South Seas Shenanigans by Abby L. Vandiver

Author:Abby L. Vandiver [Vandiver, Abby L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Media Web Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2017-04-02T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

The night of his arrival was a big night, and it had been intentional that Bay was here in time for it. When he couldn’t get all the days he wanted, we’d made sure he’d be here for this activity. We were going to the Meke and lovo. It was a night of celebration of the wonderful and vibrant Fijian culture. I usually learned about the culture of people through the pottery, and artifacts I dug up, but this lesson was live and in living color.

I was so excited to have Bay there, even though now he was going to take time to be part of the investigation. Not murder investigation. I didn’t want to say those words.

Bay was coming to pick me up at my bure at any moment, and I still wasn’t ready. I wanted to look extra nice for him, but my curly hair and all the humidity in Fiji were at odds. I stood in front of the mirror and tried to press it down.

“Oh well. This is the best it’s going to get,” I said to my reflection and stuck a stray curl behind my ear. I swabbed a shimmery pink gloss over my lips, rubbed them together to smear it evenly, and then popped my lips.

I turned to the side, stood on my toes so I could see my profile, and yanked my yellow sundress down over my butt. I looked at my bare feet, and hurried to put my sandals on, Bay was always complaining that I was always late, and so far it didn’t seem like tonight was going to be any different. So I tried to speed up.

With me not having much experience in dress-up, a T-shirt and khaki shorts had always been my happy place. Looking cute all the time I found was a hard and time consuming job.

Bay was coming to pick me up because we were sleeping in different bures. I just couldn’t bring myself to have Bay in the same room with me when Miss Vivee was in the next bure over. I wasn’t worried though, we’d make up for lost time when we went to my excavation site. Only four more days.

“Hello.” Bay gave a knock on the door and opened it. “You ready?”

“Yep,” I said and came out of the bedroom. “On time, too.”

“Unbelievable.”

I laughed. “I’m not always late.”

“No. I mean the way you look.” He came over and wrapped his arms around me. “You look unbelievable.”

I blushed. I didn’t know what else to do.

Bay pecked a kiss on my cheek. “Alright, let’s go. I don’t want to be late for this. I’m so excited.”

“You are?” I said grabbing my key and handing it to Bay so he could keep it in his pocket for me. I didn’t want to carry a purse, and the itty-bitty sundress I’d decided to wear didn’t have any pockets.

“Yes, I am. You may be a world traveler, but I’ve never left the states before, heck, I don’t think I’ve been more than two states over in any direction from Georgia.

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