~*~ Chapter 4 ~*~
NEW YORK CITY, NY – KIRSTIN’S LOFT – JAN. 19TH, 2002 – Saturday
Kirstin woke up to the sound of her phone ringing. She had a major headache. Her stomach was doing fine, though.
“Hello?” she said as she grabbed her cordless phone.
“Hey, baby.” Kirstin smiled as she recognized the voice.
“Hey, sweetie. How are you?” she said sitting up.
“Everything’s fine. Are you feeling better today? A bit calmer?”
“Yes, sorry about yesterday. I don’t know what happened to me. Grace was here last night and…”
“Oh, Grace was there? Great!” Ashley cut her off.
“Yeah, it was good to have her around again.”
“So, how was that?”
“Cool. We talked a lot. A lot of things happened that she knew nothing about.”
“I can imagine.”
“She’s gonna take this whole Saturday to call all the people we invited to the wedding and tell them it was called off.”
“Oh, hadn’t you done that already?”
“No. It happened all so suddenly, that it never really crossed my mind to me. She reminded me last night and I told her that was gonna be her maid of honor duty now.”
“I see…” Ashley didn’t sound too excited about that.
“Yeah, well… I don’t know if we’re even gonna have time to go to the ER today, she’s probably…”
“The ER? Why? What happened? Are you alright? Are you feeling ok? It’s your stomach again, isn’t it?” Ashley sounded agitated.
“Ash, calm down.” Kirstin grinned a bit. It was sweet he was that worried about her “Yes, it my stomach again.”
“When did it hurt again? Why did it hurt?”
“Ash, can you calm down? So, well, I woke up yesterday and it hurt pretty bad. The worst I’ve ever had, actually.”
“But why?”
“Hm…” Kirstin didn’t know if she should talk about her dream with Tom. Would Ashley be prepared to deal with the fact she had been dreaming about her ex-fiancée? “Actually, well…” she decided to be honest “I dreamt about Tom. And when I woke up, it was hurting like hell.”
“You dreamt of Tom?” Ashley raised his voice “What was the dream about?”
“That… hm… that he wanted me back and wouldn’t accept no for an answer.”
“What?”
“Well, that’s it. Then I woke up and my stomach ached a lot.”
“Kirstin… hm… do you think that dream might… hm… come true?”
“I don’t know. But my dreams tend to warn me about something. When I was with Tom, before we went to Redding, I kept dreaming about you. And then I found you there. So this dream might mean something.” Kirstin frowned.
“Do you have any idea what this may mean?” Ashley was worried.
“Not really. Maybe that I’ll be seeing him soon, too. Don’t know.”
“But I don’t want you meeting this guy without me beside you.”
“Well, Ash, I’m not gonna meet him on purpose. And if it happens, me meeting him without you, it won’t be my fault.”
“But I don’t want it to happen.”
“Oh, me either. But what can I do?”
“Nothing, I guess… Shit.” Ashley was kinda pissed.
“Yeah…”
“And when was the other time you felt your stomach hurt?”
“When I had a little argument with G last night. But everything’s fine now.”
“Good. Does your stomach hurt now?”
“No, not really.”
“Good. So try to take it easy, alright? Try not to have a stressful day or anything. You sure should get this checked out. See if it’s like… some problem you can solve with surgery or something. Get rid of this, you know?” Ashley was worried about his girlfriend. What if it was something serious?
“Yeah… Ok. I don’t know why they are getting so constant now. Maybe all these terrible things that happened.”
“Probably.”
“Yeah…”
“K, listen, I got good news for you.”
“Really?” Kirstin smiled big. She could really use some good news.
“Really.”
“Is it like… really, really good news?”
“Yep. Really, really, really good news.” Ashley chuckled.
“Great! Then shoot!” Kirstin giggled.
“On Monday, I’m coming to New York.”
“No way!” Kirstin stood up.
“Way!”
“Oh my God! That’s so great! I’ve missed you so much! And it’s so nice that this time it didn’t take too long for you to come back!”
“Yeah...” Ashley smiled when he felt how happy Kirstin was.
“Are you gonna come to work or just to come?” Kirstin asked.
“Well, I’m coming on Monday just for fun, but the rest of the guys get there on Tuesday because we have some songs to mix in a studio there.”
“Oh, ok. But Monday is all ours, right?”
“Yep, right.”
“Oh, that’s great! Can’t wait!”
“And, listen, as I’m getting there soon, can’t you wait to go with me to the doctors? I really wanna go with you. I wanna see if there’s a possible way for you to stop having those pains. I don’t like to see my baby in pain.”
“Oh…” Kirstin pouted “I don’t like being in pain either.” Kirstin giggled “But, yeah, that’d be even better if you’d go to the doc with me.”
“Good. So it’s settled. I’m getting there on Monday and we’ll see a doctor.”
“Ok. What time do you think you’ll get here?” Kirstin asked.
“Don’t know yet, but I’ll let you know later, alright?”
“Ok, then.”
“Ok, let me know go, but I’ll call you tomorrow, alright?” Ashley said.
“Yep…”
“Love ya.”
“Love you, too…”
“Bye.”
“Bye.” Kirstin hung up and smiled to the phone. She was happy. Ashley would take care of her.
* Thanx Stacie and Taryn for reviewing and correcting the grammar errors *
~*~ Chapter 3 ~*~
~*~ Chapter 5 ~*~
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