Oh Holy Cheese....
Where oh where do I begin
Okay guys, im super duper sorry
School = crazy and thats all I can say, I've had tons of stuff going on, lots of things, including I had like a horrible slump at the begining weeks of the school year, and i was totally not myself and its taking me forever to get my thoughts together and actually write, so here I am on Saturday night/ sunday morning getting chapter 36 done finally...and after the past month all I have to say is Sorry *sigh* geeez, stupid stupid stupid Mads...I definently am planning to be writting way more often soon, but for now, here is chapter 36, im so sorry for the wait, and for all of you that Bump this story STILL, lets just say i pretty much LOVE YOU! haha
I was scanning over all the convos and bumps, and I see that we have new readers! (i-yi-yi thats loco with the ENORMOUS gap I've had between chapters) and BLUE IS SICK *sniffle* Zandra my prayers are with you and your horse, and im SO glad shes getting better, and Zandra and Amiee lets just say you crack me up with ur story times and stuff, and I want to thank EVERYONE who had bumped this thread even ONCE! geeez ur a life savor *sigh*
sorry Im being so boring, I usually have something fantastic to say, but seeing as its like 4 am hahaha, im a little tired and cranky =( go *sniffle* its sad, but I have 36...and its pretty epic, Idk about the quality, i kinda was annoyed with it, but I figured that I had kept u guys waiting so long, that u deserved something, but this chapter overlaps other events, so if u have questions haha you can ask, cause I read over it and its a bit confusing...but pretty epic, so I hope to be writting WAY more often and I hope you enjoy this chapter even a little bit!
I miss you guys SOO much, and I LOVE YOU!
thanks so much for sticking with my =D
now let have a drum roll *drum rolls by*
and a little dance in honor of the new chapter *does little dance*
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lights...
camera...
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I felt my eye brows wrinkle at the way Nick squeezed Kati close. Keeping my gaze casually just off his arms around her, I bit my lip trying to push down the frustrated bubbles trickling through every vein in my body.
Okay…this charade isn’t going to work.
Why in the world would he treat a girl like he treated Miley? Why in the world would he even think about doing something so cruel? Mr. Nicholas Jonas seemed sweet and sensitive…but that was far from the case…and now as his soft fake smile gleamed from his face, I had a strong pang in the center of my stomach scared out of my mind to find out how he would hurt Kati in the end. Nick took a deep breath, close to Kati, while I could only imagine how Kati was going crazy. She was probably so happy…and he was going to take it all away. The only thing I had in mind to do, was to stop it right here and now…it would be better for Kati to have her best friend help her out of this rather than be thrown down by someone she liked so much like a used tissue that had no worth but to help out for only a second before being crushed and thrown away.
Wow…all this anger is making me be all deep and cheesy…tissue comparisons…way to go Gabs!....no wait…get back on track…
Just before I was going to lift my eyes off of the cement floor, whip around and yank Nick away from my best friend, Joe’s bubbly voice swept through the air.
“Gabby…you know what…you deserve another hug, you movie star, you,” Joe rushed out quickly pushing me into another hug…obviously buying time for his no good, rotten brother who was breaking my best friend’s heart…well in the process of…
“Um, Okay…” I said unsure of how to respond…and whether I should continue with my plan to turn around and throw the disgraceful curly top across the studio. Joe’s embrace didn’t last long as he suddenly lifted his head up spotting something that was far more interesting than buying time for his brother. Once he let go of me, he rushed off following someone, demanding Nick and Kati to snap out of each other’s embrace. This was the perfect time to say something…the perfect time to crush that little lying, cheating, dirty, rotten, awful rocksta-
My heart dropped as I glanced yet again at Kati’s smile…she was so happy…
Should I even do anything…what if I’m wrong…no, I’m not wrong…I have facts, a first hand source…I know what I’m talking about…and I have to take care of it…in 3…2…
“Kati and Gabby…the director wants to go over a few things a little early, so can you come over in about 3 minutes,” a sweet voice interrupted me from behind as Kati and I snapped our head around to see Mel, a cute girl with deep brown eyes wearing a small smile on her face while she cradled a clip board in her arm. She was a director’s assistant and always wore a smile as sweet as a lollipop.
“Oh, sure, Thanks” I nodded softly, exchanging glances with Kati while a sudden idea popped in my head. This was the perfect opportunity to get Kati away from Nick and finally gather the strength to warn her about his ‘doings’ without any interruptions.
“Let’s go, Kati,” I pushed the words out of my mouth as if they were as hot as jalapeños sweeping around Mel almost knocking her small, pretty frame over while I grabbed Kati’s hand trying my best to resist her hesitation to leave Nick’s side. Pulling Kati’s hand across the studio, I bit my lip improvising on where to go…I just had to make like a banana and split…cause that was the only thing I could think of that could help Kati in anyway…
“Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, Gabby that’s my arm,” Kati’s voice echoed from behind me as I realizing I was pulling harder and harder on her arm and heading straight toward our director-styled chairs. Letting go of her arm, I whipped around. We were in the corner by our chairs sitting next to the set while I exchanged glances between Kati’s pain sprinkled face and the back of Nick’s curly head.
“Kati, I need to tell you something, no interruptions, no anything,” I quickly and seriously blurted out causing Kati’s blue eyes to lock with mine in curiosity tinged with a hint of worry.
“Okay…spill,” Kati said still rubbing her arm. Taking a deep breath I gathered all the thoughts in my head and blocked out every sound, noise, and movement in the world focusing all my energy on saving Kati…
3…2…1…
Suddenly, right on cue, the interruption came. My blackberry vibrated like crazy on top of my chair making my head snap toward it, glancing at the screen. If it was just any text message, I would have ignored it and moved on, but once I caught a fragment of the letter ‘P’ on my phone, I almost instantly swept it up, forgetting everything I was talking about. Staring at the screen, Kati squeezed in a little closer, peering over the phone to see who it was from. It read: Patrick.
Pressing the ‘open message’ button, I scanned the message feeling a smile rise to my face…but fade ever so quickly as Kati backed away.
Hey,
Can’t make it to the set like I said I would be able to.
See ya l8r
- P
My stomach twisted slightly before I stopped it, catching how off track I was. It didn’t matter that Patrick had promised to be at the studio to support me…It didn’t matter that the text message he sent didn’t have a trace of care in it…none of that matter right now, because I had something else to take care of. Plus, I was going to need extra energy in order to save Kati and fight over the disappointment that was now drowning my heart.
“We should go,” Kati said softly obviously noting that she had glanced at the message and ultimately seen the slight drop in my facial expression. Unable to do anything but nod obediently and follow Kati up on the set and toward the director, I pressed the off button on my blackberry and tossed it back on the chair. Patrick was a whole different story…that I didn’t want to worry about right now. Fixing my eyes on Kati, I followed behind her over to the director shaking my head like it was an etch-and-sketch erasing the text message and refocusing me to what I really needed to do. I needed to save my best friend.
Letting out a slight huff, I fought the yanking urge to turn around and catch Kati’s eyes again so I would save myself from looking so lost without her…though it was obviously true. Accepting the fact that she had to leave me, I bit my lip begging myself to get over it…that I would see her soon. But of course, nothing like that ever works…Running my fingers through my curls, I let out a sigh once more trying my hardest to push the warm feeling out of my stomach that was always there when I even just made eye contact with Kati, and it normally stuck to me like gum on a shoe for at least an hour and I would love every minute of it. But, in this case, the feeling was only going to make me want to cry because there wasn’t any possibility of seeing Kati until the day was over. So…I decided to try my best not to think about it.
“Heeeey,” a very cheery Joe voice came from behind me interrupting my effort to push Kati out of my mind. Turning around to meet Joe’s cheesy smile and red cheeks, I chuckled at his beaming grin telling me he had just had a nice chat with his Australian crush. He had it bad for Nat…no lie, and that would soon mean major opportunities for pay back for all the teasing about the times I would smile when someone said the name Kati, or the way I play with my curls constantly when I thought about her. Of course…all this thought of Kati…wasn’t really doing me any good in the area of trying to not miss her and avoid teasing by my brothers…so I decided to forget about teasing him…to an extent.
“Hey, Mr. Single, how’s your single-ness working out for you and that girl of yours,” I smirked watching his smile drop just a little bit at the mention of his past pride in being entirely single and noticing that with this girl around…he probably wouldn’t be single for very long if he had anything to say about it. But insulting Joe…is always a big mistake.
“Well, hey there, Mr. Huggles, are you lost without your snuggle-muffin? You were huggin’ pretty tight back there,” Joe smirked back talking to me like I was 5 again while my cheeks heated up as I avoided eye contact with Joe as if that were to wash away my embarrassment.
“Well, I-…well, you were…and I was…well,” I froze determined to find a way out of the humiliation that was haunting me…even when it came to girls…Joe was never off guard…which was incredibly annoying from my point of view.
“What’s up my brothers?” Kevin interrupted my stammering like an angle from above as he stopped beside me munching on a cookie as I let out a sigh of relief. Shrugging my shoulders to answer Kevin question, I glanced at Joe who was smirking in pride at his accomplishment of still being the master of comebacks.
“Well, Nicholas here was choking while talking about his chica bonita, while I just got back from talking to the most amazing girl I have ever met.” Joe smiled as I shrunk even more watching Kevin’s eye brows raise as he chewed on his cookie.
“Oh yeah, how so is this girl amazing, Joseph?” Kevin mumbled with a mouth half full of cookie.
“In everyway possible, she has the cutest laugh, and the brownest eyes, and shes funny, and intelligent and talented and she…” Joe quickly rushed out of his mouth not hesitating on letting us know how highly he thought of Nat.
“Wow, Joe, not all at once,” Kevin chuckled exchanging surprised glances with me as I watched Joe stare off onto the set letting out a deep sigh…the kind of sigh I knew all too well. Single Joe was long gone.
“But, wow, I haven’t seen a girl like that…since…since…Cindy Hoover in kindergarten. But I only liked her because she gave me animal crackers; once she ran out of those…it was over.” Joe shrugged like he was talking about something incredibly more sophisticated than his love for animal crackers.
“Poor, poor, Cindy, I’m sure she was heart broken, Joe” I laughed regaining a fraction of my confidence while fiddling with my hands still giving all my effort to not think about Kati.
“I bet she was,” Kevin chuckled watching Joe stare off on set, “Lets hope Nat can be as good as Cindy and her animal crackers, and help Joe actually have a heart when it come to girlfrie-”
“Attention: about 5 more minutes until we start back up again, about 5 more minutes, guys,” Mel, the assistants director, called through a megaphone, cutting off Kevin and making all of our eyes snap out toward her.
“You think I could talk to Nat like once more before we start filming again?” Joe asked anticipation coating his voice.
“Um, well, I don’t know, Joe, she might be-” Kevin started
“Great, okay, thanks, bye,” Joe said speeding off in the direction of the set with out even a glance backwards.
“Gosh, he has it bad for that gi-”
When you looked into my eyes
And you dared to stare right back
You should have said
Nice to meet you, I’m your other half
Kevin’s iphone started to vibrate impatiently in his hand interrupting him abruptly. Glancing down at the screen a smile flew onto his face faster that you could say the name that cause it, which was obviously…Faye. Almost automatically turning away on his heal and sprinting in the other direction so he could talk to his sweetheart in private, Kevin stopped not yet picking up his phone put reaching quickly into his pocket and pulling out a small velvet box with a pink ribbon tied perfectly around it before shoving it into my hands.
“Dadsaidtogivethistoyou,momjusthadourmanagerpickitupattheengravmentshopandgiveittoyouasquickaspossible,goodluckbro” Kevin rushed almost not finishing his sentence before he turned away sprinting into another corner before the phone stopped ringing. Glancing down at the velvet box, I smiled. I had almost forgot about the cherry on top of all of Kati’s birthday events and suddenly the fuzzy feeling in my stomach reappeared. Sighing dreamily, I bit my lip thinking about Kati’s ocean blue eyes and how every time I looked into them…nothing bad could enter my mind, and no worry could haunt me, and nothing and nobody could replace tha-
“Hey stranger,” I suddenly head a familiar voice come from right in front of me making my stomach plummet and my spin shiver.
Oh...no…please don’t be who I think it is
Lifting my eyes slowly from the small velvet case, I locked eyes with the one girl whose name made me cringe in anger…My throat closed up as she smiled lightly at me, her soft, long brunette curls surrounding her face making my knees weak. No..wait, my knees weak?…why are my knees weak? I should be angry not losing my focus…no matter how warm her southern-tinted voice was or how deep her eyes were…what was I thinking?
This can’t turn out well…
“Okay, so when you come through the door on your scene with Nat, we want you to be sort of latched on to each other in excitement and you can improv your actions from there, but we are going for…well, a star-struck attitude. Can you do that?” the director asked clasping his hands together waiting for Gabby and I to answer. A smile beamed from my face, shining brightly at anything and everything that passed my way. Bubbles of excitement seemed to erupt through out my body giving me a new found energy that I loved.
“Absolutely, we won’t disappoint,” I said giggling slightly as I locked eyes with the director who smiled proudly at me.
“Definitely,” Gabby added smiling slightly as I glanced at her eager to get back to filming. Taking in a breath of air, I bit my lip soaking in the jitters that were covering my body. Everything seemed sunnier…brighter…more colorful than before…and I think I knew why. Still embracing the feeling of Nick’s arms around me, my giggle and smile was finally back and no worried or any nervous thought crossed my mind.
He’s …my rainbow on a cloudy day…my color in a gray world…okay, that was lame…
No matter my cheesy metaphor skills, the energy bouncing inside of my stomach made me feel like I could fly to the moon and it all came from his smile…
“Okay, well we have a few more minutes till we start so you can re-gather your thoughts and get ready,” the director nodded. Smiling brightly I turned toward Gabby as the director walked away to talk the scene through with the camera operators. Clasping my hands together like a cheerleader I bit my lip trying to calm the jittering energy surging through my body.
“You ready, Miss Adams?” I smiled wiggling my feet as I watched Gabby’s glassy green eyes fix on mine.
“Yeah, but…” Gabby’s voice seemed to match the darkening of her eyes. Whatever was bothering her was getting worse…and we couldn’t put it off any longer…so I took a deep breath waiting for Gabby to continue. “Kati…I need to talk to you.”
“Okay, go, no holding back,” I said calmly as I inched closer into the shadows of the cameras and rows of chairs and scripts as if she were going to tell the biggest secret in the world. Pressing my lips together…I felt my stomach churn…this didn’t look like it was going to turn out well and I wished with all my might that it would disappear without us having to talk about it…but I guess not all wishes come true.
“You know that everything Miley said was true…right? She’s not lying…Nick really did cheat on her,” Gabby said her face as blank and cold as stone as a wave of shock overcame me. I had forgotten all about that over the break, but now suddenly…I could respond.
“No…I, no…Gabby, it’s not true,” I stuttered, backing up away from her almost feeling tears come to my eyes. I wasn’t going to believe it and she couldn’t make me…but what stunned me the most was that she would believe it…
“Yes, I talked to her…Kati, she’s telling the truth and I don’t want you to get hurt, and why would she lie?” Gabby asked, her face still frozen as she stepped closer to me, keeping a hushed tone. Pressing my lips together, I tried to throw the thought that Miley could very well be telling the truth out of my mind. I mean…why would she lie…because she’s jealous?
But…why would Miley Cyrus be jealous of…me…
“Attention: about 5 more minutes until we start back up again, about 5 more minutes, guys,” Mel called out in her sweet voice through her megaphone warning me to get focused again, or else every dream of ever making it big would might as well be gone.
My throat choking while I tried to push some sort of language out of my mouth, I walked onto the set and into the light as if it were to make everything better. Surveying the crowd I did my best to keep my cool…though my sweating palms weren’t helping much.
I shouldn’t be losing it…I told myself that she was lying…I told myself it wasn’t true…and it isn’t…
“Gabby, its not true, its not, I trust Nick enough to know that he wouldn’t do anything like that to any girl whether its me or M-” I said sternly but was quickly cut off by Gabby’s unusual change of tone…
“Oh…my…gosh…” Gabby gasped as she stood looking in the direction of the refreshment tables while she froze in her tracks.
“What? Huh? What are you look…” I asked turning around and following her cold stare but was cut off by a sight that punched me swiftly in the stomach and stunned me while all the light in the room seemed to disappear completely. My jaw froze and dropped while everything in my brain seemed to come to a complete halt.
How…what…
“Kati…I…” Gabby’s soft voice came from behind me but no one made a move. I couldn’t do anything but stare at was right in front of me and what should have been obvious to me since months before...
“Kati Chase,” I heard an unfamiliar voice call out as I did a quick double take toward where the voice was coming from. A tall woman with sophisticated glasses and her red hair softly curled and hanging around her face walked toward me along with Mr. Jonas. She smiled at me while my jaw was still slightly dropped and every emotion in my body in a freeze frame.
“Kati, this is Gloria Walker, she’s a casting director for Disney who came to see the show today, and wanted to talk to you as soon as possible,” Mr. Jonas said as I fake smiled as she stopped in front of me.
“If I can have just a minute before you go back and film with you and Mr. Jonas, it would be a pleasure,” She smiled brightly as I nodded as a rush of the reality of the studio rammed into my face and a dark shiver ran down my spin while a million things were jammed into my head at once. Doing the only thing I thought was safe at the time, I looked back at Gabby as I started to walk into a corner of the studio with Mr. Jonas and the Mrs. Walker. Gabby’s green eyes were full of emotions that I couldn’t even comprehend…but one thing was for sure as I walked into one of the most important conversations of my life…we both had no clue what was going on…much less how it was going to end.
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