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“Are you serious?! That doctor knows how this bruise happened?” She points at my groin, flabbergasted.
“Well, we had to tell him. How else could he determine how serious my injuries were?” How did I manage to say this with a straight face?
Rhia’s shocked expression is too much, and my laughter finally bubbles up and over.
“Gotcha.” I cry as I bend over, holding my stomach, tears running down my cheeks.
Rhia, of course, doesn’t understand yet and stares at me, eyebrows raised.
When I’m able to catch my breath, I explain, “Tiero didn’t cause the bruise, silly. It was a nasty little spider which crawled up my dress and bit me.”
Rhia picks up the pillow from the carpet and whacks me with it.
“Bloody hell, Ella. I actually believed you!”
Holding up my arms to protect my head from her hits, I say, “Yes, you did. And I’m very proud of my achievement. It’s not easy to fool you. And you went for it hook, line and sinker.”
She sticks out her tongue at me. “I was horrified that Tiero would be so inept. Now tell me what really happened.”
I fill her in on all of it, and she’s bending over with laughter.
“Oh my God, Ella. Only you!” Rhia says, trying very hard to draw in breath through her laughing fits. “I can’t believe those guys were betting on who’d see your pussy first.”
“Yeah… If only they knew I could understand every word.”
We finally notice the time and frantically get dressed. Our tour starts in fifteen minutes, and the bus will be here soon.
As Rhia throws on clothes, she calls out, “You know, you really ought to stop sitting on things.”
“Hey, I didn’t sit on it. The spider crawled up my leg,” I correct her.
Rhia returns to my room, packing her backpack for the day. “This was your third near death scenario. So you should be in the clear.”
“Huh?”
“Remember, you said all things come in threes. And after the near hit and run with Tiero, an almost collision in the one-way street yesterday, and the spider bite last night… I think you’re good now. Unless, of course, you start another round.”
“I have no intention of going through another set of three… unless this time all incidents are happy and fun.”
One can hope.
Suddenly, Rhia’s face turns mischievous. My brows narrow as I watch her suspiciously. “Now, I want to know, if that spider hadn’t intervened, what would have happened?”
“I’ll tell you on the bus,” I say, trying to distract her.
“Uh, uh. I want to know now,” she insists.
“Nothing would have happened,” I reply stubbornly and revert to telling a little white lie. “I would have been saved by my period.”
“I thought you finished it.” Rhia frowns.
She’s right, of course. I finished it a few days ago, but she doesn’t know that for sure. “And anyway, so what if there’s a bit of blood?” She shrugs as if to say, what’s the big deal?
“Eww, that’s gross!” I shudder in disgust. “I’ll have you know, my period has saved me more than once from doing something I’d regret the next morning. So, I choose to see it as a good thing. Remember? I do NOT do one-night stands.”
“Well, you could have turned it into a seven-night stand… that’s how many nights we have left here.”
I ignore her comment. If I reply, she’ll just keep going. Changing the subject, I ask, “Where is Zoe? Is she coming?”
