you decide against them. It changes your looks even more.”
“I’ll wait until after I bleach.”
“Good idea. I’ll run and get the color. Oh, ask Drex to order contacts for us.”
Wasn’t this a bitch? I had green lenses implanted in my gray eyes, and now I had to wear colored contacts to change my eye color again. “I’m going for blue. What color do you want?”
“Anything that covers these dark eyes of mine. He’ll know what’s best.”
Gemini left, and I sought Drex for the contacts. He said he’d handle it. “I’ll get you enough for two months. I hope you won’t be away that long.”
“Hope not either. What do you think?”
“Don’t ask.”
“You hate it, don’t you?”
“Scottie, hate is a strong word. Let’s just say I prefer long hair.”
“Like most men.” I went back to the bathroom to clean up our mess.
Gemini returned with a bag full of goodies. “What’s all that?”
“Makeup to go with our new styles. Let’s get this going.”
We soon had our heads covered in the smelly stuff and then were rinsing our way to new colors. I turned out to be a pleasant shade of blonde—not too platinum, but golden with some red tint in it. Gemini went brown with auburn highlights. It was great on her. Drex almost had a cow when he saw her.
“What the fuck did you do to your hair?”
“I changed it.”
“Why did you cut it off?”
“So I’d look different. Don’t worry, it’ll grow back. Besides, I like it.”
“I don’t. I want my wife back.”
“Lucky for you, she’s right here.” She stuck out her tongue at him. “And since when do you get to decide how I wear my hair?”
His mouth clamped shut and Huff laughed. “Shut up, Huff,” he said before stomping away.
Huff kept laughing. “I love to see you put him in his place.”
“Me too,” Gem said.
“What next?” I asked.
“Names. Come on. Let’s figure this out.”
Before we left the room, I asked, “Huff, has anyone fed the brat and the bitch today?”
“Yeah, don’t worry about them. We have two guards down there and they communicate with us every fifteen minutes. That young one is a real piece of work.”
“Tell me. I had to sit next to her on the helicopter. I wanted to push her out.”
Gemini grabbed my hand and pulled me away. “We have work to do.” An hour later and we had new names and pictures to send to WI for our new IDs. I would be Emily Jenkins, and Gem was Lindsey Walsh.
“From the time we leave this place, we call each other Emily and Lindsey. We have to memorize our new phone numbers and addresses, along with our birthdates and socials.”
“I got it. So, where are we going?”
“It’s a surprise, but you will love it.”
“Lindsey, I love surprises. When can we leave?”
“As soon as we pack and memorize our shit. Tomorrow or the day after.”
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Scottie
The drive to the airport turned out to be a bit tricky. We didn’t want to be followed so we had to come up with something. Drex came up with the idea of wearing long coats with hoods and going to a nearby hotel. When we got inside, we would ditch the coats and come out as our new selves, hop in a taxi, and ride to the airport. That’s what we did. Only we took it one step further and went in two separate vehicles.
Our flight took off, taking us to Denver, where we changed planes and left for Hawaii. Sun and fun for a few days. Then it was on to Tahiti.
“Where did you come up with this?”
Lindsey shrugged. “I always wanted to come here so I figured, why not now?”
“I never thought I’d get to Tahiti. This is glorious.” And it was. We had a two-bedroom bungalow that was situated over the water. I’d like to say it was romantic, but being with Lindsey/Gemini was slightly disappointing.
“We’re getting massages today in our bungalow.”
“Ooh, I love the sound of that.”
We ate and drank our umbrella drinks as we swam in the warm water. The great thing about where we stayed was we didn’t have to mingle with anyone.
A few days later, we left Tahiti and went to Fiji, which was absolutely gorgeous too.
Gemini stretched her long, tanned, body on the chaise and said, “If I lived here, I’d never get any work done.”
“It totally makes you lazy.”
On this island we decided to brave it and go deep sea fishing and snorkeling. After that, we became more adventurous and took one of