The weeks past as normal as they could get while Isabell got ready to go to college. *NSYNC got over it but neither of the groups mentioned the other one. The night before Isabell left for New York, where she was going to school, she was 'talking' to J, although it wasn't very clear.
'I can't wait until I leave,' she told him.
'You're taking your posters, right?" asked J.
'Of course.'
'Don't let New York make you hard.'
'Never!'
'You sound really far away,' J told her, worry creeping in.
'So do you. You don't think it's ending, do you?'
'I don't know. If it is, you just need to know that we're all going to miss you.'
'I'm going to miss you too,' she said. She waited for a reply and it never came.
'J!' she screamed in her head. She didn't want him to be gone. She didn't want any of them to be gone.
Isabell walked over to the poster.
"Take me away."
Nothing. Nada. Zero. Zip. Zilch.
She tried it at the other poster. Same result. Isabell felt the tears well up in her eyes, knowing that ten of her friends were, she figured, forever gone. !
