History( The Tour Series #1)

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Ana was silent on the way home while Jen drove.

"So have we lost our mind by agreeing to this?" Jen asked Ana.

"I think so but we will have our own bus and rooms..." Ana said.

"True, but we'd still have to see them around," Jen sighed. " Well as long as he keeps his distance and his mouth shut I will be good," she said.

"That's all I want too..." Jen smiled.

"Well we will have to avoid them as best as we can," she said softly. As she gazed out the window at the passing scenery, her head automatically filled with thoughts of him.

~ 1989 ~

It was raining as the tour buses were driving down the roads, the next stop on the tour was Jones Beach, it was pitch black outside. As the bus came to a startling halt nearly skidding off the road, Anabella sat up. 

" Ana, are you okay?" Jen called out from where she was in her own bunk.

 Anabella had her hand on her chest," I-I think so," she said. Their bus had stopped moving. The two teens got off to see what had happened. They were standing in the pouring rain and the bus driver was calling for assistance because a couple of the tires had busted too. 

Shortly behind Teen Kittens bus was the The Kids bus, and Joey was getting off he came over to Anabella," Baby Girl, you're all wet," he said reaching for her arm. 

" Flats," Anabella sighed. 

" It'll get taken care but since I have you now, there is something important I need to do," Joey said to her. She turned to look at her boyfriend, both of them were wet from the pouring rain. " In the rain Joe, what's so important?" she asked him confused.

Joey took her hand into his and his blue eyes looked into hers," Bella, you are everything I've ever wanted and could ask for," he said softly," you're my whole world. the beat of my heart. the oxygen that I breathe," he said. He paused looking at her," Will you marry me?"

 Anabella's thoughts drifted back to the present, clearly she had said Yes that night in the rain.

"You Okay?" Jen asked her.

"It's starting to rain," Ana said softly.

Jen realized that Ana was talking about the weather when droplets started hitting the windshield, and she had to turn on the wipers," Well yeah it is...." she said confused. 

" Summer of 1989," Ana said. It had been a full tour that year, they had opened for Tiffany in 88', they had opened for NKOTB in 89, and then Debbie in '90. After that they had spent some of the 90s as headliners. It seemed like it was only as far back as yesterday.

"Oh.... right," Jen said softly holding Ana's hand with her free hand.

Ana was quiet for the rest of the ride, and once they got back into their apartment. She went to change out of the wet clothes, they had gotten wet while walking into their building. They had to pack to go to the airport soon.

Jen sighed. 1989 was a pretty great year. She remembered sneaking into Jordan's hotel room for their little meet-ups when they were staying a day or two. She even remembered their first kiss in England, near Big Ben. It was random. She was talking about how excited she was for the tour and he just laid one on her. She smiled at the memory, as she packed her bags.

Anabella carefully packed what she would need. She wanted to NOT think about Joe, but he seemed to be sneaking into her head and she was not liking it one bit.

"Hey, you Okay?" Jen asked appearing in her doorway.

"I don't know how I'm supposed to do this," Ana whispered," There is hardly a memory in my life that doesn't include him and now he's here all over again."

"I know... I understand... I still haven't told Luke I was leaving yet.... he's gonna be so mad..." Jen said

"Oh, Jen! You have to tell him," Ana said.

"I know but how? We haven't been together long enough to give him this kinda news!" Jen sighed.

" I don't even know," Ana sighed," But keeping it hushed isn't going to help."

"I'll have to call him..." she sighed, "now what's going thru ur head?!"

"Nothing really, I just don't want to be responsible for turning The Block into four men instead of five," Ana told her.

"Why would that happen?!?!" Jen asked surprised.

"Because I might have to kill him in order to survive the tour," Ana told her.

Jen giggled, "It'll be fine.... lay ground rules and stick to them."

"He had better be at least Teen Feet away at all times," Ana said seriously," I guess tomorrow will be the true test having to sit through a GMA interview to announce the lineup."

"Well, finish packing I gotta call Luke!" Jen sighed.

"Okay good luck with that," Ana told her. She went back to her packing.

Jen went back to her room and dialed Luke.

"Hey, beautiful!" He answered.

"Hey," She said nervously, "remember how I told you about the tour?"

"Of course," he said.

"We leave tonight," she said.

"What?" Luke asked," How can you just leave for a tour out of the blue? Don't they plan these things for like months?"

"I don't know babe but this is huge for us!" Jen said, "We'll talk every day!!! And we have rehearsals and tour announcements!"

"Yeah," Luke said not even really convinced.

"What do you want me to do? Not go?!" She asked.

"I don't know. can we talk about this later?" he asked her

"Sure I can call when we arrive in New York..." she said softly

"Yeah that would be good," Luke said to her.

"Okay... I'll talk to you then!" She said and they hung up.

Anabella and Jen had finished packing and headed for the airport to catch their flight to New York.