| "Where are they?" Kevin was pacing the length of the TRL greenroom, frequently looking at his watch, then glancing at the clock, then asking Brian what time he had. "Will you calm down, Kev?" Brian snapped finally. "Either they get here or they don't, you looking at your watch isn't going to change it." Kevin sighed. "Should we call them again?" "Neither of them are answering their phones." Allie snapped. "We've been over this, and we've called them a hundred times in the last fifteen minutes. We still have fourty five minutes till we're introduced, and once we go out there, we'll just say that they're sick or something, okay?" "Both of them?" Kevin spoke like it was the stupidest idea he'd ever heard. "At the same time?" Michelle was quickly losing her temper with Kevin. "Will you just shut up? You're being an asshole, and an idiot. Two people who spend that much time together are bound to get sick at the same time." "Yeah? Well then, how come they haven't yet?" Kevin retorted. "That's not the point! The point it is-" Michelle began. "Oh, both of you just shut up!" Howie snapped. They both looked over at him, surprised. But atleast they stopped fighting. "Thank you." "Look." AJ said. "There's no point in worrying about this until it's time to go on, and they're still not here, okay? So everyone just calm down." "Thank you. Now I can finally get a little peace." Allie said, opening her book, and burying her nose in it once again. Catelyn was sitting by herself, staring at the television set, with an odd look on her face, like she was thinking about something very hard. Kevin and Michelle stared their argument again, this time atleast speaking civilly to each other. Brian walked over and sat down beside her. "Whatcha thinking about?" He asked, waving at hand in front of her face. Catelyn looked up, surprised. "Uh, what?" Brian laughed. "Someone's off in their own little world." He said, looking pointedly at her. "What's going on in there?" He tapped her head with his forefineger. "Nothing." She said quickly. "Really? Because you were pretty absorbed in that cat food comercial." Catelyn opened her mouth, then closed it again, thinking of something to say. The greenroom door swung open, and Nick and Dani appeared. Nick had his arm around her shoulder, and she was laughing. Both of them were wearing tacky green and yellow hats and shirts with the logo of AL'S VIDEOGAMES printed on the front, and Dani was clutching a huge stuffed whale. "Hi everyone!" Dani said, walking inside. "Sorry, we're a little late. And we had to come right here from the arcade, so we had to bring all this shit from the arcade." She dumped the whale on the floor, and peeled off the shirt, revealing her old camoflauge tank top. Catelyn looked down at her own dress, which looked almost exactly like Dani's. But Dani was wearing the shoes that she'd thought would match, since she hadn't been at the hotel when Catelyn wanted to ask to borrow them. "Dani! Look at what we're wearing!" She cried, standing up. Dani looked, and laughed. "Oops." Then she shrugged. "Maybe we'll make it look cool." "No we won't!" Catelyn found herself stomping her foot. She knew she was acting like a two year old, but she coudln't stop herself. "We'll look stupid! All because you couldn't be bothered spending a little time at the hotel, and showing up on time, and going shopping with us in the first place! But no! You'd rather spend time with your new best friend! You can't even make a second to spend with me any more! And you're wearing the shoes I was going to wear!" She turned around, and ran out of the greenroom, slamming the door behind her. There was silence for a minute. No one had ever seen Dani and Catelyn fight before. Actaully, no one had ever seen Catelyn fight with anyone. "What was that about?" Brian asked anxiously. Dani looked puzzled for a minute, but then a look od understanding crossed her face. "Oh, my, God." She muttered, looking at Nick's arm around her. She shrugged it off, and then walked over to the door. "I'm going to go find her. I'll be back in a minute." "Hurry!" Kevin called after her. "We only have a half hour!" |
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