ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING
Chapter Nine
The kids and Rose’s parents had
eaten dinner with the Cartmells that night, and now the kids were in the hot
tub that was by the pool. Tommy went to go get smoothies for everyone, and he
ran into a girl around his age who he didn’t know. She started talking to him.
"So, what’s your name?"
asked the girl.
Tommy thought, I don’t feel
comfortable talking to this girl. She’s not Autumn or one of my friends. I have
to leave before she does anything.
"Uh...I gotta go," said
Tommy, his voice shaking nervously. He had a bad feeling about this girl.
"Not so fast, man,"
muttered the girl, taking his sleeve, pulling him close to her, and kissing
him. He tried to pull away, but she wouldn’t let him.
Adrienne saw this on her way to
the bathroom and screamed. The girl pulled away as Adrienne ran back to the hot
tub to tell Autumn.
Adrienne wondered if she should
tell Autumn, but she knew she should. She and Rose were her best friends, and
they would tell her if something like that happened.
"Who in the hell was
that?" asked the girl, who was shocked and confused.
"My girlfriend’s best
friend. She is definitely going to tell my girlfriend, and she will be very mad
at me, and I will be devastated because I love her. Autumn is the girl I love
right now, and I don’t like you at all. I’m leaving. Leave me alone."
"Wait! You never said you
had a girlfriend."
"You never gave me the
chance to say anything before you kissed me," Tommy murmured almost
silently, but the girl still heard him. Before she could say anything, though,
he had already started walking away.
Adrienne was explaining
everything she saw.
"So, I was walking towards
the bathroom, and I saw this girl pull him towards her and kiss him, but he
didn’t try to pull away! Then I screamed and ran here to tell you guys!"
exclaimed Adrienne.
"My God! I can’t believe
this!" replied Autumn. Everyone else was too shocked to speak. Everyone
thought Tommy was a good guy, and they never imagined that he would do that.
Autumn thought, Why would he do this to me? I wonder what his explanation
will be? Wait...what if Adrienne is lying? No. She wouldn’t do that. Adrienne
and Rose are my best friends, and they wouldn’t lie to me. At least not about
something like this.
"Autumn!" Fabrizio
shouted. "We have been trying to get your attention for the past five
minutes!"
"Oh, sorry," she
whispered sheepishly.
"Come on. If I don’t get out
of this hot tub soon, I will be a prune," said Rose, getting out of the
hot tub with everyone behind her. They all went to the bathrooms and changed
into their clothes, then went to a table on deck so they could eat and talk. It
was eleven o’clock at night, so there weren’t many people there. Autumn was
sulking while she walked. She had mixed feelings, as everyone could tell--angry
and sad at the same time. When Tommy came up to them, everyone was silent,
because even the guys were mad at him for what he did. He looked confused until
Autumn got up and gave him a piece of her mind.
"Listen up, you asshole! I
don’t care what your explanation is, and I don’t want to hear it! I want you to
stay away from me and don’t talk to me. You are a bastard who needs to go to a
mental hospital, because nobody messes with Autumn!" she said, in his
face.
"Autumn..."
"No! I don’t wanna hear
it!" she yelled, dumping her smoothie all over his face and shirt. He
left, stunned. Autumn sat back down with her shocked friends.
"Well, that felt good to
do!" said Autumn, who seemed happier. Her friends still looked shocked
until they looked at her, and they started laughing. They talked until about
two AM, when they thought they should probably head to their rooms, since Rose
had fallen asleep against Jack’s shoulder and Adrienne was falling asleep against
Fabrizio every few minutes, though people’s talking woke her up everyone few
minutes. Autumn looked at them and realized how much she missed sleeping
against Tommy. She wanted to forgive Tommy, but she couldn’t. Maybe if he
called, she would try to listen to him. She still couldn’t believe he had done
that to her. Her thoughts were interrupted when Jack and Fabrizio stood up to
go to their room. Jack picked up Rose, who was still asleep, and Fabrizio put
Adrienne on his back. This made Autumn feel even worse. She loved it when Tommy
carried her. Again she was snapped out of her thoughts.
"Autumn! Come on! We have to
get back to our rooms!" Jack called from about one hundred feet away. She
walked towards her friends, still sulking. They went to the elevators, went
down to the Dolphin Deck, and went to their rooms. Jack, Fabrizio, and Autumn
walked into the girls’ room, and Fabrizio and Jack set Rose and Adrienne down
on their beds. Jack smiled when he saw Rose’s hair spilling all over her
pillow. The white pillowcase set off Rose’s red hair. Jack and Fabrizio said
good night, kissed their girlfriends, and left to go to their own room. When
they arrived, they saw Tommy sitting on the couch, watching TV. Tommy’s face
went pale when he saw Jack and Fabrizio enter the room. They lay down on their
own beds. Fabrizio got a sports magazine and started reading it. Jack took the
remote right out of Tommy’s hands and turned the channel to MTV to watch The
Real World. Tommy realized what was going on, and after about twenty
minutes, he broke the silence.
"Okay. What in the hell is
going on?"
"Why did you do that to
Autumn?" Jack asked.
Tommy turned pale again. "I
was walking towards the smoothie stand and some girl came up to me and asked
for my name. I told her I had to go, and she pulled me back and kissed me. I
tried to pull away, but she wouldn’t let me go. Then Adrienne, who was apparently
on her way to the bathroom, came up and saw us. She screamed and ran back to
tell Autumn," Tommy explained rather sheepishly.
"Right..." Fabrizio
said sarcastically. "I’m sure that is what happened."
"I’m sure that’s what your
story will be when you do that to Adrienne!" said Tommy, getting madder by
the minute. This comment made both Fabri and Jack angry, and Jack spoke up for
his best friend.
"Tommy, don’t. Fabri would
never to that to Adrienne, as I would never do that to Rose. I know this because
Fabri and I have known each other since we were born, and he is my best friend.
You, on the other hand, moved here just a couple of years ago, and I am not
sure if I can trust you that much or not," Jack told him angrily. It was
true. Fabrizio and Jack’s parents were best friends, so they knew each other
since they were babies.
"Thanks, Jack,"
whispered Fabrizio. Jack nodded, and they turned to Tommy, who didn’t respond.
They went to sleep in their beds, except Tommy, who was tossing and turning in
his sleep. He knew everything that Jack and Fabri said was true, but he
wouldn’t admit it. He just wished Autumn would realize that his story was the
truth.