A big thanks to my dad who gave me a whole lot of info for SPAIN,as you guessed L,X and B are now/traveling to Spain. My dad is better than Google. (L, X and B are shortened version for their names) Enjoy!

Liz' P. O. V.

We sure had a blast in Portugal, Xavier and I also had discovered a cove, we had found it, I was bored and Bella, my partner in crime, had let me down by napping.

So long story short, we were walking and I came across this weird heart shape rock and I was leaning on the rock and it moved, I fell but Xavier was there to easily catch me and I said thank you and he let go (very slowly though) and then we went to the place, where I accidentally stumbled across and we found out that it was a cove.

We now in Spain, we arrived a few minutes, about half an hour and now Bella is driving to our destination. I'm very excited for the three days, I am spending in Spain, I have planned a great three days in Spain.

Madrid and Barcelona are the two main places we are going to visit in Spain. I am staying near the Barcelona Aquarium on the coast in a hotel.

"I love the coast, " I thought.

Bella is booking us into our hotel, while Xavier and I are walking down to the aquarium to meet one of Xavier's friends.

We were walking down, past Sweet Terraza when my stomach rumbled. Xavier insisted that we should have walked the long was so we could window shop, sight seeing and all that jazz.

Just as we were walking past, a sickly sweet smell of candies, chocolates, ice-cream and all sorts of candies and sweets that any child or adult could ever imagine.

I pulled Xavier inside, checked my watch and saw that there is enough time for two scoops of ice cream, both for me if Xavier doesn't want....

"What is the time? " Xavier asked.

"Ice cream time, " I replied.

"What flavour are you going to chose? " Xavier asked.

"Cookies and cream, what would you like?" I asked, mentally drooling over the thought of Cookies and Cream Ice Cream.

"Rocky Road,thanks, " Xavier said.

I went to the counter and waited for exactly five minutes for the person behind the counter was busily chatting without a care in the world.

Eventually, the guy stopped talking and turned around, he looked like he was about in he's young twenties, I would say between twenty-three and twenty-five years old. I checked he's name tag and it said he's name was Blake.

"Hello there, my name is Blake and how can I help you, and by helping, I mean anything, " Blake said, and I could see straight away that Blake was a lady's man.

I saw a shadow shadowing over me, and Blake's face dropped. I acted like I needed to check my phone, I tilted it to see the stranger's face and saw it was Xavier.

I ordered two ice creams in peace and then we soon off walking to the Aquarium while licking our ice cream.

"I wonder why did Blake's face drop when he saw Xavier, " I thought to myself.

While I was looking at the shops, Xavier wiped a bit of the Rocky Road onto the tip of my nose. I tried desperately to try and look at my nose but I just couldn't. You know when you cross your eyes, you see double, well that is what I am seeing now.

I looked at Xavier, who was still laughing and then at my ice cream and smirked. You probably know what happened, I took my pinkie, dipped it into the Cookies and Cream flavoured ice cream and I put it on Xavier's nose. Xavier and I hastily wiped our noses on the back of our hands.

Eventually we got to the aquarium, there was a guy standing in front of the aquarium all in black, black T-shirt, black jeans, a pair of black Nike with the Nike logo in white, with dirty blonde hair and green eyes. He looked very different to Xavier, who had jet black hair and brown eyes.

"Hello there strangers, " the guy in black said, I half turned my head, but then realised that he was talking to us, I mentally face palmed.

Xavier waved back and said, "Hello stranger, haven't seen you in such a long time!?! "

I waved shyly at the guy in black.

"Allow me to introduce you to my old time pal, " Xavier said.

"Liz meet Alejandro López, " Xavier said referring to the guy in black, " Al meet Elizabeth McCartney - Winters. "

I stepped forward and held out my hand to be shook and Jake took it gladly. "Nice to meet you Elizabeth, " Alejandro said with quite a Spanish accent.

"Likewise Alejandro, " I said.

"You can call me Al or Ally, may I call you Lizzy? " Al said.

"Por supuesto, " I said in Spanish. (Por supuesto = of course)

Al grinned and so did Xavier because they both perfectly understood. Al looked at us and then more closely at our nose, he stepped forward and used both of his hands to wipe something of our noses and put one finger at a time in his mouth and licked his lips and said, " Rocky Road and Cookies and Cream, am I right? You went to Sweet Terraza, right?"

"Sì," Xavier and I said in unison in Spanish, I learnt many languages for my acting career and Xavier learnt many languages for he's restaurants all over the world, majority are in Europe, but they are a world wide known restaurant and all over.
"Good, to see that my place has one old customer and a new customer liking the ice cream, " Al said.

"Xavier did say that he did know the owner well, so if Al is the owner and Xavier said he is an friend that he's known for a long time, to end off, that is the reason Blake's face dropped, " I thought.

Al led us through the queues of people at the front entrance of the aquarium. We have a VIP pass because we are with Al who runs with the aquarium.

"This is sooo cool, " I mentally sequeled.

In a few minutes time, we were by the fish tanks. There were fish and sea life of all types and sizes, starring the gray shark, the bull shark, the string ray, the guitar stripe, the yellow flipper, the small pilot fish and many more. And my favourite of everything in the aquarium is the tunnel, that has a three hundred and sixty (360) degree view, which I heard was marvelous.

"Xavier and you can go see the aquarium,just take these and show them to the guards," Al said, passing us a VIP pass, that can take us to the secluded areas.

Xavier grabbed my hand in his hand, our hands had fit perfectly in each other's and my hand felt so nice and warm and had felt like electricity was running through my hand.

"Bad, bad Lizzy for thinking those thoughts," I thoughts. So let me restart that, Xavier grabbed my hand and put mine into his.

Xavier started walking ahead, dragging me along but I didn't mind.

After a while, Xavier stop walking, went behind me and put his hands across eyes and turned me around and let his hands down and what I saw was indescribable. It was magnificent, beautiful, stunning, just indescribable.

It was the three hundred and sixty degree tunnel. There were fish of all different types and sizes and many other types of sea life.

I squealed and turned around and hugged Xavier very hard.

"Air... Can't breathe... Please Liz" Xavier said grasping for air.

I had let go and said sheepishly," Sorry."

I took Xavier's hand and said,"Let's go and explore."

Bella P.O.V.

So I have already booked in online, I just wanted Xavier and Lizzy to be together. I am now in Sweet Terraza and waiting.

"Excuse me! Hello? I don't have all day!" I said and got the dude's attention.

"Two scopes of Hokey Pokey," I said, it took the guy a good sixty seconds to realise that I am Xavier's sister, Isabella Russo.

"People nowadays," I muttered and heard a laugh behind me.

I turned around and saw the guy that laughed at my comment, he had blonde hair with brown eyes and he said,"I thought I was the only one that also thought that."

I just smiled and got my Hokey Pokey from Blake, how do I know that the dude's name is Blake, I know the owner so I know the staff (workers).

"Thank you, Blake," I said.

"My pleasure, Miss Russo," Blake said trying to be polite as possible, even though he doesn't like me or his work.

"Have a nice day, Miss," sad the stranger said, and started saying his ice cream order.

"That is a cheerful chap," I thought to myself because normally people don't notice me, I normally blend into the background.

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So now I am at the aquarium, and going to meet Ally, I know him because Xavier and him are close, like brothers, that close. I told Ally about Operation EX, in simpler terms EX stands for Elizabeth and Xavier, and Operation stands for the simple word 'plan' but I call it Operation EX, because it sounds like a secret agent.

"Ally," I screamed as I saw Ally and ran to him to give him a big bear hug.

"Bella, how are you?" Ally asked me.

"Good, haven't seen you in a long time!?!" I said and said more lowly,"How is Operation EX going? You were watching the cameras, right?"

Ally and I always could speak very low to each other, especially about relationships that Xavier has with someone. Xavier always has been bad at relationship choosing, as they say looks can be deceiving. Ally and I want someone that loves Xavier, not his money or restaurants.

"Nothing much, except that they had hands in hands and one hug," Ally said lowly.

"What!?!" I shrieked. "I thought there would be more action between them."

"Anyway got to show you something?" Ally said in a neutral voice.

"Okay, what are you waiting for then?" I said excited for the surprise.

Ally lead me to the secluded area for VIPs and there I saw Lizzy and Xavier and another guy with his back to me.

"He looks familiar," I thought.

"Hey guys," I said waving to everyone, Lizzy and Xavier wave and the guy with his back to me turned around.

It was the guy from...

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A CLIFFHANGER!?!?!

Yep, a definite CLIFFHANGER!?!?!

I have entered this book and School And What We Do In It for the Wattys 2018.

Sorry, haven't updated in such a long time!!!!!
Sorry for spelling and grammar mistakes.

XoXo,
Judy Harris