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@~~Wicked~~@
A Five Story
By Amrit and Loz!! : ) : )
NB: Scottie is Scott Robinson after his best mate Scott arrives!!
CHAPTER 1. A night in Sweden.
Scott skulked into the Cafe and viewed his mates sitting at the opposite end of the small, glowing room. It was already freezing outside and Scott had got quite a shock on entering this warm glowing environment. An open fire burnt in the corner of the room, giving the room and comfortable, yet a little stuffy feel to it. On approaching his mates, he realise that there were seven instead of the usual four he had got used to in the past few weeks. Oh now he remembered, the lad had had their girlies flown in to be with them. Scott's heart sank, he had planned to fly Amy in but she'd put a stop to that, ending the intense relationship of over a year before Scott could even ask her why she was so upset. That was a week ago now though, he had now realised, with the help of his mates, Ritchie and Abs in particular, that his relationship had been a waste of time. She hadn't been right for him afterall.
"Wait a minute" he thought, "Sean doesn't have a girlie. So who is that nice young lady sitting next to him? Oh thats was Amrit, the best mate Sean went on and on about. Now he knew why he raved on so much about her.
Scott walked up to the table, and sat down between Abs, and Ritchie's girlie, Loz. Amrit who was sitting across from Scott, looked up, and he gave her a grin, saying at the same time
"Hey girlies and lads!"
"Wassup Scottie?" asked Abs.
"So, aren't you going to introduce me to these lovely girlies?" said Scottie, flashing his usual cheeky grin. "This is my Dan." said Abs while putting his arm around Danielle, and kissing her on the cheek.
"Yeah. this is my best friend Amrit" said Sean,
"This is lovely Loz; and girlies, this is our mate, and fifth Fiver, Scottie!"
They all ordered dinner and chatted on planning what to do that evening and which club to go to. Scott couldn't keep his eyes off Amrit the whole time. Amrit infact was looking at him too, but in a more discreet fashion. They finished their meal, and made their way to the club.
Hard core techno pumped out of the ghettoblaster and the floor and walls boomed. Ritchie and Amrit shuddered and clasped their hands over their ears.
"It's too loud!" Ritchie and Amrit yelled in unison.
"What?!" Abs called back grabbing Danielle's hand and heading for the DJ area.
J and Sean were already full swing into dancing on the dance floor accompanied by two lovely ladies. Scott, Loz, Ritchie and Amrit stood in a line near the door looking displeased by the noisy environment around them!
Amrit felt very uncomfortabel, she was surrounded by people she didn't know very well. Suddenly she felt a tap on her shoulder and heard a shout in her ear.
"Shall we leave and go for coffee instead?!"
She turned to see Scott standing behind her and nodded happily. Loz and Ritchie followed the other two out of the club.
The four of them went to a little Cafe in the heart of the city. They got a table and suddenly Scott's mobile rang. Scottie baby answered it to find that it was his best bud Scott 2 ringing from the airport telling him he'd arrived. Ritchie asked the waiter where to get a taxi from, and the four of them made their way to meet Scott 2.
At the airport, Amrit tapped Loz on the shoulder and said (knowing Loz was a BSB fan too!) , "Ooh, doesn't Scott 2 look like Nick Carter?"
Loz said, "Yeah," and they both said, "Babe," just as the other two lads turned around.
"Not as cute as you!!" Loz said as Ritchie grabbed her and gave her a big kiss. Amrit wanted to say the same to Scottie but she wasn't sure he liked her back.
"Hey Scott!!"
"Hey Scott!"
The other three laughed and they walked on back out of the airport. Scottie chatted on and on to his best mate happily, failing to mention that he liked Amrit as he thought his feelings were not reciprocated.
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CHAPTER 2. Leaving Sweden.
The weekend was almost over, the lads packed up the last of their belongings and got the ready to leave for the airport. Scott walked into the corridor and spotted Amrit standing at Sean's door knocking. He had grown to like her more and more over the weekend but had not yet had the chance to make his move.
"Sean and J are up in the gym, they'll be back soon. Wanna come and join us?" Scott asked.
"No!" Amrit said with an evil laugh. Scott 2 walked up to join the two, on hearing the conversation he said,
"I'm headed toward gym now, I'll walk with you if you want? Scottie, wanna come too?" Scott 2 did not know that Scottie liked Amrit. Scottie shook his head and turned back to his room disappointed. Amrit also felt disappointed and headed off the down the hall towards the elevator with Scott 2. She really like Scottie but they never seemed to have the chance to be together or talk.
On the plane....
Amrit sat next to her best mate Sean, J sat on his other side. She
could hear the two Scotts chatting away happily behind her and she could see Loz and Ritchie sitting hand in hand across the aisle. Danielle and Abs sat next to each other talking. Amrit suddenly felt all cramped up and really tired. She was sick of being squished on the end in the middle of four different conversations. She got up and moved to the other side of the private jet. The only people around her now were the band's manager and some other managment crew all asleep after a big, late night of celebrating the end of the recording. She sat for a while just gazing out of the window at the endless miles of clouds. She started thinking about everything, her life, her family, Scottie. She wondered how everyone back home was. How her family was. Then she thought about Scottie, he was so nice, so cute and so adorable in every way possible. She really liked him....Just as she thought this a figure approached. Scottie sat down two teacups full of Coke in his hands, one with a bright blue and purple flower. Amrit looked across at Scott and smiled. How sweet was that?" Abs always does this!" he blushed passing her the cup with the flower. Just as he passed it to her and got ready to finally make his move the plane hit turbulence. A sudden sharp movement and suddenly Scott found himself drenched in coke. The plane made another sharp jerk and a mall bag fell right on top of Scott's head squashing down his spikes. He couldn’t mave the move to the girl of his dream looking like this! The plane stopped jerking around so much and Scott went to the bathroom to clean himself up. A few more minutes wouldn’t make a difference....he hoped anyway.
Scott 2 saw Amrit sitting all alone. She seemed nice. He thought Scottie was off with the other lads so he got up and went to talk to Amrit.
Scottie stood in the bathroom fixing up his spikes. He noticed the time on his watch, onyl another hour of the flight to go, he’d better hurry up he thought opening the door and heading out towards Amrit again. On approahing he noticed Scott 2 sitting next to her. They were talking and laughing happily. Scott was shattered, how could his best mate do this to him? Wait a minute though, he hadn’t said one word about liking Amrit to anyone but Ritchie when they had been alone in the room packing earlier that day. Scott sulked over to Ritchie and Loz.
“Hiya matey, whats up?” Loz called out to Scott.
“Nothing....so what were you talking about?” Scott said and the three chatted on for the duration of the journey.
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Amrit, Sean, Loz and Ritchie stood waiting for their lifts while Scottie collected the last of the luggage. J, Abs, Danielle and Scott 2 stood at the opposite end talking.
“Well you and that Scott (2) guy seem to be getting on really well.” Sean said turning to Amrit.
“Yeah, hes nice, but you know just as a friend....”
“Sure sure!” Ritchie smiled.
“No, I mean it....” her voice trailed off and she looked over at Scottie. Sean spotted Amrit looking in Scottie’s direction and sensed something going on. So thats the guy she likes, Sean thought, well we can handle that he thought with a grin.
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CHAPTER 3. The Ex.
There was a tap at the door, Loz rushed to open it thinking it was Ritchie. She opened the door to find a huge bouquet of flowers hiding a tall lad.
“For you!!”
“My darling!!” she yelled, taking the flowers and flinging her amrs around the figure and giving him a huge kiss. Ritchie walked up the driveway holding a bunch of red roses in his hand. He looked towards the door and suddenly stopped dead in his tracks. That couldn’t be Loz in the arms of another guy, no way she wouldn’t do that to him. It was!
Loz looked over the tall lad’s shoulder and saw Ritchie standing on the drveway, a shocked expression on his face.
“Oh my gosh, who are you?”
“Get your hands off my daughter!” Loz’s dad yelled approaching the doorway. Ritchie finally approached the doorway.
“I couldn’t agree more, who is this?” Ritchie said.
“Yeah get off me!! Who are you, whats going on?!” Loz cried out totally bemused by the whole situation.
“Oh its you Ben!!” Loz suddenly cried out.
“Ben, whos Ben?” Loz’s Dad said.
“Yeah whos Ben?” Ritchie called out.
“Wait a minute who are you young man?”
“Me, oh I’m Ritchie Mr Harkins, sorry Richard Neville.” Ritchie said holding out his hand to shake Mr Harkins’. “Pleased to meet you finally Mr. Harkins.” Loz’s dad didn’t seem so impressed.
“Oh so your the boyfriend....” Then he looked back at the other lad again and started shouting, Ritchie joined him and then the lad started talking too. Suddenly Loz stamped her foot.
“THAT’S ENOUGH!!” Loz yelled. “I’ve just about had it up to here with all of you, this is Ben, Ben is my best friend from Ireland, this is Ritchie and yes he is my wonderful boyfriend, but I’m starting to reconsider that. This is the old grouch, my Dad! Now that thats sorted, I’m going for walk, I’ve got a headache from all of this shouting and silly carrying on.” With that Loz walked on leaving the three standing together, stunned onlookers. Loz’s dad stamped on inside and slammed the door shut. Ritchie then stormed off too. Ben stood stunned, still unaware of what was going on. He then walked on down the path following Loz. So maybe it had been a good idea he’d come to see her, she did like him.
When he finally caught up with Loz, they had a laugh at how silly the guys had acted. Loz thought it was time to explain properly to Ritchie what had happened even thought he had been a complete and utter prat.
“Well Ben, its great to see you again, come around again soon, we could all go out. Better go face the music now!” She said meaning Ritchie but Ben thought she meant her Dad.
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Scott trundled into the house and collapsed on the sofa next to J who was laying in a heap. Abs sat on the armchair sitting uprigth with a look of excitment on his face playing his Playstation. Sean walked down the stairs.
“Come on then Scott, what are you doing? Get ready!” Sean said. Scott looked up totally bewildered and noticed Sean looking very smart.
“Where are we going on a Sunday afternoon, we’re not partying again, besides aren’t you going home for Sunday dinner?”
“Yeah, that right!”
“So, whats that got to do with me, have you gone totally bonkers you nutter, I’m not your brother or anything.”
“No, but....just get up and hurry up about it!”
“Why aren’t you taking J, I’m tired, why are you so desperate for me to come?”
“Does J look ready to go out, hes completely visored, besides the lady hes got his eyes on isn’t coming.”
“What, what are you on about, you really have gone bananas, Alicia Silverstone wouldn’t be at your house cos you SMELL!!!!” Scott said laughing and turning his head back to watch Abs playing the playstation.
“Fine then, you don’t ever want to see Amrit again thats your business, I’m off.”
“Amrit?!” Scott looked up, “She doesn’t like me though, as much as I’d like to see her again.”
“I wouldn’t be so sure about that!” Ritchie said entering the house in a filthy mood.
“Ok, okies I mean, I’ll come, just let me get ready I can’t go looking like this not only will she think I’m a total dag but your family will too!” With that Scott climbed the stairs and hopped into the shower. He emerged half an hour later wearing his khaki pants and a bright blue shirt. His spikes were done to perfection and he had a huge grin on his face.
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Just as the two were leaving Loz appeared at the doorway.
“HI LOZ!” Scott shouted, it was three thirty, Scott was in his hyper time.
“Shut up you nutter, you’re acting worse than a bogglin!” J yelled sleepily from the living room.
“BOGGLIN!” Scott shouted, “HOW ARE YOU LOZ ON THIS WICKED AFTERNOON?”
Abs started to laugh too, “Man you are silly, oh no.....oh man you made me lose this level!”
Loz laughed, they were a twisted group. Sean fumbled around inside looking for the car keys.
“Wicked Scottie, now wheres Ritchie?”
“Ritchie darling, Lozzy wozzy is here to see you!” Scott was totally crazy. J was getting more and more annoyed anfd frustrated.
“Scott where did you put them, J? Anybody, somebody find me the keys!”
“PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER....”
“Thats it!” J rose from the sofa and headed for the front porch. “Come on in Loz, Ritchie’s upstairs go on up.”
“EVERYBODY GET UP....” Loz entered the house then J pushed Scott out and slammed the door in his face.
“HEY?! THATS NOT FAIR, LET ME IN, COME ON, I’VE STOPPED NOW! OH I FORGOT MY BRACELET!”
J ignored him and sat back down on the sofa grabbing for the TV guide half heartedly.
“Come on man let him in.” Abs cried out getting sick of hearing the tantrum Scott was having outside. “Crazy time is over isn’t it?”
Scott was getting angry now too, “Come on!!”
Sean kept looking for the keys ignoring what was going on. Suddenly there was a loud thud and then a wail.
“Oww!!!!” Scott cried.
“The nutter punched the door, Abs go let him in!”
“I can’t I’m in the middle of Level 15, if I go now I’ll lose it again, you locked him out you go!” Then came another wail. Abs got up reluctantly and opened the door. Scott stood at the doorway and held his hand out sadly. “Ow, kiss it better for me!” Abs laughed and walked to the kitchen to get an ice pack.
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“....hes my best friend, I thought it was you....I love you I wouldn’t cheat on you ever!” Loz sadly tried to explain. Ritchie looking more calm sat down on the bed next to her.
“Don’t look so upset my darling, I understand, I love you too.” he said softly then kissed her. She suddenly pulled away.
“What was that, whats all the comotion?” Ritchie leaned forward again.
“Who cares they’ll sort it out, they are a bunch of nutters sometimes, all the time actually! How about dinner my darling?” With that he kissed her again.
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Sean and Scott sat in the lounge room both waiting eagerly. Sean couldn’t wait to see Thuy again, he hadn’t seen her since he got back from Sweden a few days ago. She was lovely, she wasn’t yet his girlfirend but he intended to change that....today. The doorbell finally rang and Sean raced to the door but was beaten by his sister Cathy. Then his parents approached the door. Scott who had rushed to the door with Sean now stood behind him. It was the Grewals but there was no sign of Amrit. Scott looked at Sean quizically and then said a polte hi to everyone along with Sean.
“Amrit’s not here, hahahaha, how funny is that!!!!” he yelled out pointing at Scott and laughing, not thinking before he said it.
“Sean, where are your manners today? Amrit’s your best friend why are you being so mean about her?” Mrs Conlon said angrily. “Sorry about that!” she said to the Grewals.
“Sorry...Mum its not that I don’t want her here....its just a private joke.” Sean said turning bright red. Scott cowered behind Sean also turning bright red and inconspicuously thumped Sean on the back.
“Ow!” both boys yelled out. Scott felt a terrible pain in his swollen fist. Sean’s mum gave him an evil look and the adults walked into the lounge room to sit down.
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Loz and Ritchie lay on the bed, Ritchie flicked through Loz’s German Vocab Diary and every so often tested her on the most obscure word he could find.
“Was ist kissen?” Ritchie said with a wicked smile.
“Um I dunno, wanna show me?” She said and Ritchie got closer and got ready to kiss her softly. Just as their lips met, the phone started to ring. Loz sat up and picked up the phone. Ritchie sighed. He picked himself up and rested his head on Loz’s shoulder then wrapped his arms around Loz and started kissing her on the cheek.
“Hello, oh hi Ben,” Loz said uncomfortably as Ritchie suddenly stopped and sat back down on the bed. She could see from his actions and the look on his face he was annoyed.
“Yeah great, look I’m really busy right now....oh really wow....oh only one more day....this is your last night....sure I’ll come and visit you at the hotel....” She said sitting down next to Ritchie and this time laying her head on his shoulder, Ritchie didn’t react at all, she felt more uncomfortable. “ yeah 9.30, that’d be um coolies,” she said trying to sound enthusiastic, “Great see ya then then, ta-rah.”
“Well thats great so your leaving now?! I gotta go anyway I am too tired to deal with this right now, see ya around!”
“Wait Ritchie, I want you to come with me!”
“Why? So I can sit and watch while you reminsce about the good old days and make out on the sofa, why stay up and watch a movie when I can watch it live? Why don’t I even go get some of my friends, the more the merrier to watch me get totally shown up! I know he wants you and as far as I can tell you want him too! I gotta go, I’m really tired....go visit Ben have a great time and forget about me!” With that Ritchie left the room slamming the door gently behind him.
“But....but....Its not like that, don’t be a jerk, Ritchie?!....Ritchie....” Loz sat down again, angry and sad tears welled up in her eyes and everything around her went all blury all of a sudden. How could he have said those things to her? She had thought he had understood! Why was he being such a jerk? Loz got even angrier as his last words to her whirled around her head....make out on the sofa....show him up? What was he on about? Was that how much he thought of her? Well fine then, she didn’t care either, she would forget about him and go have a nice evening with Ben....well for now anyway!
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“I thought you said she always came! Why not today?”
“Probably knew you were coming!” Sean laughed. Scott gave Sean and unimpressed look and plonked himself down onto the bed knocking his hand on the bed head.
“Ow! Stupid hand, what a terrible day!” He moaned.
“Oh great!” Sean thought, “The sulking was starting!”
Suddenly the door flung open and in walked Amrit.
“Hey Sean, why didn’t you wait downstairs for me?! “ Amrit teased, “I had to walk all the way up the stairs on my own and that....oh hiya Scott!” She suddenly looked embarrassed and her heart started beating fast. He looked so gorgeous she thought looking at him for a while but she had to control herself and not keep staring and looking at him all of the time! Scott looked up and a smile reappeared on his face again.
“Amrit!! You’re he....I mean hey, how are you? What a surprise!”
“Where you been A, your parents came like an hour ago!”
“I was at Thuy’s dearie!”
“So where is Thuy then?” Sean asked cooly not trying to look too eager. Scott started to laugh.
“She is coming isn’t she?”
“Yes yes! She is just downstairs talking to Gary - ew!”
“Gary came, oh great and she’s talking to him!”
“Yes she’s talking to the sleaze right now, so you’d better go and get her!” With that Amrit sat down in the chair at the desk.
“Yeah you’d better Sean!” Scott said enthusiastically, wanting as much time alone with Amrit as he could get.
“Ok, I’ll, we’ll be right back!”
“Without Gary!” Amrit added. Sean rushed off down the stairs and into the lounge to get Thuy.
“Um, so how’ve you been, as far as I’ve seen from Sean you guys haven’t had a break in like three days!”
“Yeah, heaps of work, its kind of fun though! You’re looking great!”
“Thanks....um....what happened to you hand?”
“Um, oh nothing, just an accident....”
Amrit frowned, the only way you could get an injury like that would be by punching someone or something.
“Oh right, whatever, anyway the song sounded so coolies....Sean gave me a demo copy....coolies stuff I can just see it being a number one hit!”
“Like us! I mean....” Scott started then Sean and Thuy came storming into the room, Gary in toe. Amrit looked puzzled the suddenly disgusted when she saw the most annoying guy she knew Gary enter the room and give her his usual slimy smile.
“So babe, hows it going? You rushed up here before I even got the chance to talk to you!”
“Like whatever!” Amrit said in her Clueless tone and gave him an unimpressed look.
“So whos this....oh no not another guy....another Sean, I prefer the babes, my girls!”
“This is Scott!” Amrit said and quickly moved next to Scott on the bed as she saw Gary coming towards her. “Hes in the band too, I have to say I prefer anybody but you and I am not you girl!” Amrit really couldn’t stand Gary but then either could anybody she knew. Gary came and sat bang next to Amrit.
“Ew your like cramping my personal space!” said Amrit as she moved along the bed closer to Scott. Scott got up, Amrit slid across to the end of the bed and Scott sat down in the middle of Amrit and Gary.
“So Gary....you’re not too perseptive are you?” Scott said disgustedly.
“What do you mean by that?” Gary said.
“Nothing!” Scott replied not wanting to start an argument.
“You’re a loser!” Thuy said viciously.
“Ok, ok time out....” Amrit said being the mediator.
“Sean come and get everyone a drink please, they must be thirsty by now! Sean, did you hear me?” Sean’s Mum called up the stairs. Sean rolled his eyes.
“Its ok lazy I’ll go!” Amrit called out.
“I’ll go if you want Amrit.” Scott said obligingly.
“No thats coolies, I’ll be fine, Gary sit down, you’re definately not coming!” Amrit said pushing Gary back down onto the bed.
“I’ll come, if thats ok with you, I mean you can’t carry all those drinks alone!” Scott stood up and followed Amrit out of the room leaving Sean, Thuy and Gary alone together.
Amrit and Scott walked across the hallway towards the stairs.
“A, A!!!! Can you come here for a sec!” Cathy called from her room. “I need help setting up my homepage for Computers!”
“You go help, I’ll get the drinks!” Scott said, then as Amrit turned away he sighed. He was never going to get anytime alone with her, was he!
In Cathy’s Room....
“So then you put the html codes, see these, yeah that ones for text colour....” Amrit explained patiently.
“Cathy! Phone! Why isn’t it on your phone line?” Cathy rushed down the stairs to receive the call.
“I’ll be right back, sorry!”
“Its coolies....I’ll just look at these codes....hmm....”
Scott walked up the stairs, he gave evryone their drinks then headed to Cathy’s room to find Amrit.
Amrit sat and fiddled around, gosh these codes were confusing, even to her, the girl who spent hours each day on the computer and the internet. Suddenly two arms grasped her and somebody gave her a kiss on her neck. Gary, she though and whirled around in the computer chairs kicking the person’s leg and knocking him to the ground.
“Don’t ever come near me again, you are disgusting, just get lost!” She screamed then headed for the door.
“Oh my gosh! Scott, oh I am so sorry I thought....” Suddenly Sean ran in the room.
“what happened? Why are you on the floor Scott? Whats going on?”
“Um, nothing, I’m fine I just tripped over the filing cabinet, its cool, I’m ok.” He muttered not even looking at Amrit. Scott got up and they all headed out back to Sean’s room. The other three laughed. The Gary hovered in the hallway waiting for Amrit.
“Sorry!” Scott said to Amrit as they left the room, red with embarrassment totally ashamed of himself.
“So you should be!” Gary said with a vicious laugh and before Amrit could apologise again and explain what she’d thought Scott was downstairs sitting right at the opposite end of the table not even daring to look at her.
Sean sat in the middle of everyone then suddenly getting a whole load louder than he usually was he expained how and why Scott had an injured hand, minute detail by minute detail. Scott cringed, he’d really ruined thigs between him and Amrit this time. Actually he realised sadly, there had never been anything between Amrit and him and that was, at this point, he thought, the way things were going to stay.
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Loz with Ben, I wonder what Ritchie’s up to now!
Ben opened the door to find a beautiful yet melancholy look Loz. She slowly slumped into the room of his hotel and collapsed onto the nearby sofa. Ben sat next to her an put his arm around her. Before Ben could even ask Loz what was wrong she started.
“Its over! Ritchie is so unreasonable, he never used to be like this, I think its over, he doesn’t like me anymore, he really dislikes me, I can’t believe he said those things to me, yeah it is over, how could he say that to me, its definately over! Ohh....Ben!” She started to cry. Ben smiled to himself inside. Great this was his opportunity to get Loz as his girlfriend!
An hour later they were still on the same subject.
“Look he can’t just say things like that to you. No if I were you I’d finish it, hes not worth it!” Loz looked up at Ben then back down at the tissues she held bundled in her hands. No, it wasn’t time to finish, she loved Ritchie, she did, he loved her too, she hoped. Oh what is Ritchie up to now? She wondered, hes probably all alone, I wish I was with him. Then Ben started again seeing and sensing Loz was still unresolved.
“Thats a terrible thing to say, I mean he can’t even handle you having a guy as a friend!” Loz thought again, yeah, oh, why did this have to happen, everyhting was so great before, why was Ritchie so weird about the whole Ben thing?
“Oh sorry Ben, lets stop already about Ritchie, thats my problem, not yours, so what else is up with you?”
Ben leaned towards Loz, “I’ll help you deal with the problem!” He said soothingly then leaned even closer to her. Loz was shocked, what was he doing?
“What are you doing? Ben, we’re best friends, no!” She leapt from the sofa and grabbed her coat.
“I have to go!” She declared and went to open the door. It was locked, no he wouldn’t lock her in, it must be jammed. Ben neared her and whispered.
“Its locked my love, I wanted you to stay for longer and I always get what I want!”
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Scott and Sean arrived home both in a bad mood. Scott was still ery upset about how badly he had embarrassed himself infront of Amrit and Sean hadn’t been able to make his move on Thuy because of that toad Gary. and Dan arrived home an hour later to find that the four lads had already gone to bed. He looked at his watch, 11.20pm. Gosh had they gone to bed early! Oh well Dan and him could have the house all to himself.
Abs and Dan arrived home an hour later to find the four lads had already gone to bed. Abs looked at his watch, 11.20pm. Gosh had they gone to bed early! Oh well Dan and him could have the downstairs to themselves.
Scott sat perched on the end of Ritchie’s bed. Ritchie lay inside unsmiling, unlike him, explaining the whole situation to Scott.
“....so when they were talking on the phone to Ben, she sounded just like Nadia used to talk to Blake, while she was going out with him behind my back!”
“Sure you’re not just being paranoid? I mean to me Loz seems to absolutely adore you!” Scott didn’t laugh about the ABSolutely, that was Amrit and Loz’s joke, they had found it very funny when they had been in Sweden. His face remained somber and then he explained what had happened with him and Amrit. Ritchie listened then consoled him. J who was sleeping on the bed next to them suddenly turned and they jumped.
“Go to bed! Have your mothers’ meeting tomorrow! We have a 5am start, is Abs still chatting downstairs too? Tell him to go to bed too” J yelled.
Abs yawned, Danielle sat next to him, her eyes looked really tired. She’d
worked all day and she had seemed a little distant all evening. Abs hoped she wasn’t reconsidering being with him. No, of course she hadn’t, they loved each other and would get married one day. The had discussed that before, they were going to be together forever. Abs smiled happily, he was the luckiest lad ever! Danielle gazed up at Abs, she loved him so much, how lucky was she! He was the greatest lad in the world and he was hers!
“Abs, go to bed.” Scott’s voice came from upstairs, it was quiet and sulky, unlike his usual cheerful voice. Abs wondered what was wrong. Danielle got up slowly and picked up her jacket. Abs put it on her then gave her a goodnight kiss. She walked towards the door.
“Shall I drive you darling, you’re tired!” Abs stated rather than asked and grabbed his keys. She would be coming back tomorrow then she could get her car.
Loz trapped - whats happened to Ben?
“This is silly, come on, I want to go home, hahahaha very funny the jokes over, I have to go!” Loz said getting edgey all of a sudden. What was wrong with Ben? What had happened to Ben? He was weird, he acted like one of those over possessive people who turned out to be serial killers. Oh no, no ofcourse not he couldn’t be....that was silly!
“Come on babe, I want you, you promise to by my girlfriend, you kiss me, I let you go!” Ben smiled an evil smile.
“Yeah fine, I love you, I want you too, I’d love to be your girlfriend, infact I want to stay for a while longer too, I want us to be together too, why else did I kiss you the other day? I mean pretending you were Ritchie was just to cover it up! Ritchie is a little possessive I haven’t found the time to tell him its over yet! I didn’t want to seem to desperate with you! How about you make me something yummy to eat and we can watch telly together?” Loz said, she thought that that would throw him off guard. She had had to think quickly, like she always told the people in the movies to do, play along!
“Good idea, glad to see you’ve come to your senses!”
“Was I ever not at my senses?” Did that make sense? “I always loved you, i just didn’t know how to tell you! I get a little nervous around guys I like! Now how about a yummy something to eat, something, chocolatey, guey, fattening, sticky and warm?”
“Sounds good to me! I’ll go find something in this small kitchen!”
“Great and I’ll make this plain old room more comfortable, we need a better environment to enjoy our yummy food and time together in, right?!”
“Of course!”
Loz’s plan was working, get him out of the room and she could start digging around for the key. Ben was gullible which was very lucky, or maybe it was her very convincing acting which did it. It was most likely a combination of both! Ben left for the small kitchen and she started rifling through the draws.
“How about some chocolate pudding?” Ben asked nearing the doorway. “What are you doing?”
“Um well....I’m looking for the lovely present I hope you got me!”
Ben smiled, “In the third drawer my sweetie!” Loz smiled a fake smile and carefully opened the third drawer. There she found a bracelet. It was gold and had the engraving, Loz and Ben 4 Ever on it! Loz shuddered then turned to Ben and smiled fakely again, “Its great!” she said trying to sound delighted and then gave him a hug. “Now go make that pudding for me!” Loz turned back to the room, she wasn’t going to find the key! The room was too big! Then she spotted the phone! What was Ritchie’s number again? Her parents were out for the night! Her best friend, Kelly out clubbing no doubt. Um....um....um....um....689657, of course, how could she forget the number she dialed the most! Well it was on auto at home! She dialed the number, it was hard to dial, he hand was shaking so much/hard! It just kept ringing, Loz’s heart raced, come on pick up, please!!!!
“Hello?” came a tired voice.
“Hi Abs, can I speak to Ritchie? Now!!!!”
“Uh Ritchie, who’s Ritchie, oh Ritchie....sorry, I’m half asleep! RITCHIE PHONE!!!!”
Come on, come on, Ritchie!!!! Loz suddenly dropped the phone, Ben entered the room. He didn’t see her drop the phone.”Oh yum, that looks great, now can we open the door, its getting kinda stuffy in here!”
“I’ll open the window! Not the door, I wouldn’t want you leaving, would I?”
“Thats ok, I won’t escape I mean we are on the 10th floor of THE HILTON ON THE PARK!!” Loz shouted loudly hoping that the person on the phone could hear her.
“Abs, did you say the phone call was for me? I can’t hear anything! Oh wait....Loz, is that you?!”
“I don’t know man, it sounded like Loz!”
“Why are you shouting?”
“I am just a little freaked, I thought you liked me, I didn’t think you wanted to keep me locked in here!”
“It is Loz! What, she trapped I think, the 10th floor of the Hilton, maybe I should go check it out!”
“Yeah she sounded a little panicky, want me to come too?” Abs said looking sleepy.
“No no no no I’ll go alone thats fine!”
“No come on man, if shes trapped it could be dangerous I’ll wake the others up!”
Loz then realised she sounded too panicky, she had to calm down and make him trust her or she was never going to get out of there. She took the bowl of pudding off Ben and sat down on the sofa.
“Come on, sit down then aren’t we going to have this great evening?!” Ben sat next to Loz, he seemed a little tense now sensing her attitude.
“What....get up now, its not 5 already, it can’t be....no I’m sleeping!” Scott said and pulled the covers over him.
“Oh no your not!” J said stamping his foot and ripping the covers off him. Then Abs came into the room with a bucket of water and tipped it on top of Scott. Scott screeched and jumped up immediately.
“Yikes you nutter! I can’t belive you did that, thats it....I’m....I’m....oh I want a warm shower I’m freezing!”
“No time! Grab your caps, grab your runners lets go!” Abs was out of the door and down the stairs in a flash.
“Oh ok so this is operation rescue Loz!” Scott said finally waking up and running down the stairs after Abs and Ritchie who was already downstairs.
“Oh so thats the Scott, I thought so, yeah I have to agree he is cute but Sean’s my baby, does he like me for sure Amrit?” Thuy said for the hundredth time that night.
“Yessss....how many time do I have to tell you!” Amrit was already a little irritable, still annoyed about the second wasted opportunity with Scottie.
“So you like going to go see Scottie again, explain everything?” Thuy said sensing her friends annoyance.
“No I don’t think so, he already thinks I am a loser, I’m sure of it! I don’t want to show myself up again in front of him, this time I’ll die of embarrassment!”
“Oh....well you sound tired, its really late....I’m going offline now....e-mail me tomorrow!”
“Yeah Thuy fine, I am sick of this computer screen now anyway! Ta-rah Luvie! : ) : ) : ) : )” With that Amrit closed her ICQ Chat Module and then her ICQ Window. She disconnected and flicked the switch of the modem. As she went to shut down the computer she remembered the pictures she had scanned during the week at school. The ones from Sweden. She quickly pushed in the disc and clicked onto the pictures. Scott, Amrit, Loz and Ritchie.html, oooohh he looked so great in that one....ooohhh she had really wrecked it! She looked at the picture only noticing Scottie, remembering that day, they had been freezing cold and Scottie had put his jacked around her plus his arm. Gosh why did she have to ruin it?!
“I love this movie, don’t you Loz?........Loz?” Ben said turning his head to her and waiting for her answer. They were watching Scream, Loz had liked the movie but now it just plain scared her.
“Uh great, yeah but it worries me, I mean about Ritchie, he is so over possessive what are we going to do?”
Loz said trying to get Ben’s attention off the gory movie and back into reality.
“Don’t worry about it babe, I’ll fix it up with my boys!” Loz shuddered again, this guy was definately too scary, what was she going to do?
“No, I’ll have to ring the room before you can go up there I’m afraid!” The hotel manager said seriously.
“Come on, there could be danger!” Scott and Sean stood arguing with him. Ritchie, Abs and J crept past him slowly and then Scott and Sean started running towards the opposite lift.
“Catch them!!” The hotel manager exclaimed waving his hands up and down and yelling at the security guards. Ritchie, Abs and J managed to get themselves into the other elevator no problem, nobody even noticing their presence in the hotel. Sean and Scott had done a good job of distracting the Hotel Staff.
The elevator rose and Ritchie’s stomach churned. Was she in danger? What is she was, what were they going to do? What if she wasn’t, what if she was with Ben in the room through choice?
“So what are we going to do?” Abs asked Ritchie. Ritchie frowned and shrugged his shoulders.
“I hope the others don’t get caught!” Abs said suddenly wondering what the other two would do if they got caught.
“So, is it just me or could Ritchie just be paranoid? What exactly happened to make him think shes imprisoned in a hotel room?” Scott gasped as the two lads finally reached a safe environment away form the security guards.
“Um I don’t know, I think he is paranoid too!” Sean said. The two boys had been the last to get up and had no clue of the situation, all they knew was that they had to be the distractions while the other three got Loz, wherever she was.
“Uh oh!!” The two lads yelled as they viewed two security guards descending upon them.
“So which room?”
“Um........listen, is it just me or can you hear Ben talking?!”
“I have never seen Ben before let alone heard him talk!” J said rolling his eyes at Ritchie.
“Well its him and that sounds like Loz, well here goes!” Ritchie said knocking on the door loudly.
“Who could that be at this time of night?”
“You’d better open it Ben, I mean once somebody knocked at my hotel door and I didn’t open it and ten minutes later I was surrounded by smoke and fumes!” Loz lied convincingly.
“Oh....oh....well ok, I’d better then, you stay there....it could be one of my boys, my mates anyway!”
Loz shuddered again, oh no, if it was one of his boys or mates or whatever he called them she could be in for more trouble.
“Who is it?” Ben’s voice called out from behind the closed door. Ritchie pushed J forward.
“It hotel staff, can we come in, there is a problem with one of the pipes in the hotel. We are sorry to inconvenience you but it could be hazardous to your health.” J sounded very official, the lads thought.
“Oh ok just a second!” Ben said and opened the door. Ritchie backed away and slid behind a plant to hide knowing if he was seen there would be no convincing Ben.
“You don’t look like hotel staff, you’re too young! Whats going on? Is this a prank or something? Who are you?” Ben looked angry and a little confused. Loz was by this stage standing behind him, she ad recognised J’s voice. J barged into the room and Ritchie appeared from behind the plant, he grabbed Loz’s hand and she pushed her way through the door. Abs took care of Ben, standing in his way not allowing him to move an inch.
“Hey, move, whats going on, Loz, I thought you loved me? Whats happening, I’ll call security you can’t just barge into me hotel room, you shouldn’t be up her anyway.
“You can’t just lock somebody up in a room!” J yelled and with that he left the hotel room beckoning Abs to follow him. Ben rushed for the phone....it was no use calling security or he would get caught too....I’ll get her someday somehow! He thought, its not over yet!
Loz sat in between Scott and Abs, she was still breathing heavily and her heart was still racing fast.
“I didn’t know what to do, thank you so much!”
Scott and Abs put their arms around Loz and she suddenly felt a lot better. Ritchie who sat in the front next to J who was driving sat unmoving, his eyes fixed on the road. What was he going to do? How was he going to apologise? Scott sat with his arm around Loz, he remembered Amrit all of a sudden, he remembered a day back in Sweden when he’s put his arm around Amrit. They’d got on so well, he had been sure they would go out someday. He had been sure they were meant for each other. Oh why couldn’t they be together? He loved her so much!
THERES MORE TO COME SO STAY TUNED!!!!
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