After a quick catch up conversation, everyone decided to hang out. Breanna called Eve at Kevin's hotel to see how she was doing. Eve assured her that she was feeling better and wanted to hang out with Breanna and Howie. Nick and the rest of the guys asked Breanna not to tell Eve or Kevin that they were in town. They wanted to surprise them. "Okay, we'll need my car, too." Breanna told the rest of the room. "Nick and AJ will ride with me. You, D, and Lex can go in your car. When we pick up Eve and Kevin, all the single people will ride with me and you love birds can be together." Brian told Breanna sticking his tongue out at her. Breanna stuck her tongue back out at Brian. "Oh that's real grown up!" Nick shouted at them from the living room. "So, it'll be me, D, Eve, and Kev? What about AJ? He's not single." Breanna looked at AJ who was eating a bowl of Cocoa Puffs. "I'll ride with Brian. I may not be single but I can still mingle." He sang out. "Okay, Lex will go with you guys, too. He knows how and most importantly *where* the women are here so he can play tour guide." Breanna teased her brother. Alexei was sitting on the living room floor with Nick while they played Play Station. "He beat me!" Nick yelled in disbelief while the rest of the room laughed. "Nick finally met his match. Shit, they even look a like." AJ said shaking his head in disbelief, spooning more cereal into his mouth. Nick and Alexei were both 6'1 with blonde hair and the same haircut. Brian never saw both men side by side but after watching them playing video games he saw the resemblance. He burst out laughing, not sure if he was laughing from disbelief or just because it was funny. "Okay, let's roll!" Breanna said, rounding up the men. "Where are we goin' anyway?" Brian asked, grabbing his keys from the coffee table. "We gotta get Kev and Eve. Then we'll plan something. We're playing it by ear, basically." She explained to Brian messing up his hair. "Hey, leave my hair alone. Mess up D's." Brian insisted. "Hell, you don't think I know better than to mess with his hair? What fantasy world have you been living in?" Breanna joked to Brian, her hands on her hip. Brian laughed at Breanna. He felt a twinge of jealousy when he looked at Howie. Howie had the girl he always wanted. She was smart, funny, and beautiful. Breanna was dressed in a very short, violet sleeveless summer dress that she bought from Delia*s and black three inch sandals. She wore little make-up other than a color tinted lip gloss, some violet eyeliner and eye shadow, and powder. She had the front part of her hair pulled back with violet butterfly clips. It was an angelic look that drove Howie (and Brian and AJ) wild. Nick didn't seem to notice what Breanna was wearing or even if she existed for that matter. He was too caught up in the video game he was losing to Alexei. "C'mon. My sister's gonna get pissed if we're not ready to go. It's okay for her to take three hours getting ready but it's not okay for us to not be ready when she says jump." Alexei complained to Nick. "I heard that, Lex!" Breanna shouted from the kitchen.

Howie was in Breanna's room picking out something to wear when he heard someone in the doorway. "Give me a minute, Breen. I'm still not ready." He commented. "Take as long as you need, man." He heard Brian reply. "Oh hey B-rok! What's up?" Howie asked, slipping a Nautica shirt on. "Nothing." Brian said glancing around Breanna's room at all the photos of her and Howie together. He found a framed photo of just himself, smiling from ear to ear taken when they were on the boardwalk in Santa Monica. He laughed remembering the fun they all had that day. "I can't escape you guys when I come out here. You're all over her walls and they're not even posters!" Howie joked when he saw what Brian was laughing at. "Yeah, I've missed talking to her. Actually I think I've just missed talking to a woman on that level. With Rachel it seemed like I was talking to a child. She changed in the last two years to the point where I didn't want to even talk to her." Brian blurted out. Howie was always the one the guys went to when they had something on their mind. He was always the perfect listener and he never gave out advice until he heard everything the other person had to say. "Fame changed her, Bri. Not you. Don't blame yourself." Howie said, looking at his friends crestfallen face. "I know but I'm afraid of it happening again. I don't want to fall in love with a woman and then find out that my career will change her into someone I don't love anymore." Brian explained. "You won't. Rachel was around for almost 4 years. I think you've learned from that relationship. I learned from my mistake with Helaina. Now I have Breanna." Howie said smiling. Brian nodded his head hoping that his friend was right. He wanted to meet someone who would understand him the way Breanna seemed to understand Howie. "If you two don't mind, I'd like to get going." Breanna said from the doorway after she had listened to the guys talk for the past few minutes. "I'm ready!" Howie smiled at Breanna giving her a kiss on the cheek before walking out of the door towards the stairs. Brian didn't say anything as he looked at the other photos on the wall. He laughed when he saw the one of himself with Breanna and Eve both in his lap, his arms around their waists, bottles in both of their hands, visibly drunk. "I had fun that night, if I can remember. We really need to go to Vegas again." Breanna smiled at Brian. He was still staring at the photo smiling. "Brian, you'll find someone, I promise." She said placing a hand on his shoulder. He turned around pulling her in for a tight hug. "I know. I'm just impatient." He explained. Breanna kissed him on the cheek. "I know. I was the same way and look what happened." "Ahem." She and Brian turned around to see Howie in the doorway. "You can borrow my woman on the weekends when we're back home but when we're in LA, she's all mine." Howie told Brian. "Is that so? Since when?" Breanna asked Howie, Brian's arm wrapped around her waist. "Since I said so." He told her. "I like that arrangement." Brian stated with a silly smirk on his face. "Let's go!" They heard the guys downstairs yell. "I could have kicked Lex's ass but you made us turn it off. So, let's go!" Nick whined from downstairs. Breanna rolled her eyes at Brian and Howie. "Yeah, let's go." She agreed as they all headed down the stairs together.

The guys piled into Brian's rented blue BMW 525i. "You had to pick this car, didn't you?" AJ complained. "What's wrong with a beemer? I own one, remember?" Brian asked as they pulled out of the driveway giving Breanna room to back out her father's new Mercedes M class. "I mean they had a Porsche! You could have gotten the Porsche." AJ pointed out. "Yeah and if I did you would have been walkin' cause there wouldn't have been any room for you." Brian explained. "I like Breanna's car. That's pretty cool!" Nick said from the front passenger seat. Being the tallest and needing the most leg room he was frequently in the front seat. "That's daddy's car." Brian explained. "What's her dad do?" AJ asked curiously. It was obvious that her family was way more than just well off. "Hollywood lawyer or something like that." Brian answered nonchalantly. Brian was parked next to the curb waiting for Breanna to back up so they could follow her to the hotel. "She seems to be living the Hollywood Brats life. All of the stereotypes fit with her. She lives in the coolest part of LA, in a nice house, her family has nice cars, there's a mom and a dad and the two happy kids. Everything seems like a movie, almost like Clueless except she has a brain." AJ said laughing, the other guys laughing along. Breanna backed the car up so that her window was next to Brian's window. "Brian, just follow us. We'll figure things out from the hotel." Breanna told him. "Duh!" Brian told her sticking his tongue out at her again for the second time that day. "Don't stick it out unless you plan to use it." She said in a flirty voice as she rolled her window up. A look of shock came across Brian's face as Nick and AJ cracked up laughing. "I don't know why she's dating, D! She's his total opposite." AJ said laughing. "She's so perverted!" Nick noted. Brian made a U-turn to follow Breanna down the street towards the freeway. "Man, she made me speechless." Brian said laughing.

"This is going to be fun." Alexei sarcastically said to himself from the backseat. "Lex, make sure you have your seatbelt on. I'm gonna have a little fun with Brian." Breanna said looking in her rearview mirror at her brother. "I better turn my phone on. I have a feeling you're gonna get them lost." Howie joked. "When she says put your seatbelt on, then you better be praying to God that you survive." Alexei said with a slight laugh. His sister behind the wheel of their fathers vehicles only spelt out trouble. As they merged onto the 10 freeway Breanna stepped on the gas. It was Tuesday early afternoon when the freeway had little traffic, or little traffic for LA. Howie glanced over a the speedometer that read 80 MPH and seemed to be gaining speed. Brian was hot on her tail. "Damn, he's good." She said laughing. "Am I clear?" She asked Howie about the far right lane. "Go for it, babe!" He said. He was starting to loosen up and have fun. Breanna switched two lanes going 90 MPH. Brian followed suit. "DAMN!" She yelled out. She saw a car in the left hand lane and quickly signaled for a split second before switching lanes and ultimately cutting the other driver off. "Sorry!" She muttered to herself and the other drive. "Stop that, Alexei!" Breanna said to her brother who had just crossed himself with his hand in a sign of prayer. "Sorry, Breen. But I have just seen my life flash before my eyes twice!" He complained as Breanna and Howie laughed. "SHIT!" Nick and AJ shouted in unison as Brian caught up to Breanna who was in the process of switching two lanes at once, cutting two people off. Brian did the same. "Man, we're in LA! We're gonna get shot by some pissed off driver." Nick said, holding on to the cars hand rail. "Isn't the hotel off the 405 freeway?" Brian quickly asked the guys, concentrating on Breanna in front of him. "Yeah, why?" They both answered. "Cause the 405 is way the hell over there and we're way the hell over here." Brian said pointing off to the right of them. They were on a 8 lane freeway in the 7th lane. The 405 merging lane was in the 1st lane. "Oh God!" Nick yelled out laughing as Brian switched lanes at 100 MPH. They were now next to Breanna but Brian stepped on the gas to be ahead of her. "I know what he's planning to do!" She yelled out. Just then Breanna looked over her shoulder and noticed all the lanes seemed to be clear. She quickly switched over all the lanes with Brian right next to her. "I swear to god I'm gonna die!" Alexei complained from the back seat. Howie was so nervous he was laughing. AJ didn't say a word from the backseat of Brian's car. After a second he noticed that they were going way too fast to merge onto the 405 freeway which stated a 25 MPH sign because of the onramp. "We're insured, right?" He yelled out. "Yeah!" Brian replied. "Good cause that sign says 25 miles per hour! It's a curved on ramp!" AJ yelled out as Brian slightly slammed on the brakes. He didn't want to lose total control of the car as it screeched across the freeway lanes. Breanna did the same thing but she was still ahead of Brian. When they finally hit the onramp they were both going 45 MPH. That was still safe enough for them to be able to control their cars. Once they were on the 405 safely, the horse play continued with Brian leading the way. "You mutha fu..!" "BREANNA!" Howie shouted in disbelief. "Sorry!" Breanna said smiling at Howie. "I'm still alive? Or is this the road trip to heaven?" Alexei asked with a laugh. "Heaven? You?" Breanna laughed while she concentrated on Brian. He was switching lanes back and forth and cutting people off just for the hell of it. "I'll show him!" She shouted and with that she stepped on the gas. Her lane was completely clear for the next few miles it seemed. "Where is she?" Brian asked Nick as AJ giggled in the backseat. "Who? Breanna? That car that passed us two miles back?" AJ asked pointing to Breanna's car that now looked like a distant memory. "Right now we're eating her dust." AJ pointed out. "Damn!" Brian said stepping on the gas. Breanna was at 110 MPH but she could see in her rearview mirror that Brian was catching up. "Wilshire!" She yelled out as she changed lanes towards the Wilshire exit. Brian saw the Wilshire sign and quickly switched lanes almost causing an accident twice. As Breanna exited the freeway she noticed the light was green. "By the time he gets here it'll be red. Should I just stop? No one's behind me." She asked the guys. "No, Brian's behind you." Alexei said glancing behind his shoulder. "DAMN!" Breanna yelled again turning right on the now yellow light. Brian had to run the red to keep up with her. "She's good." He said to himself. "Well, at least she and D have the same driving skills." AJ said with a smirk on his face.