31.12.
“Baby, wake up, we are about to land.” Elena felt lips on her cheek and flinched.
Landing? What? Where? Why?
She sat up and almost fell down from her seat.
What in the world...? Dozily she stared at Samu that was sitting next to her, grabbing her astound.
“You alright love?” he asked concerned and tried to pull her up and make her sit upright. “Wanna have a drink or something?”
She closed her eyes, carefully shaking her head. “No... no, I’m... I’m fine. I’m fine.” Quickly she threw a gaze around. There was Sami with a blond girl by his side, Osmo was sitting right behind her, talking to someone. Raul. She recognized his voice and his laughter. Riku sat on the other side of the small plane with a blond girl, sleeping with her head rested to his shoulder.
She was back.
Why was she back?
How could she be dreaming again?
She shut her eyes firmly. The pills! She had taken one right before going to sleep... How in the freaking world was it possible that she was back in her dreams now?
Completely baffled she leaned over, resting her temple to Samu’s arm.
He was here, they all were. He was real, she could smell the familiar scent of his cologne.
How could this be?
She was out of words, not even realizing that the plane actually landed and they were all picked up by two cars. Driving along the dark streets, bordered with rocks, palm trees and oleander plants, she pretended to be asleep again.
Not wanting to wake her up, Samu took her in his arms as soon as the cars stopped.
Her eyes remained closed. It was impossible for her to even think about doing conversation with all of them now. She felt sick, scared and somehow she had the weird feeling of being home and safe with Samu. It was all too weird. Pretending to sleep was the best idea for now. Breathing in and out as steady and calm as possible, she listened to all the noises surrounding her. There was soft and warm wind, whispering in the bushes when Samu started carrying her along. The silent rolling of an ocean nearby.
“It’s beautiful!” the high-pitched sound of a female voice resounded from behind. “Look at the beach! Gosh, it’s awesome!”
“Up for a swim?” she suddenly heard Riku’s voice and the girl giggled.
“Well, as long as you join me and you are naked, I’m in!”
She sounded flirty and Elena felt a little itch of jealousy. Stupid feeling! He wasn’t hers, what the hell was wrong with her?
A door was opened and the sounds from the outside faded away. Samu carried her up the stairs and entered a room where he put her down on a soft bed. “Sleep well, love.” He whispered, resting his lips on her forehead. “I’ll be back in a minute.” His steps on the carpet faded and the door was closed.
Carefully she opened her eyes, gazing around the room. It was quite small, not bigger than her bedroom at home in Helsinki. She swallowed hard. Home.
Taking a deep breath she stared at the wooden panelling at the ceiling and the white and light blue walls of the room. There were two open windows and a balcony door to her right, a small commode at the wall in front of the bed. A real summer house. Warm wind blew inside through the thin white curtains, blowing them up a little. Ocean sounds. Salty smell. She sat up completely, walking over to the balcony door. The view was breath-taking. A long, white shore, some palm trees swaying in the wind. Soft waves crashing in, encountering the shore. The moon was almost full and enlightened the whole scenery with its brilliant silver shine.
She wrapped her arms around herself, realising in surprise that she wore a thin, white summer dress. She had to go back to sleep. Slowly she turned over to the huge bed made of dark wood. Everything would be in order again as soon as she closed her eyes. It would be winter again. She would be home in Finland, having breakfast with her family. Everything would be alright.
Shivering she lay down and took off her shoes, wrapping herself into one of the blankets. Everything would be fine again.
She awoke in the morning when somebody knocked at her door. “Cumin’, Lilly!” she mumbled, trying to sit up, but an arm was wrapped around her from behind and she felt a warm body moving closer.
“Let ‘em knock as much as they want!” a deep voice mumbled and Elena grew stiff in his arms.
A new morning, but still she was here! It had never been two mornings in a row at one place since the dreams had started.
Elena took a deep breath.
Trying to find any kind of algorithm in her dreams she closed her eyes. There was no point in trying to make sense of it but at least there should be some... scheme? Some calculating rule? Only something? First it had been a night/day-thing. Even if she had fallen asleep during the day at the beginning she returned home. But... It had changed. The afternoon-nap on the couch. She had still been in Samu’s arms even after sleeping there for a few hours. The pills had given her a little break but now everything seemed to start over again and was even stronger than before.
She buried her face in the pillow, feeling Samu’s body moving closer again, his hand slipping into the neckline of her dress, cupping her breast. He sighed, softly kissing his way over her shoulder and her neck.
Another knock at the door was heard. “Ou cum ooooooooon, you two!” Raul sounded annoyed. “Everybody’s having breakfast, we’re heading off for the beach soon! Cum on, join us! Last day of the year and it’s eleven already!!”
The hand was removed and Samu sighed again. Yawning he turned around to lie on his back. “Christ, have mercy! We’re coming! Jeez, mate! Chill!” he ran his hands through his hair and got up, stretching his back. Quickly he bent down again, kissing Elena’s lips.
“You can go without me, luv.” Again he kissed her, grabbing a packet of cigarettes from the bedside table. “I’ll be right with you.” Grinning he stepped outside onto the balcony. Only a split second later a yelp was heard and Samu broke into laughter, leaning over the balustrade. “Come on! It’s not like I’m having a boner or something! If you can’t handle it, Juliane, just don’t look!”
“Well, so you tell me: how am I supposed to have my sausage for breakfast when you put yours right into my face?” she yelled back up at him and laughed. “Anyway, what’s the story, morning glory?”
Slowly Elena dragged herself up on her feet and went outside. She placed herself right in front of her naked husband, making a blond woman on the terrace of the ground floor giggle and wave. “At least you are dressed, babes!”
A little unassertive Elena laughed along with her. Babes? She had never talked to this woman in her entire life. Very well then. Most probably she was her friend. Looking around the table her gaze found another woman. She was tiny, maybe even smaller than herself, sitting next to Riku with her thin white legs on his lap. Elena felt this strange little itch from last night again, quickly trying to shake it off. She wasn’t jealous! Not because of this little blond doll, eating a grapefruit for breakfast while everyone around was having sausages, bacon and eggs. Tiny doll looked up, her alabaster cheeks blushing when she saw Samu naked. Quickly she lowered her eyes but only seconds later she flashed another gaze at him and blushed even deeper.
“It’s like an accident.” Elena raised her eyebrow at the doll. “You can’t take yer eyes off it, right?”
The whole table broke into laughter when Dolly choked on her grapefruit.
Riku patted her back, trying hard to suppress his giggles. “You haven’t been introduced properly, hun! I think you were asleep when we arrived at the airport yesterday.” He smiled at Elena and squinted when the sun hit his eyes. “Elena, this is Jewell. Jewell, my dear friend Elena.”
You’ve got to be kidding me! Little precious’ name was JEWELL? Elena threw a gaze at her grinning and smoking husband. “Are you fucking kidding me?” she whispered, trying to hold back a few giggles. His grin widened and he shrugged. “Love is blind!” he whispered back, wrapping his arm around her from behind. “And certainly deaf as well!” he added, making her chuckle. Carefully he kissed the back of her neck, his fingers playing around the outlines of her tattoo. “Just imagine him on top of her, how come she’s still in one piece?”
Elena burst into laughter. “Wonder how.” Her eyes were locked with little precious that had just recovered from her coughing spell. Still her pale face was red but her gaze was curious. She looked Elena up and down, moving a little closer to Riku to wrap her arms around his neck. “Come on, the beach is waiting!” she purred and kissed him, still watching Elena from the corner of her eye.
Grinning inwardly, Elena rested her head against Samu’s chest. ‘Try not to drown with your lack of body fat!’ She thought, before heading inside to find something else to wear.
The guys were playing fussball when Elena returned from swimming up and down the beach on her own for a while. The water was cold but still the sun was shining brightly. Savouring the feeling of the warm sunlight on her wet skin, Elena sat down in the sand, closing her eyes and ignoring the stickiness of the salty water. Suddenly she heard somebody clearing her throat and opened her eyes a little irritated. It was Sami’s girlfriend. Juliane, Elena remembered quickly. “Hey there, everything alright?”
“Sure.” Juliane placed her towel next to Elena in the sand. “Just needed to get away from the little diamond over there. Do you get it? I mean, helllloooouuu! What the freaking hell is wrong with Riku? Has she fucked his brains back into stone age or what?”
“Most probably.” Elena muttered, throwing a little flat stone into the water. “I assume, I must be bisased, but for all I care my new name’s prejudice and that one,” secretly she pointed at Jewell. “That one’s skinny, stupid, annoying and shallow.”
Juliane giggled. “I agree, prejudice.” She dug her toes into the sand. “So what are we going to do about it? I mean, she’s really stupid! No, no! I mean it! I think she’s from the US, somewhere southwest, I don’t know, but she actually asked me about Lapland these days, where I was born raised, telling me that she liked the Stockholm area best because it was the sunniest part of Finland…”
“No way!” Elena looked up, finding the blond woman nodding. “We tried to talk about the war in Afghanistan this morning and all she could add was that all those Iraqi-Muslims scared her a lot with all their bombs and stuff.”
Elena chuckled, putting her face on her knees. “Oh my.” She sighed. “So what are we supposed to do now? Cut her out? Ignore her? I could easily do that, she’s not too fond of me anyway.”
“We should try our best. You think we might manage to pretend she’s not there?”
Elena nodded, patting the other woman’s leg. “Yes we can! Maybe we can just put her in the trunk of a car and drive for a bit, she won’t find her way home, don’t you think? Most probably she has no idea where we are. Bahamas sounds like a faraway fairy-land!”
Giggling Juliane sat up. Throwing a quick gaze around, she rolled her eyes. “Here we go again!” she mumbled, moving a little closer to Elena, when Jewell approached. She had been sitting close to the ball-playing men for half an hour, watching Riku, cheering and applauding for him. Well, he wasn’t a bad player but today it was impossible to watch him and his two left feet.
Little precious seemed a little more loyal.
Watching her putting down her towel right in front of the two others, Elena narrowed her eyes, realising that she was now blocking the view over the ocean completely. Obviously she needed to have an eye on Riku and the rest of the lads.
Her blond hair was annoyingly beautiful, fluttering in the soft wind and Elena ran her sandy hands through her own wet and salty hair. What the fuck? There was no need to feel intimidated by this little toy Riku had most probably brought in his hand luggage! Sitting up Elena straightened her back. ‘My brain’s a lot bigger than yours.’ She thought. ‘And so are my tits!’
“Hey!” Jewell smiled endearing. “Isn’t this beach just awe-some?”
“Try the water, it’s fantastic!” Elena nodded at the soft waves, hoping that little princess could take a hint.
Unfortunately the tiny blonde shook her head, her eyes widened in shock. “No way! It’s cold! And all the salt, I’d need my coiffeur right away! God, you are so lucky with this strong hair of yours!” her lips were still smiling, but there was something else in her blue eyes. Rivalry? Competition?
Surprised Elena cocked her head. Animosity? Because of what? Being Riku’s ex-girlfriend? She fought back a grin. ‘Wake up darling!’ she thought. ‘You were in primary school when I dated him!’
“Well,” she crossed her ankles and faced the afternoon sun. “I’m damn lucky, I know!”
“My saying.” Jewell moved a little closer, her voice becoming a bit more mellifluous. “You’re quite happy with Samu, aren’t you?”
A little surprised Elena looked at her. “We wouldn’t share our lives if we weren’t, don’t ye think?”
“Ou, you can do those accents too!” clapping Jewell giggled. “You almost sound like them! I’ve tried sooo hard but I never manage!”
“I’m not just doing it, that’s my actual dialect!”
“Oh so you are Scandinavianish as well? You lived there too?”
“Live, present tense. And I’m not Scandinavianish, I’m FINNISH! We all are. I went to the same school as Sami, Riku and Osmo. Same town, you know?”
“Ah!” she was about to say something but her head spun around when Riku called her name. At an instant she was on her feet again, running over the sand.
Juliane looked after her. “You think she memorized the Scandinavianish-Finnish-thing? Or anything else you just told her?”
“Nope.” Slowly Elena shook her head. “I think there’s a sieve below the blond hair. She knows Riku’s name, that’s all that counts.”
“Did you realise, she tried to be mean to you!” chuckling Julian waved at her boyfriend that was completely covered in sweat, emptying a bottle of water.
“Yeah I know!” Elena grinned. “That one hit me hard, trust me! Jokes about my hair! Those are taken quite serious! Most probably I’ll cry myself to sleep tonight with this whole mess on my head!”
Juliane burst into laughter. “Come on, let’s go for a little swim!” she jumped up, signalising at Sami that she was heading for the water.
Sitting in the shallow waters of the shore after a while, Elena watched Samu with Osmo up on his shoulders fighting Raul and Sami. It was hilarious and she giggled, completely relaxed. Suddenly her vision was darkened and Riku sat down next to her.
“Hej.” He smiled, wrapping his arms around his knees.
“Hej.” She returned his smile, softly nudging him with her elbow. “Why are you not fighting?”
“Count to five, I need someone to sit on for this game!” he leaned back a little, resting his weight on his hands. “But I wanted to talk to you in private for a second anyway.”
Elena raised her eyebrows. “’bout what? Everything alright with ye?”
“Sure.” He grinned. “It’s just that... well, I... I saw you talking to Jewell before.”
“Please don’t say her name, Riku!” Elena burst into laughter. “Her parents are mean, mean people!”
Riku blushed and chuckled. “Well,” he drawled, making Elena nudge him again.
“Spill it, mate!”
“Well, she... she’s a little scared you know? She... she’s a lot younger than we are and... yeah, well, I think she might be a bit intimidated by you. Ex-girlfriend, still friends... you know?”
“Sure.” Elena sighed. “You want me to be nice, right?”
“I’d really appreciate it.” He ran his fingers over her arm, causing goosebumps on her skin. “I don’t want her to feel uncomfortable.” Smirking he stroked her arm with his fingertips. “Nice to see that I still have some effect on you!”
She slapped his knee. “You’d better stop this right now and take care of little precious! You two have everything ahead of you, I’m married and found my first grey pubic hair this morning!”
Riku broke into laughter, wrapping his arms around his knees again. “I have a few by now.” He admitted. “She found some. Told her they were blond.” Sheepishly he grinned. “We could go waxing.”
Snorting with laughter Elena leaned back. “Because of a FEW? I don’t wanna imagine you, sitting on a chair, getting your balls waxed!”
“You could hold my hand.”
“Come back when you are half grey, maybe we can dye them together.”
“Sounds like a plan.” He winked at her. “Thanks for being NICE!”
“Hey!” Elena raised her hands defensively. “I am actually capable of taking hints!”
His gaze ran over Jewell that stood about 30 meters away with her hands on her hips, staring at the two of them. Grinning he winked again. “Thanks anyway, luv!” he waved at the blonde. “I think I should go.”
“You should, my dear grey friend.” Waving at Jewell, Elena bit back a grin.
“Baby, wake up, we are about to land.” Elena felt lips on her cheek and flinched.
Landing? What? Where? Why?
She sat up and almost fell down from her seat.
What in the world...? Dozily she stared at Samu that was sitting next to her, grabbing her astound.
“You alright love?” he asked concerned and tried to pull her up and make her sit upright. “Wanna have a drink or something?”
She closed her eyes, carefully shaking her head. “No... no, I’m... I’m fine. I’m fine.” Quickly she threw a gaze around. There was Sami with a blond girl by his side, Osmo was sitting right behind her, talking to someone. Raul. She recognized his voice and his laughter. Riku sat on the other side of the small plane with a blond girl, sleeping with her head rested to his shoulder.
She was back.
Why was she back?
How could she be dreaming again?
She shut her eyes firmly. The pills! She had taken one right before going to sleep... How in the freaking world was it possible that she was back in her dreams now?
Completely baffled she leaned over, resting her temple to Samu’s arm.
He was here, they all were. He was real, she could smell the familiar scent of his cologne.
How could this be?
She was out of words, not even realizing that the plane actually landed and they were all picked up by two cars. Driving along the dark streets, bordered with rocks, palm trees and oleander plants, she pretended to be asleep again.
Not wanting to wake her up, Samu took her in his arms as soon as the cars stopped.
Her eyes remained closed. It was impossible for her to even think about doing conversation with all of them now. She felt sick, scared and somehow she had the weird feeling of being home and safe with Samu. It was all too weird. Pretending to sleep was the best idea for now. Breathing in and out as steady and calm as possible, she listened to all the noises surrounding her. There was soft and warm wind, whispering in the bushes when Samu started carrying her along. The silent rolling of an ocean nearby.
“It’s beautiful!” the high-pitched sound of a female voice resounded from behind. “Look at the beach! Gosh, it’s awesome!”
“Up for a swim?” she suddenly heard Riku’s voice and the girl giggled.
“Well, as long as you join me and you are naked, I’m in!”
She sounded flirty and Elena felt a little itch of jealousy. Stupid feeling! He wasn’t hers, what the hell was wrong with her?
A door was opened and the sounds from the outside faded away. Samu carried her up the stairs and entered a room where he put her down on a soft bed. “Sleep well, love.” He whispered, resting his lips on her forehead. “I’ll be back in a minute.” His steps on the carpet faded and the door was closed.
Carefully she opened her eyes, gazing around the room. It was quite small, not bigger than her bedroom at home in Helsinki. She swallowed hard. Home.
Taking a deep breath she stared at the wooden panelling at the ceiling and the white and light blue walls of the room. There were two open windows and a balcony door to her right, a small commode at the wall in front of the bed. A real summer house. Warm wind blew inside through the thin white curtains, blowing them up a little. Ocean sounds. Salty smell. She sat up completely, walking over to the balcony door. The view was breath-taking. A long, white shore, some palm trees swaying in the wind. Soft waves crashing in, encountering the shore. The moon was almost full and enlightened the whole scenery with its brilliant silver shine.
She wrapped her arms around herself, realising in surprise that she wore a thin, white summer dress. She had to go back to sleep. Slowly she turned over to the huge bed made of dark wood. Everything would be in order again as soon as she closed her eyes. It would be winter again. She would be home in Finland, having breakfast with her family. Everything would be alright.
Shivering she lay down and took off her shoes, wrapping herself into one of the blankets. Everything would be fine again.
She awoke in the morning when somebody knocked at her door. “Cumin’, Lilly!” she mumbled, trying to sit up, but an arm was wrapped around her from behind and she felt a warm body moving closer.
“Let ‘em knock as much as they want!” a deep voice mumbled and Elena grew stiff in his arms.
A new morning, but still she was here! It had never been two mornings in a row at one place since the dreams had started.
Elena took a deep breath.
Trying to find any kind of algorithm in her dreams she closed her eyes. There was no point in trying to make sense of it but at least there should be some... scheme? Some calculating rule? Only something? First it had been a night/day-thing. Even if she had fallen asleep during the day at the beginning she returned home. But... It had changed. The afternoon-nap on the couch. She had still been in Samu’s arms even after sleeping there for a few hours. The pills had given her a little break but now everything seemed to start over again and was even stronger than before.
She buried her face in the pillow, feeling Samu’s body moving closer again, his hand slipping into the neckline of her dress, cupping her breast. He sighed, softly kissing his way over her shoulder and her neck.
Another knock at the door was heard. “Ou cum ooooooooon, you two!” Raul sounded annoyed. “Everybody’s having breakfast, we’re heading off for the beach soon! Cum on, join us! Last day of the year and it’s eleven already!!”
The hand was removed and Samu sighed again. Yawning he turned around to lie on his back. “Christ, have mercy! We’re coming! Jeez, mate! Chill!” he ran his hands through his hair and got up, stretching his back. Quickly he bent down again, kissing Elena’s lips.
“You can go without me, luv.” Again he kissed her, grabbing a packet of cigarettes from the bedside table. “I’ll be right with you.” Grinning he stepped outside onto the balcony. Only a split second later a yelp was heard and Samu broke into laughter, leaning over the balustrade. “Come on! It’s not like I’m having a boner or something! If you can’t handle it, Juliane, just don’t look!”
“Well, so you tell me: how am I supposed to have my sausage for breakfast when you put yours right into my face?” she yelled back up at him and laughed. “Anyway, what’s the story, morning glory?”
Slowly Elena dragged herself up on her feet and went outside. She placed herself right in front of her naked husband, making a blond woman on the terrace of the ground floor giggle and wave. “At least you are dressed, babes!”
A little unassertive Elena laughed along with her. Babes? She had never talked to this woman in her entire life. Very well then. Most probably she was her friend. Looking around the table her gaze found another woman. She was tiny, maybe even smaller than herself, sitting next to Riku with her thin white legs on his lap. Elena felt this strange little itch from last night again, quickly trying to shake it off. She wasn’t jealous! Not because of this little blond doll, eating a grapefruit for breakfast while everyone around was having sausages, bacon and eggs. Tiny doll looked up, her alabaster cheeks blushing when she saw Samu naked. Quickly she lowered her eyes but only seconds later she flashed another gaze at him and blushed even deeper.
“It’s like an accident.” Elena raised her eyebrow at the doll. “You can’t take yer eyes off it, right?”
The whole table broke into laughter when Dolly choked on her grapefruit.
Riku patted her back, trying hard to suppress his giggles. “You haven’t been introduced properly, hun! I think you were asleep when we arrived at the airport yesterday.” He smiled at Elena and squinted when the sun hit his eyes. “Elena, this is Jewell. Jewell, my dear friend Elena.”
You’ve got to be kidding me! Little precious’ name was JEWELL? Elena threw a gaze at her grinning and smoking husband. “Are you fucking kidding me?” she whispered, trying to hold back a few giggles. His grin widened and he shrugged. “Love is blind!” he whispered back, wrapping his arm around her from behind. “And certainly deaf as well!” he added, making her chuckle. Carefully he kissed the back of her neck, his fingers playing around the outlines of her tattoo. “Just imagine him on top of her, how come she’s still in one piece?”
Elena burst into laughter. “Wonder how.” Her eyes were locked with little precious that had just recovered from her coughing spell. Still her pale face was red but her gaze was curious. She looked Elena up and down, moving a little closer to Riku to wrap her arms around his neck. “Come on, the beach is waiting!” she purred and kissed him, still watching Elena from the corner of her eye.
Grinning inwardly, Elena rested her head against Samu’s chest. ‘Try not to drown with your lack of body fat!’ She thought, before heading inside to find something else to wear.
The guys were playing fussball when Elena returned from swimming up and down the beach on her own for a while. The water was cold but still the sun was shining brightly. Savouring the feeling of the warm sunlight on her wet skin, Elena sat down in the sand, closing her eyes and ignoring the stickiness of the salty water. Suddenly she heard somebody clearing her throat and opened her eyes a little irritated. It was Sami’s girlfriend. Juliane, Elena remembered quickly. “Hey there, everything alright?”
“Sure.” Juliane placed her towel next to Elena in the sand. “Just needed to get away from the little diamond over there. Do you get it? I mean, helllloooouuu! What the freaking hell is wrong with Riku? Has she fucked his brains back into stone age or what?”
“Most probably.” Elena muttered, throwing a little flat stone into the water. “I assume, I must be bisased, but for all I care my new name’s prejudice and that one,” secretly she pointed at Jewell. “That one’s skinny, stupid, annoying and shallow.”
Juliane giggled. “I agree, prejudice.” She dug her toes into the sand. “So what are we going to do about it? I mean, she’s really stupid! No, no! I mean it! I think she’s from the US, somewhere southwest, I don’t know, but she actually asked me about Lapland these days, where I was born raised, telling me that she liked the Stockholm area best because it was the sunniest part of Finland…”
“No way!” Elena looked up, finding the blond woman nodding. “We tried to talk about the war in Afghanistan this morning and all she could add was that all those Iraqi-Muslims scared her a lot with all their bombs and stuff.”
Elena chuckled, putting her face on her knees. “Oh my.” She sighed. “So what are we supposed to do now? Cut her out? Ignore her? I could easily do that, she’s not too fond of me anyway.”
“We should try our best. You think we might manage to pretend she’s not there?”
Elena nodded, patting the other woman’s leg. “Yes we can! Maybe we can just put her in the trunk of a car and drive for a bit, she won’t find her way home, don’t you think? Most probably she has no idea where we are. Bahamas sounds like a faraway fairy-land!”
Giggling Juliane sat up. Throwing a quick gaze around, she rolled her eyes. “Here we go again!” she mumbled, moving a little closer to Elena, when Jewell approached. She had been sitting close to the ball-playing men for half an hour, watching Riku, cheering and applauding for him. Well, he wasn’t a bad player but today it was impossible to watch him and his two left feet.
Little precious seemed a little more loyal.
Watching her putting down her towel right in front of the two others, Elena narrowed her eyes, realising that she was now blocking the view over the ocean completely. Obviously she needed to have an eye on Riku and the rest of the lads.
Her blond hair was annoyingly beautiful, fluttering in the soft wind and Elena ran her sandy hands through her own wet and salty hair. What the fuck? There was no need to feel intimidated by this little toy Riku had most probably brought in his hand luggage! Sitting up Elena straightened her back. ‘My brain’s a lot bigger than yours.’ She thought. ‘And so are my tits!’
“Hey!” Jewell smiled endearing. “Isn’t this beach just awe-some?”
“Try the water, it’s fantastic!” Elena nodded at the soft waves, hoping that little princess could take a hint.
Unfortunately the tiny blonde shook her head, her eyes widened in shock. “No way! It’s cold! And all the salt, I’d need my coiffeur right away! God, you are so lucky with this strong hair of yours!” her lips were still smiling, but there was something else in her blue eyes. Rivalry? Competition?
Surprised Elena cocked her head. Animosity? Because of what? Being Riku’s ex-girlfriend? She fought back a grin. ‘Wake up darling!’ she thought. ‘You were in primary school when I dated him!’
“Well,” she crossed her ankles and faced the afternoon sun. “I’m damn lucky, I know!”
“My saying.” Jewell moved a little closer, her voice becoming a bit more mellifluous. “You’re quite happy with Samu, aren’t you?”
A little surprised Elena looked at her. “We wouldn’t share our lives if we weren’t, don’t ye think?”
“Ou, you can do those accents too!” clapping Jewell giggled. “You almost sound like them! I’ve tried sooo hard but I never manage!”
“I’m not just doing it, that’s my actual dialect!”
“Oh so you are Scandinavianish as well? You lived there too?”
“Live, present tense. And I’m not Scandinavianish, I’m FINNISH! We all are. I went to the same school as Sami, Riku and Osmo. Same town, you know?”
“Ah!” she was about to say something but her head spun around when Riku called her name. At an instant she was on her feet again, running over the sand.
Juliane looked after her. “You think she memorized the Scandinavianish-Finnish-thing? Or anything else you just told her?”
“Nope.” Slowly Elena shook her head. “I think there’s a sieve below the blond hair. She knows Riku’s name, that’s all that counts.”
“Did you realise, she tried to be mean to you!” chuckling Julian waved at her boyfriend that was completely covered in sweat, emptying a bottle of water.
“Yeah I know!” Elena grinned. “That one hit me hard, trust me! Jokes about my hair! Those are taken quite serious! Most probably I’ll cry myself to sleep tonight with this whole mess on my head!”
Juliane burst into laughter. “Come on, let’s go for a little swim!” she jumped up, signalising at Sami that she was heading for the water.
Sitting in the shallow waters of the shore after a while, Elena watched Samu with Osmo up on his shoulders fighting Raul and Sami. It was hilarious and she giggled, completely relaxed. Suddenly her vision was darkened and Riku sat down next to her.
“Hej.” He smiled, wrapping his arms around his knees.
“Hej.” She returned his smile, softly nudging him with her elbow. “Why are you not fighting?”
“Count to five, I need someone to sit on for this game!” he leaned back a little, resting his weight on his hands. “But I wanted to talk to you in private for a second anyway.”
Elena raised her eyebrows. “’bout what? Everything alright with ye?”
“Sure.” He grinned. “It’s just that... well, I... I saw you talking to Jewell before.”
“Please don’t say her name, Riku!” Elena burst into laughter. “Her parents are mean, mean people!”
Riku blushed and chuckled. “Well,” he drawled, making Elena nudge him again.
“Spill it, mate!”
“Well, she... she’s a little scared you know? She... she’s a lot younger than we are and... yeah, well, I think she might be a bit intimidated by you. Ex-girlfriend, still friends... you know?”
“Sure.” Elena sighed. “You want me to be nice, right?”
“I’d really appreciate it.” He ran his fingers over her arm, causing goosebumps on her skin. “I don’t want her to feel uncomfortable.” Smirking he stroked her arm with his fingertips. “Nice to see that I still have some effect on you!”
She slapped his knee. “You’d better stop this right now and take care of little precious! You two have everything ahead of you, I’m married and found my first grey pubic hair this morning!”
Riku broke into laughter, wrapping his arms around his knees again. “I have a few by now.” He admitted. “She found some. Told her they were blond.” Sheepishly he grinned. “We could go waxing.”
Snorting with laughter Elena leaned back. “Because of a FEW? I don’t wanna imagine you, sitting on a chair, getting your balls waxed!”
“You could hold my hand.”
“Come back when you are half grey, maybe we can dye them together.”
“Sounds like a plan.” He winked at her. “Thanks for being NICE!”
“Hey!” Elena raised her hands defensively. “I am actually capable of taking hints!”
His gaze ran over Jewell that stood about 30 meters away with her hands on her hips, staring at the two of them. Grinning he winked again. “Thanks anyway, luv!” he waved at the blonde. “I think I should go.”
“You should, my dear grey friend.” Waving at Jewell, Elena bit back a grin.
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