Blast everything and anything that has to do with mornings! Especially the morning service from this Hotel! Do they really needed to call me this early in the morning? JUST TO WAKE ME UP?!
God dammit, who comes up with the idea to do a morning service with calling all of the hotelguests at 6am IN THE MORNING JUST TO WAKE THEM UP?! And why in all of the stones names do I sound like Hans right now?

"Breakfast will be ready in an hour miss"

"What's on the menu?"

"All you can eat. Do you have any further questions, miss?"

"No. Thank you" there we go...

"You're Welcome" She said friendly and hang up.

Last night I couldn't sleep well and today I woke up with a strong headache. Currently I am freshening up in the bathroom and try to get my life together. And I'm totally not in the mood to leave this hotel room with my current mindset of screaming to anyone and everyone who could piss me off right now...

"And now the socks-"I said half out of breath and half awake. Benting down has been quite a hard task lately too! Is this what it feels like to get old? Looking into the mirror, I was happy to see that I actually gained a bit of weight, after my weight loss because of Palawan. The media always speaks of the perfect confidence when being skinny, when in reality you feel like shit and have zero energy at all. Let alone feel more uncomfortable in your own skin than others would think of it.

Knock Knock Knock-

-And this morning only could go bad.
Opening the door, one of the hotel maids smiled brightly at me and handed me a piece of paper and a little box. Before I could've ask her a question, she turned around and walked down the corridor.

Without overthinking anything, I closed the door, left the box on the bed and opened the note:

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Be ready at 7pm. Christine
will be by your side till then.
Call me immediately if something
Happens.
-Dwayne

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Calling you?! Does this guy forgot, that I DON'T own a phone?! Gosh, do I have to tell everything twice for everyone to understand?! Looking down to the box that I left on the bed, I remembered his words from yesterday...

"I'm here, I'm here if you want me to be by your side"

GO.OUT.OF.MY.HEAD!

'Call me immediately if something happens.'

Those words... they're just a few syllables being put together, yet... My heart feels extremely warmed up and somehow I felt a lot more at ease. Does that means I could call him whenever I want?! 'Are you loosing controll of your own dumb mind?!'

What do you mean? YOU are my mind! If you have problems with yourself go and solve your own problems! What's wrong with calling him? And at that moment, I remembered, that I don't even have his phone number... I was about to pick up the little box, when suddenly someone knocked on the door.

Knock Knock Knock

Opening the door, a old lady smiled brightly at me. She was wearing a neat green dress and was holding a huge suitcase on her left hand.

"Good Morning, I'm Christine" She said.

"G-Good morning" I said a bit taken aback. I immediately stepped a few steps back to make enough space for her to come in. I didn't said anything at first and only looked at Christine leaving her suitcase next to my bed.

"Sooo-" She said, now facing me. She examined my frame and then looked back into my eyes. "Dwayne has to be at a very important event and he needs you to be ready at 7pm."

"What does that mean?" I asked her, still confused.'He needs you' AAAAHHHH GO OUT OF MY HEAD!!!!!

Christine gave me a little smile until she continued. "We have to go shopping!"

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Down in the main hallway, Christine and I had breakfast together. She told me that she is the wife of a good friend from Dereck and that she moved here to Spain a few years ago. I've asked her a few questions about Dwayne, but she remained silent and told me that she was not allowed to say anything about him, even if it were public issues. She was actually a really nice and sweet person. I even told Christine, that I expected to see someone a few years older than my age, than someone in her age. Surprisingly, she took it with humor, which made me really happy. Especially if I had to spend the whole day with someone that I don't know well.

"It was nice to have breakfast with you miss"

"Christine, please call me Holly. I don't want you to call me miss... I feel more comfortable if you call me by my name" I said smiling shyly. She thanked me and we both stood up to leave the Hotel. We were about to leave the Hotel when suddenly, I remembered something really important to me."Wait, hold on. I have to clear something up" I told Christine and walked to the reception. I'm not going to let this sit on me. It's a huge NO from me!

"Excuse me-" Let's do this Holly! "The hotel service called me at 6am this morning to wake me up... It was nice from you that you called me, but I don't want to be called. I hope you don't understand that in the wrong way" did I sounded nice enough? I hope so! And if not, my bad...
The woman behind the reception looked at me and then back at her co-worker from her left. She faced me back again and held a small laugh in and covered it with a smile, A FAKE SMILE!

"But miss, your fiancé told us to wake you up at 6am-"

Silence. my fiancé what?!

"Mr. Hammond Miss" She continued "He told us yesterday after the two of you arrived, that we should wake you up at 6am"

Silence...

HE ORDERED SOMEONE FROM THE RECEPTION TO WAKE ME UP AT 6 AM TO GET FLIPPING READY FOR WORK!

"Oh... okay. Uhm... don't, just don't wake me up even if he says so okay?" Both of them nodded and I turned around half angry and half frustrated about Dwayne ordering them to wake me up at 6am. And not only that, those ladies dared to giggle behind my back! This is ridiculous, I'm getting more furious than I actually was!

"Is everything okay Holly?"

"No, nothing is okay. At least not now!"

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It's been hours and we spend our time in many luxurious clothing shops, without me wanting it to. The only thing we were able to buy were nude pumps which fitted perfectly to my tanned skin, which I have since Palawan. Christine told me that I really needed a dress for tonight's event. And the human being that I am, I insisted of finding something neat for way less money. But she was not having any of this.

"No, Dwayne gave me enough money for you to buy a dress as expensive as you want it to be!" She said stomping her feet on the ground cutely.
Christine picked up dresses in every color and shape that you could think of. Slim fit, slim, shoulder free or short and many other styles. Some of them even had a bunch of jewels on them, which sparkled like crazy when the light shined on them.

And again, I didn't liked any of them. Some of them had too much jewels and some of them just showed too much skin. Don't get me wrong, I actually tried the dresses on to not be disrespectful towards her. But she didn't gave up finding myself a dress. When will she understand that I'm not into these things? Sighing, I followed her through all the stores.

It's about to get 5 am right now and I still didn't found a dress that I would feel comfortable in.
"Are you giving up?" I asked Christine who looked completely stressed out and ready to scream for help any second.

"You're really something Holly. At first I thought, that you acted like you didn't needed these expensive things, but right now... You showed me that the world really does have humans who doesn't satisfy themselves with material things" she said and stopped at the last shop. "If we don't find anything here, I'm screwed!" And again, 20 minutes later, our situation didn't changed. I didn't liked any of these dresses and we only have one hour and a half left, before I have to be ready in my Hotel room. I'm tired, hungry and don't have the energy to stand on my own two feet's. I was sitting on a chair next to a huge window and had a good view on the beach.

"Why is it so hard to find a simple dress?" I sighed and closed my eyes for a few seconds before I opened them again. Suddenly, a man who carried a lot of clothes on a huge black bag, walked pass the window. At first My attention was on the beach, when suddenly a white colored dress took my attention, which hung behind his back. I don't know what came upon me at that second, but everything in me screamed in happiness.

That's it, this dress... this dress was what I've been looking for the whole day! I immediately called for Christine and watched out for the man with the dresses. At first, Christine wanted to look for the last few dresses, but after I insisted of leaving the store at any second, she leaved the dresses at their place and followed me. And now to the fun part:

I've had Spanish lessons in school. So I thought of trying it, to reach out for that man. The man and I had quiet a distance right now because of Christine taking too long for leaving the store. The man wasn't walking slowly either, so I had to call out for him.

"EY YO COMPAÑERO!" The man didn't turned around, while the other passengers looked at me weirdly. "ME GUSTA DRESS, ME GUSTA DRESS!"

And he still didn't turned around...

I'm giving up, I have to run. Turning around, I immediately told Christine that I needed to reach up to that man. At first, she didn't understood anything because of me panting in between each word. But then she just nodded and gave me a sign to just go and do whatever I wanted to.

'We really got into her nerves don't you think?' Running up to the man, I stopped right in front of him and panted like an horse. I swear, this is sports with olympic grades! "Me gusta dress, amigo" I said and pointed at the dress behind of him. The man smiled brightly and putted the bag on the ground. He then looked at me and pointed at the white dress, giving me a questioning look, if the white dress was what I was looking for. Nodding immediately, the man took out a plastic bag out of the huge black bag.

"Oh, you... you found a dress!" Christine clapped happily and took out her purse.

"¿cuánto?"The man looked at me and then back at Christine. Suddenly he smiled brightly and shook his head. 

"para esta querida niña es gratis. Es un regalo de mi parte para ella." He said and took the bag full of clothes up."Hasta luego" He said and walked off.

Silence.

"Why didn't you gave him the money?" I asked Christine, who looked as surprised as me.

"He said it is a gift from him to you"

An hour later, we were already back at the Hotel and I freshened up again, wearing the midilength dress in white with long sleeves. It was simple, but everything that I needed to feel comfortable in it. I was wearing nude pumps which fitted perfectly to my tanned skin color. Christine was fixing up my hair a bit, after I told her that I don't like my hair styled into braids or whatever. In the last 20 minutes, Christine putted up a bit of makeup on my lips and eyes.

Please, please let it be simple!

"You're finished" she said happily and gave me the sign to look into the mirror. What I saw in front of me, leaved my mouth wide open. I know that I wanted everything to be simple and less. But I never knew that simple and less could look THIS good! Christine made my short hair a bit wavy than they usually are. I was wearing a nude lipstick, which matched my pumps. Looking at my eye make up, I saw a little bit of sparkles shining prettily. Christine finished the eye make up off with a really thin and short eyeliner. My cheeks have a soft glow with a soft peachy tone. And I loved it! Everything looked exactly how I wanted it to be and not only that.

This dress...It looked like one of the dresses that Dwayne gave me back in Palawan.

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