Aimee walked back into her and Nick’s dorm room a little bit later, carrying another box and then a few more bags to hear some heavy rap music coming out of Nick’s stereo and he was standing there rapping to it. She walked in and slammed the door as Nick turned around and looked at her.

“Turn that off.” said Aimee.

“Why?” asked Nick.

“Cuz.. I can’t stand that crap.” said Aimee, “If I wanna hear that I’ll turn the TV to BET or somethin’.”

“Damn.. alright.” said Nick as he cut the stereo off, “Don’t get pissy about it. Sorry.”

“It’s okay.” said Aimee as Nick looked over at her.

“Is that all your stuff.. you need any help getting the rest up here?” asked Nick as Aimee looked over at him, tucking her hair behind her ears.

“No.. that’s all.. thanks.” said Aimee.

“You’re welcome.” said Nick as he turned around to finish unpacking, “So do you know what classes your going to have?”

“Usual freshman classes I suppose.” said Aimee, “What about you?”

“No idea.” said Nick, “I’ll find out tomorrow.”

“Yeah.” said Aimee, “So are any of the other guys going to be coming to visit you here?”

“Maybe, why?” asked Nick, “Like one of them?”

“That one with the short brown hair is kinda cute.” said Aimee.

“Brian.. he’s married.” said Nick.

“Oh well…” said Aimee as Nick started to laugh and looked back at her again.

“Ya know.. maybe this living arrangement thing won’t be so bad.. we seem to get along okay when we’re not talking about music… or this dorm room.” said Nick, “Let’s just not mention them and we’ll be doing okay.”

“Yeah but music is a big part of my life..” said Aimee as Nick turned all the way around looking at her as she looked back at him, “Shit wait I am talking to a Backstreet Boy aren’t I.. I guess not as much as it’s a part of your life.”

“Yeah…” said Nick as he went to throw some of his empty bags in the bottom of his closet and looked around, “So you need any help or anything?”

“No.. I’m fine.” said Aimee as she put up another picture on the wall.

“That Lila McCann is pretty hot.” said Nick as Aimee looked back at him.

“You probably don’t know a thing she sings do you?” asked Aimee.

“Alright here we go talking about music again, let’s leave that alone. So do you have any friends here?” asked Nick.

“Don’t know anybody.” said Aimee, “You?”

“Nobody but you.” said Nick as Aimee turned around and sat down on her bed.

“You don’t know me.” said Aimee.

“Okay so you’re what.. it says here you’re 21.” said Nick.

“Yep.” said Aimee, “You’re 21 right?”

“Yep.” said Nick, “And you’re like from over.. there… ya know in Florida.” as Aimee started to laugh.

“Destin.” said Aimee.

“Yeah somethin’ like that.. on the beach.” said Nick.

“Yeah…” said Aimee, “Umm.. I’m gonna run down to the Coke machine and get something to drink. Want anything?”

“Nah.. thanks.” said Nick as Aimee smiled and walked out of their dorm room while Nick grabbed his cell phone, “Shit.. dial..”

“Hello?” asked Howie answering his phone.

“Hey man.. umm I don’t think tomorrow would be such a good day to come up here man.” said Nick as he looked around.

“Why.. Brian and Leighanne were coming down and we were gonna drive up there to see ya.” said Howie.

“Nah man I’m gonna be so busy… maybe another weekend or something ya know what I mean. I’m gonna be yo busy.” said Nick as he took his hat off and looked in the mirror, fixing his hair.

“So you already found a girl you like?” asked Howie.

“Me.. no.” said Nick, “Why do you think that?”

“I know you Nicky.” said Howie as he started to laugh.

“Nah… no man. Just I’m gonna be busy and I don’t wanna ignore ya.. what the hell is Rok and Leigh coming down for?” asked Nick.

“Stay at the beach.” said Howie, “Alright then.. so how is that James guy?”

“James guy?” asked Nick.

“You’re roommate.” said Howie.

“Oh yeah.. um she.. shit, man, he’s cool man, very cool.” said Nick, “Ya know, already talked about football, girls.. that kinda stuff.”

“Oh sounds like you’re type of guy.” said Howie, “Well okay.. let me know how things go up there okay.”

“Alright man…” said Nick as Aimee walked back into the room, “I’ll talk to ya later.”

“Bye.” said Howie as Nick hung up his cell phone and looked over at Aimee.

“Who was that?” asked Aimee.

“Howie.” said Nick as Aimee looked over at him.

“Cool.” said Aimee as she walked over to her desk, hooking her computer up.

“Yeah…” said Nick as he shook his head.

“What in the hell am I thinking? Damn Nick… don’t even go there.” he thought as he started to laugh out loud.

“What? What’s so funny?” asked Aimee.

“Nothin..” said Nick as he walked over to look at her pictures, “Who’s these people?”

“My sisters.. my parents…” said Aimee.

“Oh, they all live in Destin?” asked Nick.

“No.. my dad lives in Jacksonville, my mom lives in Destin with my younger singer, and my older sister who went to school here and had this dorm room lives in Tampa now.” said Aimee.

“They divorced?” asked Nick.

“Yeah..” said Aimee, “I grew up inbetween Jacksonville and Destin…. they got a divorce when my little sister was 2 months old.”

“Damn..” said Nick, “That’s sad… my parents have been married over 20 years.”

“Yeah.. that’s why when I’m getting married.. I’m going to get married to one person only and spend the rest of my life with them. I’m going to marry the right person.” said Aimee as Nick looked over at her.

“Good advice.” said Nick as he walked back over to his things and looked at a picture of him and his family and sat it up on the desk, then took out a picture of him and Brian, and sat it beside it.

“Yep and I’m gonna live by it.” said Aimee, “So you don’t have a major?”

“Nope… I’m only going to go here a year.. well until the end of the Spring semester.. end of April I think. I’m just.. I wanted to do this.. I’ve always wanted to go to college and this is my chance while we’re taking time off.” said Nick.

“Well better than sittin’ on your ass the entire time.” said Aimee as Nick started to laugh.

“Yeah.. you do have a point.” said Nick as he looked back over at her, “You know.. you look like someone I use to know.”

“Who?” asked Aimee as she looked over at him.

“Nobody important.. just you remind me of someone.. like I’ve seen you somewhere before or something.” said Nick.

“In your dreams maybe..” said Aimee as she smiled, walking out of the dorm room and Nick looked around.

“Oh please…” said Nick as he started to laugh and looked over at the door. He put down his portable cd player on his desk and peeked out the door to see Aimee talking to some guy down the hallway, “Oh she’s a playa…” as a girl walked by and looked at him.

“Oh my god.. Nick Carter!” yelled the girl as Aimee looked down at them.

“Hi.” said Nick as he shook her hand.

“Like oh my god, what are you doing here?” asked the girl as Aimee walked back down to the door.

“Excuse me… he’s with me.” said Aimee as she walked in the door, taking Nick’s hand and shutting the door.

“What the hell?” asked Nick looking at her confused.

“I dunno but this is going to be fun. I finally have something all the girls want.” said Aimee laughing as she sat down on the bed.

“What would that be?” asked Nick as he walked over and sat down on her bed, looking at her.

“A Backstreet Boy in my bed.” said Aimee who was about to die laughing as Nick looked at her, shaking his head no.

“You’re about whack.” said Nick as he got up, walked back over to the door and looked out of it, “Damn she’s gone.. she was kinda cute too.”

“Can you say slut?” asked Aimee as Nick shut the door and looked back over at her.