Chapter 10
Nick and Casey had decided to call there
little date to the movies more of a friendly outing, to make the point that
they were only interested in being friends.
Neither of the two could see any other kind of relationship happening.
Four months had passed since Brian’s death,
and two months had passed since Casey and Nick met. Brian had, however came back, at least to
Nick. And Casey and Nick hadn’t really
hung out too much, Nick was usually at rehearsal and Casey always had her nose
in the books.
Nick walked into the recording studio, even
though they weren’t recording they were rehearsing there. Howie and A.J. were both sitting there,
talking quietly, Kevin however was absent.
Kevin walked into the studio, slamming the
door behind him, he was over an hour late.
“Hey ya’ll, sorry I’m so late”.
Kevin’s voice switched from sounding rushed to angry, “ I put my key’s
on the door hook, I know I did, but they weren’t there this morning, so I had
to search the whole house for’em, finally found the damn things under the sofa,
which is kinda creepy”, Kevin was talking faster than he normally did.
Nick busted out laughing at a joke only he
could understand, Brian had his hand on Nick’s shoulder and He was laughing
right along with Nick, however only Nick could be heard by the others.
“What’s so freaking funny?” A.J. demand.
“Nothing…it’s just that… all these years
Kevin yelled at us for bein late, and he shows up later than any of us ever
did,” Nick chocked out between giggles.
A.J. and Howie started laughing too, and
Kevin was giving all of them death glares, which only made the three laugh
harder.
“Alright, alright! Lets just starting
practicing the song now,” Kevin was eager to move past this.
The music for “Movin On” started and everyone
got ready to sing, and stopped messing around.
“Alright…I don’t know about ya’ll but I’m
bout ready for a break,” Nick exclaimed sounding overly dramatic to be
exact. Even with that being so the
others didn’t argue, and were off to take ten!
“Yo, Nicky you wanna come with me to get a
snack from that vending machine thingy down the hall,” A.J. asked stopping him
abruptly!
“Uhh, nah thanks J, im’a go get my jacket
from the car.”
“Alrighty then, your loss though…I know
thousands of girls that would love the chance to go with me to the vending
machine,” A.J. stated matter-of-factly.
“Sure J, whatever you say.”
“Hey man, that rhymed!”
“Umm, cool?,” Nick asked uncertainly, A.J.
was being just plain stupid and Nick was eager to get the heck away from him,
where ever that may be!
“See you in about 5 minuets then,” A.J. said!
“Yep“, Nick took off in the opposite
direction as A.J. .
“Nicky, you shouldn’t be so darn hard on J,
he’s just being himself,” Brian’s voice recognizable anywhere, no matter what.
“Hey Bri.
Look you don’t understand every since you left they’ve been swarming all
each other and me. I mean first we never
even had the guts to call each other, now it’s like they’re scared to be apart,
in a non-gay way if that makes any sense, and its just driving me nuts!”
Brian shook his head slowly, a small frown on
his face. “Nick they’re all trying to
find a way to handle my death that works out for all of you.”
Nick stopped suddenly, and looking over at
Brian declared, “Well I can understand that Brian but they only have two
solutions, either we don’t talk to each other at all or we practically crawl up
each others asses!”
Brian couldn’t help but laugh at Nicks choice
of words, and his contagious laughter wiped away the stern look off Nicks face
as he joined in with him.
“Alright, look I understand where your coming
from too Nick, but look at it through their eyes they’ve lost me for good, at
least to them, where as you know I’ll always be here for ya and you know it!”
“Yea, Nick shook his head slightly, look I
gotta go I’m actually late which means their probably looking for me! Later Bri.”
“Later, bro.”
Nick walked into the rehearsal room to find
all of them gone, yep they were on a hunt for him. Not 5 seconds after he walked in the other
guys followed.
“Nick where have you been, we thought
something happened, we thought…” Howie’s
voice trailed off.
Nick was shocked at sweet Howie’s little out
burst, but quickly recovered! “Guys we
were on a ten minuet break and I was 3 minuets late, chill,” when they got like
this it just flat out annoyed Nick.
“Guys look Nick’s right, we just over
reacted, lets just begin rehearsal again, we only have about 20 more minuets,”
Kevin was more rational than Nick would have thought him to be…the roll in
which each guy had played was reversed!
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