Roxy blindfolded Eva, led her into the back of her car and shut the door.
“Quick Tim, put her suitcase in the trunk.”
“Okay, does she have any clue?”
“None, this is going to be great.”
“Are we meeting everyone there?”
“Yeah, I can’t believe our luck with that radio contest, it’s almost too perfect. Our own private after party with Nsync. I couldn’t have planned it any better.” Tim shut the trunk,
“Well let’s get going.” He said and they hopped into the car.
“Guys can I take this blindfold off?” Eva asked not really liking the fact that she was blindfolded.
“No.” Tim and Roxy said together.
“Well where are we going?”
“If we told you then we had to kill you.” Roxy said and Eva sighed,
“Funny, come on.” Tim turned the music up really loudly,
“Do you hear something Roxy?” He said, Roxy smiled and shook her head,
“Nope, nothing.” Eva sighed and sat back in her seat. They drove for what seemed like hours. Finally they stopped and Roxy and Tim got out of the car leaving her in there. She sat there and waited for them to get her but they didn’t. After what seemed like forever the car door opened, a hand grabbed her and pulled her out of the car.
“Come on.” It was Garrett, Eva was totally confused now,
“Garrett?! What are you doing here? Where am I?” Garrett just chuckled,
“You'll figure it out soon enough.” He led her to a small group of people, she recognized the voices, it was the gang.
“Guys what are you all doing here? What about the bar?”
“Closed, for a special occasion.” Kerrie said and Eva was getting frustrated now,
“What special occasion?”
“You’ll see, let’s go.” Anna said and then the group led her through a bunch of things and Eva knew they were at some sort of an arena. So she figured out that they were going to some sort of a show, but what was with the blindfold still? Finally they got to their seats and sat down.
“Where are we guys, really? I want to take this blindfold off. I know we’re seeing a show of some sort.”
“Nope, just sit there and be quiet.” Kerrie said and the group laughed. Eva tried to figure out where everyone was. She figured that Mike was one side of her and Tim was on the other. Garrett, Anna and Sam were behind her and Roxy was next Tim. Kerrie was next to Mike, but where the hell was Alex? She heard him cough and she knew that he was sitting behind her. Then she tried to figure out what show they had brought her to. It was a fairly large arena and she heard echoes all over the place. She also heard lots of young girls voice but some older ones too.
She could feel the building fill and the talking became louder. Suddenly someone whipped off her blindfold and Eva looked around, they were in a sea of teeny boppers! She saw signs that said, ‘Joey rocks my world!’, ‘Justin we love you!’, ‘Nsync Rules!’ Eva grinned at the guys
“You brought me to a Nsync concert?”
“Yep,” Tim said, “it’s sort of a present.” She looked puzzled. “You’ll see.” He said with a wink.
“I’m amazed that you boys are here.” She said.
“I just hope you realize, just how much you mean to us. We’re risking our reputation for you, now that’s friendship.” Alex said and Eva laughed,
“You’re right.” Her heart skipped beats knowing she was going to see JC, she could barely contain herself.
“Eva, what’s the matter?”
“Every time Josh looks at me, I get this angry stare like he’s mad at me.”
“It’s probably part of the act. I’m sure it’s nothing.”
“I don’t know.”
“Well,” Tim said as he squeezed her hand, “you can ask him later.” He impishly smiled.
“What do you have up your sleeve, Timothy Jones?” Tim didn’t answer but kept on smiling to himself.
“Where are we going?” Eva asked but nobody answered her. They were led to a huge room with lots of food and an open bar. It was great because Eva was starved. After she got some food she went up to Roxy,
“Roxy why are we back here?”
“It’s a surprise.” Was all she replied and Eva gave up asking any questions because it was pretty obvious they weren’t going to tell her anything. She was chatting with Garrett and Anna when she saw Chris and Joey walk in and she almost dropped her drink. She looked at Roxy and Tim who were beaming. She shook her head and tried to calm the butterflies that were doing the mambo in her stomach. Chris and Joey were making the rounds when Justin and Lance walked in together. Eva wondered where JC was and finally she couldn’t take it anymore and excused herself to go to the bathroom. She walked out of the room and looked down the hall. JC was walking her way, Eva walked down the hall towards him. JC saw her and looked shocked and then angry to see her.
“Hey stranger,” She smiled at him, “imagine meeting you here.” She went to move in closer to him when he stopped her.
“Don’t come near me.” He said angrily.
“Okay.” She said slowly as she backed up a little. “Josh what’s wrong? You haven’t returned my phone calls and you’re giving me that look.”
“What look Eva? If you’re referring to the look of I've-had-my-heart-ripped-out-and-stomped-upon, you’re right.” Eva was confused,
“Josh, I-” she tried to say but he interrupted her.
“You know what don’t talk to me. I can’t believe you, you say that you love me and then go shack up with some other guy. Then you have the fucking nerve to bring him here and flaunt it in my face! Who the hell are you? You are NOT the Eva Amour I grew up with! She had a little bit of respect for herself and wasn’t a whore!” JC’s last words sliced through her heart, but he wasn’t done yet. “I just want to know Eva, was it good? Was it FUCKING GOOD!!!” He yelled and punched the wall next to him. “I hope it was worth throwing everything we had out the window! I will never forgive you for this!” Eva had tears pouring down her face,
“Josh what are you talking about? I haven’t done anything, why are you saying these things? I love-”
“No! Don’t say that! You don’t mean it!”
“I do mean it, why are you acting like this? I don’t understand!”
“Please, I’m not an idiot and I’m not blind, Eva. Get out of here you make me sick.” He spat out at her and brushed by to walk into the party. Eva leaned against the wall and sunk to the floor sobbing. Mike came out of the room and immediately went to Eva.
“Eva! What happened?”
“I want to go home, Mike.”
“What did Josh say to you?”
“He doesn’t want me anymore. He thinks I have someone else! I don’t know what he’s talking about!” She sobbed and Mike held her in his arms. Roxy came out of the party and was shocked to see Eva on the floor.
“What happened?” Eva was crying too hard to reply so Mike answered for her,
“Josh doesn’t want her anymore, he dumped her, their entire relationship.”
“What? That can’t be right.”
“Yeah, well she’s not like this for fun. We’re going home.”
“Okay, go out to the car and wait for me. I’m gonna tell the gang.” Mike nodded and picked up the sobbing Eva and left. Roxy went back into the party and found Tim.
“Where’s Eva? I can’t wait to see her face!” He said to Roxy.
“Eva’s going back home.”
“What?”
“JC apparently dumped Eva, completely and wants nothing to do with her. She was a complete mess out in the hall. Mike took her to the car. They’re waiting for us, let’s go.” Tim shook his head,
“No, not till I get a word in with Mr. Chasez.” He said pushing up his sleeves. Roxy tried to stop him,
“Tim, no, not here.”
“Then where Roxy? Out of my way.”
“We got your back, Tim.” Alex said and both Garrett and Sam agreed with him. Tim marched right up to JC with the boys in tow. JC was talking to Lance and Tim pushed him out of the way and got right up in JC’s face.
“You got some nerve, asshole! What you think you’re a god, so you can play with people’s feelings?” JC tore right into Tim,
“Look who’s calling the kettle black, Tim. You couldn’t stand it that she loved me could you? The moment I was out of town you made your move on her.”
“Made my move? I didn’t make my move on Eva. We’re just friends!”
“Yeah fuck friends! God every time I called her you picked up the phone and then I find out that she moves in with you!”
“Eva loves you! The past month she’s been pining away for you!”
“And conveniently you were there to comfort her. Bet it was fun, how good is she in the sack, Tim? Huh?” Tim was ready to beat the crap out of JC.
“Eva was living in my guest room because she was so depressed about you that we were scared for her, we thought that she would do something drastic!”
“Nice story, too bad I don’t believe you!”
“It’s not some story! JC if I was really trying to steal Eva from you, why would I be standing here defending her and trying to get you two together? That’s why we all came here tonight so that you two could get together. She had no idea about any of this! God JC we even had a suitcase packed so that she could leave tonight with you!” JC was now speechless but Tim went on, “Eva’s my friend, she’s like my little sister, and she deserves better than you. Now if you even breathe in her direction, I will hurt you. That’s a promise.” Tim turned and walked out of the party room and the group quickly followed him out. JC couldn’t believe what had just happened. Was he wrong about Eva? His heart wanted to believe Tim, he loved Eva so much. Now it all kind of made sense, what Tim had said, he had been so mean to her and he had been completely wrong. How the hell was he going to fix this one?