Natalie P.O.V.

"So what's the plan for today?" I ask Percy as he pulls a sweater over his t-shirt. He pulls a hand through his hair and smiles at me "How about we make a bucket list of everything we want to do before we leave Seashell beach? And then we try to do them all."

I snort "Percy it's kind of late for that, considering we only have a week left here." He shakes his head walking over to the table to grab the pen and a piece of paper. "Let's make the most of the last week." He hands me the pen and paper which I cautiously take. I grab a book to put under the paper as I write.

1. Dance in the rain

2. Have a girl's night

3. Go to the carnival

4. Get a tattoo

5. Read your book

6. Learn to surf

I hand him my piece of paper. "Is this all you want to do?" I nod. "You sure?" I grab the piece of paper back. Scribbling the last sentence.

1. Fall in love.

"Okay, now I'm sure." He looks towards the paper and then back at me. "I don't know if we can do all of these, but we can try." I laugh "that's fine with me." He takes the paper folds it and puts it into his pocket.

"Well, I guess you better go talk to Isabella if you want to do a girl's night."

"Are you trying to get rid of me that fast?" He shakes his head "No, I'm just saying that you should plan." He walks over to his bed falling onto it. "Why don't we go out somewhere?" I ask feeling strange as the words leave my mouth. "I mean like till later so that I can go talk to Isabella 'cause she's probably still at work." The words stumble out of my mouth.

"Where would you like to go?" He asks. I shrug "I... I don't know let's just see what we can find." He lifts his arms. "Sure let's go." My eyebrow shoots up "Really?" He walks over to the door pulling it open "Well, okay then cool, let's go."

***

We walk up the street away from the beach. I glance through every store we pass. Then I see a glowing green sign. Garden of Eden. "Let's go check that out?" I pull him towards the green sign and walk straight through the door. The inside is dark. I grab a hold of the wall as I walk to steady myself. I hear music bouncing off of the walls and boom inside my head as I walk towards the low light at the end of the hall.

I reach the end of the hall and pull on the velvet curtain. Bright light flashes over my face momentarily blinding me. I try to focus on what I'm seeing while walking forward so that I can get a better view. I see guys dressed in black and a lot of girls. There is a stage and a few guys stand on it.

"I don't like what I'm seeing," Percy whispers to me. My eyes stay glued to the bodies of the guys on the stage. "Why are you jealous?" I laugh at him. He stays silent. The lights go off for a few minutes before they suddenly go on and the music starts playing. My eyes go wide as realization hits me... THIS IS A STRIP CLUB!

I run out of the club waiting for Percy outside. He walks out laughing. "You... you should have seen your face." He keeps laughing. "You could've warned me!" My face burned red. "What's the fun in that?" I cover my cheeks with my hands "It's not funny." I try saying with a strict tone "Aww, I'm sorry." He says still chuckling to himself as he hooks his arm around my neck as we walk away.

"I can't believe you didn't tell me." I scoff "Well I mean can you blame me you were drooling on them. Did you fall in love? Can we take it off the list?" I shake my head "Very funny, but no." He smiles at me "You sure?" My face falls flat "Do you want me to go back and fall in love?" his eyes grow wide "That's what I thought."

***

I smell the mix of spices in the air as we walk towards a little restaurant "Are we going to get something to eat? My treat to boost your ego." He sighs dropping his head as we enter the restaurant, taking a seat in the back corner. "You are one mean person," Percy says throwing his phone on the table. "Yeah well don't start something you can't finish," I order us some drinks.

I look towards the open door to see Isabella and Grayson entering. "Hey, Isabella." I wave at them to catch their attention, her smile grows wider as she approaches us. "Hey, you guys. What are you doing here?" she pulls out a chair sitting across from me. "We just found this place and decided to get lunch." Percy snorts "Yeah after some interesting events." I glare at him, making him smirk. "What happened?" I look back at her "Oh nothing. Do you maybe want to have a girls' night tonight before we go back home?"

The waiter returns to our table with our milkshakes "Would you guys like something?" He asks Grayson. I turn my attention back to Isabella "Absolutely that would be great." I take a sip of my chocolate milkshake. "When are you leaving?" Grayson asks putting his folded arms on the table. "Sunday," Percy answers. "Our birthdays are next week." Isabella laughs "Ooh are we invited?"

I nod "Of course, if you want to..." She smiles widely "Hell yes!" Grayson falls into a conversation with Isabella leaving Percy and me to our conversation. "You never gave me a list of what you want to accomplish before we leave." I state "Don't worry about it." He smiles. I frown at his answer "No, I want to know!" he shakes his head "I've done most of what I wanted already. So it's just yours that we still need to do." I give him I side-eye, waiting for him to give me a serious answer, but it never comes. I sighed giving up "If you say so." I turn back to Isabella and Grayson "So Isabella what do you think we should do tonight?" Isabella turns towards me "Well... movies, pizza, talk about boys." She laughs. "What 'boys'?" Grayson and Percy say in sync. Making Isabella and I laugh. I shake my head as their confused faces turn into sour expressions.

We pay for our drinks and walk back to the hotel. Isabella and I say goodbye to the guys before we walk towards the hotel she has been using for the past few weeks as her apartment is being redone.

I walk into her room and fall onto her bed closing my eyes. She closes the door "So are you going to tell me what happened today?" I lift my head to watch her as she walks past me to the other side of the bed. "We accidentally walked into a strip club." I sit up and see her shocked expression "Wait, what? Natalie, I didn't know you guys were into that." I feel heat flush my whole face "We don't! It was ACCIDENTAL." She bursts out into a laugh her eyes tearing. She wipes her eyes "I know I'm just messing with you." I shake my head letting it fall into my hands.

"I have an idea of what we can do tonight." I lift my head and see Isabella staring at her phone. "What?" She turns her phone towards me and I feel like I'm going to regret that I asked.

Garden of Eden "Ladies drink for free"

The poster on her phone gave me everything I needed to know. "We are not going!" I warn her. She nods her head "Oh yes we are!" I give her an unamused expression "Just for a little while. Tonight please." She gives me her puppy dog eyes. "Do I need to remind you that we just accidentally walked in there today?" Her expression stays the same. "... Fine but only for a little while, okay?" She squeals giving me a bear hug, almost squeezing the life out of me. "You won't regret it."

"We should get ready." She quickly lets me go and walks over to the kitchen. "It's not even two 'o'clock yet." She turns towards me "And..."

"And it's too early to get ready for tonight." She scoffs "It's never too early. Especially when you're going to a place like that."

***

Here I thought I was winning the argument, but not even an hour later here I am getting out of the shower. I hear the music through the closed door. I quickly cover my hair with a towel and brush my teeth with one of the bathroom spares and walk out of the room. "Okay so, dumb question, but what am I going to wear?" She turns towards me with a makeup brush in her hand "Just check in my suitcase for dresses and throw them on the bed." I walk over to the suitcase, throwing it open. I take out a few dresses and lay them on the bed. "Try them on." She says watching me through the mirror.

I walk into the bathroom and get into the dress, watching myself in the mirror. I open the bathroom door, rubbing my hands down on the dress. "I don't think this is a good idea."

"What! Oh, Natalie look at you! You look gorgeous." I walk towards her looking at myself in the mirror. The off-the-shoulder, white dress stops in the middle of my thigh. I take my hair out of the bun and let it fall into waves down to my waist. "You just need a few things." Isabella quickly grabs some gold jewellery, she clips the necklace around my neck and hands me the rings and bracelet. I do my makeup and wait for her on the bed, turning the ring on my index finger every few minutes. "Isabella I don't think this is a good idea." She walks over to the kitchen grabbing two sodas from the fridge "It's going to be fine. I promise. I know the last time you went out things didn't end well, but I promise you that we will be super safe and if we go and you don't like it we will come straight home and order pizza, okay?" She hands me a soda and I nod as I take it.

***

We are walking up the street towards the club "I can't believe you got me to come back here... and walk here in heels. You are going to owe me a pizza either way." Isabella laughs as we enter the building. The music is so loud I feel it vibrate through my whole body. The lights flash in and out of the hallway as we make it to where the velvet curtain was earlier today. We walk into the room. The stage is empty and the room is almost too full to move around. We squeeze through the crowd down to the bar. The barman makes his way over to Isabella and she orders two shots. I take the shot, and my face instantly starts pulling into a sour expression.

She gets us both cocktails and we take seats in the farthest corner of the stage. "This is pretty nice," I scream over the loud music to Isabella. She nods and instantly goes back to swaying her head to the music. The stage lights up and a man is standing on the stage with a microphone. "Ladies I hope you are enjoying your night-"Everyone starts cheering "- the next show will start in an hour." The stage goes dark again and they turn the music back up.

I finish my drink and motion to Isabella that I'm going to the bathroom. I shuffle through the crowd surprised by the fact that there wasn't a line and just walk in. I instantly stop as I see a group of guys standing inside. They all turn to look at me "I...um I think I took the wrong turn I was just looking for the bathroom... my bad." I turn on my heel and speed walk out of there that's when I finally see the bathroom and run past it straight back to my table where Isabella is sitting, busy on her phone. I fall back onto my chair, my heart racing against my ribcage. "What happened?" Isabella asks with wide eyes. I start laughing "I accidentally walked into a dressing room full of guys instead of walking into the bathroom..." She holds her hand in the air "You did what?" I start playing with the ring on my finger "Yeah. And I got so embarrassed I ran out of there passing the actual bathroom and just came straight back." She burst out in laughter "Oh boy, Natalie I can't believe it."

I throw my face into my hands letting out a groan of frustration "I can't feel more embarrassed. The worst part is that I'm sober so I don't even have an excuse for the stupidity of it." Isabella just shakes her head letting out another laugh. "I'm going to get us new drinks." I give her a tight smile and drop my head onto the table as she leaves.

I feel a poke against my shoulder "Excuse me." I lift my head towards the person. I instantly sit up straight as I notice it was one of the guys from the changing room. "Are you the girl that walked into the changing room?" I momentarily close my eyes and let out a sigh as I look back at him "Yeah, I'm sorry. It was an accident."

He smiles at me. "Hey don't worry about it. I haven't seen anyone so shocked to see a bunch of guys ever so I just had to see if you're alright." I let out an anxious laugh "I... well yeah I have no explanation. I was just looking for the bathroom and well yeah." I turn the ring on my finger again as he continues to stare at me. "It's no problem have a nice night." He shows me a bright smile and then turns to disappear into the crowd. A few minutes pass before Isabella comes back, and she pushes the drink toward me. "Here you go."

I grab it instantly taking a big gulp, the tequila burns my throat as it goes down. "Whoa, slow down." She laughs at me. "So should we go after this drink?" She asks taking a sip of her drink. "Yeah, and then we can get pizza." I flash her a bright smile "You read my mind." She says giggling.

***

I fall onto the bed as soon as we enter the room. "I need a shower and pizza." Isabella falls beside me "Same." Isabella replies as she grabs her phone to order a pizza. "Forty minutes till we get pizza." I let out a sigh "Thank goodness."

I was just getting dressed when I hear a knock at the door. I quickly make my way over and grab the pizza box as I give the guy a tip before closing the door and jumping on the bed. "The love of our lives is here." Isabella sits up straight opening the box "I don't think I have ever been this excited to eat pizza ever." She grabs a slice taking a big bite. "Well, I have." I laugh taking a bite of my slice of pizza.

"What are we going to watch?" Isabella asks to turn on the TV. "I don't know whatever you're in the mood for," I reply eating another slice of pizza. She puts on a classic movie "Ten things I hate about you" she turns to me "It's one of my favourites."

"Mine too. It just gave me high expectations of cute romance." I reply

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"Don't worry me too."