Chapter 12

Chapter 12


Elizabeth’s POV

I heard we were going to Lexington. That would be fun…I wondered who I could sucker into going with me to annoy my cousin at collage. He was a basketball player on the team. I could get Brian to go for sure and Aaron, but it would be awhile until I suckered Laura and Nick into it. Upon reaching the city, I grabbed someone’s cell phone, AJ’s probably; he leaves it everywhere. I had gotten everyone I wanted and then some, Jules was felling very clingy and wouldn’t go anywhere without Brian, Laura or AJ nearby and Kev also decided to come. I phoned my cousin, Keith telling him that I would be visiting him soon. I rounded up the gang and we went down to the campus.

I walked up the flight of stairs, getting a few strange looks form people, recognizing us from TRL, and people who had seen me here before. I stopped at Keith’s door and knocked on it. Thinking I was one of his friends he opened the door with only a towel on… I don’t get it. It’s probably a male thing. As soon as I saw the white thing around his waist I turned and looked into Aaron’s chest, to scared to look anywhere else. Everyone burst out laughing at his expense.

Once he had dressed he gave everyone else a tour around, and for Bri he signed a basketball, where Brian got one still mystifies me…

Laura’s POV

“Didn’t you mother teach you to wear clothing?” I asked Keith, breaking the silence.

“Hello Laura,” Keith responded embarrassed.

“Hey babe. Please go put on some clothing now. I really don’t wanna look at you in that. Pants, a shit, and some boxers, would be much betta.”

“Fine, be right back,” he said shutting the door.

“Liz, your cousin has problems,” I told her while Keith got dressed.

“Must run in the family,” AJ said, ducking the oncoming smack from Liz. Just then Keith came back and re-opened the door.

“Better?”

“Much, wanna let us in now?” Elizabeth asked.

“Not really, but I’m sure you have my parents and Grandma on speed dial right now,” he said moving out of the doorway. “So, why are you here?”

“What? I can’t come visit my favorite cousin?” Liz asked.

“No, spill it.”

“Oh well, don’t got one. I was bored and decided to come visit,” she said going through his “kitchen” looking for food to feed the hungry, whinny, guys surrounding the room. Aaron, AJ, and Nick had been whining for food for almost an hour now, and she couldn’t take it any more.

“You came all the way from New York just to see me cause you were bored?” Keith asked, still confused.

“No dumbass, we’re here with the guys for something Kevin dragged us up here for,” I said rolling my eyes at his stupidity.

“Oh yeah, y’all are *Sync, right?” I had to laugh at that; men could be so dense sometimes.

“Backstreet hun, much betta,” I said kissing Nick’s cheek.

“Oh, I gotcha! Liz, there’s no food. Call for pizza. Speed dial, number 5,”

“Speed dial?” I asked him curiously.

“Yep other wise I’d loose it.”

“Yeah, alrighty then! So…” I was getting really bored. Brian and Keith had started up a conversation about basketball, and the guys and Liz were arguing about what kind of pizza to get. It was really annoying, so I took the phone and ordered what me and Liz wanted… a plain ol’ pizza. Nothing but sauce, cheese, and dough, sorry, but pineapples, sardines, and broccoli doesn’t really appeal to me.

“Hey!” AJ said after realizing what I had just done.

“Sorry Bone, y’all should have decided quicker,” I said sticking out my tongue at him. He just jumped up from the couch his ass was resting on, and started chasing me around the dorm. I ran and jumped into Nick’s lap.

“Oof,” was the only response out of him.

“I’m not that heavy!” I said.

“I know, you’re perfect,”

“Nope, sorry, wrong again!”

“Aw, yes you are,” he said before kissing me.

“AH! GET A ROOM!” AJ called to the two of us.

“No, right here is just fine!” I said before going back to kissing my love.

Elizabeth’s POV

I grinned… “When in Rome…” I leaned over and kissed Aaron.

“What the hell have you turned my little cousin into?” Keith asked the four remaining guys.

“Oh you mean she wasn’t always like this?” AJ asked confused.

“Nope. I think at the last family reunion she was sitting in the window seat listening to music and reading."

“Ohh she used to read? She used to do something other than make out?” Kevin asked in masked horror.

“Yes I did you idiot!” I said as I took a break from kissing Aaron only to go back to it.

“Nope… I think this is her first boyfriend…but I could be wrong.” * smack * he received it from moi. “How would you’re mom feel if she know that you were beating up on your older cousin.”

“She would say good job…now leave me alone!”

~Laura’s POV~

Nick and I stopped making out long enough to witness the lovely entertainment Liz and her family put on.

“Are you done?” I asked them, as there was a knock at the door.

“Yes they are… pizza’s here.” Kevin said getting up to answer the door.

“HOTT DELIVERY!” Liz and I both screamed and rushed to get the door before anyone else could.

“What the hell?” AJ asked totally confused.

“Nothing! Shut up!” Liz snapped at him trying to look through the peephole thing.

“You’re too short Lizzie! Just open the door,” Keith told her laughing.

“Liz, he’s right, open the door,” Howie pointed out.

“AND HE SPEAKS!” Keith said out of the blue.

“Yeah dip shit, he’s quite loud at times,” Liz said before opening the door to reveal a total hottie.

“WOAH THERE BABY!” I said, looking him up and down, causing him to blush. He was about 6’, muscular, with dark spiked hair… picture Freddie Prinze Jr.…. but hotter.

“Wanna come in?” I asked him.

“Hey! Laura! Forget about me?” Nick asked, coming over and wrapping his arms around my waist.

“Aww baby, I could never forget about you,” I said turning around, and then kissed him.

“Good,” he said returning the kiss. He stuffed some money in the pizza guy’s hand and grabbed the pizzas with the other. Then shut the door with his foot. All while kissing me. Can we say… multitalented?

“Hey! He was hott!” Liz argued with him. But in return just got a bunch of pizzas stuffed into her arms. She put the pizzas down on the table so the hyenas cackling behind her didn’t mob her. “I don’t have to take this!”

“Yes you do hun,” I said breaking away from my horny boy friend to get some pizza.

“Laura,” Nick whined to me.

“What?” I whined back.

“I need you!”

“I sorry, control your hormones for a while and eat,” I said kissing his cheek.

“Aww, how cute,” Keith said sarcastically.

“Stick it where the sun don’t shine bud,” I told him.

“Wait a second… isn’t that, oh what was the word? Jailbait?” he asked me.

“And your point would be?”

“That he could get arrested.”

“You go no proof hun. Plus, if you ever got him put in jail, you’d be on every teenyboppers hit list.”

“True, true,”

“Plus, I’m too cute for you to ever tell on me!” I said smirking.

“Cute? Ha! Ugly maybe… I have pity on you man!” he said patting Nick’s shoulder.

“Keith… you’re scaring me… are you gay?” AJ asked.

“Nope he ain’t…but I’m starting to wonder…when was the last time you had a girl?” Liz answered for her older cousin.

“No dip shit. What are you on? And the main question… why aren’t you sharing?” I asked him, ignoring Liz.

“Wish I knew!” Brian said.

“Sorry Bri, Leigh would kill me if you ever got high!” AJ told him. I just laughed at all of them. The sad thing was, it was true. I just picked up another slice of pizza since my first was stolen by my boy friend. I then went and sat on his lap.

“What? No can I sit there?” Nick asked me.

“Umm… no? But do you have a problem with it? Cause ya know, I could always go sit all the way over there, on the other side of the room next to Julianna and AJ. Ya know, the horny one?” I said to him.

“NO! NO! It’s ok, here’s just fine!” he said taking another bite of his pizza. I grabbed my Diet Coke and took a sip.

“Want some?” I asked him, holding it out to him. The light shinned off my ring he had given me when he said that he loved me for the first time.

“HOLY SHIT! WHERE THE HELL DID YOU GET THAT BABY?” Liz asked, well screamed, grabbing my hand.

“What?”

“The thing that looks like an engagement ring!”

“It’s not an engagement ring… if it was it would be on my left hand, not the right one.”

“WELL?”

“Nick…”

“COME! NOW!” she told me, stalking off into Keith’s room.

“’Scuse us, girl talk,” I said getting up from the table. I knew as soon as I left, Brian’s mouth would be lifted from the ground and Nick would be bombarded with questions. My poor baby. Oh well, onto my lovely talk with Liz…

Elizabeth’s POV

“Okay let me see that more!” I proceeded to take her hand and turn it every which way I could without breaking it.

“Owies. That hurt. Now since your done trying to break off my arm can we go back into the living room? Your cousin’s room is starting to scare me.” She looked around the messy room. “Does this room have a floor?”

“Yeah, it’s acutely clean when I come down with my aunt and uncle.” I told her when we walked back into the main room. It finally dawned on me what I wanted to get from him. Waling over to the collection of videos I picked one from the very bottom.

“Finally. You said you were going to barrow this…you ended keeping it for two years.” I held up my possession.

“What the hell is that?” AJ looked at it.

“A musical dumb ass.” Howie answered for me.

“Newsies to be exact.”

“You like musical?” Brian answered awed.

“Yeah. They’re awesome. I like the two Sister Act movies, Grease, Newsies…and others.”

“And if I watch Oklahoma one more time I will keel over and die.”

“Oklahoma….!!!” AJ burst out, only to receive dirty looks from Laura and myself.

“It wasn’t my fault. I don’t even own it…it was my Grandmother. Keith can tell ya…he’s known her longer than I.”

“Yep, she likes musicals. And J if you do any more Oklahoma I will kick you ass out of my apartment. I’ve had emotional scaring because of that movie.”

“She made you watch it too, huh?”

“Okay, I’d love to listen to your lovely little family history, but I want to do something!” AJ yelled from the other side of the room.

“Whatev. Okay how about the climbing park? Keith do you think you can lead the way?” Laura said.

“Sure.” As we were leaving I caught up to Laura and pulled her back.

“You just wanted to see Nick in a harness.” I accused her.

“Like you don’t want to see Aaron.” She said to me in an equally low voice that I had used before.

We arrived after the boys and they already had their harnesses on. I was finishing putting mine on when I was pulled from the back and pulled up. When I came down I pulled the carabineer off and turned around. Keith was looking around, trying to find a decent hiding spot. Finally he cowered behind Aaron. I motioned for him to step aside and he did. I blew a kiss to him. I walked up to him and looked up to him.

“You know I hate heights. I am pissed off at you now. I guess I won’t send you anything later. And forget having me try and hook you up with someone. Laura wasn’t Miss Basking interested? Who was she again? Oh yeah that was the ex-model with the great personality.” I laughed at his face and turned around so I could put away my harness.

~*~Laura’s POV~*~

“Kev, was there a real reason why we came up here?” I asked him. His face immediately dropped.

“Take here, I’ll be right back,” I told Nick handing him Julianna. I grabbed Kevin’s hand and led him to a nearby park. We sat down by the lake. “Kevy, I know we didn’t exactly start out on a good note, and that I’ve been a bitch, but you’re one of my friends, and I love you like a father… you and Kris are my third parents… sorry, Liz’s are my second. But I’ll always be here to listen. Always, no matter what happens. You’re stuck with me now. So think about it, k?” I said getting up and walked began to walk away.

“Laura, wait…” he said as a tear ran down his cheek. I turned back around to see him falling apart, piece my piece. He looked up at me; his once happy, bright, green eyes that were once filled with life and joy were down clouded over and confused.

“I’m here babe,” I said reassuring him as another tear escaped his eyes.

“My…my…my mom… she’s in… in the … hospital,” he sniffled.

“Come here,” I told him. I hugged him and assured him everything would be ok. He just cried into my shoulder. “You ok now?” I asked him as the sniffles subsided about 10 minutes later.

“Yeah,” he said whipping away a tear with the back of his hand.

“Wanna talk about it?”

“Not really, but yeah, I’ll tell,” he said sitting back down near the lake.

“I’m here for ya babe,” I said as I sat down next to him, looking out onto the lake.

“She has to have an operation. They have to remove one of her kidneys… she has cancer in it. They’ll only go through with the operation if the cancerous cells don’t spread to her bone. Otherwise there’s no hope… she’d die sooner, than later.” He finally let out. I felt a tear fall down my cheek. I knew exactly what he was going through… the same thing happened to my mother the summer before.

“Don’t worry Kev, everything will be fine. She’ll be fine. The cancer won’t spread, and the operation will go fine. You dad will make sure of that.”

“That’s the thing… God took my dad, why does he have to try and take my mommy too?” Did Kevin just say his Mommy?

“Ever wonder why he took your Dad?” he nodded. “Maybe it was so that he could watch and help her though this. I dunno what to say Kev; I know what you’re going through. The same exact thing happened to my mother last year. She’s ok now, and yours will be too, there’s nothing to worry about.”

“Promise?”

“Promise. Wanna go home now?”

“To Florida?”

“No, back to your parents house. Come on, you need some sleep, you look like crap.”

“Thanks Laur, love ya too,” he said cracking the first smile I’ve seen from him all day. I knew what he felt… it’s really hard to just sit there and watch as your mother looks at death in the eye… it’s scary actually. It’s something that no one should have to go though… but they do, sadly enough. They do.

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