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Chapter 4 ~*~
NEW YORK CITY, NY - MTV Studio
“Ash, are you coming?” Jacob
asked, but Ashley wasn't even listening to Jacob. Actually, Ashley wasn't paying
attention to anything. He was staring at this one spot and his feet were glued
to the floor. He just stared at Kirstin's figure waiting for the elevator. She
was there, looking for something on her purse. She was gorgeous. She was exactly
as he remembered. Her hair was longer now, but that was the only thing different
about her that he could notice from where he was standing. He wanted to go there,
but something wasn't letting him. Then, in a matter of seconds, she was gone.
She had taken the elevator. A frown formed on Ashley's face and a moment later
he felt a hand on his shoulder.
“Ashley? Are you ok? Ashley?”
“What?” he turned to face Jacob
“Oh, I'm fine.”
“You were lost there for a moment.
You were frowning and everything. Are you sure you're ok?”
“Oh yeah, I'm fine. It's just
that I thought I had seen someone I knew. It probably wasn't though…” he turned
to look at the spot Kirstin was before, but instead a bald guy was standing
where she had just been “Yeah, it probably wasn't.” Ashley said again, more
to assure himself than to assure Jacob.
“Let's go to the dressing room
then.”
“Hey, baby!” Jacob said as he
opened the door to the dressing room and headed towards Janie, who was on the
couch, and kissed her softly on the lips.
“We gotta be quick or Mike will
cut our heads off.” Ashley told Jen as she got off of the couch and wrapped
her arms around his neck.
“I just wanted to wish you good
luck on the show.” she told him giving him a kiss and as she was about to deepen
the kiss, he didn't let her.
“Thanks, but we really gotta
go. We're gonna be on soon.”
“Is something wrong?”
Seeing the hurt look on his girlfriend's face, Ashley said:
“No, baby, it's just that we
really gotta go. We'll be back here as soon as it's finished, ok?” he kissed
her lips softly. He didn't want to upset his girlfriend, so he tried to put
whatever was on his mind that moment aside for a while “Let's go Jacob!” Ashley
said pulling away from her and they both headed out of the dressing room.
NEW YORK CITY, NY - Kirstin's Loft
Kirstin
got to her loft. She put her purse down on the counter at the kitchen and went
to get a can of coke and a pack of Doritos. She was feeling pretty tired. She
hadn't slept well the night before and at that moment she just wanted to relax,
so she sat at the couch in front of the TV and flipped through some channels.
Nothing interesting was on, so she decided to leave it on MTV. TRL was just
getting back from the break and Carson was shown. The camera was only focused
on Carson at that moment and he started saying:
“Welcome back everybody. Before the break, we were talking to the guys from O-Town.” Screams were heard from the audience and then the image opened to show O-Town on the set.
Kirstin sat up. She couldn't
believe it.
Ashley managed to do TRL without thinking about what had happened
before. But every time they went to a break, he would go back to his thoughts.
Because of the concerned look on his face, all of his band mates had checked
on him to know if he was alright. He would always say yes, but he wasn't. And
on their way to the hotel, Jen couldn't help but notice that too.
“Ash, are you ok? You're quiet.
You had barely said 2 words since we left MTV. What's going on?”
“Nothing, really.” he wanted
to talk to someone about it, but not Jen “I just have a bad headache, that's
all.” He realized he had to stop thinking about his vision of Kirstin, so he
asked his girlfriend “Are you enjoying this? Being on the road with us, I mean.”
“Yeah.
I get lonely sometimes when you're doing your stuff, but Janie's a great person.
We're having a good time.”
“Really?
It's nice to know that you two are hitting off.”
“Yeah, we are…”
At
the hotel, Mike Cronin gathered them all near the elevators and Morin informed
they were having a radio interview in an hour and a half and it would take probably
2 hours.
On their way to their room, Jen asked:
“Do
you want me to go to this one too?”
“It's
really up to you. Are you up to it?”
“I
don't know. This radio thingy starts at 7 right?”
“Yeah…”
“I'm
kinda tired. I think I'll stay here, take a nice bath, eat something and wait
for you.”
“Ok,
have it your way.”
“Hope
when you get here I won't be sleeping already.”
Ashley
smiled, put his right arm around her waist and led her into their room.
NEW
YORK CITY, NY -
Kirstin was at the supermarket near her loft getting something for her
dinner. She was thinking about O-Town being on MTV. A lot of questions kept
popping into her mind ‘Was Ashley there while I were there? Did he see me?
If he did see me, why didn't he come talk to me? Would he be glad to see me
2 years after what happened?’ She couldn't help but wonder about so many
things. ‘If he was there, while I were there and we didn't see each other,
maybe it's fate. Maybe it's supposed to be this way. Maybe I should take it
as a sign that we're not suppose to see each other ever again. Maybe I should
just leave it behind already, because I'm going insane! He was there, he's not
coming back any time soon and when he comes back, that is if he does, it'll
just be like this time, we won't see each other.’
“Miss? Miss?”
“Oh, I'm sorry. What?”
Kirstin asked the cashier.
“That'd be $9,25.”
“Here it is. Thanks.” Kirstin
got her bags and left the supermarket heading to her loft.
NEW
YORK CITY, NY -
When Ashley got to his hotel room, Jen was already sleeping. He had come
from the radio interview and decided to stay at the hotel bar. He went through
all that had happened to him that day. He knew Kirstin was in NY, he knew he
could bump into her in the city at anytime, but MTV? What would she be doing
on MTV? He couldn't find any explanation for that, as hard as he tried to, so
he eventually gave up and went to his room. Seen Jen there, lying on the bed,
made him smile, but he did have a concerned look on his face. If it indeed was
Kirstin, what would happen now that he had found the girl that had been constantly
on his mind for the past 2 years? He stripped to his boxers and joined Jen in
bed. It had been a long day.
NEW
YORK CITY, NY - Hotel - Wednesday – 2 P.M.
Mike Cronin, Mike Morin, Dan, Trevor, Erik, Jacob, Janie, Ashley and Jen were entering the hotel from a radio interview they had earlier that day.
“So, now we have 1 hour 'til we leave for MTV. Today it won't take long there.
You're just gonna do a segment that will be on an 'Ultrasound' special. So be
back here at the lobby at 3.”
Then
everyone, but the Mikes, went to the restaurant to have lunch.
NEW YORK CITY, NY - MTV Studio
“Good afternoon, Marge.”
“Hello Kirstin, dear. How was
your day?”
“Ok… well, let me get to those
files soon because today I gotta be off at 3:30 sharp! Can't be late because
a friend of mine will come pick me up.”
“Alright, honey. Don't let me
keep you, then. Mr. Goodman's office is already unlocked.”
“Thank
you.” Kirstin smiled at the nice secretary
and headed to Mr. Goodman's office.
~*~*~*~*~
O-Town and their managers were arriving at MTV and were on their way
to the dressing room.
“Why didn't Jen and Janie come
today?” Trevor asked Ashley and Jacob.
“Well, Janie said she was gonna
stay at the hotel 'cause she was feeling a bit tired.” Jacob answered his friend.
“Hm, busy night she had?” Trevor
teased Jacob who just smirked and shook his head lightly.
“And Jen decided to keep her
company.” Ashley added.
“They are becoming good friends, aren't they?” Jacob asked Ashley, who looked at his band mate and replied:
“Yes, I think so. That's good,
I think that…” and at that exact moment, when he turned his gaze to the corridor,
there she was. Kirstin was, once again, near the same elevator. He couldn't
believe it. This couldn't be a coincidence. He had seen her twice. And in a
row. It couldn't be his imagination. This
time he wasn't gonna stay there. But when he was about to go to her, she disappeared
into the elevator. He then ran and caught another elevator that had just opened
its door. He was in such a rush he didn't even heard his managers and friends
scream his name while he was running to catch the elevator. He just needed to
catch up with her. He needed to see if it really was her. He just wouldn't and
couldn't let her go. Not this time.
The
elevator stopped and he ran out. He scanned the place looking for Kirstin. He
couldn't find her. She wasn't there, not in the building at least. He was frustrated.
But, when he turned to get back to the elevator, he found her. She was standing
by the back exit door. She was just standing there, 'Probably waiting for
someone' he thought. That wasn't gonna stop him. He made a bee-line in
her direction. When he was close enough, he took a deep breath and placed his
hand on her shoulder.
* Thanx Caitlin for editing and correcting the grammar on this chapter
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