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Chapter 9
After the show, Lilia retreated back to her
hotel room the night. About a half hour sombody
knocked at her door. "Howie!" She exclaimed opening
the door.
"I was wondering what you were doing
tonight."
"Sleeping," she said with a slight laugh.
"Oh, okay, well then I'll just come in and talk."
"No, Howie, I think you should go," she said. Howie
nodded and sadly turned around and walked away.
"Howie," she called after him. "Look, I need to
tell ya something and it's gonna be hard for me to
tell and for you to take. So do you promise to hear
me out before you start making comments." Howie
just nodded without saying a word.
"Okay, the day
after I went out with you I went to Disney World
with Nick. I had the time of my life, Howie, I
really did and well I really like him. As much as I
like you, I really think that I should give this
whole Nick thing a try," she said trying to hold
back the tears that were forming in her eyes.
Howie
got up and walked to the door before walking out he
gave Lila an expressionless stare and walked out.
While in the hallway, Howie began to cry, he
really did like her a lot. He never understood why
Nick always gets the girl.
Instead of going back to his room, Howie went
to the hotel bar and drank his sorrows away. Howie
drank several drinks, this was very odd considering
Howie was not a huge drinker on a regular basis.
After, being asked to leave by the bartender, due to
his drunkedness, Howie went upstairs, instead of
going directly to his room he went up to yell at
Nick. "Howie, what are you doing here? It's really
late at night," he said yawning, due to being
awakened.
"You always get what you want don't you?
You have all all the fans, all the solo's, and you
always get the girls." Howie was stuttering because
he was so drunk.
"Howie your drunk, just go to bed
and you'll feel better in the morning."
"No, Nick,
your not going to get her this time, Lilia is mine,"
he said practically shouting.
"What if she doesn't
want you?" Nick yelled back at him. Kevin could
hear the two guys arguing from his room and decided
to go break it up.
"Howie, go to bed, and we'll
discuss this in the morining." Howie hesistated for
a little while, but then decided to go to bed.
Chapter 10
Lilia awakended early the next day, she felt
horrible and went nextdoor to talk to Rita. "Hey
girl," Rita said as she answered.
"I was just on my
way over to get ya, I thought maybe we could go and
get some breakfast or something."
"Yah that would be great I really needed to talk to
you, and I'm really hungry," she said anxious to go
downstairs.
Rita and Lilia walked downstairs to the
hotel resteraunt. As they waited for the hostess to
seat them, Kevin and AJ arrived. "Hey since you
ladies are already here would you like to join us
for breakfast," Kevin asked the girs politely.
"Yah, we'd love to," Rita answered him.
Lilia
glanced over at AJ, his face was unusually serious,
which made her think that perhaps he wasn't that
happy to see her. The hostess escorted the to a
table. "Lilia, I just wanted to let you know about
something that night," Kevin said as they were
eating.
"What?" Lilia asked very worried.
"Nick
and Howie got into a fight. Howie was drunk, but
still.."
Lilia's heart sunk, because she realized
that this wasn't going to end very peacefully. "I
gotta go, I have to make a phone call," she said
arising from her chair.
"Do you want me to come,
hon?" Rita asked, very worried about her friend.
"No, I'll come by a little later. I just have to
take a few minutes to clear something up," Lilia
said as she left the resteraunt.
"Where do you
think she's going?" AJ asked Rita.
"I don't know, I
really don't know," Rita replied as she watched her
friend walk out.
Back in her hotel room, Lilia dialed Fatima's
number. "Hello," Fatima answered.
"Hey, Fatima,
it's Lilia."
"Hey girl, what's up, everything is
going alright I hope," she asked kind of worried.
"That's what I wanted to talk to you about. I don't
think it's going to work out, you know the
Backstreet tour and all. I was wondering if maybe I
could be reassigned?" She asked Fatima hoping that
she would be understanding.
Fatima and Lilia
continued to talk about the situation for a while
and finnally concluded that Lilia could leave after
they finished the shows in NC, that way Fatima could
find a replacement. After Lilia hung up the phone,
she began to cry. She didn't want to leave the tour
or Nick, but she didn't know what else she could do.