Chapter 9

"Faith? Faith, are you still asleep?" I heard someone whisper. It took a while before I realized it was Chrissie.

"Not anymore, why? What time is it?"

"Around 9 a.m. I guess. It’s still pretty early, I know. But you don’t care as soon as you hear the news." She was so excited, why? What happened to her?

"What’s the matter with you? Why are you in such a good mood? Did Thomas spend the night here or something?"

"You’re funny, you know… And no, Thomas didn’t spend the night here. I’m just so happy for you." Okay, now she lost me completely.

"Now I really can’t follow you anymore. All that can cheer me up right now is if I hear Nick’s voice say that he loves me, that’s something you can’t do."

"No, I know that, but I think I come pretty close… He called!!"

"He did what?!"

"Yesterday, when you were asleep, he called and I needed to give you a message. I wrote it down…somewhere. Wait a minute and I’ll get it." With that she left my room and ran downstairs.

While she was away I started to realize what Chrissie just had said… Nick called… Oh my God! He really answered my message. I jumped out of my bed and went looking for Chrissie. I found her at the kitchen and she showed me the note she had made last night.

"Don’t forget to tell Faith: Nick called, message: He’ll tell you why he didn’t call sooner, he promised to call you back tomorrow, in the mean time I had to tell you he loved you and he kept his promise… whatever that means…" I was so happy right now!

I hugged Chrissie several times and after that I went upstairs, dressed myself and went back downstairs to eat something. Just beat the world record. I never been so fast, I think…

Now I was ready for Nicks phone call. I watched TV and waited, waited till he calls me. Around noon when he still hasn’t call, I started to get worried. What if it was, again, a joke? I went to the kitchen without knowing what to do.

I teased Chrissie, actually I did everything that annoyed her. When she was sick of it she went to Thomas. I didn’t care, now I was alone when Nick called. And so he did. Around 3 p.m. he called. Believe it or not, but I was kinda surprised when he called.

"Hello?"

"Faith? Is that you? Yes it is, of course. Before you say something…" What did I love this voice, Nick’s voice…

"I’m really sorry and I know you won’t believe me, but I really kept my promise. But now I’ve got a problem… Remember Amber?"

"Yeah can’t forget her…"

"Right, well, she’s with us on tour… She follows us and she makes sure that everything fails. It’s pretty irritating. Now why do I start to talk about her? And why didn’t I call you sooner. I didn’t trust you completely. I thought you would believe the gossips about Amber and me. I didn’t wanna hurt you or something, I know I did, but…don’t know how to say this. I know I’m kinda rude now, but I really thought you would believe what they say in the magazines."

"Nick, stop it… I can’t say it’s not your fault, you kept me waiting. You said you would call me as soon as you could, and when do you call? A week before you come back!! Almost 2 months, guess you were really busy then. You couldn’t even call for one minute, maybe less. No, you just left me waiting. I thought I lost you. And yes, for a moment I believed everything they said in the magazines. What do you want? You didn’t call me Nick, that was the least you could do. And now you’re saying you don’t trust me?! That’s just plain rude!! You didn’t call me and now you don’t trust me?! Don’t think you know what trust is then, Nick. Do you actually know what love means?"

He made me really mad, I didn’t mean it, but I think I’m right, and he’s wrong. He doesn’t trust me, that’s a good one.

"Look Faith, I know you don’t believe me and maybe I say it the wrong way, cause I’m not really good with words, but I still love you, no matter what happens. And yes, I do know what love means. And trust? I never could trust anyone in my whole life! You don’t know what that’s like. Maybe you have to teach me then what trust really is… If you still want to see me at least."

Why does he have such a magic voice? And I bet if I saw his face right now, I was really lost. I loved him so much and maybe I really can show him what trust is…

"What time does your plane land next week?"

"I don’t really know, but you know what? I’ll call you tomorrow with the answer, if you’re not home, I just leave a message then, okay?"

"Okay Nick, make sure you do that otherwise you lost my faith in you…"

"I thought you would already have lost it, but I guess you didn’t. Thanks Faith, I really mean that."

"I know you do, but I’ve got to go now."

"Talk to you tomorrow then, love you."

"Love you too Nick, bye."

"Bye."

This just made my day!!