The next day the sun was up but Katy not so much on her way the check on the guys in the basement, she tripped coming down the stairs. There were a series of thuds as Katy went tumbling down, abruptly stopping when she collided with the wall at the end of the steps. The accident sent a tiny hand held video camera sliding across the floor; it stopped at Kim’s feet.
Kim glared at her for a minute, having just delivered breakfast to the guys. She had on her way back upstairs, but as luck would have it she hadn’t made it that far otherwise she would have been lying in heap at the bottom of the stairs with her friend. Kim reached down and picked up the camera, checking to for any damage before addressing her friend.
“You idiot, you could have broken this thing.” Kim snapped, but the camera appeared to be fine. Katy allowed herself to tumble down the last few steps leading down from the landing and laid sprawled out on the floor for a minute.
“I think I broke myself instead. I appreciate your concern.” Katy moaned. Chris and Lance chuckled in the back ground. She could see Kim standing over her now. Kim wasn’t sure if she should help her or laugh at her.
“So, um… what happened?” Kim asked after suppressing her need to berate her friend. After all it seemed that she had already taken a beating. Katy sat up and looked back up the stairs in awe, her body still aching slightly.
“I tripped.” Katy stated, though she couldn’t be sure what she had tripped on if she had even tripped on anything. She could have just stumbled in her excitement to see the guys, she couldn’t be sure.
“So are you alright or do we need to take you the ER?” Kim asked.
“Maybe she knocked some sense into herself.” Chris offered.
“That is highly unlikely.” Katy said raising an eye brow at Chris. In her mind there was nothing wrong with the way she behaved so why on earth would she ever change? “I think I am fine, I may have just bruised my ego.” Katy answered. She reached her hand out for Kim to give her the camcorder.
“Just promise me you won’t break this, we don’t have time to go and replace it.” Kim lectured, placing the small device into Katy’s hand. Katy smiled and began to set the camera up.
“Yeah well I can’t get any closer to the ground than I am currently.” Katy joked. Kim just rolled her eyes and heading up the steps slowly. After all the only more embarrassing than falling down the steps, is falling up them.
Justin rested the urge to run and assist his fallen angle, after all he didn’t want to guys to think that he was totally smitten by her. Instead he just sat there and watched her get the video camera ready. Katy didn’t say anything for a few minutes as she played with the features on the camera.
“Nice thong by the way.” JC stated. The silence was kind of getting to him. The guys still weren’t comfortable enough to speak freely to one other in front of the girls, so he felt the need to address her instead and if he could embarrass her that was all the more enjoyable for him. Katy looked at him a little confused, then quickly moved to make sure her skirt was pulled down. It was, but Justin didn’t have the heart to tell her that the whole room had seen her underwear as she made her rolled the steps.
“Thanks, I color coordinated them especially for you.” Katy lied. JC watched in amazement as the girl seemed mostly unfazed by his comment. Okay so maybe wearing a skirt most the time had its risks but it wasn’t like they weren’t all adults here. It wasn’t the first time any of them had seen a thong. She smiled at JC and winked playfully, which caused him to turn away from her suddenly.
“So what’s with the video camera?” Justin asked, trying to move on from the topic of her underwear to something that was a little less distracting for him. Katy turned her smile toward him. She leaped up off the floor and stumbled toward Justin as the heel of her boot snapped, likely damaged in her fall. Katy supported herself against the sofa as she checked the damage, curse under her breath as she realized that it was unlikely that she could fix it.
“Today is just not your day, princess.” Lance signed. He kind of felt bad for her, it seemed like nothing could ever get her down. She climbed on to Justin’s lap, weather he wanted her there or not, after all the guys half expected it by now. Her crush on the pop star was no secret.
“This is the camera for the music video, I thought I could get some practice with it today while you guys work on finishing up the song.” Katy finally answered. Justin nodded to let her know that he understood, though he had little interest in her answer as he looked over her broke boot and checked for any other damage that she might have missed. He wouldn’t put it past her to break her leg or something and just not tell anyone. But she appeared to be otherwise fine, just a few scraps.
“I thought maybe you were here to make a ransom tape.” JC suggested. She looked at him and tilted her head to the side before laughing. “Why is that so funny?” He added.
“Because this isn’t about the money, it never has been. Not sure why you can’t understand that?” Katy asked. After all if had been about money the girls would have taken the cash in their wallets when they searched them for their cell phones, but they didn’t. And god knows Brandi and Kim could have taken stuff from their homes, but they didn’t.
“What is this really about then, or is it just about making a stupid music video?” Chris asked. After what had happened yesterday with Brandi he was starting to wonder if the girls had atelier motives. Katy knew that it wasn’t just about making a music video, but she wasn’t about to explain to the guys. It was something that they needed to figure out on their own.
“It’s not a stupid music video; it’s going to be the greatest ‘N Sync video ever!” Katy yelled. Katy turned the camera on and flipped to around so that she could film her and Justin as she playfully kissed him on the cheek.
“Yes, because that doesn’t make you look like you have other reasons for abducting us at all.” JC pointed out and Katy just stuck her tongue out at him.
“Hey weren’t you the one that lectured me about keeping a journal?” Mandy asked. Katy jumped a little; she hadn’t heard Mandy come down the steps. “Somehow I think filming the prisoners is way worse than just writing about my day.”
“It’s not like that, with my brilliant videographer skills you won’t notice that they are chained at all, I promise. Plus I will edit it and delete the evidence.” Katy replied.
“Yeah, well I have seen the crime dramas and they can recover that stuff.” Mandy said. Katy just shook her head; they needed this footage for the video maybe so Mandy was just being paranoid. “So I got the music, we can start putting it together and if my friend needs to re-do anything just let me know.” Mandy added, holding up a flash drive.
“Excellent.” Chris said then he and JC followed her into the recording studio.
“You want to go with them don’t you? I can see it in your eyes.” Katy said looking at Justin. He just sighed and nodded, he did want to go see what the music sounded like, but he felt guilty about leaving her. His stomach churned slightly even though he wasn’t going that far. What on earth was this girl doing to him?
Katy smiled and climbed off of him. She went over to where Lance was on the sofa, after all Lance had been a huge help during the photo shoot with Kim and JC. They began to talk about the video right away. Justin got up and was about to disappear into the other room when he stopped and paused. He watched her smile and laugh with Lance. It made him wonder if she was even still thinking about him at all, was it really that easy for her to move on from him? He shook the thought from his head and entered the room, making sure to close the door behind him.
