Chapter Five: Did Someone Just Say Party?

"Jeeze, munchies much?!" I exclaimed, seeing AJ and Kreed wolf down a bunch of food. I had a coffee, a plate of grapes and ONE donut and they basically had everything in catering. Yeah, it was pretty disturbing.

AJ looked up at me, giggling with a mouth full and nodded.

"You guys are such freaks..." I shook my head, muttering.

"Well, you know," Kreed spoke up, after swallowing his food. "When you didn't get your breakfast right away and have to train for about an hour or two, you'd be hungry too."

"True," I agreed. The two of them easily became my friends now that they knew I was going to be working with them.

I pulled out my cell phone and started texting Cassie: 'Hey, you still there?'

I sent it after I was done, and then put it on the table.

"Who you talkin' to?" AJ asked me.

"My sister, Cassie; just seeing if she's ready for her debut." I answered him.

"Oh, I see," he replied. "You guys nervous?"

"Not even!" I exclaimed. "Quite the opposite."

The brunette smiled, proudly. "Well that's definitely a good thing; keep it up."

My phone vibrated. Cassie replied.

'Yeah, I was just going backstage real quick and had a strange run-in.'

I made a confused face. 'Strange run-in? What do you mean?' Sent.

"What was that face about?" AJ asked me, poking fun.

I looked up at him. "Oh nothing, haha."

That's when I saw Johnny slowly start to creep up on Kreed. He looked at me and gave me the signal not to say anything. He smiled widely. With both hands, Johnny covered up Kreed's eyes. And using the most girly/fruity voice I've ever heard a guy use he said, "Peek-a-boo! Guess who!"

A grin spread across Kreed's face; he knew. "Ahh, sweet cheeks! You're here!"

Johnny laughed and ruffled his hair. "Yeah, whatever, you fag! Haha. What're you guys up to?"

"Not much, just chowin' down." AJ responded.

"Just watchin' them chow down." I chuckled.

"Why; didn't you eat?" the blonde asked me.

"Let's just say I had a sliver of cake compared to them having the whole thing." I created a mental picture for him.

"Well, a man's gotta eat, right?"

"True, true." I agreed. "So, where's your love-bug?"

"Locker room; gettin' ready for tonight."

"Ahh," I nodded. "Same with Cassie."

"Yeah, speaking of you guys," Johnny brought up a new topic. "Kris and I were planning to go out later after the show. You wanna come along?"

"Oh, definitely!"

"Heyyyy, what about us?" Kreed chimed in.

"Uhmm, I meant you guys too, duhh." Johnny laughed. "As much as I love Kris and well, her new friends, I really don't want to be surrounded by a bunch of chicks all night."

"Ohh, that's harsh, dude." AJ said, jokingly. He looked at me. "You gonna take that?"

I shrugged, smiling some. "If I was in his position, I'd probably think the same thing, haha."

"Eh, alrighty, haha." AJ shrugged.

"Yeah, so after the show, let's all meet up in the parking lot, alright?" Johnny planned.

"Good deal." I agreed to it.

"Okay, later guys!" Johnny said, before leaving us.

"Later!" I replied. I picked up my cell again to continue talking with Cassie and saw she replied.

'It was Chris Parks; you know, Abyss? Yeah I saw him just hurting himself with glass. Then I tried helping him, but he just ran off from me.'

That is strange. First Ricky, and now this. Weird.