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By nine o'clock, we had met so many famous people- Reese Witherspoon, Seth Green, 98 Degrees, and many others.
"Hey look, Lance- it's Danielle," Chris said, referring to Lance's ex-girlfriend, Danielle Fishel.
Lance's face showed a tiny bit of tension and his smile became forced. "Oh really?"
"What's wrong, Lance?" Rainbow asked.
Lance shook his head. "Nothing. Why?"
"You just seem a little�nervous," Rainbow replied.
"I'm not nervous- why would I be nervous?" Lance laughed.
"Hey everyone," Danielle said from behind me and Lance jumped about a mile into the air.
"Hi, Danielle," Lance stammered as we all greeted her and Rainbow and I introduced ourselves.
As Danielle engaged in conversation with the rest of us, Lance became unusually fidgety. His fingertips ran up and down my spine over and over (I didn't mind it though), he fiddled with the hem of his jacket and became rather jumpy.
"Well, I'll see you all around," Danielle said with a smile and walked away.
"Lance, what's wrong with you?" Justin asked with a smile.
"He was nervous," Joey said. "He gets like that around old girlfriends, don't ya, Lance?"
Lance looked down at the floor and blushed. "No, I don't."
"It's okay, Lance," I said.
He just looked over my shoulder. "Hey, Christina! I need to talk to you a sec!"
Christina beckoned him over and I watched Lance stroll over to her.
"What's up with him?" I asked.
"Don't worry about it- it was just one of those ex awkwardness moments," JC explained.
I glanced over at Christina and Lance. Christina was smiling and she looked over at me with a big nod and a grin. "I hope you're right." I said.
Lance made his way back to us with a tiny smile on his face.
"Is Britney gonna be here tonight?" Chris asked with a laugh as Justin looked pained.
"You jinxed it, man! Now she's gonna show up and want me to kiss her or something," Justin groaned.
"Haha, don't look know, but here she comes," Joey sang.
"Someone help me please," Justin muttered as Britney Spears approached the seven of us.
"Hi everyone! Hi Justy!" Britney chortled, tilting her head to the right.
"Hi Britney," they mumbled.
"Who are you?" Britney asked, looking at Rainbow and me.
"I'm Ocean," I introduced myself and so did Rainbow.
"How do you know these guys?" Britney asked and I noticed how her skin looked unusually orange.
"Rainbow's my girlfriend and Ocean is Lance's girlfriend," JC said slipping his arm around Rainbow's waist.
Britney laughed a fake little laugh and tilted her head to the right. "Oh good! I was beginning to think you were cheating on me, Justy!"
Justin grinned a forced smile. "Oh-"
"Are you an alien?" I blurted.
Britney's smile faded and was replaced by a confused look. "What?"
"Or do you have a skin disease maybe?" Rainbow asked. Chris was hiding his laughter behind a coughing fit, Joey was swallowing bubbles of laughter, Justin was biting his lip and looking down at the floor and JC and Lance had their lips pressed tightly together in an effort to suppress laughter.
"No- why?" Britney replied.
"We were just wondering because we noticed your skin is such an unusual shade of orange," I said. "I don't think I've ever seen such a color in skin before."
"Oh yeah, even the skin diseases in our textbooks don't have that bizarro orange tint," Rainbow added.
"Oh really? Wow�Chris, are you okay?" Britney asked Chris, whose face was red from coughing so much.
Chris nodded.
"Ladies and gentlemen." Christina was standing on a platform at the front of the huge room with a microphone in hand.
The noise in the room went down to a kill until it was silent, all eyes on Christina.
"There wasn't going to be any live performances tonight," Christina said. "But someone requested that I sing this song for him and his beautiful girlfriend tonight, and I couldn't resist cuz this is one of the sweetest guys around�so I'm gonna sing."
Lance smiled at me.
"And Ocean, you are one lucky girl," Christina added with a smile in my direction and she began to sing, an instrumental for her song playing. "When I'm lost in the rain�"
"Lance, did you ask her to sing that song?" I asked.
"What do you thing?" Lance replied. "Osh, will you dance with me?"
"Of course not," I said as Lance guided me to a clear spot on the floor and put his arms around my waist. As I placed my arms around Lance's neck, I caught a glimpse of Rainbow and JC dancing together and Justin practically running away from Britney.
"We've made it a whole month, Osh- how does it feel?" Lance asked with a smile.
"It feels�nice. Especially since you're always gone and I'm gonna be busy pretty soon too," I said. "But we haven't been together as long as you've been with other people."
"Oh, trust me, Osh. We're gonna be together for a long time," Lance said.
"How do you know?" I asked.
"I don't know- I just�know," Lance replied, smiling at me.
"So your intuition is telling you this," I confirmed.
Lance nodded. "Yup."
"And we're supposed to trust your intuition," I further confirmed.
"Not usually-"
"Oh, wow. That's good."
"But I just have a this good feeling that you'll be in my life for a long time�" Lance said.
"I have that feeling too," I replied softly. We danced the rest of the song in silence. |
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