The next morning, all the guys, except Nick, met in Kevin's room. Brian leaned forward and took a donut out of the box, "So..think they suspect anything?"
Howie shook his head, "I don't think they do."
"I think they do...Isabel sorta looks over her shoulder..I think we're scaring the crap out of them..," AJ said smirking.
Kevin smiled, "Yeah..Nick's been looking sorta nervous..he looks over his shoulder too.."
"What should we do next?," Brian wondered.
"I think we should freak them out even more. Lock them in the same room..maybe they'll stop fighting and just get to the making out.," AJ said.
"AJ..thats all you think about!"
Just then, there was a knock on the door. Kevin told them to be quiet and opened the door. Nick walked in, "Hey guys..whats up?"
"Not much..want a donut?," Howie asked.
"Sure..when we leaving?"
"As soon as Q calls us..where's Isabel?"
Nick shrugged, "I dunno.."
"Will you go get her?"
He sighed, "I guess."
Nick left the room again. Kevin smiled, "Not a word to either of them. I never thought we'd see the day when we got Nick back for all the crap he did to us..and it keeps Isabel busy and out of trouble.."
"Yep..," The others agreed.
Nick walked down the hall to Isabel's room and knocked on the door. She opened it a minute later, "Hey..come on in."
"What's up?," Nick asked.
"I'm trying to pack..but I can't find my passport.."
"Where'd you have it last?"
"My bookbag.."
"Here's the bookbag..," He said picking it up off the floor.
"Look through it..I gotta get my bathing suit from the bathoom.."
"Nick opened the bookbag and looked through it. Books, cd's, cd player, magazines, camera, film, portfolio..and finally, passport. He pulled it out and set it beside him. Then he pulled the portfolio out. "Hey, can I look at the pictures you took?" He asked.
"Sure.," She replied.
He opened it up and saw pictures from the show the night before, backstage pictures, stuff from the meet and greet, pictures of the guys goofing off, but one picture startled him. It was of him. He was sitting on the stage with a bottle of water in one hand. His hair was lighted perfectly from the stage lights and he was looking..directly at her. 'Oh great..now she knows I like stare at her..and she caught me in the act..,' He thought.
He put the pictures back. One fell out and he picked it up as she walked in. "Whats this?," He asked.
"Oh..thats a picture of all the fans at the meet and greet. Denise told me to take some.."
"Ohh..hey, that girl's lookin' straight at you.."
Isabel looked at the picture, it was the girl who the night before had practically threatened her. She was glaring in the direction of Isabel while sitting by Nick. "Yeah..I remember her. She asked me if I was your girlfriend and I told her no but she said she didn't believe me. She told me to stay away from you or else."
"Or else what?"
Isabel shrugged and finished packing, "Who knows?"
"Did you tell her you were with Kevin?"
"I said I was a relative.."
"Ohhhh..gotten any more phone calls?"
"Nope..you?"
"Nope.."
"Well I'm done. Are we leaving soon?"
"Yeah..I was told to come get you and take you down to Kevin's room and we'd be leaving shortly."
"Cool.."
She threw her backpack over her shoulders and took the suitcase and duffle bag and walked out with Nick behind her. "Here, I'll take the suitcase.," He said taking it from her.
"Thanks Nick."
"Not a problem."
They walked down the hallway in silence.
Two hours later, they were on the bus making their way to somewhere in Austria. Isabel was on one of the long couches in the back asleep. Nick was sitting in front of her playing video games. He shut it off, out of boredom, and turned around to say something to her, not realizing she was asleep. He smiled when he saw her asleep and reached up to brush the hair that had fallen out of her ponytail out of her face. "God Isabel..sometimes you can be so..stubborn..I guess thats what attracted me to you in the first place..I wish I could tell you this when you were awake and listening..but oh well..," He said softly.
AJ had come back to get a cd when he heard Nick gently talking to Isabel. He looked in and saw Nick push some hair out of her face and say all those things to her. He smiled, they were actually getting somewhere. Maybe this tour wouldn't be hell after all as they had all thought.
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