Chapter 5
The next morning, Angela woke up to
the sun filtering through the window and onto her face. She rolled over,
threw the covers over her head, and tried to go back to sleep, but
couldn't. Defeated, she rolled back over and looked at her alarm
clock. It was only 9:30 am. "This is crazy. I never wake
up this early on my own for anything," she thought.
She decided to get up and get
some breakfast. On her way out to the kitchen, she saw Krista still in
bed. "There's no way I'm waiting for her to get up," she said
silently and continued out to the kitchen.
Angela rummaged through the cabinets
and the refrigerator to find nothing for breakfast. She had an idea
though and quickly got dressed.
When she came back out to the kitchen,
she left Krista a note.
Krista,
Don't eat anything for breakfast. I went out to get our
favorites:
blueberry bagels with cream cheese! Be back soon.
Love,
Angela
Angela knew that Krista was going to
love this. With a smile on her face, she left.
Krista woke up at the sound of the
door shutting. "This is not cool," she thought.
"It's only 9:45 am." But she got up anyway to find out why the
door slammed. She went out to the living room and discovered that her car
was gone and so was Angela.
A bit confused, Krista went to go find
breakfast, but found Angela's note instead. "That girl sure knows
how to treat a best friend," she laughed to herself.
She decided to get dressed because she
knew that after breakfast Angela would want to go explore the city. It
was a good thing she got dressed when she did because the doorbell rang.
"Who could possibly know we live
here? And where's Angela? It doesn't take that long to get
bagels," she thought. She took a quick glance at the clock to see
that it was 10:07 am.
Krista opened the door to see Brian on
her doorstep. "Hi," she finally managed to get out.
"Why hello Krista
MacPherson," he greeted her with a smile.
She stepped back in surprise.
"How do you know my full name?"
"Take a good look at me
Krista."
Krista looked at him for a minute and
then something clicked. "Brian Littrell!! How are you?"
she screamed as she hugged him.
"I'm great. How about
you?"
"Alright. Wait until Angela
sees you. She's gonna kick me for second guessing her about you. Why
don't you come in and tell me what's going on in your life?"
As the headed toward the kitchen,
Brain realized that she had no idea that he was a Backstreet Boy.
Angela probably had no idea
either. Krista made coffee for the both of them and sat down to talk with
Brian.
"Well, there isn't really much to
say about myself. I moved down here, got started singing with Kevin, and
stuff."
"Not to interrupt, but how is
Kevin?" she asked.
"Alright. He's got a
girlfriend so he's been keeping busy. Anyway, I'm on a break from the
group for a few days so maybe we can catch up."
"I didn't catch the name of your
group."
Brian smiled. "The
Backstreet Boys."
Krista's jaw dropped.
"Angela has been singing your new song for the past few weeks. Wait
until she finds this out."
"Yeah, I'm excited. So
how's she been?"
"Not too bad. But I don't
know how she's gonna take this Brian."
"What do you mean?" he
asked.
"Don't get me wrong. She's
talked about you and has wanted you back since you moved. And she hasn't
taken off that necklace either. But, I don't know if she's going to be
thrilled or what. It's going to be one extreme or the other."
"Are you serious?"
"Actually Brian, I am. I
think that she's dreamed about this for so long, that she may not know how to
handle to having you back in her life after so long," Krista explained.
Brian's face fell. Krista wasn't
exactly sure how to interpret that. She wished she knew how Angela was going to
take this. She decided to change the subject a little bit.
"I wonder how much longer she's
gonna be."
"She shouldn't be too much longer
because the nearest bagel place isn't that far from here," he
replied. "I feel bad just sitting here and waiting for her. I
would have called, but I never got your number; she only gave me your
address."
"Yeah, I know," Krista said
under her breath.
"What?" he asked.
Krista didn't mean for him to hear
that, but there was no turning back now. She had to explain.
"Well, she had a feeling it was
you. She said it was your eyes; that no one had eyes like yours.
But I told her to forget about it. I said that this strange guy didn't
look like the Brian we knew in high school. But I see it now. Your
hair is shorter, you grew more, and you got buff. If Angela had a feeling
it was you, then you had to have a feeling it was her."
"I did, but I couldn't just say
'hey, are you Angela Connors?' That's a little awkward. I didn't
think the odds were with me anyway," Brian said.
"She tried moving on from
you. She went out with other guys, but it never worked out. She
always said that they weren't as good as you."
"Maybe that's a sign that we can
be together again." He tried to shove Leighanne's face to the back
of his mind.
They both heard the car door slam and
knew that Angela was home. "I guess you'll find out right now,"
Krista said.
When Angela came through the door, she
heard voices coming from the kitchen. "I wonder who's here,"
she thought. So she headed to the kitchen to see Krista and Brian sitting
at the table. "Hey," she said while setting down the bagels.
"Hey," they both said back.
"What are you doing here?"
she asked him.
"I came to see how you made out
with the car and your things."
"I made out OK.
Thanks," she said with a smile. But when she saw the weird looks on
both their faces, her smile faded. "What's wrong?"
"Angela," Krista said.
"This is Brian."
"I know who he is silly, "
she laughed.
"You're not understanding
me. This is Brian Littrell."
Angela just stood there in complete
shock. A thousand thoughts swirled through her head in the minute that
she stood there. She felt the tears coming. She didn't want to cry and
yet she couldn't take all the feelings that she was experiencing at once.
She took off for her room and left Brian and Krista just sitting there.
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