Chapter XIX-Are You Coming?

"Come with me? Please. Don't you trust me?" Tim asked Kris with a puppy-dog face. His voice seemed a little hoarse.

"Last time I went somewhere with you Junior broke up with me. I am not going to screw things up with him anymore."-Kris crossed her arms in from of her chest.

"Anymore? You two are having problems." The second he said that he regretted it. Junior had just walked in. He didn't want to screw things up for Kris, he accepted that they were just friends and he wanted to…well I won't spoil that.

Junior looked at Tim, then at Kris. "What's going on?" Kris had no idea what to say so she blurted out the truth.

"I don't know. Tim just showed up and he wants me to go somewhere with him. Don't get mad Junior. I swear I didn't ask him to come here."-Kris felt the pressure building up and then she felt a hot tear stream down her face. Junior couldn't get mad at her. He held her head close to him and told her everything was okay. "Relax Kris. It's okay. Calm Down." Junior tried to calm her down and then he looked at Tim; "I swear she didn't ask me to come over. I will explain. You can come with us if you want Junior." Tim said trying not to look at Junior.

Junior put his arm around Kris as they sat on the bed. She rested her head against his chest. Tim sat at the table eager to explain his story.

"Kris; I don't know if you remember but when you turned 13 you said you wanted to plan a whole weekend for when you turned 20. I know I am a little late but I have plane tickets to New York. You want to go?" Tim held up two round trip plane tickets for New York. "Junior I know how special you are to Kris and I would love buy you a ticket to come with us." Kris still looked confused.

"I don't want to intrude on your planned vacation. Thanks anyway. You two have fun." –Kris could tell Junior didn't want her going alone so she lied.

"No, no. This wasn't a planned thing. I was talking about things I might want to go when I got older. It wasn't like a pact or something that we made."-Kris shot a glance at Tim as to say go with it. Tim picked it up right away.

"So what's planned? I think I could make it." Junior said with a smile hugging Kris tight.

"We are going to go to get tattoos and then we are going Bungee Jumping off the Ronkonkoma Bridge. Then I figured we could hang out at the waterfall for a party my friend is having and by Lake Ronkonkoma and River."-Tim said very excited; although his voice was still very hoarse.

"Are you okay? Does your throat hurt or something?"-Kris asked curiously. She had a concerned face and was looking at Tim.

"Yea; I am fine. It's just…"-Tim was interrupted by someone bursting through the trailer door.

Sabrina and Matt burst in. They were both smiling and then Matt asked if they wanted to go to the club tonight. Sabrina's smile faded however when she saw Tim. "Tim what are you doing here? You're supposed to stay home. Did you tell Kris? The doctor said…"-Sabrina started firing questions at her brother like she was the older one.

"Doctor? What doctor? Tim, are you alright? What's going on?"-Kris didn't know what was going on and she just wanted to know.

"Oh, sorry. I thought you had told her. If you aren't here to tell her then what are you doing here?" after a long pause she realized why he was here. "Oh, her birthday weekend. Are you sure you are up for that."-Sabrina asked. She knew this weekend was important to her brother.

"Yea; I am definitely up for it. So, are you guys coming?" He then looked at Kris. "Are you coming?"

"Yeah; yeah I am coming."-Kris knew that this was important to him. She would find out what was wrong. In the mean time though, she wanted to make him happy.