~*~*~*(back in the boys' suite)*~*~*~
        Brian THWAPPED the nearest thing to him...Kevin's head.
         "Oops..." he grinned and ran. He tripped trying to hurdle over the other couch and ended up knocking Howie over, setting Jenny free.  She began to beat AJ mercilessly with her pillow.
        "TAKE THAT! TAKE THAT!!!!"
        "OW!OW!OW!!!!!!"
        Hannah got free from Lance and ran, but she tripped over Howie.  
        "Ahhh!!!" THUD
        Brian tried to get up from the floor; the impact of knocking Howie over had sent him down.  But Kevin had a pillow now, and hurled it at his cousin.  Brian ducked but was hit, and tripped backwards onto Lance.  AJ backed up onto the pile trying to get away from Jenny; he fell into it as well. She couldn't stop laughing.  Kevin was laughing about Brain falling and didn't notice me nearby till I THWAPPED him atop the head.  He yelled and ran after me.
        "COME HERE!!!!! I'm GONNA GET YOU!!!!"
        I attempted to jump over the pile, but tripped over somebody's leg
        "Eeeekk! THUD
        Kevin laughed at me before a nearby AJ tripped him with swipe of his foot and grinned. We were laughing too hard to notice that Jenny was the only one standing.
        "What the HELL...?!" We heard a voice and looked up.  A confused Nick and Julie had entered the room...hand in hand. "Jenny, you didn't kill all of them while we were gone, did you?" Nick laughed.
        "Oh yeah, these guys were quite easy to kill!" she grinned, crossing her arms, and placing a foot on the nearest back, Brian's, as if she had triumphed over evil or climbed a mountain. Julie and Nick were laughing as the rest of us on the floor smiled sheepishly, knowing we looked like complete idiots.
        "Jen-ay! You're foot's hurting my back!" Brian whined with a grin. She kept her arms crossed, and placed her second foot on his back and stood there.
        "Hel-oo! I just SCALED Humanous Mr. Everest, I'm not budging!" she grinned back. Brian grunted.
        "Dude, Kevin, get your leg off by back...!" AJ complained.
        "You get YOUR leg off MY back!" Lance told him. Hannah couldn't keep from laughing.
        "HEY! I like the view as it is NOW thankuverymuch! You guys look better like that, why not stay still and not complain!?" Jenny giggled at the clump of people still on the floor.
        "Jenny, you'd better get off before this mountain gets you..." AJ warned with a and evil glint in his eye. She ignored this. Brian understood the idea and shot up;  Jenny fell onto the ground. He pinned her and grinned.
        "Gotcha!"
        "MEANY!!!!" Jenny squirmed.
        "UM..So, what movie did you get...?" I tried to change the subject, slowly getting up.
        "The movie we wanted is pay-per-view," Julie grinned.
        "No way!" I smiled.
        KNOCK-KNOCK-KNOCK
        The rest all immediately shot up off the floor as Nick turned around to open the door.
        "I smell something goooood..." he murmured in a sing-song voice. The door opened and there stood a pizza deliveryman holding 5 pizza boxes, steaming hot.  Nick paid the man and turned around, grinning, holding the treasure.
        "GIMMIE!" AJ yelled, running over to him with outstretched arms.
        "Nuh, uh, uh," Nick turned so that AJ's path had him run right past Nick. "Ladies first," he put on his sweetest smile, and handed a box to Julie. A gleam in their eyes made it seem like they had a secret. She smiled back and headed over to the couch with her gift. "Here," Nick said, giving me, Hannah, and Jenny, each a box. We were still processing the fact that Nick had called room service delivery pizza.
        "We can't eat all this...!" I complained.
        "I beg to differ..." Hannah grinned and rubbed her tummy. We rolled our eyes.
        "There are 10 of us, and 5 pizzas; just share it with someone else," Nick said. I opened mine to veggies, Hannah to pepperoni, and Jenny to cheese.
        "I'll eat cheese," Brian offered.
        "I'll eat veggie," Kevin said.
        "I thought Kevin didn't like veggie..." Howie commented. Kevin shot him a look.
        "When did I say that?"
        "I, of course, shall help Hannah devour this lovely pepperoni pizza," Lance offered.
        "Hey, Frack, we're hungry too," Howie motioned to AJ and himself.
        "Ah yes, here Howie...Now be nice and share with this hungry little boy we call AJ."
        "Nick, you like pepperoni?" Julie asked.
        "Yep!" He went to share with her.
        "Everybody get comfy, cuz then we'll order the movie," AJ instructed. Nick got up and found blankets for everybody.
        "Um, guys, have you noticed you all are in comfortable night clothes and we're in street clothes?"  Jenny pointed out, not wanting to sleep in her jean shorts.
        "Yeah, me too," Lance said.
        "Umm, I guess we'll have to be NICE..." AJ sarcastically grumbled as the guys got up. Jenny shot him a look ready to swat him. "What!?" he asked.
        "Thanks, AJ, we TOTALLY appreciate your kindness!" she said as the boys left for their rooms.
        "YEAH! Be grateful!" he yelled back. They soon returned with various shirts and boxers.
        The four of us girls headed to one of the bedrooms, Lance attempted to follow with his borrowed clothing, but he was banished to one of the other bedrooms, pouting.  Brian deliberately attempted to walk in and Jenny swore she would kill him. Nick innocently said he had forgotten something in his room, the one we were using, but of course couldn't remember what it was when we asked him through the door. We soon heard AJ attempting to talk loud enough for us to hear; he was sarcastically reprimanding Nick for trying to walk in on us, and Nick played along.
        "Those guys are something else," I said laughing.
        "Yeah..." both Hannah and Julie sighed.
        "What, you two in on cloud nine or something?" Jenny asked, elbowing them. They got a bit shy.
        "So what's with you and mister Lance, eh?" I pointed a finger at Hannah.
        "Yeah, you guys need to KISS, or something!" Jenny grinned.
        "W-what do you mean...?" Hannah tried to look shocked. "Oh, I dunno..." she trailed off shifting into daydream land.
        "What about you and Bri?" I asked Julie.
        "Um, er, uh, well, um..." Julie stuttered,
        "Spit it out! The guys are gonna come back and harass us soon if we take too long..." Jenny said.
        Julie took a deep breath, "Nick kissed me."
        "WHAT!? Aww, why do YOU get all the luck!?" Hannah tried to laugh.
        "And...?" Jenny prodded.
        "I dunno, but it seemed to click more with me and Nick, but I feel really bad and don't know how to tell Brian...he's so sweet and cute and nice and caring and, and, and..." she trailed off.
        "Yeah..." Jenny quietly sighed almost as if in a dreamy tone. We looked at her. "What? Oh, um, well I mean..." she stumbled.
        "Well, you're going have to say something sometime," I said, returning the present problem.
        "YOU GIRLS CHANGING OUTTA CORSETS AND COMPLICATED LACE OR SOMETHING!?" we heard AJ yell, breaking the moment of silence that had fallen after my statement.
        "COMING, YOU IDIOT! HAVE PATIENCE!" Jenny screamed back, back to her old self.
        "We'll stall and let you talk to Brian, okay? Before the movie," I told Julie. She sighed and nodded as we filed out of the room.
        "FINALLY!"  AJ stated exasperatedly.
        "Oh shut up!" Jenny picked up a stray pillow from the floor and chucked it at him. He ducked and made a face.
        "Okay, let's start the movie," Kevin said. I glanced over at Julie, who was inching her way over to Brian.
        "Umm, how's about we all get drinks and napkins?" I said, dragging him off to the chair in the kitchen, motioning for Jenny and Hannah to follow with the nearest guys. We emptied the vicinity, hoping Julie would talk to Brian. Brian attempted to get up and follow, but Julie put a hand on his shoulder and prevented him from getting up. He looked up at her with wondering gaze.
        "We need to talk Bri," her voice was soft. Why must I do this?
        "Okay, I knew this would come..." he nodded and sighed.
        "Well..."
        "Yeah...?" he looked up at her and tried to smile.
        "You, that in the short time we've known each other...I do care about you, right?" I can't do this...
        "Yeah, and I care about you..." What is she getting at?
        "Though I haven't known you for that long, I hope you know that you are very nice and sweet..." I'm stalling too much, but it's the truth!
        "Thanks..." C'mon, you can smile, she said something good about you!
        "But the thing is..." Here I go...
        "Yeah...?" gulp
        "Um...Nick kissed me." I don't want to hurt him...
        "Oh..." Brian coughed, "W-when...?" No!!!
        "In the elevator on the way back after finding out about the movie." Oh look at his face, he's trying to hide it.
        "Oh..." Now what!?
        "Um, well, I told you I knew I had to choose..." How do I say this?
        "Yeah?" It's not me...
        "And I have..."I can't, I can't...
        "It's not me, is it?" Brain bluntly asked. Julie bit her lip, looked at her feet, and shook her head. She didn't want to do this. She could see the hurt on Brian's face. It made her heart twist in pain. "Oh okay, I expected as much..." Brian trailed off. This IS what I wanted right? All that reasoning, Nick IS better for her...
        "Friends?" Julie timidly asked sticking out her hand. Brian smiled, and slowly got up...and hugged her.
        "Friends..." he sighed, holding the hug as long as he could. He pulled away and grinned, "Now's let's go make sure the group didn't already make up some fight in the kitchen...!" Julie laughed and nodded.
        The kitchen...well, it ended up that we had had another fight...basically with ice cubes. AJ had put some down Jenny's shirt and she had vowed to kill him (yes, once again). Her ice cubes had hit Howie by mistake, who threw them back, hitting Kevin and Nick. They revolted by throwing some, but Hannah and I got hit, and of course we retaliated. Lance squawked like a parrot when Hannah attempted to put one down his shorts. Julie and Brian practically died laughing...at us. They reminded us of the cooling pizzas and the movie to get us out of the kitchen with our drinks etc.
        We settled down to watch TITANIC. There were three couches surrounding the T.V., sort of like a big U. I sat down on the middle couch and Kevin stretched out on it saying I had taken the spot for his head. I said so what, I didn't care...so he placed his head on my lap and grinned, asking what was I going to do now.  I pretended to ignore him. Lance and Hannah sat on the ground and used the second couch, that was to my right, to lean on. Lance's arms were again around Hannah's waist, this time in a sort of hug; Hannah rested her head on his shoulder, and he rested his on her head. Jenny would have cooed at this but Julie and I shot her a look. On the second couch above Hannah and Lance, Julie sat down. Nick sat beside her and attempted to yawn and stretched out both his arms and rested them spanned-out/outstretched on the couch.  Howie sat on the other end of their couch. AJ stretched out on the third couch that was to my left. Jenny sat on the ground by AJ's couch and used part of it to lean back on. Brain plopped on the ground beside her.
        As soon as the movie started, the boys couldn't resist making fun of it;  Jenny and I were screaming at them.  It quieted down after awhile, and everyone was just engrossed in the drama.  I looked over to notice Nick attempting to move one of his outstretched arms from the couch to around Julie's shoulders. When he did succeed, she noticed, but didn't bother to say anything. The look of wonder and anxiousness on his face became a look of relief when she didn't object.  AJ kept trying to do the same, but was getting warning glares from Jenny; his attempts were more noticeable anyway, since she wasn't exactly right next to him.  Howie was having fun noticing their little feud. Lance would now and then attempt to tickle Hannah and she would giggle and squirm, then they would return to their resting position.  Brian seemed a little melancholy, but he was still enjoying watching the movie and the antics.

(hours later...)
        I slowly opened my eyes. What time was it? I checked my watch...4:30 am. Damn, I was up a bit early. I sat up, but then remembered Kevin's head. I slowly maneuvered my way off the couch and rested his head on one of the pillows. I stretched and looked around. Nick, I remembered, had successfully gotten his arm around Julie's shoulder last night, and now they were asleep; Julie's head rested on Nick's shoulder, his head rested on her head...as were Lance and Hannah. Howie had fallen asleep in his same spot on the other couch.  AJ was asleep on his couch, all stretched out as if it were his own bed, one leg dangling on the side. Brian had fallen asleep leaning on the couch. Jenny had lain down on the floor with her head on his leg. It was way too early for me to wake them.
        I felt restless; I needed to get out of the room.  I looked at my nightclothes, I didn't care; they were comfy.  I left the room and took the elevator to the ground floor.  I headed towards the pool.  There wasn't a soul in sight. I went to the deep end and sat down by the edge, letting my feet dangle in the cool water.  I would have been nice to go for a swim, but I didn't have a suit.  Not like I would wear it if I had one, though. Oh well.
        "Hey," I heard a whisper. I turned around to see Jenny.
        "Hey," I smiled back.
        "I thought I'm the one who gets up early, not you!" she grinned and joined me by the pool, putting her feet in the water.  I shrugged. We sat in peaceful silence for a minute.
        "Can you believe all this?" I asked.
        "What? Oh...all THIS..." she realized. "Umm...lemme see here...uh, NO," she laughed.
        "Somebody pinch me..." I murmured. Jenny did so. "OW! What was that for!?"
        "You asked for it," she giggled.  We continued to talk about absolutely nothing for awhile.

        "'AJ...c'mon...AJ...." Kevin whispered.
        "Uurrmmpphh," AJ grumble and turned over.  Kevin gave up on him.
        "Howie...?"
        "Mmphughhhh" Howie groaned and refused to budge. Kevin sighed and scanned the room. Nick and Lance looked too comfortable to bother. One person left.
        "Hey, Bri," Kevin whispered, "You up?"
        "If I wasn't, I wouldn't be talking, smart one. Of course now I am..." Brian weakly grumbled.
        "Umm, yeah, sorry...but Sarah and Jenny aren't here."
        "So...?"  Brian groaned.
        "I wanna know what happened to them."
        "Nuh-uh, you wanna know where Sarah is, that's all." Brian turned over.
        "Excuse me? I don't what you're talking about Brian Thomas...But anyway, I'm actually awake; you notice how damn early it is? C'mon, I'm curious where two teen girls would go at this hour."
        "Ohh, almost my full name there, coz. But I'm not budging. Man, leave me alone!"
        "No. C'mon. What if something happened to them...? They ARE Julie's friends..." Kevin added. Brian was going to shoot up, but then decided not to budge.
        "So...?"
        "SO...!? Okay, what happened...."
        "Nothing, okay? Can I just go back to sleep?"
        "No."
        "Fine, Julie officially likes Nick, okay? Get it? Got it? Good," Brian grumbled with his head under a pillow.
        "Man, I'm sorry...."
        "Yeah, thanks. Look, I'm awake now, okay? What do you wanna do?" Brian slowly sat up, rubbing his eyes, taking gentle care to place Jenny's head on a pillow.
        "Let's go find them."
        "Where could they be?"
        "I dunno, let's check in their room and then downstairs."
        The boys checked our room to find nobody but the maid service, and headed to the elevator. They scanned the bottom floor for awhile.
        "There!" Kevin whispered, pointing out our backs to Brian.
        "Now what?" Brain asked.
        "Shhh, let's scare 'em."
        "I like your thinking, man. Hmm, wonder who you got it from," Brian grinned remembering AJ's horrible idea.

        "Sooo..." Jenny said trying to break the recent silence that had taken over our conversation.
        "Buttons," I replied. {for people who don't get it, so = sew, so buttons = sew buttons, stupid yeah I know...}
        "Haha, very funny...!" she swatted my shoulder.
        "OW! I thought that was left for AJ."
        "Hello! It's me."
        "Oh yeah, you hit everyone, I forgot." I grinned. She swatted me again.
        "So do you still have that neutral/hate thing going for these BSB?"
        "Maybe, maybe not...." she sighed.
        "I don't understand why you hate them."
        "Just to mess with your mind...They are okay, I guess. But they made you obsessed...!"
        "So? You still don't like LIKE any of them, do you?"
        "Maybe, maybe not..."she smirked.
        "You DO!? TELL ME!"
        "I don't know, what do you think?" she grinned.
        "I don't know either! Can't you just tell me?"
        "Ummmm...no."
        "Why not?"
        "Cuz it'll ruin things."
        "Is it either AJ or Howie...?"
        "I don't know..." she said in a sing song voice.
        "Jenny!" I threw my hands in the air.
        "Sarah!" she mimicked me. I stuck my tongue out at her, she did the same. I made a face, so did she.
        "C'mon, I think we'd better get up before our legs turn to prunes," I sighed. She nodded. We got up and began at walk along the patio/pool side tile, nearing the entrance/exit doors. Jenny was walking a few steps behind me.
        "Slow poke," I said.
        "I like to take my time, excuuuse me..!" she replied and kept her steady pace, making no attempt to catch up with me.
        "You don't still like PB2, do you?" I asked. {we had  a code name for her old crush, don't ask}
        Two hands firmly came from behind Jenny...one clamped over her mouth, and another held her waist as restraint.
        "MMMMMMMM!!!!" I heard her assert.
        "Yeah Jenny, sure you don't," I smiled; I thought she had exclaimed in annoyance at me.
        "MMMM!!!!!!!" I heard again.
        "Yeah, whatever, c'mon slowpoke..." I turned...and stopped dead in my tracks. I saw Brian grinning like an idiot, walking--first backwards, then turning and walked forwards--towards the pool, with one hand holding Jenny around the waist and the other holding her mouth shut.
        "Wha...?" I asked confused.
        "MMMMM!!!!!!!!!" Jenny tried to scream as she saw the pool draw nearer.  Brain got to the edge, held her tight, turned two circles, with her legs flying in the air, and let her go...flying with momentum onto the pool.
        SPLASH
        "AH NOW  I'M ALL WET!!!! Do you have a death wish!?" Jenny came up sputtering.  Brian was laughing too much to notice her grab his leg and pull...SPLASH
        "WHAT?! NO FAIR!" he coughed. Jenny started bombarding him with splashes and waves. He attempted to retreat by swimming, but she hunted after him. I started giggling at the amusing scene.

(Jenny's point of view)
        I saw Sarah standing on the patio floor thing laughing at us. Brian was still running. He WILL die, somehow...! I tried to plot revenge on my attacker, but then noticed a figure behind Sarah. It was Kevin. I tried to keep from grinning. He knew I saw him, and he put a finger up to his mouth and motioned "shh!" I continued to chase after Brian so Sarah wouldn't notice anything, but it was hard to keep from smiling....

(back to Sarah's point of view)
        I thought I saw Jenny pause and look at me, but then she returned to seeking death for Brian.
        "AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I screamed as I felt one arm slip behind my back and one under my legs; I was now in the air. "LEMME GO!!!!!!!" I screamed with my eyes shut closed in shock, not looking to see whom it was yet.
        "Geeze, a bit antsy Sarah?" I heard Kevin ask. I opened my eyes.
        "You KNOW I HATE being picked up..." I warned him.
        "And what are you gonna do about it?" he asked, grinning. He was walking forward, towards the pool.
        "Hey, I know kickboxing, buster...!" I tried to come up with something.
        "Would you really beat me up?" He gave me puppy-dog eyes.
        "I...um...er...just put me down! Lemme go!"
        We had reached the pool. Jenny and Brian had stopped; now they were wading in the water.
        "Hey, Kev, just let her GO," Brian laughed.
        "Yeah, let her GO Kevin," I hear Jenny giggle. It hit me. I looked at them. I looked at him.
        "You wouldn't," I said.
        "Would I?" he asked.
        "You couldn't."
        "Could I?"
        "You shouldn't."
        "Should I?"
        "YES!" Brian and Jenny laughed. I looked at them in horror. Kevin gave an evil grin. I frantically shook my head.
        "Nooooo!!!"
        SPLASH

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