Page 13 of See You Next Month

“Okay. You’ll learn I can be a bit spontaneous. It’s good that you like to think things through,” Isabella said.

“Perfect. You can take the ferry to St. John tomorrow and spend all day on the island. I’ll get together a few places for you to visit while you’re there,” Carmen said, getting up from the table. “I’ll talk to you later as I get things going on my end.”

Isabella and Kelsey got up and started to walk back through the building.

“How about we stop off at the bar?” Kelsey said.

“Yeah, I could use a drink after all that.”

After they were seated at the bar and had ordered their drinks Kelsey turned to Isabella. “Now, let me get this straight.”

“I thought you were gay,” Isabella said with a grin.

“Very funny, Bella. You know what I mean,” Kelsey said.

Isabella giggled. “You were saying.”

“You want us to come back here each month and experience one of these packages. We’ll write about it?—”

“And video,” Isabella added.

“And video ourselves doing the various things, then we’ll post it on the website,” Kelsey said.

Isabella nodded. “I’ll also post it on all our social media accounts and other vacation travel sites.”

The bartender served their drinks and Kelsey reached for hers, taking a long sip.

“Do you not want to meet me back here every month?” Isabella asked.

“It’s not that. It’s just…”

“It’s just what?”

“Are we interesting enough for people to want to follow our antics?”

“Sure we are!”

Kelsey looked at Isabella and studied her for a moment. She had the most beautiful blond hair with mischievous blue eyes and a vitality that came across when she smiled. Then there was her cute accent. People would fall in love with her. “So we’d come back next month and do winter in Coral Bay.”

“Right. You’ve always wanted to go to the beach for Christmas to get out of the cold. It’s the same idea.”

“But what about next month? It’s Valentine’s Day,” Kelsey said.

Isabella nodded. “Just because we don’t have, uh, partners or boyfriends,” Isabella said with a smile, “doesn’t mean we can’t show what the resort has to offer. There are a lot of single women that do ‘Galentine’s Day’ where they get together with their other single friends.”

Kelsey chuckled. “I’ve heard about it. Maybe we could get a couple that’s already here to do the romantic Valentine’s thing with us while we do Galentine’s.”

“That’s a great idea,” Isabella said. “See there, we can do this, Kels.”

Kelsey smiled at Isabella and took another sip of her drink. That was the second time today that Isabella had shortened her name to make her point… Or was she trying to convince Kelsey to do this?

“How about we change into our swimsuits and find ourselves a nice little spot under an umbrella on the beach?” Isabella suggested. “We can figure out what we want to do over the next few days and plan this epic year of adventure.”

Kelsey smirked and then smiled. “As long as we’re near the bar. I’m going to need several more of these if you want me to agree to this outrageous undertaking. Do you have any idea how far out of my comfort zone this is?”

Isabella laughed. “You’re the one that travels light and is supposed to be showing me how to let go. Oh, that’s another thing we can highlight on these trips. The ideas just keep coming.” She clinked her glass to Kelsey’s.

“Oh, man. I’d better hold on.”

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