“Krista, I have a surprise for you.....” Nick said as he walked into the hospital room that the 17 year old occupied,
“What? Your moving to Oregon? YES!!!”
“Hey, that’s not nice!”
“I know!”
“Gee love you too.”
“I know you do. So, what’s my surprise?”
“Well....” He trailed off. Just then Kevin, Brian, Howie and AJ walked into the room. “....Us!”
“You have to be kidding me right?”
“Nope!”
Krista burried herhead in hre pillow. “Someome put me out of my misrey.”
They all laughed. “We aren;t that bad. Are we?”AJ asked.
“Depends on what day of the week it is.” She sat back up and looked at them. “So, how are you guys my surprise? I mean, I see you all the time.”
“Well, we are going on tour in about.....” Brian started and looked to Kevin for the answer.
“A month.”
“So, you mean that my surprise is that I don’t have to look at you all for 2 months? That’s a great surprise!”
“NO! You are coming with us!” Brian said.
“Are you kidding? Cause it’s not nice to do this to someone that’s in the hospital.” She lost her sarcasm and was serious now.
“Nope, we aren’t. Aaron is touring with us too.” Howie said with a smile.
“So..... when do you get out of this joint?” AJ asked, sitting on the edge of her bed.
“Tomorrow afternoon. I want out now! But I guess they want to keep an eye on my.”
“That’s cool. Well, we better get going, we have a game of basket ball to play. Catcha later Krista, Frack.” Brian said as they all started towards the door.
As soon as they had shut the door it opened again, this time a whirwind of blond hair running into the room and jumping up on the hospital bed. Krista laughed. “Hey AC!”
“Hi Krista!” He looked at her for a second.
“What’s wrong?”
“Krista, are you going to be OK? You’ve been in here for a long time.”
“AC, she’s only been in here for five days. That’s not that long.”
“Aaron, I’m going to be just fine, thanks to your brother and Brian.”
Aaron looked at Nick. “You saved Krista?”
Nick looked down at his shoes and nodded. Aaron jumped off the bed and ran around to where Nick was standing. He hugged his brother around the legs. Krista laughed. Nick smiled at the blond boy and picked him up, sitting on the bed, next to Krista.
Aaron caught sight of the IV that was in Krista’s arm. “Does that hurt?”
“Not as much as my head did when I woke up, but a little bit.”
“Oh...”
They comtinued to talk for about yen more minutes. Then there was a knowck on the door. The three blond heads looked up to see two girls standing in the doorway.
Krista knew those girls. She knew one too well. They were the girls from the beach. “Hi.......” One said. The one that looked like she might be nice. She elbowed her friend.
“Hi...” She whispered.
“We just wanted to talk to you.” The first one said.
Krista knew that this was not going to be a pleasent conversation. “Aaron, why don’t you go find Angel and BJ?”
Aaron looked at her strangly but did as he was told. Nick was about to get up from where he was sitting, but Krista grabbed onto his hand,keeping him right where he was. “OK, why don’t we start out with who you are?”
“I’m Carly and this is Kirby.” The first girl said again. Kirby just looked down at the spotless white floor.
“OK, how can we help you?” Nick had no clue who they were, but he did know that they looked familar.
“Well, you see, we were at the beach when Krista had her accident.....”Carly started, nudging Kirby. Krista tenced up, and Nick felt it.
“What is going on here?” He looked from Krista to the two standing in the doorway.
“Nick, it’s seems that this girl has something against me, even though this is the first time I’ve even met her.” Krista said.
“What are you saying?” Nick looked more intently at Kirby, who was still very interested in her shoes. “Are you saying that..... that she....?”
“Kirby, I think that you have something that you need to tell them.” Carly said, nugding Kirby further into the room and then following her.
Kirby shot Carly a look and then looked up at Nick. He looked at her, waiting for what she had to say.
“Well, um..... I was on the beach when Krista was hurt......” She looked at Carly as if to say ‘I can’t believe that you are making me do this.’ She turned back to Nick and Krista. “ I was kinda on the rock when she slipped..." It was then that Kirby decided that she was going to take advantage of the situation....and tell the truth at the same time...sorta. "When I saw her slip, I screamed, I was so scared that she would be hurt."
Carly stared at the back of her friends head in disbelief. She had come so close to getting her to tell the truth.
The saddest part was that Nick bought it. Krista knew it was a load of crap. She couldn't remember what exactly happened when she fell but she knew that what that girl had just told Nick was not it.
"Brian and I heard you scream, that's what made us get up and look for Krista. If we hadn't of heard that we would have waited too long before looking for her."
Carly starred at Kirby. She had gone to far. She had not only almost gotten someone killed in her obsession, but she was now playing inocent, making the object of her lust believe her to be the heroin when she was really the reason he was spending his days off in a hosiptal room, with someone that he really cared about.
It was enough to make her want to go over to Nick and slap some sense into him. And she nearly did.
She looked at Krista and could tell that the girl didn't believe any of the crap that was coming out of Kirby's mouth. She also looked hurt at the fact that Nick was eating right out of the girls hand.
'She loves him.' Carly thought to herself as she looked from Krista to Nick. 'She loves him and he doesn't see it. And now he has fallen into Kirby's trap. This can't be happening. This is a nightmare and I'm going to wake up and I will have never been this close to one of the guys in the group that I used to idolise.'
As soon as the two girls left the room, Carly promising that she would come back later to talk to Krista, Nick looked over at her.
"It was nice of them to stop by."
"Please don't tell me bought that BS. She was lying through her teeth."
"If you are so sure about that, then tell me what happened up on those rocks." Krista looked at him. 'He likes her. Why do things like this always happen to me?'
"Nick, you know I can't do that. I don't know, but I know that what she told you is a load of dog crap. She did scream, but I'm almost positive that it wasn't after I fell."
"Are you telling me that girl came in here and told me something that she completly made up?"
"Not completly."
"But you are still implying that she lied to me and you?"
"Yes, that's what I'm saying, and I think her friend knew that she was lying, but hadn't planned on that when they had come here. I think that Kirby is the evil twin, if you get my drift."
"Why?"
"Nick think about it. That's not the first time that I've seen those girls. They were at the beach. They were also and Disney when Brian, BJ, you and I went."
"What are you saying?"
"She has a bit more then what I would call a healthy intrest in you Nick. It downright scares the crap outta me."
"Oh....shit!" He muttered and burried his head in her pillow.