From: "Trousle Undrhil" <undrhil@hotmail.nospam.com> Subject: [PW!] On the other side of the ship ... away from the Talent Show ... Date: Monday, January 26, 2004 4:16 AM An alarm was going off. Trousle sat straight up in the bed he was sleeping in and hurridly looked around for the source of the noise. He spotted the alarm clock on the other side of the small room next to Lisa. Without thinking, he crawled out of bed and tip-toed over to the other night-stand and hit the snooze button. "Lisa. " Trousle gently shook the older girls shoulder as he spoke. "Lisa, your alarm just went off. Did you have somewhere to go?" "Wha ... ? Alarm? Oh! What time is it?" "It's 8:15. I'm going up on deck for a little bit to get some food. I figure you've probably already met some people who you want to go hang out with. That's fine. I'll find some people too!" He smiled at her as he rushed into the bathroom. "Oh, yeah! I think the ship's automatic announcement system was having a seisure or something last night. That thing called about five times to tell us about some party on the last night of the cruise, but it kept saying 'tonight' so I'm going to see if anyone else knows anything about that. You might want to see if you can find out anything about it too, ok?" "OK, " Lisa said, still sleepy but at least sitting up in the bed now. "I guess I can always get them to page you on the over ship paging system if I need you for anything." Trousle opened the bathroom door and stepped out. "Oh, come on, Lisa. You don't have to worry about me. I'm sure we'll bump into each other later on tonight. Well, be good!" He rushed over and hugged her before running out the cabin door. Lisa's heart started pounding. "What was that?" She thought to herself. Meanwhile, Trousle's mind was racing. "How stupid can I get? Stupid, stupid, stupid! She's going to think I'm so weird now!" He was already most of the way to the stairs when he heard someone rushing up behind him. He turned to see who it was thinking it might have been Lisa. But it wasn't Lisa ... [TBC. Please, someone interact! I'm bored, my characters are bored and about to become Lemons and I don't want to see poor Trousle corrupted that way! <grin>] Ken undrhil@hotmail.nospam.coma