It was the last spring break before Ruby and Daisy would head to college, both going their separate ways. Ruby, always the more book smart of the duo would be headed towards the east coast towards Georgetown and Daisy was heading towards Cal State Dominguez Hills. No, she wasn’t book smart, but she had plenty of street smarts and was looking forward to being out on her own for the first time without her parents constantly nagging her the “w’s”. Those were the worst. Who she was with, where she was, why she was late. Yes, all that was about to end, but she was also going to be separated from Ruby for the first time since kindergarden.
Somehow, Daisy was able to both her parents and Ruby’s parents into a real spring break trip. She always had the touch that way. She said that since they were already eighteen, and they were going to be on their own for good in a few short months, that this would be like a trial run. Four short days in San Diego. Just two hours away! If anything went wrong, their parents could be there in a jiff!
Since money had never been an issue with either privately schooled family, the girls had reservations at The Westin for a junior suite and they were going to meet up with Daisy’s older boyfriend on the trip. This detail had been left out of the plans when it was told to Ruby’s parents. He went to a very conservative Christian school, with very strict rules. It was like the movie Footloose, they weren’t even allowed to dance. Ruby couldn’t believe a school like that even existed. Sleeping with someone of the opposite sex under the same roof, also against the rules. Drinking, listening to “crude” music, you name it, there was a rule.
That spring break, Ruby and Daisy, set out to break all of them. And they did.
They went as soon as they got there to pick up Daisy’s boyfriend David, and he brought his friend Ethan because he didn’t want to stay on campus for the weekend. Riding in Ruby’s wicked new red Land Rover, they immediately rolled down all the windows and pumped up the premium stereo and blasted some System of a Down. They thought they were so bad ass. First stop was at a liquor store. Ruby and Daisy went in together, and they had been running this for a little while now. They couldn’t be bothered with the two boys ruining their game. Since Daisy looked older, she had the fake ID, and bought all the booze, but Ruby had a killer hour glass body, so she always wore something really low cut with an amazing push up bra, so if they were ever to take a second look, it would be right down her top and then she would make a big fuss about sexually harassment and they always handed the ID right back in a huge fluster and made the sale, sometimes even with a discount with a promise that no charges be made.
Riding off with their wine coolers and beer, they went back to the hotel, settled in, and broke onto the roof, and drank and danced to the music on their iPhones until they saw the sun come up. It was time to head back down before anybody were to catch them. It was obvious that Daisy was going to sleep with her boyfriend David that night, which left Ruby and Ethan to figure things out. Daisy said she would stay with Ruby that night if she didn’t feel comfortable sleeping with a guy in the bed she didn’t know very well. Trying to act bigger than her britches, Ruby shook it off, and said she could handle it, “No big deal Dais, go cuddle with that amazing man of yours” So off they went, the two of them. Lying in bed, Ruby kept telling herself, that this was fine, ok, and there was nothing to make a big deal over. Well, Ethan must have been thinking the same and not so successfully because an hour later he was in the hallway, visibly shook. When Ruby went to ask if everything was OK, he said he just needed to go for a walk. So she went back to sleep. By herself. In the morning she woke alone, with Ethan in the bathtub cuddled up with some hotel towels.
Before taking the guys back to their college, they all went to a taco shack and had some mexican food. Ruby and Daisy knew that this would be one of the highlights of the trip. Not going to Sea World to see the otters or to the Wild Safari Park. Authentic mexican food. It doesn’t get much better than $1.99 taquitos. And that was the memory the girls took home with them.
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