Title: Caribbean Nights
Part: 11/15
Author: Wendy
Category: 98º
Rating: PG-13
Copyright: 1999
Everyone was seated in front of the television set when Drew decided to make an appearance to everyone else.
"What’s on?" Drew asked as he walked over to the TV.
"Oh, nothing much, we’re just watching some old videos," Justin answered.
Drew sat down on the couch beside Nick. Clips from past 98 Degrees concerts came on the TV.
"Oh, no!" Drew yelled, with half a smile on his face.
A scene of Drew falling on the floor when he was about to do a move from "Heat It Up" went on the television. Everyone, including Drew, started to laugh.
"I can’t believe that you guys are showing the girls this video!" Drew laughed.
"Neither can I," Nick mumbled to his brother and they both laughed.
"But at least we can get all of us to laugh for a bit," Justin said.
Later during the video, Jeff almost slipped of the stage during a rehearsal of "Invisible Man". He was so into the song that he didn’t realize he was so close to the edge of the stage. Then there was a scene with Justin messing up the lyrics to "I Do (Cherish You)" in the middle of a concert. Last but not least, Nick was shooting "The Hardest Thing" video and he really got hit in one of the boxing matches in the video.
"I can’t believe that we’re letting them watch this!" Jeff exclaimed in between laughs.
"Neither can I!" Drew said.
"That was definitely interesting," Sarah said.
"Yeah, interesting!" Pamela echoed.
"Okay, enough of that," Justin walked over to the VCR to pop out the tape.
"Oh, come on, guys, that was funny!" Jen said.
"Yeah, when it was at our expense," Nick started to tickle her.
"Nick, stop!" she screamed.
~*~*~At the warehouse~*~*~
It was noon and Pete returned to Wendy for lunch.
"Here’s your lunch today," Pete declared.
Pete held out a plate with pasta and tomato sauce. He picked up the fork and fed the food to her mouth. Wendy looked down at the food.
‘I might as well eat this,’ she thought. ‘I mean, even if there’s some kind of poison in there, this is the only choice that I have for food.’
Slowly, she put her head forward and ate the forkful of pasta he gave her. The pasta on the plate was being eaten by Wendy, with Pete feeding her.
"Now, how was that?" Pete asked after he gave her the last bit of pasta.
"Good, thanks," Wendy said quietly.
"I’m glad that you liked it because it’s probably all that you will be getting for the next week, until I think of something to do with you."
Wendy nodded, not really knowing what to say or do.
"I bet your friends are really worried about you. Would you like to talk to them?" Pete had a huge grin on his face.
Wendy nodded again.
Pete took out a cell phone and dialed the number for the summerhouse.
"Hello?"
"Hi, can I talk to Drew please?" Pete said.
"Yes, he’s speaking."
"I thought that you’d like to hear this—"
Pete held the phone out to Wendy.
"Drew?" Wendy sobbed.
"Wendy?"
"Yeah, it’s me…"
"Where are you? Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I’m fine. You need to—"
Pete took the phone away and interrupted the conversation. "Time’s up."
"You’d better not do anything to her!" Drew yelled.
"Or what?" Pete asked slyly.
Drew remained silence.
"You’ll never find her again," Pete started to laugh evilly and pressed the "END" button on the phone.
"Wait!" Drew said when he heard the click of the phone.
~*~*~At the summerhouse~*~*~
"What happened?" Jeff asked as they were all huddled around the phone, trying to listen in onto the conversation.
"Pete has her and I don’t know what he’s done to her. She sounded fine physically, but I’m not sure if she is okay emotionally," Drew replied quietly.
"Did she give you any hints to where she is?" Nick asked.
"No, since Pete cut her off before she could tell me anything besides the fact that she was fine. I just want to kill this guy!" Drew exclaimed angrily.
Everyone remained in silence. No one knew what exactly they should say to Drew.
"I can’t believe that this is happening! She doesn’t deserve this at all! And she was so scared," Drew started to cry.
Nick walked over to his brother and gave him a hug. Drew hugged back and cried.
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