Ok so I guess my only excuse for being late this time is school and applying for college. Yeah, school sucks and applying to colleges is just a pain. I wish both were over. Anyways…. on to the next chapter!

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Darren opened the door to Chris' trailer and saw a line of his friends waiting to be let in.

"Oh wow I didn't know the whole crew was coming!" Chris won't be too happy about this.

Cory was first in line and the first to talk. "Hey Darren, it's been a while since I saw you. Actually since we all saw you!"

"Yeah I know it's crazy! I've been so busy. I'll see you guys next week though. That's when I'm planned to come in for rehearsals."

Darren motioned in for everyone to come. It took a while since there were so many people. Everyone greeted Darren and Darren greeted everyone back.

"So where is Chris?" Cory and Lea said together. They immediately laughed and pointed at each other.

"Oh um Chris is… he is most likely in his room."

"Can we see him?" Jenna asked hopefully.

"Uh sure. I don't see why not."

Everyone followed Darren to Chris' room even though they all knew where his room was from spending so much free time in his trailer.

When they got there, Darren was surprised to see a sleeping Chris.

"Hmm he was awake just a minute ago."

Cory bent down to touch his forehead to see if he had a fever.

"Ehh he's a little warm, but not as much as this morning. Goodness he gave all of us a scare."

At that said, Dianna looked at Cory with a glare in her eyes.

"I think he fell asleep because of the medicine I gave him to calm his stomach and get rid of the dizziness. It probably made him drowsy.

"Well let's just let him rest and maybe he'll wake up soon," Lea advised.

"Oh and I almost forgot, we brought you and Chris cookies!" Lea said as she handed the cookies to Darren.

"Oh thank you so much. That was nice of you!"

"They're chocolate chip. I made them before I came. I figured you'd like them," Lea winked.

The crew left Chris' room and went to sit on the couches. There they talked about their day and how it wasn't the same without Chris.

"So after Cory took Chris to his trailer, Ryan went through a nervous breakdown," Lea exaggerated.

"Well not really, he was just in a bad mood; like someone took candy from a kid," Mark spoke for the first time.

Everyone laughed at that.

"But he just wasn't normal. And the tiniest thing would make him mad or upset him," Jenna said.

"We got most of our scenes done though. Now we just have to finish the ones that Chris is in," Heather said.

"When is that gonna happen? Tomorrow?" Darren asked.

"Yes if my boo is feeling better," Amber said.

"Excuse me girl, don't you mean our boo!" Ashley smiled.

"Haha off course!"

And the conversation and side conversations went on until someone coughing could be heard.

Everyone froze all realizing it was Chris. They all stood up, ready to go into the room but Darren hushed them and told that he would go first.

Darren rushed into Chris' room noticing that Chris was up and coughing. Darren quickly grabbed the glass of water near the dresser and gave it to Chris.

"Drink slowly," he advised.

Chris drank the water in sips in between bouts of coughing. Darren patted his back when Chris wasn't drinking water, trying to help calm down his coughing.

"You ok? What happened?"

"I don't know. I was having a bad dream and in my dream I was running away from a killer. It felt so real so when I woke up I started coughing because I was out of breath."

"Well at least you didn't sleep walk," Darren chuckled.

Chris nudged him with his elbow.

"Well I'm just glad to see you're ok. Is the medicine doing its job?"

"Yeah. It definitely made me sleep so I'm more relaxed."

"That's great! Oh by the way, your friends are here to visit you. Mind if they come in to see you? They've been worried sick about you."

"Sure they can come in. They'll probably want to leave as soon as they come in though."

"Oh come on. Now you're just exaggerating. They're your friends and they've been dying to see you all day."

"Like that's not exaggerating?"

"Wanna bet?"

Chris just stared at Darren not knowing what to say.

"Yeah that's what I thought," Darren smiled.

Darren went back to the worried looking cast. They all had curious looks on their faces, wondering if Chris was alright.

"Hi guys, sorry if that scared you. Chris is fine. He just had a bad dream. He's awake though if anyone wants to see him."

Hearing the sentences "Chris is fine" and "He's awake", everyone rushed to the room to finally see their sick friend.

Darren felt like telling all of them to calm down but he was happy and excited that they all cared so much for their friend.

Lea was the first to enter the room. She sprinted up to Chris, jumped on his bed, and gave him a huge and tight hug.

Dianna, Naya, Heather, and Jenna all did the same thing. The bed was full now so nobody else could fit on it, even if they tried.

"Oh my God! Chriiiisss! We missed you sooooo much!" Lea squealed. "How are you feeling?"

"Can't…..breathe" Chris said as his face turned purple.

The girls immediately minimized the pressure on their hug but still didn't let go of hugging Chris.

"Ahh that's better."

Everyone laughed.

"Well…..I'm better" Chris said.

Everyone laughed again.

"Thanks cap'n obvious!" Ashley joked.

Chris chuckled and smiled afterwards.

Ashley went over to Chris and hugged him, "Glad to see you're back monkey boy!"

Chris smiled again.

"So you're definitely feeling ok?" Cory asked.

"For the most part yes."

"For the most part?" Mark joined in.

"Yeah. I took my medicine ten minutes ago so I should be ok. It helped with the nausea and dizziness."

"Well that's good to hear," Mark said.

Everyone huddled together for a group hug, Chris being in the middle of the entire ruckus.

"Guys, still sick and contagious here."

Everyone backed away and laughed in return.

Now that everyone knew that Chris was ok, the attention and the conversations weren't completely centered on him. Although everyone did take a glance at him every few minutes just to check up on him, the side conversations started up again.

"So you're really feeling better huh?" Dianna asked still keeping her arms around Chris' waist on the bed.

"Well I wouldn't say entirely better but yes, I am feeling better than this morning," Chris said as he took a deep breath then let it out.

Dianna paused at this thinking back to what happened to poor Chris. She cringed at the thought of remembering Chris' pale body on the floor of the dance studio right after he fainted and him suffering through bouts of vomiting.

"You know, we were so close to calling an ambulance right after you fainted. If you had woken up about a minute later you would probably have been surrounded by paramedics. Ryan was in hysterics the whole time….."

"I barely remember anything of what happened while I was at the studios. All I remember from earlier today is dancing a little bit and then everything else is a blur. I'm sorry if I scared everyone. I myself hardly knew what was happening…" Chris paused to cough. "It's probably better that I don't remember anything though. I probably humiliated myself…"

"Chris, it happens to everyone at some point in their lives. Don't you remember what happened to Lea last year?"

Chris weakly nodded his head.

"….. Yeah so it's ok," Dianna said while rubbing Chris' back.

"We're just happy that you're ok now," Dianna glanced at Chris. "...Well…, in the process of being ok," she smiled.

Chris smiled back and they hugged each other. "Thanks Dianna. I love you."

"Love you too Chris."

Awww! Aren't Dianna and Chris so cute together?