Forcing Love & Friendship - Chapter 8

The next day, Keila, Gabi, and Sarah packed up and got ready for their flight to Miami. Keila and Sarah told Gabi to find out what hotel the Jonas Brothers were staying at. So she went out the door and immediately bumped into Joe Jonas.

"Oh, hey Gabi!" He said with a smile.
"Hello." Gabi said, not sure how to ask.
"Okay, so I just came to say goodbye to you."
"What?"
"Oh, we're leaving in an hour for Miami."
"Oh. I see."
"So... goodbye!" He hugged her.
"Oh! So, just wondering, but.."
"Yeah?"
"What hotel might you be staying at?" She bit her lip.
"Oh. Okay... we're staying at the Fantasy hotel. Actually, we've made reservations at the Fantasy hotel for each of our stops."
"Really?!" Her face lit up.
"Yeah. Why?"
"Oh, no reason, really." She lied. "I was just curious."
"Oh okay. Well, bye, Gabi. See you someday soon?"
"Oh, sooner than you realize."
"What?"
"Nothing! Bye!" They hugged again and Joe walked away. To not seem suspicious, Gabi walked to the Soda Machine and got a Coke. She walked back into her room and Sarah ran up to her.

"Well?" Sarah asked anxiously.
"Oh. Fantasy Hotel. For all the cities, actually."
"No way! Sweet! You didn't happen to find out what room number, did you?"
"I'm not sure they know their room number yet."
"Well, I'm sure luck is on our side. And just in case, I'm wearing red!"
"Why red?"
"Because, red is the luckiest color!"
"None of us were wearing red the day we got here."
"Well, now we need to push it! Now put on some red!"
"Whatever you say..."

They got on the plane later that day and arrived in Miami. They checked into the Fantasy Hotel. They stayed in Room 57. Sarah snuck into the hotel office to confirm that the Jonas Brothers were staying there, too. They were, but this time Kevin had his own room on the first floor (14), and Nick and Joe shared a room on the second floor (31). Sarah had made the decision that they should all lay low until tomorrow, to avoid suspicion. So they stayed cooped inside the hotel room all day. They ordered room service to keep themselves occupied.

At 11:21 PM, Gabi decided to go out to the vending machine and grab a soda, since it was late, she figured the boys would be sleeping. She walked to the elevator, pressed the button, listened unwillingly to the faint jazz music playing, and walked out to the hall that led to the vending machine. She entered the little 'room' place where the machines and stuff were. She pressed the button for Sprite, slid the dollar in, waited, heard a BANG!, and reached down to her soda. As she held the slightly wet can, she heard a familiar voice.

"Gabi?!" She voice asked.

Her eyes widened, then shut tight as she froze in her weird position. Oh no! He found me! What to do, what to do?! She grabbed her soda and straightened up, keeping her head down, letting her hair fall over her face. She hoped he would believe she was not Gabi.

"Gabi, is that you?" The person asked. Gabi shook her head and walked away. Unfortunately, her plan took a sudden U turn. She tripped and fell flat on her face, still gripping that Sprite. The person helped her up.

"Are you okay? Do you and your friends have falling problems?" He smiled.
"I'm fine. And no, we do not!" Gabi said, refraining from looking at him. She knew it was Nick.
"Okay, sorry. What are you doing here?"
"Oh. It's... part of our vacation! See, we're going to.. some concerts. All over the place. For the whole summer." Gabi barely got that out of her.
"I see."
"Well, bye!" She quickly turned around and started walking away. But she was stopped by a hand gently grabbing her arm. She turned around.
"Come hang out tomorrow?" Nick smiled at her. Gabi half froze.
"O-Okay. When?"
"Come to the rehearsal with us? You and your friends? At eight?"
"Sure."
"Great!"

Gabi quickly went back to her room. She opened the door, walked in, closed the door with her back to it, closed her eyes, and sighed.

"What happened? You took way longer than any normal person!" Keila was suspicious.
"Oh. Nothing. Let's just say, we're going somewhere at eight."
"What? Where are we going?"
"To watch a certain band rehearse."

Gabi walked over to the couch and sat, casually sipping her Sprite. Keila and Sarah looked at each other with wide eyes. They turned to Gabi.

"What happened?!" Sarah asked loudly.
"Nothing!"
"Gabriella Montez!"
"Uh, my last name is Rodriguez..?!"
"Don't you know when I'm being silly?! Just tell!"
"Okay, fine! I was getting a soda and Nick found me there!"
"Aaaaaand...?!"
"And he asked if we could come with them to rehearsal at eight."
"Alright! Soooo..."
"What?" Gabi looked scared.
"Did he... look at you?"
"What?!"
"Did he look at you?!"
"Um, yeah...?"
"I mean... how did he look at you?"
"Well, I tried my best not to look at him... for fear of.. barfing. So I didn't really see. But he kept smiling at me..."
"Yes! La la la la la!" Sarah started skipping around.
"Sarah, are you hyper or something?"
"Yyyyeeeeeeessss!!" She yelled loudly. She was now jumping on the couch.
"WELL, I'm going to sleep." Keila said.
"Me too." Gabi said.
"Yeah, ok, fine, I'll sleep." Sarah said. And they all went to sleep. (After, of course, thinking of the random thoughts in their heads.) Tomorrow was going to be great!... Or was it?