Chasing Shadows……Chapter Thirty-Nine

“What’s up?” Emily asks Gabrielle now handing her a cup of coffee.“Look” Gabrielle says pointing at the screen.The e-mail says as fallows:Dear Gabrielle,I would very much like to know what the phone call was all about.What I said on you in-voice was, as I believe it, not out of line, unlike your outburst.Please reply ASAP, I would very much like to talk about this.Jim.“Don’t even reply, just delete it” Emily says now shaking her head.“You got that right” Gabrielle says now hitting the “Delete Message” button.“Not out of line, who the hell does he think he’s kidding?” Gabrielle says now looking through her other mail.“Donno, maybe he thinks it was alright” Emily says.“Whatever, I’m not gonna put much thought into this anymore” Gabrielle says.“Very good” Emily says smiling and raising her cup to Gabrielle.About an hour later the boys get back.“What a nightmare” Shannon says shacking his head and then ploping down next to Emily.“I know right?!” Tomo says nodding his head.“Oh come on, it wasn’t that bad. I like it when people want to see us” Jared says cheerfully.“So do I, but that was a huge amount of people, and sooo many cameras!” Shannon says now rubbing his eyes.“I think you guys need coffee” Gabrielle says now putting on a fresh pot.“Awesome” Tomo says now getting up to get cups.“So how was your night?” Shannon asks Emily.“Good, we just sat and talked for a bit” Emily says.“Girls” Tomo says being funny.Gabrielle hits him on the arm for that.“So, sounds like you guys had a ball” Gabrielle says.“Yeah, it was awesome! I love meet and greets!” Jared says smiling.“So do we, if we don’t have the damn guards on a tail every second all that time” Shannon says shaking his head.“I know, but they are doing their job” Jared says.“True, just don’t approve of the way the do it” Tomo says.“Yeah, that one dude was really bitchy. Wouldn’t let anyone near us till Jared here told him off. People couldn’t even get their stuff signed he had them so far away!” Shannon says.“Awww how mean!” Emily says.“Right? Finally after like ten minutes of this, I told the dude to get lost and asked the guy running the arena to please get us another one” Jared says now sitting next to Gabrielle.“Good. That’s not a way to run something like that. You have to let the people near the band in order to call it a meet and greet” Gabrielle says.“Bingo” Shannon says.The girls then ask the guys about the rest of their night, and they boys spend a goot three hours talking about it.Then around two in the morning they all head for their bunks.Gabrielle then sits in her and Jared’s bunk and takes one last look at her e-mail before going to sleep.“Good, you know better then to push it” she says looking through and not finding another message from Jim.“Huh?” Jared says to her in a tried tone.“Oh. nothing, just talking out loud” Gabrielle says.“Oh, is everything ok?” Jared then says her.“Yeah, just got an e-mail from my boss” Gabrielle says.“Oh?”“Yeah. Here, read it and see what you think”Gabrielle then turns the screen to Jared.He reads it, and then shakes his head saying, “What an ass”“I know right?!” Gabrielle says.“Did you reply?” Jared then asks her.“Nope, just gonna let him hang”“Good”Gabrielle the turns her laptop off.“You know, Shannon’s been in the shower for a long time” Jared says as Gabrielle gets settled in.“Yeah, he has been” Gabrielle says.“Yeah, and where’s Emily for that matter?Gabrielle eyes widen then and she says shaking her head, “Again M!?”“What?” Jared asks her.“Um, well lets just say Shan and M aren’t going to be getting out of there for a while, to say the least” Gabrielle says.“Huh?” Jared says now confused.Gabrielle then gives him a “Ah, hello?” look.“Oh…oh! Wow, that was fast” Jared says now understanding.“Yeah, since last night” Gabrielle says.“Huh. Well, they have been dating for as long as we’ve have. And that’s like what, coming up to a month now?” Jared now says.“Yeah, about that” Gabrielle says nodding her head.Jared then does something very weird.He cuddles up right next to Gabrielle and then whispers, “It is a long time”“Yeah….?” Gabrielle says confused.“So, I was thinking……how about we give it a shot?”“WHAT?!”