A girl named Orly

Chapter: Two

10:32 . . . Seventh Deck Bar

"Did it hurt?"

Both Jade and Orly turned simultaneously to look at the person addressing them. While Orly's eyes grew wide, Jade's turned mean. She could feel a pick-up line coming. "Did what hurt?"

"When you fell from heaven, did it hurt?" Laughing at his great words, the shorter man turned back to a table of friends and gave them the thumbs up.

While he was doing that, Jade was quite calmly helping herself to some of the water behind the bar. When the man turned around, he found himself given a face bath and the finger before Jade turned her attention back to her friend.

She found with wide, shocked eyes, unable to speak. "What? It's not like you haven't seen me do that to some guy before."

Still speechless, Orly watched the handsome dark haired man walk back to his friends before she could finally get words out of her throat. "Do you have ANY idea who that was?"

"Don't know. Don't care. I only know that anyone lame enough to try that line must be gay and trying to deny it, or really really bad at sex."

Again, her friend was almost speechless. "That was Elijah Fucking Wood! You know, child actor prodigy and all around rich hottie?"

Jade stopped swirling her drink and looked at Orly after the words 'actor' and 'rich'. She looked back at the table where the actor had finally sat down at. His friends were still laughing and making fun of him. "Bloody Hell."

The next thing Orly knew, Jade was dragging her bodily by the wrist to fix her problem, something Jade did a lot. "You're better at speaking diplomatically than I am." That seemed to be the cure-all for every situation Orly had ever found herself in compliments of Jade.

Thughiughing at the table stopped when the two women approached. And Orly stopped struggling the second she noticed that the man from the dock was at the table. Her Game Boy's savior was right there!

She sucked in a deep breath as she noticed the snug fit of his polo and the deep tan of his skin. Had he gone tanning? Somehow, he seemed darker in the club light.

"My friend has something to say." Jade pulled her from behind her back and shoved Oriana in front of the group.

She stood there, unsure of what to say. What exactly DO you say when your best friend has just insulted a hot, rich, young actor? What exactly indeed. "Um, hi. My name is Orly."

Someone choked on their water but other than that, the whole table just stared at her oddly. It was then that she noticed him.

"Did you say your name was Orly? Do you spell that with an 'i' or a 'y'?"

If her dock hottie was purely British, than this guy defined the word. He was tan, like he'd been in the sun his whole life, but where his friend was large in every aspect, he was slim to the point of being a stick. It surprised her so much that it wasn't a turn off that she forgot to speak. His eyes, a richer brown than even her own, held her gaze.

"Love? Was it an 'i' or a 'y'?"

Blinking, she realized she had been staring. She did so love the use of the word 'Love' as an endearment. It was so intimate and sexy. Oriana almost shivered unconsciously. "Actually, it's with a 'y' and it's short for Oriana. They call me Orly because that's my grandmother's name and my parents weren't sure what to call me."

The table seemed to relax around them, once that was over, but the dark eyed man spoke again. "My name is Orlando. But everyone calls me Orli . . . with an 'i' that is."

Surprise flashed across her face, then complete uncertainty. It was such an odd name to have.

"Wow, what a coincidence. My name is Jade." Sure that the situation wouldn't blow up in her face, Jade pushed Oriana aside and took her spot in front of the booth. She looked around expectantly for a few moments, waiting for one of the other guys to introduce themselves. No one spoke. "Alright. Since you've all turned silent, I guess I'll do what I came to do and get out of here."

Throwing her hair over her shoulder, she leaned right over the table and planted a loud, deep kiss right on Elijah's mouth. The poor man was startled as fuck for the first few moments before he grabbed the back of Jade's head, deepening the kiss. A man with short hair and big ears spewed his drink out of his mouth in surprise as the other men laughed uncomfortably.

But Orly didn't notice. She didn't notice the kiss. Or the laughing. Or the gasps as Elijah stood to get a better angle. Her gaze was plastered to Orli's, the browns warring with each other for god knows what.

Jade ended the kiss with a satisfied smile and stood back, not a hair mussed on her head. Elijah looked like he had gone through and hurricane. "Well, that was nice. I will see you all later."

She backed into Orly, breaking her contact and leaving her almost dazed. Orly stood still as her friend left, unsure of what to do now until Jade yelled for her.

"Well, that's my signal. It was nice to, ah, see you all. I hope we run into each other again sometime soon."

She turned to go, but the short haired man with big ears stood and put a stopping hand on her arm. "We're going to walk around later and hit all the bars. Sort of a world tour. You're welcome to come along if you want."

She smiled back at him. "That'd be awesome. But, I should get back to my friends now."

"We'll pick you up on the way out, alright?"

She nodded and gave the table one last smile before rejoining Jade at their table.

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