ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING
Chapter Four

"Okay, girls. What do you think of this?" asked Rose, taking a long, red, spaghetti-strap shirt with lace at the top from the rack. "I am thinking about buying it to wear to dinner tonight."

"That is so hot!" exclaimed Autumn, looking at it. Adrienne agreed.

"Okay. Awesome. I think I should wear it with, like, dark jeans," said Rose.

"Yeah. That would be cool," agreed Adrienne. "What do you think about this?" She held up a long, white tube top with a pink sweater to go over it.

"Awesome!" said Adrienne and Rose.

"Adrienne, what are you buying?" asked Autumn.

"I was thinking this," said Adrienne, holding up a short-sleeved pink shirt with a brown and pink jacket to go over it.

"Cute!" said Rose. "Let’s go check out and go upstairs to get ready for dinner."

They went to the cash register, paid for their purchases, and took the elevator to their room to take showers and get ready for their first dinner on the ship.

One Hour Later

"Girls! We have to go to dinner now!" called Ruth, knocking on their door.

"Okay, Mom! We just have to finish our hair!" called Rose.

"Okay!" said Ruth as she went to get the guys.

A few minutes later, they all came out to go to dinner, and when they walked to the dining room and sat down at their table, the guys sat by their girlfriends until Rose’s parents interrupted their seating arrangement.

"Um...sorry to interrupt your moment, but we don’t want anyone making out during dinner, so girls on one side, boys on the other," announced William.

"Dad!" said Rose, getting mad at her parents. "We are just fine the way we are!"

"Uh-uh. Separate sides. Now!"

"Fine. Be that way!" said Rose as they slowly rearranged themselves. "Sorry, people. My parents are overreacting because of the plane incident."

"Don’t worry about it. My parents are the same way," said Adrienne sympathetically.

They ate dinner and went back to their rooms. Some guy, who turned out to be Caledon Hockley, passed them on their way to their rooms and gave them an evil look, which seemed to be ignored by everyone.

"Good night, kids. Remember to behave," said Ruth.

"Okay. Good night," said everyone.

Once her parents left, Rose had a fantastic idea.

"You guys! I have an idea. Autumn brought a radio and CDs, so we could have a party! I can go to the buffet and get drinks and snacks and desserts! So, what do you all think?"

"Yeah!" said everyone.

Rose went out to the buffet to get food, and met up with Caledon Hockley.

"Hey, what’s up? I am Cal Hockley. Wanna go out sometime?"

"Um...no. I have a boyfriend, so leave me alone and stop looking at me," said Rose.

"Fine," said Cal, walking away.

A few minutes later, Jack saw Rose at the buffet, getting food.

"Hey, hon," said Jack. "I came to see if you needed help carrying this stuff back."

"Yeah. Thanks, Jack," said Rose as she handed him some of the stuff.

Cal saw and heard all this, and he thought, Why in the hell is she with this gutter rat? I have got to do something about this.

Jack and Rose walked back to the girls’ room, heard music playing, and saw Adrienne and Fabrizio making out on the couch. Jack and Rose laughed with Autumn and Tommy until they started dancing and eating.

Fabrizio and Adrienne broke apart, and Adrienne said, "Come on, Fabri! We have to dance. You know this is my song!"

Adrienne started singing. "Smile for my daddy. Whatcha lookin’ at? Let me see ya grillz. Let you see my what? Ya ya ya grillz ya ya ya grillz. Rob the jewelry store and tell ‘em make me a grill."

They partied until two AM. Their room steward looked at the pile of dishes outside their room for him to pick up with a surprised look on his face until he heard the music and told them to turn it down and that the boys had to go back to their room. Things were just fine until four AM, when Rose woke up and had to go to the bathroom, only to find that Autumn was using it. She went out of their room to use the public one for their deck, only to find someone she didn’t want to see on her way back. Cal.

"Listen here, little miss missy. You are coming with me, and you will date me if I want you to," he said as he backed her up against the boys’ door and slapped her across the face.

"No! I’m dating Jack! I love Jack! Not you, you asshole! Jack! Jack, wake up! I need you! Please, Jack! Wake up!" Rose screamed helplessly as Cal kept hitting her and punching her. She tried to cover her face to prevent bruises. Jack was waking up in his room.

"What? Who is it?" Jack asked.

"Jack! Jack! Jack, please get out here! Jack, I need you!" she kept screaming. Cal continued to beat her up, wanting her to come with him, until Jack came out of his room with a confused look on his face, Fabrizio and Tommy behind him.

"Holy shit! Rose!" Jack yelled, turning to Cal. "Get off of her right now, Goddammit!" He, Tommy, and Fabri all pulled him away and punched him. "Don’t ever hurt her again! You hear me? You bastard!"

"Come on, Rose. Let’s wake up the girls and take you to your parents’ room to get you cleaned up," said Jack, leading her to her room and waking up the girls.

"Girls! Wake up! Now!" yelled Fabrizio.

"What’s going on?" asked Autumn. "Oh, my God! Rose! What happened?"

"It was a guy named Cal Hockley. He beat her up," said Tommy. "We have to go tell her parents."

"Wake up!" called Fabrizio, knocking on Rose’s parents’ door. "We need you!"

Rose’s parents came out, looked at Rose, and asked what happened.

"I-it was a guy named Caledon Hockley. I was going t-to the bathroom in the public restroom, since Autumn was in the one in our room. H-he came out and started beating me up, since Jack’s my boyfriend and I won’t go out with h-him. I started screaming as he was hitting and punching me against the door to the boys’ room, and the boys came out to see me getting b-beat up by Cal, and they got him away from me and punched him and they woke up the girls and took me h-here," said Rose, her voice shaking.

"Hold on. I will call security," said William.

Five minutes later, two cops came running towards the group of kids and Rose’s parents. Jack told the story of what had happened, described what Cal looked like, and they came back five minutes later with Cal in handcuffs.

"Is this who you were talking about?" asked an officer.

"Yes."

"Well, he will be dropped off at a jail at our stop tomorrow and will be in handcuffs until then. He will be taken back to America by helicopter and will be in jail then."

"Okay. Thank you," said everyone as the officers left.

"Okay, kids. You’d better get to bed. Girls, make sure Rose is okay tonight, and thank you, boys, for coming out to get her and bringing her down here," said Ruth, stepping out of the bathroom with Rose, whose face was cleaned up.

"No problem. Come on, Rose. Let’s go," said Adrienne. Everyone walked back to their rooms.

"Good night, girls," said the guys.

"Good night."

After that, the girls went into their room and they went to bed. Rose got up fifteen minutes later to call the boys’ room to talk to Jack.

"Hello?"

"Hi, Jack. I didn’t wake you, did I?"

"No. It’s fine. What’s up?"

"Nothing. I just wanted to say thank you for helping me. I don’t know what I would have done if you and the other guys hadn’t woken up when you did."

"No problem, babe. I just heard you screaming ‘Jack, wake up! I need you!’ and you were banging against the door or something. I woke up, and we didn’t know what was going on, so we came outside to see the bastard beating you up."

"I know. I hate him. Earlier, at the buffet, he asked me to go out with him. I told him no because I have a boyfriend, and he needed to stop giving me evil looks and leave me alone."

"What an asshole. I don’t trust him."

"Me, either."

"Well, you’d better get some sleep, Rose, or you will never wake up tomorrow."

"Okay. I love you."

"I love you, too, Rose. Good night."

"Good night."

After that, they hung up, and everyone fell asleep.

Chapter Five
Stories