Moving On

*Autumn*

We all got together as planned, the next day to go apartment hunting. We have looked and found nothing so far and we are getting frustrated. "You know if this one says no, I think I will take Howie up on his offer" I say, I thought to myself. "Offer, what offer?" Tre asks me trying to look at me but having to keep her eyes on the road. -Oh crap-I think to myself. I guess I might as well tell them, I'm sure they will find out. "Well, uhh he asked me to move in with him." I tell them. They get quiet and you can hear the backstreet boy song we were listening to in the background, playing. I'm nervous about their reaction because I know how badly they want to move out. "What did you tell him Autumn?" Tre asks me. "Well I told him I couldn't because of my promise to you guys about the apartment" I tell her and they look at each other but nothing is said. We arrive at the apartment and go upstairs to meet the landlord. We walk through it and we all 3 agree that it is perfect for us. Lorie and I were talking to the landlord when Tre pulls her aside. I can see them talking from the corner of my eye but I have no idea about what. I am in the middle of talking with the landlord when Tre walks up to us "Thank you for showing us the apartment. We will get back to you soon." she shakes her hand and then grabs me by my arm and pulls me outside. "Tre, what in the hell are you doing?" I ask her, very annoyed. "We loved that place, why did you drag me out of there?" We were at her car but we didn't get in to leave we just stood by it. "Because Autumn, we can't afford it." She tells me. I look from her to Lorie and then back to Tre again "What do you mean 'we can't afford it'? With all 3 of us working, we make plenty." I tell her. "Very true Autumn, but since it will be only 2 of us, we will have to look else where." She says to me. I stand there and try to understand where she is coming from, when it hits me-she is telling me they don't care if I move in with Howie, but I can't I promised them- I think to myself. "Tre I promised you and Lorie I would get an apartment with you, and I will." I tell her. "No, you won't" Lorie says all of a sudden. I turn and look at her "What?" "Look Autumn, Howie asked you to live with him, Tre and I think you should. We all know if AJ and Kevin asked us we would want to." She tells me and I know that is true "Right, we don't want you not to move in with him because of us. We will manage on our own to get an apartment." Tre tells me. "Anyway we owe you." She says to me and I look at her not having any idea what she means "What are you talking about?" I ask. Tre sighs and then leans against her car "Remember when we moved here and there were only 2 beds in the room, so we had to get a cot." She asks us and me and Lorie shake our heads "Well we were going to flip or something for it but then you just took it without a complaint once. So this is how we will repay you. You go and live with Howie and Lorie and I will get a place." I am looking at Tre completely amazed that she even remembered what happened with the cot. I look at Lorie and Tre "Are you both sure?" I ask them. "Yes" They both tell me at once. I start getting really excited and my heart feels like it is doing flip flops and I can't wait to tell Howie. "Oh you guys, thank you sooo much. You two are the best friends a girl could ever have." I say to them and give them a hug." I'll go tell the landlord that we won't be taking this place." Lorie tells us. "Ok Lorie." Tre says to her. Tre and I move over to where there is less sun and sit down and talk. "So are you excited Autumn?" she asks me. I look at her and I can tell it bothers her that Howie asked me and Aj hadn't asked her. I know how much she cares for him and I am hoping with all hope that he finally does ask her. "Yea Tre I am in a way. I mean I'm going from living with you and Lorie to living with a guy, I'm used to you two now." I tell her and we start laughing. We continue to talk when we hear "TRE!" yelled from the apartment building. We look at each other and get up and run over to Lorie "What Lorie, what's wrong?" I ask her. "Nothing, nothing at all." She tells us. "Then what is with the yelling?" Tre asks her confused. "I'll tell you...the landlord said that there is a 2 bedroom apartment right below the 3 bedroom, if we want it." She tells Tre excitedly. We exchange looks and Tre smiles "No way" She says to her and Lorie gets a smile on her face "Way girly" "Well all right! Lets go check it out Lorie." Tre says to her and grabs her arm and we head up the stairs. We walk in and the landlord is there opening up some windows "Sorry, it's stuffy in here, it's been empty for a couple weeks now" she tells them "Oh it's ok, don't worry about it." I hear Tre tell her. They walk around the apartment and I can tell they really like it. After the tour we walk up to the landlord "We'll take it" Tre tells her and I am a little surprised that she jumped so fast. I look at Lorie and can see that she wasn't so sure they should take it so quick. "Tre, why don't we talk to the guys first." I hear Lorie say to her. Tre just looks at her and gets this look on her face "Why? We're the ones who are going to be paying the rent." She tells Lorie. "Because I want to talk to Kevin about the contract." Lorie tells her. I see Tre roll her eyes "Ok, ok..fine we'll do it that way." She tells Lorie not very happy. "We want to talk to our boyfriends first Ms. Tallent but we will get back to you by tomorrow, is that ok?" Lorie asks her and I can see Tre still rolling her eyes. The landlord doesn't seem very happy about this but gives in "Ok, girls that is fine but please get back to me soon. I think this will go fast." She says. "Yes ma'am we will." Lorie says to her and we all shake her hand. We all get down to Tre's car when all of a sudden Tre yells "Wait!" and runs over to the landlords car. She talks to her for a few minutes and then comes back "What was that all about Tre?" Lorie asks her. "Well I had to ask how long the lease would be. I know the guys would ask." She says as she gets into her car. "Wow you're right, they would want to know." Lorie says. We take off and I am so busy staring out the window thinking about moving in with Howie that I didn't notice Tre never said how long the lease would have to be until I hear Lorie ask her "So Tre, how long is it?" Tre stops at a stop light and looks at her "Well it's for a year. We have to sign for a year first and then it goes monthly." She tells her and the light turns green and Lorie sits back and I can tell she is thinking. I just turn back to the window and continue staring out of it.

We walk into the studio expecting the guys to be busy either writing or recording but when we get to them they are just sitting around lounging. "Well guys, I thought you were supposed to be recording." Lorie says to them when we walk in. I walk up to Howie and give him a kiss and he smiles at me. "Lorie, what are you guys doing here, I thought you were looking for apartments." Kevin asks while walking over and giving her a kiss. I turn and look at AJ and Tre and they are in a major lip lock and I don't think they have any idea anything was said. "Aww gee Kev, don't want me here?" Lorie asks Kevin teasingly. I see him smile and he gives her another kiss "Of course I want to see you baby, I just didn't expect you here." I turn and look at Howie while the others were saying their hello's "Guess what?" I tell him. He looks at me and gives me a smile "What baby?" "Well it seems you have a new roommate, that is, if you are still interested." I tell him. "What? I thought you had to move in with the girls" He says to me. "Well today they told me they would find a place together so I can move in with you." I tell him and he gets a big smile on his face. "That's great baby" He says and kisses me. "Ok, you two could you quit kissing and holding each other for one second?" I hear Lorie say. I turn away from Howie and see Tre stick her tongue out at Lorie. "No, we missed each other, so there." I hear her say and we all start laughing. "Hey baby, you supposed to keep that for me and me only" AJ says to her and pulls her in closer and kisses her. "Oh I think I'm gonna be sick" I say to them. AJ and Tre break apart and smile. "Ok, well we found a place today guys." Lorie tells Kevin and everyone. "But it seems there has been a change of plans that we were just made aware of today. It won't be us 3 moving in together, it will be just 2 of us." She tells them. Kevin and AJ look at them confused. Howie smiles and gives me a hug. "What do you mean, just 2 of you?" Kevin asked her. "Well it seems, Howie asked Autumn to move in with him. Tre and I decided that we can't hold her to her promise that she made when we first moved here, because obviously, situations have changed." She tells them "Wow D, you did ask her huh? You said you wanted to but you never told me you did." AJ says to him and slaps him on his back. "Well yea I asked but she turned me down because of the promise she made to the girls." He told us all. "Well Tre and I told her to forget that promise and move in with you, I mean that is more important." Lorie tells him and he gives them a thank you smile. "Ok, so you found another apartment already for you and Tre?" Kevin asks her "Yep, right below the 3 bedroom we looked at today. It's perfect and we both love it. Most important we can afford it." She says and Tre laughs and shakes her head in agreement. "Well baby, how long is the lease for?" Aj asks Tre. I see Tre and Lorie look at each other because they knew, they weren't going to be happy. "Well...it's a year lease and then after that we go monthly." Tre tells him and Kevin. "A YEAR!!" They both shout at the same time. "Well yea a year." Lorie says and she takes Kevs hand to calm him. I turn and I see Tre put her hand on AJ's shoulders to get him to sit down again and she kisses him. "Lorie, I don't want you to have to be committed to a lease for a year." I hear Kevin say. "I know Kevin but that is all that is out there for what we can afford." I hear her tell him. "Tre, this sucks." AJ says to her. "I know it does AJ, but what can we do?" She asks him. "Well damnit, you can move in with me." He tells her and I know she is shocked. "What?" She asks him. "You can move in with me. I mean you're there all the time anyway and we don't kill each other." We hear him say that and have a laugh. "I know baby, but I didn't think you were ready for that. I thought you wanted to keep it simple." She reminds him of what we all heard him tell her a couple months ago. He looks down at his hands "I know what I said a couple months ago baby, but forget that, I was stupid once again. I love you and I want you to be with me." He tells her this and Tre looks at him in shock. I know I'm in shock at what I just heard and I look around and it seems the others are too. She gets tears in her eyes and tells him "I love you too AJ and I want to be with you too. Yes I'll move in with you." She tells him and kisses him to the point where we thought they would never break apart."Ok you two, knock it off" Kevin yells and then looks at Lorie "Well baby, I already told you how I feel about you so the next step is you moving in with me." We all hear Kevin say to Lorie. We all expected her to like jump at it when he asked but she just stood there. Kev finally gave her a little shake "Lorie? Hello, are you in there?" He says to her. "Huh? OH yea sorry Kevin. Did you just ask me to move in with you?" She asks him and we all laugh "Well yea sweetie, I did. What do you say?" He asks. "Well I say, I love you and yes I would love to move in with you." She finally says to him and then jumps in his arms and kisses him and he laughs. "Well if I didn't hear the yes I would take this to mean it." He tells her.

Me and the girls decided to get together and spend a few days at the room, for old times sakes, well for last times sakes even. I went down to the office and gave them the 2 day notice that we thought they deserved, but barely. On our last morning we were all packed and standing around. "You know I can't believe we're leaving." Lorie says to us. "Man I know. I mean it stunk here but it's weird to not going to be living here." Tre says. We put our stuff in our cars and then go back and lock the door to the room. We all go to the office to give the keys back.. When we get back to the cars I look at the girls "Well I guess this is it ladies." I say to them feeling sad. "Yep, this is it. We gotta go." Lorie says. We all just kind of stand there "Well it's been one hell of a ride girls." Tre says to us and we laugh. "Hey and the thing is girls, it's not over yet." she adds to it and we exchange hugs.. "See ya guys" I tell them as I get into my car. "Yep see ya girlies" Tre says as she starts her car and then we hear AJ's voice coming through her speakers and we laugh. "Hey it's not like we won't see each other, right?" Lorie says to us. "Well of course we'll see each other. Our boyfriends are best friends and they are in the group together." I remind them, even though they really didn't need reminded. "That's right girls, we will always be friends, nothing will change that." Tre says to us "The only thing that is changing is our addresses" She tells us, waves and drives off. We watch her leave and then look at each other and laugh "Typical Tre fashion" I say to Lorie. "Yep, that sure was" Lorie goes and gets into her car "Later Autumn, have a good one." She says to me. "Yea you too, Lorie." I tell her and drive away. I look back at the motel once I turn on the street and think of the good times we had and I feel a tear fall. It's not that I'm not happy about moving in with Howie, cause I am thrilled to no end about that, it's just I'm going to miss living with my two 'sisters'. I never got as close to anyone as I did them two and I'm going to miss our talks. Yes I know, it's not like we will never see each other again, the boys are together practically 24/7, but it will never be like it was there at the room. I shake my head and decide that that part of my life may be over but a new and exciting part is just beginning so I will focus on that, plus I will still have my 'sisters' we will just not be living in the same place all the time. I turn on the radio and my favorite song comes on by the boys, I Want It That Way, I turn it up and start singing to it and head into my future, my future with Howie.

*Tre*

I take off from AJ's house to go and meet the girls to go dreaded apartment hunting.-man I do not feel like doing this-I think to myself when I get to the room where we agreed to meet. We take off and we look at a million apartments (Ok, not a million but it sure fells like it) and we are all getting very frustrated with the hunting for an apartment process. I'm driving to the next apartment hoping this one was it when I hear Autumn mumble something "You know if this one says no, I think I will take Howie up on his offer" I turn from the road and look at her questioningly "Offer, what offer?" I can't look long because traffic is horrible but I looked long enough to see the 'oh crap' look come over her face. I know she didn't mean for us to hear what she said but now she has to tell us, because we did hear it "Well, uhh he asked me to move in with him." After she tells us this I glance over at Lorie and then back to the road not knowing what to think or say. I guess Lorie felt the same way because the only thing you could hear was the cd we had on. I decide we needed to know what her answer was to him before we do anymore hunting, no use in looking for a 3 bedroom when all you needed was a 2 "What did you tell him Autumn?" I ask. "Well I told him I couldn't because of my promise to you guys about the apartment" She tells us. I look over at Lorie and she is looking at me but we don't say much, I guess we don't really know what to say. -Man why couldn't AJ ask me to move in with him- I think as we arrive at the apartment and start up the stairs to meet the landlord. -You know why he didn't ask you Tre, it's because 'he wants to keep things new and simple'-I think to myself as our fight from a few months ago comes back into my mind. As the 3 of us walk around in the apartment I can tell the other 2 like it as much as I do. I keep watching Autumn to see if there was a sign that she really didn't want to move in with us, but I didn't see one. -We can't make her move in with us if Howie asked her to live with him-I think as Lorie and Autumn walk up to the landlord to talk with her about the apartment. As they were talking to her a idea formed in my head and I knew it was the right thing to do, so I walk over to Lorie and tell her I need to talk with her and pull her away from Autumn and the landlord. "Lorie we can't take this place." I tell her and see the confused look on her face. "Why not, Tre?" I look over at Autumn "Because she has a better offer from Howie. I mean I know if AJ asked me I would want to live with him and if Kevin asked you it would be the same way." I know Lorie would jump at the chance to move in with Kevin just like she knows how I would if AJ asked. I walk over to Autumn and the landlord before Lorie can say anything about what I just said, and before I talk myself out of it. "Thank you for showing us the apartment. We will get back to you soon." I tell Ms. Tallent and shake her hand and then I take Autumn by the arm and we go outside. I can tell Autumn is annoyed with me "Tre, what in the hell are you doing?" She asks. "We loved that place, why did you drag me out of there?" We get to my car and stand by it. "Because Autumn we can't afford it." I tell her. "What do you mean 'we can't afford it'? With all 3 of us working we make plenty." She points out to me -man I have to do this before I change my mind- I think to myself "Very true Autumn but since it will be only 2 of us, we will have to look else where." The girl looked way confused now, but only for a few seconds because what I just said finally registered "Tre I promised you and Lorie I would get an apartment with you, and I will." She argues back "No, you won't." Lorie finally spoke up to help me out. Autumn turns around and asks her "What?" "Look Autumn, Howie asked you to live with him, Tre and I think you should. We all know if AJ and Kevin asked us we would want to." She points out. "Right, we don't want you not to move in with him because of us. We will manage on our own to get an apartment." I say to her, not giving her a chance to argue back. "Anyway we owe you." I tell her and they both look at me with huh! looks on their faces "What are you talking about?" Autumn asks me and I sigh and lean up against my car "Remember when we moved here and there were only 2 beds in the room, so we had to get a cot." They both shook their heads that they remembered. "Well we were going to flip or something for it but then you just took it without a complaint once. So this is how we will repay you. You go and live with Howie and Lorie and I will get a place." I see that Autumn is surprised that I remembered what she did when we first got here to Orlando. -Geesh exactly how shallow do these two think I am-I think to myself but don't say it outloud. Autumn looks from me to Lorie "Are you both sure?" "Yes" Lorie and I say in unison and she gets this big ol goofy huge smile on her face and I have to laugh at her. "Oh you guys, thank you sooo much. You two are the best friends a girl could ever have." She says to us and we give her a hug. "I'll go tell the landlord that we won't be taking this place." Lorie tells us as she walks towards the apartment building. "Ok, Lorie." I tell her. I see some logs under some shade so I look at Autumn and point over there and she shakes her head so we go and sit down "So are you excited Autumn?" I ask her. I am trying really hard not to be jealous that Howie asked her to live with him, but it's hard. I know that sound horrible and I'm probably not being a very good friend, but man I love AJ, yes love, but I haven't told him yet, and I wish he would feel the same for me. "Yea Tre I am in a way. I mean I'm going from living with you and Lorie to living with a guy, I'm used to you two now." She says to me and we look at each other and start cracking up. We talked about her moving in with Howie a little more when we hear Lorie yell "TRE!" Autumn and I look at each other and jump up and run over to her "What Lorie, what's wrong?" Autumn asks her out of breath. "Nothing, nothing at all." She says and then gets this smile on her face. "Then what is with the yelling?" I ask. "I'll tell you...the landlord said that there is a 2 bedroom apartment right below the 3 bedroom, if we want it." She tells me and I get this smile on my face that matches hers. "No way" I say to her "Way girly" She replies back to me "Well all right! Lets go check it out Lorie." I yell and grab her arm to head upstairs. We get up to the apartment and the landlord is already there and she is opening up some windows -Good thing too, it's hot up here-I think to myself "Sorry, it's stuffy in here, it's been empty for a couple weeks now" She says to us "Oh it's ok, don't worry about it." I say to her . We walk around and me and Lorie both really like it and then walk up to the landlord "We'll take it" I say to her. "Tre, why don't we talk to the guys first." Lorie say to me. I feel extreme annoyance come over my body and just look at her -why do we have to talk to the guys, they won't be living here- I think to myself "Why? We're the ones who are going to be paying the rent." I point out to her. "Because I want to talk to Kevin about the contract." She tells me. I make a point not to hide how much this annoys the hell out of me but tell her "Ok, ok..fine we'll do it that way." Lorie does see how annoyed I am, and I'm glad. She turns to the landlord "We want to talk to our boyfriends first Ms. Tallent but we will get back to you by tomorrow, is that ok?" Lorie asks her and I stand over to the side and roll my eyes. I can tell Ms. Tallent is not happy about it but tells us "Ok, girls that is fine but please get back to me soon. I think this will go fast." I look at Lorie with a look that tells her she better not make us lose this apartment because she wants to talk to Kevin "Yes ma'am we will." Lorie says to her and we shake her hand. We get to my car and a question comes to me that we forgot to ask so say a little loud "Wait!" and run over to Ms. Tallent's car "Ms. Tallent, wait a second please." I say to her when I get up to her. "What is it Trelyn?" She asks me and I can tell she is still not happy that we didn't take the apartment today "Well we forgot to ask you something about the apartment that I know our boyfriends are going to ask us." I tell her. "Oh? and what is that?" "They are going to ask us how long the lease is that we will have to sign." I tell her. "Oh well when you first rent the apartment it has to be a year lease, after that you can either sign another year lease or go to monthly." She tells me. "Ok, thank you very much Ms. Tallent." I say to her and start walking away. I hear her mumble your welcome and drive away. -Great a year lease. That means even if AJ did ask me to move in with him, I won't be able to until next year- I think to myself as I walk back over to the girls. I get back to my car and I can see they are confused "What was that all about Tre?" Lorie asks me. "Well I had to ask how long the lease would be. I know the guys would ask." I tell her getting into the car. . "Wow you're right, they would want to know." Lorie says. I take off with tons of thoughts going through my head that I didn't realize that I never told Lorie what the landlord said "So Tre, how long is it?" Lorie asks me when I stop at a red light. I turn and look at her, not hiding the fact that I'm not happy about what I am going to tell her "Well it's for a year. We have to sign for a year first and then it goes monthly." I let her know and take off again when the light finally turns green. The car is pretty quiet with the 3 of us in our own little worlds. I'm thinking about having to live in the apartment for a year and not having even a slight chance to move in with AJ, that is if he even asked me to. I look over at Autumn and she is staring out the window and I wish with all my heart that it was me that was asked to move in with my boyfriend and not her. -That's not being a very good friend Tre- I think to myself so I push the thought away and try not to be jealous of Autumn and just be happy for her.

We get to the studio where the guys are recording, well supposed to be anyway. We walk in and they are sitting around just chilling out. I see AJ sitting on a stool and smile because he looks so cute wearing his faded jeans with a shirt on that has no sleeves, so he can show his tat's off. He's also wearing a baseball cap turned backwards and even though they are inside, he is wearing his sunglasses. I walk over to where he is "Hey baby" I whisper to him. "Hey there yourself" He smiles at me and then kisses me. "Well guys, I thought you were supposed to be recording." I hear Lorie say to the guys, though at the moment I am not really paying much attention, it's hard to when all you really want is to feel your mans arms around you. "Lorie, what are you guys doing here, I thought you were looking for apartments." I hear Kev ask her. I have no idea what was said after that, all my thoughts were on AJ and how bad I wanted to get him alone so we could take this farther. We stop kissing for a second but are still holding each other and AJ moves in to give me another kiss when I hear Lorie "Ok, you two could you quit kissing and holding each other for one second?" I stop kissing AJ and turn around and stick my tongue out at her "No, we missed each other, so there." I tell her and everyone laughs, including AJ but then he turns me around so I am looking at him "Hey baby, you supposed to keep that for me and me only" he tells me and brings me in and kisses me again. "Oh I think I'm gonna be sick" We hear Autumn say. We stop kissing and I roll my eyes and AJ smiles at me. I turn around and lean on AJ and look over at Lorie. "Ok, well we found a place today guys." Lorie tells them. "But it seems there has been a change of plans that we were just made aware of today. It won't be us 3 moving in together, it will be just 2 of us." She continues. After she says this I see Kevin and AJ look at us. "What do you mean, just 2 of you?" Kevin asks. "Well it seems, Howie asked Autumn to move in with him. Tre and I decided that we can't hold her to her promise that she made when we first moved here, because obviously, situations have changed." She says. AJ moves forward so I have to stop leaning on him "Wow D, you did ask her huh? You said you wanted to but you never told me you did." He says and slaps him on his back. "Well yea I asked but she turned me down because of the promise she made to the girls." He told us. "Well Tre and I told her to forget that promise and move in with you, I mean that is more important." Lorie tells him and he smiles at us. -Yea aren't we just wonderful people- I think to myself and then regret it and get mad at myself for feeling jealous still. -I should be happy for them not jealous, now knock it off- I yell at myself in my head. I look at AJ and he opens his arms to me and I lean on him again and he wraps his arms around me and holds me. -Man, this feels so right- I think. -Why can't he see how good we are for each other and quit making it so hard to be together- I wonder to myself remembering the fight we had a couple months ago about me wanting him to be more serious and him asking how much more serious do I want it, we are already going out. I had told him that I know we are going out but it seems like he is not taking the relationship serious and he just got mad at me and left, but not before he told me to quit trying to force him into loving me or he will be gone for good. Needless to say...I cried myself to sleep that night. "Ok, so you found another apartment already for you and Tre?" I hear Kevin ask and it brings me away from my thoughts. "Yep, right below the 3 bedroom we looked at today. It's perfect and we both love it. Most important we can afford it." Lorie tells him and I laugh and shake my head. "Well baby, how long is the lease for?" Aj asks me and I look over at Lorie because this is the part we knew they wouldn't like. Even though AJ tells me he wants to move slow, I stay at his house so much I might as well live with him and in my heart I just KNOW he will ask me to move in with him, but I don't think he will want to wait the length of the lease until I can. "Well...it's a year lease and then after that we go monthly." I tell him. "A YEAR!!" AJ and Kev yell and look at me and Lorie "Well yea a year." Lorie says and I see her take Kevin's hand to try to calm him down. When the guys heard a year and they yelled AJ had jumped up from the chair and was standing there just looking at me I put my hands on his shoulders and made him sit down and I give him a kiss to see if I can calm him a little "Lorie, I don't want you to have to be committed to a lease for a year." I hear Kevin tell her. "I know Kevin but that is all that is out there for what we can afford." She tells him. I hear AJ sigh and I turn and look at him "Tre, this sucks." He tells me. "I know it does AJ, but what can we do?" I ask him. Knowing what I wanted him to tell me we could do about it. "Well damnit, you can move in with me." He says and I just look at him not believing he said what I just heard "What?" I ask. "You can move in with me. I mean you're there all the time anyway and we don't kill each other." He tells me and I have to agree with him, we do do pretty good. But what he told me a few months ago comes back to me and I decide to remind him of it "I know baby, but I didn't think you were ready for that. I thought you wanted to keep it simple." He looks down at his hands "I know what I said a couple months ago baby, but forget that, I was stupid once again. I love you and I want you to be with me." I just stand there and look at him trying to comprehend what he just said. I look into his wonderful brown eyes and I don't have to question what he just told me, I know for a fact I heard him tell me he loved me, because I can see it when he looks at me. I know I have been happy here in Orlando and I never thought anything could make me happier then dating AJ, I mean nothing could compare to that, so I thought. When he told me he loved me I looked into his eyes and saw the love he had for me in them I knew at that moment nothing could bring me more happiness and I could feel tears in my eyes "I love you too AJ and I want to be with you too. Yes I'll move in with you." I tell him and we kiss and I never wanted the kiss to end but then we weren't alone in the room "Ok you two, knock it off" Kevin says to us so we break from the kiss but AJ is still holding me. "Well baby, I already told you how I feel about you so the next step is you moving in with me." Kevin says to Lorie. I thought for sure she would tell him yes the second he got done saying that but she didn't, she just stood there. We all just kind of look at each other and then back at Kev and he finally gives her a little shake "Lorie? Hello, are you in there?" He asks her. "Huh? OH yea sorry Kevin. Did you just ask me to move in with you?" She says to him and we all can't help but laugh at it. "Well yea sweetie, I did. What do you say?" He asks. "Well I say, I love you and yes I would love to move in with you." She tells him and then she leaps into arms and gives him a kiss and he laughs. "Well if I didn't hear the yes I would take this to mean it." He says to her.

Before we had all left the studio me and the girls had agreed to meet at the room the next day and spend a few days together...just us, no guys. It was decided that we would give the motel a couple days of notice before we left and Autumn went down to tell them. Our last morning was spent packing everything up but that didn't take very long so before we knew it it was time to go but we were all just standing around looking at the room. "You know I can't believe we're leaving." Lorie says to us. "Man I know. I mean it stunk here but it's weird to not going to be living here." I tell the girls. We load all of our stuff into our cars and then return to the room to look one more time before closing the door and locking it. We decide to all go and return the key, I guess we wanted to put off leaving. We walk back to the cars and Autumn looks at us "Well I guess this is it ladies." She says. "Yep, this is it. We gotta go." Lorie says. We're all just sort of standing there and I decide the mood needs to be lightened, I mean I know it sucks we won't be all in the same place anymore but it's not like we'll never see each other again, I mean our guys are best friends. "Well it's been one hell of a ride girls." I say to them and we all laugh. "Hey and the thing is girls, it's not over yet." I add and we all hug. "See ya guys" Autumn tells us as she gets into her car. I get into my car and start is up "Yep see ya girlies" I say to them as I turn down my stereo because I forgot I was listening to 'Lay Down Beside Me' when I got here a couple days ago, and I had it cranked. "Hey it's not like we won't see each other, right?" Lorie says. "Well of course we'll see each other. Our boyfriends are best friends and they are in the group together." Autumn tells us. "That's right girls, we will always be friends, nothing will change that." I reply "The only thing that is changing is our addresses" I say to them and then wave and pull out and take off. I look in my rearview mirror and I can see them watching me, shaking their heads and laughing and smile. I pull out into traffic and wipe the tear that came down that neither one of the girls saw, well I wouldn't let them see. I know I act like not much gets to me and I even try to convince myself that feelings just get in the way, but I know better. I'm going to miss coming to the room and just hanging out with the girls and having girl talks, but I would never let them know that, that's just not my way. I have noticed one thing about myself since I started my relationship with AJ, my emotions tend to come out more. Sure I still can fight and argue with him until I am blue in the face or he gets mad and walks out, but what he doesn't know is that I'm afraid that he won't come back or if he does he'll say that we're over. I don't like feeling that way and sure won't admit to him or anyone else that I do, but it's there. -Well you have to stop being afraid of losing him- I think to myself as I pull onto my new street and head towards my new place. -Because now is not the time to have doubts, now is the time to focus on a wonderful future with the man you love. Don't let a stupid fear get in the way of your happiness- I lecture myself.

I get to our house and pull into the drive way and get out. AJ must of been standing at the window watching for me because no sooner did I get my car door closed he was out the front door "Can I help you bring in your stuff, babe?" He asks coming up behind me. I turn around and smile at him, thinking damn he looks hot and boy did I miss him "Yep, you sure can sweetie" I tell him and we both grab a couple of suitcases. A couple hours later I am all moved in and standing on the little pier that is behind the house just watching the water wondering how the girls are doing, when AJ walks up behind me and puts his arms around me "You ok baby?" He asks me and I lean into him "Yea hun, just perfect." I tell him. We stand there for a couple minutes just being together and taking in the beauty of the sunset. I move out of AJ's arms "Lets go inside" I tell him and he shakes his head and grabs my hand and we start walking to the house. We get to the house and as I turn around to close the door I see the last part of the sun setting and I think how beautiful it is. "Tre baby, come on lets watch some tv and cuddle on the couch" I hear AJ yell from the living room. I smile and close the door and walk towards AJ and to what I know will be a wonderful future.

THE END!!

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