Okay you guys, I am UBER SORRY, I know I haven't updated since before the finale of the show, and most of you probably thought i had given up on it, BUT I'm back. ONE THOUSAND APOLOGIES MY LOYAL READERS! I swear I had THE worst case of writer's block EVER, everything I wrote was B-A-D bad! so now, you have a bit of a filler, things will be picking up speed in the next chapter I promise!
Wait, New York City, New York?" Amber asked in shock.
Nina nodded, "Look at the license plates, on the cars, we're in the Unites States,"
"Oh my God," Patricia said, staring up at her surroundings.
They flooded out of the ally, and stood on the sidewalk taking everything in for a moment.
"What do we do now?" Alfie asked, watching people go by.
"Go shopping," Amber said defiantly.
Everyone looked at her with a skeptical glance.
"We may have just been abducted from our home, and told our life's a lie, but I'm not walking around in pj's when we're in NYC, and have a charge card," she said.
It was a pretty convincing argument, so they decided to get some clothes, and something to eat. They walked down the streets. Now in any regular place in England, eight teenagers walking down the street in sleep ware would have gotten many odd looks, but they weren't in England. They were in New York City, which was already plentiful with freakier people.
Amber lead lead the way to the fashion district, and though she had never been to the city, had a natural sense of direction when it came to clothing. They stopped in the first boutique that had a men's and women's section.
You would have never guessed the eight of them had just been through so much by looking at Amber. Tragedy or not she was having the time of her life shopping in New York. She pulled Nina off in every which direction, throwing things off the racks at her. Patricia went of towards the purple, gray, and black, goth style clothing, while Mara sifted though everything for the most conservative items she could find. The guys went off to look for something for themselves, not quite excited for it at all.
"Amber, how can you just act like nothing is wrong?" Nina asked as they were in the dressing room.
Amber stopped and shifted her gaze from the mirror to Nina, "WWVBD? obviously," she said, "and Victoria Beckham, would go shopping if she found out her life was a lie... Are you alright?"
"I don't know," she answered.
"Then let's go find a cute outfit for you!" Amber continued, dragging Nina off into the clothes again.
After convincing Amber that the piles of outfits she had weren't necessary, they checked out and went on to the next stop.
"FOOD!" Alfie cried, as they waited in like at a Greek food stand.
"You'd think they would have been starving him," Fabian whispered to Nina. For the first time since the whole ordeal started she laughed, "There's that smile," he said warmly.
Nina blushed and looked at him, "I just-, How can all of you guys just act like, nothing is wrong?" she said with her eyes tearing up.
"Nina," he said surprised, taking her in his arms, "I don't know," he cooed hugging her close, "I just figure, we can't mope around, this is a mystery too, we still have to sneak and dig around for answers. I know you feel lied to, and like everything is over, but we can't give up just because things got a little confusing,"
Nina stared at him, with a wide-eyed stare and a tomato red face. The tears receded; she was having a hard time to find the right words to say since she was so caught up in his eyes, "You always get me, don't you? She finally whispered and smiled.
Fabian smiled, and hugged her closer. They stood stood staring at each other, totally oblivious to the whole world around them. Nina's hands were on his chest, and he was holding onto her like he was going to loose her. He touched his forehead to her's; they both were beat red.
"Yo!" the man running the gyro stand shouted at them. They broke apart blushing madly, taking great interest in their feet.
"Two please," Nina mumbled.
The other six snickered at the discombobulated couple, especially Amber.
"Where to now?" Fabian asked, as they stepped out of the way of the line coming from the vendor.
"I don't know," Nina answered, a trace of forlorn still lingering in her voice.
"I've always wanted to go to Central Park," Mara said.
"Yeah, maybe it will help clear our minds," Amber added.
And so, they went to Central Park. Nina threw away the garbage from her food, and then sat on the bench next to the can. After shopping and eating, it had been about three hours (shopping with Amber Millington is never quick), and it now was about 10:30am. She squinted with the sun in her eyes and saw what everyone else was doing. Mara was walking around in the trees with Mick, excitedly telling him about the species. Jerome and Alfie were splashing Patricia (and angering her) and Amber (who got upset over her new soggy clothes), as they sat by a pond. Nina looked up when an object blocked the sun.
"Deep in though, are we?" Fabian asked, getting her to smile again.
"No, just watching everyone," she answered, with the smile again.
Fabian sat down close beside her, "I know this is hard for you, and just so you know, I'm here, we're all here," He took hold of her hand.
She squeezed back, "I know," she said smiling, "I think I have an idea," she continued.
"Really? Let's hear it," Fabian said excitedly turning to her.
"First, we are going to London, I think that's the place for answers," she said, "We have to be there in a week, but I think we should get there as soon as possible, like tomorrow,"
"And then what?"
"Exercise our sleuthing," she answered with a smirk.
"Sounds like a plan," Fabian said grinning back.
The group spent the rest of the day wandering around the city, till it started to get dark, and they checked into a hotel.
"Oh my goodness, this place is super posh!" Amber squealed taking in the fancy five-star room they "charged". The girls had one room, that was connected to another for the boys.
On the other side Alfie was already dialing room service to order one of everything. Amber was taking a bath since she quote, "Had no idea how long it had been since she showered" considering when the woke up, they hadn't even known they were in America. Mick and Mara were together as usual, in the guy's room. Nina and Fabian were in the girl's. Fabian bought a paper, and they were reading it together, they found the easiest was to do so was for Nina to sit on his lap with his arms around her holding the news paper. Sure it was a bit of a compromising position, but no one was around so they didn't mind much, and probably enjoyed it more than they led on to each other. And then even more surprising, was the two out on the balcony that was connected to the rooms.
Jerome walked out to Patricia who was starring at the city below, "What's up?" he asked.
"What's it to you?" she snapped.
"If you haven't noticed, I'm on this crazy adventure too,"
"Then you should know,"
"Its Joy isn't it? What Nina said," he said leaning on the edge next to her.
Patricia nodded, she had tears in her eyes, when he noticed, he put an arm around her.
"Hey," he said surprisingly gentle, "I know, its bad,"
Patricia leaned over and let it out into his shoulder. she went on, but eventually stopped, "J-Jerome, why are you doing this?" she said sniffing, and a bit ashamed of herself for breaking down to Jerome of all people.
"I don't know, just feeling a little out of character," he answered.
So there you have it! A little PatriciaXJerome action for you there at the end:) (Jade Ramsey and Eugene Simon are dating in real life too!) I wanted to thank you all for being good little fans and reading my stories, and an ever BIGGER thanks to all the people who REVIEW! Which is what I ask you all to do right now!:):):):)