::your every single worry... part two::

...Your every single worry will be out of sight...
(part two)

“Where’s the others??” Piper asked. 
	“Michael is coming after he hands in a paper that was due today.”  Ashleigh ate a grape.  “Cali is getting food with Darien.”  She picked a grape, but didn’t eat it.  “Fred is taking a nap in the boy’s dressing room ”  She threw the grape in her mouth.  “Maddie and Tyler are gett-ing their-mack-on…” she sang before popping in another grape.  Ashleigh then leaned over Kyle and took a bite of his turkey sandwich.  “Does your brother really like Maddie?  Even I’m getting tired of them going back and forth.”  
	Kyle took his sandwich back and took a bite, only to shrug.  Piper took her own bite of her own sandwich.  “Don’t you guys talk about this kind of stuff?…Ash!!  Didn’t you already eat earlier??” 
	Michael sat down, “Hi guys.  Ashleigh!  You just ate!  You ate while we were taping.” 
	“And it was deep-fried delicious!!” 
	Kyle laughed.  “I may always be late, but I will never eat on tv.” 
	“Liar!!”  Ashleigh shouted.  “Last week we were doing a taping and you ate my entire bag of jellybeans!!” 
	“Aghh!  Those were jellybeans…you had your hamburgers, fries and chicken spread out on the bag looking like you were a lonely ant with an entire picnic to yourself.” 
	Ashleigh turned her glaze at her fruit salad, trying to ignore his comment.  “So do you know the truth?  Does Tyler like Maddie?” 
	“I don’t know.  Gawd.” Kyle slapped both hands down on the table.  “You girls are all the same.  You’re always talking, asking stupid questions.” He turned to Ashleigh, who took two more bites of his sandwich.  “You… you are always eating! Do you ever stop??” 
	“Which one?” Piper asked.  “Talking or eating?”  Kyle sat back with his arms crossed.  “Okay, so you don’t know.  I think they should just get together already.  How long has it been since that Eleanor girl cheated on Tyler?” 
	“A month.  About.”  Kyle and Michael looked at Ashleigh in disbelief.  “What?!  I have a good memory when I want to...  This little game has lasted for almost three whole months.  That is a record for Maddie.  If your brother does like her, tell him to do something about it because Maddie doesn’t like waiting.” 
	“We should save this for the next show,” Michael suggested. 
	“Yea!  It’s perfect!!”  Piper smiled.  “They can’t know…” 
	“Uhhh….” Ashleigh frowned.  “I do not partake in this little ploy.” 
	“Why??” 
	She put Kyle’s sandwich back on his tray and finally let him have another bite. “Cause Maddie will kick my ass.  And she can.  Then I will scream cause she’s kicking my ass.  Then she will kick my ass s’more cause I’m screaming, but I will just keep screaming and she will keep kicking my ass until one of us becomes unconscious.  Besides, Maddie hates when we do things like this.  It’s a good idea, Michael.  But not for Maddie.” 
	“Well, I think we should do it.  Kyle?  What do you think?” 
	“I think that I’m going to get another sandwich.” 
	“No mayo this time…I hate mayo.”

Piper held up a jean skirt.  “Ever since we went on this show, I have the compulsion to change at least four times a day, whether or not we have a show to do.” 
	“I know the feeling.” Ashleigh stood in front of the full-length mirror.  “Pink or purple…”
	“Pink.”
	“Pink.”
	“Pink.”
	“Pink it is.”  She changed her top.  “The good news is we get a wardrobe.  A freakn’ wardrobe.”
	“Yea, but we aren’t suppose to walk out the building with the clothes they give us, Ash.”
	It seemed like Cali was always trying to make everyone feel bad.  Maddie frowned. “Cali, your hickeys are showing,” she said in attempt of changing the conversation. 
	It worked like a charm. “Where? Where??”  She flew up to the mirror to examine her neck. 
	“So what did you and Tyler do on the break?” Piper asked innocently.  “You guys must have really busy since you missed having lunch with us.
	“Me and Tyler??”  Ashleigh stood behind Maddie, giving Piper arm signs to cut it out or stop right there.  Maddie turned around exposing Ashleigh in mid-action.  She pretended to do some exercises as a cover up, but Maddie knew better.  “What’s going on??”
	“Nothing.”
	“Nothing!” 
	Maddie looked at Cali, who was hunting for a cute shirt to cover up her hickeys.  “Don’t look at me, I have no clue.”
	“C’mon guys tell me what’s going on.  I hate when you guys do this.”
	“AGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! DON’T HURT ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”  Ashleigh darted behind a makeup chair. 
	Maddie pointed to the small figure trembling in fear. “She’s screaming… It’s never good when she screams.”
	“Please DON’T HURT ME!!!!!!”
	All four boys came in the room.  Their hands on their hips, “Is there a problem here??”  
	Fred looked around the girls dressing room amazed.  “Heeeyyyy!! Our dressing room doesn’t look like this.”
	“Well, I hope not.  It’s purple and blue.” Michael noted as he stared at the ceiling.
	“No wonder you girls take forever…”
	“And this is your changing area…do you guys get naked?”
	All four girl rolled their eyes.  Cali faced the mirror for one final hickey check.  Maddie gave her hair one last look over.  Piper helped Ash put a necklace on, “Thanks babe!”
	“We heard Pixie over here scream.  We thought she was being put to death.”
	“Not yet…” Madison mumbled.
	Michael stopped looking around the girls room, “Is this about earlier?”
	“What happened earlier?  Did you guys fight?”  Tyler wondered.
	“I don’t know.” Madison threw her hands on her hips.  “Would this apply to what happened earlier?” 
	“Look at the time everyone!!” Ashleigh yelled cheerfully.  “Time to go on air!  Our people await.”  She made a quick exit. “C’mon everyone!!  Especially Freddie.  Protect me from Madison.”  Everyone shrugged and started to walk out after the bouncing blond.
	Maddie grabbed Piper’s arm. “What happened?  If you don’t tell me now, I’m just going to have to beat it out of Ash later…”
	Piper sighed.
	Madison knew right away what they were talking about earlier.  “Oh you guys!!!!”  Madison’s whine sounded astonishing a lot like one of Ashleigh’s trademark whines.  “I hate when you do this.  Remember my old boyfriends, Terrance and Jim and …”
	“Yea.  But you are head over heels for Tyler.”
	“I do not know that.”
	“You soo are and one of these days, he’s going to notice too.”  Madison just sighed.  Piper looked at her best friend and gave her a quick hug.  “And if he doesn’t, he’s stupid and to cheer you up I’ll buy Ashleigh a muzzle.”

Final retouches of makeup were done, the teens had their seats and the camera’s were about to roll.  “Okay people.  We have one minute until taping…
	The audience was astonishing quiet.  Ashleigh got up.  “What the hell is wrong with you people?” The audience looked at her.  Some smiled.  “You’re just sitting here.  Is this how you enjoy our show??”
	Cali laughed.  “Sometimes I think she does this to torture us.”
	“I think it’s funny…”
	“Nooo…”  The audience yelled.
	“You guys suck!!!!!!!!  Is this how you watch our show?????”
	“Nooooo!!!”  
	“That’s a bit better.  Our last group was better….are you going to be lesser than them??”
	“NOOOOO!!!!”
	“Damn straight you aren’t!!!!  Now I want to hear you cheer for the crew!!!!”  The audience screamed, shouted and clapped. “C’mon guys, be thankful to be here.  It’s either this or class!!!!”  This got more shouts.  Don grabbed Ashleigh and pleaded with her to sit down. “Just getting them pumped for the show…”  She reasoned as sat down on the couch again with a wide grin on her face.  Camera lights went on.  
	Camera A zoomed on Kyle.  “Hey guys.  This is Rollercoaster of Love and you’re watching it. You better be watching it cause this is one of the few times that I’m here on time and you don’t have to switch channels because Ashers isn’t yelling her head off at me.  I’m Kyle.  This is my brother Tyler James. This is Michael.  Cali is over on the beanbag today.  Piper is drinking her coffee in that seat over there.  Between Ashleigh and Madison on the couch is poor Fred, who has been reduced to Ashleigh’s bodyguard.  Don’t know which one is which… I’ll tell you.  Ashleigh’s the annoying one.  You’ll know in five, four, three….”
	Ashleigh shook her fist. “Thomaaaaasssss!!!!!” 
	“Ooo. Quicker than usual…I must be getting rusty.”
	Madison laughed, “Did you just say Thomas??”
	“Yesss….”
	Madison’s laughter continued. “You really are a freak…” 
	“Freak or no freak.  Let’s start the lines.”
	“Hello Carla from Chicago!” Cali hit the button.  “You’re on the air.” 
	“HI!  Wonderful show you guys.  My problem is really dumb, but oh well.  I just recently dumped my boyfriend and I don’t think he’s taking it too well…”
	Madison zoned out. She glanced at Tyler.  Did she really like Tyler?  Was this just one of her crushes?  She took a stronger look at him.  He was her type. Nice eyes, athletic, smart, nice.  She did like the boy.  Was her feelings for him more than a friend.  Over break they talked and went investigating.  The studio was a fun place to go exploring in.  Tyler was convinced that he would one day run into a famous celebrity, but so far he didn’t run into anyone but security.  Today, they ran from a fat security guard.  Tyler threw a pealed orange in front of the guard.  T.J. grabbed Madison’s hand and they took off before the guard could react.  Now that she wasn’t laughing or worrying about getting caught, she replayed it all in her head.  He had to like her.  He even brought her food and he even knew what she liked.  Ashleigh got food, but she asked for it. Madison had no idea that food was coming for her.  She was so happy that she got food, especially because Tyler got it.  But friends did nice things for each other.  Was Tyler just being nice?  Or was he being ‘I like you’ nice?
	Madison shook her head and came back to reality.  The girl was off the air and another guy was on.  Madison sat back.  “Next caller!!” Ashleigh shouted. “Raymond from Lyons what can we help you with??”
	“I’m on?”
	“Uh-huh.”
	“Oh. Okay.  I first had sex with my girlfriend about two months ago.  Just recently I noticed that there are little bumps on…”
	Cali interrupted, “Raymond.  We’re not doctors, so we can’t tell you if what they are?  We don’t know if it’s an STD or just normal, but you can go to a clinic or a physician. They will be able to help you more than we can in that department.”
	“Yea,” piped Ashleigh.  “Don’t worry.  It’s confidential too, so no one but you and your doctor will know.”
	“Ashleigh would know…”  A pillow was thrown in Kyle’s face.  “Is this girl true to you?  She doesn’t sleep with anyone else.”
	“I’m sure that she isn’t cheating, but she has had sex before, as I did too.”
	“Okay,” Kyle held on to the pillow just incase he needed to block another pillowassult. “I would definitely see a doctor and get it tested.   If you stay on the line, we can get you some locations for you to keep your confidentiality.  Some tests take a while man, so stay away from sex for a while.”
	“If your girl gets a little p.o’ed about not having sex, just saying you want to enjoy being with her, and not just her body.”
	Kyle turned towards Ashleigh, “That works?”<p>
	The caller agreed, “Yea that works??”
	Ashleigh tossed her hair, in an know-it-all fashion.  “Girls are always seen as sex objects.  We know that guys think of sex, all the time, so it’s nice when boys like us for us, and not our boobs, or bodies.”
	“But boobs are fun!” Fred yelled in excitement.
	“No, not them again!!”
	“Well,” Ashleigh giggled.  “We can always talk about asses.  Right Maddie?”  Maddie was fully back to reality by now.  “Ahhhh!!!  Protect me!!!”  Ashleigh hid behind Fred.  The camera stuck with Ashleigh.  She faced the camera, but still curled up behind Fred.  “In case you don’t know, I have a theory.”  
	“No one wants to hear about your theory Ash!!” 
	Tyler cleared his throat and smiled, “So Ash, what’s your theory??”
	“I believe that no matter who you are.  Boys, girls, little kids, old people, people our age, it makes no difference.  You will be obsessed with Maddie’s ---” but Ashleigh couldn’t finish since Maddie flew over Fred and shoved Ashleigh’s head into the couch cushion and sat on her.  “Aghhhhh!!! Okay, okay okay!!!!  Ahhhh!!!”
	Maddie continued to sit on Ashleigh.  Fred groaned because Ashleigh, in attempt to escape, kicked Fred in the stomach. “Can we talk to our next caller?”
	Piper smiled, “I dunno.  I would rather talk about Ashleigh’s theory.”
	“I like her theory,” Tyler admitted it with a smile. “You do have a nice one.”
	Maddie slid off Ashleigh, but Ash was still pressed against the cushions unable to move (or breathe). “You think so?”
	Tyler stared at Maddie and then turned his head quickly.  He couldn’t look at her right now, “Yea.”  Tyler cleared his throat, “Next caller.” 
	“Hi, am I on?…You guys are great, just want to tell you that. I have a question.”
	“Go ahead, Zeek.”
	“How do you…return the favor to you girlfriend?  I just want to…uh…”  He went on with his question and the boys tried to answer it as best as they could, while Piper held in her laughter and Ashleigh continued punching Maddie.  They took a commercial break. 
	“Stop hitting me Ashleigh!!!” 
	“Can’t breathe!  Lo-s--ng oxy--”	
“Oh shit,” Maddie slipped entirely off Ashleigh.  Ashleigh bolted up holding her neck….  “I’m sorry Ash.  I didn’t know the pillow was there.”  She laughed for a second.  “It was crushing her windpipe…” Ashleigh still panted, her color returning to her face.
	“Damn.  Princess Ashleigh wouldn’t be able to yell anymore.”
	Ashleigh picked up the pillow that could have knocked her out and threw it at Kyle’s head.  “You dumfuck,” she yelled (but it came out as a hoarse whisper).
	“HEEYY!!  I wasn’t the one that had the pillow there.  Or the one that sat on you.” 
	“Yea,” still hoarse. “But it’s Maddie... You, just ask for it.” 
	“We’re on in…one.”
	Maddie sat back in her spot, “I’m sorry.  Are you really okay?” 
	“Yea, I’m fine.  How does my hair look?”
	“Still good.”
	“Okay then.”

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