Chapter 3
“Rachel..”
“Yeah?”
“What was Brian doing in our hotel?” Kelsey asked on their way back to the hotel, sitting in the van.
“Staying there I presume?” Rachel asked as she looked over at her.
“They are here doing three shows and the tour is over.” Kelsey said, “I wanna go see them.”
“We don’t have tickets.”
“Call someone.” Kelsey said as Rachel laughed, “Come on. You got us tickets to go see Britney not long ago although it sucked like hell.”
“Damn bitch lips the whole show.” Rachel complained as David turned around, “Don’t you dare comment on how she looked.”
“Won’t say a thang.” David said as he turned back around.
“Come on Rach.” Kelsey said, “It’ll be cool. I have nothing planned for tonight.”
“Wonder if we can get backstage?” Rachel asked herself outloud as she took her cell phone out calling someone.
“I don’t want to go backstage. I just want to see the concert.” Kelsey said as the van pulled up to the hotel while another one pulled off, “We can be in the nosebleeds, I don’t care.”
“I’m calling dammit.” Rachel said as they got out of the van, making their way into the hotel.
Nick sat there as the bus pulled out of the hotel, looking back and forth at Howie and Kevin who were having a conversastion in the seat infront of them. They both were too damn chatty. Finally he looked over at AJ who was leaning against the window with his eyes closed.
Bastard stayed out too late last night.
Nick turned around, looking at Brian in the seat behind him and Brian looked up at him.
“What’s up?” Brian asked.
“I’m stupid.”
“And I’ve known this how long?” Brian asked as Nick rolled his eyes, “What did you do now?”
“I um, I answered a personal ad.” Nick whispered as Brian busted out laughing and everybody looked back at him.
“What’s so funny cuz?” Kevin asked as Brian put his hand over his mouth while Nick gave him a weird look.
“Nothin’ man.” Brian said as he moved his hand and the others turned back around. Brian leaned over closer to Nick and began to whisper, “What did you do?”
“I answered a personal ad.” Nick whispered as he looked back at AJ who had his eyes closed, laying his head against the window again.
“Do you know the person?” Brian whispered.
“No idea.” Nick whispered back, “She sounds nice and normal and completely sane. She’s my age. She said she liked music and sports in the ad.”
“You better not let her find out who you are.”
“I won’t.” Nick whispered back at him, “I was bored and that ad stuck out to me, so I answered it. I mean, what’s the big problem with it? The least I could do is get a e-mail friend out of it or something. Someone to talk to who doesn’t care who I am and stuff. You never know.”
“Nope.” Brian said, “Just be careful.”
“Yeah I will.” Nick said as AJ sat up.
“Carter, you gonna go out tonight?” AJ asked as Nick turned around in the seat, looking over at him.
“Nope. I’m gonna go back to the room. I have a date.”
“With who?”
“Her name is Telly.”
“Telly who?”
“Telly Vision.” Nick said as Brian cracked up laughing while AJ rolled his eyes at Nick.
“Probably to watch more CMT.” Howie joked as Nick cut his eyes over at him.
“Well I wouldn’t if the other channels wouldn’t play ‘NSuck 24/7. I get tired of seeing them damn punks.” Nick said as he crossed his arms, looking out the window.
“Bastard Timberlake.” AJ muttered as Nick looked over at him.
“Let’s kick his ass!” Kevin cheered as the others clapped their hands while Nick looked around at them.
“Oh screw ya’ll.” Nick said as they all laughed at him, turning around in their seats.
“I wish Rachel would come out of that room and tell me what’s going on.” Kelsey said as she sat there on the sofa with her legs crossed while David sat in a chair.
“Damn Backdoor Boys. This means I have to go I suppose?” he asked as Kelsey looked over at him.
“But of course. Oh come on, you know Nick is cute.” Kelsey said as she giggled.
“The blonde one? Damn no.” David said when there was a knock on the door, “Hang on, I’ll get it.” David stood up, walking over to the door and looked out to see Kelsey’s two back up singers, Joelynn, who they all called Joey, and Samantha, “It’s the girls.”
“Oh tell them to come in.” Kelsey said as David opened the door while Joey who had shoulder length blonde hair and Samantha who had auburn hair, past her shoulders, “Hey guys.. guess what Rachel’s doing?”
“What?” Joey asked as she looked over at Samantha.
“She’s calling someone to see if she can get tickets to see Backstreet Boys tonight.” Kelsey said as Joey and Samantha looked in shock.
“No fucking way.” Samantha said in shock.
“Yep.” Kelsey said, “I met Brian this morning.”
“No way.” Joey said, “Brian Littrell?”
“Yep.” Kelsey said smiling.
“Man, and dammit.” Joey said as she shoved Samantha a little, “You made me get those damn O-Town tickets for across town.”
“Damn sorry.” Samantha said as Kelsey laughed, “O-Town?”
“Okay, now I refuse to go to a O-Town concert.” David said as he looked at Kelsey, “Hell no.”
“We were just coming to see if you wanted a t-shirt or something back.” Samantha said as Joey rolled her eyes.
“Aww you’re so sweet.” Kelsey said, “Yeah bring me back one if they have those little baby doll shirts.”
“Okay. Will do. Damn O-Town fuckers.” Joey bitched as Samantha looked over laughing at Kelsey as they waved goodbye and walked out of the suite, shuting the door.
“I take it Joey doesn’t like O-Town?” David asked as Kelsey laughed.
“Hell yes.” Kelsey said laughing as Rachel walked out of the room.
“Well kids.” Rachel said as Kelsey stood up, turning around to look at her, “We got tickets!”
“Really? We do?” Kelsey asked.
“Yep, second row seats too.” Rachel said smiling as Kelsey jumped over the sofa hugging her, “Damn girl, calm yourself.”
“Sorry, I’ve just wanted to see this tour and I’ve been so busy ya know.” Kelsey said as she looked around, “Oh my god, what am I going to wear?” as she walked into her room and David stood there, shaking his head at her and laughing.
“Looks like we’re goin’ to a concert tonight Dave.” Rachel said as David growled a little.
Don’t pretend your sorry..
I know you ain’t..
“Damn Rok screwin’ up the lyrics again.” AJ bitched into the microphone as they stood there at soundcheck a little bit later in the arena.
You know you’ve got the power
To make me weak inside
Girl you leave me breathless
It’s 10 after 8
Cuz you are my survival
Now Howie say..
“That ass.” Nick said laughing as Howie continued his bridge and they began to sing the chorus.
Everytime I breathe I take you in..
And my heart beats again..
Baby I can’t help it..
You keep me drowning in your love
“Brian!” Nick said as he looked over at Brian who kept messing up on the lyrics.
Everytime I try to rise above
“Drowning in your love Brian..”
I’m swept away by love
Baby I can’t help it…
“Damn.” Nick muttered as they all missed the last line in the chorus and looked over at Brian.
“What? Damn.. we know the words. It doesn’t hurt to play around. Geeze Nick, you’re so uptight.” Brian said looking over at him.
“Needs to get laid.” AJ said inbetween coughing as Nick put his hands on his hips and put the hand that he was holding the microphone with in the air, pointing at them like he was going to say something.
“See no, I’m not gonna say nothing. I’m just trying to be professional for once.” Nick said.
“For once.” Kevin said, “Nick they’re joking.”
“Hell I’m serious as a heart attack.” AJ said as he started clutching his chest and fell down on the stage.
“Hey I’ll get my time. Just ya know, I got bitched at enough for messing up the lyrics and now Rok’s just playing around.” Nick said.
“Sorry Nick, I’ll sing seriously next time. I promise.” Brian said as Nick put his microphone down and walked off stage, heading for the back.
“Damn, boy is really uptight.” AJ said, “What’s his problem?”
“You two.” Howie said pointing at AJ and Kevin.
“What did we do?” Kevin asked.
“Trying to get him to go out and stuff, especially you AJ. He’s not ready to go out and party and stuff. He’s still hurt by what happened so just let him be.” Howie said.
“He answered a personal ad.” Brian said as he rubbed the back of his neck.
“Do what?!?!”
Kelsey! I’m going to run to a store or something!
“Okay Rach!” Kelsey yelled back as she looked through her suitcases, “Dammit, can’t find anything to wear.”
Okay. Dave’s here. Be back soon!
“Bye!” Kelsey yelled as she picked up a black leather skirt, looking at it, “Hmm I could wear that and a top.” as she layed it out on the bed and looked over to see the newspaper on her nightstand. She reached over, picking it up.
“Hmm.. wonder if it got into the paper today.” she thought as she sat down on the side of the bed, picking up the phone and dialing the number. She reached in the drawer, taking out the peice of paper that she had written her code down on so she could recieve her messages. She pressed in the code and then sat there listening to her messages.
You have 4 new messages. Press 1 to skip a message. Press 2 to return a message.
“Oh 4. Damn.” Kelsey thought as she sat there listening to them.
Message 1: Hi, I’m a 43 year old white -
“I don’t think so.” Kelsey said outloud, shaking her head no, while she pressed 1, sitting there waiting for the second message.
Message 2: Uh damn don’t know what to say. Shit, I’ll call right back.
“Oh my god.” Kelsey said laughing to herself as it went to the next message.
Message 3: Me is no speak mucha English but me 29 year old -
“No.” Kelsey said laughing as she pressed 1.
Message 4: Um hi, I called about two hours ago and made a fool of myself but I thought about what to say
so I called back. I’m um damn yo I don’t know what to say. I’m 21 too and I like music and sports too like you do. You sound kinda cool, so just hit me back just to chat. Damn I ain’t Eminem. I’ll shut up now. Damn I sound like a moron. Later.
“Damn.” Kelsey thought as she bit her lip and pressed 2 to reply to the message.
You will be told in a second that recording will begin. Please press 1 when you are finished recording.
Recording begins now.
“Hm hey, ya know, I got some really freaky replies and yours seemed like the only normal one. So what kind of music do you like? I like everything from Garth Brooks to Backstreet Boys to Eminem. Sad I know what song you were talking about ‘Stan’. Sports, I like playing basketball. I played it some in high school, but I like watching football. I like most football teams, except for the Denver Broncos and Miami Dolphins. They suck ass. Well I’ve probably bored you enough. Maybe I’ll hear from you later. Bye!” Kelsey said into the phone.
Kelsey reached over, pressing 1 on the phone to end recording and then hung the phone up.
“Well..” Kelsey said outloud as she looked around, “He sounded somewhat normal and nervous. He sounded cute.” as she smiled a little and looked around the room. She just sat there smiling around, “Damn I need to do my hair!”
“A personal ad? Really?” Kevin asked as they stood there on stage looking at Brian.
“Yeah, he said he saw some girl’s ad and she seemed kinda cool and normal, so he sent her a message. I mean what could it hurt?” Brian asked.
“Kinda cool actually.” Howie said as he nodded his head in agreement.
“That’s funny shit yo.” AJ said laughing as he rubbed his hands together.
“Don’t mess with him about it.” Brian said, “You annoy him enough about getting on with his life. Let him take his time and do things his way. If he wants to see what this girl is like on this message thing or whatever. Let him. He knows to be careful.”
“Yeah.” Kevin said as he looked over at AJ smiling, “Alex-”
“Yeah yeah yeah..” AJ said as he waved his hand at them laughing.
“Assholes.” Nick said as he walked into the game room in the back of the arena, sitting down in the chair of a racing arcade game and took his cell phone out. He reached in his pocket pulling out a number and dialed it.
Please enter your code:
Nick looked at the paper again, dialing the code and put it back in his pocket.
You have 1 new message. Press 2 to reply.
“Oh damn.” Nick thought as he sat up, leaning against the steering wheel as he began to listen to it.
“Hm hey, ya know, I got some really freaky replies and yours seemed like the only normal one. So what kind of music do you like? I like everything from Garth Brooks to Backstreet Boys to Eminem. Sad I know what song you were talking about ‘Stan’. Sports, I like playing basketball. I played it some in high school, but I like watching football. I like most football teams, except for the Denver Broncos and Miami Dolphins. They suck ass. Well I’ve probably bored you enough. Maybe I’ll hear from you later. Bye!
Nick sat there a minute, thinking before he hit 2.
You will be told in a second that recording will begin. Please press 1 when you are finished recording.
Recording begins now.
“Um hi, it’s me again. So you like Garth, Backstreet, and Em? That’s pretty cool. I like all kinds of music really, but.. well country isn’t top on my list but well it’s alright at times. I like everybody really, except ‘N Sync. Can’t stand them. Not at all. I love to play basketball though. I wish I could play football but I can’t. I don’t like Denver that much either. The Dolphins are okay. I’m a big Ta.. football fan.” Nick said as he almost said Tampa Bay Buccanears fan but caught himself, “But no, your reply didn’t bore me. I was actually in shock that you replied to me because I’m pretty boring. Too bad we can’t hear our real voices really and it’s got that computer mix in there. Sounds like you have a nice voice. Oh yeah, just a funny question because my um..” Nick sat there looking around and began to laugh a little, “My sister is a big Backstreet Boys fan, who’s your favorite? Talk to ya lata, bye.”
Nick sat there smiling a little as he closed up his cell phone and started to play the video game when AJ walked up to him, sitting in the one beside him.
“Personal ad huh?” AJ asked as Nick rolled his eyes.
“I’m gonna kick Rok’s ass.” Nick said as AJ started laughing.
“Oh man, this place is packed.” Kelsey said as her, Rachel, and David walked down the stairs in the arena to get to their second row seats.
“You aren’t kidding. 25,000 screaming teenyboppers. Damn.” David mumbled as Rachel looked back at him.
“Alright, watch it, or I’ll scream in your ear.” Rachel said as David stuck his tongue out at her.
“Man, we are so close. Right on the edge too. Damn.” Kelsey said as they walked up to their seats, “Is it sad I brought my camera? Damn gotta have pictures of this.”
“You are one sad puppy Kel.” David said as Kelsey rolled her eyes at him, “Thank God we missed the opening act.”
“Uh Sisqo.” Rachel growled, “Fuck that thong thong thong thong..”
“Oh shut up and stop complaining.” Kelsey said as she looked over to see two girls looking at her, “Uh I think some people are starting to recognize me.”
“I told you to wear a hat moron.” Rachel said.
“I will protect you.” David said in a macho voice as she looked over at him.
“And I feel oh so safe.” Kelsey said sarcastically as Rachel laughed and the lights went down, “Oh damn.”
“Oh shut up.” Rachel said laughing as they sat there when the guys came up on platforms, rising in the air. They guys came down off of them and began peforming “Larger Than Life”.
Rachel and Kelsey both stood there singing along with the guys as David sat in his seat, watching the woman infront of him dance. The guys kept looking out into the audience waving. The seats that they were in, had them sitting infront of Nick which is mostly where he was known to stay throughout the whole show.
“Damn I love this song.” Kelsey said as they were performing “I Promise You” in their white suits. Kelsey kept her eyes on Brian most of the time, watching him make goofy faces and he even waved at her once.
“Hey did ya’ll notice that girl out there.” Brian said underneath the stage as they were changing into their blue suits as Nick looked over at him.
“Lots of girls out there Rok.” AJ said as he buttoned up his shirt.
“No, that Kelsey chick. The singer Nick likes.” Brian said as they all stopped and looked over at Nick.
“Hey! I never said I liked her, damn man.” Nick said as he zipped up his pants, slipping on his shirt.
“Sure act like it.” Howie said.
“Well I don’t. I didn’t see her out there.” Nick said as he buttoned up his shirt.
“I didn’t notice her either. Of course I don’t know what she looks like.” Kevin said as he put on his jacket.
“Brunnette. Her hair is a little past her shoulders. She’s wearing a black leather jacket and a blue top I think. Right side of the stage facing out, hm 2nd row I believe. Her guard is sitting down in the chair beside her.” Brian said.
“Remembered all that did ya Rok?” AJ asked.
“Get bored up there while you and Carter are trying to outsing each other.” Brian said as Howie and Kevin started to laugh.
“I’ll go see now.” Nick said as they got ready to come up from the stage.
