Together we are Alone

Chapter 6

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Chapter 6
The room smelled of pancakes, eggs, and bacon.

I looked around, still sitting on the bed. Joe had ordered breakfast for us while I was still asleep. I climbed out of bed still wiping the sleep from my eyes, and walked to the living room. Joe wasn't there. But he left a note.

I got us breakfast and our new boss said you could sleep. So meet us in the lobby at 12:00pm.

-Joe

I looked over at the clock. It read 9:36am. I ate my breakfast, brushed my teeth and hair, and got dressed in, not fancy, but nice clothes. I looked over at the clock again and it read 10:53am. I still had an hour and seven minutes before I had to go to the lobby. I had nothing else to do so I headed to the lobby early.

When I got to the lobby, Joe was talking to Mr.Baily.

"Hey Julia," Joe called as he guestured for me to come over.

I walked over to them and Mr.Baily walked away.

"We were going over our work hours and what not. I'll talk to you back at the suit. Come on."

As we walked back to our suit, Joe started telling me about our work hours. They were the same. We get to work at the same time, but different jobs. My job is to clean up rooms and deliver stuff to them when needed. Joe's job is to take luggage and escort people to their rooms. Joe said we would start working at 7:00am tomorrow, and if I had any questions, ask Mr.Baily.

"Do you want to go swimming?" Joe asked.

"In the middle of August?" I asked back.

"Sure why not. Today is actually pretty nice"

"I don't have a bathing suit"

"So we'll get you one"

"With what money?"

"True," he said without another word.

"Well we could just go back to the room," I suggested.

"And do what? Be bored?"

He had a point. But I was determined to do something though. We were both bored and it was getting annoying. Joe sighed and then looked at me curiously.

"What?" I asked with a small laugh. "What?" I asked laughing again.

"Maybe our boss will let us swim without a bathing suit. We could swim with just shorts and a tank top on."

"Well what are we waiting for? Let's go change and go swimming." I was terrified. I tried to avoid going swimming. I didn't want to tell him, but I have never swam before. I don't know how to swim.

When we got to our suit, we got changed. Joe changed in the bedroom while I changed in the bathroom. I grabbed two towels and knocked on the door to see if it was okay to come out yet. When he said it was okay I came out in my short shorts and a noodle strap tank top. I don't know any other time I would wear these shorts so I figured swimming in them would be best.

I came out of the bathroom and Joe was wearing a tight T-shirt and swim trunks. I don't know where he got them but I didn't ask. I was sure he just happened to bring them.