"Want us to sign your CD?" Kris asked Laurel.
"Please!" Laurel exclaimed as she handed them the CD cover. By now a small crowd of TRINITY fans had gathered. The girls made sure each and every person had an autograph before quickly going to Sarah's house, getting the videos, chatting a bit, and then returning to the mall.
"Where's Shelly?" Vanessa asked when they returned and found Sandi.
"I think I saw her leave," Sandi said a little suspiciously.
"What's that tone for?" Dee asked.
"She was with another guy," Sandi said. This really aroused the girl's suspicions, but they were interrupted by their pagers. They all had the same number, so Vanessa called.
"Yeah, Kelly? Hey! Yeah,...sure....uh-huh...okay, when they announce...no....when? 2:00..okay....we'll be there in a bit-k? Thankz, bye!" she hung up.
"What'd she say?" Dee asked.
"We need to head over there, we're on in 30 minutes."
"K, cool, let's go!!" Kris said as they all headed that way.
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"Fix us up, Dawny babe!" Vanessa said as they entered the dressing room.
"K!" Dawn said as she began working on hair and make-up while Sandi finished up her "mooshy" conversation with Drew on her cell phone, then the girls began warming up. Soon after, the girls headed out to perform. Sarah, Laurel, and all their friends were in the front row, and the girls made them sing a little of each song.
"That Roked!" Dee exclaimed when they were backstage again.
"Yeah!! Wow!! We have fans!!" Kris said.
"Yeah, I know, it's great!! Wait till the guys hear! Well, I'm sure they already did, but wait till we see them!!" Vanessa said-she was all tongue tied since she was so excited.
"Hey, speaking of the guys, let's skitz them out!" Kris said.
"What?" Vanessa said.
"Let's each make a sign that says, "I Love--Whoever", but we have different guys. Like you could have Kevin instead of AJ, you know?"
"Cool!" they all agreed and began working on signs. As soon as they were done, they were in the 4th row holding different signs. Dee's said Nick, instead of Brian, Vanessa's said Brian, Kris had Howie, Dawn had AJ, and Sandi had Kevin since Shelly was no were to be found-the girls knew that Howie noticed this and they knew he was hurt, but he wouldn't let the fans know it. The guys saw them and almost stopped singing because they were laughing so hard!! The girls grinned at them and Vanessa whispered something in their ears, so, they left, leaving the guys confused.
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The girls entered Victoria's Secret on a mission. Each rushed and bought a bra of their guys favorite color. Then they walked to the second floor balcony which was over looking the stage and threw the bra's down on the stage. Kris' landed on Nick's head, but he didn't notice and continued singing until Howie started laughing, then he began swinging his head around to get it off! AJ strapped the yellow one on his head and Brian actually put the blue one on over his shirt and began dancing around-good thing it was a fast song! Howie and Kevin kinda just kicked the bras away! The guys looked up and saw the girls laughing hysterically and stuck their tongues out at them before trying to throw the bras back. Of course they just fell back onstage-so the guys saved them to give them back after the show! The girls were still laughing hysterically when Vanessa kinda turned around then turned back quickly.
"Omigosh!" she said.
"What?" the girls asked.
"Shelly is behind us!" Vanessa whispered.
"So..?" Dawn said.
"So, she's with Chris, and they're kissing!"
"What!?" the girls shrieked as they kinda turned around and turned back. It was true, she'd lied to all of them!! She kept leaving the house saying her brother was in the hospital, but she never let them go with her-they always thought Howie was with her!! Sure!! And she hurt Howie too! The girls were beyond upset now!!
"We have to tell Howie!" Kris said.
"He won't believe us!" Dee said, "He loves her too much-even if you, Kris, his best girl friend tell him-I'm not sure he'll believe you!"
"Maybe we should confront her?" Sandi said. Vanessa was already leading the pack to where Shelly was leaning against a wall waiting on Chris to come out of a store.
"What are you doing!?" Vanessa said venomently.
"Um, well, really, I fell back in love with Chris!" she admitted.
"What!?" they all exclaimed!
"Yeah! Why else would I ignore you all? Part of the reason I dated Howie is cause it was so soon after Chris and well, I never lost feelings for him," she admitted unashamedly. She kinda hated that she did that, but she couldn't help it, "Um, I'm leaving the apartment, and I'm moving in with Chris. Howie already knows-I left him a note-which he should be finding soon since the show just ended!"
"We hope your happy!" Vanessa hissed as the girls stormed off.
"I will be!! Chris is better then Howie and I don't need you guys!! You were no fun anyways!!! I met someone cooler who will get drunk and party with me!" she yelled after them.
"Well, we're sorry that throwing our lives and a great relationship away over alcohol is not on our priority list!" Dee shot back in her face before they all continued on. When they got backstage, Howie was in a chair crying. The others were tyring to comfort him, but he wouldn't let them.
"Howie!" Kris said as they ran to him. Kris was Howie's best girl friend so everyone let them hold each other.
"Why!? She always said she was happier with me than with Chris!" Howie cried into Kris' shoulder.
"It's okay, Howie, she wasn't worth it!" Kris tried.
"But I loved her!" he wailed. Everyone else figured they were doing no good, so they left quietly as Howie cried and Kris held onto him and tried to comfort him.
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-------------------2 Days Later---------------
"Howie, I know you're depressed, but please be happy for my wedding. I mean, little Nicky is actually getting married!" Nick said.
"Yeah, I never figured you'd grow up!" Howie smiled at him.
"Yeah...hey!!! There's the D I know!"
"I'm doing it for you...Nicky!" Howie grinned and patted Nick's back.
"Thankz D!" Nick hugged him.
"Yo, Nick, you ready?" Brian called.
"Oh, yeah-definately!" Nick said. He couldn't wait!
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"Oh....My....Gosh!!!" Kris yelled, "2 minutes and I'll be walking down the isle to be Mrs. Nickolas Gene Carter!"
"Aw!! You're too cute!" Dee said.
"I love you guys!!" Kris hugged her friends, "Even though I am getting married, nothing will change-we're all getting married, and nothing will ever change! Besides, all the guys are together all the time, so, more time for us!" she said as all engaged in a huge group hug!
"Are you sure this looks okay?" Sandi asked. Since Shelly was gone, Sandi took her place--altercations were made to the dress, but it was still a little bit too big.
"Positive!" they all about yelled because that was like the hundreth time Sandi had asked that question! They were interrupted by a knocking on the door.
"Who is is?" Dee asked.
"It's me! I wanna see Kris!" Nick whined through the door.
"No, Nick! Go away!" Kris laughed.
"Aw, baby, please!" he begged.
"Nick, the wedding's about to start, hurry up!" Brian called.
"See, I'll see ya in a bit," Kris said
"I can't wait!" he said.
"Me neither!" she said.