Part Eleven
About twenty minutes later JC trotted down the stairs all dressed and ready to go. He set his bag by the front door. They were only going to be in New York for a day, but he had to bring stuff to change into for the performance and he had to bring shower stuff for after the performance. They were going to do a talk show and also some basic interviews.
As JC walked into the living room he saw Missy and Lance on the couch. He looked at his watched and figured that he better wake Lance up. There wasn't much time before they had to be at the airport. JC tapped Lance on the shoulder and Lance turned a little and then opened his eyes.
"Yeah," he said. Lance looked down and noticed that Missy was still all curled up in his arms. He liked having her there. He liked it a lot.
"Dude, do you know what time it is? We gotta be at the airport in like an hour."
"Oh shit," he whispered. He didn't want to have to wake up Missy, but he knew that there was no way that he could get up without getting her up. "Missy, baby," he said as he stroked the side of her face.
She nuzzled her head on his chest and then mumbled, "mm hmm."
"Babe, I gotta get up. I have to be at the airport in an hour."
Missy looked up and saw JC. She lifted her upper body up some and then moved over so that Lance could get up. "Morning JC," she said. "Did you sleep well?"
"Very well," he said in reply.
"Damn," Lance said as he got up off the couch. "I don't have any of the stuff that I need. It's all at my place. I didn't plan on staying the night here."
"Call one of the guys and tell them to get your stuff. Is it packed at all?" JC asked.
"Yeah, it is sitting on my bed actually."
"Call Chris and ask him to run by and pick it up, and just bring it to the airport," JC said. Lance walked over to the phone and called up Chris. He told him where all his stuff was and asked him to bring it to the airport with him.
Missy went into the kitchen to get herself something to munch on while Lance and JC were in the living room talking. After Lance got off the phone he and JC went into the kitchen and sat at the table with Missy. All of them munched on some crackers and cheese. They talked about what they were going to be doing that day and all that stuff. Lance went over the directions to Disney with her once more just to make sure she understood them.
Cierra was up in JC's bathroom taking a shower when she heard JC yell her name. "I'm in here babe," she said.
JC walked over to the bathroom and stepped just inside the door. He put his back to her so that she didn't think that he was peaking in on her. They had been together for quite some time now, but they still have never seen each other fully naked. JC wanted to take things slow with her. With his back still towards the shower door he said, "do you want me to make you anything to eat? We are all just eating crackers and cheese down there."
Cierra quietly opened the shower door and stuck both her head and one arm out. "That's ok. I'll just eat that." She thought it was so cute that he had turned around so that he couldn't see her through the shower door. She reached out and touched the back of his neck. He jerked and his eyes got wide with surprise. Cierra turned him so that he faced her. JC could see her outline through the foggy shower door.
JC gulped and said, "you sure?"
"Uh huh," she said seductively and then said, "thanks for checking." She pulled him closer and kissed him lightly. JC felt like would need another cold shower if he didn't get out of there now. "I'll be down in a minute," she added and then shut the door.
JC took in a deep breath and mumbled, "damn I want her," as he ran his hands through his hair and clenched his teeth.
Cierra looked carefully at the directions on the paper and then pointed to an exit off to the right. She yelled, “that’s our exit!”
“Shit,” Missy said as she swerved into the exit only lane. She tightened up her face and looked back a little. “Ooops, sorry!” she said to the car that she totally just cut off.
“My bad,” Cierra said. She was supposed to be paying attention so that Missy could just concentrate on all the cars on the highway. “At least I saw it before we passed it,” she laughed.
“I guess that’s a good thing to add to the fact that we almost ran a car off the road!” Missy then laughed.
“Missy, I have come to conclude that the Lord is not ready for us yet. We have more lives than a dang cat!”
“Oh I know right. Then again maybe we shouldn’t test it all the time!” Missy said back in a humorous tone.
“I don’t think we do it on purpose!”
Both girls laughed it off and then paid close attention to the road and the directions Lance had given them. After about forty five minutes to an hour of driving they finally saw all the signs saying “Disney World”. They were pleased that they got that far all by themselves.
“And see, our parents didn’t think we could get anywhere alone, that didn’t include our own city!” Cierra said.
“Guess we just proved them wrong.”
“Well lets not jinx it, we still aren’t in the parking lot yet,” Cierra laughed.
“True, very true!” Missy giggled back.
Cierra watched all the big signs on the side of the road and became excited. “Girl, this is gonna be so cool! I finally get to see Mickey Land,” she said and then giggled a little. “Okay get in the left lane, we gotta go that way.”
Missy checked her mirror and then switched lanes. “Ass hole! What are you thinking?” she yelled. A car pulled out and switched lanes right in front of her. “Damn women drivers,” she said as she blew her horn at the lady in the red convertible.
“Uh Mis,” Cierra said.
Missy looked over at Cierra with an innocent look on her face, “yeah?”
Cierra laughed, “nothing Mis. Not a thing.”
“Oh come on Ci, didn’t you see that lady pull out in front of me?”
“Mis you did the same thing not even twenty minutes ago.”
Missy’s mouth opened and her eyes widened. “Oh yeah, I did huh?” she laughed. “Well that was different!”
Cierra laughed inside. Missy was definitely a trip on the other side of the steps. “Look you can see the big dome thingy!”
“Finally we are almost there,” Missy said as she leaned her chin on the steering wheel while they waited at a stop light.
After a couple more stop lights they finally pulled into the parking lot. It was huge. Both of them were afraid they would forget where they parked Lance’s car. As soon as they got their parking sticker and all that, they started their long walk to the gates of the Magic Kingdom.
Cierra and Melissa plopped down on a bench. They had several small bags in their hands and they each had a huge drink. Melissa took a deep breath and then started to fan herself. Within seconds Cierra was doing the same thing.
“Man, I thought Texas was hot,” Cierra said as she took a sip of her water. Cierra hated water more than anything but she knew that soda probably wouldn’t be the best thing to drink in that hot weather.
“Girl do you see what this humidity is doing to my hair?! It has no life to it now,” Missy whined. She hated to have her hair messed up.
“Missy, it looks fine. Put it in a pony tail if it is gonna bug you so much,” Cierra said back to her.
Missy dug through her purse until she found a tie to pull her hair back with. “It seems like we have been here for forever CiCi.”
“We have!” Cierra looked at her watch. They had been there for almost five hours already. “We can make it a little while longer though. We still haven’t been down this strip over here. When we are done with that we should grab something to eat, and then go back home. I don’t want to be out too late.”
“Sounds like a plan to me. I wonder how the guys are doing.”
The five guys sat at a table and twiddled their thumbs. “How much longer?” Joey asked. He always was the impatient one.
“Not too much,” said Lance.
“We should be outta here and on a plane home in about four hours,” Justin said.
JC slid back in his seat. “Ugh, I am gonna die. I just wanna go home and crawl into bed!”
“Yeah, I am sure you wanna crawl into bed,” Chris joked. “I bet that cutie Cierra is gonna be there waiting for you.”
“Ha ha ha, funny Chris,” JC said back.
Johnny walked into the room and held out a stack of papers. “Here you go guys. Last thing to look over before we go to the last taping up here.”
The guys got up and got the papers and then walked out the door. They walked down a long hallway until they saw Lonnie standing at the other end of it. They all went into another room and sat down on couches to read their stack of paper. Once the guys finished that they got into the limo and headed out yet once again.
“This doesn’t look too familiar,” Missy said as she drove down a long stretch.
“I swear we followed these directions to the ‘t’. Maybe when the road split back there we were supposed to go the other way.”
“We better stop and ask for directions Ci,” Missy said as she looked along the sides of the road for a gas station to stop at.
“Missy, I don’t think we are gonna run into any gas stations anytime soon here. This looks like it is going to be a really long secluded stretch full of NOTHING.” Cierra was getting worried.
“Well, we’ll just keep going ’til we see one.” Missy bit her lower lip and prayed that they would find a gas station soon.
The girls drove for almost twenty minutes before they saw a little broke down station. “Mis, I don’t feel so good about stopping here.”
“Ci, this is the only place we have seen for the last twenty miles. We have to stop somewhere,” Missy said as she slowly pulled into the little area for one car to get gas. She looked into the tiny room that was lit up and a guy stood at the counter. “You stay here, I am gonna run in there and ask how to get back on the highway. I’ll be right back.”
Cierra sucked it up and told Missy to hurry up. She locked the doors behind her. Cierra bit her nails as she watched Missy run in through the door and lean over the counter. The guy looked nice through the double windows Cierra was peering through. He was writing down something and pointing down the road. Missy nodded and smiled. Cierra’s heart lifted as she saw Missy stand up straight and head for the door.
Cierra leaned back in her seat and was looking at the tape stash that Lance had in between the seats. She looked back up when she heard Missy scream. Missy stood inside the door and the guy behind the desk came running up behind her. Before Cierra had the chance to yell ‘what’ she saw something out of the corner of her eyes. She let out a high scream when she saw a scruffy face staring through her window. He banged on the window and Cierra’s eyes filled with tears as she screamed.
Within seconds of her scream she saw the guy fall to the ground. The guy that had given Melissa directions had hit him over the head with a bottle. Missy ran to the driver’s side door and pulled the handle. When it didn’t open Cierra reached over and unlocked it.
“Oh my God who was that?” Cierra asked.
“The guy at the desk said that he is some drunk that always wonders around here. He is pretty harmless, but when he started banging on the window the guy at the desk said that he needed to do something. He grabbed a bottle and ran out here and hit him.”
Cierra looked out her window and saw the guy still laying on the ground. She rolled down her window some and thanked the guy for everything. She glanced at the drunk once more and then asked the guy if he would be ok. The guy assured her that he was just knocked out and that he would be okay in a little while. With that, the girls started the car and headed off.
“Okay, I don’t even want to mention this to the guys. Deal?” Missy said.
“Deal. Uhm, so do we know where we are going now?” Cierra asked.
“Yeah, he said to take the next left up here in about five minutes and it will lead us to an access road, and then we just take the first exit onto the highway that we see.”
“I can deal with that.”
“Me too. Are you okay Ci?” Missy asked.
“Yeah, it shook me up, but I am fine. Let’s just listen to some music okay?”
“Okay with me,” Missy said as she started to flip through stations.
“No, we are not going to do that the rest of the way home, it will drive me nuts. We are going to listen to this tape.”
The girls got back onto the highway with no problem and follow all the directions all the way back to JC’s house. When they pulled up in the driveway they both let out a sigh of relief.
Melissa and Cierra went into their room and changed into their pajamas. They were both beat. They had been on their feet all day and were ready to finally get some sleep. Missy told Cierra that before she went to bed she wanted some ice cream. Cierra agreed that ice cream sounded like a good idea, so they both headed straight for the kitchen to get some. They knew that JC was an ice cream fanatic so they were sure that he had some ice cream in the freezer of his.
After they finished their ice cream they decided to go to bed. Missy looked at her watch and said, “the guys should be in soon and if they see that we are still up then they are gonna think that we were waiting up for them.”
“Yeah, I guess you’re right.”
“You gonna sleep down here tonight or are you going up to C’s room again,” Missy said with a smile.
“I’m gonna go up there thank you very much,” Cierra said back and laughed.
“Ok, well girly I will see you in the morning then. Night,” Missy said and started to head towards the back of the house.
“Night,” Cierra replied back and then headed up the stairs.
Cierra had grown accustomed to sleeping in JC’s bed. She liked having his arms around her, and feeling his warm breath hitting the back of her neck as he cuddled close to her. She lay on his bed and shut her eyes with those very thoughts on her mind.
It was about two hours later that the door downstairs crept open. JC was alone. Lance picked up his car and headed straight home because he didn’t want to wake up Melissa by coming inside with JC.
JC sat down his bag by the couch and took in a deep breath. ‘Finally back. I’m not even gonna peek in on the girls, it’ll probably wake them up,’ he said all of this to himself and then slowly and quietly made his way up the stairs. He was almost all the way in his room when he saw Cierra laying in his bed. He let out a small sigh and said, “she is so beautiful.”
He changed into his flannel pants and then carefully climbed into bed with her. He tried not to touch her so that he didn’t wake her up, but before he knew it she had turned away from him and had scooted closer to him. Her back was flush with his bare stomach and his soft breath hit her neck. He was content with where he was. With a soft whisper he said, “I’m falling in love with you,” and then shut his eyes. Cierra fluttered her eyes lightly and said in her head, ‘I love you too JC, I love you too.’