"So you gotta go tonight?" Nick asked Karen as she threw some clothes into her suitcase. He had talked to Amy for a while, they went out for a soda and exchanged phone numbers, they were talking when Nick got a call from Karen and she asked him to come with her to the airport.
"Yup, I gotta go tonight. My boss called me, and said theres some important meeting I gotta go to, but he said I gotta wear some bussiness clothes and those are at the dry cleaners so I gotta leave now so I can get some" She finished putting her stuff in the bag and zipped it up. "BRITNEY!!!" She yelled as she picked up the heavy suitcase and started walking to her door.
"Whoa, no no no" Nick said as he grabbed the suitcase from her. "Brit, meet me and your sister downstairs" He called as he grabbed Karen's hand with her free one.
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"Amanda, I don't get it" AJ said as him, Amanda, and Howie were watching TV and talking.
"Don't get what Alex?" She looked up at him, not moving her head from where it was on Howie's stomach. She wasn't herself lately. She was usually hyper, outgoing and talkative but she had been acting different to everyone.
"Why you called me," He turned off the television and turned to her and Howie. "Instead of 9-1-1" He continued, Howie found that interesting so he looked down at her.
"I just, can't stand the thought of hospital's and I have a feeling that I would have never seen Howie before if he went to them." She said off the top of her mind.
"Amanda, why have you been so different? You know that if you called 9-1-1 you would probably see Howie again," AJ said again.
Amanda shook her head. "I haven't been different."
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"What should I do?" Amy asked out-loud to nobody certain as she looked at the phone number in her hand. It had been a half hour since Nick left her and she hadn't moved from her seat, and all she thought about was the number not anything around her.
"'Bout what hunny?" Her waitress, a middle aged lady said as she stood next to Amy. \
"Listen, I know you don't know me, but it looks as though you need to talk, I'm a good-listener and great advice giver. At first I came over here to see if you wanted another drink or your check, I've been standin here for oh about" She looked at her watch.
"3 minutes, you haven't even noticed" She continued then looked at the empty chair across from her and pointed at it.
"May I?"
Amy nodded, once the wiatress sat Amy told her about Nick. The waitress told her to call him then had to go back on her shift.
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AJ kept bugging Amanda about how she was being different, she just shook her head no. "What about you Howie? You seem different too. You always drift off into your own thoughts when we are in the studio or a meeting, you hardly talk anymore, you have been gettin' sick a lot and you are getting cut up." AJ went over to Howie and pointed to his wrist. It had scratches and wierd marks all over it.
"Leave me alone AJ, everything is just peachy" Howie said, with an attitude.
"Can we please just stop talking about our changes?" Amanda asked as Howie pulled her onto his lap. Amanda felt something wierd in his pocket and fidgeted a minute.
"Yeah, let's just drop it" Howie agreed as Amanda reached into his pocket. 'Shit she found it' He thought to himself.
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"Bye babe" Nick gave Karen a long kiss goodbye. They had stopped and got her some nice meeting outfits, then went to the airport. Once they checked her bags in Britney and Nick had to say goodbye to Karen because they weren't allowed in the gate area.
"Bye hunny, I'll call" She kissed his cheeck. "Bye Brit" She hugged her sister. Once she was pass all the security she turned around once more. "Love you guys"
When Nick and Britney were going to his house, where she would be staying while Karen is gone, Nick's cell phone rang.
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"Hello?" Amy heard his voice answer. "Hello?" He asked again when she didn't answer.
She hesitated before speaking. "Nick? It's Amy"
"Oh, uh, hey" He glanced over at Britney in the drivers seat.
"So, uh, you busy tonight? We can go to dinner and talk or something." Amy decided to get right to the point.
"Yeah, that'd be great, I'll uh, pick you up at 7:00?" He looked back over at Britney, she wasn't paying attention.
"Yeah that'd be great" Amy smiled to herself. "My address?"
"What? Oh yeah, what is it?"
"1290 Main St."
"Okay see you tonight" Nick hung up and as he stopped at a red light wrote the address on an old reciept.
Amy smiled as she hung up the phone. "This is gonna be one hell of a night"