Princeton

Me and the rest of MB are in rehearsals learning the new routines for our tour and practicing. It's a lot of work but we love doing it. We just finished going through the choreography for Girls Talkin Bout and Hello, so now we're taking a break. I was sweating a little so I grabbed a bottle of water and stood in front of the fan for a few minutes.

After I went into the break room where everyone else is and plopped down on one of the couches next to Ray-Ray.

Our choreography came in a while later. "Nice job you guys. Everything is looking great." he said.

We were so tired, all we could do was mumble.

"Don't worry, all of your practicing is done. All you have to do now is a wardrobe fitting and radio interview before you go on tour. And you have a good amount of free time too." said our manager Maria coming into the room.

"Good" said Prodigy.

Roc was listening to music now and was close to falling asleep.

Ray-Ray was fixing his braids.

Prodigy was texting and I was looking for something to eat.

"Oh, Princeton?" called Maria

"Yeah?"

"Your mother called while you were practicing"

"What did she want?"

"I'm not sure. She wants to tell you herself, so call her back"

I was a little nervous."Did she sound mad?"

"No. She sounded excited for some reason"

Now I was confused. "Um...I guess I'll call her now"

Maria left with the choreographer and I grabbed my phone from my bag. I called my mom and she picked up on the second ring.

"Hey sweetie"

"Hey mom. Is something wrong?"

"No, everything is fine. I just have some good news"

I let out the breath I was holding in, relieved that I wasn't in trouble or anything.

"What is it?"

"I'm just going to cut to the chase...Taylor is coming home!"

"Tay?". I didn't really believe my mom. She's been gone for practically 5 years.

"Yes. I was talking to her mother and she told me that she's coming back home. Aren't you happy?"

"Of course. It's just that I'm kind of shocked When is supposed to be here?"

"Let's see, today is Thursday...I think the latest would be Saturday morning. I told her mom that she can call us whenever it's a good time for us to come over."

"Alright mom. I'll see you later"

"Ok. Bye."

I hung up the phone and sat back in the couch. Prodigy looked up from texting. "What was that about?"

"My mom just told me that my bestfriend is coming back."

"Bestfriend? You never told us about anyone." said Roc

"I don't know why I didn't mention her before. I guess 'cuz she was around, I didn't have anything to say about her."

"It's a girl?" asked Ray-Ray

"Yeah"

"Is she cute?" asked Roc

I looked at him. " 1- I haven't seen her in like 5 years and 2- She's my bestfriend, why would I be thinking about how cute she is?"

He shrugged. "She's still a girl"

"Are you going to go see her?" asked Ray-Ray

"Yeah, she's supposed to get here Saturday morning"

"What's her name?"

"Taylor"

"Can we come too?" asked Prodigy

"Sure"

"Where was she?"

"She was accepted into this boarding school, some people came looking for her. I don't remember why though"

5 years earlier- Narrator P.O.V.

Jacob (Princeton aka Puffles) - 9- 10 yrs old

Taylor (Jade) - 12 yrs old.

Their parents were close so when they all started having kids all of the kids spent a lot of time together. But when Jacob and Taylor were born they became best friends. Taylor was 2 years older than Jacob but that never mattered to them.

What made Taylor go away was that she went to a boarding school. She was a child prodigy, exceptionally smart. They had her do tests meant for older kids and she went above and beyond their expectations, so it was decided that she would go to a gifted childrens boarding school.

She was excited to go but extremely sad to leave Jacob. He was sad for months until he got a surprise. On his tenth birthday, she came to his party. They were so happy to see eachother. She even brought him presents: a t-shirt from New York where the school was and an action figure from his favorite cartoon.

But the thing he loved the most was a necklace she gave him. It had different color beads on it with a circular shaped piece of an elephant tusk in the middle her father had given her.

"Here"

"What's this?"

"One of my favorite necklaces"

"But if you like it so much, why are you giving it to me?"

" Because, it'll prove that I'll come back. And when I do you can give it back"

"Ok. You promise you'll come back?"

"I promise"

"Taylor? We have to go" her mother called looking for her

"Bye Jade"

"Bye Puffles" she was the only one he let call him that but he always scrunched up his face at the name.

She hugged him and then ran to her mother. He looked at the place she ran, then looked down at the necklace in his hand.

He still has it and he kept safe in a box under his bed, waiting for her to come back.

How was this? I kept thinking of this idea and it took me a while to actually write in down. If you're having questions about the weird "nicknames" here's the answer. Taylor is called Jade because of her insanely unnatural but cool green eyes and Princeton is Puffles because of his hair.

Anyways...tell me what you think and I'm open to suggestions and requests for future parts of the story.

-DHU aka corruptwriter