Answers to these questions and MORE! Yes, Yes, HELL yeah! not a chance...
Rhonda slipped into the office and into Cami's "guest" chair behind Suzanne making her do the doggie turn-around trick and giggle when she saw her sitting there. Rhonda smiled a somewhat unsincere smile at the poor clueless woman. Suzanne shut the door behind her.
"Sheesh Cami, you really need to find a new assistant."
Cami looked at the closed door and sighed. "yeah, I know. I feel sorry for her. Who's going to hire her? Anyway, here."
Cami tossed one of the laminated passes. Rhonda caught it and did a small pot and spoonless happy dance.
"Im gonna meet Joe, Your gonna meet Glenn!! We're gonna get soooommee" she sang.
Cami just looked at her friend and shook her head.
"you're such a dork."
"Yeah!" Rhonda grinned "But a lucky Dork! whooo let the dogs out WOO WOO!" (she was still dancing)
Cami sat behind her desk and put her head in her hands.
Rhonda stopped dancing and looked at her friend puzzled.
"Ummm... you dont seem quite as excited as you ..perhaps SHOULD be? wassup?"
Cami kept her head down and shook it. "I dont know. Im so nervous. What if he hates me? What if he doesnt remember any of it?"
Rhonda sat in the chair and smiled at her friend.
"Ok, first of all, lets break it down. You two met, you spent the night dancing and making out in a diner, HE said he loved you first! It was HIS idea to meet in a year, HE was there! I think He'll remember you."
"and he'll hate and resent me." she said to her desk.
"Hmm.. do you think he's that stupid? really? I mean dont you think he'd figure out that the traffic south had been stopped?"
Cami looked up at her friend. Obviously this was an idea she hadnt thought of.
"I hadnt thought of that. So, then, why didnt he wait for me? or come looking for me later?"
Rhonda scooted behind the desk and took over Cami's computer. "I dont know, lets find out!"
They googled, they researched and they discovered that Glenn had had a solo career that had taken off and right around 1989-1990 he had spent a good amount of time touring overseas (poetic licence.. this is Cami world).
"Well, he wasnt even in the country! Thats why he couldnt stay" Rhonda had her nose pressed to the screen. They'd discovered a web site filled with fun facts, information and pictures of the Eagles called Eagles Online Central and Rhonda was knee deep in Joe.
Cami took one look at her friend and said
"Order in?"
Rhonda said
"yup"
Cami poked her head out at Suzanne and said "Pizza?"
Suzanne said "No thanks. I had tuna"
Cami bowed her head and closed her eyes. "No Suzanne, for us. Will you please order a pizza"
Suzanne giggled "Oh, ok! peperoni?"
"yes, please"
Rhonda called to her friend from the desk
"Come look at this."
There he was. Exactly as she remembered. The moustache, those eyes, lips smile. Cami sat down hard on her chair. She'd lost control of her knees.
"I cant do this. I'm going to see him and pee myself or loose control of my legs or all my bodily functions!"
"Or, he'll see you and feel the same and he'll take you in his arms kiss you and never let you go! them he'll introduce your HOT friend to HIS HOT friend and we'll make babies!!"
Cami looked at her friend.
"Babies? really? you want babies?"
Rhonda thought.
"Well, no. been there, done that. But it sure would be fun trying!"
Eventually the pizza came and they ate it.
"I'm thinking this would be a really bad time to go shop for clothes to wear to the concert." Cami said looking at the empty pizza box and her friend with a slice in her hand and her nose pressed to the monitor.
"eh... "
Cami shook her head again.
"Well, Im going to go down to wardrobe and see if they've finished the costumes updates for Othello. Work goes on. Dont get grease on my keyboard."
"huh.."
Cami left her friend comatose staring at the monitor and pictures of the blond goofy looking guy. Maybe she'd look for an outfit after work. Wardrobe was in the basement far corner from her office so about as far from her office as you can get and still be in the Bowmer theater. Stella was down there. She was a very nice and talented woman, but nearly a troll as far as Cami could tell. She wasnt sure she ever left wardrobe but she was an extremely talented woman. Cami looked over her work and it was flawless. Every seam was bound and the stitches were tiny. Cami admired the woman's work so much, she told her about her delema. Stella beamed at Cami.
"I can help you!" she lead her to a back room and took out a measuring tape.
"Now lets see.." she measured Cami's waist and hips and Bust.
"Oh my!" said the old woman and smiled knowingly at Cami. Cami blushed deeply. She'd been plagued with what her sister had called her "endowments" and Cami had always referred to as her back aches.
Stella brought out a dress, simple but elegant. Satin and asian in design. A kind of periwinkle blue with a jade and rose pattern in it that made the green in Cami's eyes sparkle.
"Wow! Stella! this is beautiful! But I doubt it will fit."
Stella smiled.
"Come back tomorrow. It will fit like it was a part of you."
Cami agreed and returned to her office.
Rhonda was still there pouring over the monitor and now Suzanne was standing over her shoulder, both were giggling and watching videos on youtube.
"Ok. thats enough." Cami said standing in the door to her office. Suzanne popped up and scuttled out the door to her own desk. Rhonda looked up and said "Come here, you got to see this."
"What I've got to do is some work! this concert is occupying all my time!"
Rhonda looked at her friend with raised eyebrows.
"Uh huh, and what's more important is.....???"
Cami cracked a smile. She was right. Finding Glenn was the most important thing in her life right now, but loosing her job would be bad.
"Your right. Finding Glenn IS whats most important right now, but loosing my job means loosing those passes!! you want me to risk that?"
Rhonda jumped up from the computer and walked back around the desk. She scooped up her pass from the desk top.
"I'll just hang on to this" and smiled at her friend. She walked to the door and opened it.
"I'll let you get back to work. I need to do some work too! Call me when you're done! BYE!" she waved over her shoulder as she left.
Cami sat at her computer and wiped the grease off her keyboard. Some strange unicorn video was playing with dancing candy and strange looking stop gap annimation. Cami closed the browser and opened her email. The next few hours she attempted to return some emails but she was pretty sure what she sent out was pretty much nonsense. Her mind was gone, out there at the Britt center 4 days from now.
The next 3 days were pretty much the same thing. Stella finished her dress and it did fit perfectly and she looked amazing in it. She braided her hair in a tight braid that somehow hung loosely around her face and looked like spun silk. She looked stunning. The day of the concert was here. Rhonda knocked on her door and Cami answered. Rhonda was wearing very worn jeans with strategic holes in her backside and knees. An Eagles tshirt from the 70s (vintage she said) tied in a knot at her waist biker chick boots and several chains and pendants and last but not least, guitar pick earrings. Somehow, she pulled it off! It looked great! but it was a huge contrast to Cami's well polished elegant look. They were both striking, in opposite directions.
Rhonda giggled when she saw Cami.
"You look great! Between the two of us, we'll knock em dead" and she grinned that grin that only Rhonda could get away with.
Cami shook out her hands and her face
"Oh I am so nervous. You've got to help me get through this."
"No problem" Rhonda took her by the elbow and began to lead her towards Cami's new forest green Mercedes.
"WAIT! why are we taking my new car? Why cant we take yours?"
"My Mini? you really want to look like that and drive up in my mini? I mean it's a cute car, but you look like a million bucks! The mini's more like a buck fifty."
Cami gave her friend a sideways glance.
"and what does that mean for you?"
Rhonda grinned.
"Getting out of your car will just make me look like a Rock Star!"
Cami sighed. She couldnt win.
"If my car gets scratched, you're paying for it!"
"We've got passes, that means VIP parking. NOT a problem!" more grinning. Cami knew this would mean trouble.
Jacksonville was packed! Traffic was a nightmare but they did indeed have VIP valet parking. Cami was very hesitant to give up her keys to the young man, but Rhonda took them from her hand, replaced them with a valet ticket and towed her towards the VIP entrance. ....
OOOOOO what now??