"Abs, how could you!!!!  I can't believe you spilled all this coffee on me,” I screamed at him as I wiped off the scolding cup of coffee
off my Old Navy Overalls.

 "Ahh, I'm sorry love, I was too busy looking into your eyes...are
you burnt???"

 "Ohh...don't give me that eye crap!!!!  I'm fine!  Lucky for you I wasn't burnt.  I need another cup of coffee, I won't be able to function today…and I'll begin to act like a bitch…”, I fumed.

 "As if you haven't already..." I turned around abrubtly at the comment and saw J standing there with a smirk on his face shaking his head, "You are such an addict, you need help". 

 I raised my eyebrow intent on giving him a piece of my mind when I saw it.  Right behind J there it was.  A cup of coffee!  My jaw dropped, it looked so beautiful, so rich, so hot, I wanted to swallow it whole.  I inhaled "hmmm, Pete's coffee, my favorite…”, I sighed as I eyed the steaming cup in Carlos’ hand.  I lunged forward.

"I knew you would like it, the color of your coffee matches your eyes.."

"Ohh shut up and give me my coffee," I said as I grabbed the coffee from Carlos's hands and began to gulp it down. 

"Ohh my word, you're an addict, aren't you now" said Abs.

"Yupsters" I agreed and turned around to see Carlos winking his eyes behind his glasses.  He looked good, casually dressed in a GAP V-neck sweater and baggy jeans.  He was so well dressed that I bet even 5ive was checking him out. 

"Eh, coffee lad, you dress well for a Chicano chap." said Scott eyeing
Carlos up and down.

"I know," smirked Carlos, "I even look better in overalls, right Laura?"

"Shut-Up, not here Carlos...later" I tried to whisper to him only to look up and see the shock and disbelief on the faces of PARTYGURLS.

"What the..." Michelle said giving me a questioning look...

"With coffee-boy?" Jen said as she stared in disbelief.

"You're kidding my butt, what about JC???" said Julie.

"Ohhh, wait till JC hears this..." said Grace. 

 I looked over at my dearest friends and gave them a wink "Well, I need someone at work I can stare at, eye candy, remember" As I let out an evil laugh, I glanced over at Abs who was standing there in utter and total disbelief.

"You are rejecting me for him?  This Keibler Elf looking guy?   He isn't even half as good-looking as me, and I bet this chap can’t even dance!”

"Oh Please!  You know that I just have sooooo many men!  I 
can't help it.  I mean it’s strange, everywhere I go, I need a guy for
eye-candy.  Gosh, I mean I go to a retreat and I end up finding another
guy to fall in love with, it's a curse I swear.  How was I suppose to know
that the cute guy I was talking to was the cute guys from the bus, what
with that blindfold and all".

"Ohh shut up, and who is this guy from this retreat...I thought we had something..."  Abs cried, his "thug-appeal" was melting with his
screams...

"I do care about you Abs, really, but..."

"Oh, my mobile!" I screamed momentarily interrupting Abs’ crying to answer the phone.  "Hello.."

"Laura, it's JC"

"Hey, what's up.  Dude, I just saw your new video, I love the part
where you blow on the CD and all.  I think all of PARTYGURLS would agree that that was the best part..."

"Thank you, thank you, it was my idea of course.  Lance was too
busy thinking about Topanga to come up with something like that, ha ha"

"You are sooooo cocky!"

"I know...hey, I was wondering if the PARTYGURLS would like to be in our next video.  You know that song "This I Promise You..."

"The one you sang on MTV to those girls?" I asked, a rather jealous tone draping my voice.

"Yeah, see all of us were coming up with a concept for the video
and we figured, hey you're five girls, and we're five guys, why not pair
each other off, like you can have me in the video, and the rest, well,
we'll let PARTYGURLS pick the rest out….”

"Wow that sounds soooo cool, I wish 5ive would put us in a video!" I looked over and glared at Abs and the rest of his crew.

"What the?  You're with 5ive...shit don't tell Joey!   J and he apparently have issues.  He hates the fact that J refers to him as the 'Big One'. 

"That’s mean.."

"Yeah, but I don't blame J.. .We had to fight with Pearlman in order to get them on tour with us.  We figured that with them around we could get more girls at the concert..."

"Ohh really...."

"Uh yeah, hey Laura, can I call you back, apparently Chris hurt himself with a football while Joey was dancing and while Lance was practicing his lines for his next TV appearance.  He’s going to be on "Boy Meets World…" 

"I thought they broke up"

"Nah, they are doing some kinky stuff....I don't know, I'll call you back, k"

"K, bye, bye, bye"

"Who was that and who is putting you in a video?" said Abs as he approached me.

"Oh, just JC."

"JC, you mean that bloody chap from NSYNC"

"Yup, he's gonna put us in his new video.”

"What!  Did we forget the silent protest?" screamed Grace.

"Ohh Grace, it'll be fun.  Each of us gets to pick a guy from NSYNC for their song This I Promise You…"

"The group with Joey Fatone?   Oh yeah…the scary one…yummy!" nodded Michelle, "I'm up for it!"

"Joey?  You can have him….”  said Julie.  "Gosh, I think I want Lance, he can't act or dance, but I guess it'll be fun…"

"HELLO!  Silent Protest!",  Grace screamed as she waved at us frantically.  We ignored her. 

"Have to agree there… I mean there aren't any good-looking guys in NSYNC Laura" said Jen.

"Well except for JC of couse" Iargued.

We all begin to laugh, completely forgetting about 5ive who were standing there in what can only be referred to as confusion.

"Are you trying to say that you're ditching us for some skinny white American boys who can't sing?  I mean look at that blonde...oh what's his name...Lancelot, I don't know the other cute blonde, not the horny one but the quiet one that hangs out with the big one and the other one with funky hair, they do kinky stuff together....well, he can't even act.  I on the other hand can make music, and they don't know how to play instruments." argued Sean.

"Well they're cute and they're putting us in a video" I said shrugging at him, taking another sip of coffee.
 

“LAURA!  Earth to Laura.  COME IN LAURA.  HELLO”, I babbled as my hand waved back and forth in front of Laura’s face.  She was sitting on the tour bus with this amused grin on her face.  She’d been out of it for several minutes, ever since Abs had gotten her that cup of coffee.  I knew it would happen one day!  Laura was drinking WAY too much coffee.  I think her body was revolting.  She’d gone insane.  It was like a drug.  She had been babbling under her breath and grinning like a mad woman for at least 15 minutes, in a comatose state.  And I don’t know why, but I could have sworn she’d said something about N’SYNC.  Hmmm..

“LAURA!!”, I said again.

“They’re putting us in a video…”, Laura mumbled as she took another sip from her coffee.

“LAURA!”, I repeated a bit concerned.  Video?

“What?”, Laura answered suddenly snapping out of her trance.

“Video?”, I asked, my eyes wide, my hand illustrating my confusion.

“The Nsync one!”, she answered as if she hadn’t been in a trance like state.  My jaw dropped and I rolled my eyes.

“Did you know that you’ve been sitting there babbling about who knows what for like 15 minutes?”, I asked laughing.

“I was not”, Laura said outright.

“YES you were”, I contested.

“Jules, Abs spilled the coffee.  Carlos came.  JC called.  We’re going to be in the N’SYNC video- Lance?”, Laura replied. 

I shook my head with disbelief.

“Abs brought the coffee.  You spaced out after you realized he’d put sugar in it.  You told him to get you another one.  Then you got up and walked to the back part of the bus.  I followed you- everyone else is waiting up front.  I told them you needed an aspirin”, I answered explaining.

“You’re saying that Carlos didn’t tell me that my eyes were as brown as the coffee, and JC didn’t...”, she replied drifting off as I sat there shaking my head in the negative.

“Nothing from lover boy”, I said smirking.  “Well, not THAT lover boy”, I added.  Laura raised her eyebrow at me and took a sip of the coffee, before spitting it back into the cup.  Her eyes told me she was surprised.

“SUGAR right?”, I said smugly.  She nodded and looked for the nearest garbage.

“I STILL can’t believe we never knew about JC...did you ummm...say anything to Abs?”, I asked nonchalantly, trying to hide my curiosity.

“JC...”, Laura sighed all lovey-dovey.  SHEESH people in love!  “Why would I?”, she asked while she wandered around looking for something to dump the coffee in.

“Well...I know that...you know...”, I answered.

“Know what?”, she asked confused.

“That Abs is interested in you and everything”, I said exasperated.

“Whatever Julie”, she said as she rolled her eyes and chucked the coffee into the trash.

“He is you know”, I continued as she stood there and examined her overalls.

“Shut up!”

“HE IS”

“Whatever!”

“You know you shouldn’t lead him on”, I said seriously.

“I’m not”, she answered.

“Uh-huh...yeah.  Anyhow did you want to go back out front.  I’m sure everyone is wondering where we are.  We should go back and “smooth things out”.  It’s so tense in there for some reason.  Jen hasn’t said a word since the club...and well Grace is Grace...the Grace that kissed Ritchie even if we thought she was interested in Sean...and Michelle is doing her consoling silent dagger looks to her and well BLAH”, I said changing topics.

“Sure”, Laura shrugged.  “So...having regrets?”, she asked suddenly as we headed towards the front.

“About what?”, I replied.

“About Scott”, she whispered as we got near the guys. 

“He has blue eyes, dark hair, he has a great English accent, he’s funny...”, I 
began before stopping as Laura gave me a look.  Why was I giving off a list of reasons for anyway?

“Of course not.  Why would I?”, I hissed quietly as I caught eyes with Scott and smiled.

“I don’t know...maybe because you still had a thing for Abs”, she whispered back.  I stopped in my tracks and grabbed her arm to halt her.

“Why would you think that?”, I asked.

“I didn’t.  I’m just giving a reason that’s all”, she answered sincerely.  I looked in her eyes and analyzed.  Was it just me or was Laura insinuating that I was flirting with Abs?  Was she trying to hint to me to stay away because she was interested?  Did she know...think I mean that I was still or rather past confused?  Was I over reacting? ****No you aren’t HAAAAAHAHAA  Laura knows.  They know.  You know.  You know Julie.  Don’t you.****  That stupid voice over again.  When would it stop laughing like that?  I bit my lip.

“You don’t need to think of a reason.  I’m not”, I responded quickly.  She smiled and patted me on the shoulder in her consoling way.  AGH!  REALLY I’m NOT I thought as she made her way over to Sean and Michelle.

“Is  Laura alright?”, I heard Abs ask as he came up to me.

“Yeah she’s great”, I replied.

“So you were in the middle of telling me about how you went over to England last summer and something about being in Hackney?”, he continued giving me that drool worthy eyebrow look.  Even if I was “with Scott”, I could still think the boy was attractive right?

“Right.  Hackney, Lisa, and Edgeware Road”, I laughed.

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