"Hey, Nick, what's this?" Aaron asked as they were going through boxes, deciding what was going and what was staying with Nick, as his parents where getting ready to move to LA.
He handed his older brother the aged piece of construction paper.
"Where did you get it?" Nick asked as he took the paper from the younger boy.
"This box." Nick looked at the box that Aaron pointed to, On the side, in thick permeant black marker, was his mothers hand writing. ' Nick-The Early Years, Preschool-2nd Grade' Nick looked at the colored piece of paper in his hand. He smiled.
"Well, are you going to look at it?" Aaron asked, getting impatient.
"Yeah, hold your shorts on!" Nick said as he unfolded the green construction paper. He read in silently to himself and laughed.
"What's so funny?" Brian asked as the came into the room. EVERYONE was there helping the Carters go through their stuff.
He read the description out loud. At first Brian laughed and then he began to look serious.
"What's wrong Frick?" Nick asked when he saw the look on his friends face.
"That's your description of your perfect girl?" Nick nodded. "Do you have any idea who you just described?"
"Yeah. The girl of my dreams."
"No! You are so dumb sometimes! You just described Tabitha!" Nick starred at him. He read the description again. Now that he thought about it, really thought about it, the girl that he described when he was 7 was exactly what his current girlfriend was.
"Oh, my god, you're right! I can't believe that I knew I would want to be with her when I was 7."
"I can! You two were made for each other. I've never seen you happier!"
And it was true. In the two and a half months since Nick had told Tabitha how he felt and found out that she felt the same way, he had been happier then ever.
"What's going on up here?" Megan walked into the room.
"Well,........" Aaron started. Nick clamped his hand over the blond boys mouth.
"Nothing! We were just going through some stuff." Brian said.
"Yeah, sure. Well, Jess and I are going to go and pack. We are leaving tonight."
"Oh, yeah. You have graduation in a week. Well, I'm glad that you two could come down, even if it was only for the weekend. You were a lot of help." Nick said, smiling at his girlfriends best friend, well, one of them.
Meg and Jess had gone back to New York shortly after the kidnapping and it was there first time back. They had to go back to New York for graduation, which everyone was planning on attending, and then they would be back to pick out an apartment. They had both been accepted to FSU.
"Well, we'll see you all in a week, at graduation, I guess. Til then, bye!" She walked over and hugged Nick and Aaron. She then walked over to Brian, kissed him on the cheek, hugged him and went down this stairs to collect Jess.
"What was that all about?" Nick asked after Aaron ran off to go find Angel and Kelly.
"What?"
"You and Meg?"
"Oh, that. We decided that we should just be friends. Her living far away and all that crap. We decided it was the best for the both of us."
"OK. Now tell me how you really feel."
Brian looked up from the box he was sorting through. "God damn it all to hell! I love her."
Nick laughed. "Tell her that, not me!"
"You enjoy this, don't you?"
"Yeah, I do, actually. That's how I felt when I talked to you about Tabs."
"Nick, if you weren't my best friend, I'd kill you."
"No, you wouldn't. I wouldn't let you." Tabitha said coming into the room. Nick almost automatically put the piece of paper he was still holding, in his back pocket. "What do have there Nick?"
"Nothing. I'll show you later."
"Promise?" She walked over to him.
"Yeah, I promise."
"I think I'll be leaving now. I just ate lunch." Brian said walking towards the door.
Nick and Tabitha laughed at him. "Now will you show me?"
"No. We have to go to your house before I can show you."
"OK. Well, I'm going to go help your mom pack up the kitchen."
"OK See yeah later Babe." He kissed her and watched her leave the room.
'Oh yeah, she is definitely the girl of my dreams. He smiled to himself.