I pull out my phone and start googling Kauai. “Oh, Pirates of the Caribbean was filmed there. And Raiders of the Lost Ark.”
“It looks beautiful,” Vanessa says, looking over my shoulder as we flick through the images.
“This is going to be such a beautiful wedding, Issy,” Sienna says excitedly.
“I’m glad you didn’t hit somewhere shit, because I would have been trying to come up with whatever excuse I could to not come,” Jackson teases his brother. Finn flips him off.
“I had faith.” Isla smirks.
Bullshit, but no one is going to argue with her on that.
“Dessert’s ready,” Christian calls out.
45
DERRICK
Unfortunately, the holidays didn’t end happily for Olivia. Early the next morning after Thanksgiving, she got a call that her father had a heart attack and had sadly passed away. We all headed to England for the funeral. Poor thing, she was a mess. Axel and Olivia decided that they would stay on in England to have the holidays with her family, as her mother wasn’t coping, they would try to be back for New Year’s if possible.
Charlie: What’s your plans for the holidays?
Derrick: We’re all heading up to Big Bear. Christian and Vanessa have a home up there. What about you?
Charlie: My parents want to spend it in Europe skiing so probably go there.
Derrick: That sounds fantastic.
Charlie: My sister’s will be going.
Derrick: I thought you got on with them?
Charlie: I do but they gang up on me when they are together. *Eye Roll*
Charlie told me about his oldest sister, Faith, who owns a ranch in Midnight Falls where they live, that she’s as mean as a cut snake. Then he has Everly, who he is super close with, but they are always together and he kind of wishes she would get a boyfriend to distract her from hanging out with him.
Derrick: Come on, you will have fun. Think of all the pastries you can eat, the fondue, all the cute European men.
Charlie: Yeah. I’m not ready for that.
Charlie confessed that I was the first guy he’s kissed since getting out of the military. Of course, I am flattered. But also, I worryabout his dick, no wonder his hands are calloused, it’s all that jerking off he’s been doing. He also told me that because he lives in a small town, it’s full of his exes from high school, and he does not want to go back.
Derrick: Let some European hottie pop your cherry.
Charlie: You sound like Everly.
Derrick: She’s a smart girl.
Charlie: What about you? Anymore disastrous dates.
I let Charlie talk me into joining an online dating app and going on dates. Let’s just say the dating pool in LA sucks. Have I hooked up with some of them? Yes, because they were hot, but none that had any substance. And especially none that I can talk to like Charlie.
Derrick: I’m taking a break. Maybe I’ll try again in the new year.
Charlie: That’s a lie.
Derrick: At least I’m trying.
Charlie: Point taken.
