Rainbow and I nodded. "Yes, we had a *great* time. Thank you so much for giving this to us."
"You're welcome. It was my pleasure-you guys are great," Steve said as the limo pulled up to our dorm building. "Well, I guess I'll see you two lovely ladies around. Bye!"
Rainbow and I entered the building calmly, waiting to unleash our excitement until we had safely entered our room.
"Oh my gosh! That was one of the bet times in my life!" Rainbow gushed.
"I know! It was like everything we had joked about had come true!" I exclaimed, playing the messages on the answering machine.
"Oh my gosh, this has been the best day!" Rainbow said.
"Um, hey you guys. This is Eddie...remember me? Just thought I'd call you and see what was up. Umm...call me back at..."
Rainbow and I stared in shock at each other for a long time. "Eddie?" I squeaked. "*Eddie?*"
"*Our* Eddie?" Rainbow asked.
Eddie had been our huge major like in eighth grade. We had been so obsessed with him it was almost insane. Without speaking to him for more than ten minutes, we fell into a deep chasm full of him-his looks, his voice and our delusions about him were all we could think of. In our freshman year of high school, we got over him, but were still on good terms with him. And after Eddie had graduated, we had lost all contact with him-until now.
"What time is it?" Rainbow asked.
"About midnight. Why?" I replied.
"Gimme the phone. What was that number again?"
"Rain! You can't call people this late!" I exclaimed.
Rainbow waved her hand at me. "Oh come on-you know no one goes to bed this early." And so she dialed the number. "Hi, um, is Eddie there? This is him? Hi! Do you know who this is? Nope, I'm not Ocean...That's it!...How'd you get our number?...Oh, i see...wanna talk to Ocean?...Here she is."
The phone was shoved into my hand. "Um, hello?" I stammered.
"Ocean? Hey, this is Eddie. How's it goin?" Eddie asked.
"Um, okay. How about you?"
"Doin good. I just transferred her to Berkley...thought I'd look you two up cuz I'd heard you'd gone here," Eddie said.
"oh...who told you that?" I asked.
"Um...I can't remember...." Eddie trailed off. "So what have you been up to?"
I grinned. "We hung out with 'N Sync today."
"Riight."
"No, seriously. We did," I said.
"Seriously?"
"Yup."
"How cool. How'd you do that?"
"we won a contest on the radio. It was awesome," I said. "Oh-Rainbow wants to talk again."
As Rainbow talked to Eddie for awhile, I lay back on my bed and thought about the day's events. It was Lnace who occupied ninety percent of my thoughts. He had been really flirty and we had talked a bunch. Then again,I had talked to the other guys a bunch too. But Lance had wanted my number. He had also said so *we* can keep in touch...did that mean keep in touch with the whole band or just him? I hadn't been in such deep thought over a guy in forever.
Rainbow hung up the phone. "That is so cool! I never thought we'd hear from him again, but we did! What's wrong?"
"Oh nothing. Just thinking," I said with a smile.
"About Lance...yes I know. He's great, huh?" Rainbow grinned.
"Oh, whatever, shush," I said, trying to hide a smile.
"No, don't give me that. I can tell by the smile on your face...so-what's up with you two?" Rainbow asked.
"Nothing. Absolutely nothing. What about you and JC?" I shot back.
"Oh my gosh. I could talk to him forever-I'm serious!" Rainbow exclaimed."I've never felt this comfortable around guys before but with them..."
"I know exactly what you mean..."
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