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I told him. "And charge it to Cabin P nine. Watson Brewer." "You got it." The waiter brought my Coke. I drank it pretty fast. I realized I'd been gone an awfully long time for someone who was just supposed to be getting her earplugs.
As soon as I was finished, I ran upstairs to the Moondance Deck and found the swimming pool. Andrew and David Michael were in it, but Kristy was sitting nervously in a lounge chair.
"Karen Brewer!" she cried as soon as she saw me. "Where on Earth have you been? I was worried!" She got up and ran toward me.
I thought Kristy was mad at me, but when she reached me, she gave me a hug. "Don't ever do that again!" she said. (Her arms were still around me.) "I was about ready to get a search party going. Or call the Boat Police or something." "The Boat Police! Are there really Boat Police?" I asked.
"No," said Kristy, pulling away from me. "Just kidding. But where were you? You better have a good story." "We-ell," I said slowly. I hoped a manicure and a Coke were good stories, but I had a feeling they weren't. Kristy probably thought I'd gotten lost, or gotten into some kind of trouble. I couldn't lie to her, though. I held out my hands. I told her what I'd been doing. When I was finished, Kristy burst out laughing.
"You were getting a manicure?!" she exclaimed.
I nodded.
"How did you pay for it? And the Coke?" "I charged them to our cabin." Kristy shook her head. "You're too much," she said.
She gave me another hug. Then she got out her camera. "Hold out your hands again," she said. "Let me take a picture of you with your manicure." I held out my hands and put on a great big grin, even though I am missing two teeth.
Kristy snapped my picture. Then she snapped pictures of Andrew and David Michael in the water.
I put on my earplugs and jumped in the pool. I am so, so glad that Kristy is my big sister.
c Hi A IP T E R ——— -^ / ^#f / yS / / r 6 I '11 tell you something: I have never woken up on a ship before. It was kind of interesting going to sleep in my bunk last night. The ship was rocking back and forth very gently. I felt like I was falling asleep on a giant waterbed. And then this morning I woke up to feel the sway, sway, sway of the ship.
Except for our alarm clock, which rang at 7:30, I'd never have known it was morning, though. Our cabin is in the middle of the ship, so there's no window for the sun to shine through. And of course, since I wasn't at home, there were no shouts of, "Claudia, get a move on!" or "Mimi, I can't find my sweater!" There wasn't even the nice smell of coffee.
Nevertheless, as soon as the alarm went off, I sprang up. Luckily, I remembered just in time that I was on the top bunk. I lowered C/cuxdUo- myself to the floor, stepping on Kristy's hand on the way down.
"Ow!" she cried.
"Sorry," I said, "but if s time to get up anyway. Hurry, you guys." It was our second day on the Ocean Princess, and later in the morning, the ship was going to dock at New Providence Island in the Bahamas. We were going to spend one glorious day in the town of Nassau. I couldn't wait. Think of it. Me, Claudia Kishi, in the Bahamas. It was almost as good as saying I was in Hawaii, or on the shores of Tahiti. Tropical beaches, white sand, palm trees, cloudless blue skies, shells, maybe a cute guy. . . .
I woke up Dawn, who was sleeping in the bottom of the other bunk bed. (We were using the top of the bed for all the clothes I'd brought that I couldn't squeeze into our tiny closet or the dresser drawers.) Then the three of us got dressed quickly, but silently. Well, I got dressed quickly. This was because while I'd been lying in my bunk the night before I'd planned exactly what I was going to wear. I put on my new blue-and white bikini and over that, a pink sundress with spaghetti straps at the shoulders and big blue buttons down the front. Then I accessorized. I tied a pink-and-blue scarf around my waist, knotting it in the middle, added my snake bracelet and feather earrings, wound my hair up