Playing The Waiting Game

Chapter Six

June 17th 2015

"You would think that maybe they would call us, and let us know they are alive!" Vanessa explodes. We're going on too three hours a still not a single word from neither of them. I wanted to hear from Noelle I didn't care about the other dickhead. I still have a strong feeling that Millie knows exactly where they are and just won't say anything. She keeps checking her phone from time to time. And she's not speaking as much.

"I say we just leave without them." Ryan adds placing his black sunglasses on and motioning his hands. "What do you say?" He looks around at everyone, "Anybody with me?"

"I'm with you, let's just go" Vanessa chimes. Weird that they could even agree on something.

"I third that lets ditch them" Nick adds.

"Wait. Wait. You guys can't bail on them! They'll be here soon do not worry" Millie yells.

"Do you know where they are?" I ask Millie suspiciously she shakes her head quickly not exactly making eye contact with me. Yup, she definitely knows.

"Actually, it seems as if they're bailing on us. This means we can leave without them. Let's get the fuck out of here. I'd ready for the beach, hotties, and boo-"

"You better not even think about." Ryan's father steps into the living room cutting his sentence short. "Why are you guys still here?" He asks folding his arms.

"Mr. Daubs I am so very sorry for any inconvenience but we are waiting on two idiots to arrive." Vanessa adds pointedly.

"Ah, I see. Very well, I have a meeting to get too. So if you guys would excuse me" We all nod our heads and he turns to his son before he walks out of the room, "You better be careful out there" He reprimands Ryan who just keeps a straight face the entire time. Then turning back to us he smiles, "I hope you guys have a great time" We all mumble 'thank you' and with that he exits the room.

"C'mon everybody" Ryan yells.

"Aren't we waiting for El, and Jimmy?" Tyler asks as get up from the couch stretching his limbs out.

"No, let's go." Ryan says once again, walking towards the door. With Vanessa hot on his heels and Nick. I see Millie look at me from the corner of my eye, as I get up walking towards the house door that is now open. Ryan's security guards have packed our bags in the van and now all we have to do is fill up the seats.

"C'mon, babe" Tyler tells Millie who is refusing to get into the van until Noelle arrives. Vanessa and Nick are already seated. I am next to go when a car pulls into the driveway and out of it comes the one and only Noelle and Jimmy Neutron. They both look flushed but as I take good look at Noelle she seems to be glowing.

"We're here! We're here!" Noelle yells as she runs to the van with Jimmy behind her holding two duffel bags.

"OH! WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT PRINCESS DIANA HAS ARRIVED, WITH THE PRINCE RIGHT ON HER BACK" Ryan yells in his best English accent. Everyone in the vehicle is laughing except me. I'm still trying to figure out as to why Noelle looks as if she is glowing.

"Be quiet, at least we are here" Noelle says as she gets into the van sitting right next to Millie who is no smiling from ear to ear.

"Yeah, three years later" Nick adds.

Ryan gets in the van as so do the rest of the guys, "Alright Vaginas and Penis heads next stop, Miami! Now are we ready?" he yells enthusiastically. This is where laughter escapes my mouth, and everything seems cool until I witness Jimmy placing his hands around Noelle's neck.

Yeah, this is going to be such a fun ride.

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We've been on the road for about an hour, and everyone is knocked out except for Neutron and I. Ironically. Noelle has her head laid on his shoulder while he has his arms wrapped around her. I want to burn his hands. And as if he knows that I am staring at him he turns around catching me off guard. He gives me a small devious smirk and cuddles Noelle closer to him, who doesn't even shift. I wonder if he knows how much of a heavy sleeper she is.

In return I keep my face passive; he takes notice of this and turns back around. This trip could either go really good, or really bad...and by the way it's looking. It wasn't going to turn out so pretty.

We arrive at Ryan's beach house around six thirty; everyone is wide awake and ready to go. Once Ryan opened the doors everyone rushed in filling up the empty guest rooms. And as if it weren't weird enough, I notice that Noelle and Jimmy end up in the same room. Walking out of mine I go straight to theirs not caring that I may seem like I'm intruding.

"Noelle, can I speak to you for a minute?" I ask at she sits on the bed helping Jimmy unpack.

"Yeah sure, I'll be right back Jim" She mumbles as she swiftly gets off of the bed walking towards me. Jimmy nods but from the corner of my eye I see him glaring at me. I ignore him walking towards my room Noelle obviously following me.

"What's up?" She asks as she places her hands in her back pockets.

Staring at these beautiful green eyes I cannot help myself, "Are you going to sleep with him in the same room?" I ask and I see her beautiful eyes widen at my absurd question.

"Are you crazy?" She seriously asks. I keep my face straight and don't answer, waiting on her proper answer. "No. Why would you think that?"

I shrug, "You guys seem pretty close these days and he just came back, I just figured that you two were a-"

"A couple?" She finishes my sentence. I nod my head slowly as her eyes softly lower to the floor. She doesn't say anything for a while and I suspect that they are together. A few more minutes pass by and she raises her head staring back at me smiling, "You're crazy. We're just friends and if we were anything more you'd be the first one to know" I relax a little hearing her say that, but as soon as I'm about to reply Millie walks in on us.

"Oops, sorry. Noelle I need you to help with a choice of bathing suits" She says smiling. Noelle nods her head looking back at me mumbling a 'sorry'. I nod my head and let her go ahead with Millie.

Hearing her say those words really put me at ease, but still something deep inside me says there's something that Noelle did not tell me. I wonder what it could be, but knowing that they are not a couple and hearing her say it made me happy.

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