Stan

I watched her sleep for a while before I went back to my room. I’d came in to her room to ask her a couple of questions and her door had been unlocked. At that point I just wanted to check on her and she’d been out on the balcony. I don’t know how the hell we got here. It wasn’t something that I’d planned. Eve had a mind to seduce me and she had done a damn good job of it.

Now though, I worried about what that meant for us now. I was bothered that I had came here to do a good thing and I had somehow ended up sleeping with one of my best friend’s little sisters. I don’t think that Carl is going to be very happy about it and I knew then that I was never going to tell him. I would be happy if he never found out because the guilt was already sinking in. I’m pretty sure that it went against the bro code.

Like he knew that I was doing something wrong, my phone started to ring, and it was Carl. I don’t know what time it was there, but here I didn’t want to wake Eve up and I left the room to see what was going on.

“Hey.”

“Hey man. What’s up? I’ve called a couple of times now.”

I hadn’t heard the phone ring once, so I figured that I’d been busy with his sister and not heard it ringing. I’m glad I was able to catch him this time after he told me some news.

“So, I’m at the airport. Can you come get me or at least give me an address to the hotel so that I can get there. I don’t know where the hell I am, and I don’t speak their language.”

“You’re here?”

He agreed, and I groaned inwardly. I looked down and all I had on was a pair of boxers. I probably looked a sight and now I had to go get Carl. Why was he here?

“Yeah, you said that you were going to have to go to court. I want to be there. With us having no parents, we must be there for each other. So, come on. You coming to get me or are you going to give me an address? Either way, I need to get out of this place.”

I didn’t ask him why, but instead told him that I would be there soon. I didn’t have a way to get there, but taxis were everywhere around here, and it didn’t take long at all to find one and start on my way to the airport to pick him up.

The door was locked when I tried to go in and get my clothes, so I was a little nervous about them being on her floor. I wanted to tell her that her brother was here, warn her for some reason but not enough for me to knock on the door and wake her up.

I thought about what we’d done together, and I knew that I was going to think about that more than I should. I wasn’t used to women being aggressive, but I liked it. There was no mystery and it made me feel like she wanted me as much as I wanted her. I liked the fact that there was no guessing, no coy moves and gestures. As far as I was concerned, it was a nice change from the girls that I was around. Too bad it was a one-time thing.

When I got to the airport, Carl was standing out front and he looked anxious. I asked him what was wrong, and he just shrugged. “Never been many places out of the states. This place is weird.”

I hoped that people around couldn’t understand us. I had to remind him that a lot of people spoke English here. I didn’t want him to embarrass us or heaven-forbid, piss off the wrong person.

“So, you want to get a drink before we go back to the hotel. Its late and the girls are sleeping.”

My mind went to the brunette that I’d put to sleep and how damn good it had felt.

“Sure, I need something. It was a long ass flight and my head is killing me. I haven’t had a decent coffee, so I might as well switch to whiskey at this time of night.”

I took him to a little bar that wasn’t far from where we were staying. I had seen it earlier when I had taken Eve and Callie out. Several men had went to the door opening to check the two Americans out. It was almost like they were celebrities and though Eve didn’t notice, or she was very good at hiding it, because she didn’t react the whole time. Callie on the other hand had reacted and it was rather clear that she liked all the attention. The two girls were very different.

“So, what’s going on. Did you get anything done since they’ve been out?”

He was right onto getting them out, as he should be. My mind was places that it wasn’t supposed to go, and I was really needing help to correct that.

“I got ahold of a lawyer around here. He’s supposed to be one of the best and he thinks that we can get them off.”

“Both of them?”

“I don’t know, why?”

“Callie is part of the family. She’s been friends with my sister for years. If we can’t get her out, I know that Eve isn’t going to leave without her.”

“We may not have a choice.”

“Well it just goes to show that you don’t know my sister very well. When she gets her mind on something, there is no telling her no.”

I smiled and agreed because I did know. I hadn’t fought the urge to be with her much, but it was certainly Eve that had initiated it and refused to take no for an answer. I had said it, more than once.

“I don’t know. They are looking for a scape goat and they have made it so public. I don’t know how they are going to back out of it gracefully and let her go. Maybe one, but not both. I’m going to tell you straight. Eve didn’t want to hear it.”

Carl stopped me. He knew where it was going, and he said Eve first. He didn’t say anything else, but it told me what I wanted to know. I knew that was the answer, but I had to have him say it. This was all for Carl after all.

I took a drink of the glass in front of me and again hoped that it didn’t come to that. I had seen a bit of her vehemence just talking about leaving Callie behind and I didn’t want to be the one to tell her that I couldn’t help her friend. I wanted to help them both.

“You look like you got something on your mind Stan.”

“I do. I got a lot on my mind, but its good to see you. Its been a long time. Too long.”

He agreed, and he caught me up to date on what was going on with him. He’d just found love not too long ago and it was written across his face. He wasn’t someone that I would have expected to go down that route, but even talking about her made him smile. Yeah, that man was in love.

“So how goes your love life Stan? Met anyone special.”

“Every night.”

He laughed out loud and I just ignored the irony of it all. If he only knew who it had been last night…