The next day when I got up Kev was gone but he left me a note with his number and pager number on it. Kat was still in bed and I got the idea that Howie was in there too because every now and then I would hear them talking. (Think what ever you want or ask Kat what they were doing ;) ) I went through my day like normal. Between school and the interview I had time to go to the mall and shop. I didn't have anything nice to wear so I went to Jay Jacobs to get a nice skirt and top...maybe some new shoes too. After about a hour in the store I got what I wanted and proceeded to leave. But clumsy me I just had to bump into someone like always. "Damn it why don't you look where your going." I knew that voice, that tone. Getting my self off of the floor I didn't look at the man I ran into instead I picked up my stuff and tried to go. "I'm sorry sir I wasn't looking where I was going." As I started to walk away I felt a hand on my arm. "Amber, is that you? My God I didn't know you were back out here." Turning around I saw AJ standing in front of me. He hadn't changed much over the years and yet he had changed a lot too. He was taller and had red hair, and sunglasses on. "I'm sorry you must have me mistaken for someone else." Trying to get away again proved to be no good. Kat, Howie, and Kevin just happened to be there. "Hey AJ I see you met the girl I was telling you about." Kevin walked over and gave me a kiss on the cheek. Kevin didn't see it but Kat and Howie did. The look AJ gave me and Kev sent a shiver down my spine. "Your right you must not be the girl I thought you were." With that he turned around and walked away.

"Whats up with AJ?" I gave one last look at Kat and gave her a nod. I knew she already told Howie but Kev still didn't know. "I need to go yall I got that job interview in 2 hours and I still have to shower. Later yall." After giving everyone a hug I left. "Kev I think Howie and I need to tell you something. Back when me and Amber were in high school I set her up on a date with AJ. they hit it off really well at first....hell I would say they were each others first real loves, but AJ kept making promises he couldn't keep. After a year Amber couldn't take it any more so she left to Ca and didn't tell any of her friends but me. The day she left she had me give AJ a note, I never read it. I was there when he did and the look on his face was like the one he had when he left here." Kevin sat there and then looked at Howie. "She's the girl in the picture? I thought I saw here somewhere before, I just didn't know where. But how is "10000 Promises' sapos to be about her when AJ's the one who..." "AJ didn't write the song about her making promises to him. It is what she went through with his promises. I thinking he wrote it from her point of view." After Howie finished Kev just got up and left so he could have time to think about if he should pursue a relationship with me like he wanted to or should he back off because of how AJ would feel.

~Once I could handle the truth,
When the truth was you and I
But time after time all the promises
Turned out to be all lies
Now I see I'm just somebody who wasted my time and money
What a lie, you and I~

As I was driving to the job interview I heard the song "I Cried" come on the radio. I was Joes second single off his album. I remember the night I sat there with him and we wrote that song. I put my heart into that song mostly because it was of my feelings for AJ. Joe never could under stand why he kept such a big part of my heart. Joe and I tried to have a relationship but it just didn't work. We were always like brother and sister...90% of the time we fought that way to. One time he tried to set me up on a date with Donnie the funny thing was I got him to go out with my friend Ambear. They hit it off right away, me and Donnie on the other had didn't. " Why dose my life have to be so shity??" Stepping off of the elevator I got my mined back on why I was here and that was for a job. " I'm here about the secretarial job. I was sapos to meet with Denise at 5." Take a seat and She will be with you in a moment." I took a seat in the lobby. Nothing could prepare me for what was to come next.