Chapter 6
“You did what?” Rachel asked as Kelsey looked around.
“There’s this guy. He’s 21 too and he answered my add and we’ve been exchanging messages on the personal ad thing. He kinda likes the Backstreet Boys too and hates ‘NSync and he sounds really cool and so I gave him my e-mail address. The one I use where nobody knows who I am.” Kelsey said, “I mean what could it hurt?”
“You have completely lost it child.” Rachel said as she looked away and looked back at her, “What if he’s some mass murderer?”
“And what if he’s..”
“He’s what?”
“What if he’s like my soul mate or something. You never know. How did you meet Jay?”
“Blind date.”
“See now you didn’t know shit about him. This is no different and we’re just talking. That’s all.” Kelsey said, “Just behind a computer and not a date.”
“Yeah.” Rachel said as she rolled her eyes.
“Listen, I’ll check and see if he answered me and you can hear him okay? Will that make you happy?” Kelsey asked as Rachel smiled at her.
“Yes.”
“Okay then.” Kelsey said as she sat down on her knees on the floor, hitting the speaker and dialing the 800 number, and then punching in her code.
You have 1 new message.
“See.. he’s a freak.” Rachel said as Kelsey rolled her eyes as the message began to play.
Hey, you know I was actually going to ask if you wanted to start e-mailing each other or something. I guess you read my mind or something. You’re scaring me. Anyway, I got the e-mail addy. I’m actually going to go over and e-mail ya right now. So you’ll hear from me soon. Alright? Later
“See.. he sounds nice.” Kelsey said as she smiled and pressed 2 to reply and spoke into the phone, “Hey, okay. I’ll go check my mail right now. Bye!”
“You’re crazy.” Rachel said while laughing, “You’re out of your mind.”
“No I’m not.” Kelsey said as she turned the phone off, walking back over to her desk.
“Yes you are.”
“No, I’m not.”
“Sure.” Rachel said as she grabbed the remote, flipping channels on the TV as Kelsey logged into her e-mail.
“I got one.”
“What’s his name? The name on the sender’s name?” Rachel asked as she looked over at her.
“Burger King.” Kelsey said as Rachel started to laugh.
“Oh yeah, you’ve got a freak on your hands.”
“Well I’ve got Princess Grace on mine so what the fuck, we match. It’s all good.” Kelsey said as Rachel started laughing hysterically, “Shut up, I’m trying to read.”
“Read it outloud.”
“Fine.” Kelsey said as she started to read the letter outloud.
Hey,
Well it’s me, the dude from the phone. I don’t know what to say really except this is my e-mail address so you
can e-mail me anytime you want to. I liked what you said about the video games. I like the older ones too.
So there was something I was wanting to ask you.
Like what do you do? Do you go to school or something? What part of California are you from? I mean I guess your from here because it was in the paper here or maybe you were just visiting or something.
Lemme shut up. E-mail me back. It’s 11:45 here
now. I’m not going to bed anytime soon.
Later
“Aww he sounds nice.” Kelsey said smiling as Rachel looked over at her. Kelsey sat there smiling and then looked over at Rachel, “What?”
“He wants to know where your from? What you do? He’s getting nosey.” Rachel said as Kelsey rolled her eyes.
“I’ll tell him that I’m there because mainly I am alot ya know. And if we’re on the computer he won’t really know ya know?”
“True.”
“See.. I’ll just tell him I have a job.”
“True.”
“That’s all.”
“Okay then.” Rachel said as she motioned for her to continue, “E-mail him then.”
“Okay I will.” Kelsey said laughing as she clicked reply on the e-mail.
“MTV has gotta stop with this fucking Making The Band marathon. Damn if it ain’t ‘NSync it’s fucking O-Town.” Nick bitched as he turned the TV to CNN and sat there looking at it. He tilted his head listening to some guy talk about Iraq and then tilted it the other way, looking as if he didn’t know or understand a damn thing the guy was saying.
“That’s enlightening.” Nick said as he turned the TV to the Weather Channel to see the Florida Forecast, “Damn I wanna go home.”
Nick sighed as he looked back over at the phone and then at the TV. Then he looked over at his laptop that was sitting beside him on the bed. He picked it up and looked at his desktop because he had it on from earlier when he e-mailed the personal ad girl. He logged online and opened up his e-mail, logging in to see a new message.
“Princess Grace? What the fuck, I thought she was dead.” Nick said to himself as he opened up the email and began to read it.
Hey,
Burger King? That’s a interesting name Mr. King, although I have a strong feeling that’s not your name. But that’s cool because Princess Grace isn’t mine
either. Which is whack don’t you think? I have Princess on mine and you have King, but you’re not my dad. That’s whack isn’t it? Don’t ask, I’m not right in the head.
So you wanna know what I do? I help out a friend of mine in her business. She’s a manager, so I help her out some. I have a pretty hectic schedule for doing that really but sometimes I have a lot of down time. It just depends on her work.
As for Cali, yeah I’m from here, ya know the Los Angeles area. Sort of Bevery Hills. The zip code 90210 is really easy to remember but that’s because it use to be my favorite show when I was younger. I still like
Luke Perry, but I bet you don’t care LMAO
So what do you do? What part of California are you from, Los Angeles too? I better go, it’s getting late. I’m gonna be kinda busy tomorrow afternoon but I will be on first thing in the morning so I’ll check my e-mail
then.
Bye!
“This girl is seriously whack.” Nick said laughing to himself. He sat there reading the letter again while laughing outloud, “She’s whack in the head. Damn, gotta love that.” as he hit reply on the e-mail and began e-mailing her back.
He sat there typing as fast as he could, but kept having to hit the backspace button. After he finished typing, he sat there re-reading what he wrote when he smiled, and then hit send.
“Damn there went nothin’”
Kelsey!
“Uhh..” Kelsey moaned the next morning as she layed there in her bed. She lifted her head up to see that it was already 12:15 and threw her head back down, putting the pillow over it.
“Kelsey!” Rachel said as she walked into Kelsey’s room to see her hiding under her pillow, “Time to wake up. We’ve got to be at the studios at 4:30. So if you want to get up, wake up, get dressed and e-mail your little boyfriend back-”
“Huh?” Kelsey asked as she lifted her head up.
“Your little e-mail boyfriend. Why the fuck did I just think of that Aaron Carter song?” Rachel asked herself as she started to walk out of Kelsey’s room and walked back in and pointed at her, “Better yet- why the fuck do I even KNOW a Aaron Carter song. You have ruined me kid.” as she walked out and Kelsey started laughing.
Kelsey layed her head back down on the pillow and stretched her arms out on the bed, and began to laugh a little as Rachel walked back in pointing at her.
“You are corrupting me. First Backstreet Boys and Aaron Carter, then O-Town and now these ‘NSync fuckers-”
“I hate ‘NSync.”
“Ugh, damn you.” Rachel said as she walked back out of the bedroom as Kelsey started laughing and sat up in bed, pushing her hair out of her face.
“Rachel!!”
Whaaaaaat?
“I’m ready to go back to LA.”
“Oh I’ll be god damned.” Rachel said as she walked back in, “Just because of Mr. Burger King.”
“Well atleast we’d be in the same time zone then.” Kelsey said laughing as Rachel rolled her eyes.
“We are soon enough. But you are NOT meeting this guy unless I approve. Plus David will go with you when you decide.”
“Holy shit, are you saying that if I decide I want to meet him that you’d let me?”
“Hell no. I’m just being nice. I had a nice dream last night.” Rachel said smiling.
“How was Howie?”
“Oh he was fine darling. Now get your ass up and get motivated.” Rachel said as Kelsey laughed.
Let me show you what it’s like to lose control
Free the desire in your soul
Oh oh let me love you.
“Nick, what the hell are you singing?” Howie asked as he walked into Brian’s room the next morning where he was joining Brian and Howie for breakfeast.
“Let Me Love You” Nick said as he smiled, taking a sip of his orange juice.
“It’s by that country girl.” Brian said laughing, “Next thing you know, Nick’s gonna be wearing a pair of chaps, saying ‘Yee Haw!’”
“I’ll be damned.” Nick said laughing, “It was on CMT when I left my room. She comes on that show today that’s kinda like TRL that’s on there.”
“I think I’m gonna go write some today.” Howie said as Nick shrugged his shoulders, “Wanna go with me Nicky?”
“I am going to enjoy my days off before we start recording.” Nick said, “I wanna go home, but I’ve just gotta come right back out here so what the hell.”
“I’m staying.” Brain said as he took a bite of his eggs.
“Yeah me too.” Nick said, “I’m just gonna chill. And dude I need to talk to you about something.”
“What?” Brian asked as Nick looked over at Howie and then back at Brian, “Oh.”
“Oh what?” Howie asked, “Your personal ad girl?”
“Damn.”
“What, everybody knows.” Howie said, “I don’t care. I think it’s kinda cool.”
“Well we exchanged e-mails. She gave me hers last night.” Nick started to say when Brian interrupted him.
“Oh she did. She beat ya to it huh?” Brian asked laughing.
“Yeah, so I e-mailed her and she e-mailed me back. The girl is whack. She’s funny too. She said she’s from around Beverly Hills and that she works with her friend who is a manager.”
“Manager of what?” Howie asked.
“That I don’t know. I mean, it’s LA. Maybe in the movies or something.” Nick said, “So I e-mailed her back.”
“Cool.” Brian said as he took a sip of his coffee.
“It was whack though, her outgoing name was Princess Grace and I had put Burger King on mine.”
“Burger King?” Brian asked while laughing, “What?”
“It was a commercial on TV at the time.” Nick said laughing, “Hell if I know.”
“You’re out of your mind.” Brian said as Nick leaned back in his chair.
“Yeah I know.” Nick said smiling as he leaned back more and fell back in his chair, onto the floor while Howie and Brian cracked up laughing.
“Oh go see if Bruger e-mailed you.” Rachel said as Kelsey walked out of her room, stumbling over to her computer, and turned it on.
“Oh I am.” Kelsey said, “I need a damn shower and wake up.”
“Go take one.” Rachel said as Kelsey started to log online and layed her head down on the desk.
“I will.” Kelsey whispered as she looked up and went to her e-mail, logging in to see a new message, “Oh!”
“New message?” Rachel asked as she looked over at her.
“Yeah.”
“Oh boy.”
“Lemme read it.” Kelsey said as click on the e-mail and began to read it.
Hey, what’s up?
Not much here. I just got your e-mail. It’s getting late and I’m going to go to bed here pretty soon.
So you work for a manager and you’re from the Beverly Hills area huh? Well I’m from the Los Angeles area kinda and I’m a salesman. I know that sounds kinda sucky doesn’t it? Yeah well that’s what I am.
So watcha gotta do tomorrow afternoon? I’m actually going to be watching something I never really thought I would. There’s this chick and she’s a singer right, and well she sings country music. I hate country music. It’s not my thang but she’s gonna be on some TV show tomorrow on that country channel and I’m gonna watch it. I know that’s whack right? Yeah well, she’s a good singer.
Then I’ll probably watch some TV tomorrow night and just chill. I might be online, more than likely. I’m kinda addicted to it at times and can’t leave it. I don’t know
why really because all I do is surf around, and sometimes talk to my friends, once in a while. It’s somewhere you can go to get away from reality once in a while.
Dude so anyway, I’m gonna go now. I’m about to fall asleep. E-mail me back alright.
Later
P.S. - No, my real name isn’t Burger King. But
their food is okay.
“He’s whack.”
“You’re crazy.” Rachel said as Kelsey looked over at her.
“He’s a salesman. He lives in Los Angeles.” Kelsey said as Rachel busted out laughing, “What? What’s wrong with that? I told him I worked with my friend who was a manager.”
“Well you do.”
“Well like duh Rachel.”
“A salesman. That’s so funny. He’s a 21 year old salesman? Who the hell would let a 21 year old guy from Los Angeles sale anything except maybe sneakers.” Rachel said while laughing.
“So what’s wrong with that. He’s watching CMT today.” Kelsey said as she looked over at Rachel.
“How do you know?”
“He said he liked this girl singer and she was going to be on a show today and he doesn’t like country music. I think he’s talking about me.”
“That’s wrong.” Rachel said as she shook her head, “You’re going to get yourself in a lot of trouble Kelsey.”
“No, I’m not.” Kelsey said as she looked back at the computer and hit reply, smiling.
