Kidnapped 2
By Neko
Part 9
When morning came, Lance was once again the first one
to wake up. He didn’t want to wait around for the others so he
decided to go for a walk. So he quickly got dressed then took off down
the beach. He hadn’t been walking to long when Chris came running
up beside him. “Didn’t you hear me call your name?’
Chris asked. “No, man. I’m sorry I was just thinking.”
Lance said. “Yeah, I know how you feel. this whole thing with
Brandi has got me bugging.” Chris said putting his hands in his
pockets. “So what were you thinking about, if you don’t
mind me asking.” Chris said. Lance studied his friends. “I
don’t know.” Lance said. “Does it have anything to
do with Katy?” Chris asked. “A little but not much.”
Lance said.
“Let me guess you two weren’t checking on the cat yesterday
were you.” Chris said. “Gee, you can’t put anything
past you.” Lance said. “So what were you doing, then?’
Chris asked suddenly worried. “I needed to talk to Katy, so I
asked her if there was any place that we could be alone. She took me
out to this little cave not too far away, and we talked.” Lance
explained. “You just talked?” Chris asked. “Yeah,
if you’re having a problem you should talk to her too.”
Lance said. “Yeah, I should do that. I wander if she’s up
yet?” Chris asked. “You should go check.” Lance said.
“Okay, thanks man. Good luck with your thinking.” Chris
said as he ran off.
Chris ran all the way to Katy’s hut. He ran into Justin close
to her hut. “Hey, man where are you going in such a hurry?”
Justin asked. “I’m looking for Katy.” Chris said.
“She’s in the hut, why do you want her?” Justin asked.
“I just need to talk to her for a minute, that’s all.”
Chris said then took off for her hut. Justin looked at him confused.
Justin shook his head then went in JC tent.
Chris got to Katy’s hut and knocked on the side. “Who is
it?” Katy said. “It’s Chris.” Chris said. “Oh,
come in.” Katy said and so Chris did. “What do you want?”
Katy asked with a smile. “I talked to Lance and he said that he
talked to you yesterday. He also said that I should talk to you too.”
Chris said. “Sure my door is always open to a friend.” Katy
said. “I want to talk in private.” Chris said. “Here
we go again. Come on.” Katy said leading Chris out of her hut
and into the woods.
Mean while back in JC’s hut. Justin was sitting there talking
to Kim. Mandy came out of her room. She looked around. “Where
is Lance?” Mandy asked. “I don’t know?” JC said.
“We should go get the others so we can talk.” Kim said.
“Yeah, I’ll go get Katy.” Justin said getting up.
He walked out of the hut and to his. But when he got there no one was
there. “That’s odd.” Justin said when headed back
to JC’s hut.
“Did you get her?” JC asked. “She wasn’t there?”
Justin said. “Well where did she go?” Kim asked. “
I don’t know but her and Lance were both missing yesterday too.”
Justin said thinking back. Then Joey and Nicoma came in. “What’s
up?” Joey asked. “Have you seen Katy or Lance?” JC
asked. “No, I haven’t seen Chris either.” Joey said.
“Well lets get to talking with out them then.” JC said.
So they all gathered around and got down to business. 10 minutes passed
then Lance came in the door. “Where were you?” Mandy asked.
“I was the first person to wake up so I went for a walk. I lost
track of time.” Lance said. “You could have left a note.”
Kim said taking Mandy side. “And what would I have written on
or with?’ Lance asked. “He has a point.” Mandy said.
“You haven’t seen Katy or Chris have you?” JC asked.
“Yeah I saw Chris and he wanted some one to talk to so I told
him to go talk to Katy.” Lance said. “Do you know where
they went?” Justin asked. “No, but they should be back soon.”
Lance said. “What were they going to talk about?” Brandi
asked. “I don’t know he didn’t want to talk to me.”
Lance lied. “Oh, okay.” Brandi said. With that they continued
with their talk. After they were almost done Katy and Chris walked in.
“Where have you two been?” Justin asked getting up to face
Katy. “I wanted to talk to her.” Chris said. “Yeah,
don’t get your panties in a woad.” Katy told Justin. “I
don’t wear panties.” Justin said gritting his teeth. “I
know.” Katy said giving him a little look. Justin had to smile
at such a statement. “We just talked.” Chris explained.
“Well you missed our little talk.” JC said. “We’re
sorry, JC.” Katy said. “It’s okay; I kind of told
the islanders that we would go gather fruit for dinner.” Nicoma
said. “Oh, okay.” Kim said. “That’s good. I’ll
stay here and fill them in.” JC said. “Okay, sweetie. See
you later.” Kim said giving him a kiss. “I’ll stay
here and get what I missed.” Lance said.
“Okay, the rest of us will go.” Mandy said. So they got
ready to go out leaving JC, Chris, Lance and Katy behind. JC quickly
repeated what they had talked about. They also told JC something. They
told JC not to say a word. And he promised not to. A few hours passed
and then the other’s returned with baskets full of fruit. They
walked into JC’s hut and found him sitting there alone with his
legs propped up reading a book.
“Where are Katy, Lance and Chris?” Mandy asked walking in
the door. “Oh, hi. They went to the main land to put the video
together.” JC said not looking up from his book. “What?’
Justin yelled. “Katy put the last video together. I figured to
make it work she could do this one.” JC said. “Well yeah,
but couldn’t they waited till we got back to leave?” Kim
asked. “They wanted to get a jump-start on it.” JC said.
“Well can’t we go after them?” Justin asked. “Nope,
there are no more boats. They’ll be back in a few days.”
JC said not seeming to worry.
“That’s not fair.” Mandy said. “There’s
nothing we can do about it now.” JC said. “I know but why
did Lance and Chris go?” Justin asked. “They wanted to help
her.” JC said. “But we wanted to help to.” Joey said.
“Sorry.” JC said giving a little shrug. “So what are
we going to do?” Mandy asked. “Just chill out.” JC
said. “It would be nice to have a little time to relax before
Nsync takes off again.” Joey said. “Yeah that would be nice,
but I was hoping to spend more time with Katy.” Justin said. “She’ll
hang around, Justin.” JC said eating an apple he’d gotten
out of one of the baskets.
“What make you so sure? She’s been acting weird lately.”
Justin said. “Lance has too.” Mandy said. “You don’t
think they’re up to something do you?” Justin asked. “I
don’t know they have been spending a lot of time together.”
Mandy said. “Come on you two, Lance and Katy love you guys very
much.” Kim said. “Yeah but maybe not as much as they love
each other.” Justin said. “Oh my god, that has to be it.
Katy and Lance are having a fling.” Mandy yelled jumping up and
down. “Then what does Chris have to do with it?” Brandi
asked. “Maybe they’re having a monshatwa thing.” Justin
said started to get very up set at the thought of it.
“I think you two are jumping the gun.” JC said. “Yeah
what would you know? You’re an idiot.” Mandy said. “Hey,
don’t call him names.” Kim yelled. “Hey, now we’re
all friends here.” Nicoma said. “If Katy is trying to steal
my man then there is no friendship here.” Mandy said. “You
guys I think we have spent too much time together, we need to get apart.”
Nicoma said. “I agree let’s all go do our own thing today.”
Kim said. “Sounds good to me.” Justin yelled then stormed
out the door. “I’m going with him we have some things to
talk about.” Mandy said running after Justin.
“We’re going to go do our own thing too.” Nicoma said
leaving with Joey. “I guess I’m going too. See you.”
Brandi said heading for the door. Kim looked at JC then walked over
to the chair were he was and sat down beside him and propped her feet
up too. “So what are we doing?” Kim asked. “We are
going to sit here and relax in these nice surroundings and enjoy the
peace.” JC said putting his arm around her. “I’m worried
about Justin and Mandy.” Kim said. “Don’t worry it
will blow over before they get back, I hope.” JC said. “But
what if it doesn’t?” Kim asked. “Then Katy, Lance
and Chris can deal with it just fine on their own, it’s not like
those two would listen to me any way.’ JC said. “You’re
right.” Kim sighed then rested her head against JC.
Mean while out side Mandy had caught up to Justin and they were thinking
it through. “They have to be up to something.” Justin said.
“But Lance wouldn’t cheat on me, would he?” Mandy
asked. “It’s not like Lance but it could happen.”
Justin said. “And Katy all this time she talked about you, what
could happen to change her mind?” Mandy asked. “I don’t
know but she’s just not been her self lately. I miss the old Katy.”
Justin said.
Mean while back down the beach Joey and Nicoma were having a great time
Joey had found a tree and made a swing for the two of them. So they
were sitting their sing in each other’s arms looking out over
the water. “Do you think Justin was right?” Joey asked.
“About what?” Nicoma asked. “Katy?”
Joey asked. “No, Katy loves him. She told me so. She was so happy
to see him again.” Nicoma explained. “Then what do you think
is going on?’ Joey asked. “I don’t know but I think
no body needs to worry.” Nicoma said. “Okay. If you say
so.” Joey said giving her a kiss.
Brandi on the other hand went to be alone. She head remembered the way
to the waterfall and she headed straight there. She took with her a
journal. She lay down on the grass and picked a wild flower. “He
loves me; he loves me not...” Brandi said slowly pulling off the
pedals. A single tear ran down her cheek she wiped it off. “This
is nuts; I have a boy friends. Why do I care if Chris is having a thing
with Katy?” Brandi said to herself.
She took out a pen and opened her journal. She thought for a second
and then started writing catching a tear very now and then that slipped
out. She looked up from her writing. She studied the waterfall. She
found herself suddenly thinking back to the other day. When her and
Chris had been here for the shoot. She remembered being warm in Chris’s
arms. She’d been so mean to him and yet he still seemed to hold
on to what they had had last year. Brandi suddenly shook the taught
from her mind. She sat there and tried to think of Akiko. She remembered
the blond hansom man she now loved. Brandi started writing again this
time she was smiling.
Back in JC’s hut they were truly enjoying their free time. They
both had fallen asleep sitting there. Kim was resting her head ever
so softly on JC’s shoulder. Joey and Nicoma came in to see what
was going on. They were surprised to find the two of them sleeping.
Nicoma took the time to cover them both with a light blanket. “Now
what?’ Joey asked. “Let’s go talk to Justin and Mandy
before they go too far.” Nicoma said. “That sounds like
a good idea.” Joey said leading Nicoma out the door. “Where
could they be?” Nicoma asked. “I don’t know but we
have all the time in the world to find them.” Joey said as they
walked down the path.
Joey and Nicoma caught up with Justin and Mandy about a mile down the
beach. They were sitting in the sand talking. “Hi.” Nicoma
said brushing some loose hair out of her face. “Hi.” Mandy
said. “What bring you two out here?” Justin asked. “We
were worried about you two.” Joey said sitting next to Mandy.
“Why?” Mandy asked looking at him. “I just am, I think
your jumping to conclusions.” Joey said. “We’re not.
We’ve been talking we know that’s what’s going on.”
Justin said very confident. “Some one is going to get hurt, if
you’re wrong.” Nicoma said. “What does it matter,
why else would they rush off with out telling us?” Mandy asked.
Joey was silent he didn’t have an answer for that.
“That’s what I thought.” Mandy said. “I still
don’t think that they would do that.” Joey said. They talked
for some time. The day seemed to go fast in no time the sun was setting.
“We better go eat.” Nicoma said getting up off the sand.
Joey was close behind. Mandy got up too. Justin remained seated. “Are
you come?” Mandy asked. “Yeah, I’ll be there in a
little bit; I just want to be alone for a few minutes.” Justin
asked in an angry tone. “Okay, see you a little later then.”
Mandy said then left with Joey and Nicoma.
By the time they got back to camp dinner was all ready underway. So
they took their seats. JC and Kim were already there eating happily.
“Where Justin?” Meko asked. “He’s coming.”
Mandy said. “Does he still have that dumb idea in his head?”
JC asked. “What dumb idea?” Meko asked. “He thinks
Katy’s cheating on him.” JC said. Meko laughed. “Yeah
like that would ever happen.” Meko said. Mandy looked at him but
said nothing. “Where’s Brandi?” Kim asked. “I
don’t know we haven’t seen her since this morning.”
Nicoma said. “Don’t worry, she’ll be fine wherever
she’s at.” Joey asked. “How do you know that?”
Mandy asked. “She’s Brandi. If a wild animal attacked her
I’d put money on Brandi winning.” Joey said.
Justin joined the group a little later. “Hi.” JC said but
Justin didn’t answer. Justin sat down and started eating. “You’re
in a mood.” Kim told Justin. Again Justin didn’t reply.
“Hey, buddy I didn’t do anything to you so don’t be
getting mad at me.” Kim yelled at him. “I’m not mad
at you, I was thinking.” Justin said softly. “Whatever.”
Kim snapped then went back to eating. “When is she coming back?’
Justin asked. “She said she would try to be back tomorrow evening.”
JC said. “Good we really need to talk.’ Justin said. Meko
just shook his head, he knew Justin wouldn’t listen to him. “Good
night.” Meko said getting up. “Good night, Meko.”
Mandy said.
Meko stopped before he left. “Hey, since you guys aren’t
doing anything tomorrow do you want to go hunting with us?” Meko
asked. “Sure.” Justin and Joey said. Meko turned to JC.
“If I can get up that early I’ll go if not leave me here.”
JC said. “Okay, cool. See you later then.” Meko said then
ran off. Justin figured that going hunting would help him get his mind
off Katy. “If the guys go hunting what are we going to do?”
Nicoma asked. “I don’t know we’ll have to see in the
morning.” Mandy said.
“I still don’t see Brandi.” Kim said. “Maybe
she wasn’t hungry and just went on to bed.” Nicoma said
getting up. “I’ll go see if she’s in our hut.”
Nicoma said heading toward her hut. “I’m going to go to
bed since I have to get up early.” Justin said then left. He stopped
at the door to Katy’s hut. Then went in. He went right into the
bedroom and got in bed. He laid his head on the pillow. He couldn’t
help but note that it smelled like Katy’s shampoo. With in no
time he was asleep.
Back at the fire, JC was telling one of the islanders a story about
some thing at happened on tour once. Nicoma came back. “Yeah she’s
asleep already.” Nicoma said. “Okay, give me a kiss and
then I must go to sleep.” Joey said getting up and waling over
to her. Nicoma gave him a quick kiss then he disappeared into the darkness.
JC finished his story and both him and the islander were laughing. The
islander waved good bye then left. JC looked up at Nicoma. “I’m
going to leave too, good night.’ Nicoma said then went to her
hut.
Now JC and Kim were alone. “This is so romantic.” Kim said
laying her head on his lap. “Yeah it is, I wanted to ask you something.”
JC said. “Sure, ask me anything.” Kim said. “When
and if we go back on tour, I want you to come with me.” JC asked.
“You will go on tour again and yes I’ll be right there every
step of the way if you want me too.” Kim said with a smile. JC
smiled to this was easier that he had thought to was going to be. “You
will?” JC asked. “Yeah, I love you.” Kim said. “But
that means that I’ll have to tell all my other girlfriends that
they can’t come over, but hey.” JC said then laughed knowing
that there were no other girls. Kim smiled and laughed too.
“You just think your all that.” Kim laughed. “Yeah
well we have a bigger problem at hand.” JC said getting serous.
“Yeah, what’s that?” Kim asked. “What are we
going to do about Justin and Mandy?” JC asked. “Why don’t
you tell me what they told you?” Kim asked. “I told them
that I would tell no one. They will find out soon enough.” JC
said softly. “Tell me.” Kim demanded. “No.”
JC said softly. Kim began to tickle him. “Tell me.” Kim
repeated. “No.” JC laughed. Kim stopped suddenly. “Fine.”
She said then got up. “Where are you going?” JC asked. “To
bed. It’s late and I’m tired.” Kim said. JC got up
beside her. “I will come with you then.” JC said putting
his arms around her. So the two walked back to their hut. On the way
in they were as quite as they could be, after all they didn’t
want to wake Mandy.
Kim quickly got ready for bed and then they both climbed in. “Are
you sure you won’t tell me?” Kim asked. “Nope.”
JC said with a smile. “Okay, just checking.” Kim said then
rolled over at went to sleep. JC did the same.
