"Oh my gosh, O," Rainbow sighed. "Tonight has been one of the coolest nights of my life."
"Same here. It was so awesome," I agreed, pulling my hair back into a bun. I had changed out of my evening wear into plaid PJ pants and a big t-shirt.
"What'd you guys do?" Rainbow asked.
"Well, we went to dinner at China Garden, then we took a walk on the beach at sunset. We sat on this rock and we talked and we..." I blushed.
"You kissed?" Rainbow filled in. "How sweet! A kiss on a rock in the ocean!"
I smiled. "Yeah. So what'd you guys do?"
I blindly groped for the alarm clock and opened my bleary eyes. "Eight thirty!" I screeched.
"Whar?" Rainbow asked sleepily.
"Lance is leaving at nine!" I exclaimed.
"I wanna see JC," Rainbow said, rolling out of bed.
"We've gotta hurry," I said, tripping over my bedsheets and falling on my face, grabbing a pair of pants on my way down.
Fifteen minutes later, Rainbow and I were running down the stairs (the elevator was too slow), through the common room and to my car.
"Where you guys going?" Craig asked.
"We'll tell you later," I replied breathlessly, jumping into the car. We became caught in rush hour traffic which was moving at a crawl. I drummed my fingers impatiently on the steering wheel and Rainbow was nervously tapping her nails along with the music on the radio. "We're never gonna make it in time, Rain."
"Maybe if we drove over some lawns and through a few houses we'd make it," Rainbow said with a smile.
I laughed. "That sounds really good right about now."
The traffic finally began moving and I switched into the carpool lane which was moving much faster.
"Hurry! It's nine o' five," Rainbow said frantically as I cut a corner a little too closely and schreeched into the parking lot. We jumped out and raced inside the airport.
"What gate are they at?" Rainbow yelled.
"Um..." I was trying to remember what Lance had told me. "Um...gate four...four...B!"
I saw Lance's spiky white blond hair.
"Lance!" I screamed.
His head snapped around as Rainbow and I pushed people aside.
"Osh! I thought you weren't coming!" Lance exclaimed.
"We got caught in some traffic," I explained as Lance hugged me.
"Rain!" JC yelled and rushed over to hug her.
"O, here's my cell phone number-call me anytime," Lance said, handing me a piece of paper with some numbers jotted down on it.
"Do you want my cell phone number?" I asked.
"Yeah," Lance said. I wrote my number down on a corner of paper I had in my pocket and gave it to him.
Lance smiled at me. "I wish we could spend more time together."
"So do I. We will sometime," I said as Lance took my hands in his and pulled me up to him.
"I'll make sure we will," Lance murmured and kissed me.
"Flight 272 now boarding at gate four B," a voice said over an intercom.
"That's us, guys! Let's go!" Justin yelled.
Tears started building up in my eyes. "Well, I guess I'll see you."
"Oh hey now-don't cry," Lance said. "We'll be together soon, I promise."
"Okay," I said snifflling. Lance kissed me again-a long slow kiss.
"I'll call you later, okay?" Lance said.
I nodded. I hugged Joey, Chris, Justin and JC goodbye with promises to keep in touch.
Lance kissed me. "I'll see you later okay?"
I nodded and kissed Lance. "Yeah."
He kissed me three more times before Justin had to pull him away saying, "Come on, or we're gonna miss our flight." Joey was having the same troubles with JC and Rainbow, who were clutching each other's hands tightly.
JC rolled his eyes. "Okay okay okay, sheesh, guys."
"Check that *out*, Osh," Rainbow gushed after wiping away our tears and watching the guys' plane take off. "We are going out with two famous guys from 'N Sync! Can you believe it?"
As she said that, it finally hit me. "Oh my gosh, Rain! I can't believe this!"
Rainbow gasped. "Oh! Guess what we're doing tonight?"
"Improv!" we both yelled at the same time.
"Eek! Rainb,it's like everything we used to dream about is coming true!" I exclaimed.
"I know. How weird," Rain said.
"Rain, we are gonna be famous!"
My cell phone rang backstage at the Peeps comedy club that night.
"Hey Osh," Lance said.
"Lance! Hi!" I exclaimed and glanced at Rainbow who smiled at me. "What's up?"
"Not much. What are you up to?"
"Rain and I are going to be doing improv tonight!" I said. "We're so excited."
"That's great. Improv is so funny."
"I know...I love it. Word is that Mad TV producers hang out here sometimes ad we *totally* love Mad TV."
"That'd be so awesome if you guys got cast into Mad TV."
"I know! But it's not gonna happen...I mean they only check it out every now and then. No one ever knows for sure when they'll come."
"Who knows? Tonight could be your lucky night."
"And do you know how hard it is to even get an *audition* for Mad? I mean come on...chances of us even making it to auditions are like, a billion to one."
"Osh, you gotta have faith."
"I will. Oh, we're on in a few seconds. Wish me luck."
"Break both legs. Call me after will you? I wanna hear how it went okay?"
"Okay Lance. I'll talk to you later." I snapped my phone shut and stuck it in my jacket pocket on my way out to the stage with Rain.
After an exhilerating stage improv performance, Rain and I rushed backstage and began to squeal and jump around frantically.
"Um, excuse me-are you two Ocean and Rainbow?" a woman wearing a white long sleeved thermal under a black t-shirt with faded jeans said.
We immediately became mature once again.
"Yes, that'd be us," Rainbow said. |
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