Chapter 5


    The next morning Lissa woke up to five familiar voices 
harmonizing in the next room. Nick and Brian had left the girls a 
note that said they would be back later, they just had to 
practice a bit.
    Alissa climbed out of bed, read the note they had left, stuck 
the yellow post-it note on Maddi's forehead (who was still sound 
asleep) and went to get changed in the bathroom.
    Madeline woke up and she had no idea where everyone was 
because she hadn't noticed the post-it note on her forehead.
    Lissa came out of the bathroom and looked at Madeline who was
now sitting up in bed, her hair looking like a tornado had just 
gone through it (that happens when your hair's long!) and she 
still had the yellow post-it note stuck to her face.
    "Morning Frick," Liss giggled. "Bout time you got up."
    "Where is everybody?" Maddi asked rubbing her eyes.
    Alissa shrugged and said, "Beats me, but you've got something
stuck to your forehead!" With that she walked out the door 
leaving Madeline alone in the hotel room.
    Maddi took the piece of paper off her face and read what was
written on it. She laughed saying quietly that she'd get Liss 
back later.
    Lissa knocked on the door of AJ's room and Jessica answered 
it.
    "Hey look who decided to get her lazy @$$ out of bed!" she 
said letting Alissa in. "Hey, where's Maddi?"
    "Oh, Maddi's still in bed," Liss said like it wasn't anything
unusual to be still in bed at twelve noon. (But for Maddi, it 
wasn't. She liked her sleep and watch out if you wake her up too 
early.)
    "Did you tell her where we are?" asked Bri.
    "Uh, no. Was I supposed to? I just stuck the post-it note to 
her forehead and left," Lissa said with a giggle.
    "Frack, that wasn't nice," teased Jess.
    "Yeah, well," Alissa said smiling, "what can ya do?"
    Brian elbowed Nick in the side. "You should have done that!"
    Nick smiled, caught Lissa's eye and shrugged.
    Everybody started to laugh and there was another knock at the 
door. Jess opened it and Madeline walked in.
    "Hello sleepyhead," Lissa said as she sat down on one of the 
beds.
    Maddi didn't say anything about the crumpled little yellow 
post-it note in her hand. She gave Liss a dirty look (one that 
you could tell she didn't really mean) and tossed it in the 
garbage can that was sitting across the room.
    "So who sings each part?" asked Howie trying to get down to 
business.
    "Well I sing Nick's parts," Alissa said as she shyly smiled 
at Nick.
    "I do B-Rok's," Maddi said. Brian smiled.
    "AJ's," Brianna said as she flopped down on the bed.
    "Howie's," said Natasha.
    "And that leaves me with Kevin's," Jess said looking around.
    "I guess we should work with them then," Nick said helping 
Lissa off the bed. "Me, Bri, Liss and Maddi will go back to our 
room."
    Still holding Lissa's hand they went back to the other room.
    The four of them harmonized for a bit then gave up and 
started to play Nintendo. After a while Jess came in and told 
Maddi and Lissa that her dad was going to come to take them out 
to celebrate.
    The three girls said goodbye to Nick and Brian and went to 
the lobby to wait for Jessica's dad.
    "Bri," Nick said as soon as the girls had left.
    Brian put the Nintendo on pause. "What is it Nick?" he asked.
    "Oh nothin," he said shutting off the game. "It's nothing 
really."