Hannah quickly melded into their group and once they found out that she was a black belt in Karate and Tae Kwon Do and a fabulous gymnast they loved her even more. Everyone in the group was a black belt, it’s how they became friends in the first place and Kerrie, Anna and Sam were gymnasts too. She basically was the missing link to their group.
A couple days later they were working out in the Youth Center. Hannah and Mike were sparring. Mike did a roundhouse kick, which Hannah blocked and turned to drop Mike on the mat.
“That’s game point, I win.” Hannah said getting up from the mat and dusting herself off.
“That’s not cool, you had an unfair advantage.” Mike said still lying on the mat.
“Please, how did I have an unfair advantage? You just can’t take it that a girl beat you.” She said putting her hands on her hips.
“She’s right Mike.” Tim said from the side of the mat.
“Well that’s just it,” Mike said as he got up and grabbed a towel from his bag, “you’re a girl so I went easy on you, and you, some best friend you are taking her side.” Mike teased Tim, throwing his towel at him. “I want a rematch, this time I won’t hold back.” Mike pouted and Hannah laughed,
“You’re on, and maybe this time it won’t be so easy to beat you.” She teased.
“That’s it, let’s go right now.”
“Bring it on big boy.”
“Uh oh, looks like this is getting serious.” Tim said jokingly. Hannah’s cell phone rang, interrupting the rematch.
“Hold on, I have to get that.” She ran to answer it.
“Avoiding the inevitable, trying to get out of the rematch.” Mike taunted. Hannah just rolled her eyes at him and answered her phone.
“Hello, Hannah here.”
“Hey baby it’s me.” Hannah knew that it was Nick and decided to play with him.
“Funny, I don’t know of a ‘me’. I think you have to wrong number.” She said sarcastically.
“Ha, ha, real funny. It’s me, Nick.”
“Nick who? I know a bunch of Nick’s.” She said playing around. Nick was getting a bit pissed off.
“Nick Carter, ass.” He said through clenched teeth.
“Woo, someone’s a little testy today.”
“Well if someone wasn’t a bitch, I wouldn’t be testy now would I?”
“I’m sorry, I was just joking around.” Hannah said a little hurt. Nick sighed,
“No, I’m sorry. I’m just a little stressed out. I didn’t mean to take it out on you.”
“It’s okay. So what’s going on?”
“I just want to finalize our plans for next week. You don’t know how much I am looking forward to getting away from all of this for a couple of days.”
>“It’s really bad huh?”
“Yeah.”
“Okay, so what time are you flying in? Do I need to pick you up at the airport?”
“I’m flying in on Tuesday at 10am, flight 452 from Orlando and it would be nice to be picked up at the airport considering that I don’t know my way around your town.”
“Okay, I can do that Mr. Snotty. Are you sure there’s nothing wrong that you want to talk about it?”
“I’m sorry, like I said before I’m just under a lot of stress from the guys and I really just want to sit around and do nothing and just relax. Don’t worry about it, I’ll be fine.”
“Okay, question what day are you leaving?”
“Oh I plan on leaving on Friday at 6pm.”
“Good, so I get a full four days with you.”
“Yep, non-stop Nick Carter action.”
“Great.” She said sarcastically.
“Hey,” Nick said sounding hurt, “maybe I’ll go somewhere they appreciate me.”
“And that would be?” She joked back.
“ANY ways,” Nick said trying to change the subject, “what are we gonna do in this town of yours?”
“Swim, lay by the pool, roller blade, hang out with the gang, nothing at all.”
“Sounds great I can’t wait to meet your brother and his friends.” Nick paused to talk to someone in the background, “Yeah, okay, be right there. Ugh,” he said talking to Hannah again, “They want us to practice some more, so I guess I’ll talk to you later?”
“Yeah, see you soon.”
“You bet, bye Angel.”
“Bye, Nicky.” Hannah hung up her phone and smiled to herself almost bursting out in a small giggle. Mike came up beside her.
“Hey, stop talking on the phone, it’s time for our rematch.” Mike saw the excited look on her face. “Who was that phone call from?” he asked. Hannah glanced up to her brother,
“My best friend, Nick. He’s coming to visit next week, I haven’t seen him in like years and he’s really excited to meet you and the gang.”
“That’s cool, so he’ll have some good dirt about you when you were younger?”
“Probably, but I’d like to see you get it out of him.”
“You wanna make a bet.”
“I bet I can beat your ass in the rematch.”
“You’re on.” Mike said laughing.