Just Not Sure - Chapter 9 - Surprises

The car ride was dead silent. Untill Erica spoke up. "Mom, whatever they told you-" Erica’s mom stopped her. "So you got drunk? At a party where everyone is at least 2 years older than you!? Why Erica? Wh-" Erica intterupted her mom. "Mom!! What that girl told the office is wrong! She slipped a pill into my drink! I didn’t know about it, and i drank it! You know i wouldn’t get drunk!" Erica looked at her mom with pleading eyes. Her mom gave her an understanding look and sighed. "I’m sorry Erica, and that girl should be too. I know how much you wanted to be in that school." Erica looked out of her mothers black BMW windows and reminisced about her and Maria at school, when they first met, and meeting Deidra, whom, she haden’t known for too long but grew close to. Fate seemed as if it wasn’t on her side. Would she ever get to see any of them again? What if they already forgot about her. Then their was Chris...the pain was un bearable. ‘I’m never going to get another chance‘. Sure, she knew his friends, but where would that get her? what was she going to do? Ask them to have her meet Chris one more time? Yea right. The car pulled into her cement covered driveway. She unloaded her things and headed up to her room. Erica plopped her bookbag and things on her white bed. She too, sat down and picked up the phone to call Lindsey. "Hello?" Erica twisted the cream colored cord and she talked back into the phone. "Lindz?" Lindsey sounded shocked. "Erica?! What are you doing home? I thought your break wasnt until-" Erica cut her off. "Long story, can you talk? or are you busy?" "No I can talk, what happened?" Erica proceeded to tell the whole story. There was no responce after from Lindsey. "Your kidding me.." Was what she said after about 5 minuets. "No, i’m serious, so i’m back here now. I don’t know if i’ll ever see them again." Erica started to feel the tears in her eyes, but she fought them back. "Is there anything I can do?" Lindsey asked sypathetically. Erica laughed a little. "Bring me Chris?" she joked. "Right on it! MOM! We’re goin to NYC to get Chris!!" Lindsey joked along. Erica laughed back. "No seriously, there’s nothing. thanks." Erica replied. She was growing tired from the events that happened that day so she got off the phone and got under the covers before quickley falling asleep. Maybe this was a dream and she could wake up and everything would be ok again.

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Erica awoke around 6:00pm, she rose from bed and went over to her mirror. She groaned at the sight of her. Her hair was a little messed up and her mascara was under her eyes, she looked like a raccoon. She washed her face and went downstairs to the kitchen. Noticing that no one was home she felt a little happier. She turned on the t.v in the living room and sat down to her bowl of cereal when the doorbell rang. She sighed. "I’m coming!" Erica walked over to the wooden door and opened it to see Maria and Deidra standing there. She was speechless. "Yea i kno, your happy to see us." Deidra said. "What-How?When-" "You didn’t think you could lose us that quick did you?" Maria joked as her and Deidra followed her into her house. "We got a bus up here as soon as we could. All i gotta say is thank god it’s Friday." Deidra joked. Maria hugged Erica. "And we got a suprise for you!" Maria added. Erica looked at her "What?" She asked confused. "Guess who’s coming to Albany tommarrow? " Maria asked Erica. "Oh god.. not Drea-" "Yup!! we have a winner!" Deidra joked as she sat down on a chair. Albany was only an hour away from where Erica lived. "So.. you don’t mean to tell me we’re goin ..... do you?" Erica asked, plead in her eyes. Maria looked disappointed. "You don’t want to go?" Erica sat down by the kitchen table and sighed. "It’s not that....just..what if they dont remember me? or what if they don’t want to see me?" She asked. "What!? First of all....how could they forget you? Second of all, what makes you think they don’t want to see you?" Deidra replied. "I don’t know...Just a feeling..I’ll go though." Erica finally stated. "Good! ‘Cause we were gonna make you go anyway!" Maria exclaimed, laughing. They all laughed. Erica started to feel a lot better too. "Hey! why don’t we invite Lindsey? I’m sure she wants to see loverboy again." Deidra joked. "Loverboy?" Maria asked. Erica laughed. "Yea, she means Matt." Maria laughed too. "Oohhhh...yea, why don’t we!?" Erica called up Lindsey and Lindsey agreed. "Well, with that said and done...we gotta go find a hotel room." Maria reminded Deidra. Erica thought of an idea. "Wait! you guys could stay here! I’m sure it will be ok!" "Hmmm I like that idea." Said Deidra. Maria agreed. Around 11:30 Erica, Maria, and Deidra settled into bed. Maria and Deidra had sleeping bags and slept on the maroon carpeted living room floor and Erica slept on the couch. She couldn’t get to sleep though. So many thoughts raced through her head. What should see say to them? Will this be her last time seeing them? Erica finally fell into a restless sleep.

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The next morning the girls awoke around 9am. The show wasn’t for another 5 hours but they wanted to get there early. The took turns taking a shower and getting ready. Around 11am Erica’s mother brought them to the concert. "So where is this.. Dream scape people playing?" Her mother asked. Erica laughed. "It’s Dream STREET mom and at the Crossgates Mall." Deidra and Maria laughed along. "That would be a pretty cool name. ‘Down on Dream Scape haha" Maria exclaimed. Deidra laughed even harder. "Haha maybe I could talk Greg into changing the name!" She suggested sarcastically. After an hour in the car they came by about 50 girls in a parking lot. "I guess this is it." Erica guessed. They got out of the car and Erica explained to her mom that she could pick them back up around 9pm. They walked by a few girls with "Dream Street Rox My world" written on their arms and "I love (their fav DS guys name)" On their arms. "Wow, don’t you just LOVE teenie boppers!?" Deidra retorted sarcastically. "Yea this should be fun." Maria replied. They got in line and waited. Everyone was starring at Maria and Deidra. "TAKE A PICTURE!! IT’LL LAST LONGER!" Maria shouted. Erica covered her mouth and laughed. One fan with short blonde hair tapped Maria on the shoulder. Maria turned around. "Aren’t you Jesse’s girlfriend?" The 13 yr old girl asked Maria. Maria hesistated. "Um...what makes you think that?" "Well, I see you with him a lot and I was just wondering because someone told me that." Maria just stood there. "Oh... um, well yea, I am." She said reluctantley. The fan looked like she was ready to cry. "Oh please, like you could get him anyway." Another girl exclaimed. Maria pretended she didn’t hear anything. Deidra rolled her eyes. "I’m just going to wear a big sign that says ‘YES, I AM Greg Raposo’s Girlfriend. Please Dont Harass Me!’ " Maria and Erica laughed. Brian, one of Dream Streets producers came out and handed some girls back stage passes because they won a contest. "Hey!! Let’s Brian over, maybe he’ll let us in so we don’t need to wait in line for forever." Maria suggested. Deidra called him over and asked if they could go in. Brian contemplated for a few minutes and then told them how to get in and what to tell the security guard. The girls cut the line and began to walk in. First Deidra, Maria then Erica. They were stopped by a bulky looking security guard. "Where do you think your going?" He asked. Deidra looked up at the security guard. "Where does it look like i’m going?" She asked back. "Deidra, don’t start." Maria begged her. "Brian said we could come in." The security guard looked at her. "So?" by this time Deidra was getting ticked. "So.. LET US IN!" and she pushed the security guard aside. The rest of the girls followed. Maria caught upto Deidra. "I can’t believe you just did that!!" She said shockingly. Erica laughed. "That was pretty funny." They walked down the gray painted hall untill they found a room that said "DREAM STREET DRESSING ROOM" on it.