At five thirty, everyone sat down to dinner. It was
a quiet one since Derek was still annoyed with Nick
for eating the ice cream out of the container and then
licking the spoon and putting it away. Nick was not his
usual talkitive self because he didn't want to upset
Derek anymore-for a couple of days that is. After the
meal was over, Rachel left and headed back to her place.
Kat wasn't due back from a friend's house for another
hour, and Rachel wanted to get done some paper work
before her daughter came home. Alex went to her room
to work on her journal, and Derek went to his study
to pay some bills. Nick went out to the garden to do
his martial arts.
Derek opened up the phone bill and saw that it was
$450.55-he was shocked. He noticed that most of the
calls were to New York City at about the same time
each day. Derek called up Rachel and asked her if
she ever called any one in NYC, and she said no.
He went to Alex's room and knocked on her door-she
let him in. "Alex, the phone bill is huge. Did you
call any one in New York?"
She replied, "No, Derek. I don't know any one in New York."
Derek was pissed when he realized that it was Nick who was calling
NYC. Nick was finally starting to relax and get into
his martial arts when he heard, "Nick, did you call
New York City?"
With a grin on his face, Nick replied, "Yeah, I called there."
Derek asked, "Who do you know in the city?"
Laughing Nick said, "I know Carson Daly-MTV's TRL.
I call the show so I can win TRL shirts."
Derek asked Nick in a confused tone because he had no idea what
his young colleague was talking about, "What is TRL, Nick?"
"Total Request Live-viewers request the videos
they want to be played. Every day, Carson shows a
short video clip, three word clue or an email with
the song and artist's name missing, and viewers can
call in a win a shirt-if they get it right."
"How many goddamn shirts do you need, Nick?"
"A lot. I hate doing wash-Alex won't do it for me
anymore. Neither will Rachel-I used to go to her
place, and she would wash my clothes while I played
with Kat. I need to find a woman to wash my clothes.
I haven't been with a 'real woman'in ages."
"No more calls to TRL. You'll pay for these calls."
"Yes, sir." Derek went back inside, and Nick went back
to his exercising.
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