A/N: Ok!!! Another chapter for you, guys. I hope you like it. Actually I'll post some more chapters 'cause I'll travel next week and I'll be out of town for 2 weeks, so no updates for 2 weeks. Sad, I know, but I really need a break. And I'll ask you one little thing: REVIEWS!!! I'm getting some stories alerts and I'm sooo happy 'cause of that, but I really need to know what you're thinking 'bout it, ok? So, after my trip, I'll post more chapters as long as I get reviews. Fair enough, huh? =). Oh, and thanks so much Jocelyn for reading and reviewing it. To that note, enjoy it!!! o/
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The alarm clock of the cell phone rang and the only thing that Allison could think was how the hours could pass so fast. She opened her eyes, still laid down, and looked at the ceiling for a few seconds. One thing she realized was that she didn't have those nightmares. She didn't dream that she was running along a dark aisle full of doors and didn't wake up screaming and sweating as usual. For the first time in a long time her dreams were soft and she slept like a baby. While thinking about that, she gave a light smile, stretched and turned her head over and saw that her friend was still asleep, all covered by the quilt. She picked up her cell phone and saw that was 6:30 AM. She stood up and while passing by her friend's bed, she lightly touched her foot, which was out of the quilt. Juliana moved and murmured something incomprehensible. Allison laughed and teased her again. The blond shrank and raised her head. Her hair was a mess and Allison found that funny.
"Hm?", Juliana said with a lazy voice, "Is it already time to wake up?", she rubbed her eyes with her hands.
"Yeah, sleeping beauty. We have to put ourselves in order and take our breakfast if we want to get there early", the red-hair woman went towards the bathroom.
"Gee, Allie", and Juliana threw herself back in the bed. "We have the gold tickets, in other words, even though we arrive late, we'll be able to sit down in the front rows"
"All right then. If you wanna take a rushed breakfast, remain laid", and Allison turned on the shower.
"Ugh!". Juliana covered her face with the sheets and closed her eyes.
Allison pulled off her pajamas and got in the shower. For the first time in a long time she felt really good; nothing of sad thoughts about what was happening or a similar thing. She had the impression that that day was going to be special, but she didn't know exactly why. She just felt that. She took her shower usually while Juliana decided if it was worthwhile to stand up now or not. The red-hair woman left the shower and got back to the room. Her friend now was sitting down on the bed with a tired face. Allison sat down on her bed and dried her hair with the towel.
"Nightmares?", the red-hair woman asked while she passed the towel over her hair.
"Nah. Just tired", Juliana passed her hands over her face.
"I'm the one who drank and you're the one who's tired? Oh, it's true; Richard mustn't have left you alone last night, huh?", and the red-hair woman laughed. Juliana just gave a weak smile in answer.
The blond got up and went to the bathroom, crawling her feet. Allison continued putting herself in order while her friend took a shower. She put a pair of jeans with low waist, a black tank top, boots and a jacket. She looked at herself in the mirror and decided that it was ok. It wasn't very "preppy" and neither it was messed up. She put her earrings, passed colorless mascara in her eyelashes, a gloss over her lips and some perfume. She was feeling really good and that reflected in her face. Her eyes had a different brightness and she was asking herself why she was feeling like this when her friend got out from the bathroom and begun to put herself in order as well. When both finished, they went downstairs to take their breakfast. Nothing unusual happened there. Both took their coffees with no rush, since they had extra minutes and Juliana thanked her girlfriend for that. A thing that she hates is to eat in a hurry.
Allison caught herself thinking about the boy of the last night. She was dying of curiosity to know how he looked and today certainly that would happen, since the place would be quite illuminated. And to have more certainty, Allison remembered putting her contacts lenses today. The red-hair woman really had liked the boy and the only thing that she remembered was that the guy was really tall. And she reminded of his voice as well. Allison knew that she had already heard that voice somewhere, but, no matter how much she tried to remember, she couldn't. She was thinking about it when both finished their breakfast and went towards the place where the breakfast with Jensen and Jared would be. The place was not very large and was already almost full. Both went in the woman's direction who seemed to be the receptionist and gave their names to her. The girl took them up to one of the first rows and both they sat down. From there, they could see perfectly the whole small stage ahead. It was probably there that the boys would stay.
Allison didn't stop looking around the place, looking for the mysterious guy, but didn't see anybody who was as tall as him. She was looking at the face of all the boys that she saw, but they didn't seem to recognize her and neither were waiting for someone. The red-hair woman started to think that he wouldn't show up and gave up searching him, but that wouldn't mess up her day. They still had many things to do and Allison promised herself that today her thoughts wouldn't disturb her. She still had the feeling that something good was going to happen today.
"Did you find him?", Juliana whispered in her friend's ear.
"No. I looked at all the guys that are here and none of them seemed to recognize me", Allison said, straightening up in the chair. They were sitting down in the second row and had a very good view of the stage. Juliana looked at her sadly and Allison smiled. "Hey, this isn't the end of the world, girl", and the red-hair woman gave a slap on her friend's leg, "We'll wait for the boys and we'll have a blast with them today again". Juliana nodded and both started to talk about anything.
They were talking when a man showed up at the stage and all the attendees were silent. He took a glance over the stage, checked out some things and soon later he turned to the attendees. He got close to one of the microphones, gave some slaps on it and cleared his throat.
"Can you hear me?", he asked.
"Yeaaaaah!", all of the audience answered including Allison and Juliana. This one was all excited of so much happiness for being able to see Jensen and Jared closely again.
"Well, first of all, good morning everybody", and the audience answered a good morning. "Hope that you're all recovered from the party last night and not having a hangover", everybody laughed, "The boys are already here and I want you receive them with those claps that only you can do. Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki, peopleeeeeee", and with that, the boys came in and go up at the stage under applause and screams.
Allison had forgotten how the girls could be hysterical when they want. That was worse than the party last night, because now she was in the middle of the uproar. She clapped and smiled while seeing the boys coming in and going up to the stage, because she liked to see them together; Jensen with his shyness and Jared compensating it with his extroversion. She thought it was weird, but when she saw Jared going up to the stage, she noticed that he looked at her for a few seconds. She shook her head and thought that this was really an absurd. He should be looking at the audience.
"Good morning, guys", Jared said, as soon as he reached one of the microphones and that made Allison be in shock. She was recognizing that voice! The audience answered a good morning and Jared smiled. "Are you OK?", the audience answered yes and every time Jared was speaking, Allison was thinking that she already had heard this voice, without being in the series or in the other breakfast of which the boys took part.
"What's up Birmingham!", Jensen said, in his reserved way of being. Juliana was jumping on the chair every time she was hearing his voice.
Allison kept on looking attentively at Jared while all this was happening and frowned sometimes. She thought she was starting to go nuts!! She thought that the voice that came from the mysterious boy of last night was similar to Jared's voice. Too similar and that made the red-hair woman be totally motionless while everyone around her were moving, clapping, screaming or laughing. Juliana noticed how her friend was quiet and looked at her as if she was an alien. Allison noticed that and looked back at her friend. The red-hair woman was with her eyes wide open because of what she was thinking and she remained in silence for a few seconds up to which the blond decided to speak.
"Allie, what happened?"
"Nothing, is just that...". Allison heard Jared's voice once again and now she looked back at him with her eyes wide open. She saw him looking at her again and, believe, smiling towards her!! They were sitting down in their chairs and Jared was looking straight at Allison with a smirk on his lips. The red-hair woman shook her head lightly and looked at her friend again. "Julie, I think that I already know who the mysterious boy is"
"Really?? Where's he??". Juliana was looking around the place, thinking who could be the guy.
"In front of you, Julie", Allison almost whispered, since the audience was silent, listening to something the boys were saying. Juliana looked at the stage and didn't understand anything.
"In front of me are Jensen and Jared, Allie. What you mean about...", and the question was lost on her friend's lips, because the red-hair woman threw a significant glance to her. Juliana looked at the boys and then looked at her friend, and did that a few times up to realizing what Allison wanted to say. "No way!!!", and Juliana put one of her hands over her mouth. The red-hair woman only nodded and kept on looking at her friend. "You mean that the mysterious guy is one of the boys??", the blond said this sentence slowly, while the audience was laughing at something that Jensen and Jared had said. Allison nodded again.
"It's Jared, for being right", and the red-hair woman looked at him again. Jared was looking at Jensen this time and didn't see Allison's incredulity face.
"How can you be so sure?", Juliana whispered on her friend's ear.
"Because I recognized his voice and, Julie, he was tall! As tall as Jared!", Allison said that without taking her eyes away from Jared, who kept on looking at Jensen while that one was saying something.
"My God! Allie! Is it me, or Jared just smiled at you?". Juliana was looking at the stage too and saw when Jared looked at Allison and smiled at her again.
"He already did that some three times to tell the truth". Allison wasn't very happy about knowing who the mysterious guy was. Actually, she was very annoyed knowing that he deceived her. This was the only thing she could think. The red-hair woman kept on looking at Jared, but she didn't smile back. She noticed when the smile disappeared from the brunet's lips and he nodded. Allison didn't know what this meant, but didn't stop looking at him.
"Are you going there talk to him after this breakfast thing?"
"And why should I go?". Allison looked at her friend, serious.
"Because you two have a date, don't you remember?". Juliana looked at her friend as if she was crazy.
"I do, but I also remember that I don't like being deceived, Julie", and Allison crossed her arms on her chest.
"What?". Juliana didn't understand what her friend wanted to say.
"Julie", Allison passed her hand through her hair, "why he didn't tell me since the beginning who he was? Why he was hidden in the dark and didn't tell me he was Jared Padalecki?", the red-hair woman was really bothered. She wasn't seeing motives for him to deceive her.
Juliana didn't answer anything because she didn't know what to answer. She knew that her friend had some reason in what she was saying. Allison wasn't bothered about the fact Jared didn't say he was a famous actor, and yes about the act itself. She turned to look at the stage and Jared was answering a question that someone asked him. He was wearing a pair of jeans, a black shirt with buttons opened to the half of his chest and a black beret. He had a small beard and the red-hair woman couldn't help but think how adorable he was. She closed her eyes and while hearing Jared speaking, she could swear that she heard the boy last night speaking. It was the same kind of voice, the same kind of laughter. It was him, but she needed to be sure of that. It was with that thought that she opened up her eyes and raised her hand. Juliana looked at her, frightened, and the red-hair woman only showed the palm of her other hand asking the blond to await.
"Do we have other question here?", the guy that was next to the stage asked to Allison and she got up. Jensen and Jared looked at her and the brunet gave her a small smile.
"Hi, my name's Allison and I have a question for Jared", she was looking at him without blinking.
"Hi, Allison. I'm Jared from Texas. And LA, and Vancouver, and I don't have a question for you. Maybe later...", Jared said, smiling, and the audience bursted out laughing, including Allison and Juliana. "Shoot". He was with his legs crossed and put one of his arms on one of his legs. The brunet also looked at Allison without blinking. He was curious about what she was going to ask.
The red-hair woman was thinking about what she was going to ask. She really raised her hand for impulse and didn't have a question formulated in her mind. She'd have to ask something that only she and the boy would know, thus she would be sure whether Jared was or not the mysterious man. She kept on thinking for a few seconds about it, when something passed in her mind and she gave a small smile.
"Jared, what would you say to a psychologist who you just met and you don't want her to start analyzing you?". Allison was still smiling when she finished the question and heard some people asking "What? What she meant with that? " around her. While hearing the question, Jared smiled too and passed his hands through his hair.
Juliana didn't understand what her friend wanted to do and gave a tug in Allison's hand, which was freed of the touch. Jared straightened on the chair and the audience was silent, waiting for the answer. Both didn't stop looking at each other, up to which the brunet finally started to say something.
"I probably would say that I had no problems with my mother and I wasn't some kind of freak", and he laughed while speaking, as well as the audience.
Allison didn't know if she was relieved because she finally knew that Jared was the mysterious man or if she was shocked. The only thing she did was sit down again on the chair while the audience was still laughing. Jared kept on looking at the red-hair woman while another person started to ask a question to Jensen. Allison, seeing that Jared was still looking at her, asked, only moving her lips and making no sound, "it was you?" and he only nodded in answer, giving a smile which showed his dimples. Now the woman was sure that it was him. She had been talking to Jared Padalecki the whole time and she didn't know it. Why did she have forgotten her contact lenses last night? Well, she always forget to wear them, then that wasn't a big deal. But just that night?
"What was that??", Juliana asked, pulling Allison away from her thoughts.
"It's him, Julie", the red-hair woman looked at her friend and was with an indefinite expression. "Jared's the mysterious man"
"Why are you so sure of this now?"
"Because only that guy could answer what I asked, and Jared answered!!". Allison looked at her friend as if she was some retarded.
"Oh, then this was the reason of your totally weird question? That's good, because I was already thinking you were nuts". Juliana gave a laughter and turned to pay attention to the boys.
Allison thought that this conversation was ended and turned to look at Jared. He looked at her, inquisitive, because he wanted to know what was passing through the red-hair woman's mind now that she knew about everything. He saw the woman talk several times with her friend and made weird faces, as if she was bothered or something like that. Actually, since he entered that place he kept an eye on her. He saw every Allison's reaction. "So, that's her name", he thought while looking at her. He knew that it wasn't nice not telling her since the beginning who he was, but he didn't want to mess up such a wonderful night with details with no importance. He would do anything to make it up to her, after all, they have a date, don't they?
And the rest of the event went on this way, with Jared and Allison looking and smiling at each other sometimes and the red-hair woman wasn't so pissed at him anymore. It's not because he was Jared Padalecki, the famous actor and everything, but yes because she had already decided not to get upset about small things; and that was a small thing for her. Certainly he must have had his reasons for not telling her who he was and the red-hair woman had to respect that. Allison was thinking about it, when she heard the boys saying goodbye to the audience and leaving the place. The woman was a little sad while seeing that they were going away, but she got happy because, at least, she had a nice night as last night.
Both friends stayed a little at the place until most people had left. When they were getting up to go away, a tall and strong guy came near them. He was wearing a black suit and was with an electronic point in his ear. Allison thought he was one of the security guards.
"Are you Allison?", the red-hair woman just nodded in answer and looked at him, curious. "Someone asked me to hand over this paper to you", the huge man spread a paper out and as soon as Allison picked it, the man went away.
She was there, motionless, looking at the paper. She gave a smile while reading what was written and Juliana went next to her friend.
"What is written? Who gave you that?", Juliana asked, pulling her hair in a pony-tail.
"It seems that our mysterious man's requesting our date". Allison kept on smiling and gave the paper for her friend to read. The blond read and also gave a smile. It was written: "Dear Allison, you still owe me a date. I hope you haven't forgotten. Meet me on 1 PM at the hotel reception, so I'll be able to show you that I don't have problems with my mother. Oh yes, and also I'm not any freak. Hugs, mysterious boy. Or it would be better Jared?"
"And he's also witty. Are you going?", Juliana asked, giving back the paper to her friend and looking at her.
"Sure. I want to know why he didn't tell me anything about who he was"
"Are you sure you're going only 'cause of that?". Juliana looked at her and smirked.
"What do you mean, Julie?", Allison asked while going towards the exit.
"You know very well what I mean", and Juliana lightly hit her friend's arm. Allison rolled her eyes.
"Ugh, you and your perverted mind! Behave, Julie", and both laughed.