"Are you serious?" A.J asked with a surprised look on his face.
"Yeah she called from the airport around 7:30 am and Nick rushed off to pick her up," she said. "Then when he brought her back she said she wouldn't feel comfortable talking to him while I was around so he asked me if they could have some time to talk, so I came here." She looked at her watch. "It's 1:30 right now, I'm headed to Times Square in 30 minutes to meet someone."
"Sounds cool. Have you ever been there?" A.J asked me. I shook my head. "Do you mind if we tag along?" he asked. "I can give you a ride. Unless you want to be alone."
"Well I don't know..." she started.
"Who do you know in New York anyway?" I asked racking my brain.
"Well... remember my friend that we meet while we were in LA?" Vanessa asked giving me a weird look.
I thought for a second, "Oh you mean Lance?"
"Yeah."
"Lance?" A.J asked. "Who's that?"
"You know .. that guys from *Nsync," I said as I ran my fingers through his hair.
"Nsync," he looked confused. We couldn't help but to laugh at his confusion. "You know, the 'God must have spent...' guys," I said with a grin.
"I know who they are!" AJ said rolling his eyes. "I just didn't think you knew them."
"Well we bumped into them at the hotel in LA. Lance and I became friends and now that they're in New York he called and asked if I would like a tour of Times Square. So since I don't seem to have anything planned on this fine day I agreed," she said.
"Oh, of course," A.J said.
Vanessa's cell phone rang, "Hello?" She looked at A.J, and me, "So do you still want to go or not?" She asked putting her hand on the talk part of the phone.
"Well how about we give you a ride then you call me on my cell phone when you're ready. Well just split up you know?" AJ said.
"Sure," she told Lance and he agreed to meet her somewhere. We dropped Vanessa off.
AJ and I drove until he found something we wanted to check out.
"Hey I'm glad you could make it," Lance said as Vanessa walked up to him.
She smiled. "Nice to see you," she said as he gave her a quick hug.
"So have you had lunch yet?" he asked.
"Nope," she answered.
"Good cause I haven't either." He took her out and they had a great time at lunch. Lance turned out to be a really fun guy. But she still couldn't seem to keep him mind off Nick. She wished he were the one she was having a good time with. They walked around and Lance spotted a photo booth.
"Let's take pictures!" he said as he pulled her inside.
"No ... Lance my hair ... I," but he had already slipped the two dollars in. She rolled her eyes *flash* they tilted their heads and made puppy dog faces *flash* he put his arm around her and they stuck out their tongues *flash* then he kissed her on the cheek for the last picture *flash*. She turned and looked at him he had this wierd look on his face and she knew he was going to kiss her again. She stood up before he got the chance.
"How long do these thing take?" she asked as she left him sitting in the booth.
"About three minutes," he said putting his baseball cap back on so no one noticed him too much. "Look I really need to use the restroom. So I'm going to run in that store and use it. You wait for the pictures." He ran inside.
Just as he disappeared, her cell phone rang. "Hello?" she answered.
"Hey it's me."
"Hi what's up?" She sighed thinking about how she wished Nick were here with her. "I was wondering where you are?"
"I'm out. So what's up with ... Mandy?" she asked.
"Oh, well, she's going to be leaving tonight. She just really needed to be with a good friend. You understand don't you?"
"Sure Nick. Look I'm busy right now. Call me when she's gone," she hung up. She felt bad for being so harsh with him. But she was so sick of hearing about Mandy! He wears that promise ring that she gave him all the time. He even talks about her every once and awhile. Like he would say he let Mandy paint his toe nails once or Mandy would always braid his hair when he went to play basketball etc. etc. She knew he did it innocently but it really bothered her. He tells her they promised to be friends forever and Nick hardly ever breaks his promises. She was so deep in thought she didn't even notice the pictures were done. She also didn't notice Lance sneak up behind her.
"Boo!" he said and grabbed her shoulders. She jumped and spun around and punched him in the shoulder.
"Don't ever do that again!" she said.
"Sorry, I didn't know you were so jumpy!" he laughed. He grabbed the pictures. "Which ones do you want." She picked the first half. She left him with the ones where he had his arm around her and the one with the kiss. "Good choice," he tore them apart and handed hers, to her.
"They came out cute!" she said looking at them.
They hung out more and were so busy having fun she totally forgot about the time. Around 5:30 p.m. AJ looked at his watch, "I wonder if Vanessa is going to call anytime soon?"
"I don't know," I said looking through a magazine.
"Well let's go eat dinner then we'll call her if she hasn't called already." AJ took me to a great little Mexican restaurant. After we ate she still hadn't called. AJ took out his phone and called her.
"Hello ... AHH ... I got you! ... Hello?" she was laughing.
"Uh, Vanessa, it's me AJ. It's like 6:45 you almost ready to go?"
"Oh my gosh. I didn't know it was so late. I'm just playing video games right now. I'll meet you at the same place you dropped me off in 15 minutes."

When we got back to the hotel we went to AJ's room. About two hours later Nick called Vanessa and told her he dropped Mandy off at the airport and wanted to go out to dinner with her. She agreed since she hadn't had dinner yet.
When they got to the restaurant Nick asked her about her day. She told him she had a nice time although she didn't feel like telling him it was with Lance.
"Cool," Nick said after she told him what she did. She pulled out a hair tie from her pocket to put her hair up. When she did the pictures her and Lance had taken fell to the floor.
"Oh you dropped something." Nick bent down to get it. He didn't say anything when he handed them back to her. But he did look upset.