Just Not Sure - Chapter 6 - All You Had To Say

Erica sat herself upon a white bench that was outside of the pizza place. The sky was starting to turn to gray as rain clouds threatened a heavy down pour. Chris walked over to her and sat next to her. Erica was truly embarassed. She never wanted Chris to find out this way. Chris cleared his throat. "Why didn’t you just tell me?" He asked. Erica looked at the ground. "Like you don’t hear that enough." She replied sarcastically. "What’s that supposed to mean?" Erica turned around so she was facing Chris and looked him in the eyes. "Chris.... everyday you hear fans scream ‘Chris! marry me!’ or ‘I love you Chris!!’ why would me telling you make a difference?" Chris looked down. Erica continued. "All i’ve ever wanted is for you to just look at me as someone you go talk too.... I don’t want to be anymore than friends. But your never gonna see me like that. I’m always going to be just another fan to you. Sometimes, at night, I cry because of it. If you could just give me a chance, that’s all I want. But there’s so many girls i’m sure you would want to get to know more than me." Erica’s eyes started to tear up. The clouds started pouring the rain and within a couple minutes the 2 were soaked but they didn’t even notice. "Erica I-" Chris began to say. But Erica interrupted. "No, don’t say anything you don’t mean. I’m already embarassed as hell. I know I’m not Heather. I know I’m not the most beutiful thing in the world but..... I can be there for you...... Chris.. I just.. forget it." Erica went to get up but Chris grabbed her arm. "Erica wait." Chris stood up. "That’s all you had to say." Erica turned around and faced chris. The raindrops were running down his face and he looked really cold. His face had a serious look on his face, not the happy, funny care free look everyone thought he always had. "Don’t think you have to look like Britney Spears for me to notice you.... noone’s ever said anything like that to me before. I really, don’t know what to say..... I’m...... sorry." Chris looked towards the ground and back at Erica. He pulled her in and hugged her. Erica tried holding back her tears but they poured down like the rain that was falling. "All I want is a chance Chris. And it’s not because your in Dream Street." She proceeded to say as they let go from hugging. " I know it’s not because of that..." Chris assured her. "I dont know what else to say...." Erica said as she kicked some pebbles. "Well, you could suggest that we get out of the rain." Chris joked. Erica giggled quietly. They went back into the pizza place, their hair soaking wet along with their clothes. Greg looked up wide-eyed. "Wow, looks like you guys really wanted to ‘Feel the rain’ haha get it?" Jesse tried to joke. Everyone was quiet. "Wow Jesse, that joke was really bad." Frankie said jokingly. Everyone laughed. They ordered pizza and talked about good things the rest of the night.

i*****NEW CHARECTERS ALERT: Kristy(14 yrs old)- Maria’s friend, is also friends w/ Erica and Chris
Kevin-One of Frankie’s friends and Kristy’s boyfriend

Erica plopped her food tray on the cafeteria table next to Maria, Chris, Kevin and Kristy. "What the hell kind of meat is this!?" Asked Kristy and she pocked her fork into it. "It’s mystery meat." Kevin joked. They all laughed. "Man, i’m gettin sum ice cream.. anyone want any?" Chris offered as he got up. "Yea I’ll have some!" Maria replied. "Yea, I guess I’ll have sum too." Erica added. Kristy and Kevin agreed to have some too. Kevin went with Chris to get it. The girls just talked about everyday things, and waited for their ice cream. When the boys got back they all sat down and started to eat their ice cream. Then, Erica heard a voice she dreaded. "Well, well well, look what we have here girls" Erica turned around. It was Heather. Erica rolled her eyes. "Hi Heather." Heather sat next to Chris and tilted her head towards him. "Hey Chris...." She said as she grabbed his hand, glaring at Erica. "Uh.. hey Heather...." Chris replied as he looked over at Maria and Erica. Heather kissed chris near the lips and winked at Erica. "What was that wink for?" Erica asked in a snotty voice. "Oh nothing, jus reminding you who can get Chris and who cant." Chris was silent. Heather turned around and went to walk away. Erica was furious. She had done nothing to Heather, y did she hate her so much!? Erica stood up. "Heather!" She called. Heather turned around and looked at Erica. "That’s a nice white shirt." Erica proceeded to say as she walked closer to Heather. "Yea it is, it goes with everything." Heather replied as she straightened out her white v-neck long sleeved shirt. "Oh is that so?" Erica asked. "Yea it is as-" Heather was cut off. "So it even goes with this?" Erica asked again as she shoved her Vanilla ice cream cone right against Heather shirt. Heather shrieked. "ERICA!!!!" She gave Erica a disgusted look. "U R A FREAK!" Heather screamed. The whole cafeteria was silent. "Yea. well i can grow out of that. but your always going to be a slutty, stuck-up, BITCH!" Erica screamed back. Heather stood there speechless. Everyone in the cafeteria laughed and cheered. "UGH!!" was the last thing Heather said as she stomped away. "Alright! go Erica!" Maria and Kristy cheered as Erica walked back to the table. "That was too funny." Chris added. Erica felt so good doing that. She hoped that teached Heather a lesson.

____________AFTER SCHOOL_____________

Erica, Chris,Maria and the rest of the DS guys walked to the Hospital to check up on Lindsey and Matt. They were really excited because Lindz and Matt would be able to go home. Erica was the first to walk in, followed by Jesse, Maria, Greg, Chris then Frankie. The sat in the waiting room and talked until 2 nurses brought out Matt and Lindsey in wheelchairs. They looked pretty healthy and energized. Erica ran to Lindsey and gave her the biggest hug she could without hurting her. Lindsey smiled and hugged back. The guys crowded around Matt and were all saying how happy they were that he was ok. The doctors said that they could go home that night but Lindsey would have to return to New Hartford for the rest of the week. Since they would be released around 8:30 and it was about 7:30 there they all decided to go home and then come back and go get pizza. "Yea, i haven’t had REAL food in sooo long." Matt joked. "Yea, if my injury didn’t kill me i’m sure the food would of." Lindsey added. Everyone laughed. So they all went home and did what they had to do before going to get Matt and Lindsey.

**New Charecter Alert: Deidra- Greg’s Girlfriend**

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Just as planned, Lindsey and Matt were all ready and waiting outside for the rest of the guys to come. Matt kept looking at Lindsey. He caught Lindsey looking at him a few times too. Lindsey broke the silence. "Hey Matt.... um..... before the accident..... you said you wanted to tell me something.....can you remember what it was?" Matt looked down, a hint of nervousness spread his face. "Um..... I really didn’t want to tell you anything..." Matt moved closer to Lindsey. "It’s more like I wanted to do something..." Lindsey’s eyes met with matt’s. "Like what?" Matt moved closer and kissed her. Lindsey went into shock. She couldn’t believe that this was happening. She never wanted the moment to end. Finally, something ruined the moment. "OMG THEY’RE WORSE THAN DEIDRA AND GREG!" Frankie yelled out the window of his black BMW. "Oh shut up it’s cute!" Maria yelled back as she hit Frankie in the arm. Matt and Lindsey broke away embarrased. "WOOO Go Matt!" Chris joked. Matt turned to Lindsey and laughed embarassed. "Hey, it’s no worse than Jesse and Maria." Matt pointed out as he nodded towards the back seat of the car. Chris and the others turned around to see Maria and Jesse practically making out. "Oh for god sakes, get a room!" Deidra joked. Jesse stopped, looked at the others, shrugged his shoulders and continued to kiss. The others rolled their eyes. Matt and Lindsey got into the crowded car. In the front was Frankie driving, then Chris. In the back was Erica,Greg,Deidra,Jesse,Maria then Matt and Lindsey. They all went to get pizza. "Man dont u ever get sick of pizza Greg?" Erica asked as they pulled into the parking lot. "Are you kidding me?! Hell no! Pizza is like my life!" Greg put his arm around Deidra, "Well, Pizza and Deidra are my life, and Dream Street too." "That’s great, now i can sleep at night knowing that i know what makes up Gregs life." Maria said sarcastically. As everyone laughed, Erica realized that, for once, since she came to NYC, that she was truly happy. But maybe she spoke too soon....