"Wake up, sleepyhead! Come on!"
I mumbled incoherently and rolled over.
"No, don't do this to me, Ocean! You gotta get up!"
I opened my eyes to little slits. "What?"
My best friend standing above me, grinned. "Don't you remember?"
I rubbed sleep out of my eyes. "Remember what?"
"We're meeting people today...*special* people," Rainbow said.
I thought for a moment, then I was wide awake. "Is that today?"
"Yes!" Rainbow exclaimed. "We're meeting them at ten. Get up!"
I threw the covers off my bed and raced into the bathroom, turning on the shower, not believing today was the day. I stepped into the shower, reliving the moment when Rainbow and I had won a radion contest, having no clue whatsoever what the prize was....
"Okay, Rainbow and Ocean...one more right answer and you win the special mystery prize!" the deejay said. "Are you ready?"
"Yes!" Rainbow exclaimed.
"Here we go-name the first and last songs on all three of 'N Sync's CDs," he said.
Rainbow and I looked at each other with wide eyes. "Oh! 'Tearin Up My Heart' and 'Giddy Up' on the first CD," I said.
"Umm...'Home For Christmas' and 'Kiss Me At Midnight' on their second," Rainbow continued.
"And uhh 'Bye Bye Bye' and 'I Thought She Knew' on the new one," I finished. We both held our breath, anticipating our prize.
"Right on!" the deejay exclaimed. "You girls got all three CDs' first and last songs in the correct order. And you've won the prize!"
Rainbow and I squealed in excitement. "What is it?"
"As you probably already know, 'N Sync are coming to our little corner of California... and you two have won front and center tickets to the concert *and* you get to spend a day with the guys while they're here," the deejay said.
"Are you serious?" I asked.
"Of course!"
Rainbow and I started screaming and jumping up and down. "Oh my gosh! Oh my *gosh*!"
I smiled to myself as I stepped out of the shower and pulled my bathrobe on.
Rainbow pounded on the door. "O, you done yet? I need to take a shower too!"
I opened the door and breezed out. "All yours, R."
Rainbow and I were roomates at our college, Berkley. We had been best friends all through high school and had gone through just about everything with each other-guys, friends, fights, tragedies. You name it, we'd probably say, "Been there, done that" with a grin at each other. Rainbow was older than me-by four months and twenty-two days to be exact. She was twenty-one and I was still twenty, anxiously waiting for my April birthday to arrive.
We were so close in both the physical aspect and the mental/spiritual aspects it was creepy. Sometimes we'd wear the exact same outfit without telling each other, sometimes we'd write the same thing to one another or *about* the same thing, we used to like the same guys. The odd coincedences were almost uncanny.
I crossed the room to our CD player and put the new 'N Sync CD, No Strings Attached, on. Humming, I picked out my outfit for the day that lay ahead. I chose my most comfortabel but stylish outfit-a black Japanamation t-shirt over a green longsleeve shirt with dark blue pants that adjusted at the bottom and at the waist. Just as I slid on my snowboarding vest, Rainbow came out of the bathroom wearing almost the same outfit-a dark blue O'Neill longsleeve shirt with the same dark blue pants and her snowboarding vest.
We just stared at each other. "Oh man!"
I just waved my hand. "Oh well. We have to hurry-it's almost nine-thirty.."
We sat there talking and laughing about our high school 'N Sync experiences and how *now* I thought JC was the hot one and Rainbow still thought Lance was cute.
Someone knocked on our door and Rainbow and I jumped to our feet and shrieked, "It's him!"
I opened the door to find a six foot blond haired, blue eyed guy standing there-Deejay Steve- the guy we had talked to on the radion to win the contest.
Steve grinned. "Rainbow and Ocean?"
"That'd be us," Rainbow said with a smile.
"Are you guys ready to go meet 'N Sync?" Steve asked.
"Oh yeah!" I exclaimed.
Steve led us out of our third story dorm room, and out of the building to a long black limo parked by the entrance. "A limo?" Rainbow squeaked. "We get to go in a limo?"
"Of course!" Steve said, opening the door for us. "Here we go!"
All the way to the guys' hotel, Rainbow and I were exploring the limo and commenting on how nervous we were-look at our shaking hands! "You brought the stuff for them, right?" Rainbow asked nervously as the hotel came into view.
I held up the bag. "Of course, Rain. How could I forget it?"
"Knowing you and your memory..." Rainbow trailed off as the limo pulled into the parking lot and Steve opened our door.
"Here we are, O and R," Steve announced as we stepped out into the dazzling sunshine. Steve led us inside the hotel as Rainbow and I kept squealing," Oh my gosh."
At one of the top floors we finally stopped at a door. Steve knocked on it loudly.
A muffled voice came from in the room. "When do I get paid?"
"Friday night," Steve replied.
The click of a lock unlocking and the door opened. Chris's smiling face appeared. "Hey Steve, what's up man?"
"I've got 'N Sync's girlfriends for today!" Steve said.
"Rainbow and Ocean?" Justin shouted.
"Yup. Mind if I keep 'em for awhile?" Steve asked.
Joey shoved open the door. "No way, Steve. Nice try."
"They're *our* girls today," Lance said, appearing next to Chris.
"Can we get a *look* at them first?" JC asked, rubbing his eyes tiredly.
Steve ushered us into the room. "Here they are...Ocean and Rainbow!"
All of a sudden, we were standing in front of Justin, Chris, Joey, JC and Lanc and they were all smiling and saying hi, sticking their hands out for handshakes.
"Hey, I'm Justin," Justin said with a big grin that showed his perfect white teeth.
I smiled. "I'm Ocean."
"Aw, come here," Joey said and hugged both Rainbow and me.
"I'm Chris," Chris said, politely shaking Rainbow's hand.
"I'm Rainbow," Rainbow replied.
"You know me as JC," JC said with a smile.
Lance pushed in front of JC and smiled at me. "I'm Lance. You two have awesome names." |
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