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Biondo Sorto
11-21-04, 01:05 AM
*You asked for it and hear it is!!!*

All I Want For Christmas

Chapter 1
Kristin Miller sighed as she looked out her window. Another day had p[arse]ed by, and the memory of Richard was still imprinted in her mind. They were so close to marriage-he had proposed to her two weeks before; she had accepted-that the horrible reality still was nothing but a dream to her.

It was a soft winter day. The streets weren’t sleek and there was enough snow on the ground to make the perfect snowman or gentle snow angel. To Kristin it was perfect, and she was eager to spend the time with Richard. She opened the door singing Christmas carols, happy to meet the warmth of the house. She continued to hum as she made her way to the back of the house, toward their room, prepared to take an early bath. She opened the door hyper one minute, and the next she was lifeless. She tried to look away but her eyes were glued to the two entangled bodies that lay in the bed. Their bed. Finally, when she did find her voice, all she could do was scream. This in turn brought attention to the bodies that lay in the bed together.
“Kristin…?† Richard asked surprised to see her in the doorway. She wasn’t due for another hour.
“You……. You…” Kristin was trying to manage out a sentence but couldn’t. The pain was starting to seep in and the hot tears were already pouring down her face.
“Kristin its not what it seems...” Richard said getting out the bed and walking toward her. Kristin looked behind him and saw the pretty blonde that laid in the bed, looking blankly at her. Then she looked back at Richard who was wrapping a sheet behind around his waist.
“I think it’s exactly what it seems.” She managed out, throwing the engagement ring at his chest.
“Kristin wait….” Richard said, trying to catch up with her.
“No! It’s over!” she screamed running out the door, running out of his life………

Kristin sighed as she took a sip of her hot chocolate.
“Don’t tell me you’re thinking about him again.” her sister, Katrin, sighed as she walked into the room. Kristin sighed and nodded.
“You know you need to get over him. It’s been over a year now…”
Kristin nodded again and took another sip. Her sister shook her head and walked out of the room. Kristin shrugged her shoulders and continued to look at the falling snow. This year, for some reason, she was hoping that her heart would be able to open up and she could find someone to spend the Christmas season with. She bit her lip, then placed her cup of hot chocolate down. She threw the warm wool cover off of her, put on her boots and grabbed her keys. She was craving chili. Skyline Chili.
“Hey Katrin! You want something from Skyline?”
Katrin walked out of her room and looked at her.
“Ever since this break-up you’ve been indulging in Chili.”
“Yeah…” Kristin said in an obvious tone. What was wrong with eating chili?
“And for some unknown reason you haven’t gained a pound.”
Kristin smiled and shrugged.
“Fine, get me something. As long as it’s good.”
“Good.” Kristin said.
“And make sure it doesn’t have any meat in it!” her sister yelled but Kristin was already out the door.

Les cleaned her gl[arse]es off before she put them back on her face. She scanned the crowd again and sighed. Her eyes weren’t lying to her, as they did in numerous occasions. He was NOT there, yet again. She stepped from out of the cold air and back into the warmth of the building. She looked at herself in the mirror and decided that she looked okay. She was wearing a tan sweater that brought out her eyes, blue hip hugging jeans, and black heels to give her some more height. She was performing for a local radio station, a Christmas contest that would hopefully win her a chance at any recording company she wanted. And she desperately wanted to win. She had decided to sing ‘O Holy Night’ and ‘The Christmas Song’, but was waiting for her pianist. Without him there wouldn’t be any song, and without a song there wouldn’t be any recording company. She was interrupted from her thoughts when she heard,
“Les!”
She stepped back into the cold November air-tomorrow would be the first of December- and scanned the crowd again. She finally spotted the tall scrawny figure run to her and sighed relief.
“You’re late.” She muttered once he reached her.
“I’m-“ he began but she cut him off.
“Late? Sorry? Which one? I’m so used to hearing both that I don’t even know why I bother worrying.” She said brushing past him and standing in the door sill. Mark waited for his breathe to even out before replying,
“I got caught in traffic. I’m sorry.”
“Sure.” She replied rolling her eyes and crossing her arms. Despite the sweater it was still cold to her.
“I did.”
“I’ll let it for now, but only because you made it in time.”
She replied, returning her eyes to the stage.
“Still I know what this whole thing means to you.”
Les continued to ignore him as she watched the show begin.
“And after this, how about I take you out to lunch? Please?”
Les looked up at him. Only Mark. He’d make a simple problem and come up with a simple solution. She gave him a small smile and was about to say something when something the announcer said brought her attention back to the show.
“How about we give our host for the afternoon a good Chicago welcome. Ladies and gents, Jeff Timmons!”
Les froze in place. She had heard that Jeff was going to be hosting a concert when she logged on to his website a week earlier, she didn’t know it was going to be the contest she was in. She watched as Jeff took the mike and started to introduce the first act.
“I can’t do it.” She finally said.
“What? Sing?” Mark asked, looking down at her.
“Yeah, I can’t do it.”
“Why not? You know the competition, you saw them when they were making the cuts for this thing. They can’t hold a candle to you.”
“I can’t sing in front of him. What if I forget a word, or miss a note, or am off key or…” a thousand things were reeling through her head now. How could the Jeff Timmons be in the concert that she was singing in.
“Les, you aren’t making sense. Who are you talking about?” Mark asked, looking up at the stage. He spotted Jeff and then said,
“Are you talking about that guy?”
Les could only nod.

Jessie looked around the busy airport. She bit her lip when she didn’t recognize any familiar faces, but smiled when she spotted her friend Kelena.
“Kiki!” she yelled, making her way through the crowd. The 5 foot 7 brunette stopped hearing her name and immediately turned around. Her frown turns into a smile when she spots the busy blonde making her way toward her.
“How’d you know it was me?” she asks once Jessie had reached her. Jessie smiled and replied sarcastically,
“Only you would be crazy enough to wear tie dye overalls in the middle of winter!”
Kelena looked down at her overalls and shrugged.
“I woke up this morning wanting to wear something bright.”
“Could you get any brighter?” Jessie asked as they rolled themselves to luggage claim.
“Well I was going to wear a tie-dyed shirt to go with it.”
“Believe me you went right with the white turtleneck.”
“Yeah, I thought so myself too.” Kelena said. They got their bags, then made their way toward the airport entrance.
“How I missed New York!” Kelena smiled, taking a big sniff of the air.
“You and your roots.” Jessie replied rolling her eyes. Kelena rolled her eyes back as the caught a cab. After they told him their destination they continued on with their conversation.
“So what. I can’t help it. The big city is in my blood.”
“As is your weird art craze.”
“That too.” Kelena smiled.
“All right, off of you. What were you thinking of doing for Christmas?”
“Well….â€Â
“I mean, you know that I told my parents I was spending time with your family this Christmas.”
“About that.”
“What?”
“My family is spending time in Guatemala. So..”
“Were spending time in New York alone!! For Christmas?”
Kelena bit her lip and slowly nodded.
“You GOT to be kidding me.”
“I’m not laughing.”
“Great, just great. So much for my Happy Christmas.” Jessie muttered, slumping down in the seat. They sat in silence until Kelena spoke up.
“Hey Jess.”
“What?” Jessie asked annoyed. She really didn’t want to spend the holidays alone.
“I got tickets to RENT.”
Jessie looked over at her raised a brow.
“You kidding me?”
“You see me smiling?” Kelena smiled.
“Oh my freakin gosh! Those are super hard to get, especially during this season.”
“I know, remember Frank.”
“Gay Frank?”
“Yep.”
“What about him?”
“He came out to visit me and gave them to me as an early Christmas gift. He couldn’t go himself so he thought I’d like it. Of course I would considering…”
“Drew Lachey’s in it. Of course.” Jessie smiled. They sat in silence again until Jessie asked,
“So what seats do we got.”
“You know Frank, always the best.”
“Tenth?”
“I’m not telling.”
“Ninth, eighth, seventh?”
“Nope, can’t say.” Kelena taunted.
“Third, Second, First? Fifteenth? Twentieth?”
“I’ll never tell…..” Kelena said in a low voice.
“Shut-up.” Jessie said pushing her. Kelena laughed and shook her head.
“It’s a surprise. You’ll see when we go tomorrow night.”
“All right.” Jessie sighed.
“Get over it.” Kelena said, before looking out the window. Jessie smiled knowing that know matter how much she wanted to know, she really wanted to be surprised. She had only wanted to go that show since it came out, but of course she knew she never had the money for that kind of thing. So she wasn’t spending time with her family, so what?
For some odd reason, she felt that this Christmas was going to be the best.
Biondo Sorto
11-21-04, 01:10 AM
Chapter 2
Nick Lachey was staring out the window when his father walked into the room.
“Hey, watcha doing?” he asked, walking toward him and taking a seat beside him. Nick sighed and muttered,
“Thinking.”
“About?”
“Don’t wanna say.”
John nodded and got up.
“I’m here you know. Me, your mom, Iris, Drew. Everyone. You want to talk, we can talk. If you don’t well wait. It’s your call.”
Nick only nodded as John sighed and walked out the room. So this was how it was going to end. He was going to be a lonely man, once again. He looked down at his empty left hand and tried to bite back his tears. He really thought that she was the one. He really did. To him, she was his savior. His shining star. But she was gone. He heard the warnings but couldn’t believe them. He saw the rumors but didn’t hear him. And now he was alone. And she was happy. She had used him, sucked out everything he had until she got what she wanted. And now she was gone. He shook his head and got up. He wasn’t going to dwell on her again. He couldn’t dwell on her again.
“I’m going out dad.”
“Where?”
He paused. He didn’t know exactly where he had wanted to go. He just knew he wanted to go out of the house. For the first time that day he heard his rumbling stomach and yelled,
“Skyline Chili. You want something?”
“I’m good.” He heard his dad yell back. Nick grabbed his wallet and jacket, and made his way out of the house.
Once he had reached the restaurant, he didn’t know what to do. Should he go in? Would he be noticed? He really didn’t want to be noticed. He didn’t want to hear the apologies by fans or people who knew him. His stomach growled again and he took this as a sign to go in. He stepped into the warm restaurant and was immediately greeted by the smell of Chili. He smiled as his stomach growled once more. He really was hungry. He stepped in line pondering what to get when he heard the woman’s conversation in front of him.
“I’m sorry but I don’t have twenty cents. I could run home or to the ATM around the corner and get you some change.”
“Sorry, no money no service.”
“But its just twenty cents!” she stressed.
“I’m sorry but you need to pay in full. If you can’t then you can’t eat here. Now you’re holding up the line, next…” the guy behind the register was saying, looking over at Nick. He sighed, but decided to take the risk. He pulled out some change in his pocket and placed it on the counter.
“Here you go.”
The woman looked toward him confused.
“You needed twenty cents. I think that’s about fifty.”
She slowly turned around and counted the change.
“Here you go, twenty cents.” She said to the guy at the register. Then she turned around and gave Nick the remaining change.
“You can keep it.”
“It’s all right. I don’t need it
“Well, thank you.”
“You welcome.” He smiled at her. She grabbed her chili, but slowly looked at him again. He saw the flicker of recognition in her eyes and sighed. He knew that it was a bad idea to bug in, but the guy was being a straight up [arse].
“You want to eat with me. I got a lot of chili, and I could pay you back.” She said, surprising him.
“You really don’t.”
“But I insist.”
He contemplated this and thought no, but saw himself following her to a near by booth. After they both took a seat, they started to eat their chili. After a moment of silence the woman asked,
“I’m sorry but I have to ask this.”
“All right.”
“Are you Nick Lachey.”
“Yeah, I am.”
“No wonder you looked so familiar.” She said, then went back to eating her chili. Nick raised a brow surprised. No screaming, no flirting, just a plain, simple conversation. He wasn’t used to it. He played with his food until he heard himself say,
“Now that you know who I am, who may I ask are you?”

Jeff gave a fake smile as the next act walked off the stage and sighed. He really didn’t want to be here. At all. Instead he wanted to be back in California, spending time with his family. But he couldn’t do that. It was his job to be promoting himself and his album. He looked down at his card, then walked back onstage.
“Now for our next act, please put your hands together for Les!” Jeff said before walking off the stage. The singers were good out here, but not to the point where they caught his attention. He took a seat and started to watch the next act. He was half way asleep when he was awoken by the most beautiful voice he had heard that day.
O Holy Night
The Stars are brightly shining
This is the night
That our dear savior was born.
He looked up memorized as she saw the young woman sing her heart out to ‘O Holy Night’. When she was done, she began with ‘The Christmas Song’. Once she was finished, the whole crowd was clapping hard for her. But Jeff couldn’t seem to take his eyes off of the woman. How could he not notice her before. She was beautiful. And her voice matched her beauty. He was interrupted from his thoughts when he heard,
“Jeff, your up.”
He shook his head and stepped onto the stage.
“Wow, what an act. Let’s put our hands once more for Les.”
After that everything p[arse]ed by quickly. He didn’t know why, the acts were as boring as they were before. But he couldn’t keep his mind off of Les. He didn’t know what it was about her. Her voice, her beauty, it was something and he didn’t know what. When the judging came she won. She looked surprised but Jeff couldn’t see why. She had the best voice there was that day, it was sort of inevitable. After everyone had congratulated her, he decided that this was his que to congratulate her himself. He made his way through the crowd until he reached. She was talking to a tall brunette when he tapped her on the shoulder. She turned around and immediately froze when she saw him.
“I just wanted to congratulate you.” He smiled warmly down at her. She continued to look at him blankly as he continued.
“You were really good. I’m pretty sure that I’ll be hearing from you soon.”
She slowly shook her head with her moth agape before saying,
“Thank…thank...thank you. You did……you did well to.”
“What hosting? Naw, I doubt it.”
“But you did.” She smiled at him.
“Well to tell you the truth I was half out of it when I first got here. But after I heard you I got more into it.”
“Wow….thanks again.” she said. He watched as she looked at him speechless before asking,
“Do I got something on my face?”
“No.”
“Something caught between my teeth?”
“Nope.”
“Then there has to be a huge booger sticking out of my nostril.” He smiled. She broke out into a smile and shook her head.
“No, that’s not it either.”
“Then what exactly is it?”
“Well, it’s just your Jeff Timmons.”
“Yeah and….?”
“You’re Jeff Timmons.”
“And you’re Les. Somehow I manage to catch my breathe when I talk to you.” He smiled at her. She blushed and shook her head.
“See you’re a some body. I’m a no body. Of course you can breathe.”
“You sure? Your beauty is pretty powerful. And that voice…..I was out of it until someone told me that the show was over.”
She blushed again and looked down.
“It’s not nice to lie.”
“Who said was I was lying?” he asked in a softer tone. She looked up at him and smiled. They were interrupted from their gaze when the guy she was talking with earlier said,
“Well, are you ready to go Les?”
“No…yeah†¦no…yes…†
“You’re leaving?” Jeff asked disappointed. He didn’t want her to leave just yet.
“Yeah, I am.” She said softly.
“How about we go out to lunch. I really want to talk to you.”
“Well, umm…” she began looking at him, then back up at the guy behind her.
“Do you mind Mark…?” she asked after a while. The guy sighed and shrugged.
“Call me later, all right.”
“All right.” She smiled, giving him a hug and then turning around back at Jeff.
“All right Jeff, I guess I can.”
Jeff didn’t know why, but for some reason he was looking forward to their lunch date.

Drew looked over at his two co-stars as the fight continue to go on.
“I’m telling you, Mark needs to be over her by me. Remember, the way we rehearsed earlier.”
“Well he’s ALWAYS by you so how about if he’s by me.”
“It’s not in the script so no.”
“The script isn’t a legal document. He could go wherever he wanted.”
“Guys, guys, guys…” Drew cut in.
“How about I just stand in the middle. Simple as that.”
Lindsay and Antoine looked at him, then said,
“Now look what you did. He had to compromise, and all you had to do is go with what I said.”
“Now, it’s all of your fault. You just had to change the script as usual.”
Drew shook his head and walked off. There was no use in trying to stop the inevitable. He took a seat in the audience and watched the fight progress when he heard,
“Drew Lachey, aren’t you supposed to be rehearsing.”
He looked behind him and saw Justin and their friend, Gary, walking toward him.
“Hey guys, what are you doing out here?” he asked getting up to greet his two friends.
“I came out here because I had business and I don’t know why Gary’s here…”
“It’s because I’m going out of town so I can’t see your play.” Gary cut Justin off.
“Aww, I really wanted you to see my play. Tomorrow is the last night it’s playing since next year.”
“I know, I figured I’ll wait. However I do have a little favor to ask of you. Of the both of you.”
“What?” Drew and Justin said at the same time as they took a seat.
“I have a couple of friends who I gave the ticket to who are spending the holidays out here. Think you can spend some time with them tomorrow night. The one I gave the tickets too, Kelena, is a dear and has helped me in the past. It’d mean a lot to me if you helped them.”
Drew looked at him, then said,
“I guess it can’t hurt. I trust your judgment.”
“I’m with Drew. It couldn’t hurt. And if I’m really lucky there probably cute too.”
Drew rolled his eyes as he heard his name being called from the stage. He groaned as he saw the two smiling slyly.
“I have to go. I have a feeling that what I’m about to hear isn’t going to be good.”
“Have fun. See you next year.”
“You too. Bye.” Drew said, walking up on the stage.
Biondo Sorto
11-21-04, 01:11 AM
All right, opinion time!!! :D :P
What do you think? Too....ugh or do you like? Never wrote a story for all of the guys, its kind of a challenge, lol.
Girls, did I make you sound good or no?
StargateGirl
11-21-04, 01:16 AM
lol...I've only read the first part so far and I really like it. Your font is really tiny though. lol
Biondo Sorto
11-21-04, 01:19 AM
Originally posted by Dolphininc@11/20/04, 11:18pm
lol...I've only read the first part so far and I really like it. Your font is really tiny though. lol
Gonna change that, was having difficulty, lol!!
Biondo Sorto
11-21-04, 01:19 AM
Better?
StargateGirl
11-21-04, 01:26 AM
Yup, much better. :D

Jeff is so sweet. lol
Biondo Sorto
11-21-04, 01:28 AM
Originally posted by Dolphininc@11/20/04, 11:28pm
Yup, much better. :D

Jeff is so sweet. lol
Lol I figure you finished reading the second part.
And he's sweet in your story too :P I think its cute that he saved Leslie :D
StargateGirl
11-21-04, 01:30 AM
Yup...I read both parts. :P

:) He's not going to let anything happen to his special girl now. Especially if the one hurting her is his ex.
Biondo Sorto
11-21-04, 01:34 AM
Aww, how cute :wub: Guess thet don't call him Suga for nothin' :hehe:
so, when's the next chapter. You know, its kinda gettin' good, lol!
Raevengeance
11-21-04, 08:33 AM
I loves your story Britts :)

Keep it up and GIVE ME MORE! :P
Kristen07
11-21-04, 02:08 PM
I like this story a lot :) and i like the way you're potraying me, it's good. Poor Nick, i wanna ease his pain :(
More whenever you can :)
AshleyGirl
11-21-04, 05:28 PM
Great Story Britt!!!!!! Can't wait for more......
:Angel: :Angel: :Angel:
littleprincessj
11-21-04, 05:39 PM
I love it! I've been away all weekend but it's great and I'll PM ya back as soon as I get the chance!
Biondo Sorto
11-21-04, 09:29 PM
I'll try to add when I can, glad that everyones enjoying this!!! :yay: :^:
Biondo Sorto
11-23-04, 09:51 PM
*Here's Chapter 3. I'm trying to finish Chapter 4 tonight for you guys, hope you enjoy!!!*
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Chapter 3
Kristin looked up confused. She wasn’t expecting that. In fact, she wasn’t expecting him to say anything else throughout their meal.
“I beg your pardon?”
“What’s your name?” he repeated.
“Oh, my name is..” she started to hesitate.
“Yeah?” he urged.
“My name is Kristin.”
“Nice to meet you Kristin. So what brings you out on a cold day like so.”
“I was hungry.”
Nick found this amusing and started to laugh.
“Sorry, I guess that makes sense. Other than hungry, what was the real motivation for you to brave the cold winter air.” Nick asked once he had settled.
“Oh, well, I was sort of distracted so I figured why not be distracted and eat something I like.”
Nick nodded as he took a bite into his chili. Then another. Kristin didn’t know what it was about the way he ate it but for some reason she found it quite sexy.
“I know what you mean.” He said after a while. She snapped out of her day dream and asked,
“What?”
“I know what you mean by the eating to distract you thing. This is the tenth time I came here this week.”
“No kiddin. This is like my…fifteenth or sixteenth. One of the two.” She said, placing her bowl down.
“Really? Your life must be as screwed up as mine is.”
“Pretty sure it is.”
“Right.” He wiped some chili on top of his chin. Kristin licked her lips, then looked away. There was no way she could fall for some one, especially Nick Lachey. But wasn’t she the one that had said she needed to get over Richard, once and for all.
“So what are you doing after this?”
“Ummmmm, going home, falling into self depression again until I get hungry. Then I think I’ll go out and buy a burger or something. Why?”
“You want to go out and catch a movie or something. I’ve been dying to see Alexander, and was going to before…..” he started to fade out and Kristin nodded in understand. Poor guy. She knew exactly what he was going through.
“Sure. I’ve been meaning to see it to, but then there was this dumb season and how it reminded me of my ex-fiancé, and then it lead to me thinking about the son of a gun, and then I’m back in my room, crying my tears out for a worthless jerk. I think the movie will do me good.”
Nick looked at her surprised.
“Ex-fiancé?”
“Don’t want to talk about it.” Kristin mumbled. He nodded. They were quiet for a while until he asked,
“So, you still want to go out to that movie?”


Les looked over at Jeff who was intently looking down at the menu.
“Jeff?”
“Yep?” he asked looking up.
“Are you supposed to be somewhere else right now?”
“Like….?†
“Home maybe?”
“I’m on tour Les; the only time I go home is when this tour is over.”
“Oh, right.” Les blushed. Jeff looked at her and she started to blush again.
“What?” She finally asked.
“What’s your real name?”
“Les….” She started to fade out.
“I know that silly. I mean is your name really Les or is it short for something?”
“Oh, do you wanna know my full name?”
“Yeah, I do.”
“Les is for short. My real name is Leslie Miranda. It was just, everybody in my cl[arse] was Leslie so I wanted to be Les and alas, that’s how my nick name was formed.”
“Really. That’s unique.”
“Ain’t it. Blame it on my dad.”
Jeff smiled and grabbed her hand.
“So……à ¢â‚¬Â
“Yeah?”
“What are you doing after this?”
Leslie shrugged her shoulders.
“You wanna go and hang out at my hotel.”
Leslie immediately tensed up and pulled her hand away.
“I’m not like that Jeff, I’m sorry. This is a big misunderstanding. I have to leave. It was nice to meet you.” Leslie started to get up and gather her things. How could she think that Jeff would be interested in her like that? He probably thought she was another piece of gullable [arse]. She was starting to walk away when Jeff grabbed her hand and said,
“Wait, I didn’t mean it like that. I just wanted to get to know you better without the crowd, you know with privacy. If it makes you feel better than I can just get to know you right here instead at my hotel. I wouldn’t think of using you like that…….”
Leslie looked at down at him and saw the regret in his eyes.
“I’m sorry I just….”
“I have a wife and two kids. Why would I want to ruin that? I just want to get to know you as a friend. Is that too much to ask?”
Leslie sighed. She felt so stupid. Of course he didn’t want her like that. Why would he? He had the perfect life, a beautiful wife, beautiful children, why get mixed up with the likes of her.
“I’m sorry I just…” she sat back down in put her face in her hands.
“Hey don’t be. I understand. You hear rumors about us musicians. I admit, if I wasn’t taken I’d give you a chance but I wouldn’t push you, I’d let you adjust…….† He started to fade out.
“Yeah, but still…”
“Leslie look at me,” he lifted her chin and looked into his eyes.
“Don’t worry about it. It was just a misunderstanding. It didn’t come out right. Anyone could have misinterpreted it, all right.”
Leslie nodded and he smiled. Oh how that smile drove her crazy. Hell everything drove her crazy about him. She watched as he eased back in his seat and continued to look down at the menu. She was confused. There was a little part of her that wanted to go back to the hotel with him, to spend time with him, but she didn’t want it to be dirty. Now that he wanted to stay here she didn’t feel like she was…beautiful enough for him. That he settled on that decision because she was the kind of girl that guys ‘settled’ on. She shook her head. She was driving herself mad.
“Jeff.”
“Yeah?” he asked, looking up at her.
“We can go back to the hotel. I want to know you better to. I’m tired of the waitress walking by eavesdropping on our conversation.”
Jeff smiled, but it quickly disappeared.
“You don’t have to do this just because you feel pressured…”
“I don’t. Jeff, I just want to get to know you, and I’ll feel awkward with a person asking us if were all right every thirty seconds.”
Jeff debated this, and then got up.
“You wanna drive, or me?”

Jessie looked at herself in the mirror again, then yelled,
“Kiki if you don’t come down here I’m going to go without you!”
“I’m coming, I’m coming!!” Kelena yelled, walking out the bathroom.
“About time.” Jessie said turning around and looking at herself once more.
“I had to make sure I looked all right.” She said coming up beside her and fluffing out her hair a bit.
“Your fine, all right.”
“You are too, so stop oogling at yourself in the mirror and come on.”
Jessie looked at herself once more, then said,
“All right, let’s go.”
By the time the two got there, the play was about to begin. They walked down to their seats, p[arse]ed the tenth row, p[arse]ed the ninth, the eighth, sixth, until they reached the first.
“Are you freaking kidding me!!?” Jessie asked as they took their seat.
“I told you you’d get the best with Gary.” Kelena smiled at her.
“We so owe him. Got any gay friends we can hook him up with?”
“Believe me, I’m working on it.” Kelena smiled as the play begin. The two sat in silence as they watched the play unfold. And wasn’t it worth their time. It was a funny comedy, good actors and good music. The best thing, though, was Drew. He was phenomenal. Jessie couldn’t keep her eyes off of him. But like they say, all good things must come to an end. As soon as it began it was over with.
“Wow, what a play.” Jessie said once the actors had taken their last bow and the curtains had closed.
“I know, it was defiantly worth the money.”
Jessie looked over at her as Kelena re-worded,
“Defiantly worth Gary’s money.”
“Right.” Jessie said getting up.
“Wait, where are you going?” Kelena asked pulling her down.
“I’m getting up to catch a cab back to the hotel. Its over.”

”No its not.”
“What do you mean?”
“Didn’t I tell you?”
“Tell me what?”
“We get to meet the cast.”
Jessie froze in place.
“You’re kidding me, right?”
“No……. ¢â‚¬Â Kelena said as Jessie placed her hand on heart.
“I’m going to meet Drew.”
“Yeah. I didn’t tell you?” Kelena said, looking at her confused.
“Do I look like you told me?!!”
“Your right. Darn. I thought I….Ohhhhh!”
“What?” Jessie asked, looking over at her.
“I meant to surprise you. Opps.”
“Some opps.”
“Well, I’m sorry.”
“Right.”
“Jess.” Kelena whine. Jessie looked over at her and sighed.
“All right, I forgive you.”
“Good,” Kelena said then got up.
“Now come on. Gary said they’d meet us in the lobby. Were going out to dinner with them.”
“Must we?”
“You have a chance to meet Drew Lachey…..THE Drew Lachey and you wanna p[arse] it up cause your nervous?”
Jessie looked down at her fingers. She did want to meet him.
“I look like crap.” She finally said.
Kelena rolled her eyes and pulled her up.
“You do not now come on.”
“All right.” Jessie said reluctantly following her. They made their way out of the big gl[arse] doors and Jessie froze.
“What?” Kelena asked turning around and looking at her.
“When did Gary said they’d meet us?”
“When they finished getting ready.”
“And how long did it take us to get out here.”
“Well we waited for the crowd to thin out, then you were having an anxiety attack so I say about twenty…thirty minutes why?”
“Cause there’s Drew. And he ain’t with one of his co-stars.”
“What?” Kelena asked. She looked at the guy and then she froze up.
“What?” Jessie asked walking up beside her.
“What’s Justin Jeffre doing beside him?”
“The Justin Jeffre?”
“Do you know any other Justin’s?”
Jessie bit her lip and shook her head. They were silent for a while until Jessie asked,
“Think we can sneak past them.”
“No.”
“Think we can find another way out?”
“Doubt it.”
“Are we screwed?”
“Oh yeah”
“Great.” Jessie sighed. Again silence until Kelena said,
“Well we could introduce ourselves…….â₠
“Are you nuts!?”
“No…”
“Well, I guess it couldn’t hurt.”
“It couldn’t.”
“All right, I’ll go if you go.”
“All right.” Kelena said as they slowly walked down the theaters stairs.
Kristen07
11-23-04, 10:01 PM
Awesome chapter :) more whenever you can :)
Raevengeance
11-23-04, 10:08 PM
Love it Britts :)
littleprincessj
11-23-04, 10:14 PM
I love it!
StargateGirl
11-23-04, 10:21 PM
That was awesome. :D
Biondo Sorto
11-23-04, 11:04 PM
*If it seems slow in this Chapter, its because I was building up to Chapter 5. Believe me, everyone's part gets better in that chapter!!!!!!*
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Chapter 4
Now when Nick had asked Kristin to the movies, he didn’t think she was going to go through it. Especially since he heard about her fiancé. Ex-fiancé he reminded himself. He felt bad for Kristin; he knew exactly what she was going through. He understood what she had meant about locking herself inside her bedroom and crying her self to sleep, there were times were he felt like doing that himself. But being around Kristin did something to him. Something that he couldn’t explain. When he was around her he forgot all about Jessica, all the pain and grief that she had caused him. When he was around her he was happy, a feeling he hadn’t felt for a long time. A very long time.
“Nick.” Kristin said, snapping him out of his thoughts.
“Huh?” Nick asked, looking down at her. Wasn’t much considering she was about an inch or two smaller than him. That didn’t bother him though.
“I asked if you wanted me to pay for the popcorn or no.”
“I can, don’t worry about it.”
“You sure?”
“Yeah, I wouldn’t be a gentleman if I didn’t.”
“You don’t have to be obligated to buy me popcorn Nick.”
“It’s a pleasure.”
“To buy me popcorn?”
“Yeah”
“All right.” She said, then bit her lip.
“What?”
“The line’s pretty long. How about you get the popcorn and I go save us a seat.
“Sure, whatever you want is cool with me.”
“All right.” She said, disappearing into the crowd and walking toward their theater. Nick finished and got the popcorn, without any distractions, and headed toward the black theater. It took him a minute to adjust to the darkness, but eventually spotted Kristin sitting in the middle seats.
“I got us some drinks to go with our popcorn.” He said, taking a seat beside her.
“Oh thanks.” Kristin smiled at him, taking her pop and placing it in the pop holder. She sighed and leaned back in the seat.
“What?” he asked, placing the popcorn comfortably in his lap.
“Side effect in coming early?”
“What?” he asked again, taking a few bites of some popcorn.
“Well they can’t start showing previews, so instead your stuck reading the dumb little trivial questions like, ‘Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCapro starred in what movie in 1997?’ or ‘What do you call a stage light?’ and its either a real obvious answer or some stupid, outrageous name. And you’re so bored you’re dumb enough to try and guess the answers.” She said leaning forward and looking toward him.
“So I’m not the only one who reads those.” He smiled at her. She rolled her eyes and playfully hit him in the shoulder.
“Hey what was that for?” he said, hitting her back. She swatted him back and said,
“That’s for the dumb comment.”
He in return hit her back and said,
“It’s dumb to read those questions? You said yourself you read them when you’re bored. I get bored quite easily.”
“I bet.” She said hitting him again.
“I do.” He said.
“I know Nick. But think, ten more minutes!”
“Ten more long minutes.”
“You’ll be fine, just find a way to entertain yourself.” She said, laying back in her seat and closing her eyes.
I’m sure you could entertain me Nick thought in his mind. He quickly shook his head and also laid back in his seat. Was it too soon to be thinking about a relationship. Three weeks….does it take three weeks to get over someone? He didn’t know what it was, but he wanted it to go away, quick. He didn’t like the power that Kristin had over him and furthermore, he didn’t like the fact that he liked her having that power.

Jeff opened up the door to his hotel room. It had taken them thirty minutes to actually reach the room, the first twenty was spent trying to beat traffic and the last ten was spent trying to dodge fans. Now in the safety of his room, Leslie took of her jacket and took a seat on the edge of his bed. She looked like she was contemplating something, then moved down to the floor.
“Why’d you do that?” Jeff asked, taking a seat beside her.
“Do what?” she asked, looking up at her.
“Take a seat on the floor. You can seat down on the bed.”
“Umm….I rather not. I like sitting on the floor.”
“All right, whatever suites you.” Jeff said taking off his jacket and throwing it on the bed. Then he returned to Leslie.
“So Les, tell me about yourself.”
“All right….what do you want to know?”
“Ummm….wellâ₠¦tell me about where you grew up?”
“I grew up here in Chicago.”
“Okay.”
“And I guess I went to a pretty good school. Had good friends, went to a good college here in Chicago. I guess somewhere deep down I always wanted to be a singer. I love to sing. In the shower, cooking breakfast, doing my homework, I love to do it. It helps relax me, in fact I feel best when I’m singing.”
“yeah?” Jeff asked scooting toward her. The perfume that she was wearing was driving him crazy.
“Yep….” She said, drifting off.
“Cool, so how old are you?”
“24.”
“You still going to school?”
“Last year. I took a year off last year to spend some time with my family.”
“That’s fun. What are you wanting to major in.”
“Not sure yet. I’m taking a lot of cl[arse]es that deal with computers, so probably around that area. I’m hoping to get my masters soon….well maybe. I like my job right now so I might just stay there, don’t really know.”
“Where do you work now?”
“A small networking company. We fix any dilemmas with your computer. Were connected with Microsoft.”
“Fun.”
“I suppose. It gets boring at times. But I work downtown and my office isn’t dreary like others I suppose. Its surrounded by windows so you can catch a lot of the action and stuff.”
Jeff nodded his head, his eyes intently on her. She looked at him and started to laugh.
“What?” he asked, checking himself. He didn’t have anything on his shirt. He started to wipe his face and check his air. There didn’t seem to be anything there either.
“Your….justâ₠¦..your so concerned. My job isn’t thrilling and your really interested. I just thought that it was pretty funny.”
“Oh.” Jeff said sighing relief. This time he hadn’t made a mistake, something he was known for doing, especially in front of the ladies.
“So enough about me. What about you? How’s your wife?”
“good.” He replied. He rather not talk about her at the particular moment.
“And the kids.”
“There good. There both getting really big, which is a plus.”
“that’s always good.”
“Yeah.”
It was silent.
“So……à ¢â‚¬Â Jeff said after a while.
“yeah.”
“Thirsty?”
“yeah.”
“I can get us some drinks from the vending machine. And if you want some ice; the machine is right next to it.”
“Sure.” Les shrugged. Jeff got up and walked out the room, heading toward the vending machine. He needed to cool down. He unbuttoned his shirt a bit and put a dollar in the machine. Normally if he was in a room with a woman beside his wife, he wouldn’t think twice about it. In fact he wouldn’t even care, even if she was throwing herself at him. But there was something about Les. He couldn’t put his hand on it, but she seemed so much mellower than Trish. And…well where could he begin. She just gave him butterflies, made him feel like the insecure adolescent he left back in M[arse]illon. But he liked the feeling, and really liked her. He was so deep in thought that he didn’t realize he was back in his room until he tripped over his jacket ‘how the hell did that get there’ he thought and came trashing down…..on Les. The ice flew every where and the pops landed somewhere. And Jeff? He was on top of Les, who was looking confused and dazed about everything that was going on. Jeff didn’t know what else to do so he asked with a smile,
“Hey Les, what’s up?”

Drew looked up from the nicely polished floor and spotted two girls headed their way, coming down the stairs.
“Hey J.” he said, nodding at Justin who was staring up at….something?
“What?” Justin asked, looking at him.
“I think that’s them.” He said. Justin turned toward Drew’s gaze and smile. Drew could already tell he liked one of them.
“Which one do you like?” he asked, not even bothering to try and ask later. He knew Justin, and Justin was a fast operator.
“The one with the purple skirt that has Japanese writing on it.”
Drew squinted his eyes and nodded. She was cute, but not his type. Defiantly Justin’s, but not his. They came closer and that’s when Drew realized the pretty brunette that was walking by the girl Justin was checking out. She was short…but it was sort of a cute short. She wore a short black dress-not to formal, not to informal-that showed off her legs. The more she walked over, the more Drew liked. Very, very much. He smiled as they neared and gave them a friendly nod.
“Hi. You guys wouldn’t perhaps be Jessie and Kelena? Friends of Gary, right?” he asked. Mentally he was hoping they were.
“Yeah, we are.” The one that Justin liked said.
“Hi, I’m Justin.”
“And I’m Drew, if you don’t know.” Drew said, giving the brunette a charming smile. She smiled back and gave her friend a nudge.
“Oh I’m Kelena.” She said, extended her hand out.
“And I’m Jessie, if you didn’t already guess.” Jessie said, also extending her hand out.
“Nice to meet the two of you.”
“You too.” Both girls said uneasily. They stood in an awkward silence until Jessie said,
“well guess we should be going.”
“Wait, your leaving?” Drew asked alarmed.
“Well, yeah I guess we are. Of course, I do remember Gary telling us that we were supposed to go out to dinner with you guys and the cast.” Kelena said, giving Jessie a deadly stare. She just rolled her eyes.
“We are. Unfortunately, the cast left without us. Hope you guys don’t mind just going with us.”
“Don’t mind, don’t mind at all.” Jessie smiled at Drew. Drew smiled back. He defiantly didn’t mind spending dinner with them, especially if it meant more time with Jessie.
Raevengeance
11-24-04, 06:04 AM
LMAO - Love it - and that is just SOOOOOOOOOO TIMMONS!
StargateGirl
11-24-04, 12:54 PM
lol...poor Les getting crushed by Jeff.
Kristen07
11-24-04, 04:08 PM
Nice chapter :) Nick and Kris are so cute... and the weird thing is, if I'm there early enough, I do like to make fun of those little ads and try to guess those trivia questions, even though I'm wrong most of the time!

Keep adding more whwn you can :)
Raevengeance
11-24-04, 04:17 PM
Originally posted by Dolphininc@11/24/04, 11:56am
lol...poor Les getting crushed by Jeff.
Yeah - like being landed on by Timmons is such a problem - I'd love to be in that position ;)
Biondo Sorto
11-24-04, 09:44 PM
Originally posted by Rae@11/24/04, 04:06am
LMAO - Love it - and that is just SOOOOOOOOOO TIMMONS!
Ain't it, lol! I was thinking I could make it cute but I thought Jeff and enough was said, lol!
Biondo Sorto
11-24-04, 09:47 PM
Originally posted by ~KrisM16~@11/24/04, 02:10pm
Nice chapter :) Nick and Kris are so cute... and the weird thing is, if I'm there early enough, I do like to make fun of those little ads and try to guess those trivia questions, even though I'm wrong most of the time!

Keep adding more whwn you can :)
Lol, I do too. That's why I put it in there, I figured I wasn't the only person that does it, lol :P. ALl right, I'm going to be adding soon...I've yet to start the chapter lol :D
Biondo Sorto
11-25-04, 12:39 AM
*Here's Chapter 5, hope you guys like it!!!!!!!*
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Chapter 5
As soon as the movie started, it ended. Nick had driven Kristin back to Skyline Chili and they were now standing outside of each others car. Kristin was fiddling with her keys while Nick was looking up at the night sky. Kristin wanted to say something; she felt more than ever that she wanted to see Nick again but didn’t know how to come across it.
“So…” she said after a while.
“Yeah?” Nick asked looking down at her.
“I guess I should be going.”
“Yeah.” Nick said. Kristin shook her head and left it at that. It was obvious he didn’t want to get to know her the way she wanted to know him. She didn’t know why she [arse]umed that he did. She opened up the car door and was about to step in when Nick stopped her.
“Wait.”
“What?” she asked, turning around and looking at him.
“What are you doing tomorrow?”
“I don’t know….most likely going to come back out for Chili. Why?”
“You want to go out tomorrow?”
Kristin took all she could in trying not to jump up and down.
“Yeah, that’d be nice.”
“Say we meet here at…..noon sound good?”
“How about we meet up at my place. I can give you my address if you want.”
“Sure.” Nick said.
“All right.” She replied, taking a piece of paper out of her purse and writing her address down.
“Here you go.” She replied, handing him the piece of paper.
“All right. Noon, right?”
“Right.” She smiled.
“Well see you later.”
“All right, bye.”
He started to walk off, but stopped and turned around.
“You know, I may forget the time, do you think I could get your number too.”
“Sure.” Kristin smiled. She was feeling like the woman on top. Not only did Nick want to go out with her, he wanted her number too.
“Cell or home?”
“Both.” He smiled at her. She felt like three again, and immediately grabbed his hand and wrote her number down.
“Don’t be gripping the wheel to tight when you drive home, I’ll be expecting a call.” She winked at him. ‘Stop flirting’ she lectured herself. But she couldn’t help it, it seemed so easy when she was around Nick.
“For you? Never.” He winked back at her. Kristin blushed and felt that it was time for her to leave.
“I’ll talk to you later.”
“Can’t wait.” Nick said in a softer tone, looking down at her. Was he going to kiss her? It seemed a little too soon for that; they hadn’t actually gone out on their first date. She slowly exhaled as Nick softly kissed her on the cheek and whispered,
“Good night.”
“Good night.” She said softly. He gave her hand one more squeeze before turning around and heading toward the direction of his car. Kristin smiled as she stepped into her car. She smiled as she drove home, and even when she was stepping into her house.
“Where the hell where you?” Katrin yelled once she set her things down on the couch.
“Out.” Kristin simply replied.
“Out? OUT! You were gone for five hours! Its seven now Kristin. What where you doing?”
“I was out eating.” Kristin said walking into her room and shutting the door. Katrin, not happy with the answer, followed her.
“You were eating for five hours?”
“Yeah.” Kristin said, falling back on the bed. Katrin sighed then asked,
“Well, did you at least bring me back any chili. And it better be there vegetarian chili cause you know I hate meat.”
“Ohhhhh, that’s what I meant to get you.” Kristin said, sitting up in her bed.
“You’ve been gone for five hours and you don’t have enough sense to get my chili!?”
“I guess.” Kristin shrugged. Katrin narrowed her eyes, walked over to her and placed her hand on her forehead.
“Your not hot so it must be an internal sickness.”
“I’m not sick.” Kristin said swatting her and getting up.
“What, you just forgot all about your starving sister.”
“We have food here so you weren’t starving. Stop acting dramatic.”
“I’m acting dramatic? Who was the one who was crying over Richard for the past year?”
“Who’s Richard?” Kristin asked, turning around. Katrin looked at her with her mouth agape.
“What?” she asked again. She really didn’t know who Richard was. Or maybe she did. She didn’t care who he was at the moment, all she could think about is Nick. The way he smiled, his eyes, and the way he kissed, she felt like goo. She didn’t want to see herself when they actually kissed kissed…..if there was another time. Her thoughts were interrupted by the phone ringing. She looked at it, then at her sister.
“You wanna get it, or me?” She asked.

Les looked at him shocked, then replied,
“You are.”
“Am I? Wow, things are way better down here.”
“I bet.” She said, slightly pushing him. Sure she was in pure heaven right now, Jeff Timmons had just fallen on top of her, but she still couldn’t go through with it. Not with him being a married man.
“I guess that’s my cue to get off, huh?”
“Yep, it is.” She smiled at him.
“All right.” He said getting up. Then he helped her up and they both sat on the bed.
“Well, here goes the pop.” Les said, reaching behind her and grabbing the two Pepsi’s that had fell on the bed.
“Oh yeah that was what I went to go out and get..” Jeff smiled at her. Leslie rolled her eyes and then they both fell into silence. They were both interrupted by Jeff’s hotel phone.
“I should get that, huh.”
“Yeah, you should.” Les said sarcastically. Jeff smiled at her again and reached over his bed and grabbed his phone.
“Hello…..oh, hey Trish. How are you doing?”
Leslie tried to distract her self as Jeff was talking on the phone. As much as she didn’t want to admit, she was kinda interested in hearing the phone conversation, but respected Jeff’s privacy. It was sort of hard to however, when she could hear Trish yelling into the phone.
“When are you coming home!? You know, it’d be nice if we could spend the holidays together for once!”
“Trish how many times do we have to go over this. I have a job, and my job requires me to be away, sometimes even on the holidays.”
“So now your choosing your job over your family?”
“I didn’t say that Trish, now you’re [arse]uming like you always do..”
“So I’m [arse]uming now? Well, seeing as I’m [arse]uming you can stay at wherever the hell your at while I’m [arse]uming at home. Merry Christmas Jeff, have a happy holiday……ALONE!!!â ‚¬Â
Jeff gaped at the phone as he heard the dial tone on the other end.
Leslie slowly got off the bed. She didn’t know what to do. She could take the risk and leave…..but she didn’t want to leave Jeff like that. She sighed and walked to other end of the bed, crouching beside him.
“Jeff…are you okay?”
Jeff stayed silent, never taking his eyes off the phone.
“Jeff….?†
“She kicked me out…… again.” he finally replied. Leslie sighed and started to rub his back.
“Jeff, she’s upset. She could get over it; Christmas isn’t for another three weeks, she could change.”
“She won’t. Trish is as stubborn as a mule.”
“Well…..you can spend the holidays with me. I mean, I may not be as charming as a host as Trish but I can cook pretty well. And my family’s really fun…it could be fun.”
Jeff continued to stay quiet and Leslie regretted saying what she did. Of course he wasn’t going to want to spend the holidays with her when he has so much more at home.
“That sounds like fun.” He said interrupting her of her thoughts.
“What?”
“That sounds like fun.” He repeated.
“Really?”
“Yeah. It beats spending it alone.”
“You could always spend it somewhere else…”
“No, it should be fun spending it with you.” He said, sitting up on the bed. Leslie got up and set beside him.
“Better?” she asked a while.
“I guess. I wanted to spend the holidays with my kids, but you’re a good substitute. A real good substitute.”
“Thanks….I think.” Leslie said. She didn’t know if replacing his kids was either a good thing or a bad thing.
“I mean that Les, and not in a bad way. Not a lot of people would of offered to spend the holidays with me. Just look at me, I can barely carry a bucket of ice.”
Leslie laughed and shook her head.
“Believe me Jeff, I’m sure plenty of girls would jump at the chance to spend the holidays with you.”
“Yeah…..but still, thanks.”
“You welcome. I’m the one who should be thanking you for spending time with me.” Leslie joked.
“Why do you say that?”
“Don’t know, not the kind of person that’s sort of a go-getter. Kinda like to keep things small and formal……with the exception of my wedding. I want a really big wedding.”
“Don’t sell yourself short, you seem like a very social person. Why do you want a really big wedding?”
“I guess, I don’t consider myself one but whatever. I don’t know why I want a huge wedding…I guess cause my mom and dad has a little one and wanted a huge one. They made it sound like a big thing-having a little wedding- and the more I grew up the more I wanted a huge one with a lot of my family and friends……†
Leslie stopped herself short. Why was she discussing her marriage with Jeff Timmons? He probably didn’t even care.
“What else?”
“Well…… .”
“I want to know.” Jeff said, scooting toward her.
“I want a huge cake with a thousand layers on it, and an outside reception and a thousand flowers and……..why do you care again?” she asked.
“I just think its pretty interesting.”
“Because.”
“Your interesting.”
“Stop fooling yourself.” Leslie snorted.
“You don’t believe me?” Jeff asked confused.
“You don’t have to kiss up to me just because your spending the holidays with me.”
“But I………I do think your interesting. I like you.”
“I like you to but there’s nothing interesting about me.”
“Why do you say that?”
“Do I look like the interesting type.”
“You are Les, whether you think so or not.”
“What’s so interesting about me. I’m a boring person to look at, I have a boring job, I have a boring voice, and once more…..” she stopped talking altogether. She couldn’t help it; Jeff’s lips had found hers and they were now locked in a p[arse]ionate kiss. Leslie fell into heavenly bliss as her arms found their way around his neck, and his arms found her waist. Leslie was falling hard and she didn’t know whether to take it as a good thing or a bad thing.

Jessie smiled over at Drew who gladly helped her up on the horse carriage. After they had dinner, they all decided to go their separate ways. It was obvious to see that Kelena and Justin were more interested in the two of them instead of the four of them. So Drew had suggested a carriage ride. Drew slowly slid over as the carriage slowly started to move.
“So what did you think about the show?” Drew asked out of curiosity.
“It was good. Really, really good. I liked it. How long is it going to be on.”
“Well there’s one more play then I’m off for the rest of the year. Then next year until March, so not long. It’s a good thing you saw it when you did.”
“Well I owe it all to Gary. And Kiki. If it wasn’t for them, I wouldn’t be able to see it at all.”
“I guess I’m going to have to tell them thank them too.”
“Why?”
“No reason in particular. I’m just really glad that I met you.”
“I’m glad I met you too.”
He smiled at her and Jessie smiled back. The she looked out the carriage.
“Its beautiful here. Kiki was right, there isn’t a Christmas like a New York Christmas.”
“Technically the Christmas season isn’t till tomorrow but your right. Kiki is from here?”
“Well technically yeah but I’m talking in general. And yeah, she’s from upstate New York. This place is in her blood.”
“She’s very chic. Is she a fashion designer?”
“Actually she’s an artist. And she’s really good, she was even kind to paint me a piece, free of charge.”
“Cool. Is that how you guys met?”
“Through art?”
“Yeah.”
“No, actually she flew out to California one summer and happened to go to one of my Sorority parties and we clicked and since then been the best of friends.”
“Your still in college?”
“Yep, I’m a sophomore in college. I attend UCLA, why?”
“You look like your twenty six.”
“Actually I’m 21 but no biggie I suppose.”
“So your seven years younger than me, damn I’m old.”
Jessie laughed and shook her head.
“Believe me Drew, your not old. Your looks would say otherwise.”
“What about my ‘looks’†
“Your really young looking. Like really, really, REALLY, young looking. You still have that cute boy charm about you.”
“Thank you but you shouldn’t be buttering me up, especially when you’re the one with all the good looks.”
“Oh….I don’t think so.”
“I do. Your really cute.”
“Well….thank you I think.” Jessie blushed. All the compliments were just way too much for her.
“You welcome.” He smiled at her. The rest of the horse ride was spent in silence. But it wasn’t the sort of silence that wasn’t awkward or uncomfortable. To Jessie it was perfect. At one point through it, Drew had wrapped his arms around her shoulders and she had laid her head on his shoulder. She didn’t know how to take it all in, so instead she stayed quite and just went with the flow. Pretty soon their ride had ended, and they were both outside of her hotel.
“Well I guess this is our departure point.” Jessie said half regrettedly. She really didn't want to leave.
“Not really, me and J are staying at the same hotel.”
“Really” Jessie asked confused.
“Yeah, really.” Drew said as they walked into the elevator. They both reached for the elevator keys and pressed the button 26.
“Wow, your on that floor to?” they asked at the same time and then laughed.
“Yeah, I’m up there.” Jessie said after a while.
“Who would’ve known?”
“Gary.” Jessie mumbled.
“What?”
“Nothing.” she smiled at him. He smiled back and soon they were at their floor.
“So I guess now is our departure point.” Jessie whispered as they reached her door.
“Yeah….I guess it is.” Drew said as he leaned against the wall adjacent her door.
“Well…..it was nice meeting you. Good luck with your play.”
“Wait, I’m not going to let you off that easy. What are you doing tomorrow?”
“Site-seeing with Kelena IF she’s not to involved with Justin. Why?”
“You wanna spend time with me. I heard your kinda alone for the holidays and I don’t mind spending the holidays out here.”
“Drew you have a family, and a wife, and you don’t have to give that up for a person you only met two hours ago.”
“Believe me, it wouldn’t hurt a thing. I want to get to know you, it doesn’t bother me one bit. Question is, do you want to spend the holidays with me?” Jessie bit her lip and thought about it. Drew wanted to spend her Christmas vacation with her. And not just any drew, the Drew Lachey from 98 Degrees. She could let him down….but what kind of person would she be if she did that?
“Sure, how about you meet me here eleven o’clock sharp.”
“You got it.” Drew smiled at her.
“Okay. Then, good night. See you tomorrow.” She smiled at him.
“’Night.â₠ He said, kissing her gently on the cheek and walking off down the hallway, toward his room, whistling all the way. Jessie touched the spot on her cheek and smiled. This vacation would defiantly be her best.
littleprincessj
11-25-04, 12:49 AM
Awww....this was a good chapter...well they've all been good :wink: but this one was great too. more, more... :popcorn: :popcorn:
StargateGirl
11-25-04, 05:28 AM
Silly Trish kicking him out. *gasp* Jeff and Les kissed. :D
Raevengeance
11-25-04, 07:41 AM
Originally posted by Dolphininc@11/25/04, 04:30am
Silly Trish kicking him out. *gasp* Jeff and Les kissed. :D
Trish is obviously an IDIOT ;) And if I was Jeff - I'd go get the kids - and take them with me whereever I was gonna spend the holidays.

Hmmmmm....Britts - I'm not sure how it's supposed to be - but there was a mention of Kristin in the Drew/Jessie part of the story - in case you wanna fix that...and how do Jeff's hands find HIS waist? ;)
Biondo Sorto
11-25-04, 06:55 PM
You see what had happened was..... :D
Sike, really it was late last night and I was determined to finished the dang chapter...I'll fix it, lol. Thanks for pointing it out I would have never noticed, lol.
Raevengeance
11-25-04, 07:00 PM
LOL

I just loved that Jeff decided to put his hands around his own waist ;)
Biondo Sorto
11-25-04, 09:49 PM
All right, I can't add tonight :( But I'm gonna add sometime tomorrow with another Chapter, lol. Holidays has worn me out, lol! :D
Raevengeance
11-25-04, 10:14 PM
LOL - whenever you get a chance, Ms. Britts :)
Kristen07
11-26-04, 08:05 PM
My goodness, Kris is on Cloud nine, isn't she? lol

Awww... Jeff and Les kissed :)

More soon whenever you get the chance, Britt :)
Biondo Sorto
11-26-04, 09:46 PM
Chapter 6
Nick whistled as he walked inside his dad’s house and hung up his jacket. He then walked toward the kitchen, where he saw Iris cooking dinner and John reading the paper.
“I’m back if anyone wants to know.” He said, before turning around and walking toward the guest room downstairs.
“Nick!” John said. Nick stopped in his tracks and turned around.
“What?”
“Where were you?”
“Why does it matter? I’m thirty one years old; last I recalled I was free to do whatever I wanted.”
“When you spend the holidays in my house, that’s when it mattered. So I repeat, where were you?”
“I went to Skyline Chili, like I told you.”
“Uh huh.”
“And I happened to run into someone.”
“Someone? Is this a someone you know?”
“Well not until today.”
“All right……..so what did you and this ‘someone’ does?”
“We went to go see Alexander. Iris is right; it’s a pretty good movie.”
“You went to a movie, with a complete stranger, without thinking twice about Jessica.”
“Why should I care about Jessica? I mean, she hurt me and you know, it hurts. But what can I do about it. She just wasn’t right for me. My friend made me realize that. What’s the use in dwelling on something that was never there.”
John looked at him surprised, then said,
“This must be some friend. This is a change, a dramatic change.”
“Yep well, you know, I finally saw the light. So if you will excuse, I think I’ll give my friend a call.” Nick said turning around and once again heading for the basement. Once he reached the guest room he immediately turned on the light switch and dialed the phone number that was still neatly written on his hand. He waited for a while….hoping to god that she didn’t give him a phony number when she heard,
“Hello?”
“Yeah, can I speak to Kristin.”
“Just a sec.” He heard movement in the background, then a sweet voice say hello,
“Hello?”
“I told you I wouldn’t grip the wheel to tight.”
“Is this nick?”
“Nope this is his evil twin.”
“Shut-up.”
“Hey, you set yourself up for that one.”
“I guess.”
“So what are you doing right now?”
“Nothing really, I was just talking to my sister.”
“Oh really? Do you guys live together.”
“For the moment yeah. I’m planning to move out to California when the New Year comes so I’m staying with her until then.”
“Where in the California?”
“I’m not sure really. Still looking.”
“I could always go with you to go looking for places.”
“Really? I’d like that.”
“Sure, I don't mind. I just found a place myself before I went to spend the holidays with my folks.”
“Hmmm, maybe I can get something near your house. That’d be fun.”
“If you’re willing to spend that money, yeah it could be.”
“I said something near your place, not right at your place.”
“Right.” Nick smiled, then shifted in the bed.
“So what are you doing for the holidays?”
“Me and my sister are just baking a Christmas dinner.”
“No folks?”
“They all decided to go spend time in Minnesota for the holidays. Other than the mall of America, there’s nothing out there that appeals to me, so I decided to stay out here.”
“Yeah, I guess it could be sort of boring out there.”
“Yep.”
“Well in that instance.”
“What?”
“You wanna spend the holidays with me. Or I could go over there.”
“Nick…..†
“What?”
“Well, we haven’t known each other for that long. I don’t think that it’d be cool if I pried during your families Christmas. And I don’t want to be the reason for you to leave your family for the holidays.”
“Well, at least consider it. I don’t think it’d be cool if you spend the holidays alone.”
“I have my sister.”
“Well, and your sister.”
“Don’t forget her cat and her boyfriend.”
“You know what I’m trying to say.” Nick replied sarcastically.
“Right..”
There was silence on the other end, and then Nick heard,
“Nick I’ll see you tomorrow. My mom’s on the other end.”
“All right. Don’t forget noon.”
“I know, I can’t wait.”
“Me either.”
“Well….talk to you later.”
“See ya, bye.”
“Bye.”
He waited for the click before hanging up the phone himself.

Jeff knew that he shouldn’t be kissing Les. In fact, he knew that he shouldn’t be making any physical contact with her but…....he didn’t know. At first he was just going to ignore her-harsh but true-so he could keep his hormones in check. But then she started to ramble about her imperfections, imperfections he knew wasn’t true, and he didn’t know. Little Timmons took control and now he was kissing her, falling back on the bed with her and driving himself into complete sexual torment when she pulled away from him.
“What are you doing?” she asked, looking up at him. He looked down at her and sighed. The fact of the matter was he didn’t know what he was doing. So he gave her an obvious answer.
“I’m kissing you, why?”
“Okay maybe I should go a bit farther with this one, why are you kissing me?”
“Because….† He didn’t have a valid answer. Well, he could say because she was driving him crazy, from the way she licked her lips every twenty seconds (yes, he had counted) from the simple way she fiddled with her fingers when she got nervous.
“Because?”
“I want to.” He said. Big no-no. She pushed him off of her and replied,
“Well I don’t want to. This is wrong Jeff, you know it and I know it.” She grabbed her gl[arse]es that had fallen on the floor when she fell back in the bed and put them on. Then she looked around the room, spotted her jacket, and went to retrieve it.
“Wait, where are you going?”
“The place I should have went from the get go, home.”
“Wait Les, don’t go.”
Leslie turned around and sighed.
“Why not?”
“I don’t want you to.”
“You want to kiss me but I don’t. You don’t want me to go and I do. Jeff, this is just a game that’s going to get us no where.”
Jeff sighed and nodded. She was right. This was just a game full of ‘wants’ and ‘needs’. He walked toward her and grabbed her hand.
“You want the truth. The god honest truth.”
“It wouldn’t hurt.”
“I want you because you make me happy. You make me feel like I’m on cloud nine. When I’m around you, I feel like I can conquer the world. I don’t feel like I’m living a huge lie. That’s what me and Trish’s relationship is, one big lie. It was a lie from the get go. I found her attractive, she found me attractive, but she didn’t really love me. We made love and who would’ve known it would be at my fault. I did the moral thing and married her, but it wasn’t the way I wanted to get married. She wanted something small, quick, and easy, so we eloped in Vegas. She never asked what I wanted. She never asked if I wanted the small wedding. I wanted a huge one, with all my family and friends. When she told me to separate myself from the guys, I did it because it made her happy. She never realized that me and Nick’s relationship has been on the rocks ever since. She thought everything was just hanky panky, but it isn’t. What is she going to do when she finds out that Nick and I are starting to talk again. You already saw what she did when she found out about me and touring. She never really liked that too.” Jeff sighed. What he had meant to tell Les is what he had felt about her. He didn’t mean to blurt out his life story. But he had started talking and couldn’t stop himself. Leslie’s eyes softened and she squeezed his hands.
“Jeff….I didn’t…..Iâ₠¬â„¢m sorry.” She said, reaching up and giving him a hug. He hugged her wanting to hold her close to him. They stood in the room like that for a couple of minutes when Leslie pulled away and replied,
“Jeff you don’t have to live your life like that. You’re so full of life, and she’s bringing you down. She’s making you live a life full of fears. You don’t deserve that. Why don’t you let her go.”
“I can’t.” he sighed.
“Why not? You can’t let her dictate your life Jeff.”
“What about my children.”
“What about your children? Jeff, there are plenty of children who have to live with their parents being divorced. I don’t think it should matter in this case, you’re always away from them because of touring. What would a divorce matter. Their mother and father wouldn’t be in the same room, true, but in reality there isn’t a big difference.”
Jeff thought about this. He looked at her and smiled.
“You think that I should do it.”
“I don’t want to dictate to you what you need to do, you’ve had enough of that as is. But I can advise you and tell you what I think is best.”
Jeff thought about this hard.
“How about I come back tomorrow when you’ve had time to think about this.” She suggested.
“We could go out to eat again.”
“Or I could take you to my special place.”
Jeff smiled.
“I’d like that.”
“So I’ll meet you downstairs at noon tomorrow?”
“Not earlier?”
“It’s Saturday and I got a day off. You’re lucky I’m getting up that early for you.”
Jeff smiled and opened the door for her.
“Well then I guess I’ll be seeing you tomorrow.”
“I’ll be counting down the minutes.” Les smiled.
Jeff gave a small smile before bending down and placing a soft kiss on her lips.
“I can’t wait either.” He whispered once they had pulled away. Leslie smiled as she turned around and walked away, her thoughts still stuck on Jeff and the kiss he had just gave her.

Drew woke up the next morning, feeling good. In fact, he couldn’t feel any happier. He got ready for the day and walked out of the room when he saw Justin dead asleep on the couch. He was still in the clothes he wore yesterday. He nudged his friend, hoping to get something but instead got a loud snore. He rolled his eyes and walked out of the room. He stood outside Jessie’s door, made sure he looked all right, then knocked on the door. He was happy to see her open the door, looking bright and ready for the day.
“I take it your roommate got in just as late as mine did.” He said, noticing Kelena sprawled out on the couch.
“What?” she asked, then turned around and nodded at Kelena.
“Yeah…..I think her and Justin had a busy night.”
“So much for site-seeing for you two.”
“Yeah, but I rather go site-seeing with you any day.”
“Well in that case,” he offered his arm out, “Let’s go.”
Jessie smiled as she grabbed her purse and then took Drew’s arm.
“So what do you got planned for the day?” she asked as they walked toward the elevator.
“I don’t know…..I was thinking either we could go down to the Rockefeller Center and go ice-skating.”
Jessie scrunched up her face.
“Or we could ride to the top of the Empire State building.”
“Kinda promised Kiki I do that with her before we left.”
“Or…..we could just go to Central Park. I think there zoo’s open during winter time.”
“I’d like that.” Jessie smiled at him as they reached the bottom floor. They hailed a cab and pretty soon there were at the park.
“You know, yesterday you got to know me but I want to get to know you.”
“All right, what do you want to know.” Drew said as they started to walk through the park.
“All right, I know about you and 98 Degrees and all that but what about now.”
“What about now?”
“What are your plans. I mean now that you have time, aside from the play, when do you want to settle down?”
Drew frowned.
“Ummmmmmmm…..â⠬
“Come on, everyone wants to have kids.”
“Yeah but….” He started to fiddle with her glove. She pulled back and stopped.
“Don’t tell me you and Lea don’t want to have kids.”
“Well she does but….”
“But what?”
“I don’t know.”
“You don’t know?”
“I mean…..” Drew didn’t know how to word it.
“Drew..”
“Lea’s great…she’s always been great. You know she’s been my best friend and everything and well, it’s been great…” he started to falter off.
“But?” Jessie asked amused.
“But I don’t know about kids.”
“Why? Last I recalled you wanted kids.”
“I did and still do I just…..I don’t know.”
“What’s wrong with Lea? Can she have kids?”
“Yeah, all’s good there.”
“Drew this whole conversation is getting us no where. Why don’t you want to have kids.”
Drew stopped. The fact of the matter was, for the past year he had been re-thinking about having kids. Lea was starting to want them, she was around the right age and he was around the right age but he didn’t know about the two of them anymore. And now with Jessie in the picture…….he was more confused than ever. Yeah he still loved Lea but sometimes he wondered if there love was enough.
“Drew.” Jessie said, bringing him back to reality.
“Yeah?”
“This is the part where you tell me why you don’t want to have kids.”
Drew sighed and looked at her. But instead of telling her something he pulled her to him and gave her a kiss. He didn’t know how else to word it, and only hoped Jessie wouldn’t slug him. He was happy, however, when she wrapped her arms around him even more.
Raevengeance
11-26-04, 10:00 PM
:Angel:

Timmons and Little Lachey both need their heads examined! :P
Biondo Sorto
11-26-04, 10:04 PM
:hehe:
Wub makes you do crazy things Rae!
Raevengeance
11-26-04, 10:04 PM
I wouldn't know about that
Kristen07
11-26-04, 10:07 PM
*Claps* bravo, more whenever you can :)
Biondo Sorto
11-26-04, 10:15 PM
Originally posted by ~KrisM16~@11/26/04, 08:09pm
*Claps* bravo, more whenever you can :)
Thanks Kris :thanx:
I'm trying on Number 7, had to take a break, lol!
Biondo Sorto
11-26-04, 10:18 PM
Originally posted by Rae@11/26/04, 08:06pm
I wouldn't know about that
Me either but I'm just [arse]uming on their behalf :P
smilingdork98
11-27-04, 10:20 PM
Okay.....
I was going to give you guys the next chapter but I just remembered that I saved it on the computer at home. Guess where I'm at now. Well, its not at home. Grrrr, second frustrating thing to happen to me today :bang:
So, if you don't mind, you guys can read the chapter tomorrow, Grrrr, I really wanted to post it, stupid computers! :cpu:
StargateGirl
11-27-04, 10:22 PM
that sucks. I can't wait to read it tomorrow. :)
Kristen07
11-27-04, 10:39 PM
That sucks :( Oh well... I can't wait to read it tomorrow!

**BTW I just PMed you on your other name :)
Biondo Sorto
11-28-04, 06:25 PM
Chapter 7
Kris woke up in a happy feel go mood. Not only did today mark the first of December, but she was going to be going out with Nick. She jumped out of bed, turned on the radio, and started to make her bed. Afterwards she ran downstairs, put in 98 Degrees Album This Christmas and started to sing along with the tunes while making her breakfast. Her sister came downstairs ten minutes later, raising an eyebrow at her little sister. She watched as she danced to “The Christmas Song” then interrupted her by saying,
“Someone woke up in a good mood.”
Alarmed Kristin turned around to her older sibling and quickly turned down the volume to the stereo.
“Well you know…I got a good nights sleep.”
“Really.” Her sister said nodding her head and walking into kitchen and looking over at the stove.
“My sister is making me bacon and eggs and French toast, and dancing and singing to 98 Degrees, all because of a good nights sleep.”
“Uh…..yeah.â₠ Kristin said, turning off the stove and starting to serve herself.
“I don’t believe it. Your hiding something from me Kristin Anne Miller, and I wanna know what. Now.”
“There’s nothing to tell because there’s nothing to hide.” Kristin said innocently, sitting down and taking a bite into her French toast.
“Hmmmm…†good.” She smiled at her sister. Katrin rolled her eyes and took a seat beside her.
“Something still smells fishy and it ain’t breakfast.”
“Stop being paranoid and finish breakfast.”
“Whatever. I still say it’s a miracle that you got up before eleven o’clock. Normally you’d sleep in ‘till one.”
Kristin looked up at the clock and grew frantic. The clock now read 11:00 to the key. That meant she had about an hour to get ready. She finished her breakfast and ran upstairs. There was no way she was going to make herself look cute by the time Nick got to her house. Fortunately for her, however, she did, and she was just finishing her hair when the doorbell rang.
“I got it!” Katrin yelled, walking over to the door and opening it. She stopped in her tracks when she saw Nick Lachey standing on the other side.
“Hi, does Kristin live here?”
Katrin nodded as she let him in.
“I’m coming!” Kristin yelled walking down the stairs, tying her leather jacket and then grabbing her purse.
“I’ll be home….soon all right. Call me if you need anything.” She said toward her sister, then yanked Nick out of the door.
“What was that for? Couldn’t I get an introduction or something?” Nick laughed as they walked toward his car. He opened the door for her while she replied,
“Well she didn’t even know that I was going out until now.”
“Why not?” Nick asked, pulling out of the driveway.
“My sister’s been worried about me ever since the break-up. She grew kinda suspicious when I came home actually happier than the usual.”
“Oh really?” Nick asked interested. Kristin immediately shut her mouth. She hadn’t meant for that much to slip out.
“No.” she finally said.
“I think so. I also think that I was the cause for your unusual happiness.”
“Nick, don’t give yourself that much credit.”
Nick smiled at her once more before returning his eyes back to the road. After their long ride the finally reached their destination.
“Ice skating? Were going ice skating?” Kristin asked, stepping out of the car.
“Yeah is that a problem.”
“No…not at all.” She said as they both walked into the arena. They got their shoes and Nick immediately got on the ice. Kristin, however, looked around the large arena and sighed. She closed her eyes as memories started to wash over.
“Kristin catch up!!” A happy Richard yelled as he skidded on the ice, making figure eights as he went.
“All right, all right, I’m coming.” Kristin yelled cautiously stepping on the ice. She slowly started to maneuver to Richard, who was having fun going in circles around her.
“Richard….slow down.” She muttered.
“What?” he asked teasingly.
“Slow down, I never ice skated before.”
“What was that?” he asked, putting his hand to his ear, beckoning her to speak up.
“I said slow the [bad word] down!” she yelled, stamping her feet down. Of course she lost her balance and slipped on the ice, looking up at the bland ceiling. She sighed as she stood up and Richard slowly skated toward her.
“I’m sorry.” He sighed, taking a seat beside her.
“Its all right. I just hate doing things I can’t do, it frustrates me.”
“I couldn’t tell.” He smiled at her.
“Well, you could always teach me instead of tease me.”
“Fine, I will.” He whispered before leaning in and giving her a kiss.
“Kristin!” Nick yelled, snapping Kristin out of her thoughts.
“Huh, what?” she asked, looking toward Nick.
“Are we gonna skate or no?”
“Sorry I Was just, uhhh, thinking.”
“I couldn’t tell.” He smiled, taking her hand and leading her to the middle of the ring. He noticed she didn’t let go and asked,
“Can you ice skate?”
“Sure I can fall on my [arse], its not really hard once you do it every year.” She replied sarcastically, looking up at him. He smiled and went behind her.
“Then I guess this is my cue to teach you, huh.”
Kristin smiled at him and nodded.
“All right, just match your pace with mine. When I think your confident enough to go by yourself, I’ll let you go.”
“All right.” Kristin nodded. They circled the ring once when Nick finally said,
“I’m going to let you go, all right.”
“Wait, no!” Kristin said panicked. She was enjoying her spot in front of Nick. She liked how her body moved with his, she didn’t want to let it go.
“You’ll be fine.” Nick said, letting her go slowly. Kristin closed her eyes, ready to land on her butt. She opened them slowly to see that she was still moving, and she had yet to defy gravity yet.
“Hey I’m doing it!” she yelled, turning around to look at Nick. Bad mistake. She lost her balance and was about to fall when Nick skated toward her and caught her in time.
“Whoa there, maybe your not ready.” He smiled, helping her up.
“Yeah.” She smiled back, clinging on to him. His smile started to waver and he slowly bent his head. Kristin held her breathe. He was going to kiss her. Oh, how she wanted him to kiss her. Then, something caught her attention out the corner of her eye. She attracted her attention toward it and saw Richard. He was skating with a blonde that was about her height. Kristin lost her breathe. How could he do that to her….how could he bring her here? She pulled away from Nick, trying to get off the ice while saying,
“I have to go.”
“What?” Nick asked dazed. He followed her, which wasn’t hard seeing as she was slipping everywhere and asked,
“Why?”
“I have to go.” She said breathlessly again. She finally made it to the stable concrete and threw her shoes off. She laced her tennis shoes and ran out of the arena. When she made it outside she took a few breathes. Why did he have to ruin her date? Why did he have to ruin her life? And why, more than ever, couldn’t she get over him.
“Kristin.” Nick said, running up beside her. She looked at him and sighed.
“What was that all about?”

Les contemplated going inside the hotel in her car. She could go in like she had promised but she felt sort of wrong in doing so. Had she manipulated Jeff in divorcing his wife for her own needs? Well, there was the fact that Trish was a controlling freak but she didn’t know. She was just tired of seeing Jeff in pain. She sighed as she got out the car. Whether it was wrong or not, she still wanted to see Jeff. She checked herself one more time before walking into the lobby. She spotted Jeff sitting on a bench and immediately walked toward him. She was surprised, however, when he saw that he had a nice bouquet of roses beside him.
“Hey Jeff.” She said, breaking whatever thoughts he seemed to have been thinking about. He looked up at her and smiled.
“Hey how are you doing?” he asked, getting up and giving her a hug.
“Good and you?”
“Pretty good. In fact, very good.” He smiled at her again. Then he grabbed the roses and gave them to her.
“Thank you but you didn’t have too.” She said taking a sniff of the flowers.
“I wanted to.”
“Thanks again.”
He nodded, then asked,
“So are we going?”
“Going where?”
“To your ‘special place’. Remember you said you take me there today.”
Leslie inwardly groaned. She had hoped that he would forget. Apparently not.
“You remembered?”
“Yeah…… .we don’t have to go if you don’t want to.”
Leslie looked at him and sighed.
“I’m gonna take you, I can’t back down from my word.”
“But you don’t want to.”
“It’s not that I don’t want to, its just I never showed anyone it and its kinda special to me.”
“Again, you don’t have to take me.”
“But see, I want too.”
“And your sure.”
“Uh huh.”
“All right.” Jeff shrugged. He didn’t feel like fighting her. He followed her to her car and Leslie started the long trek to her “special place”. About an hour later they were there.
“So this is it.” Jeff asked as they got out of her car.
“No, we gotta walk from here.” She said, taking his hand and leading him toward a big wire fence. Leslie played around in the dirt for a bit, found the silver key she was looking for, and then opened the gate. She locked it behind her, slid the key into her pocket, and grabbed Jeff’s hand again.
“Uhh, Les.” Jeff asked as they started to ascend the steep hill.
“What?” she asked, looking behind him.
“Are we tresp[arse]ing?”
“No…”
“So that big red sign that said ‘Tresp[arse]ing’ was there for the hell of it?” Jeff asked sarcastically. Leslie rolled her eyes and shook her head.
“Jeff, do we wanna see it or not?”
“Yeah…” Jeff asked reluctantly.
“Then be quite. Don’t worry about it, all right.”
“All right.” Jeff sighed. Finally they reached the top of the hill. Leslie jumped on the short brick wall then nodded toward Jeff. He followed in suite. They sat in silence as they watched the city below in silence.
“My grandpa’s friend, Frank, patrols this area. He used to let me come here when I was younger. Now that I’m older, he just gave me a key. Its city property, but they don’t know what to do with it so it just sits here. I’m guessing it may become a hotel or something.” Leslie said, breaking the silence. Jeff nodded. Leslie bit her lip. She wanted to ask him about last night, but didn’t know how to word it without seeming too nosy. She was just about to bluntly ask him when he said,
“You know ever since last night I’ve been thinking about what you said about me and Trish. I came to a conclusion.”
“Which is?” Leslie asked, looking over at him.
“I called her this morning and told her I’m filing for a divorce.”
Leslie sat in silence. She didn’t know what to do. In a way, she felt that it was sort of her fault. She hadn’t meant to push Jeff about it, but she felt that was what he needed. She sighed and asked,
“So what happened?”
“We had an argument. A long argument. I finally told her how I felt and she responded in vice versa. After two hours we both concluded that it was the best thing to do. We both weren’t happy. She was finding interest in another guy and me, well….” He looked over at her and smiled.
“Jeff I didn’t mean for the both of you guys too.”
“Don’t worry about. It was meant to happen, you just made the process go by faster.”
“But still…..”
“What? You only gave me the courage to confront my problem. If it wasn’t for you I’d still be miserable.”
Leslie smiled. That part was true. She looked up at him and asked,
“So now what?”
“What do you mean?”
“Now what are you going to do?”
“Something I’ve been doing for a long time know.” He whispered, leaning in and kissing her. She smiled as his lips pressed firmly on hers. She pulled away and replied,
“You wanna go hang out at my place?”
Jeff smiled as he nodded. Leslie rolled her eyes as she turned around and jumped off the wall.
“Don’t think just because I’m inviting you to my house your getting laid. You have enough little Timmons running around as is.”

Jessie sighed as she pulled away from Drew. Yeah what she was doing was wrong but damn, that man was a good kisser. She snapped out of her thoughts and asked,
“Drew, why did you do that?”
He looked at her blankly, like he was contemplating an answer, then replied,
“I don’t know.”
“You don’t just go kissing strangers at random and then not know why. Drew, you must have known why you kissed me.”
“I don’t consider you a stranger.”
“Drew, stop trying to change the subject.”
“I wasn’t, I was just commenting on your statement.”
Jessie rolled her eyes and crossed her arms.
“Drew, if you don’t tell me I’ll just catch a cab and leave.”
Drew sighed, then led her toward the bench.
“You really wanna know why?”
“Yeah.” Jessie replied in an obvious tone.
“Ever since I laid eyes on you, I don’t know, Jessie your driving me crazy. I feel like a fifteen year old boy the things your doing to me. Its like cupid hit me and I don’t know how to be myself. I like the way I feel around you. I don’t know Jess, I don’t believe in love at first sight but when I’m around you…….its something.”
Jessie looked at him blankly. Was he saying the things she’s only been wanting to hear ever since she was a teenager.
“Please say something.” He pleaded.
“I….I…. .I…don’t know what to say.” She finally said.
“Great, I made an [arse] about myself.” he sighed, hiding his face in his hands.
“No Drew I just…..can you take me home?”
Drew looked up at her and nodded. They took the silent ride back to the hotel and disappeared into their hotel. Jessie sighed as she locked the door, then yelled,
“Kiki, wanna go to the Empire State Building!?”
She got silence.
“Kiki?” she yelled again, walking toward her room. She saw her bed neatly made. She walked toward her room and saw a letter on her bed. She opened it up and read it.
Jessie,
Seeing as you and Drew just deserted me and Justin, we decided to see a little site-seeing of our own!!! So :P. No really, we went out for lunch and Justin may be taking me to dinner, so don’t wait up for me. I swear Jess, me and J click, like really click. Big first, when did I “click” with guys, lol. Honestly, I’ll see you later, maybe we can spend some time together tomorrow or something. And have fun with Drew, I noticed the way you two were “eyeing” each other back at the restaurant ;)!!!!!!!!!
~Kiki~
P.S. Justin may spend the night here tonight, just wanted to give ya a head’s up ;)

Jessie sighed as she laid the piece of paper back down. Great, now she was alone in New York. Again. She laid down on the bed and started to think. Why didn’t she want something to start with her and Drew. Was she scared of the consequences. Of a possible break-up between Drew and Lea. Or was she scared of commitment like her boyfriend had reminded her for so many times before they broke up. She stayed in the bed looking up at the ceiling for hours before getting up and starting to walk toward Drew’s room. She knocked on it once, twice, and was about to turn around when Drew opened it up.
“Hi.” He panted, looking at her.
“Hi.” She replied softly.
“Ummm, sorry about earlier.” He said, rubbing the back of his neck with his hand.
“Don’t be.” She said shaking her head. Drew looked at her confused as she continued,
“I thought about it, like really thought about it, I like you too. A lot. Drew, I don’t know what this feeling is either but I don’t like it because I feel vulnerable. I don’t like that feeling. But I also like the way it feels when I’m around you too. If your willingly to, I’m ready to risk this feeling. If your not, then I’ll just drop it and we can be friends.”
Drew looked at her astonished, then asked.
“You mean it?
“Uh huh.”
He smiled at her and pulled her closer to him.
“I’m ready to risk it too.”
She smiled at him as he leaned down and gave her a kiss. And how she was on top of the world.
Kristen07
11-28-04, 06:54 PM
*Snaps fingers* Aww man, the date got ruined. Kris needs to get over Richard... she's ruining a good chance with Nick. Anyway, more whenever you can :)
Biondo Sorto
11-28-04, 07:02 PM
Originally posted by ~KrisM16~@11/28/04, 04:56pm
*Snaps fingers* Aww man, the date got ruined. Kris needs to get over Richard... she's ruining a good chance with Nick. Anyway, more whenever you can :)
Don't worry Kris,
Your time may be coming soon.........:D
StargateGirl
11-28-04, 07:43 PM
Don't you mean Jess?: Kristin sighed as she locked the door, then yelled

I liked the add.... ooohhh...they're going to Les' place. :P
Raevengeance
11-28-04, 08:06 PM
Great Add Again, Britts :)
Biondo Sorto
12-05-04, 01:28 AM
All right I was going to add to this story tonight but I have to write on behalf of a lot of peoples parts (Nick, Jeff, Drew , and Justin all in one night? :faint:), and I've been known to write people's name on the wrong part so I'm just gonna add tomorrow. Sorry it took forever to add period, this week's been hectic :)
Kristen07
12-05-04, 12:46 PM
It's all right. Take your time, Brit :)
StargateGirl
12-07-04, 10:18 PM
Take your time. :) I can't wait to read the add. :D
StargateGirl
12-12-04, 11:16 AM
:Whistle: :^:
Biondo Sorto
12-12-04, 03:10 PM
*Know it's been a while but here it is. Its not the best of chapters but I promise it gets better!!!*


Chapter 8
“What was what all about?”
“What?”
“You completely ditching me back there.” Nick said, still trying to even out his breathes. Kristin sighed.
“I’m sorry Nick I just….” She started to waver off. Nick sighed, took her hand, and led her toward a nearby bench.
“You just?” he asked.
“Well I….I….”
Nick sighed again and replied,
“Listen, out of this relationship, friendship or not, I want there to be trust. I can’t trust you if your not open with me.”
“I know Nick its just hard. Really, really hard.”
“If it’s too hard to say than I can wait. I just want to know what’s wrong.” Nick said in a soft tone. He was concerned about her, and knew that even some things had a limit. She looked up at him and bit her bottom lip.
“Its all right, I think I can tell you.”
“All right.”
“I….well you know that I used to be engaged.”
“Right.”
“And Richard was just, was just something special to me. We were high school sweethearts, broke up at the end of high school, and just as I was finishing college fate lead us back together. Within the next two years we got engaged and everything was great. In fact it was lat winter. Last winter we broke it off. I came back from vacation with my parents to spend time with him and I caught him in bed with another woman. And just now I saw him here and it still kinda hurts, and don’t get me wrong you’re a great guy but you know, the pain, its still there….”
Nick nodded and rubbed her hand.
“Listen, I understand. I’m still going through it myself. How about we go somewhere else?”
“Like…?â€Â
“Well, we could go out to lunch.”
“I’m starting to hate chili.” Kristin groaned. Nick laughed and shook his head.
“Or we could go back to my dad’s place. He’s a great cook.”
He could tell that she was leaning to say no, but was relieved when she replied,
“All right.”
“Cool cats. Come on.” He said, helping her up. They walked back to the car and drove in silence toward Nick’s dad’s house. When they finally got there, she said,
“Are you sure this is okay?”
“Positive. My dad’s been wanting to meet you since last night.”
This made Kristin smile and she took Nick’s hand as she followed him up the porch steps. After he had opened the door he yelled,
“Dad!! Iris!! Jos!!!”
He got nothing so turned around and looked at her.
“Guess there not here.”
“All the better to leave.”
“Come on, I don’t bite.”
“Hard, I’m sure.” She smirked, walking off toward the kitchen. Nick smiled as she followed him.
“So what do you got?”
“I don’t know. Most of the time I’m hungry I’ve been eating out or dinner’s already ready.”
“Hmmm.” Kristy said, opening up the refrigerator.
“Well, it’s sort of empty in here. How about.”
She blindly started to look through the cabinets, taking out idle things. When she was done, she turned around and replied,
“Well you guys have nothing in this house. But you got enough to make chocolate chip cookies.”
“All right.” Nick said, taking off his jacket and walking off.
“Wait, where do you think your going?”
“Out. Me and the kitchen don’t get along.”
“You’re going to help me.”
“What?”
“Nick, you dragged me here, you can at least help me.”
Nick sighed as she draped his jacket around a chair.
“All right, where do we begin?”
“Get a bowl and some spoons out. I’ll start mixing the flour and stuff. You can…butter the pan.”
“Oh wow, some help I am.” He replied sarcastically.
“Shut-up.” Kristin laughed. After a while, they had managed to finish the dough. Which wouldn’t bad considering that Nick had flour and dough all over him. This was one of the reasons why he never cooked. He looked over at Kristin who didn’t have a thing on her, while she started to mix in the chocolate chips. Frustrated, he got a handful of flour and looked toward Kristin, as she started to put the first batch in the oven. She looked at Nick and quickly grabbed a spoon.
“You wouldn’t dare?” she said, nodding toward the flour.
“Oh I would.” He smiled, throwing the fist of flour at her. Mad that she got dirty, she attacked back, spoon in one hand flour in the other. They continued to have this fight, getting the kitchen dirty until Nick gave up.
“All right, all right.” He laughed, putting down the bag of flour and taking the spoon out of Kristin’s hand.
“You started it.” She laughed, walking over to Nick and dusting flour out of his hair.
“I just don’t understand how you girls cook without getting anything on you.”
“Well first, we don’t get mad at the batter when it starts to get hard to stir.”
“Well…”
“Yeah, it’s a no-no.”
“Hmmm, I saw.” Nick smiled, wrapping his arms around her. Kristin’s hands gravitated around his neck and she replied,
“What are you up to Lachey?”
“Nothing….nothing at all.” He whispered, bending down and kissing her.

“So this is where you live.” Jeff smiled as he followed Leslie into her apartment.
“Yep, this is my place.” She said, taking off her jacket. Jeff nodded as he walked around the living room, looking at the pictures she had on her wall.
“Thirsty?”
“Yeah.”
“I got juice, waiter, coke, or sprite.”
“Uhh, I’d like a coke.”
“All right.” She said, disappearing into the kitchen. Jeff continued to look around when Leslie’s phone went off.
“Your phone’s ringing.”
“Let the machine get it.”
Jeff shrugged as he took a seat on the machine. Her machine went off and he listened curiously.

You’ve reached Les’s place. I’m not in right now but if you leave your name and number after the beep, I’ll get right back at you.

Jeff wasn’t going to think anything of it, but tensed up when he heard a male voice talk into the speaker.

Hey Les, it’s me Mark. Where have you been girl? I haven’t talked to you since the concert. Remember the lunch date you still owe me. Don’t tell me that you left me for that Jeff guy again. Well, all right, call me when you get this. Love ya, bye.

“All right wasn’t sure if you wanted ice with your pop so here and….what?” she said, taking a seat beside him. He looked at the phone and Leslie’s eyes followed his. She played over her messages again, and sighed when she got to Mark.
“That man…” she sighed, throwing her head back on the couch.
“So you have a boyfriend.” Jeff asked a little hurt. Leslie laughed as she shook her head no.
“Me and Mark….we used to go out. But Mark was a bit forgetful and sort of cared about his job more than me so we broke up. He still has feelings for me but I made clear that I didn’t want to go back out with him.”
“Oh.” Jeff sighed relief.
“You thought that me and him….?”
“Yeah.”
“No. That’s been over.”
“Right.”
They sat in silence for a while until Leslie asked,
“So what do you want to do?”
“I don’t know.”
“I don’t know either.”
“Well we could…” he started to grin. Leslie laughed as she hit him.
“Jeff, can’t you keep your hormones in check for just a day.”
“I try but it’s really, really, really hard.”
“If you like me as much as you claim too, then you can.”
“All right, all right.” He said pulling her to him.
“Well….we could play a board game or something.”
“I liked this whole you cuddled to me, I cuddled to you thing.”
“I bet.” She laughed, rolling on top of him.
“See you like it too.”
“Sort of.”
“I think you like it.”
“Whatever.” She smiled leaning down to kiss him. He kissed her back just as eagerly, but they both pulled away when they heard,
“Leslie Miranda, what in the hell are you doing?”

When Jessie woke up hours later, she didn’t know where she was. She remembered going out with Drew, she remembered fighting with him, but where was she now? She looked around and noticed that she was in Drew’s room. She smiled as she remembered what she was now doing in his room.
“So you finally decided to get up.” He said, pushing a cart into the room.
“I was tired.” She whined, crawling over to the end of the bed.
“Sure.” He said, kissing her on her forehead.
“So whatcha get.”
“Hot wings.”
“Ummm, hot wings.”
“I thought you like that.”
“Yep.” She said, already biting into one. He smiled at her again and she managed to say,
“What?”
“You’re real cute, that’s all.”
“Thanks.” She said, then noticed his attire.
“Going out?”
He sighed.
“I have to go to the theater. Shouldn’t be too long.”
Jessie nodded as she looked at the clock. It was six.
“How long?”
“They said I should be in and out in 30 minutes.”
“All right.”
“You just don’t go anywhere ‘till then.”
“I won’t.” she smiled as he bent down and kissed her.
“See you later.”
“Bye.” She smiled at him. She turned on the TV and was watching an interesting Christmas show when the phone rang. Thinking it was either Drew or Justin she picked it up.
“Hello.”
“Hello?” the female voice said on the other line.
“Uhhh, who is this?”
“I’m Lea, Drew’s wife. Who’s this.”
Jessie immediately froze up. This was not supposed to happen.
“Hello, who is this.”
“Ummm, I’m a friend of Drew’s.”
“A friend of Drew’s?”
“Yeah, we met through Gary.”
Was she telling too much. Should she have hung up.
“How come we never met?”
“Well we just met yesterday.”
“I guess. Do you know where Drew is?”
“He’s at the theater.”
“All right…..then what are you doing in his room.”
“Me and…uhh, Justin are watching TV.”
“All right, can I talk to Justin.”
“Umm, he’s in the bathroom.”
“Hmm, something about this conversation is fishy.”
“Excuse me Lea I have to go. Nice talking to you.” Jessie said, immediately hanging up the phone. That was too close for words.
Raevengeance
12-12-04, 03:54 PM
uh-oh...a short little elf could be gettin into trouble ;)

And again with horndog jeff - that boy...**shakes head**
Biondo Sorto
12-12-04, 04:35 PM
If it wasn't for his hormones he would of never have become a father to his kids :D. I must let the legacy live on :P

Aww, poor Drew is an elf, still got wub him though!!!
Raevengeance
12-12-04, 04:37 PM
LOL -

Of course - elves are luvable ;)
Kristen07
12-12-04, 04:39 PM
Ooo Drew might be getting into trouble!

Nothing like getting into a flour fight with your to-be boyfriend! So cute :wub:
StargateGirl
12-12-04, 05:38 PM
Uh oh who caught Les and Jeff... lol

gotta love those flour fights. lol

oooohhhh Drew's in trouble.
Biondo Sorto
12-18-04, 05:16 PM
I really need an inspiration call. I don't know how to start this....any ideas. I think its cause I'm tired right now, but I want to finish this before Christmas so yeah....any help would be greatly appreciated!! :P
Biondo Sorto
12-19-04, 10:26 PM
All right,

Since this is a Christmas story, I'm hoping to have it all over by the end of Christmas. That means that starting tomorrow, there will be a bunch of adds, just because I'm so behind in them. Then, to finish off the year, I'm going to make a sequel that will be added either the day of new years eve or New Years (May not be on-line New years Eve). So yeah, that's the deal with this story, just too tired and lazy to add tonight, but look out for a bunch throughout the week!! :D

Britts
Kristen07
12-19-04, 10:37 PM
Sounds good :)
Biondo Sorto
12-21-04, 08:13 PM
Chapter 9
Kristin tightened her grip around Nick as the kiss grew deeper. He picked her up on the counter and just as things were really getting heated, Kristin remembered where she was and pulled away.
“What?” he asked confused.
“We can’t do this?”
“Why not?”
“Were in your dad’s kitchen, that’s sort of weird.”
Nick laughed and nodded. Then he looked around.
“We could…should clean up. Iris would have my [arse] knowing that I was fiddling in her kitchen.”
“All right.” She said, pulling away from him and jumping off of the counter.
“However, I hope to finish this later on today.”
Kristin smiled at the thought but only winked.
“That’s if you get lucky.”
Nick’s smile grew wider as they finished to clean the kitchen. Pretty soon their cookies were ready, and Iris and Josie were at the door, bags full in their hand.
“Hey Iris. Jos. So you went shopping.”
“Yeah, couldn’t you tell by all the food that wasn’t in the house?”
“Yeah.” Nick smiled as he sat the bags down. Iris looked around and noticed Kristin, who, trying not to seem obvious, was taking cookies off of the cookie sheet.
“Nick, who’s your friend?” she asked, turning to her son and raising a brow. Nick smiled and walked over to Kristin.
“Iris this is Kristin. Kristin this is my step-mom, Iris.”
“Nice to meet you.” Iris smiled. Josie cleared her throat as Nick rolled his eyes.
“And this is my sister, Josie, but she’s not all that important.”
Josie rolled her eyes and shook Kristin’s hand as Kristin laughed.
“It’s nice to meet the both of you.”
“You too sweetie.”
“Well Nick, I think I need to go. You know, I gotta go shopping too.”
“Wait, speaking of which, Iris.”
“Yes Nick.”
“Do you think that Kristin could come over for Christmas?”
“Nick, I already told you that I don’t want to pry on your Christmas.”
“Honey, that’ll be fine.”
“You could invite your sister and her boyfriend.”
“My sister and boyfriend are vegetarians. What could you guys possibly make that doesn’t have meat in it?”
“Honey, I could make a dish or two to accommodate your sister.” Iris stepped in.
“You shouldn’t have to accommodate to us. Were prying.”
“Not if you’re our guest.” Nick added. Kristin rolled her eyes at him and looked back at Iris.
“Really, you don’t have to.”
“I don’t mind. If it makes it any better, how about you bring something too.”
“That sounds like an idea.” Nick smiled. Kristin sighed. Whoever said that Nick was stubborn sure wasn’t lying.
“Well…are you sure.”
“Positive.” Iris smiled. Kristin gave her a weak smile as Nick slightly pushed her out the kitchen.
“Don’t you have to go home and go shopping. I better take you before it gets late.”
“Yeah. Thanks again.”
“Bye dear. Hope to see you soon.” Iris said. Nick gave her a wink and followed Kristin out of the kitchen.
“Happy, you got your way.” She asked, once they were out in the car.
“Very much so.” He smiled back at her. Kristin rolled her eyes as he drove her home. When they reached her doorstep he sighed.
“Guess this is it.”
“What do you mean? You’re coming over to dinner tomorrow.”
“Really?”
“Yeah. You suckered me into dinner at your house, which by the way my sister isn’t going to happy about, so now your going to come over for dinner.”
“Say’s who?”
“Say’s me.”
“Hmmmm, watcha making?” Nick said, wrapping his arms around her.
“You’ll see.”
“Well then, I guess I’ll be seeing you tomorrow.”
“All right. Bye.”
“Bye babe.” He said, bending down and kissing her. Then he turned around and walked off toward his car. Kristin sighed as she turned around and opened the door. She was greeted by her sister.
“You’re going to tell me what’s going on, from beginning to end.” She said, giving her a deadly stare. Kristin could only sigh.

Leslie immediately pulled away from Jeff and looked up to come face to face with her friend, Rae.
“Uhhh, I’m uhh, making out with my uhh…boyfriend in my living room….” She said. She already could hear Rae’s voice before she would say something. She forgot to mention the little detail of her rooming with her best friend.
“Uh huh. First Mark keeps on calling the damn house claiming that your ditching him for some shady character, and now your making out with him in our living room.”
“Looks like it.” Leslie said, slightly laughing. She was trying to make light of the situation but she knew that it wouldn’t help. At that moment Jeff decided to get up. He looked over at Leslie, then back at Rae.
“Hi, I guess this isn’t the best time to introduce myself. I’m Jeff, Leslie’s boyfriend.” He said, winking back at Leslie. She smiled as Rae looked at him, mouth agape. Finally she said,
“Nice to meet you…mind if I steal Leslie for a sec.”
“Fine with me.” he shrugged as she grabbed Leslie’s hand and pulled her to her room.
“WHAT ARE YOU DOING?” she screamed, then in a lower voice replied,
“I mean, do you know who that is?”
“Yes, it’s Jeff.”
“No, no, no. That’s just not ‘Jeff’ but the Jeff Timmons.”
“Yeah, I know.” Leslie smiled.
“And you’re kissing him. Do you not realize that the man is married.”
“Not anymore.”
“Pardon me?”
“He’s getting divorced.”
“Oh. So now my best friend is dating Jeff Timmons, has been dating him for some time, and only tells me because I found the two making out in our living room. Yeah, my world makes sense.” Rae said sitting down on her bed and shaking her head.
“I was going to tell you. In fact I was gonna introduce when you came back, which happened. I just didn’t expect you to find us making out.”
“I’m sure.” Rae said, rolling her eyes.
“Well he’s going to be spending the holidays out here if you don’t mind, so yeah, plenty of time for you guys to get to know each other.”
“Get to know….get to know each other? I’m not talking to him.”
“Why not?”
“You know how long I wanted to talk to that man. And now you expect me to just all of a sudden be his friend?”
“Couldn’t hurt.”
“No.”
“Why not.”
“Cause.”
“Cause why?”
“Cause I said so.”
Leslie threw her hands up in the air frustrated, and walked out of the room. She saw Jeff putting on his jacket as she walked into the living room.
“Where are you going?”
“Gotta call from Mike. I need to meet up with him downtown.”
“Oh. You need a ride?”
“He’s coming out to get me.”
“Oh.” Leslie said. She took a seat on the couch and sighed. Jeff looked down at her and shook his head.
“I’m not leaving just because of what happened. I really have to go.”
“I know. I just didn’t want you guys to meet like that.”
“I’m sure.”
“Well, call me when you can. Maybe we can do something tomorrow or something.”
“I’d like that.” He smiled at her. She smiled back and laid her head on his shoulder.
“You really have to leave?”
“Yeah, I really have to leave.”
“I’m gonna miss you boyfriend.” Jeff’s smile grew wider.
“Me too babe. So you really want us to go out.”
“Yeah, Rae gave me a good excuse to come around and ask you out.”
“Boy am I glad she did.” He said, bending down and kissing her. They were interrupted by her doorbell.
“See ya tomorrow?”
“You bet ya.” He smiled, bending down and kissing her once more before getting up and leaving.

Jessie changed into some clothes. As much as she wanted Drew and liked him, what they were doing was wrong. She didn’t want to be the other woman. At all. what are you talking about Jess, you became the other woman the minute you slept with Drew She thought. She sighed as she started to look for her shirt. She was pulling it on when she heard the door open. Drew walked in roses in one hand, a bag in the other.
“I was thinking we could spend the evening in watching movies and maybe ordering up some desert and…where are you going?”
“Drew this is wrong.”
“What?”
“Us, being together. Its wrong.” She said, tying up her tennis shoes.
“How is it wrong?”
“You’re telling me you don’t know how us sleeping together is wrong?”
“No…..I like you Jess. I like you a lot. I want something to…”
“It can’t Drew. Hello, think through your head. Your married.” She shouted, cutting him off.
“What?”
“Your wife, Lea, called. You should call her back she didn’t sound happy.”
“All right but…..”
“Drew this is wrong from the get go. We shouldn’t have done this at all. Who were we kidding.”
“But I love you.”
Jessie was taken by this.
“You can’t love me.”
“Why not.”
“CAUSE YOUR MARRIED!!!” she screamed. He sighed.
“What if I didn’t want to be married anymore.”
Jessie rolled her eyes.
“This is someone you’ve known all your life. Why wouldn’t you want to be married to her?”
“Because I love you.” He replied.
“Drew…your making this so much harder.”
“I don’t want you to leave.”
“I don’t want to leave either but it needs to be done. This will become much bigger than it needs to be.”
“Jess please don’t go.”
Jessie stopped at the door and sighed.
“I have to Drew. I’m sorry.” She finally said, then slowly walked out the door.
JeSsNnIcK1026
12-21-04, 08:40 PM
good
Kristen07
12-21-04, 09:44 PM
Awesome chapter! :)

Ahh.... Kris is in trouble!
Raevengeance
12-27-04, 08:28 PM
Bump ~ got anymore, britts?
Biondo Sorto
12-27-04, 08:53 PM
Here you go Rae, a Jeff and Les add is next :wink:
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*

Chapter 10
~Nick & Kristin~
“What are you talking about?” she said, walking toward her room. Katrin followed her as she proceeded to say,
“Don’t start with this innocent stuff. You know what I’m talking about. Nick Lachey was at our door this morning. Nick Lachey!!!! And then, then you just go off and leave with him and return hours later!!! How did you meet him, why didn’t you tell me, and are you going out?”
Kristin sighed as she rolled her eyes.
“All right, I met him last night at Skyline Chili. We went out to a movie, and then he asked me to go out with him today. That’s all, done deal.”
“Really? So you guys just met in a restaurant?”
“Yeah. Nothing big.”
“Nothing big? Hello, your dating a celebrity.”
“We are not dating.” Kristin said rolling her eyes. Katrin smiled at her slyly.
“Don’t lie. You purposely ignored my last question.”
“Did not.”
“So are you?”
“No…….n o.” Kristin said attempting to contain a smile.
“Oh gosh.” She sighed, walking out of the room and throwing her hands in the air.
“Uh huh, I knew it.” Katrin smiled, following her.
“So what if we are. I mean……there†™s nothing wrong with it, right”
“Nope, nothing wrong with it at all.”
“And I mean, it’s not like its going to kill either of us if we do go out.”
“No one said that it would.”
“Right.” Kristin said, looking through the cupboards.
“You do know that this is a huge step though right. You wouldn’t even look at guys and now this? Are you ever planning to tell mom. Or dad.”
“Eventually.”
“Eventually when?”
“When I’m in California and there back in Ohio.”
“Kristin!!!”
“What?”
“You can’t do that.”
“Why not?”
“Cause….you just can’t.”
“I’m not eighteen anymore. I think I can do whatever I please.”
“Whatever.”
“Yeah whatever.”
“There not going to be happy.”
“I know!!! Kat…drop it.”
“Dropped” she sighed. She looked at her, then asked,
“What are you doing anyway.”
“Seeing what I need to get. We don’t have anything to eat in this house.”
“I couldn’t tell.” Katrin smirked. Kristin rolled her eyes as she closed the cupboards.
“You wanna go to the store, or me.”
“I think I oughta.”
“Why?”
“If you go you may run into Nick and if you run into Nick you’ll never come home. That means I’ll be waiting for you to come home why I’ll starve to death. In fact, I will go home.”
Kristin laughed and shook her head.
“Then go. No one is stopping you.”
“I will.” Katrin smiled, pulling on a jacket.
“You need to know what we need.”
“I think staying in the house for two days already gives me a good idea.” She smiled before walking out the house. Kristin smiled as she watched her, and then walked toward her room. She was debating whether to call nick or not when her phone rang. Curious, she picked it up.
“Hello.”
“Hello…um, is Kristin in?”
“This is her speaking.” She said, lying down in bed. Why did the voice sound so familiar.
“Hi Kris. It’s me, Richard.” Kristin froze in bed. He couldn’t…shouldnà €™t be on the line.
“Kris? You there.”
“Yeah, I’m here.”
“Wow, so much for you calling me back.”
“Beg your pardon?”
“Your sister was supposed to tell you I called.”
“Must’ve slipped her mind.”
“Must’ve.â₠¬Â He sighed. There was another moment of silence until he asked,
“Well…..how are ya doing?”
“Fine.”
“Really…watcha do today.”
“None of your business.”
“I guess I deserve that.”
Silence.
“Well uh….its just I went down to the ice rink and thought I saw you. Just wanted to see if it was…”
“Yeah. Me and Nick went down there.”
“Nick?”
“Yeah, my boyfriend.”
“Your..and…what?â ‚¬Â
“me and my boyfriend went ice-skating.”
“You……? ”
“Yeah, believe it or not I got over you.”
“Oh.”
Another moment of silence.
“Listen, there’s someone on the other line, talk to you later. Scratch that, I hope to not be talking to you later.”
“That’s it?” he asked.
“Yeah….thatâ₠™s it.” She said, hanging up the phone. She sighed as she laid down on the bed. For some reason, the conversation got to her more than it should.

Nick whistled as he walked up the steps to Kristin’s house. He knocked on the door once, and quickly heard someone yell,
“I’m coming.”
Five seconds she opened the door fresh faced and smiling.
“Hey Nick.”
“Hey Kris. These are for you.” He said, handing her the bouquet of roses.
“Thanks. There beautiful.”
“Its nothing.” He said shaking his head as she let him in. He hung up his jacket and turned around to her.
“So…is your sister here?”
“No, she went off on a date with her boyfriend.”
“so your all alone?”
“Yeah….something like that.”
“Oh really?” he asked, raising a brow.
“Don’t even think about Lachey.” She laughed as she walked off to the kitchen. Nick smiled as he followed her.
“Think about what?”
“You know what.”
“No actually, I don’t.”
“any of those naughty thoughts running through your head.”
“No naughty thoughts are running through my head.”
“Sure.” She smiled as she walked over to the stove and started to stir the spaghetti sauce. He walked up behind her and kissed her neck.
“so…what are we having?”
“something.”
“something like what?”
“You’ll see nosy.”
“No, I wanna know why.”
“You like fettuccini?”
“I like fettuccini.” He nodded.
“Well…that†™s what were having.”
“Sounds good. Need any help?”
“Well…you can put a couple of buns in the oven.”
“All right. Sounds simple enough.”
“Thanks. I’m going out back to get the drinks.” She said opening her back door and walking toward her freezer. Nick whistled toward the freezer and found the buns in the back of the refrigerator. After skimming through the instructions, he popped the buns into the oven and took a seat at the table. A couple of minutes the doorbell. Deciding it was best to just get, he got up and went for it. He was surprised to see the guy on the other end.
“Hi…is uhh….Kristin here.”
“Yeah..what’s it to you?”
“I’m Richard.”
Nick nodded. He knew who he was.
“well….can I come in.”
“I think its best if Kristin decided that.” Nick said just as she walked toward the living room.
“Hey Nick…..what’sâ⠂¬Â¦up. Hi Richard.”
“Hi Kris.”
“Well…..what do you want?”
Raevengeance
12-27-04, 08:59 PM
Bad Richard - showin up like that **shakes head**


**sits & waits IMPATIENTLY for the Les/Jeffers add**
Biondo Sorto
12-27-04, 10:03 PM
Allwighty, allwighty, here it is :P
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Chapter 11
~Jeff & Leslie~
Jeff whistled as he ran up the steps. He was happy to be seeing Les, but sort of felt bad. He had heard the argument between her and Rae, and he didn’t want to be the reason if there friendship was ever to be broken. He ran the door bell a couple of times and patiently waited for someone to answer the door. A few seconds later, someone did.
“Hey Rae. Is Leslie here?” he asked upon seeing her at the door. She smiled and nodded.
“Jeff I’m gonna warn you though, its not going to be a pretty site when you walk in there.” She added, before disappearing to another part of the house. He nodded confused, then walked into the living room where he saw the familiar tall guy he met back in the concert and Leslie.
“What do you mean you just happened to not hear my messages. I only left a million.”
“well I’ve been busy these last few days.”
“What, spending time with your new friend?”
“My boyfriend, yes. What’s it to you.”
The guy instantly grew silent.
“Please tell me that your kidding.”
“am I laughing?” she said, sighing as she took a seat on the couch.
“How could you.”
“How could I what?”
“date him. You don’t even know him?”
“Yes I do.”
“Not the way that you know me?”
“Yeah, Mr. Forgetful, too busy, not caring about anyone else but himself you. I know you Mark, I spent a whole year getting to know, a big mistake from the get go.”
“I’m your best friend, how is that a mistake?”
“You never cared when we were going out, you never even started to care until me and Jeff started to talk to each other. The only thing that gets through your head is jealousy.”
“Your point?”
“I can’t and won’t love you the way I used to. There’s someone else in my life that isn’t you, believe or not.”
“Yeah, Jeff.”
“yes Jeff. Problem.”
“Yeah, he’s the problem.”
“Get over it.”
“Get a new boyfriend and maybe I will.”
“I’m not doing what you tell me too. I’m tired of living that life.”
“And I’m tired of falling for a girl who never cares about me.”
“I….I…. I NEVER CARE FOR YOU!!! You’re the one that put your job in front of everything else. You screwed yourself over.”
“Oh please.”
“Yeah, please.”
“Uhhhh, is this a good time to be here, or should I come back later.” Jeff asked tapping on the wall. They both looked over at him and Mark rolled his eyes.
“You really do go out with him.”
“Yes, I really go out with him. I wasn’t BS-ing you.”
“Oh wow, this is a first.”
“You little…..” she said before Jeff grabbed her hands.
“Calm down.” He gently said. He was already being in the middle of arguments and they hadn’t been going out for more than two days. He was scared to see what would happen when he brought Leslie back home with him to California.
“I would if someone left.” She said, looking over at Mark.
“You want me to leave. I’m gone. In fact, I’ll be gone from here on out.”
“Good!!” she screamed as he walked out of the house. She sighed as she fell down on the couch. Jeff slowly walked toward her and asked,
“Wanna talk about it?”
“No. you probably heard everything.”
“Yeah.” He sighed, rubbing her shoulders. She sighed as she rested her head on him.
“He just..and….you know.”
“I know.” He said, kissing her forehead. They laid in silence until she got up.
“well, I’m ready to go believe or not.”
“Yeah.”
“Yep, let me just get my jacket.” She said, walking over to the closet and grabbing her jacket. He got up and followed her.
“Rae, I’m leaving. Call me on my cell if you need anything.”
“I will!!!” she yelled as they both walked out of the house.

Leslie looked over at Jeff who concentrated on the road.
“So are you gonna tell me where we are going?”
“No…you got to figure that out by yourself.”
She pouted as she looked out the window.
“Oh you’ll live.” He smiled, shaking his head. She nudged him as he pulled up to the park.
“A park. The surprise is a park.”
“There’s a lot you can do at a park.”
“Like…?†she asked as he opened the trunk and pulled out a sled.
“No…no… no, I can’t go sledding.”
“Why not?”
“Cause….cause I’ll mess up my hair.”
He rolled his eyes as he grabbed her hand.
“Follow me.”
“oh gosh.” She groaned as she followed him. She really had no desire to go sledding. He took her to a nearby hill and slowly placed the sled down.
“Come on, its fun.”
“I never went sledding before.”
He scoffed.
“You never went sledding before?”
She shrugged and shook her head no.
“Why?”
“I had no desire too.”
“Well see, the better to do it today.”
“Ummm, I rather not.”
“Why?”
“Last time someone I knew went sledding they ended up with a broken leg.”
“Who.”
“My cousin when we were six. I was gonna do it but after I seen her fly through the air I never had any desire to.”
“Come on, your with me. you trust me, right?”
“Trust you, yes. But I’ve seen the way you walk Jeff, in fact, I’ve even ended up under you because of your poor feet.”
“but you don’t need feet to go sledding, just….come on.”
“Jeff…no†¦JEFF!!” she screamed as he picked her up and placed her on the head. Then he started to push her before jumping on the sled himself just as it took a drop down the long hill. Leslie screeched and covered her eyes seeing already seeing the first obstacle in front of them.
“Lean left!!” Jeff screamed, already leaning. Leslie, with her eyes still closed, leaned left. Unfortunately she leaned to far out and they both went flying off the sled, into the heavy cold snow. Leslie laid in it for a while before slowly moving her body.
“Leslie….Leslieâ⠂¬Â¦get off!!” she heard Jeff mutter from under her. Slowly she rolled off of him. He turned to his side and smiled at her.
“So how was that?” he smiled.
“Horrible!” she smiled, playfully hitting him. He smiled as he grabbed her arm and pulled her to him.
“You gotta admit, that was fun.”
“A little.” She mumbled. She had found a warm position in Jeff’s neck which was protecting her from the cold wind.
“I told you.” He started to chuckle.
“Why did you lean over so much. Even I know not to do that.”
“Well excuse me. I mean, this is only my first time, hell if I knew it’d kill me if I leaned over to much.” She replied sarcastically. Jeff shook his head as he kissed her forehead.
“Its all right.”
She nodded her head as she closed her eyes. Despite the cold snow that was starting to seep into her jacket, she was comfortable in Jeff’s arms. For once she felt safe and secure, and beyond that, she liked the way he smelled. She smiled as he muttered,
“Can I ask you something.”
“Uh huh. Anything.”
“I know that we only knew each for a little while, but I feel that….”
“That?”
“I want you to meet my kids. There flying over next week, just in time for the holidays. Would you mind?”
Leslie clung on to him. Of course she didn’t mind, but she knew what Jeff’s kids meant to him. Was he considering more out of their relationship?
“No Jeff…I wouldn’t mind at all.” She heard herself saying, looking up at him.
“Good.” He smiled, leaning down and kissing her.
Raevengeance
12-27-04, 10:12 PM
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh meeting the kiddies - someone's getting serious.
Kristen07
12-28-04, 02:05 PM
Richard needs to away.... he's allready hurt her once, why does he think she'll go back to him!!

Ahh... Les and Jeff are getting serious!

I really like this Britt, more soon :)
Raevengeance
12-30-04, 09:50 PM
Ms. Britt - got any more for me to read?
Biondo Sorto
12-30-04, 10:51 PM
Working on it now Rae, I want this story to at least be done by tomorrow.
StargateGirl
01-04-05, 12:55 PM
:Whistle:
Awww.... I like. :D :D
Raevengeance
01-04-05, 07:02 PM
Hey Britts - you missed your 12/31 completion date - but I still wanna read more when you get it typed :)
StargateGirl
01-22-05, 10:07 PM
bump

Don't forget about this story. >P
Biondo Sorto
01-22-05, 10:30 PM
Hehe....thanx 4 reminding me Les :P
StargateGirl
01-22-05, 10:34 PM
lol...you're welcome. :P
Biondo Sorto
01-23-05, 07:54 PM
Finally I added, lol. right after this chapter I'm gonna add a chapter w/ everyone in it so yeah, look out for that post :P :D
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Chapter 12
~Drew and Jess~
Drew continued to stare at the door. This could not be happening. She couldn’t be leaving. He ran and opened the door and saw her walk inside her room. The truth of the matter was it was happening. Of course what they were doing was wrong. He knew that, but there was so much more to Jess. He closed his eyes and thought. He could possibly be losing two women who played a major role in his life. He couldn’t afford losing one that just happened to capture his heart in less than twenty four hours. But he couldn’t hurt Lea, beyond being her husband he was her best friend. He debated in silence until he heard the door open.
“What’cha thinking about little one.”
Drew opened his eyes and looked at Justin. He was wearing one of the dumbest smiles in the world, and looked like he was man on top. Despite this, Drew couldn’t make himself smile when he said,
“Nothing.”
Justin sighed.
“Yes you are, what is it?”
“Its nothing.”
“This doesn’t have to deal with a certain someone who walked in on me and Kelena does it?”
“No.”
“Then what’s wrong?”
“Nothing.”
“Drew, stop lying through your [arse] and tell me.”
“Me and Jess slept together.”
Justin’s smile disappeared.
“What?” he finally asked.
“And beyond that, I’m in love with her. Instead of being with my wife, I’m in love with a woman that I can’t have. Not only because of the bonds of marriage, because she won’t allow it. Its just that…..J, if you only knew. She’s just so….and she makes me feel like…and you know, I never even experienced this with Lea. I love her, and I know I shouldn’t but I do and…..” he stopped his rambling and sat down on the couch.
“Go on.” Justin urged.
“I need her. I don’t know what this feeling is, but when I’m with her I feel like the man on top of the world. I get all funny just thinking about her. And I love her, I do. I know what your going to say next, ‘Love is such a strong word’,” Drew said mimicking Justin’s deep voice. Justin laughed.
“But I feel it when I’m around her. I love being around her. I want her.”
“But….”
“But there’s Lea. And beyond being her husband, we’re best friends. I couldn’t go off and just ruin that. And she wouldn’t understand, I’m sure. And if she did…”
“There’s Jess not wanting to be the reason you broke the marriage.”
“Yeah.” Drew sighed, falling back on his bed.
“Drew.”
“Yeah.”
“Go get her.”
“What?”
“Go out and get Jess.”
“You…your telling me to go cheat on my wife with another woman. Your not lecturing me on all the reasons I shouldn’t.”
“Normally I would, but you and her, I seen the way you guys look at each other. It’s different from you and Lea. Really different. Go and win her heart.”
“And lea….?”
“I’ll deal with Lea for now. You go and get Jess.”
“All right.” Drew said, getting off the bed. He stopped at the door and looked at Justin.
“And J.”
“Yeah?”
“Thanks.”
“Its nothing.” He smiled at him.

Jess sniffed as she laid in bed.
“You sure you don’t wanna talk about it?” Kelena said, taking a seat and fiddling with the bracelet Justin had got her hours earlier.
“No.”
“You sure.”
“No.”
Kelena sighed.
“Wanna know what I figured?”
Jess continued to stay silent.
“I figured that you and Drew realized that you both want to be something but because he’s married and your one of those ‘moral’ girls, you’re going to try to keep a friendship.”
Jess stayed quiet, hating the fact that everything she said was right. She sighed as she heard someone at the door. No doubt it was Justin, once again.
“I’ll be right back.”
“Yeah.” she mumbled. She walked out the room, and a couple of minutes later she heard her walk back in.
“You can go off with Justin if you want, it isn’t killing me if you leave.” she sighed, rolling on her stomach and hiding her face in her pillow.
“I’m not Kelena.” she heard a voice say. she turned around and her eyes meet with Drew.
“What are you doing here?”
“I need to talk to you?”
“What about?”
“Earlier.”
She turned back around and hid her face in the pillow again.
“There’s nothing to talk about. I already told you, there no you and me. There’s nothing but friendship.”
“You’re wrong.”
“Wrong? How am I wrong?”
“There’s more to us and you know it. I just wanna know how long its going to take for you to realize it.”
she sighed and shook her head.
“Drew your married.”
“I used to be married.” He said, raising up his left finger. It was empty.
“Drew, you can’t go off and get a divorce because you think your in love. You have to go back to your room and call Lea and apologize..”
“There’s no me and Lea. We lost our spark a long time ago. I’m going to tell her tomorrow……..I don’t want to lose you Jess.”
“But see that’s the thing. If your doing this to Lea, how will I know you want do the same thing 5 years from now with another girl. Drew…this doesn’t feel right.”
“It won’t happen five years from now…it’ll never happen. Jess, I love you. I know that could mean nothing to you right now but you don’t understand. You do something to me that I can’t explain….your really good for my soul. I can’t seem to function without thinking about you. I need you more than I needed anything else in my life…even Lea.”
“Drew…”
“Trust me on this one…please.”
She bit her bottom lip and closed her eyes. She didn’t want to do this but her heart was taking over all of her senses. She opened her eyes and looked back up at Drew.
“I…love you too.”
“What?” he asked shocked.
“I love you too but I’m just…I’m just so scared.” she said, closing her eyes as a tear started to pour out. He held her to him as she sobbed in his arms. When she simmered down he asked,
“Better?”
“Yeah.”
“It’ll be all right okay. Everything will get better…I promise.”
“You better hold to that promise Lachey.” She smiled up at him. He smiled back. I will Jess….I will.”
StargateGirl
01-23-05, 08:04 PM
Awww!

I'm just wondering how he went from sitting on the couch to laying on his bed. >P >P
Biondo Sorto
01-23-05, 08:05 PM
Originally posted by Leslie@1/23/05, 06:06pm
Awww!

I'm just wondering how he went from sitting on the couch to laying on his bed. >P >P
Lol...me and my typo's :P
Raevengeance
01-23-05, 08:08 PM
awwwww sweet
littleprincessj
01-23-05, 08:34 PM
Awwwww Britts!!! I lovey it! Great add!!!! :)
Kristen07
01-23-05, 09:13 PM
Yeah! Great chapter :)