Chapter Eight

“Hello?”

“Mike.”

“No.” Mike said a he hung up and Nick closed his phone back again.

“Damn punk won’t give me the number or anything.” Nick mumbled out loud as he closed his eyes and opened them back up. He could go to every hotel in LA, well every hotel that was classy, but still that could be one of a hundred hotels.

Or he could call her family and ask them, but they are liable to run and tell her.

He could always call her friend if she still had the same number she used to.

Or he could get Aaron to steal Jamie’s phone number from Mike.

He rubbed his chin, thinking a little as he as he put his hands behind his head. He’d been laying around his hotel room all morning trying to think of what how he could find her and he was sick and tired of it.

“Fuck it, I’m going shopping.”, he thought as he got up and started to take a shower.

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And I’m ready to fall in love tonight

ready to hold my heart open wide

can’t promise forever but baby I’ll try

I’m ready to fall in love tonight

“God if Nick only knew I had the On The Line soundtrack.” Jamie thought to herself as she stood there, looking in the mirror in the bathroom, getting dressed and then she stopped, and looked down.

“Why the fuck am I thinking about him?” she asked herself as she looked back up in the mirror and finished brushing her hair. She sighed, and began to put her lip gloss on and smacked her lips a little, “I don’t need to think about him, but he would probably laugh.”

She started out of the bathroom and then stopped and looked around, “Stop it.” Great now she was talking to herself. She walked over, slipping her shoes on. She reached over, looking at her cell phone and then checked it to see if she had any messages, and she had none. She put her cell phone in her purse and then walked over, looking in the mirror again.

Today was the day she was going to find out if they were buying her script or not.

She walked out of the bathroom and turned the TV off, wondering if she should call home first before she left. Oh fuck it, she walked over to the door and opened it, looking out into the hallway before she walked out, and shut her door back. She checked to see if it was locked and it was so she started to walk down the hallway slowly.

She walked down the hallway with the song from On The Line stuck in her head. She began to laugh a little at herself as the doors opened and she stepped inside.

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“Damn.” Nick thought as he walked out of his room, and shut the door. He checked to see if it was locked and began walking down to the elevator, seeing that it was about to close.

“Hey! Hold up!” Nick yelled as he ran up to the elevator and looked inside to see Jamie standing there, “Whoa.”

“Whoa.”

“You - whoa.” Nick said as he walked inside the elevator and was about to walk out because he was so nervous he was about to throw up.

“What are you doing here?” Jamie asked as she stared over at him.

“I, uh, had to come to LA last night.” Nick said as he scratched his head and the doors closed, “Uh, I didn’t know you were staying here.”

“Yeah.” Jamie said as she looked away and took a deep breath.

“Um, listen -”

“Uhh…” Jamie moaned out loud, looking at the numbers on the elevator going lower and lower.

“- I think we -”

“Are we on the first floor yet?” Jamie asked herself out loud as Nick looked at her, “No we’re not because I’m standing here listening to someone I really don’t want to see.”

“Jamie -”

“What?” Jamie asked as she looked over at him, “Nick, don’t right now because I’m already nervous and I can’t take it. I’ll lose it alright. Just don’t.”

“What’s wrong?”

“Nothing. I’m going to see if they are going to buy my script. I’m nervous. I don’t need you trying to talk to me right now okay?” Jamie said looking at him, “Just not right now.”

“Okay.” Nick said as he turned around and sighed, leaning against the side of the elevator. Jamie looked back at the numbers when the elevator stopped on the fifth floor, and a older lady got on. Jamie moved over a little so that she could bring her walker in and Nick glanced back over at her whispering, “Can I go with you?”

“Are you out of your mind?” Jamie yelled as the old woman jumped, putting her hands over her ears. Jamie glared at the old woman and then looked over at him. Nick nodded his head yes and smiled and she looked away, “If you follow me I’m calling the cops.”

“Okay.” Nick said as the old woman stared over at Nick and then back at Jamie. Finally they hit the first floor and Jamie walked out of the elevator before the old woman with the walker could even move. Nick was stuck behind the old woman, trying to move and finally he walked up behind her, lifted her and her walker up and moved her out of the way. He started to run out of the hotel as the old woman started yelling at him. He looked around to see if he could see Jamie, but he couldn’t and she had already left.

“Fuck!” Nick yelled out loud as he looked around, seeing the old woman walking towards the doors with her walker, yelling at him, “Shit, I better go too.” As he walked over, getting a cab himself.

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“Uhh..” Jamie thought as she sunk down in the seat of the cab, while they were stuck in traffic. She rested her elbow on the side of the car door and put her hand over her eyes, trying not to cry, but she couldn’t help it.

She wiped her eyes, trying not to mess up her make up when the lady cab driver noticed to she was crying.

“Are you okay?”

“Yeah I’m fine.” Jamie said as she took a tissue out of her purse and looked in the mirror, checking her make up. She closed her mirror and looked back out the window and closed her eyes.

[[ 2000 ]]

“Hey!” Nick said as Jamie walked into the house that afternoon and Nick ran up to hug her and gave her a little kiss on the lips, “Whoa, what’s wrong?”

“Sick.”

“Still?”

“Yeah.” Jamie said, looking at him. He looked at her and could tell something else was wrong, “What?”

“What’s wrong?” Nick asked as Jamie started to walk into the living room and sat her backpack down. She walked over and sat down on the couch and Nick came in, sitting down beside her, “What’s wrong?”

“I went to the doctor today.” Jamie said as Nick looked at her.

“For your cold.”

“Yeah.” Jamie said as she sniffed again and then coughed, “I went for that.”

“Right, you get some medicine for that and that virus you’ve got?”

“Uh yeah.” Jamie said as she coughed again.

“What?” Nick asked as Jamie looked over at him and smiled a little, “What?”

“Well, I found something out.”

“Uh huh.”

“That I wasn’t expecting.” Jamie said as Nick stared at her.

“What Jamie? Just say it.” Nick said as Jamie looked down and back up at him.

“I’m pregnant.” Jamie said as Nick sat there looking at her, not saying anything, “I’m pregnant.”

“I heard you.” Nick said as he sat back on the couch. Jamie sat there looking around until she turned around staring at him, “You’re pregnant?”

“Yeah, it’s due umm November 28th I think he said.” Jamie said as she turned all the way around and looked at him, “I’m gonna have a baby. I didn’t have a virus. I just had morning sickness.”

“Morning sickness?”

“Yeah.”

“It has to be a mistake.”

“No, I’m pregnant. The doctor knows.” Jamie said as Nick stood up and started pacing around. Jamie turned around looking at him, wondering what was wrong with him, “What?”

“It’s mine right?”

“Huh?”

“The baby, it’s mine right?”

“How the hell could you ask me that?” Jamie asked him as Nick put both of his hands on his forehead, “Yes it’s yours.”

“Fuck.” Nick said as he looked down at her, “It’s mine?”

“Yes. What’s wrong?”

“What’s wrong?!?” Nick yelled as Jamie jumped a little, looking at him, “How in the hell can you ask what’s wrong?!?”

“I’m having a baby, not committing a crime.” Jamie said as she stood up.

“Same fucking thing.” Nick said as Jamie tilted her head a little, staring at him.

“Why are you acting like this?” Jamie asked as Nick stood there looking at her like she was stupid.

“Why am I acting like this? You got knocked up! That’s why I’m acting like this!” Nick said as Jamie looked in shock and moved up closer to him.

“I didn’t get pregnant by myself.” Jamie said, “Why are you acting like such a damn dickhead about this? After all the talks -”

“Fuck the talks.” Nick said as he rubbed his hands over his face, “God. You can’t have it.”

“What?”

“You can’t have it.”

“What the fuck are you talking about?” Jamie yelled as Nick walked up to her, putting his hands on her shoulders.

“You’re going to have an abortion.”

“I’m what?”

“You’re going to have an abortion. You can’t have this baby. There’s no way you can have it.” Nick said as he looked her in the eyes, “I can’t handle this right now. You’ve got to have an abortion.”

“Nick -”

“Yes.”

“I’m not having an abortion!” Jamie yelled as she moved his hands off of her, “You’re out of your fucking mind!”

“No fuck I’m not!” Nick yelled back, looking at her, “I can’t have a fucking baby right now. Everything was going perfect and then you go and get fucking pregnant!”

“Me? I went and got fucking pregnant?!?” Jamie yelled, looking at him, “If I remember correctly the night I got pregnant you came onto me because you said I looked so fucking cute playing with my hair!”

“It was then?”

“Yes it was.”

“You can’t have it.” Nick said as he looked at her, “Either you can listen to me or listen to a lawyer.”

“A lawyer?”

“Yeah.”

“A lawyer?”

“Yeah. You can’t have it Jamie. I know how much you wanted -”

“Me? We wanted. WE!” Jamie yelled at him as Nick rolled his eyes.

“You can’t have it. You’re getting an abortion. I don’t care how much you beg or plead, I can’t have a baby right now. It’s final.” Nick said looking at her as he turned around and walked out of the room.

“Ma’am, we’re here.”, the cab driver said as Jamie jumped and reached down, pulling out some money to pay her, “Are you sure you’re okay?”

“Yeah I’m fine.” Jamie said as she smiled a little and stepped out of the cab, looking up at the building as she wiped a tear away, “I’m perfect.”