“Oh my God, I can’t believe I lost the guys,” Frankie thought to himself out loud. He was walking aimlessly around the mall, not paying any attention to where he was going.
“Okay, where is she?” Kelly said quietly aloud. “Should I call her cell phone?….No she’ll probably be here soon,” she reassured herself as someone ran into her as he rounded the corner.
“CRAP! I’M SO SORRY!,” Frankie said as he picked Kelly up off of the floor. “That’s okay, you must be in a hurry or something,” she replied sarcastically. “Yeah,” he laughed. “Actually, I kinda got lost,” he finished. As he picked her up, she couldn’t help but just stare at him. “That’s okay-I MEAN…you should probably go find whoever you lost..or whoever lost you,” Kelly stuttered as she felt her face get a little red. He stared back.
“FRANKIE!” Chris yelled. “They just found me,” he replied in a little bit of a disappointed tone. “Oh, well…I guess I’ll see you later!” Kel said as she shook Frank’s hand. “Definitely….” He said as he walked away towards Chris.
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It took me a couple of minutes but I FINALLY found Sam Goody and saw Kel waiting there for me. “Hey!” I said happily as she came over and gave me and gave me a hug. “Laur, you’ll NEVER guess what just happened to me!” she exclaimed. “What happened?” I asked, seeing how excited she looked. “Okay well, I was waiting for you and kind of talking to myself- that’s not the point- anyways, I was just standing there and this guy was like, practically running and knocked me over! So then he picked me up and oh God he was so gorgeous! We made eye contact but then this guy called him and he had to leave, because apparently he had gotten lost or something, but then he said that he would DEFINITELY see me later!” she shrieked. I just stood there with a dumbfounded look on my face. “Okay, all I got out of that was that someone knocked you over, he was gorgeous, eye contact, and that he was lost,” I laughed. “See, you don’t pay attention!” she joked. “Well if you weren’t talking at about 100 miles per hour maybe I woulda been able to understand you!” I mocked.
“Okay anyways, I’m really not supposed to be out here by myself for a long time because of my leg and no one’s really with me, they wanna protect me,” I laughed. “God, gag me please!” she joked. “Ouch!” I laughed as I hit her arm. “So while we go back to the backstage area you can tell me about this “mystery guy” that ran into you….” I continued as we walked back to where the guys where. (They’d just finished sound check.)
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Wow you actually found your way back this time!,” Greg laughed as Frank came back just at the end of sound check. “Yeah sorry about that, I don’t know how I got lost this time,” he replied. “Note how he said ‘this time” Jesse joked. “Haha..not funny,” Frankie started. “But guys seriously, before Chris saw me I ran into this girl and oh my gosh she’s got these amazing eyes that just kinda “pulled me” towards her or something! And plus, I felt bad because I sort of knocked her over,” he laughed to himself. “Geeze, soon we’re gonna hafta put you on a leash or something so you don’t start to injure people!” Claudia laughed as she walked into the tail end of the conversation. Just then I walked in with Kelly.
“Hey everybody!” I exclaimed as Kel and I walked into the room backstage. “Hey Laur,” they all replied. “Come here for a sec,” Greg said as he pulled me aside. “Hey, I saw you the other night at TGI Fridays right?” Chris directed his attention towards Kelly. “Yeah, I knew you looked familiar!” she replied. While Chris and Kelly were talking, Frankie had his back facing them while he was talking to Matt and Jesse. “I’ll be right back guys,” Frankie said as he left for the bathroom. Kelly noticed that the voice sounded familiar, but when she turned around, no one was there expcept for Matt and Jesse. “Weren’t there 5 of you or am I just losing my mind?” she laughed. “Yeah, but Greg pulled Laurie aside and Frank just left for the bathroom,” Matt informed her.
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“Hello to you too,” I laughed as Greg and I pulled away from a kiss. “Well I mean c’mon, I hadn’t seen you all day!” he said as he just held me in his arms. “I have a question, do you know who this ‘mystery girl’ is that Frank was talking about?” Greg asked intensely. “No, but that’s funny because Kel mentioned that this guy ran into her and she went totally ga-ga over him!” I replied. I turned away so that we were looking each other face to face. At the same time, we both said, “You think?”
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As Frank walked out of the bathroom, Chris stopped his conversation with Kelly and started to talk to Frank. “Hey Frank, is this your ‘mystery girl?’ HAHA Just kidding,” Chris laughed. At that time Kelly turned around and her and Frank just stared at each other as their jaws dropped. “YOU!” they exclaimed with smiles on their faces. “I told you that I’d see you again,” Frankie smirked at Kel. “KELLY! I FIGURED OUT WHO YOU’RE GUY IS!” I yelled down the hallway as I limped into the room to find that Frankie and Kelly were pointing at each other and everyone else was exchanging confused glances. “Wow, this is A LOT to take in, in about 5 seconds,” Greg commented. “Yo, I was kidding,” Chris trailed off.
“So…you wanna sit down or something?” Frankie offered as he pulled up a chair. “Yeah thanks man, I’m exhausted!,” Matt said as he sat down. “Not you! KELLY..” Frankie said sarcastically as he lifted up the chair and Matt flew off of the seat. Everyone started laughing. “So..?” Frankie said anxiously waiting for an answer as he offered her to sit down. “Sure, thanks,” she smiled shyly at him. As soon as they sat down, they immediately started talking.
“Claud, what time do the guys go on?” I asked curiously as I looked at my watch and realized that none of the other girls were there yet. “Umm, around 6:30-7” she said as she looked at the schedule. “Okay, thanks,” I said as Jesse pulled my arm. “Laur,” he said as he pulled me over to a small table. “Yeah?” I questioned as he had a serious look on his face. “Which shirt do you think would look better with these pants?” he asked with a straight face. “Well umm…” I trailed off as I started to look at the shirts that were on the table. “I personally think that this one would look good,” Greg mocked as he held up a baby blue shirt that said ‘rock star’ on it. “Shut up,” Jess said as he punched Greg in the arm. “Is there a REASON that you’re over here?” Jesse asked with an annoyed tone in his voice. “Whoa Jess, watch the attitude,” I replied. “Sorry, but I REALLY need to get ready,” he finished. “Okay,” I said as I redirected my attention to Jesse. “Wait, there’s a reason that I came over here…” Greg started. Chris walked over. “Hey guys, I have a question, I think it’s great that Kel and Frank are hitting it off….but what about Nikki?” Chris asked. “Exactly what I was gonna ask,” Greg stated as all of us looked at Frankie and Kelly were completely indulged in their conversation; acting like no one else was around them.
Just then my cell phone rang. I reached into my pocket and took it out. The caller ID said that it was Sara’s phone. “Hello?” “Hey Laur its me,” Sara started. “Hey where are you guys?” I asked looking at my watch again. “We’re stuck in traffic but we’ll give you a call when we’re 5-10 minutes away,” she finished. “Okay, sounds good to me,” I replied in a giddy tone. “Oh by the way, Nikki wants to know how Frankie is,” Sara asked as I heard Nik asking that in the background. I looked over at Frankie talking to Kelly with a mile-wide smile on his face- looking like he was having the time of his life with her. I got a weird expression on my face…but Chris, Jesse and Greg knew what Sara just asked me. “He’s fine.”
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