience in the dating region.

She had sun kissed skin and sharp but soft at the same time blue eyes, breaking the monotone of browns and blacks of our group. Although she was a little short tempered and was ever ready with sarcastic comments but had a heart of gold and was always ready to help anyone in need.And she was a little slow with understanding jokes or hidden meanings, if you know what i mean, hehe..

Smiling to myself I nudged Ivy and pointed towards Siena,turning around a smile found a way on her lips too as she got the meaning of what I wanted her to do.

This was something that only Ivy and I shared. It was like some twin telepathy ,were without expressing in words we were always able to tell what the other  was thinking, maybe this was due to the fact that our mother's were childhood friends and so were we, but whatever it was made it really helpful for us to know each other's feelings and it made us closer friends.

With a smirk on her face Ivy got up and made way towards Siena where she was still actively flirting and with the blush that was visible on her it was no mystery that the boy was happily responding at her advances.

"DARLING there you are", shouted Ivy,walking towards the duo that immediately turned around to see who was making the noise.

There was a surprised expression on Siena's face but it vanished after a moment when she saw me wink from the background, hiding a smirk she disguised her expression into one of shock and fury and turned towards the boy who was still amazed as to who was the girl addressing.

Ivy reached him and hugged him holding onto his hand and smiling sweetly, she held out a hand towards Siena and said "hie, I am Ivy his fiancée, nice meeting you but May I know who are you?"

If initially there was confusion on the boy's face now it was sudden shock at those words.He could only stare at the two girls in front of him opening and closing his mouth thinking of how to reply.

Lack of words meant my entry.

Walking towards Ivy I called out to her saying, "oh my god Ivy what a coincidence? How small is the world? Fancy meeting you and Mark here, and I am so so sorry for not being able to stay longer after the engagement, I hope you forgive me for disappearing like that." Saying this I hugged the so called 'Mark' and congratulated him.

With our scene done it was on Siena to use her drama club teachings and carry the plan forward.

Acting very shocked she gave a stern look towards 'Mark' and said, "What the hell is all this? All this while you were flirting with me promising me a romantic date in Rome and here I see your fiancée entering and asking me who I am?"

The boy didn't know what to say for some time and when he opened his mouth to say whatever he wanted to he was mercilessly cutoff by Ivy jerking his hand away from her saying," YOU DID WHAT? You promised this girl here a date? How could you? After being high school sweet hearts, the perfect couple, and being engaged for almost a month now YOU GO AROUNG ASKING OTHER GIRL'S OUT? Is that all i mean to you?"

The poor boy was now actually lost for words and the only thing he seemed to do was slowly try to move away from the three of us and the crowd that was intently watching the scene unfold.

He looked so shocked and helpless that it was getting harder by the minute to control my laughter when I was supposed to maintain a shocked expression. 

"Mark baby there you are"

This statement made all of us turn our heads towards the new voice and seeing Reese standing there with a confused smile on her face I couldn't control the laughter threatening to burst out any minute and could see similar expressions on Ivy and Siena's faces.

Hurriedly composing myself I heard Reese calling out to 'Mark' saying, "Baby why are these lovely ladies standing with you? Are they old friends or are you flirting with them? Don't forget darling, dad is waiting at the station to meet you, you wouldn't want to ruin your first impression now".

The tall muscular boy who was once flirting away with Siena had now turned into a white statue with his jaw hanging open with no words coming out.

All he could manage to do was look at all of us one by one where we were all playing our parts perfectly giving expressions ranging from utter shock to pure fury and complete confusion. 

When it was almost impossible to control our laughter at the poor boy's misery, the connecting door of the other compartment opened to reveal five handsome boys standing there with confused expressions and that's when all of us gave up and burst into uncontrolled laughter.

The people around in the train seemed to realize what had happened and slowly they too joined us praising our acting skills.

'Mark' who still stood dumbfounded at having been fooled was the last one to react by wiping his forehead and thanking the entire god's of the world for saving him, saying "had that situation been real, I wouldn't know what to do. But you girls are amazing actors I must say." 

When finally we all stopped laughing I turned around to see who were the boys who had come into our compartment and were now patting 'Mark' and teasing him into being fooled.

After seeing the first two boys as my gaze turned to the third one my heart skipped a beat.

He was the same boy with mesmerizing blue eyes who was stuck in my mind for the entire night and was now standing in front of me, maybe I was staring for a long time because coming back from my toughts I saw him turn to face me and our eyes locked, no one willing to lower their gaze first.

His expression again was curious, as if trying to read me and I couldn't even think of how I looked, I only wished I wasn't drooling.

We heard someone clearing their throat and we immediately looked away, my face burning hot signaling the blush making its way on my face.