few places available. Do you want a double room or don't you care about the room?"
Rachel and Ashley looked at each other, nodded and said like one another.
"Double room."
Further formalities were clarified and the trip was booked within fifteen minutes.
Full of anticipation for the upcoming trip, they left the travel agency and drove home.
"Are you really sure you want to go there?"Ashley's mother asked, still a little confused.
"Of course Ms. Carter. My cousin has been there before and she thought it was really nice."
Rachel replied.
Turning to Ashley, she whispered.
"Mainly because of the guys."
Both grinned.

Rachel was dropped off at her home and Ashley and her mother drove to her home. Ashley decided to start her letter to Matt and tell him that she was going to leave and that she couldn't answer him during that time.
When he replied a week later, he reported that he had booked a trip with a friend and that he was also unable to write to her during this period.
Both wished they had a nice vacation and were looking forward to coming back to tell the other about it.

There were only 3 days left to departure and Ashley and Rachel were already very excited. Both had already started packing. Ashley even made a list of all the things that she absolutely had to take with her in order not to forget anything.So shortly before the trip, her mother often got on her nerves with unimportant things, which is why the two of them often had little arguments.
Ashley was happy to be far away soon, just Rachel and her.
The long-awaited day was getting closer and closer. Time didn't go by for Ashley. She couldn't wait any longer. The most exciting thing for them was the flight. She had never flown before in her life, but Rachel calmed her down a little every now and then.

Ashley woke up much too early on the long-awaited day, but she knew that she could no longer fall asleep.
She didn't really want to get up for two hours, so she decided to go through her list one more time. She could now hear faint noises from her brother's nursery.
So she crept from her room across the street to her brother's. Josh was in his cot, kicking his teddy bear blanket and playing with his red rattle. As soon as he saw Ashley, he let go of the rattle and held out his arms to her.She smiled at him, took him out of his bed and he immediately started to play with her hair. Ashley was used to it because he loved pulling hair. Then he happily began to babble. He couldn't speak very many words yet, so it was very difficult for Ashley to understand. She could only hear her name now and then. But she could understand his last sentence halfway, if you could even call it a sentence.
"Ashey hungry!"
Josh muttered.
"You're hungry?"
Ashley asked.
Josh put a forefinger to his lips and nodded.
"Ok, little one, I'll make you something to eat. Then Mommy can at least get some sleep."
She went downstairs to the kitchen with Josh in her arms, put him down in his child's chair and made him a little sandwich with jam. Before she gave him his food, she tied his blue-flowered bib around him because he loved to spill, and finally gave him the food he had longed for and a sippy cup of milk.Ashley, however, took a chair and watched him. He ate his breakfast with relish. When he was done, Ashley wiped his face and brought him back upstairs, this time to the bathroom, to put him on the potty. While he was doing his business, Ashley went to her parents' bedroom to see if her mother was awake now. Just as she was about to open the door, it opened from the other side.
Ashley winced and whispered.
"Mum, don't scare me early in the morning."
"I'm sorry honey. Why are you up so early anyway?"
"I couldn't sleep anymore. I already fed Josh and just put him on the potty."
Her mother answered in surprise.
"Thank you. I'll bathe him first. In the meantime you can get ready."
Ashley nodded and was about to go back to her room.
"Oh Ashley? Have you had breakfast yet?"
Ashley answered, shaking her head."No. But as soon as I'm finished, I can set the breakfast table."
So she disappeared into her room.
Her mother was still rooted to the spot.
"She's so friendly today. Strange."
Shrugging, she went to her son now.

When Mrs. Carter came back down with Josh, finished bathing, the table was really already set.
However, Ashley only covered for one. Her mother looked at her questioningly. "Honey, you surely haven't eaten anything yet ?!"
"No .. but I also can't, I'm much too excited."
She grinned.
"If I eat something now, I'll be sick afterwards on the plane."
Her mother sighed, she was the kind of mother who didn't like it when her daughter skipped the most important meal of the day.
"At least a little something, come on."
Bored them.
Ash just shook his head vigorously.
"I'm not hungry anyway, I'd rather call Rachel and see if she's awake."
She said happily and disappeared upstairs again.Mrs. Carter sighed and looked at her son.
"Hopefully you won't be like that."
she smiled.
Her son just looked at her with wide eyes and started laughing.

Ash was already on the phone and tried to reach Rachel.
After at least 5 minutes someone finally picked up and at the end of the line was a sleepy "Yes?" to listen.
"Rachel !!! Now just say you're not done yet ?!"
Ash asked in shock.
Rachel suddenly started giggling and said cheekily
"Ripped off! Of course I'm already awake, what do you think? I barely closed an eye that night."
Ash exhaled in relief and replied:
"Phew .. I would have thought you could do anything. But I couldn't sleep either."
She grinned.
"Well, listen, I'm not missing the most important trip of our life."
Rachel laughed.
"Oh come on, you only want to go there because of the guys."
Ashley teased her.
"No, how do you get that?"
Rachel grinned cheekily.
"Well .. maybe because I've known you long enough now.Anyway, we will pick you up in about 2 hours and then drive to the airport ok? "
Ash asked again.
"It's ok. I'll see you then, bye!"
she said with a smile and then hung up.
Ashley hung up and checked her things one more time.
She wanted to make sure she hadn't forgotten anything either.

Finally the time had come, after a hectic running through the house, they drove off to pick up Rachel and then drive to the airport.
Rachel was waiting impatiently with all her luggage on the street corner and greeted Ashley warmly.
They loaded up Rachel's luggage, which caused some problems, as Rachel had packed a lot and Ashley's things were also quite a bit.
Somehow they managed to stow everything in the car and arrive at the airport on time.
Since Ashley's mother had to work that day, she said goodbye and left them to the airport.
With big eyes and a curious look, Ashley looked around the huge airport hall.She never thought that so many people would be up so early just to fly somewhere.
Since Rachel had flown many times and knew all of this, she dragged her friend to the airport counter to take her tickets and finally get rid of her luggage.
After that was all taken care of, they could sit in the airport waiting room and wait for their flight to leave.
Ash continued to look around curiously and saw many other teenagers her age sitting there. All of these probably wanted to fly to Bulgaria too, after all they were flying under supervision as their mother would never have let them fly alone. However, Rachel and Ashley could do what they wanted there. The support only served to take care of everyone a little and to help them with problems.
Rachel also looked around curiously, but she saw something for boys flying with. She was just one of the girls who attracted attention when she passed boys, which she also visibly liked.She saw a few that she found very cute and tried to flirt with them with first eye contact. Ash had to roll his eyes because they had been here for less than 5 minutes and Rachel was already making the first contacts. Ashley was more of the shy kind. It often took her a long time to get used to people and to open up to them.

After two hours of endless waiting, their flight was finally called and that they should go to the gates.
So now it started. Ashley felt a queasy feeling in her stomach area again and she felt sick easily. Your first time flying. She was so excited she had to hold on to Rachel a little. She tried to calm her down a little and offered her the window seat on the plane. Ash was quite against it at first, but agreed after some discussion with Rachel.
"How long do we fly?"
Ashley asked, visibly nervous.
Rachel leaned back and looked at her.
"About two hours."
She said casually."Two hours? O God .. I'm dying .."
she said anxiously and clawed the armrest.
"No, you won't, we haven't even left, so don't be so scared."
Rachel winked.
That didn't really calm Ashley down, but at least she tried to relax a little before it was time to buckle up.
From then on, Ash tensed up. The plane slowly began to roll. It drove faster and faster until the tip slowly took off.
Ashley was literally pushed into the seat and felt it was downright torture.
They were finally in the air and Ashley had to get used to the thin air.
"You see, it wasn't that bad after all."
Rachel smirked.
Ashley just gave her a grin-not-so-look and slowly calmed down a bit.
The two hours passed faster than Ashley thought, but she went through the same agony again on the approach.
Somewhat grumpy, she left the plane with Rachel and wanted to take her luggage.There were signs everywhere with a language they didn't understand.
Not knowing where to find their luggage, they just followed the crowd.
When they had finally found their luggage and finally heaved it off the belt, they went outside, where several buses were waiting for them to take them to the hotel.
When she arrived in front of the hotel, she and the other