Sam grinned as she ate her bowl of vegetable and pasta yellow Thai curry with relish. She was hungry! Then she remembered she'd been in hospital that morning, so god knows what meals she had missed.

  She checked the time, yup. Breakfast and lunch. It was a good job they were at an all you can eat cafeteria, she had some catching up to do. A growing girl needed to eat.

  Edward looked up from his steak and chips with a big smile on his face. He'd been grinning like an idiot through out the meal and it gave Sam a warm glow from the knowledge that she had helped him get over his block.

  She thought to herself that if he hadn't put so much pressure on himself beforehand that he wouldn't have needed any help at all, but Sam was glad she could be there for him whether it was needed or not. She looked up and saw Rae walk hand in hand with Paul into the cafeteria and smiled.

  Rae was positively luminescent as she clung onto him, their relationship was clearly deepening and Sam was happy for them. Particularly for Rae, who on espying Sam and Edward beamed at them and dragged Paul over to their table.

  “So? How'd it go?” Asked Rae.

  Edward gave her a relieved smile and nodded. “With Sam's help I finally managed to get past my block. I'm not sure I would have been able to do it without her help.”

  Sam shook her head. “No you were there. You just didn't realise it. All I did was shine a light on what you had already found.”

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  Rae gave Sam a hug and smiled at Edward. “Yeah but that's some light Sam, I'm with Edward, I would never had been able to ignite that candle without your help.”

  Paul gave an affected yawn. “Enough mushy stuff already. Hey Eddy have you ordered your new clothes for when we dock in Valencia yet?”

  Edward nodded. “Yup and I've sorted out transport as well. It should be fun I've never been to Valencia before.”

  “This is the transport?”

  Sam looked incredulous at Edward and then back to the four electric scooters.

  “What? You don't like them?” He asked with a grin.

  Rae squealed with delight. “Oh Edward I love them! look Paul, aren't they amazing!?”

  Paul grimaced at the scooters. “You couldn't afford real scooters? Man I'm going to loose all my street cred running around on one of these things.”

  Edward shook his head. “Money's not the issue. Who here has a license for a moped?” He looked at the other three who looked blankly at him.

  “Right. Just as I thought, these.” He looked at Paul and gestured at the scooters. “Don't need any license or insurance, it was this or push bikes. You fancy pedaling everywhere?”

  “Fine. Fine. How fast does this thing go anyhow?”

  “Er...50kmh I think, though the legal limit might be 25kmh. either way still plenty fast enough for the city centre anyhow. If we need to go out of town we can always get a taxi.”

  Sam nodded in acquiescence as Rae beamed with pleasure, letting out a squee of delight as she shot off down the road.

  Sam snorted. “I guess we better catch up. She has no idea where she's going.”

  Much to Sam's surprise 50kmh actually felt pretty dam fast on a board a foot wide and three feet long And she couldn't help but grin madly at Edward as he caught up to the two girls. He smiled back at them with an air of triumph.

  “OK you got me. These are way cooler than I first thought.” Sam exclaimed as she looked at a smiling Paul, who it seemed had also had a change of heart too. Sam's mood lightened as she breathed in the hot Spanish morning air while they shot down the road into town. The ship was amazing but she couldn't help but feel cooped up on it and the sense of freedom on these little scooters was exhilarating.