I could only snicker in response to Zoey's words. "That would be like asking the world not to turn."

Our blonde friend just shrugged, as she planted herself right next to us. "You wouldn't want me any other way."

Zoey and I just looked at each other like we'd done a hundred times in the past and shrugged. "Meh."

"Bitches," Nicole hissed at us while digging through her purse. "Here I was buying my favorite asshole a present..." She'd been referring to me as an asshole for as long as I could remember. She loved me, I had no doubt about it. Nikki pulled a shrink-wrapped DVD out of her impressively-sized, fancy purse and thrust it in my face. "You're welcome."

A picture of Andrew Wood from the mid-nineties was plastered on the front of the cover with psychedelic neon colors highlighting his name. "Nikki..." I started to say, but she waved her hand around, looking away from me.

"Yeah, yeah. I love you too," she muttered like the act of buying me a DVD of my favorite porn star wasn't awesome.

I lived on a teacher's salary as well as royalties from my e-books. While I wasn't poor, I had to limit myself to what luxuries I could spend my money on. I bought generic brand everything, cut out really good coupons in the mail, and relegated myself to free porn websites. On the other hand, Nikki shelled out the big bucks for the good porn sites and splurged on whatever she wanted. She was a good friend though— she shared her passwords for the good sites, so I could enjoy them too and bought me little things randomly. Like me, she was an only child, so over the years our friendship bridged the gap that we missed out on as kids.

I slung my arm around her shoulder, which was pretty awkward. I had to stand on the tips of my toes because she was a giant. "Thank you, Nikki." I said, quietly squeezing her to my side.

She rewarded me with a little smile out of the corner of her mouth and that was good enough for me.

"LADIES! Andrew Wood will be out in just a few minutes. He appreciates your patience and looks forward to meeting you all!" a tiny woman with very short hair hollered at the line.

Nicole's phone chimed the instant the woman started talking. She quickly pulled it out of her purse like her life depended on it. She grinned at the screen in a creepy way and nodded. "That was Calum again," she laughed to herself a little before typing away on the touch screen.

"Are you finally texting him back?" Zoey asked.

She nodded in response, tapping away on her phone with a smirk on her face. "Yeah, I'm tired of playing games. I just want to sit on his face, the sooner the better."

The nosey woman in front of us did something that sounded like a half choke-half cough sound, but Nicole just rolled her eyes.

I suddenly remembered all about my lunch with Tristan and let out a little gasp. "I met his friend, Nikki."

"What friend?" she asked before I even finished saying her name.

"The guy earlier? The one who caught me pulling out my wedgie?" I reminded her and she nodded, her face serious. I decided to skip the part about having lunch, well, more like a snack I guessed, with him for some reason. "He said he was friends with Calum."

She looked pensive for a moment, almost looking like the lawyer she was if it wasn't for the really tight clothing she wore. "Huh," she muttered in response.

The women ahead of me started shifting around, extending the line as they prepared to assault Andrew Wood himself. There weren't as many people as there had been with Calum Burro earlier, but whatever. I busied myself ripping the shrink wrap off of my new DVD, so I could get him to sign it when it was my turn. I missed the brown-haired sex god make his way into the booth followed by a small entourage. The women in line started going insane.