The Perfect Fan
Chapter 10
"Josh I swear to you, I will kick your ass when I'm awake," There was laughter on the other line, "Nick?"
"Sorry did I wake you up?"
"No," we were both silent.
"Well I was just trying to fall back to sleep because Josh called me at like five!"
"That dude has got to chill."
"Yeah, so what's up?" I laid back in my bed, closing my eyes I listened to his voice.
"I'll come pick you up in 15 minutes."
"What?"
"For the photoshoot remember?"
"But-"
"Go get ready. See you in 15." I jumped out of bed into the shower, to the closet into my navy blue capris, a white tank top and a red hoodie then down to the kitchen to grab some breakfast. I sat on the stairs after I got my keys and ate my yogurt and grapes. Just as I finished my yogurt, Nick pulled up in my driveway. I locked the door and ran down the walk way, Nick got out of the car, "Hey." I gave him kiss on the cheek, "Hey Nicky." I gave him a hug and a kiss on the cheek.
"Whatcha got there?" I held up my little zip lock bag of grapes, "Breakfast." He smiled, "Ok well we better go before, Kevin kills us."
"Us?" I looked past Nick into his car and saw Brian sleeping in the front seat.
"Cute!" Nick laughed and I walked around the car to Brian's window, whch was open and gave him a kiss on the cheek. I got in the backseat. "You weren't too rushed, were you?" Nick asked from the front.
"Not really."
"OK good." we drove for about an hour. Nick didn't really talk because he was concentrating on the road and trying hard not to get us lost. Brian woke up about 45 minutes into the ride. The place was a huge white building and inside was crazy. People everywhere. We checked in at the front desk and had to go to the fifth floor. The halls were painted very strangely. The walls were diffrent movie scenes like from "Romeo & Juliet", "Hamlet" and such. Most were old movies but there were some Disney movies like "Peter Pan" and "Robin Hood." The floor tiles looked like a sidewalk with different names carved into them. The ceiling was painted with clouds and birds and a sunset as you emgered further down in the hall. When we got there, the other three were waiting for Brian and Nick in the dressing room. I walked through the door behind Nick. The only words to describe what was going on inside are Crazy Mayhem! People were running all over the place and the guys were hopping from make-up to hair stylist to wardrobe. The first one done was Nick to no surprise. The hairdresser said he wouldn't stay stil so he should just leave. He slipped his T-shirt off exposing his white wife beater. With his T-shirt around his arms he walked over to where I was sitting. In a chair near the door.
"Don't think your getting a full monty from me Miss. Wright." I grinned, "I"ll go wait outside then."
"You don't have to if you don't want to, I was just messing with you."
"You do that a lot don't you?" He smiled that famous million dollar Carter Smile, "I think I better wait outside." I gave him a small kiss on the cheek and heard A.J whistle. Laughing I went into the huge room where they would be shooting. It was basically black except for the gray-blue backdrop they would be taking the pictures of the guys.There were tons of people and bright lights, feeling misplaced I neared toward the side, where I wouldn't get in the way. The guys came out a couple of mintues later and orders were being barked at all of them from different ends of the room. They took a few group pictures then some individual ones. Then some more group ones. Then the guys went back into the dressing room and changed. After coming out they switched the backdrop and started taking pictures again. This went on for about three hours. It was very amusing to watch, Nick looked as if he was going to die of boredom as he started cracking his knuckles. After they finished they went back into the dressing room. Nick was the first one out.
"AHHHH!! I hate those things they're so annoying!" He swung his arm around me.
"I hope you weren't too bored."
"Nah I thought it was fun, very intresting." He smiled down at me, "Well the guys wanted to all do something but I figured that you wouldn't want to hang around them...So we could do something if you want."
"Well what time is it?" He looked down at his watch, "Around 12, why?"
"Because I have to be at the doctor's by 2." He cocked his head and melted me with his crystal blue eyes, "Everything okay?"
"Yeah. Of course."
"Okay, so I'll bring you home then," I nodded my head, then leaned against his shoulder. After Brian finished and got out of the dressing room, Nick brought me home. We both got out of the car and walked up the walk way and he walked me to the door, "You're gonna call me when you get home?"
"Yeah, and if you want you and Brian can come back here and we can go swimming or something if you want." His arms were around my waist and he pulled me closer to his body, "Maybe I'll try and lose Brian," I giggled and smiled.
"You're a bad boy Nicky." He grinned, "What are YOU going to do about it?" I raised my eyebrows questioningly, then licked the bottom of his lip slightly,"I'll see you later." He kissed me and smiled, "Later, Sam." I opened the door turned to look at him, he was watching my hips as I walked through the door shutting it behind me.
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I was going to be late picking Sam up. It was 1:30 we have to be there at two, and I didn't want to be late.I got home at 1:47 "Let's go Cait! I haven't got all day!" She giggled, at times like these I'm happy to have Sam with me. I wouldn't want her to not have someone go to the doctors with her.We got to the doctors and they took her in right away. After 10 minutes the doctor called me in, "you need ot make sure she takes two of these," he held up a two bottles. One with red cap the other with a white cap. "she needs to take 32 ml of it a day. I labeled each need with a red and black stripe so you know dont mix them together, otherwise certain side effects could take place," I nodded. Sam sat there with a dazed look on her face. The doctor continued about rapidly increasin cells or something like that.We got home and Sam went to the kitchen, "Are you alright?"
"Yeah I'm fine," she took a the carton of orange juice out. I checked the messages on the answering machine. Nick, Josh, Alyssa, Mr.Steinberg, Josh, my cousin Emily, Josh, that a voice I didn't recoginize.
"Hello, this is dr. Martain, I'm calling on behalf of the missing parents of Samantha Wright. Please call 771-6390. Thank you." Sam nearly choked on her orange juice, "What could they possibly say about my parents?" I shurgged, "I don't know," She was fidgety, "Why don't you call back?"
"I can't!"
"Sam it can't be bad. Maybe it's just, new heritage or something like that." She nodded, "I'll do it later."
"Okay. Go eat something I'll help you with your medicine, then I have to go back to the gallery."
"Don't worry about it. I can do it myself, I have been doing it since I was 10," she muttered under her breath.
"You go ahead and I'll see you later."
"You're sure?" she nodded, "Okay, I'll call you later then." While I was driving I thought about the message that was left on the machine. What could they have to say about her parents. It made me nervous and I prayed for her silently at the red light.
