"Oshai, you don't understand."
"Yes, I do. I have to go, rehearsals," I tell her.
"Whatever," she angrily replies.
I hear a click and the line goes dead, my cell phone display reading 'Call Ended 9:37'. "Fuck me sideways."
"Nah, I'll pass," Justin jokes.
I glare at him after dropping my phone into my bag. "Not now."
It dawns on him immediately-I just had a fight over the phone with my baby sister AGAIN. I'll call her in a little bit, next break. Before I even get a bite of my food on my fork, my phone screams at me. I look at the caller ID, knowing something's wrong once I see who it is. The second I pick up, I'm greeted a bit unconventionally. "I know I was being stubborn and a bitch."
"Oshannie, you wouldn't be yourself if you were any different. Are you going to tell me why you're so secretive?"
"No, but I will tell you that I love you and that I should listen to you more often."
"I doubt you will," I say, a smirk on my face.
"You're making it hard to do this," she whines.
"I love fucking with you!" I tell her, chuckling. "I have to get a rise out of you at some point." I lick my lips.
"Samantha Marilyn!" I hear Fatima yell at her.
"Gotta go! Talk later!" she rattles off, disconnecting our call.
Wade pushes us to our max once we wolfed our food.
~~~~~
We take another break and it's now about five or six. "JC! Your phone has been ringing since we started rehearsing 'Digital'," Wade informs me. That would explain why he kept glaring at my bag.
I check who called-AJ, Nick, Heather, mom, dad, Howie, Brian, Kevin, Aaron, and my baby sister. It rings again. "Hello?" I didn't wait to see who's name came up.
"Can you hear me out?" Nick.
"What?" I ask, pinching the bridge of my nose and sitting back on the couch.
"I swear someone just threatened Sam."
"What?!" I snap up in my seat and glare at Justin. "What was said?"
~~~~~
Once I found out who it was without alerting anyone else in the group, I pulled Justin aside. "Justin, why would your cousin threaten my sister?" I ask, keeping it quiet.
"That's a good question. What was the threat about?"
"Her being near Nick from the Backstreet Boys."
"She works with him, so she can't stay away from him. Let me call Rach and see what's up with this," he tells me, pulling out his cell phone. After a minute or two of silence in the bus lounge, he finally speaks. "Rach! Hey!" He plays coy. "Actually, yes, I do have something wrong. Not me exactly. No, more along the lines of JC's baby sister and a coworker/employer of hers. Nick Carter. Yeah. Not what we understand. You threatened her and said to keep away from him is what we were informed." He begins drumming his fingers on the wall next to him, his eyes like a raging fire. He listens to what she's saying, his jaw tensing in anger. His hand slams flat against the wall with a loud SMACK. I admit I jumped. "She works for him! She is paired with him! She has no choice! Caylei, I understand doing shit like this, but you? I thought you were over this stage! What? No, it's called high school drama! You have proof? I didn't think so. Oh, the tabloids say it? They are full of shit! They say I have a secret love child from when I was 15!" He doesn't move as his cousin argues her side of the matter. He clenches his jaw and growls, "Just leave her alone." After that he hangs up and throws his phone across the lounge like a hockey player would slap shot a puck, hitting beside the door as Lance comes to join us and small fragments hit the side of his face.
"Whoa, Justin! You almost took my head off with that! What was it?" he quickly rambles off, emphasizing 'was'.
"My phone. No, I don't want it fixed and no, I don't want a new one. Drama, bullshit and media."
"What about your mom?"
"She and the rest of my family can reach me through one of you or my email." I glance at him, recovering from the shock of his destructive anger and I observe him sitting with his arms crossed, slouching down on the couch.
"Why did she do it and what had Caylei said?" I ask.
"Caylei had told my cousin," he says, rolling his eyes at the mention of the specific trouble maker, "that JazzBean seemed to be avoiding physical and eye contact with Nick when they were filming the Disney special. So Rach told her to stay away from Nick or she would personally fly to wherever JazzBean is and kick her ass. Supposedly she had done it because it's what 'felt like the right thing to do'."
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