| "Hey, Mei. When does this road end? And where's my car?" Esther asked me for the millionth time. "A 'lil bit further, k? Chill out! It's not like I forgot the keys or something." I said rolling my eyes. "Look, look. There's my car! Hurry up!" Esther squealed as she ran towards her car and peered through the window like a small child at a shop window. "Um, let's see. Hmmmmmm�.", I dug around my bag," Essie, don't kill me but I can't find the keys." I prepared myself for some kind of scolding� "What?!?! You must be joking, right?" I shook my head 'no' and she grabbed my bag and dumped its contents on the roof of her car. "Darn! I don't see them. Mei, how could you?" She said looking at me in disbelief. I shyly smiled, "Jeez, sorry. I wasn't the one who pushed me out the house now was I? Don't blame me Esther." "Meliiiiiiiiiaaaa," she whined, "Fine lets go back to the house its only a 15 minute walk anyway." She said dumping her possessions by the car door. I threw my bags down too and then challenged her, " K. Come on, race ya!" I knew she couldn't resist. "You're on!" and with that we raced, dangerously close to the road, back to my beach house where we had stayed the nights before. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Half an hour later we finally reached the house (come on, we stopped for lemonade on the way. How could you not? They were just way too adorable!) We marveled at the array of fancy cars in the driveway. "Mei, who was renting out here after we left? he asked searching my face for answers. I had no clue. I should have asked my parents before they left for Maui (an "outer" island). After much discussion we decided to go ask Clara what we should do. Clara was a bit older than we were and lived out here for free as long as she cleaned the house after renters left. She was a "surfer chick", as we called her,and was good enough to go pro (if she wanted to). "Hey Clara, what's going on? Who's here?" I asked her when we spotted her coming back form the beach, surfboard in hand. "Hey Mei, Esther, why are you guys still here? I thought you left? About all the commotion, I haven't got the slightest clue. She said giving us quick hugs, Esther gave me a look of 'Help me' as we were soon as wet as Clara was. "Ya know, maybe we should check it out. What do you say?" she said looking at each of us. "Sure why not! Mei?" Esther asked looking my way with a you-better-say-yes-or-I'm-gonna-kill-you look. "Sure. Let's go." I replied. Why would I not want to? This IS my house anyway. "Hello?" Clara asked knocking on the door, "Hmm� no answer. Should we enter anyway?" "Why not! I own this place." I said pushing open the door. |