The next morning, I woke up to noise coming from the kitchen. I looked at the clock. 9:00. Caroline had to be at the hospital at 10:00. I jumped into the shower and then went out to the kitchen.
"You're finally up," Caroline said, looking up from the TV and her plate of French toast.
"Yeah," I said as I grabbed a plate and some of the toast. I poured on the syrup and then sat down on the couch next to her. "What ya watchin'?"
"MTV. It's just the news."
"So what's up on MTV?"
"Not much."
At 9:55, Caroline got dressed and then zapped herself to the hospital. I went to JC's house first.
When I entered, I could hear kids playing upstairs. I walked up the stairs and found the playroom. JC and Naomi were playing with the kids. No problems here.
Next was Lance. When I came in, he was on the phone with Rachel. Because of my super-sensitive hearing, I could hear both sides of the conversation.
"What do you mean you can't do anything today?" Lance asked.
"I'm busy."
"But this is the first day I've had off in a long time. And you knew it. Can't you cancel your other plans?"
"Lance, I can't tell my sister to drive all the way back home."
I glared at the phone. I instantly zapped myself to Rachel's apartment. She was on the phone but the person standing behind her looked too masculine to be her sister.
"All right," I heard Lance say, "Maybe we can get together tomorrow night."
"Maybe. I got to go. I'm missing you. Bye."
"Missing you too. Bye."
She hung up the phone and then turned around to the guy standing behind her.
"What a sucker," he said.
"Yeah." Then she kissed him.
I narrowed my eyes. I was going to have to talk to Caroline and plan to invade this girl's dreams in the near future. After making a mental not to talk to Caroline, I zapped myself to Chris's.
He was in the kitchen making breakfast for him and Neve. She came into the kitchen and they hugged. They started to talk about what to do that day and Chris turned back to the stove. Once I saw everything was ok, I zapped myself to Justin's.
He looked like he had just gotten up and wasn't to happy about it. He poured himself a bowl of cereal and then turned on the TV. He wasn't really watching it; he just didn't like the silence. Anyway, he still missed Rose like crazy. Even if she had been gone for over a year, it felt like she had just left yesterday. After he finished eating, he turned off the TV. Then he went into the bathroom and I heard the radio turn on and then the shower running. I knew I would get in serious trouble if I stayed while he was in the shower, so I zapped myself back home.
When I got back home, I watched a little TV and the zapped myself to the mall, where I sepent the rest of my day. I went home about 3:00.
Caroline was watching TV.
"How did they take it?" I asked.
"Mariah, it was terrible. Joey thought that he was just going to the doctor's office because he was getting all these headaches. His wife and kid were there; they were going to go shopping after. Then the doctor decided to do a CATScan. And when he told them that Joey only had a brian tumor and only three months to live, not only did they start crying but so did I. And I knew it was going to happen. It was so sad."
"When are all the guys meeting?"
"Tonight at seven."
So that night at seven, we zapped ourselves to Joey's house. The guys were all meeting downstairs in the little recording studio. All of the guys were there by five after.
"Guys, I have something to tell you," said Joey. "You all know that I went to the doctors today because I'm having a lot of headaches. Well, as it turns out, I have a brain tumor and it's unoperable. I only have three months to live."
All of the others liked shocked. Since I can read human thoughts, I heard them thinking 'Joey? Our Joey? Dead in 3 months? That's not possible.' But it was and that was the problem. They all started to cry, except for Justin. He was in shock. After this, Caroline and I went home.
When we got home, we watched TV. At 11:00, Caroline told me to go to bed. I had to be at Justin's at 10:00 because Rose was going to show up a bit after.
So the next morning, I woke up at 9:00 again and zapped myself to Justin's.
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