Chapter Fifty-three
“Nick, hey buddy come on are you gonna sleep all day?”
Nick rolled away from the voice and pulled the covers up
over his head. He ignored the laugh he heard coming from
behind him.
“Typical teenager!” The voice with a distinctive southern
drawl laughed.
Nick opened his eyes and stared at the wall for a moment. It
took a full minute for him to get his bearings and realize
that he was on the bus.
“Where are we?” Nick asked without turning away from the
wall.
“Toronto Canada, you’ve been sleeping since Indianapolis,”
the voice replied.
“Is Jess up yet?”
“Jess?” The voice starting laughing. “Nick! Wake up, would
ya?”
Nick rolled over quickly and came face to face with deep
blue eyes.
Nick blinked a few times and then rubbed his eyes. “Brian?”
Nick immediately jumped out of the bunk and wrapped his arms
around Brian and squeezed him tightly, causing Brian to
cough.
“Hey, how come you’re so glad to see me?”
“You were dead!”
“Huh?”
“Oh, man, I had the wildest dream, we were at this concert
and I fell off the stage and you went to rescue me and then
you fell off the stage and AJ and then you died,” Nick
recalled the events quickly.
“Wow, some dream. You were sick when we left Indiana, gosh,
you must have really been sick,” Brian replied and put his
hand on Nick’s forehead. “I think you’re running a temp.”
“Probably,” Nick replied, then his face grew serious. “There
was this girl in my dreams though. God, Brian she was the
most amazing girl.”
Nick told Brian about the dream he had up to the point where
he was woken up. Brian just smiled as he listened to Nick.
“Sounds like you have found the ideal girl, too bad she’s
only in your dreams Nick,” Brian chuckled.
“Ha, oh really funny!” Nick sputtered.
“Get dressed we have sound check in an hour,” Brian called
out over his shoulder as he walked away.
Nick got dressed as his thoughts were still on the dream he
had just had. He was relieved that it was a dream, that
Brian didn’t die, but in the same instance, Nick was
disappointed it was a dream because Jessica seemed so real
to him and was so perfect for him.
Grabbing his duffel bag, Nick followed AJ and Kevin towards
the auditorium for sound check. After waiting a few minutes
for the band to warm up, Nick decided to go check out the
auditorium and stood up.
“Where you going?” AJ questioned.
“For a walk,” Nick replied.
Brian looked at Nick, concerned. “Don’t go off too far, you
still look a little pale to me.”
“Okay Dad,” Nick smiled.
Nick walked towards the back of the stage, checking out all
of the props that were being stored against walls, making
the hallway a narrow path. Coming upon a swinging door, Nick
pushed it lightly and found there was some resistance on the
other side. He gave it a hard shove and heard a female’s
voice cry out and then a thud.
This time Nick slowly pushed the door open and found a girl
sitting on the floor, papers strewn about her.
“Oh, god, I’m so sorry, are you alright?” Nick asked as he
bent down to help gather the papers.
The girl kept picking the papers up, not stopping to look at
Nick. “Yeah, I’m okay, I’m just gonna be late for my
appointment.”
“I’m really sorry, I guess I wasn’t paying attention to what
I was doing,” Nick replied.
The girl stood up and then finally looked at Nick as she
took the last of the papers from his hands.
Nick’s heart immediately started pounding and his mouth
dropped open.
“Is something wrong?” she asked when she looked at Nick.
“Um, have we met before?” Nick asked hesitantly.
The girl laughed. “No.”
“Are you sure? You look familiar,” Nick asked again.
“Postive. I think I would remember if I met Nick Carter
before.”
Nick took a deep breath in, and plunged into his next
question. “I’m sorry, what is your name?”
“It’s Jessica, but I prefer Jess,” Jess replied, smiling and
held her hand out for Nick to shake.
“Oh my god,” Nick thought to himself, “it’s her, she’s the
one I was dreaming about.” He decided he had to get to know
her at any all all costs.
“Could I make it up to you for knocking you down?”
Jess laughed. “I said I was fine, don’t worry about it. I
really have to go, I’m gonna be late!”
As she turned to leave, Nick followed her.
“Can we have coffee?” Nick asked.
“I’m really late!” Jess replied without stopping her steady
pace down the hall.
“Please?” Nick pleaded.
Jess stopped and turned to look at Nick. “This must really
mean a lot to you for some reason,” Jess replied. She
glanced at her watch. “Okay, there’s a cafe across the
street, I suppose I could take my lunch now.”
Nick smiled. “Thanks, you won’t regret this, in fact, this
may change the course of your life!”
Jess looked at Nick as if he had completely lost his mind.
“Ah, okay, if you say so.”
“Trust me,” Nick replied, grinning.
The End
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