Chapter Thirteen
Jan followed Nicole inside Sami's apartment, sighing loudly to let Nicole know she wasn't happy about having to do this.
"Why do we have to talk to her?" Jan complained, "She's Belle's sister. Anyone related to Belle deserves to burn in hell, just like Belle does."
Nicole flashed her accomplice a dirty look, "Don't even say that. Brady is her half-brother and Marlena is your shrink. It's one thing to hate Belle but it's another thing to hate all things related to her."
"I can't believe she and Shawn got back together." Jan grumbled, "You know what I heard them talking about the other day? Belle was practically begging him to let her give him a blow-job. 'But my sister and Rex don't think it's sex, so it's not. Please, Shawn, don't make me wait any longer.'" Jan mimicked her, "She's such a loser, she probably wouldn't even know how to do it."
"Enough of that." Nicole scolded Jan, "I am trying to get Sami on my good side and you're not going to help anything if she overhears you saying stuff like that about her little sister."
Jan wrinkled her nose, "Why would you want to get on her good side?" she asked.
"It's not that I want to, I have to." Nicole explained in a condescending tone, "We've already been over this but I'll explain it again. If Sami falls for Lucas, he gets my car. Therefore, I must act all buddy-buddy with Sami so I can encourage her to stay away from Lucas."
"Isn't that cheating?" Jan wondered.
"No, it's not cheating." Nicole looked exasperated, "Lucas is doing the same thing! Just the other day, he was over talking to Brady and he said the most horrible things about me. He called me an insane Barbie doll! Then, he compared me to Cheeswhiz, because he said, even though I'm one chemical away from being plastic, I'm still around to eat when there's nothing left anywhere else."
"You know, that's kind of funny." Jan stared at Nicole incredulously, "I don't know where he gets it from though. You're too small to be fake."
"Jan!" Nicole screeched indignantly.
"No, I didn't mean it like that. I just meant, if they were fake, then they would be humongous. But they're not, they're just regular sized." Jan said quickly.
Nicole calmed down and shook her head, "Sometimes, I really do wonder about you, Jan."
Jan ignored her and plopped down on the couch. Her leg hit something which was lodged between the couch cushions and she moved over to see what it was. Picking up a small book, she flipped through it and she suddenly realized it was a diary. Since Sami was Belle's sister and Jan was still outraged about Belle getting Shawn back, Jan flipped to one of the last entries in the book without giving a thought to Sami's privacy.
Dear Diary,
Every time I close my eyes to sleep, I dream about Lucas. Ever since I saw him naked in the cave, I can't think about anything else. But now, every time I think about him, I wind up needing to take a cold shower.
The diary entry ended abruptly and a sneaky smile flitted across Jan's face. She could have fun with this. Lots and lots of fun, as long as Nicole didn't find out. She watched Nicole out of the corner of her eye, who had her back turned to Jan. Jan quickly tore the diary entry out of the book and left the rest of the diary lying on the couch, face up and still open.
Jan stood up with the piece of paper in her hand, "I just remembered I have to go do something. See you later, Nicole." Nicole watched as Jan left the apartment with a piece of paper in her hand. She looked at the open diary and picked it up curiously. She went to the last page and started reading out loud.
"Dear Diary, every time I see Lucas now, I just keep thinking about what happened in the limo." Nicole continued to read the diary entry in her head, then dropped the book in disgust.
"Ew, Sami, that's like written porno!" she exclaimed, "Just because you and Lucas did that, does not mean you need to describe it in such depth and then leave the writing out in the open for everyone to read."
"I didn't." Sami said as she walked through the door to her apartment, the cold, angry tone of her voice causing Nicole to jump in surprise, "Wait, you're right. I started writing a couple of nights ago and I forgot about the diary completely. I never should have left it in between the couch cushions, not with Lucas living here."
"I don't think Lucas is the person you have to worry about right now." Nicole said wryly, remembering the paper in Jan's hand.
"What do you mean?" Sami asked, her eyes widening with unconcealed fear.
"I mean, Jan just took part of your diary with her. And she's not in a very good mood so there's no telling what she plans on doing with it."
"She did?" Sami shrieked, "Nicole, we have to stop her! Come on, help me find her before half of Salem sees what I wrote in my diary."
"We?" Nicole questioned snottily, then remembered she was supposed to be getting on Sami's good side. Besides, if everyone reads whatever Sami wrote, everyone is probably going to realize that Sami has feelings for Lucas. Then I'll lose my car.
"Okay, let's go." Nicole grabbed Sami's arm and yanked her outside the apartment and down the hall. The two of them got into Nicole's car and began driving down the streets of Salem.
"Do you know where she's going to be?" Sami asked anxiously, craning her neck to see if she could spot a head of dark, curly hair.
"I have no idea." Nicole said helplessly, then remembered her PDA. She pulled it out of her pocket and handed it to Sami.
"Send Jan a message and ask her where she is." Nicole ordered Sami as she drove down another street, looking for signs of Jan.
Sami sent the message, then stared at Jan's reply in horror, "What? What did she say?" Nicole demanded.
"She said she was just at the library because......." Sami took a deep breath, "Because she needed to use the photocopying machine."
"Damn her!" Nicole said angrily, pounding on the steering wheel with one hand, "She's just supposed to be my minion, not have a mind of her own!"
Jan had left the library by the time Sami and Nicole got there. There was no sign of her on the streets, so Nicole started up her car and began driving down nearby streets, trying to find her.
They had been driving for an hour and a half when they finally spotted Jan, walking along the sidewalk outside Sami's apartment building. Nicole pulled over and once Sami had rolled her window down, Nicole glared at Jan.
"Jan Spears, get into this car right this second!" Nicole said, her voice tight and strained with anger. Jan noticed the look on Sami's face and tried walk away but Sami opened her door and yanked Jan inside the tiny sports car.
"You're not going anywhere." Sami closed the door and Nicole and Sami both looked at Jan expectantly.
"What?" Jan asked innocently as Sami fought back the urge to strangle her.
"You know what you did. What were you doing with Sami's diary?" Nicole asked, her eyes turning into angry slits.
"What do you mean?" Jan tried to continue playing innocent but the glares she was receiving from both Nicole and Sami eventually caused her to back down, "I kind of put your diary entry about you and Lucas in a whole bunch of people's mailboxes." she admitted.
"You little bitch." before Sami could inflict the amount of physical pain she wanted to on the younger woman, Nicole stopper her.
"Hey, don't kill her. She might still be useful to me someday. However," Nicole turned her attention to Jan, "You should never have tried to cause trouble for me and Sami."
"How does it cause trouble for you?" Sami demanded.
"Lucas is already way too conceited, "And if the entry Jan stuck in everyone's mailboxes is anything like that entry about your limo ride, then he's going to be even more intolerable!" Nicole explained.
"What limo ride?" Jan looked interested, "The entry I took out was about a cave."
Sami winced, "Oh God, not that one. You are going to pay for this someday, I mean it."
"Apologize to Sami, Jan." Nicole instructed Jan, who mumbled a half-hearted apology, then handed a wad of papers to Sami.
"There should be about thirty there. I didn't get around to putting those in mailboxes yet." Jan told her.
"How many photocopies did you make?" Sami asked nervously.
Jan swallowed hard and scooted further away from Sami, although it was pretty hard to do in such a small vehicle, "A hundred."
"A hundred?" Sami exploded, "What is wrong with you? Do you have no life? Why would you do that to me, I never did anything to you!"
"I have my reasons." Jan returned testily.
"Or maybe you're just a lunatic." Sami shot back.
"You're the lunatic."
"I'm not the who follows Nicole around like a dog!"
"Well, I'm not the one who's Belle's sister!" Jan practically screamed.
"Quit it, you two." Nicole interrupted, "We have to get all those papers back before people start checking their mailboxes. Jan, where do we start?"
Jan pointed down a street lined with modern, two-story homes, "I got every house on that street, so maybe we should go there first." Nicole never lets me have any fun anymore and she's not even helping me get Shawn, Jan thought, And what is Sami's problem? I never follow Nicole around like a dog. I guess I'll just conveniently forget to tell them where I just finished leaving one of the diary entries. Smiling to herself as she imagined Sami and Nicole's reaction when she told them, Jan slumped down against the seat of the Lambourgini and prepared to spend the rest of the night removing papers from people's mailboxes.