~You want to know how much how much I love you...One thing you can be sure of 
I’ll never ask for more than your love... Nothing’s gonna change my love.....~

     Of course she had to bring it up!  Of all the things to do and say!  Gracie had 
to bring up my dream.  DANG IT!

*You can’t get out of this one now...I made Grace  say it.  You’re trapped.  HA HA HAAAAAAAA* 

Oh for goodness sakes!  Not this stupid voice again.  GO AWAY!  I blinked my eyes to clear my head for a moment as I thought  of what to say.  The sounds of the song filtered in the air as my brain scrambled  for something.  I gave Grace an evil glance as my eyes rested on Scott.  He was  waiting expectantly to hear my story.  GRACE YOU WENCH.  THANKS A LOT.   HELLO.  WE’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE FANS REMEMBER.  How am I going to  explain that I once had this dream where I was married to Scott and that  everytime I was about to leave him that Nothing’s Gonna Change My Love For You  would play in my head and I wouldn’t.  I bet Gracie was doing this to get the  attention away from her.  Two words for her problem: Sean and Ritchie. 

“Yeah what dream is she talking about?”, Abs said.

I turned towards his direction.  He was sitting very close to Laura at the table. 
Laura was drinking coffee...as usual.  Abs was playing with her sugar packets.  For  some reason that bothered me A LOT.  I just looked at his hands.  He had really  nice hands....SNAP OUT OF IT.  Scott.  Think Scott.

“Well are you going to share Jules?”, Grace said amused no doubt at my 
miscomfort. 

“Come on then!  Let’s here it Jules”, J said as he flipped through some CD’s.  I 
knew he was DYING to change the music.  Didn’t he hate this song or 
something???  (But we’re not supposed to know that RIGHT....RIGHT!)

“Well....”, I began.  It was a good beginning.  Now how to put the rest into words.

“I had this dream once a long time ago (okay that was a lie- but I could pull it 
off....RIGHT?).  Ummm....this song played in the background of my dream.  It was 
sort of like a theme song I guess.  It would play though at the strangest moments. 
In other words it played a lot.  That’s never happened to me before....having a 
song play over and over again in my dream.  It was really clear too....”, I 
continued.  How was that for around-a-bout explanation.  Not too much detail. 
Just enough to keep them occupied.

“That’s not ALL!  Tell them the rest!  The interesting part!”, Grace blurted out.  I 
gave her another evil look.  WHAT IN THE HECK WAS MAKING HER SAY ALL OF THIS STUFF?

*HAHAHAHAH*

Oh yeah..."THE VOICE"...if you could hear my inner thoughts you'd notice the sarcasm in my voice...but since you can't hear them just pretend with me okay.  DAMN VOICE. 

“What was going on in the dream?”, Abs asked interested as he got up to get more 
sugar for Laura. 

“Yeah.  When would you hear the song play?”, Scott said.

“Ummm...”, I began.  But before I could get another word out the bus breaked 
shifting us all about on the inside.  I felt myself being flung to the other side- 
right smack dab into Abs....on top of Abs would actually be the right description.   I stared into his eyes as I tried to regain my composure, noticing the slight green hint of color there.  I guess those books were right.  He did have a speck of green  in his eyes.  (But we weren’t supposed to know that!!!) 

*HAHAHHAHAHAHHA* 

That stupid laugh again.  Sheesh.  What the hell?  I tried to get up but ended up 
slipping and landing on top of him again.....this time oftly close enough to kiss him. 
Why was I even thinking that??  STOP!  You made your choice remember?  No 
regrets.  REMEMBER. 

You’re not quite as certain as you were before are  you.....* HAHAHAHAHHA* 

“Let me try”, he said softly as he pushed himself up and in doing so me at the same 
time. 

“Thanks”, I said as we just stood there.  I moved my gaze quickly before I got 
back into that mesmerized state and looked around.  To my amazement I found 
that I wasn’t the only one that had been in an “embarrasing” situation.
Jen and Sean were also in that same situation.  Funny though...it seemed as if they 
weren’t getting up as quickly....

“Are you okay?”, I heard Scott ask as he made his way towards me.

“Yeah.  But what happened?”, I answered.

“SORRY!  Someone cut me off....”, Bob answered from the front.

“That explains it!  My coffee!”, Laura exclaimed as she saw her spilled coffee drip from the table.

“It’s alright.  I’ll get you some more”, Abs said as he made his way over to her. 

I looked around the bus.  Everything that had been up was no down.  The floor was  a mess.  That’s when I saw it….WHOA.

“Is that what I think it is?”, I exclaimed as I picked it up from the floor.

“What are you looking at Jules?”, Laura asked as she waited for Abs to come back  with her coffee.

“Yeah what is it?”, Jen asked finally upright.  She seemed to be a little flustered.

“It’s…”, I began but before I could finish Grace snatched it out of my hand.

“Yeah!  Janet Jackson’s Rythem Nation!  I love this CD.  It was the first one I 
ever bought”, Grace exclaimed as she looked around for the CD player.  Well if it 
made everyone forget about my dream, I didn’t care….

“Me too!  That was the first one I ever bought too…”, Jen said slyly glancing over 
at Sean.  I don’t think anyone else caught that one Jen….YEAH RIGHT!  WHAT 
THE HECK WAS UP WITH THAT? 

*AHAHAHAHAHHAHA*  Not you again! 
Why do you have to have the most irritating laugh?  Will you stop meddling?? 

***NOOO…I won’t.  I’m an evil voice that will cause your downfall….first PARTYGURLS  and then the WORLD…..HAHAHAHAHA*** 

What tha?  Ummm…okay  psycho….Bleh.  Grace was happily fiddling with the CD player when suddenly… Escapade came on and she started singing along…and then Jen….and then  Shelbs…and then Laura….and then I did too.  I couldn’t help myself.   That’s when  I realized that we were blending on accident, and we were each doing separate  verses, we had arranged ourselves near each other, you get the picture….we were being PARTYGURLS.  Which usually was a good thing because it meant that we were  honing our skills…but under the circumstances it was not a way of being inconspicuous you know what I mean?  I stopped myself and tried to give the  others a “look”.  But I should have learned from that “Chuck” interview that it  wasn’t going to work. 

    But you know I’m an optomistic person…..NOPE…not even a  dent in their brain waves!  AGH!  I looked over at the guys hoping that they hadn’t  noticed.  Because hey I could be over thinking- I mean they’re guys!  And being the University student I am….I did learn in my interpersonal communications class  that guys don’t overthink situations.  Girls do.  But typical me...I was wrong AGAIN.  What was up with that?  I guess I had to be Jen to be always right!  DANG IT to heck.  The guys were all staring at us like they couldn’t believe what they were hearing.   Sean especially.  He looked as if he was in deep contemplation.  Please don’t be  thinking about the PARTYGURLS tape from the car Sean.  They hadn’t heard our voices that long right?  They wouldn’t be able to remember….and we weren’t singing the PARTYGURLS song.  We were singing JANET.  Then just when I thought all hope was lost JEN realized what was up.  Someone had noticed that I’d stopped singing!!  She gave me a look of understanding and I let out a breath of relief as she stopped singing.  She was able to slyly (THANKS JEN) give Grace, Laura, and Shelbs the same info.  I glanced over at Sean once more.  He had this gleam in his eye.  Please.  Please.  Please.  Please.  Please.  Don’t think it!
 

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