It was seven at night by the time that Alura's meds wore off completely. She had slept the rest of it off as soon as we got to the hotel. The rest of us left her alone and went out to get some food. We found a great seafood place down the street and we all ordered. Andy thought it would be nice to bring Alura back something just in case she had woken up before we got back. I guess I had knocked some sense into him. He seemed nicer and I hope he got over himself. While we were at dinner we were enjoying ourselves and getting to know Eliza more. The restaurant was packed and filled with people who were locals and who were from different areas of the country. I had already had some JD and I was ready for more.
"Alura and I grew up together, we have been friends since we were little. She always wanted to do something with her art, but she lost her will and saw that she needed to do more with her life. When we were in middle school, she went through some really hard times and finally decided to use that as a learning experience and to use that to be a psychologist. Me, I am into acting. I act at the Lancaster hall. I sing and dance, I work mostly in musicals. I was always in love with plays and musicals and I always wanted to be an actress. I just haven't gone big, like acting in movies. It's hard sometimes, but I stick with it. I love it and I would never want to stop." She smiled and we all added our own comments in.
"Well, you have to let us see you act sometime. We would love to see how good you are." Andy said to her while he ran his hands through Juliet's hair. She had just gotten here an hour ago and she was happy to be back with Andy.
"If you do want to go big, Pennsylvania is not the place to be. You need to be in California. Even New York." CC said. He was practically swimming in how much beer he had drank today already.
"Well, I don't know about that, Philadelphia has put out some really good actors and actresses. Don't forget there are some good movies filmed there too Philadelphia." Jinxx supplied in Eliza's defense. She smiled at him and Sammie , and they both smiled back.
"If you move closer to Philadelphia, you could get a job." I said calling over our pretty red headed waitress. "Hey sweet thing, can I get another Jack Daniels?" I asked her. She winked at me and walked away to get my JD. When she came back she was holding a nice tall glass of JD she leaned over the table and handed the glass right to me. Her huge boobs hanging in front of my face. I cocked a smile and said, "When do you get off?" She smiled and put a coaster under my glass as I put it down. She made a kiss face to me and walked away. I lifted my glass and there was a number there. I smiled and took the number and put it in my phone. Called it, and quickly hung up to save the number for later.
"So is everyone ready to go back to the hotel and see if Alura is awake?" CC said and I nodded while everyone else vocalized their opinion. We all slid out from the circled booth. I was the last to get out and as we all piled into the van Sammie hopped into the driver's seat and we went back to the hotel. Eliza held the food that we had gotten for Alura. When we got back to the hotel everyone went back to their own rooms before we all met in Andy's room. Alura still wasn't awake when we got back so we put the food into Andy's fridge and we started playing video games while the woman talked together. It wasn't long before Alura called Eliza's cell phone and joined us in the room groggy and bleary eyed.
"Good morning sun shine!" I said taking the food out of the fridge and putting it in the microwave in the suite. She looked over at me and grumbled something I couldn't fully hear. "What was that?" I asked, fully interested in a grumpy side of Alura.
"I said, it's not morning, smart ass!" She said louder and I laughed. She plopped herself on Andy's bed and curled up, in sweat pants and a big t-shirt.
"Nice outfit." I provided and she lifted her head to look at what she was wearing.
"I just put this on. I didn't think it would be proper to walk in here wearing nothing. Anyone else think it's really hot here?" She asked as the guys gave her a 'YOU SLEEP NAKED?!' look.
"I'm from Missouri, We get every kind of weather there." I said and took the food out of the microwave. "Here, eat this we brought it back to you princess." She glared at me and took the food softer than I thought she would.
"Thank you, you didn't have to do that." She began to eat and she sighed. "It's that way in Colorado too. One day it will be snowing and then the next it will be bright and sunny and ninety degrees outside." She picked a shrimp out of her noodles and bit it in half. She then popped the rest in her mouth.
"Yea, that is pretty much how it is in the midwest." I said and took some Jack Daniels from the fridge.
"This is really good seafood." She said and I smiled. "So how was that being on tornado alley?" She asked looking up at me to show she was talking to me.
"Well, how is it living in Pennsylvania?" I asked and sat down next to her.
"Very quiet. It's one of the best places to live in the world if you want to get away from natural disasters, however you have to deal with the crazy weather. Snow every winter and then heat waves every summer. You get used to it though." I shook my head and laughed. "Why do you think our real a state is so expensive, for nothing really, and it's almost as expensive as California." She took another bite of her food.
"Living in tornado alley wasn't really that bad. We had kick ass insurance on the house, then we had a cellar for when twisters would come, no big deal. You just couldn't mistake a twister for a train." I laughed at my own joke and Alura shook her head, but I could still see her smile. She took another bite of food and sighed. Tilting her head to the left I heard a crack, then to the right I heard several. She smiled and opened her eyes before she put her fork down, cracked both of her wrists, leaned back on her ankles and cracked both of those, leaned back until she was laying on the bed, pushed her back up and cracked her back, then leaned to the right and left and cracked both of her hips. By then everyone but Eliza was looking at her. Instead of sitting back up she laid there with her feet tucked up under her back and relaxed.
"What was that?!" CC asked looking at her. She lifted her head and looked over her boobs at us and then laid her head back and sighed.
"Haven't you ever just gotten kinks out?" She asked.
"Yea, but I have never cracked my hips or ankles." He said and put down a set of cards.
"You haven't seen me crack my elbows, knees, toes, or fingers, or that little bone at the base of my spine, though I did crack it while I was on the plane and you didn't hear it." She finally sat up and continued eating her dinner. We all watched her before we started playing cards again. It didn't take long before we were all bored, Alura was finished her food and we were looking for things to do. Alura sat up with a squeak and a clap. "I got it!" She jumped off of the bed and ran to the door.
"What is your idea?" I asked moving to the edge of the bed.
"This place is huge!" She yelled adding arm movements for emphasis. Her face was alight with happiness and I couldn't help but smile.
"Alright and?" Andy said as he gathered up the playing cards.
"How many places do you think there are to hide in 7 bed rooms and all the other rooms in the hotel?!" She asked.
"Hide and seek?" CC asked standing and brushing off some chip crumbs onto the floor from hid lap.
"YES!" She yelled "Come on! And if you find someone you have to tag them before you actually 'find' them! So they do have the chance to run away and hide again!" She said and opened the door. "I nominate Ashley!" She ran off down the hall and I was left there staring after her.
"Hahahahaaa!" CC laughed before he ran off after Alura.
"Count to 300 Ash!" Andy said and ran off down the hall. Soon I found myself staring at a closed door.
"How the hell am I supposed to get into rooms if the doors are locked!?" I yelled at the door and sighed grabbing a key card off the table. "Damn it." I walked to the door and started counting. "One…two…three…" It took a couple minutes, but once I got to 300 I walked out of the room and shut the door to Andy's room. "How will they know if I give up?" I asked no one in particular because there was no one around. I tried the key on every room door that we had and found that the key I had picked up was Alura's. I opened her door and found that she wasn't in there, which was no surprise because how would she be able to get in without her key.
Closing the door I found myself looking for my band mates, their girls, and our two fans. It took me nearly twenty minutes before I found someone. I walked out of the elevator and rounded the corner to see Jinxx sitting behind a couch in the lobby. The clerk was looking at the two of us like we had issues. Well, that's his problem. Jinxx hadn't seen me yet which was good. Slowly I made my way over to him and grabbed his arm. Jinxx jumped up higher than a girl who just got caught having sex with another man.
"Gotcha!" I said and smiled triumphantly. "In your face Jinxx!" I said as he stood.
"What happens now?" He asked and I said, "Well I guess go back to your room. I'll just send everyone there so that we all have a place to meet in afterwards." I waved and walked off. What puzzled me was why I haven't found Andy yet. He is the tallest thing in the whole hotel and I couldn't find him! I walked to the pool and looked around. Walking by the pool I found myself falling into it. I screamed and with a splash and the sound of bubbles scrambling for the surface I was in the water. I looked up and saw a pair of legs climbing out of the pool. I reached the surface and gasped for air.
"Mother fucker!" I yelled as Eliza ran out soaking wet. She looked back at me while I swam for the ladder. "Just you wait until I get you!"She grabbed a towel and ran out of the room.
"Try and catch me first!" I crawled out of the pool and laid on the concrete. I was soaking wet and I definitely didn't want to be. Now I had to walk around and try to find everyone dripping public pool water. I stood and walked out of the room. The only good thing about Eliza doing that was that now she was wet and I could follow the trail of water after her. I found her hiding behind some of the workout equipment. I closed and locked the door.
"I got you." I said and as she ran around I grabbed her while I reached through the gap in the equipment. She pouted and I laughed, "That's what you get for dragging me into the damn pool. Now. Give me your towel and go up to Jinxx's room. He will let you in." Eliza handed me her towel and I smiled.
"Well you did catch me. Maybe Jinxx and I can play a game or something on our own." She said.
"Careful! Nothing too fun he does have Sammie Doll here remember." I winked and laughed as I left her behind.
"Purdy minds!" She yelled after me. Now I was interested on where everyone else was. I stopped mid stride and stood there. How could I have been so stupid! It's been hours since Andy had a smoke. Nine outta ten he was outside smoking! I ran to the front door and pushed through the big rotating doors. Coming out the other side I found myself looking at Andy leaning against a light pole.
"ANDY BEIRSACK!" I ran after him. He ran. Now just think short Ashley running after long gazelle legged Andy. It didn't work out. Luckily! Andy smokes! So after a while I caught up to him. Once I did I grabbed his vest and dragged him down. "GOT YOU!" I pumped my fist into the air "Yea!!" I yelled. Andy got up and took a drag from his cigarette.
"Fine you're just luck I had to smoke." He said and stood there looking at me.
"Well Jinxx and Eliza are in his bedroom, if you want to join them. Once your done smoking." I motioned toward his cigarette and I returned to searching. Everyone else I found pretty easily. It wasn't until the end did I notice that I still hadn't found Alura. I walked around the hotel searching for another hour before I returned to Jinxx's bedroom. "I can't find Alura anywhere." I said entering the room. Everyone was watching a movie and Eliza smiled at me.
"She said to tell you once you found everyone else and not her that you are thinking too hard and you aren't searching as hard as you think you are." Eliza said turning back to the movie. I looked at her and raised an eyebrow.
"What?!" I asked walking back out of the door. I went over the hotel once more and while I walked past the doors of our rooms I saw everyone returning to their own rooms. It was late and I had been looking for Alura for hours. I passed by her door and stopped. Taking out the key card from my pocket I opened her door thinking about staying in there until she came back. Stepping into the door I heard singing and a shower running. Letting the door close behind me I put the key card on the dresser and stood in the bathroom doorway. The door was open and the shower doors were misted but clear enough to see her blurred silhouette. Listening to what she was singing I lost my breath.
"Open your mind and see, we have everything we need, dream of reality, fulfill it's destiny. In every way, We need to let go, You'll see all my dreams will follow. In every way, we need to let go. People rise together when they believe in tomorrow. Change today to forever. This life keeps movin'" It wasn't so much as the song, but how she sang. She continued singing and before I knew it the water had turned off and she was opening the shower door. Her naked body was standing before me as she rung out her hair. I heard the water hitting the floor of the shower and saw her open her eyes. The one thing I didn't hear, was her scream. She stood there looking at me. She didn't move to cover herself up and she didn't yell at me to get out.
"You found me." She said as she reached for her towel. I continued to look at her. Her boobs moving together as she dried her legs.
"Yea I guess I did." I said and leaned against the door frame. If she wasn't going to ask me to leave I wasn't going to.
"Well, was I the last one you found?" She asked drying her stomach, breasts, and chest.
"Yea you were." I replied. I didn't know whether to wonder why she wasn't telling me to leave or to think she wanted to have sex with me, because she was definitely giving me a boner. I mean come on, what guy doesn't get a boner at seeing a naked woman if he is straight!
"So, is everyone going to bed then?" She looked to me and sat down on the towel she had just placed on the toilet seat. Her hand reached for a bottle of lotion.
"Yea they are." As her hands moved over her skin distributing the lotion evenly across her legs I felt my boner getting harder. This sucked.
"That's good. Maybe then we can actually start having a good time tomorrow and I wont be asleep." She laughed at herself and looked back up at me.
"Why haven't you told me to leave yet?" I asked changing how I was standing. My boots clicked on the floor the chains clanking against one another. She looked up a smile on her face.
"Do you want me to make you leave?" She motioned toward the bulge in my pants. "I think you are enjoying the view." She laughed a bit before she stood and leaned over the sink to start brushing her teeth.
"You really don't mind me looking at you naked." I said not even a blush coming to my face at her pointing out my boner.
"Why should I? Maybe you haven't seen my body before, but I know you have seen other woman. If you didn't want to see my body you would have left. Plus, you were supposed to find me. I'm not going to yell at you when one you think my body is hot, two you did what you were supposed to do, and three don't mind looking yourself." She smiled at me and moved the brush along her teeth.
"Well, at least you don't care." I replied. While I waited for her to be finished brushing her teeth I looked at her body. Her boobs bounced as she brushed her teeth vigorously. She had curves, but you could tell she didn't tan. Her pale skin let off a glow as the light from the bathroom hit it. Her skin looked like cream. When she was finished She washed her face and as she turned I saw a freshly shaved vagina and newly shaven legs. Nice.
"I don't care." She smiled and walked past me into her room. I felt her wet hair stick to my arm and trail along it until it was pulled off from the distance between us. She selected her clothes from the dresser and started putting them on.
"So are you planning on going to bed too?" I asked and stood at her door.
"Not yet. I may watch something on the TV. Wanna watch something with me? We can watch anything. I have Netflix." She finished dressing and laid on her bed. I smiled and nodded.
"Yea hold on let me get changed." I left her room and headed toward my own. I quickly changed while trying to get rid of my boner. I wore a black wife beater and black sweats over to Alura's room. The wife beater would come off once I got back to my room. She was flipping through Netflix when I came back into the room.
"What do you want to watch?" She asked and moved over on the queen sized bed to make room for me.
"Anything you wanna watch." I said and sat down after I had positioned some pillows to lean up against. Her eyes looked up to me and I could see a disbelieving look on her face.
"so if I wanted to watch sixteen and pregnant you would watch that with me." I made a face and nodded non the less.
"I wouldn't like it, but I wouldn't complain." I said and she laughed.
"Well It's a good thing I don't watch that show." She turned back to the TV and finally decided on watching Futurama. Old, but good. While we watched TV together I couldn't help but look down at her. Her stomach and chest rose and fell as she breathed. She smiled and laughed at the show and I could see that she was enjoying herself. I put in my input here and there to show I was paying attention to both her and the show. I saw her eye color change a few times while I watched her. It seemed that depending on her mood they changed. That was pretty cool. We had to have watched about six or seven episodes of Futurama before both of us fell asleep on her bed. My thoughts before I went to sleep were of her again.
I couldn't just get her out of my mind. She was different, but she still liked the same things we all did. She was really cool. She was normal but still an "outcast" like us. Perhaps she was her own outcast. A different kind of outcast all together. Not belonging to one side nor the other. I thought about that while I fell asleep, what would it be like…to always be stuck in the middle?

Notes

A/N: What would it be like to always be stuck in the middle? Let me know what you think in the comments below!!!
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