Welcome To New York #Wattys2016 (Book 1)

Chapter #7 A rude awakening coming

"Your brother's a dick," I say to him when I walk out of Nick's apartment. "Well, hello to you too. Yeah, I know he is. Why do you think the band broke up?" Joe says with an agitated tone. I can tell by the frustration in his voice it wasn't a good time. "Sorry J, did I catch you at the wrong time?" I asked. "No, not at all, go on with your rant," he says with a grunt. As I continue with the rant of the century, I look back at the time where I was a fan in another life. I am able to see how hurt I was inside when I found out about the breakup between the brothers. I am also able to see how obsessed I was when I realized that The Jonas Brothers Twitter account was deleted and never put up again. That's when I started to worry and then came the "Bare with us" tweets from both Nick and Joe.

I also remembered that 3-year break they took off; and whatever another heart-wrenching moment in my life. Oh no and then there were the 2 concerts I attended... One in spirit and one physically there as well. The one online was when they were coming back and had done a few new songs. One was Wedding Bells; you know the song Nick wrote about Miley and her engagement to Liam Hemsworth. I still don't know why he would do that if he was over her. But clearly by that song he wasn't at the time. Right now I don't think he's over Olivia either.

I sighed trying to get the hurtful words out of my brain and just hang up on Joe after everything goes silent between us. I then get the idea of just going back home to Miami and do what my sister Sabrina did. Just start fresh at Dade and then come back when all of this bull crap is over & just attend Pratt the next year.

I then decide to call Jasmine to tell her about the events that happened with her "brother" also. As the phone rings, she then picks up after the 3rd ring and asks me "What happened now?" I laugh to myself. I recall the moments of when she used to ask me that when I would get stressed over Trish drama or something like that. "Your brother's a dick," I say to her as she slows me down and then says "You do know I only have a sister right? You've been my best friend for 5 years and you don't know about my..." I just had to interrupt her and say it was her geeking brother.

She then sighs and says "I'm tired of him, but what about him?" she asked and I told her everything. "Shit Aby, how are you handling things?" she asked me a little concerned. "Not good, they're both dicks," I say trying not to let my emotions take over. It times like these where I think she's done with hearing my rants even though she is my best friend. "This is why I never go out of Florida for that same specific reason." Gee, thanks for the pep talk bestie really appreciate the help." I say sarcastically.

"Um, okay look why don't you just come back to Miami and spend time at my house. You haven't spent time here in years since my 17th birthday for that matter." It had been a long time since I'd spent time over there but I couldn't just leave New York. The semester was still in session, I couldn't just leave. "There's still school in Juilliard and I don't want to transfer to FIU or Dade just yet," I tell her.

"Wow, you're really upset about this aren't you?" she asks me. "Clearly," I say with a bitter tone. She then clears her throat and asks "What are you doing now?" "I'm just driving around both New York and Jersey," I say sincerely. Quite frankly I don't know where I'm going, but I don't plan to go back to my dorm. Ashley and Tae will be waiting for me to see how the date with Nick went. I just couldn't face them or anything Jonas for that matter.

I decided to just go wherever my car took me. Little did I know I would be going to a place I didn't even know about in Jersey. I park the vehicle. My instinct is just to hop back into the car and drive away to the dorms, Jasmine's house or my house where it's safe in Miami. But like an idiot, I don't jump back into the car and just continue walking... My heart races when I hear a bulldog bark in the distance of this place. I just ask myself "why the hell would I come here?" The reason of being here rushes through my mind quickly. I see the lights of the front of the place light up. I seriously genuinely like no lie get scared and just run back to my car like a madman. I just stay in there as I spy on a figure walking out. Not knowing who it was I turn on my headlights to see who it is which I think was a bad idea. There stood Charlie with a bat and an evil look on her face. "Oh Shit," I say to myself mentally as I realize she's in front of the car which means I was kinda stuck. I mean this being a gated area and shit like that and the fact that she was right there. I waited for her to leave but she didn't as she came by my vehicle and said to me "I'm sorry, but AJ's asleep right now and I'm afraid it's too late to wake him he is sick you know." I nod in respect and turn my car back around and just call Jasmine again.

"I didn't know where I was going until that skunk came out of the apartment. I feel like fucking crap right now." I tell her as she picked up the phone.

"Are you sure it was bro's house and not another Charlie's place?" she asked me suspiciously.

"Oh, I'm pretty sure," I say in disbelief that this happened yet again. The chick is fucking crazy coming out with a fucking bat not knowing who was out there. I'm glad I'm not dead.

"Well, just be careful," Jasmine says and I let her know I will. As I'm about to hang up, I hear a knock on the door in the background of the phone call and ask "Who's there?" I then hear shuffling as I hear Jasmine get up from the bed and respond "It's probably just Danny." Danny is her boyfriend they've been together since the summer of junior year. I've always liked them together. They're cute with each other. I love their love towards each other. I just hope one day I'd be in that much love as they are in. When I hear her open the door and ask "What are you doing here?" my suspicions rise as I ask "Who's there?" The person in the background talking to her sounded drunk and was slurring his words. I couldn't make out the other end of the conversation. "Jasmine, who's there?" I ask yet again and she gulps and screams after letting me know that she would call me back. "Jasmine!!!" I screamed into the phone as it went completely silent.

I was getting scared as I was crying now and was in shock of what just happened with my best friend. I raced back to AJ's because there was nowhere else I could turn to right now. At least not that I could think of. I got out of the car and raced to the back door because if I did that with the front door Charlie would probably put a bullet through my head. She would do it to try to "stop me from getting her man''. Little did I know I was in for a rude awakening that night.

"Kitty?" he asked as the back door opened.

"Hi, Tiger," I say in a whisper as he let me into the house and locked the back door.