~*~ Chapter 3 ~*~
ORLANDO,
FL - O-Town's
House
“C'mon, c'mon, c'mon! We're gonna be late!” Cronin yelled from the corridor. “Trevor, get up!” He said knocking on Trevor's door. “Erik, get up!” he knocked on Erik's door this time. “Dan, get…”
“I'm up!” Dan said from inside his room.
Cronin
smiled and continued to Ashley's door. Knocking, he said “Ashley, get up!”
“Jen,
baby, wake up.” Ashley brushed a lock of Jen's hair away from her face, and
kissed her cheek.
“Hm.” Jen
was sleeping next to Ashley on his bed. She opened her eyes. “Hey baby, good
morning.”
“Good
morning.” Ashley
smiled at her figure. She was beautiful. Why didn't he love her already? “C'mon,
let's get ready. We gotta be downstairs in 30 minutes.”
“I
left some clothes the last time I was here, didn't I?
“Yeah,
I guess.”
“Great,
so I'm bringing those.”
“Ok,
so let's pack and get dressed.”
In
exactly 30 minutes, Mike Morin was screaming from the living room:
“Ashley,
Erik! Get in here! We're running late!”
Trevor,
Dan, Jacob and Janie were already waiting on the couch.
“We're
gonna go from the airport straight to MTV?”
Jacob asked Dan.
“No,
we're gonna stop at the hotel for a while and then go to MTV.”
“Do
you want me to go to MTV with you?” Janie
asked Jacob.
“I
don't think it's gonna be too exciting for you to be there. You will probably
just wait in the dressing room.
I want you there though, and Jen can stay with you so you won't be alone,
but it's really up to you, honey.”
“I
wanna go.” She
smiled hugging and kissing Jacob.
“Oh,
Thank God you 2! Let's go!”
Dan said to Erik and Ashley, rushing out to the door. Ashley took Jen's
hand and followed the others out of the house.
NEW
YORK CITY, NY - NYU - Same day
“Kirstin,
wait up!” a
female figure called at Kirstin.
“Hey
Steph. What's up?”
Kirstin greeted this short, redheaded girl. They were standing at the
college hall.
“What
time do you start working today?”
“I
won't be working too much this week. My boss is not gonna be there this week,
so he told me to go just work on some files after lunch and I'll be out at 3,
3:30. Why?”
“It's
just that we gotta work on that paper for Mr. Connick's class.”
“Oh
yeah! You're right! I totally forgot about that. Listen, the paper is due just
for Friday and it's not a big paper, right?”
“Yes.
Why?”
“Well,
I don't feel like doing that today, so can we do it tomorrow, please?”
“Yeah,
sure. Is something wrong?”
“No,
I'm just not in the mood.”
You could tell something was wrong though. Kirstin was still thinking
of Ashley. It wasn't going away. She tried so hard to forget about it since
Thursday, the day she saw the video, but it wasn't working.
“Oh
ok. So if you want to, I can come pick you up at work tomorrow and we can go
to the library.”
“At
3 then?”
“Ok,
then it's settled. I'll catch up with you later!”
“Ok,
bye!”
NEW
YORK CITY, NY - Hotel
“So,
here are the keys to your rooms. Trevor is with Erik, Jacob is with Janie, Ashley
is with Jen, and Dan is by himself.” Cronin
gave them their keys.
“Ok!”
They all answered and went to their rooms.
NEW YORK CITY, NY - MTV Studio
“Hello dear!”
this woman in her mid fourties, with grayish-blonde hair, tall and skinny,
greeted Kirstin from her desk.
“Hello
Marge. How are you?” Kirstin
asked in a sweet tone. Marge was Mr. Goodman's secretary and was a real sweet
lady. Mr. Goodman was Kirstin's boss.
“Good
honey, and you?”
“I'm
good. Is Mr. Goodman's office locked?”
“No,
I unlocked it earlier for you.”
“Thank
you Marge. If you need anything, that's where I'll be.”
“Ok,
dear.”
Kristin's job, being an intern job, wasn't at all exciting. That week
she had to work on filing some documents for Mr. Goodman, and organize those
documents (such as memos, meeting transcripts, etc.) according to their dates.
But in general, her job consisted on filing, yes, but tapes of shows and videos.
She had to organize them in this audiovisual room and update whatever was new
on the archive onto the computer. She didn't complain about her job. She liked
it. There were some nice people there and it was better than not having a job
at all in that area. She had to start somewhere. But she never saw herself working
at MTV in the next 5 years. She wanted something bigger.
NEW YORK CITY, NY - MTV Studio
When
the O-Town guys got to MTV, they were sent to the dressing room.
“Man,
it's kinda early, isn't it? It's still 1:30 and we don't go live 'til 3:30!”
Jacob was already complaining.
“Yeah,
but we gotta do make-up and you know how long it takes for Ashley to get that
hair of his ready!” Trevor
told him pointing to Ashley.
“Oh,
drop it!” Ashley
pushed Trevor, that was sitting by the edge of the couch and made him fall out
of it.
“Stop
it you two.” said Morin. “We
gotta go to the studio to see how the show is gonna be, your marks, sound check,
and a lot of things before going to make-up, so let's do that already.”
“Jen,
baby, are you gonna stay here?” Ashley
asked his girlfriend.
“Yes,
Janie is gonna stay here, so I’m gonna keep her company.”
“All
right, it won't take too long.”
He kissed her lips softly and left the dressing room.
After doing everything they were suppose to do on the set, which took
an hour or so, the O-Town guys got back to their dressing room. Jen and Janie
were sitting on the couch watching TV.
“Hey,
you said it wouldn't take too long!”
Jen got off of the couch and put her arms around Ashley's neck. He put
his on her waist and said:
“I
know, I'm sorry. We had some problems with the mics and some other stuff.”
“Oh,
I see…” She then gave him a passionate kiss.
“Get
a room you two!”
Trevor joked from the couch. They separated from the kiss and Jen smirked
to Ashley.
Mike
Cronin got into the dressing room and said:
“Guy,
you're needed in the make-up room. We're on in less than an hour!”
“I'm
gonna stay here. Will you come back before the show starts?”
Jen asked her boyfriend.
“Maybe.
I don't know how long it will take in the make-up room.”
“Come
back! I wanna wish you good luck before getting in.”
“Oh,
ok. So I'll definitely try to come back!”
he said kissing her and leaving the room.
“You two are doing well, aren't you?”
Janie asked Jen when only the two of them were left in the dressing room.
“I
guess so. I really love him. We've been together for 5 months now, and I think
it's going great. He's really kind to me and all.”
“Well,
that's nice.”
“Yeah…”
Jen smiled. She was happy with her relationship. Really happy.
~*~*~*~*~
“Ok
dear. Have a nice day and see you tomorrow.”
“Ok,
see you!” Kirstin said leaving the office, heading to the elevator.
~*~*~*~*~
“Guys, you're good to go.” the make-up artist informed the O-Town members
when his work was done.
“Great,
thanks!” Mike
Morin said leading the other guys out of the room. “We gotta go to the set right
away guys.”
“Oh
Mike, I can't. I gotta go back to the dressing room real quick.”
Ashley told Mike, who was not happy at all with that.
“Yeah,
me too.” Jacob
said walking with Ashley on their way to the dressing room.
“Ok,
but don't take long!”
Mike Morin told them, and then headed to the set with the other 3 guys.
Ashley and Jacob were on the corridor on their way to the dressing room.
They were kinda in a hurry, because they couldn't take long.
TRL was starting in less than 15 minutes.
*
Thanx Amy from "OurLoveIsAllForOTown" for correcting the grammar on
this chapter
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