In My Shoes - Chapter 2
Nick hung the phone up and stood up. A sharp pain caused him to sit back down again. He didn't know what was going on. Janice, the office secretary looked over at Nick.
"Kara? Are you okay?"
"God, I'm not sure, call my Mom, I think I need to go home." Nick said as he put his hand on his stomach.
As the secretary looked up Kara's phone number, Ryan appeared in the office doorway.
"Kara, are you okay? You're not looking too good." Ryan said as he smoothed the hair away from Nick's face.
The feeling of this boy touching him, made Nick's skin crawl.
"God, do you have to keep touching me?" Nick protested angrily.
Ryan drew his hand off of Nick's head. He looked at him worried and then looked at the secretary. The secretary smiled and shrugged her shoulders.
"I wouldn't be surprised at all, Ryan."
Upon hearing that, Nick looked at the secretary. "Suprised about what?" Nick sputtered.
"That you're going into labor." The secretary replied.
Before Nick could respond, another sharp pain went across his stomach. "OUCH, what the hell is happening!"
As Ryan tried to touch Nick again, he pulled his head back away from his reach.
"I THINK YOU'VE DONE ENOUGH ALREADY TO ME, JUST LEAVE ME THE HELL ALONE DAMN YOU."
The secretary hung the phone up. "Ryan, Kara's mother wants you to take Kara to the obgyn's office and she will meet you there. Do you know where it is?"
Ryan looked at the secretary. "No, I have no idea, but I'm sure Kara would know it though."
Nick was sitting in a half sitting/half laying postion clutching his stomach. His face was sweaty and he was moaning from the pain.
"Kara, do you know the way to the doctor's office?" Ryan asked as he knelt in front of Nick.
Nick's only reply was a painful look at Ryan, he was in too much pain to speak. He shook his head no.
"What's the doctor's name?" Ryan asked.
Nick shrugged his shoulders and shook his head no.
Ryan looked at the secretary, "What do we do now? She doesn't know the doctor's name."
The secretary quickly redialed Kara's mother's telephone number. She was just catching her as she was heading out the door and explained to her that Kara could not tell them the doctor's name and the office location. The secretary handed the phone to Ryan and he listed to the instructions on how to get to the office.
Ryan took Nick by the arm and helped him out of the chair to a standing position. Nick stood up in a hunched over manner. He was still hanging onto his stomach as they walked down the school hallway. When they got outside, Ryan turned to Nick.
"Baby, I have to go get my car, it's out in the lot. Will you be okay waiting here?"
Nick was only able to nod yes. "God how I hate it when he calls me baby." Nick thought to himself.
As Nick stood on the sidewalk waiting for Ryan to pull up, he felt something funny happening. He looked down and saw that the sidewalk was wet where he stood and his pants were wet.
"What the hell?" Nick said as he looked down. "Oh, shit, this is really great, my water broke." Nick knew now that the inevitible was happening to him. He was definately in labor.
A nervous Ryan pulled his car up to the curb and ran around it towards Nick. He saw that the ground underneath him was wet.
"Is this what I think it is?" Ryan asked Nick.
"Yeah, dumbass, my water br---" Before Nick could finish the sentance, he was hit with another painful contraction. He doubled over.
"Oh god, these are getting closer aren't they?" Ryan asked Nick.
"How the hell should I know." Nick yelled out as he was being helped into the car by Ryan.
"Just drive, don't dink around." Nick ordered the boy to hurry.
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Brian came down to the office in the hotel where security had taken Nick. He looked worried when he found Nick crying and his clothes torn. Brian crouched down in front of Nick.
"Hey buddy, is there something you want to talk about?"
Kara started crying harder.
Brian looked up at the hotel security people and then at Jaye, Nick's bodyguard. Jaye understood Brian's look.
"Thanks guys, but I think myself and Mr. Littrell can take it from here." Jaye stated.
The hotel security reluctantly left the room.
Brian waited until the hotel security left before he started to talk again.
"Nick, what is wrong? Please, I want to help you."
Kara shook her head. "Nothing Brian, I'll be okay, I just haven't felt good today."
"I don't believe you." Brian replied.
Kara wiped the tears off her cheeks. She stood up. "I need to go get cleaned up. Do you have your room card? I left mine on the dresser."
Brian reached into the front pocket on his denim shirt. He handed the card to Nick.
"Thanks, I'll be down in 20 minutes." Kara turned and left Brian and Jaye in the office.
After Nick left Brian sighed and looked at Jaye. "I know something is wrong with Nick, but he keeps saying he's fine. He cries at the stupidest little things and he's been really moody too. More moody than normal."
"Well, I can't understand why Nick would have walked out like that, he knows better. I remember the scene in Toronto a couple of years ago when he got tossed around in a crowd rush, he totally freaked out on that." Jaye said as he paced the room. "He is going to give me a heart attack yet. Nick always tells me where he's going and he always calls me if he wants to go out somewhere."
"Exactly. This is so out of character." Brian stated as he walked towards the office door.
Once upstairs in the hotel room, Kara laid back across the bed. She was running things through her mind on how the body switching could have happened. "I know I did that wealth spell the right way, I followed it letter for letter." Kara thought to herself.
"I wonder." Kara said outloud as she picked up the phone and dialed the number to Kellogg High School.
"Good morning, Kellogg High School."
"Yes, could I speak with Kara Porter, she should be in---"
The secretary cut Kara off. "Oh, I'm sorry she's gone for the day."
"Gone for the day?" Kara thought to herself. "Nick must have convinced them he needed to go home sick." "Oh? Did Kara go home sick?"
"Not actually." The secretary replied.
Kara wondered what was going on. "Well then what?"
"Kara went into labor. She started right after she got off the phone." The secretary said excitedly.
"Oh my god, no! Are you sure? I mean she could have been faking it to get out of school!" Kara was starting to panic.
"Oh, no, I'm positive, she was getting really mad at Ryan, my guess is that she's already in the transitional period of labor."
Kara knew what the transitional period of labor was, that was when a woman was dialated between 5 to 7 centemeters. "Oh god, that came on too fast, it sounds like the labor is going way too fast."
"Sir, calm down. There's absolutely no reason for you to panic, I'm sure Kara will be fine. Her mom is meeting them at the doctors office."
Stunned, Kara hung the phone up. Her mind was racing trying to figure out a way to get to Nick and fix the problem before he would have to go on with the labor anymore.
Kara looked down at the torn clothing. She went to Nick's suitcase and pulled out clean clothes. As she went into the bathroom to change, she heard a knock at the door.
"Who is it?" Kara yelled from the bathroom.
"It's Brian, let me in."
"Oh god, I don't have the time to deal with his shit again." Kara mumbled to herself.
Kara reluctantly opened the door and let Brian in. She immediately went back into the bathroom to continue changing.
"Nick, I stopped at the front desk to look at our room tab, and they told me you've placed a few long distance calls to Anderson Indiana."
"What are you doing, spying on me? Yeah, I called Anderson, no big deal." Kara shot back at Brian.
"No, I'm just worried about you, you're not yourself." Brian continued.
Kara came out of the bathroom. "No, I'm not, am I Brian!"
Brian's eyes grew wide upon hearing the tone in Nick's voice.
"And do you want to know why I'm not myself?" Kara paused for effect. "Because I'm not Nick Carter, that's why."
"Okay, Nick, you are really scaring me now." Brian said nervously.
"No, Brian, it's the truth. I'm going to tell you the truth, you won't believe me anyway, but what the hell." Kara started out. "Sit down, because you are going to need to." Kara pushed Brian on the shoulders to sit in the chair he was standing in front of.
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"Kara, right in here, please." The nurse at the doctor's office led Nick into an examination room.
Entering the room, Nick saw a big padded table.
The nurse handed Nick a hospital gown. I need you to take everything off and put this on. The gown ties in the back.
"Everything?" Nick asked shocked. "Just what exactly are they planning on doing to me?" Nick thought.
"Yes, everything. Your bra and underwear, you can leave your socks on though."
Nick was about to reply to the nurse when another contraction hit him. She turned when she heard Nick let out a yelp.
"Kara, how far apart are the contractions?"
"I don't know, how can you tell?" Nick groaned.
"Do you need help getting undressed?" The nurse asked Nick.
Nick shook his head no. The nurse left the room and Nick proceeded to get undressed. He put the gown on and tried to tie it in the back and discovered his stomach was too big to tie the middle strings together. "Just wonderful." Nick said outloud. Nick climbed onto the table and wrapped the sheet around himself.
The doctor knocked on the door. "Are you ready Kara?"
Nick sighed. "Yeah, I guess as ready as I can be."
The young male doctor entered the room with Kara's file. "They tell me your contractions have started and your water broke."
"I guess, but isn't this too early?" Nick was hoping they would change their minds and he could leave.
The doctor smiled. "Two weeks isn't too early, especially with a young lady like you. Now, go ahead and lie back so I can examine you." The doctor said as he put his hand on Nick's shoulder.
As Nick laid back, he could feel someone grabbing each of his legs and putting his feet in the stirups at the foot of the bed. Nick drew the sheet up over his head, preparing for what was going to happen next.
"Now Kara, just relax, don't tense up on me."
"Relax? How the hell can I relax. Oh god, that $#%#$ hurts.""Dammit! What the hell are you doing down there?" Nick yelled at the doctor.
The doctor stood up and removed his surgical gloves. He wrote something quickly down in Kara's chart and told the nurse to call some place called AMVAC for prioriety advanced with a paramedic and St. Therese Hospital.
"Kara, you are definately in active labor. We are sending you to St. Therese's by ambulance. Just relax, you're going to be fine. Dr. Maxson is on call and he will be there for the delivery."
Nick moaned as another contraction hit him. "No, this can't be happening right now, not yet. I'm not ready for something like this."
"Kara, everything is okay. You're already dialated to 7 centemeters, the hard work is almost over." The doctor said, smiling.
"Seven centemeters? How much farther?" Nick asked as his body suddenly gave him a signal that he needed to push whatever this was out of his body.
The doctor looked suprised and then chuckled. "Kara, Kara. When you get to ten, then you can start pushing."
"Ten? How come I want to push now?" Nick was getting scared, this was not right and he had no idea what was happening to him.
"No, don't push yet, do your breathing." The doctor urged Nick.
"I am breathing dammit. Why can't I push?" Nick groaned.
"Ok, I will be blunt, you will tear yourself up."
Nick looked at the doctor with a frightened look.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Looking at Brian after he sat down in the chair, Kara sighed. "Brian, I want you to listen to everything I have to tell you, don't stop me in the middle of it, okay?"
Brian didn't say a word, he simply nodded yes. His thoughts were running wild. He couldn't believe that Nick had finally slipped off the edge and had gone crazy.
"Okay, like I just told you, I'm not Nick Carter, my name is Kara Porter. I'm a 17 year old senior at Kellogg High School in Anderson Indiana. I'm into witchcraft and do spells out of a big book. The other night I was laying on my bed looking at posters of Nick and thought, I could really have a good life if I was as rich as Nick was. I found a spell on wealth and recited it three times word for word out of the book. The next thing I know, I wake up in this room in the morning in Nick's body, so that means Nick is in my body." Kara paused to see if Brian was absorbing everything she was telling him. "Oh, I forgot to tell you one more thing, I'm eight months pregnant."
Brian stared at Nick. He was starting to feel sick to his stomach. Nick had definately gone off the deep end.
Brian quietly spoke. "Nick, we'll get you the help that you need, okay, I'll be beside you every step of the way."
"No! Brian, you're not listening to me!" Kara could feel tears forming in her eyes again.
"Yes, Nick, I did and you need psychological help and I'm gonna see that you get it." Brian answered.
"God, what can I do to convince you that I'm not Nick?" Kara paced back and forth in the hotel room. "I can't call Nick right now, he's in labor."
Brian just watched Nick walk back and forth in the room, rambling like a crazy person.
"I know! Mom's cell phone. I'll call Mom." Kara said outloud.
"Yeah, good idea Nick, call your mom, she can help you." Brian replied. He thought that maybe if Jane got involved, she could calm Nick down a little and convince him that he needed help.
Kara dialed the cell phone number. After four rings, her mother answered.
"Hello?" Mrs. Porter answered the phone very quietly.
Kara thought she heard moaning in the background. "Um, this is Nick again, is Kara right there?"
"Kara is a little busy at the moment, how did you get my cell phone number?" She sounded annoyed.
"I don't have time to explain, ask Kara if she can talk to Nick, I'm sure she will, please!" Kara spoke with an urgent tone in her voice.
Kara heard her mom ask Nick in the background. Nick half yelled the word yes.
"Where the hell are you?" Nick screamed into the phone. Kara pulled the receiver away from her ear. Brian could hear a girl's voice yelling.
"Nick, there was some problems, I couldn't get out of the hotel." Kara replied.
Brian sat there, listening to Nick call this girl on the phone Nick. He figured her name must have been Nicole.
"I'm trying to persuade Brian to understand what's going on so he can help us out of this mess, but he's having a hard time believe me." Kara started to cry.
"God! Kara! Quit crying! Let me talk to Brian." Nick's voice was uneven, Kara could tell he was in pain.
Kara held the phone out for Brian. "Nick wants to talk to you."
Brian took the phone from Nick. "Yes?"
"Listen to me, you have to believe her when she says she's not me! Shit!" Nick got hit with another contraction when he spoke.
"I don't know what kind of sick game you're playing, but I know I don't like it." Brian replied.
"No, dumb ass, listen to me, I'm Nick Carter." Nick searched his mind to think of something that only he and Brian knew about to prove who he was. "Okay, Brian, remember in Germany when we found that girl in my bed?"
Brian thought for a second and decided this girl had a lucky guess. "Lucky guess there, nice try."
"Shit, Brian, help me out here, ask me something that only Nick Carter would know, not the fans, no one else!" Nick yelled into the phone.
Brian thought for a second. "Okay, here's something you would never be able to guess in a million years, what's my home phone number?"
"Easy one. It's 407-523-6983." Nick breezed through the number. Your cell phone is 407-593-2462 and your pager is 407-653-8589."
With all the information this girl supplied, Brian finally realized that Nick was not standing with him in the hotel room, he was on the other end of the phone.
"My god, Nick?"
"Get her on a plane Brian, now! I'm in labor here and I'm scared to death!"
Brian dropped the receiver. His face went pale from the shock of the news.
Kara picked the phone up. "He's got it, Nick. We will be there as soon as we can, hang in there."
Nick's only reply was a yell as another contraction hit him.
Kara hung the phone up and turned to Brian. "Brian, we have to get me out of here so I can go to Indiana and fix this spell."
Stunned, Brian managed to mumble the word "Yes."
Kara snapped her fingers in front of Brian's face. "Hey! Brian! I need you here with me, snap out of it."
Brian shook his head to clear his thoughts. Standing up, he spoke. "Yeah, shoot. This is just too weird. I'm still trying to grasp this situation."
Kara watched Brian pick up the phone and dial a 4 digit number.
"Jaye, it's Brian, get Steve and come down to our room, me and Nick need to get to the airport immediately." Brian said the words quickly.
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