Chapter 9: An Arguement At Dinner

When she went back down, everyone was there except Nick. She sat on the edge dangling her feet in the water for a while.

“Hey little sis, aren’t ya coming in?” Brian asked. She shook her head.

“Okay, your loss.”

“Hey where’s Nick?” she asked.

“I think he went to get his floaties,” Howie responded. Everyone laughed.

“GUESS WHO!!” a voice said, right behind her. Nick pushed her in and she landed on Brian.

“She can’t swim!” Howie yelled as her and Brian came up coughing, sputtering, and clinging to each other.

“Jordan, are you okay?” Nick asked. She nodded.

“I didn’t know you couldn’t swim. I’m sorry!”

“It’s okay,” she said as Nick helped her out. She started to shiver. It was getting late.

“Here,” he said, wrapping a towel around her.

“Thanks,” she said shyly, clutching it tightly. She sat their for a while trying to get dry. Every once in a while one of the guys came over and asked if she was okay or wanted to go back in. She finished drying herself off and went back to BJ’s room to get changed.

Jordan came downstairs to find the guys, Aaron, and three girls, who she assumed to be Nick’s sisters, chomping on pizza.

“JORDY!!” Aaron said, running up to her.

“AARY!” she said laughing and picking him up. She walked over to the table and sat down. He jumped off her lap and returned to his place across the table, where he put the whole slice of pizza in his mouth and made funny faces. “Sure, I’m starved!” Jordan replied, grabbing a plate and reaching into the box.

“I’m BJ, Nick’s sister,” she said.

“Hi, I’m Jordan, and your brother is SICK!”

“Which one?” BJ asked.

“Nick. Did you know he plays Strip Nintendo with Brian?” BJ laughed and they talked some more.

“Hey Bone, look,” Nick said as he nudged AJ, “BJ and Jordan are really getting along!” he said, pointing at the two giggling girls.

“Yeah, they are.” But in his mind, AJ was really thinking, ‘I wonder if Kev told her about her parents? And the tour? I know she knows some stuff, but what about the tour?’ As if reading his mind, Kevin spoke up.

“Don’t worry about it Bone. When the time comes, we’ll tell her. You’re just getting yourself worked up over this whole trial thing.”

“ME GETTING WORKED UP?? WANT ME TO SHOW YOU WORKED UP?? DO YOU??” With that he jumped out of his chair so suddenly that he knocked it over backwards and stomped off.

Howie looked at Kevin. “Um..?”

“Yeah…” Kevin said. Brian and Nick looked at them wide-eyed. Even the girls had stopped talking and were frozen in their places, looking where AJ had been sitting. Aaron was crying. Jordan went over to him and picked him up.

“What’s wrong Aaron?”

“They’re mad at each other and they were writing my song together!” he cried.

“And now it’ll never get finished!!”

“It’s ok, I’ll help you,” she said, wanting to break down and cry inside.

“You will?” He sniffled.

“Yeah, come on. I think the guys need to be left alone.” With that, Aaron and Jordan left. BJ whispered something to Leslie and Angel then they got up. The guys just sat there in silence.

AJ walked down the street. His thoughts were all mixed up.

‘Who does Kev think he is? How could he sit there and tell me what to feel and think? Why does he hafta act so big and bad all the time? I’m not afraid of him!’ He shoved his hands in his pockets and thought about Jordan.

‘Oh man! What did I just do? She probably never wants to see me again! I just made a total fool of myself. Wait a sec, it IS Kevin’s fault after all.’ All the thoughts running through his head, he couldn’t concentrate. He didn’t even hear the approaching car honking the horn until it was too late. He didn’t have time to scream. He looked up and everything went black.