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“You’re way hotter than any mermaid,” he states matter-of-fact. I snort and then turn to him when he hollers, “Hey!”
“What?”
“A penny! There’s a bunch of them on the bottom. And other coins too.”
“This must be a wishing fountain.” I look down into the water and it finally dawns on me that the shimmer and shine at my feet has been all kinds of coins. “How did I not notice those before?”
“Duh, cuz you’re drunk.”
“Duh, uh, hate to break it to you, but so are you.”
He splashes me and I splash him back, which results in an all out screaming and splashing war. It’s like we’re having our own Friends fountain montage.
I’m startled when Oliver suddenly grabs my arm, “Uh. Remy! Hurry. Let’s, get out and grab your stuff. We have to go!”
The urgency in his voice makes me do as he says without question even though I feel sluggish and think I may be pouting a bit. I swing my leg over the large lip to get out of the fountain and almost fall, which makes me giggle and want to throw up at the same time.
I hear someone call out, “Hey! You! There!”
You’d think when I hear that and look up to find security in the distance that it would make me stop laughing, but instead I laugh harder.
“Oh my god, Oliver. They’re coming for us! We’re in so much trouble!” Grabbing my belongings, I turn to find Oliver doing the same.
He takes my arm again, “Run!”
I begin running with him and we support each other so neither falls as we attempt to run faster. Voices behind us continue to call out. “Stop! We need to have a word with you.”
“We are so busted!” I state the obvious.
“Not if I can help it. Besides, they have no idea who we are.”
“We’ll just have to go incognito the rest of our stay.”
He smiles and presses the button for the elevator over and over again.
“I’m about to abandon all of my shit and just go for the stairs,” I tell him which makes him laugh and push the button again.
When it finally dings and the doors open we jet inside and press the button for our floor over and over like it will make the doors close faster. Security appears in our sight just as the doors close. We look at each other with wide eyes and then bend over at our waists and laugh so hard we can’t catch our breath.
“I’m such a rebel,” I state when I calm down enough to speak.
When the elevator doors open on our floor we hurry down the hall both silently knowing we aren’t in the clear yet. I hate the elevators that give away what floor it’s at to those waiting at the bottom. When we reach the door I’m bouncing on the balls of my feet as Oliver digs into his pocket, but his smile turns to a frown. He pats the other pockets.
“Oh no. Did you lose the key?”
His answer is to start pulling out the contents of his pockets. I choke on a laugh when he pulls out several coins from within, some falling to the ground in the process. “It has to be here somewhere.”
“Oliver!”
“What?” he looks at me absently still pulling crap out of his pockets.
“You took coins from the fountain?”
He stares at them in his hand for a moment then looks at me like I’m asking the stupidest question he’s ever heard, “These are my wishes.”
“Um,” I choke on a laugh, “That’s not how it works.”
He shrugs and shoves them back into his pockets and proceeds to look for the room key. Just as I start the process of digging in my bag to look for my own key he whoops in excitement, “Got it!”
