Alexis and I were sitting at the restaurant breakfast table, alone for a change. The 'Smoking Hot Five' were mostly there sitting at another table. Josie was conspicuously absent. Alexis looked over at Jan and mouthed the words, "Where's Josie?" Jan looked around and then grinned and raised her right index finger thrusting in and out of the circle created by her left thumb and index finger. Alexis grinned at Jan and nodded.
I looked at her grin and said, "What?" She explained that Josie and Dean were still upstairs fucking. I commented, "It's not like Dean to be missing breakfast."
Alexis snickered and said, "I'm sure he's eating something." I grinned and went back to my scrambled eggs, bacon and toast.
It was Saturday morning and everyone seemed to be in slow motion after the partying last night. Not many of us could legally drink but that never seemed to slow teenager down. There were some guys on the team who were legal. Alexis and I had our own private celebration last night and it had not included alcohol. We were feeling great this morning; not so for most of the others.
Everyone was chatting at their tables and there was a low level buzz, until Hannah pushed through the swinging door into the restaurant. The din slowly diminished. It got so quiet that the toaster startled some sitting close to it. I stopped chewing and watched Hannah walk stiff-legged across the room directly toward Alexis and me. I heard Alexis mutter, "Oh fuck."
Hannah walked over to our table and pulled up a chair and gingerly slid her obviously tender ass into it. She leaned in toward us and whispered, "What happened to you guys last night. You didn't call."
Alexis whispered back, "We did call. It took a little while to arrange things but we called. Ask Mindy. I talked to her when I called your room."
Hannah shushed the conversation to a halt and whispered as she looked around at everyone looking at her, "Well. Something came up." She seemed to drift away as she was obviously reminiscing about something. She pulled herself back from her reverie and said, "Everyone is staring at me. I suppose they all know what happened last night.
Alexis leaned in close and whispered, "I don't know. What happened last night?" She kept a straight face. I don't know how she did it. I couldn't. I faked choking on a mouthful of toast to hide my chuckle.
Hannah said, "Well, anyway; I was looking forward to getting it on with you guys."
Alexis said, "We were too. But, I understand. Things do come up." Hannah grinned and pushed herself out of her chair and gingerly straightened up. She left the room the same way she had come in and as soon as she was through the door, everyone started talking all at once. There were giggles and chuckles and outright laughs. Hannah had to have heard it. I kind of felt sorry for her. Hannah would be the butt of jokes (pardon the pun) for all time.
On the way out to the buses, we caught up with Mindy. Again, April was no where around. We found out from her that April had not been informed of the party last night. In fact, Mindy hadn't seen her since they got back from the game last night and that included this morning. Mindy told us that several of the guys wanted to call her last night. They really wanted to get into her pants and they were sure there would never be a better chance. We got on a bus wondering what April had been doing last night. We couldn't imagine her sitting in her room, all alone, watching TV when there was a celebration going on. Alexis reminded Mindy about the video and Mindy raised her hand with the seemingly perpetually attached cell phone and made a few clicks. Before she lowered her cell phone, Alexis' got a text tone. It read, 'Not sndg this to any1 Ls. Kp on the dwn lo. K?" Alexis grinned at Mindy and we went to separate parts of the bus. We sat with Alexis' friends and Mindy went further back to sit with the other Cheerleaders. Neither Hannah nor April was present. Neither were Josie and Dean. I got off the bus and checked the other one. They weren't there either.
The buses were loaded and still no Hannah or April and no Dean or Josie. Our bus driver had just slid into his seat when both Hannah and April burst through the Lobby door of the Hotel. April was moving faster that Hannah, who was still hobbled. Both were obviously pissed off. April stopped short, spun around and stepped quickly back at Hannah with her finger jabbing at her face. Hannah was brought up short by April's actions. They were both yelling at the other. April spun quickly and headed for the bus again leaving Hannah in her wake. We couldn't hear any of their argument.
The bus driver had started to close the folding doors and April jammed her arm between them and forced them open. She quickly stepped up the two steps and made her way down the aisle and sat down beside Mindy. Everyone was looking at her. Her face was beet-red. If she had been a cartoon character, there would have been steam coming out of her ears. Hannah stepped up on the first step of the bus and winced. I grinned at Alexis. Hannah sat in the seat behind the driver as he pulled the doors shut and shifted the big bus into gear.
I stood up and was about to tell the driver we were still missing someone, when there was a loud bang on the driver's side window. The driver was startled and slammed the brakes on as he turned to see Dean's big, beefy palm on the glass. He slid open the doors. Dean and Josie ran around the front and up into the bus. They were both huffing and puffing. Jan got out of her seat and moved across the aisle to sit beside Yu-Gin and Josie and Dean slid into her vacated seat. Josie's face was red with embarrassment. She mumbled something about 'losing track of time'. She wouldn't make any eye contact with anyone.
We all settled back for the ride to the airport. I was expecting to hear nothing but conversations about last night in Hannah's room but nothing was said about it; at least not within our earshot.