No Coincidence Part 5

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Just then, Nokio came from the back of the bus and said, “What’s up with the heat? We’re baking back there!”

Khori, who was admiring Nokio without his shirt responded, “Sisqo’s lookin in to it.” She made a mental note to ask Nokio about some of his tatoos.

Damon was trailing behind Nokio and when Khori saw him, she frowned. His tight tee shirt put emphasis on his medium sized gut.

“Ugh man!” She said to Damon.

“Whatever!” He said as he flexed his biceps and patted his gut. “More of me to love!”

Khori shook her head and Scola laughed after briefly taking his eyes off the television.

“The driver turned it down, ya’ll.” Sisqo stated while heading to his seat on the couch beside Scola.

“Good.” Nokio said as he and Damon turned around and headed to the back of the bus.

“What’s up with all the drama?” Jazz said in his sleepy voice. He still had his eyes closed.

“The heat man!” Sisqo answered. “You look like you’re sweatin buckets over there.”

With his eyes still closed, Jazz wiped his forehead with the towel that was under his head. He sighed, and he sat up. He smelled this sweet smelling perfume and he slowly opened his eyes.

“Khori?” He said.

“Yeah. Whatsup Jazz. You must’ve been dreaming kinda good. You was snoring some kinda loud.”

Jazz laughed.

“That’s Jazz for ya.” Sisqo replied.

“Yeah, whateva!” Jazz said as he got up from the couch and headed toward the back of the bus.

The movie that Scola and Sisqo was watching ended and Scola grabbed the remote and scanned through the channels.
Khori’s sleepiness started to kick in and she started to doze off.

“Khori! Ain’t you hot over there in the hoodie?” Sisqo asked.

“No.”

Scola glanced over. “You’re making me even hotter looking at you in that sweatshirt.”

Khori admitted to herself that she was a little warm, but she didn’t feel like exerting any energy to take it off.

“Here…let me help you out.” Scola said as he made his way over to her.

Khori felt so sleepy, she didn’t even want to reach up and pull the hoodie over her head. She took her hat off and took her arms out of the sleeves, but that was all she could do.

Scola helped her pull the hoodie over her head and he put it on the side of the couch. He looked at Khori’s sleepy eyes and he told her to lay down. Sisqo tossed a blanket to Scola and he stood up and put it over her.

“Don’t sleep too long, you might miss the fun!” Sisqo said.

“All I need is about 30 minutes and I’ll be alright. Khori said.

“Alright, ma. We’ll be here when you wake up!” Scola replied.

“Umm hmm.” Khori mumbled as she fell deeper into her nap.
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About 45 minutes later, Khori woke up to the sounds of hollering and laughter coming from the back of the bus. She noticed that Sisqo and Scola wasn’t sitting across from her anymore. She glanced around to see if Woody was still in the place he was earlier. He was still there sleeping with his head on his pillow.

Khori got up and sat across from Woody in the booth.

“Woody…Woody.” She whispered.

When he didn’t respond, Khori had whispered his name again and this time she grabbed his hand and squeezed it. This time Woody responded by grabbing her hand and slightly lifting his head from his pillow. He waited for his eyes to adjust before he fully sat up.

“Whatsup? What time is it?” Woody responded with a scratchy voice.

“Around noon. Are you alright?”

“Nah…I’m fighting a cold and I didn’t get enough sleep last night, but I know I need to get up!”

“Okay, I’m just checking to make sure you wasn’t dead or nothin’!”

“Thanks. Them dudes probably have me sleeping over here forever!” Woody laughed as he and Khori and heard the commotion from the back again.

“Epecially when they play X-Box or Playstation 2!” Woody said.

“I can imagine!” Khori laughed.
Just then, Kenneth came storming out of the back with Sisqo following closely behind him.

“Aww…don’t cry cause I beat you!” Sisqo said smartly.

“For once in your life!’ Kenneth said.

Sisqo shook his head and turned around and headed to the back of the bus. Laughter and loud talking was heard from the back of the bus with Sisqo asking “Who’s got next?”

Kenneth stopped short of going to the very front of the bus when he spotted Woody awake and Khori sitting across from him.

“How you feeling Wood?” Kenneth asked.

“Okay. Better than when I first came on the bus. And plus, this lovely young lady awakened me. Just seeing her beautiful face made me feel better.”

Khori blushed. “Aww Woody!”

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“That’s great! You have plenty of time to rest, because we don’t have to do anything until tomorrow.” Kenneth said.

“Good.” Woody replied as he excused himself and made his way out of the booth and to the back of the bus.

“How are you feeling Khori?” Kenneth asked her with sincerity in his eyes.

“I’m okay. They haven’t annoyed me too much yet!” She joked.

“Not yet? Oh it’s coming!” Kenneth joked. Khori responded with a laugh.

“Oh yeah, I gave a list of the schedule to Damon. So I guess since you’re up, I can give you your copy. I’ll be right back.” Kenneth stated.

About two minutes later, he arrived with the schedule in hand and he handed to her. He pointed out some things to her on the schedule and then he headed back to the front of the bus.

As Khori scanned the schedule, she noticed that they were going to Charlotte for a college concert. They were heading down to Myrtle Beach for another college show. They were also flying back up to New York, briefly ,to do some promotion, including the photo shoot for One Song magazine. She was deep thought while looking at the schedule, she didn’t notice that Woody had slipped back into his seat across from her.

“Whatcha reading?” Woody asked Khori.

“Your schedule.”

“Oh for real?”

“Yeah. Have you seen it?”

“I have a copy, but I don’t really look at it until we start to work. It can be a little too much. I just go with the flow day by day.” Woody said as he drank down a bottle of V8 Splash juice.

“Oh…I’m just looking and I’m like, wow!”

“The life of an entertainer!” Woody laughed.

“Are you up to me asking some questions for the article now?” Khori asked him. Some ideas for questions and she didn’t want them to slip her mind.

“Yeah, I ain’t doing nothing.”

“Cool!”

Khori started asking him questions about what happened while he was solo and his early years with Dru Hill. She also asked him about what he had to endure when people saw him out there in the spot light with Dru Hill again.

“I didn’t get a good response at first. There are still some people that question me about why I went back to them.” Woody responded.

“They didn’t know that you were eventually going to go back because it was part of the plan anyway?”

“Some of them didn’t, but some of them did.”

“Do you miss being a gospel artist?”

“Yes. I wanna do another CD!”

Khori noticed how Woody lighted up when he said those words. She smiled.

“Ain’t nothing like singing for the Lord!” Khori said.

“True…true!” Woody responded.

They continued the interview, talking about all kinds of issues and Woody even asked Khori about her being the gospel editor.

“Did you really like Soul Music?”

“Yeah. I’m very honest in my reviews! Have you read it?”

“No…but if I find a copy, I’ll read it.”

“I have a copy at home. I’ll let you borrow it later.” Khori smiled.

There was a brief silence as Khori wrote down some notes.

“It’s nice to have someone to talk to that can carry a conversation outside of those knuckleheads!” Woody joked.

“Aww thanks! I know ya’ll get tired of seeing each other all the time!”

“Yeah.” Woody responded as he gazed out the window on his right. Khori noticed a look of sadness in his eyes.

“You okay over there?” Khori asked him.

Woody sighed. “Yeah.” He looked at her briefly and then back out the window.

“I wonder what that was about?” Khori thought to herself as Woody excused himself and walked to the front of the bus to talk to Kenneth.
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Khori finished up writing her notes and looked around at the empty seats around her. All she could hear was the low volume of the television. She decided to go to the back of the bus where the action was.

The party was definitely going on---the video games that is! On the big flat screen tv was NBA Live 2004 and Jazz and Damon were playing. They were both arguing with each other saying that the other was cheating.

“Just play the game, stop all the noise!” Khori joked.

“Sleeping beauty has arisen!” Sisqo said.

“Yeaaaah!!” She yawned.

Damon sucked his teeth. “What do you know about this?”

“Not much.” She lied.

“That’s what I thought!” Damon responded as his player missed a three pointer.

“Ha ha! That’s what you get for being a smarty pants!” Khori mocked.

Damon rolled his eyes at her and he continued to play.

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Sisqo noticed Khori still had on her boots. “You still have you’re boots on? I know you’re feet are hot!”

“I’m okay!” Khori frowned.

“You can relax…you see I got my shoes off!”

“I know.” She looked around and notice everyone had their shoes off.

“You need some help with those?” Scola said as he reached down from his seat and grabbed the boots laces.

“No, I’m keeping them on.” She said as she moved Scola’s hand away.

“You’re a visitor and you need to abide by the rules!” Sisqo joked. He walked toward her and looked at Scola.

“We got this Scole?” Sisqo asked.

Scola nodded his head and he grabbed her left leg and Sisqo the right. Khori started kicking her feet so they couldn’t get a hold of the laces, but they held her legs tightly. She tried to push them away when Nokio came behind her and started to tickle her oh her sides. She was defenseless.

Both Scola and Sisqo slid off Khori’s boots and started tickling her feet.

“S-Stttooopppp!” She screamed between giggles. Nokio had stopped tickling her and sat on the leather couch beside her. He smile a bright smile. She felt Sisqo pull her sock off and she yelled , “N-nooooo don’t do that!”

“What are your feet crusty?”
“Nooooo, but-“

He had already pulled the sock off and started his observation.

“Pretty cute…a little ashy, but cute.”

Scola agreed and gave her a devious smile. “I like!” he said.

Khori shook her head. “Okay ya’ll can put my socks back on my feet. Please!”

“Not before we do this!” Nokio said as he kneeled down beside Sisqo and started tickling her sockless feet.

Khori really started giggling. Damon got very annoyed and said, “I’m trying play and ya’ll distracting me!”

“My bad, homie!” Sisqo responded as he and Scola helped Khori put back on her socks.

Khori was holding her right side which had caught a cramp from her laughing so much.

“You okay, Ma? Scola said when he notice her grabbing her side.

“Yeah. I haven’t had a laugh like that in a long time!” She replied.

“Good, I told you that you were going to have fun, didn’t I!” Sisqo said as he took his position on the couch.

“Yep.”

“Dang man! All that noise distracted me!” Damon said as he threw down the game’s controller.

“I still would’ve whooped ya if it was peace and quiet!” Jazz said as he put the controller down on the couch.

“Who’s next? Khori how about you play Scola?” Sisqo said.

Khori and Scola looked at each other.

“I don’t know man! I might whoop her too bad!” Scola said.

“Yeah, that’s what you think.” She thought to herself. “At least give me a try!” She said sweetly.

Jazz, who was settled comfortably on the leather couch looked at Khori and said, “I think she knows how to play ya’ll. Don’t let that sweetness fool ya’ll!”

Khori rolled her eyes at Jazz. “So what’s up? You wanna play? Khori asked Scola.

“Yeah!”

“If I win, I get that blue and white football jersey off your back!” She said to Scola.

“And what do I get?” Scola said smoothly.

“Hmmm….” Jazz said. The fellas looked at each other and laughed.

“Oh No! I don’t give it up for video games, so—“

“Girl get your mind out of the gutter, we ain’t thinking about—“ Sisqo said.
“Yes we are!” Jazz said. “But we know you’re not like that, so that’s out the window.”

“How about a kiss?” Scola asked.

Khori thought about it. “On the cheek, right?”

Scola frowned. “You drive a hard bargain girl.” He sighed and looked around at the fellas. Jazz shrugged his shoulders, while Sisqo shook his head.

“Okay.” Scola replied knowing that he would try to sneak her a kiss on the lips.

Khori and Scola sat on the plush rug side by side on the carpet while playing. It took a little while for Khori to warm up because she hadn’t played that game in a couple of months, but the game was close until the almost at the end. The fellas were all astonished. She was good. Even Damon was surprised.

“I thought you said you didn’t know how to play?”

“It’s been a while…and I didn’t know what game ya’ll were playing, anyway!” She said as she rolled her eyes at Damon.

“Better keep your eyes on the game, or your gonna lose!” Scola said.

“Umm hmm…”

Khori beat Scola and everyone in the room cheered for her, except for Scola.

“I can’t believe this!” Scola said as he looked at the controller and shook it. “Is this the same controller Damon had?”

“It’s cursed!” Damon said.

“No excuses! Hand it over!” Khori said to Scola as she pointed to his jersey.

“You want it now?” He responded.

“Well, yeah! Just to do the victory dance and then I’ll give it back, You’ll have to wash it though!”

Scola pulled his jersey over his head and put it over Khori’s head and she pulled it down and started doing the running man.

Scola shook his head and started smiling. The others were laughing, when Nokio’s phone rang in he left the room.

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About five minutes later, Khori had to use the restroom badly. She was on her way to the bathroom at the very back of the bus, but Woody beat her to it.

“Is anybody in the other bathroom?” Khori said as she looked around at the fellas.

“Nokio’s in the other one.” Damon said as he came from the front of the bus. He grabbed his cell phone, which was on the couch, and headed back to the front of bus.

“He’s been in there for five minutes!” She said as she ran from the back of the bus to the middle, where the bathroom was located. As she was about to raise her fist to knock on the bathroom door, she heard Nokio say:

“Yeah man, I’ve been thinking about leaving the group for a while now. Yes, I think they know. I said I was leaving in anger before, but I don’t think---“

Khori was surprised by the words she heard. “Nokio leaving the group? No more Dru Hill? Is that why Woody was looking sad?" She thought to herself. She took a few steps back from the door so that Nokio wouldn’t catch her eavesdropping.

Nokio opened the door just as Khori got out of the way. He was so into his phone conversation that he didn’t notice her standing there. When he completely closed the door, he noticed her standing there. But the smell from the bathroom hit her before he noticed her. Khori grabbed her nose and frowned.

“Oh, I’m about to hurl!”Khori said as she tried to hold her breath.

Nokio pulled the earpiece from his ear and said to Khori, “My bad! Don’t go in there for about 25, 35 or maybe 45 minutes!” He joked.

Khori turned around and ran toward the back of the bus to the bathroom, almost knocking Jazz into the wall while making her way. She met Jazz at the bathroom’s entrance.

“Ladies first!” He said, even though he had to go really bad.

“Everybody gotta go pee-pee at the same time?” Sisqo joked. Jazz shook his head and shrugged his shoulders.

“Must be the water, man!” Woody joked.
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Damon was in the middle of the bus making an important phone call. He tried to go to the bathroom himself, when he had overheard Nokio on the phone talking about leaving Dru Hill. He had to tell this juicy stuff to his source.
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About a couple of hours later, Nokio was gazing out of the window when he saw a silver colored Porche,
weaving in and out of traffic. They were now nearing Charlotte, North Carolina and they had hit some traffic.

“Ya’ll look!” He said to the fellas. “That car is driving all crazy and it’s rush hour traffic!”

The bus was in the middle lane of a three lane highway and the car had made it’s way to the left side and then to the right side of the bus, again.

Woody and Sisqo, who were already sitting on the right side of the bus where Nokio was, glanced out the window, while Scola, Khori, and Jazz made their way over to their side.

“I hope he doesn’t cause and accident!” Woody said.

Just as Khori, Scola and Jazz headed back to their seats on the leather couch, their bus slammed hard on the brakes and everyone , from the momentum of the bus, were thrown forward. Then all that was heard was crunching metal and glass shattering.

Everyone in the back of the bus tried to brace themselves, but it was unexpected. About a minute after and some shock from everyone, Sisqo stood to see if everyone was okay.

He went to Scola and he was okay. He asked Khori if she was okay, and she responded with a yes, Nokio and Woody were okay, because they held on for dear life, to the part of the couch that they were sitting on.

Sisqo made his way over to Jazz and he was laying face down up against a metal storage bin that was on the bus.

“Jazz…Jazz!” He said as he knelt down to shake him. He did not respond. They all looked at each other with horror in their eyes.

Sisqo swallowed the lump that was in his throat, and shook Jazz again. He turned Jazz on his back and he noticed a big gash over his right eyebrow that was bleedy profusely.

“J-JAZZZZZ!!!”

[glow=pink,2,300]Part 6 Coming Soon!!!! [/glow]

[CarolinaCutie]

Momma nooooooooo!!! C'mon, Jazzy Poo...you gotta be aight! This is good, girl!

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*gasp* Somebody sew the baby up!!

[VirgosAngel19]

Nooooooooooo, not Jazzy Bear!!

Good, good girl!! Bring on some more!!!