Chapter Seven

"Hey Phil, what goes on?" Nick greeted as Phil answered the door.

Phil just stared blankly as he entered, "Why are you here?"asked a surprised Phil as he answered the door for Nick.

"For the warmth?" Nick offered sarcastically.

"Why aren't you with Hannah?" he asked baffled.

"Well because she's engaged to Big Cat. Why are you a step behind everyone else?" Nick asked genuinely irritated that his friend would rub Hannah's engagement in.

" I mean why aren't you up in Fitchburg with Hannah? Aren't you and Ikey meant to be helping her with her grandmother's thing today?" Phil asked sitting down on his beaten up couch.

"No that's not until next week. I'm really looking forward to it too." He smiled nodding.

"But...but Eddie left early this morning to meet you guys there." Phil's eyes widened.

"Why would he do that?" he laughed.

"Well, because you said that there was going to be food!" Phil ridiculed.

Nick's eyes widened too, now "Oh my God! Are you serious?"

"Go! Go get him back!" Phil hurried him out the door.

"I'm going, I'm going!" Nick said stumbling on the porch steps and getting into his car.

Out the corner of his eye he saw Phil laughing.

Bastard.

5 minutes later on the road

"Hey Hannah! You will not believe what has happened. Eddie is headed to Fitchburg as we speak. Phil said he left early this morning. Meet me at the corner of Eden and Memorial. I'll explain everything. Okay, bye." Nick finished snapping his phone shut. Then he opened it again and dialled a different number.

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"Dammit, Eddie. Pick up. Pick up!" Nick cursed. He saw Hannah standing on the corner of the road so he slowed down and pulled over. Man she was beautiful. "Get in!" he bellowed.

"Nick what the hell is going on?" she asked in a worried tone.

"Get in! I'll explain later."

She quickly climbed into the passenger seat and they drove off hitting the I84.

When they were finally on the interstate Hannah spoke up.

"So, tell me. What's going on?" she demanded.

"Eddie is in Fitchburg. He thought that we were going up there this weekend." He gushed.

"What? That's crazy! Why would he do that?" she said with an incredulous smile.

"Did you try calling him?"

"Yeah, I did but he's out of range." He said smiling. Man it felt nice to have her in his car again. It felt even nicer to see her smile.

"It doesn't matter why he did it, the point is, he can't see your grandmother's basement without us!" he exclaimed.

Her eyes grew wide and she began to laugh, "Oh my God I totally forgot about that! We have to get there and fast. Step on it! We have to get there!" she hurried him.

"Hannah I'm going as fast as humanly possible! I'm surprised we haven't been pulled over yet." he said laughing.

Just then he glanced in his rear view mirror and saw red and blue lights flashing. "Oh crap!" he grimaced pulling over to the side.