Page 2 of Not that Sea-Rious
The bride popped her empty glass on the bar top.“What?”
“How do you not have a brain freeze?”Tina asked.
“I’ve barely had two sips,” Joyce commented as she brought her straw to her lips.
Marissa giggled.“Well, you better keep up,” she said, before sucking down the last of her frozen delight.“This is going to be a long weekend.”
Carolyn shrugged and pulled out her room key and waved it at the bartender.“Another round!”
Tina snatched it out of her hand.“Nope.You aren’t paying for any drinks this trip.”When the bartender bounced over, wearing a bright smile, Tina offered her own card.“This one.”
With Joyce and Tina double-fisting daiquiris, the four ladies headed toward the back of the ship so they could make their appointments with the spa.Each of them discussed what they’d get done.Marissa, twirling strands of her long brown hair around her finger, considered something drastic.
“Do you think I could pull off a bob?”
Standing in the glass elevator, the other three women gaped at her.
That definitely wasn’t the reaction she’d expected.Excitement or condemnation.Both she’d understand, but pure shock?Nope, didn’t anticipate that.Then again, was it good or bad?She couldn’t tell.Marissa had long hair for as long as she could remember, but maybe she was due for a change.
“Absolutely not,” Carolyn declared.“You’re not about to experimenta weekbefore my wedding.Do that on your own time.From now until I walk down that aisle, your ass is mine.”
Marissa opened her mouth to protest.
Joyce shrugged.“Thems the rules.”
Glancing at Tina, Marissa closed her mouth when the matron of honor nodded.
“Fine.”Marissa rolled her eyes.
The mundaneness of the last few years had eaten at her.She was desperate for different, drastic, to break through the monotony of her existence.Her hair seemed like the quickest and easiest start to that process.However, her friends had a point about timing.So, she supposed she could wait a week or two for a life-altering event.
“Wait,” Tina announced.“Before we go to the spa, we need to stop by the room and check out the digs.I’ve never booked the captain’s suite before, and I’m dying to find out just how spacious it is.”
“My only hope is we aren’t on top of each other,” Joyce commented.
“Impossible,” Carolyn chimed in.“We got the largest room on the ship.I bet we could host a dance party in there.”
“Like…” Marissa smirked.“The Thunder from Down Under?”she asked, referencing the male strippers.
The four women erupted into a fit of giggles.
“I’m not sure this cruise has that available, but maybe when we get to Cozumel, we can find something like that,” Joyce said.
“If there is, I will find it,” Tina declared.
Carolyn furrowed her eyebrows.“Of all people.”
Tina shrugged.“Just because I don’t enjoy sausage, doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate the scenery.”
As the elevator chimed and the doors opened, the four were again rolling with laughter.They spilled out into the hallway and stumbled in different directions.
“Wait.”Joyce leaned against the wall.“Which way do we go?”
“Toward the stern,” Carolyn announced.
“I don’t know what that means,” Marissa admitted.
“The back,” Tina informed.
