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Nerds on Vacation: Chapter One
“This is beautiful,” I smiled, looking down at my map. This place was beyond what I ever imagined. “Look over there, you can see…” I turned to talk to my best Melissa, but she was lip-locked with her boyfriend, Tyler.
“I know Sarah,” Melissa said as the two of them broke from each other. “It’s beautiful, it’s marvelous. You have been saying all those things from the moment we stepped off the plane.”
“But,” I began to say, but Tyler was already rolling his eyes.
“Why did we have to bring the nerd?” he asked Melissa. “She is ruining everything.”
“I am not ruining anything,” I scoffed, folding my arms. “Not my fault that I actually want to see the historic value of this place.”
“It has old buildings with a lot of history, if I wanted a history lesson I could have stayed home, plenty of old buildings over there.”
“None of them date back to…” I began to say as I took out another book from the satchel that hung from my shoulders.
“Another book,” Tyler said, waving his hands in the air. “I am done, when you want to have some fun, I will be with the others downstairs.”
Tyler walked to the stairway that led down from the rooftop. Melissa watched him go, then turned to me. Her eyes said it all.
