~~~If You Knew What I Knew~~~
~~~~~~CHAPTER 13~~~~~~
Elena was sitting in her hotel room talking on the phone with her sister. When there was a knock on the door Elena shouted, "Come in." Brian walked in and sat on the bed patiently waiting for Elena to finish. "Okay, I'll see you in 3 weeks...love you too...bye." She hung the phone up and looked over at Brian. "Bri, I just wanted to say that I'm sorry for acting like that last night. That was very un-lady like." He shook his head. "No. no it's fine, believe me. I did kiss you back, remember. I just want to know what this all means." Elena lowered her eyes. "I don't know. I like you a lot, but part of me is still in pain. I don't know what I want." Brian moved closer to her. "Look, what they did, just leaving us like that, was so..so..selfish. But the sad thing is we both knew something was up, you can't denie it. We did nothing about it. We just let it happen." Elena looked up in Brian's eyes. "Oh, so your saying it's our fault that they cheated." Brian shook his head. "I just think that maybe we enjoyed spending time togther when they would be off somewhere reminiscing about their highschool years." Elena sighed knowing he was right. She remembered when they were walking from the pool to the hotel. How they were going to confront the both of them. That, as they walked, he was holding her hand. That stirred of something special in her heart and it made her feel good. Elena grabbed Brian's face and did the same thing she did the night before, kissed him. Just then Laura walked in and saw them kissing. The both pulled away and looked at her. Laura smiled. "Oh, sorry. I..um..go back to doing whatever you were doing." Laura turned and walked out the door. Brian looked back over at Elena. "So, you want go get some coffee or something later." Elena smiled. "That would be nice."
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All the girls meet up with Elena at the coffee shop. They sat down at the table with her. Brian had just left to go to an interview for a spanish magazine. The girls of Charmed were once again having a meeting about what the next single would be. Before the started Laura turned to Elena. "So, what's up with you and Brian." Elena smiled at her. "Why do you want to know?" "Well, let's see," Laura said, "I walk in our room and you two have your toungs down eachother's throuts." Elena shook her head. "It was a very sensual kiss." Laura rolled her eyes. "So?" Elena shrugged her shoulders. "So...I don't know. If something happens it happens. I like him a lot so maybe things will happen." Danielle interupted. "Okay, enough chatting. We have to get down to business. Last week we all seemed happy with 'Here I am' as the next single." Christina smiled. "Yeah, that would be a good next single. A nice balad is what we need." All the girls agreed. Elena finshed her cup of coffee and placed her cup back down. "Okay then. 'Here I am' it is."
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Some of the members of Charmed and the Backstreet Boys sat at the meet -n- greet backstage before the show. None of the fans were back there yet because not all of the members were there yet. Nick walked over to Christina and sat down in the empty chair next to her. He leaned over and kissed her on the cheek. "Hey babes." She smiled slightly. He looked at her concerned. "You okay Christina? You haven't been acting yourself lately." Christina shook her head. "I'm fine really. Now go back over to your table." "What you don't want me here?" Nick asked. Christina rolled her eyes. "Well..." Nick said. Christina sighed. "Nick, the fans will be coming back any second. Just go back." Nick lowered his eyes to the ground. "I don't understand you. What is wrong? Do you not love me anymore?" Christina looked at him sharply. "What? God Nick, just go back to your table. This is not the time or the place to be talking about our relationship. There are about 50 people waiting to come back here. We will talk abot this later, so at least you will have some time to realize how wrong you are and to understand that I still love you." Nick got up and went back over. They never did talk about it. Nick thought that he was just being paranoid. But he still noticed that there was something different with Christina.
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AJ layed in his bunk wide awake. They were making their way to God knows where and it was 2 am. Everyone was asleep but him. He looked at Gina who was lying next to him. The bunks were small and only made for one person so he was squished up against the side. They had been up talking and she eventually feel asleep. He didn't have the heart to wake her because she looked so peaceful. He examened her up and down. She had on black tear away pants. He laughed to himself. They were so big and baggy on her. She had them rolled at the waste band around her tiny waste. Her stomach was showing because she had a tank top on that didn't go down very far. He staired at her belly button. 'She would look very sexy with a tattoo around that.' He thought to himself. He sighed. He was so tempted by her but he had to respect her. She had told him that she wanted to wait to have sex with him. He had to respect her becuase loved her. He moved his gaze up to her face. He loved her lips. Her hair fell slightly over her cheeks. He used his fingers to brush it away. Gina stirred in he sleep and her eyes flutterd open. AJ smiled. "Sorry baby. I didn't mean to wake you." She smiled. "It's okay. I don't mind being woken up to a very sexy face looking down at me." AJ layed his head down on the pillow. Gina turned her body on her side and she wrapped her arms around him. "I love you." She whisperd. AJ was a little overwhelmed. He knew how she felt about him. He felt the same way, but they never said 'I love you' yet. He never would of thought she would be the first to say it. He kissed her on the forehead. "I love you too." Gina smiled and then buried her head in his chest and feel back asleep. AJ sighed. 'Nick's right,' he thought, 'I have to tell her before it's too late and it all blows up in my face.' Soon, AJ was fast asleep.
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Karen and Jeff walked down to the bar in the hotel. They met up with Elena and Brian. They sat down at a table and ordered some martinis. Brian read a sign that said 'Karaoke tonite'. Brian smiled and taped Elena. "How about a duet?" Elena turned to see what he was looking at and then smiled at him. "Sure. What do you want to sing?" Brian stood up. "Let's go see what they have. You guys coming?" He asked Jeff and Karen. Karen nodded and they both stood up. When they decided what they were doing, Elena and Brian hopped on the stage. Then 'Buttercup' began to play and they both sang at the top of thier lungs. Jeff and Karen laughed along with them as they sat at the table watching the whole thing. When they were finished Karen and Jeff got up on the stage and sang 'I got you, babe' by Sonny & Cher. As they sang Karen staired into Jeff's eyes the whole time. She noticed something different in them. Love. She smiled to herself. When the song ended they went back and sat at the table. "Great job guys." Brian said. "Yeah, we gotta do this again some other time." Elena said. Karen smiled. "Deffitnetly."
