Author's Note:
I'm sorry this has taken me so long to write, but I was having trouble deciding where I should finish it and exactly what should happen in the chapter.
I do plan on writing at least one more chapter of Opposites Attract, though I have to plan it first and do a little research as chapter 4 will likely take place in another country(I've never been abroad, so I have to do a little research)
It shouldn't take long for me to prepare for the next chapter, but then the hard part is writing it.
Once again, thank you to all my readers and fans. I appreciate all constructive criticism that I've received on my works and will try and get the next chapter out faster than this one.
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Sarah was sat on her laptop, searching for something on the internet. She wanted to surprise Hope with something for her official leaving of school.
She'd been looking up the cheapest, quality flights she could get to take them both on holiday for a week or two, but she'd been hampered a lot by Hope wanting to hang out together. Hanging out normally involved sex, after which Sarah had little energy left to search.
Luckily, Sarah had the day off work while Hope was sitting her final exams for the year. She was looking through the normal travel agent websites while also looking on other websites for special offers. She wanted to take them some place with a lot of sun. It wasn't something that England had a huge amount of, even during the summer.
Just as she was starting to lose faith that she'd find anything, an offer caught her eye. It was for a holiday package for two to Spain for three weeks. It included a flight there and a flight back, a nice hotel with a pool, room service and hotel food was included in the price and, therefore, meant they could eat and drink as much as they wanted without additional charge.
It was perfect and would only set her back by six hundred pounds. Sarah had quite a bit of money saved up thanks to living with her parents, so it would be no problem to pay for it.
Hope would finish school in a couple of weeks, so Sarah just had to get the time off to go on the holiday so that they could go. She picked up the phone and dialled the number for her work.
"Hello?" Said the voice on the other end of the line when it was picked up.
"Hey Sandra," Sarah said. "Is James there?"
"Oh hey Sarah," Sandra said. "I'll put you through."
"Hello?" Came a deep voice a moment later.
"James, it's Sarah." Sarah said. "I need to ask you a question."
"Sure," James said. "What's up?"
"I need some time of in about three weeks, is that OK?"
"Three weeks?" James asked. "That's a little short notice. How much time are we talking?"
"Three weeks," Sarah said nervously.
"Three weeks?" James asked loudly. "I'm running a business here Sarah. You're an important part of my team, you know."
"I know James," Sarah said. "It's for my little sister. She finishes school in two weeks and I wanted to surprise her with a holiday. I've found one she'd like, too."
"Your little sister?" James asked. "Is she the shy girl that comes in every now and then to see you?"
"Yeah," Sarah said. "She's sitting her exams at the minute. I'd really like to surprise her with a holiday. Please? I'll make it up to you."
"It'd best be a damned good way to make it up to me if I give you three weeks off, Sarah," James said.
Sarah chuckled quietly enough that James didn't hear her. She knew how to work him to get what she wanted, within reason. A holiday was something he'd let her have easily, without her having to make it up to him, she knew. She generally got bored when she got a week off and went into the office anyway.
"It will be, I promise," Sarah said.
"On second thought," James said, after a moment of quiet. "You work hard even when I tell you to take a week off, so you enjoy yourself, OK?"
Sarah grinned. She knew it wouldn't be difficult to get the time off work.
"You bet," She said.
"So, where are you planning to go?"
"Spain," Sarah said.
"Sounds nice," James said. "Nicer than England, anyway. The weather has been awful recently, even though it's summer."
"I know," Sarah said. "Hopefully it'll be sunny again soon."
James made a noise of agreement.
"Anyway, James," Sarah said. "I'd best be going and getting this holiday booked. Thanks."
"No problem Sarah," James said. "See you tomorrow."
"Yeah. Bye."
Sarah hung up and immediately dialled the travel agent. She quickly booked the holiday and then sat back and thought about things.
Hope would probably really enjoy a holiday after she finished school. They didn't get to go on many as a family because of money issues, so Sarah knew that Hope would most likely love the idea.
**
Two weeks later, Hope had finished her final exam of her high school career and was finally smiling for the first time in weeks. She walked home with a spring in her step.
She slowed down when she saw her bullies ahead. The usual coupling of Natalie and Beth and their usual group of guys who must have been so insecure in themselves that they had to pick on girls to make themselves feel big. At least that's what Sarah had said.
Natalie looked back and, obviously remembering her encounter with Sarah, quickly turned her head back to look forward.
Hope smiled. She'd never liked seeing Natalie and Beth, but now it was a source of pleasure for her to see them squirm when they saw her and imagined what Sarah would do to them if she found out they might have treated Hope badly.
It didn't take Hope long to get home and when she got in, Sarah was there, sat on the stairs. When she saw hope, she grinned widely and pushed herself to her feet before wrapping Hope in a tight hug.
"How'd your exam go?" Sarah asked.
"Fine," Hope said. "Science is my best subject by far."
"Great," Sarah said happily. "Glad to be rid of school?"
"Am I ever!" Hope exclaimed. "Never liked school much."
"Neither did I," Sarah said with a wink.
Both of them laughed at that and then Hope started talking Sarah's ear off about some of the questions in the exam paper. Sarah, while uninterested since she'd already been through it all, listened with her full attention.
"It wasn't an easy exam," Hope said. "I'm hoping I did well. I think I did."
"Please! You always do well in school," Sarah said. "I bet you got an A at the very least. Which if I recall is only just lower than an A*"
"I doubt I did that well," Hope said.
"Be more confident in your abilities, Hope," Sarah said. "You did great, I'm sure."
"Thanks," Hope said. "I'm going to go and change."
Sarah nodded and made a start on dinner wile Hope ran upstairs. It wasn't long until Sarah and Hope's mother came into the kitchen and took over the cooking. Their parents worked together, so it was more unusual that they turned up at home at different times, so Sarah had no doubt that her father was also home.
"Thanks for getting started for me, honey," She told Sarah with a quick kiss on the cheek.
"No problem, mum," Sarah said, watching her mother continue with dinner.
Carla was a beautiful woman by anyone's standards. She had medium-length brunette hair, blue eyes and a body to die for on a woman in her forties. It was the body of a woman in her early twenties.
Hope clearly had looks from their mother's side of the family, though she never agreed with it when someone said so.
"Ah, it's good to have three lovely girls to cook for me," came a deep, booming voice from the living room. "Smells delicious, dear"
"Get in here, you old geezer," Sarah called, smiling. "These days women don't just do housework, you know. Share the burden with mum."
"What did you call me?" Clark asked, a stern look on his face as he appeared in the kitchen doorway.
He was an imposing man, standing just over six feet tall and being broad shouldered and fairly well-muscled. He was a handsome and kind man, though, so the look he was giving Sarah wasn't one she took seriously.
"You heard me, you old git," Sarah said. "Get your arse in here and working on dinner."
"How dare you!" Clark yelled and charged the few steps towards his daughter.
Sarah smiled as, at the last minute, he reached out and began tickling her.
"I'm not a kid any more, dad," Sarah protested through a fit of laughter. "You can't do this to me at my age, it's embarrassing."
"Then I'll embarrass you for the rest of your life," Clark responded. "A father should always be allowed to embarrass his children, no matter how old they get."
He stopped tickling Sarah and joined his wife to cook dinner.
"You're evil," Sarah said smiling.
"You know it," her father replied. "Now get out of here and relax. You've no doubt had a long, busy day and we've been practically dead at work."
Sarah took the rest gladly and sat on the couch to watch TV, flicking instantly to her favourite evening show. While she was watching TV, Hope came downstairs to join her. They smiled at each other and watched in silence while the smell of dinner got stronger and more delicious.
Half an hour, dinner was ready and Hope came downstairs just in time to start eating, hair wet from a shower and dressed in what Sarah could guess to be nothing but panties under her dressing gown.
"So, how was work?" Hope asked the three of them.
"Dead," Clark said. "Practically nothing to do all day for your mother and I."
"Fine," Sarah said. "James let me go home too early."
"How come?" Hope asked.
"I'm too far ahead in my work," Sarah replied, after swallowing a mouthful.
"How does that work out?" Hope asked, confused.
"We do certain things in certain months, but only to the end of the year," Sarah said. "I'm a couple of months ahead."
