"Yeah, well you weren't exactly the polite one."
"What did I say?"
"You said...you said...well, I don't remember what you said but it wasn't very nice."
"Whatever." then I turned and walked in the doors. Just then two arms enveloped me, "LILLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Nick?" I looked at his face, "Nick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" he pushed me back so he could 'get a better look at me'.
"Wow, you've changed!" and I guess he was right, last time he saw me, I was 5'2, shoulder length black hair, and a body which could be compared to a stick, but he liked me back then, so...anyways, now I'm 5'4, my hair's still black but it goes down to my lower back (with red highlights), and my body...well....we're not gonna talk about that. Right then Nick shook his head, "Whew, and when I say changed...I mean changed." he laughed. "I remember the last time I saw you, you were a skinny little kid!"
"I don't think you thought I was a little kid Nick," I laughed when he blushed. "Besides, you were just as skinny as me, if not skinnier!"
"Hey, you better watch out, I'm still bigger than you!" he mocked,
"That leaves me at the advantage," I winked at him,
"What? Oh...oh, I get it.....hey!" I walked by him so that he wouldn't have a chance to say anything else,
"Where are the rest of the guys?"
"Right through here," he led me through another door, "and they don't know you're coming, so...lets see if they recognize you, K? Don't say anything!"
"Alright....but remember, I don't have much time left, and neither do you guys..."
"Just play along with whatever I say, alright? Even if it is degrading."
"What?" I didn't have a chance to ask him exactly what he meant by degrading because he opened the door and walked in.
"And the great one has entered the room. Please, please, hold the applause, oh stop it you're making me blush!" Nick grinned,
"Yeah, okay Nick, whatever." AJ said absent mindedly. I giggled a bit at that,
"Hey Nick, where'd you go?" I heard a familiar voice ask,
"No where Bri, but I picked up AJ's early birthday present" I looked up quickly, what the heck was he talking about? "Yup, right here!" he pushed me forward. I turned around and glared at him, trying to send my thoughts of 'ooh, I'm gonna get you back so bad' to him. The guys crowded around me,
"Nick, what are you talking about? What do you mean my 'early birthday present'?" AJ laughed,
"Dude, she looks familiar...." Howie put in, I didn't think that I looked that different,
"You're right! She does! Have we met before?" Brian asked me,
"You could say that." I smiled sweetly,
"Where?"
"Guess." then I leaned over to him and whispered, "see if you can guess where you met me, Rokkers."
"Llynia! Is that you? Lilly?!" I jumped up and hugged him,
"Bri, you always were the quickest!" he grinned,
"I can't believe you're here! When...where...how? I'm confused....." then AJ cut in,
"Yeah, well, give us all some time with her! Lilly, how are you? Its been, what...two years? Whatever, its been too long!"
"I know AJ!" I hugged him too, man, we were just a huggie group. I said hey to Howie and Kevin too, I didn't really talk to them all that much 'cause they were so much older than me, I connected with Bri and AJ a lot more. Then I turned to face Nick again,
"Nick..."
"Yes?" he smiled,
"AJ's birthday present?" I advanced on him,
"No! That's not what I said."
"Oh so now you take it back???"
"No! I said 'AJ's early birthday present'!"
"Nick!" I started hitting him, but only playfully.
"Careful there Lilly, he's gotta show to do, you don't wanna tire him out already." Brian laughed,
"Ha ha Brian, very funny."
"I thought so, you didn't think so Nicky?" I giggled,
"My name is Nick. Not Nicky, or Nickster, or Nickmeister, or any other God forsaken variety of Nick you can give me, just Nick. Plain ole' simple Nick."
"Mmmkay, whatever you say Nick-" I paused and waited for a second, "-y"
"I'm going to ignore that comment because I know you won't do it again." he said calmly, I had to laugh just because he looked so serious! Then I made the mistake of glancing at my watch,
"Shit!"
"Did you just utter an explicitive?" AJ asked me jokingly,
"I did not utter one, I exclaimed one, and again, shit!"
"What?" Nick asked,
"I have to leave now, your guys' show starts in two minutes, meaning, I have to get back to my seats."
"Okay, but promise you'll come back here after the show, I don't care how, just do it." Nick said. He had the 'I won't take no for an answer' face on, so I didn't even bother to try and argue,
"Alright, good luck you guys!" I gave them each a good luck hug and went back to my seat, when I did finally get back Bree was waiting for me,
"Where were you?! I was going crazy!"
"I got lost...."
"Lost?" she said like she didn't believe it.
"Yeah." I felt bad for lying to her...but what could I do?
"And you call me a ditz?" she laughed,
"I resent that, when I say you're a ditz its true..." I replied, she paused for a second, letting what I said register and then,
"No its not!"
"Now this, ladies and gentlemen, is what you call a late reaction." I kidded with her, all of a sudden we heard screams and then just as quickly the auditorium went quiet,
"Here we go," she whispered excitedly. Yeah, I silently agreed, here we go. Then, outta no where, five sprouts of flame shot up from the stage, and then,
"HOLY CRAP!!! HERE THEY COME!" I was beginning to get a bit of a headache, but I had to admit, I was also kinda sorta excited. Just a little. Okay, more than a little. Alright, I was screaming my head off along with all the other teenage girls who were at the show. Bree hit me just then,
"Look up!" she yelled, so I did, I'm not sure I'll ever be able to look at AJ the same way again, there he was, flying over us, legs spread wide apart...I just hoped he wouldn't rip his pants. Bree was busy snapping pictures of flying AJ,
"Why do you want pictures of that??" I yelled back at her.
"Because, its AJ!" she said, as if that explained everything.
"Oh, okay, that makes it a whole lot clearer to me!" just then the opening notes of 'Larger Than Life' sounded and the whole audience went crazy all over again. Their screams were followed by AJ's maniacal laugh, and then the song started.
I may run and hide when you're screamin' name alright,
But let me tell you now there are prices to fame, alright,
'Little do they know' I thought as I looked around me at all the adolesents who were 'in love' with the guys.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"OUCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" I screamed at Bree, "I think you just killed my ear!"
"Nick winked at me! I know he winked at me! He did it, I swear!"
"Bree dear, there's just one little problem with what you're saying....HE CAN'T SEE US!!!" and with that I went back to listening to the song,
Lookin' at the crowd and see your body sway c'mon
Wishin' I could thank Lil in a different way c'mon
Did he just say my name?
"Dude, did they just say...?" Bree started, then she shook her head, "Naw, couldn't have been." after that we didn't talk, not 'cause she was jealous, she didn't think anything happened, but mainly 'cause we couldn't hear anything. After about 45 minutes, they sang 'Don't Wanna Lose You Now' which is an adorable song I think.
I never thought that I could lose my mind,
That I could control this
I never that thought I'd be left behind
That I was strong than you,
(baby)
Lil if I only I knew what I've done,
You know, so why don't you tell me
(And I)
I would bring down the moon and the sun
To show, how much I care
"Um, Lilly, did they just say your...." Bree started again, and then she just decided she was going crazy I guess. I pretended not to hear her even though I knew they were playing games. I reminded myself to kick Nick after the show. Twenty minutes later they stopped to take a break on stage, Brian started speaking into the mike about how much the fans meant to them, etc, and then he added, much to my surprise, that there would be something special happening to a certain fan in this audience since it was the last show of the Millennium. AJ came up,
"We'd like the lucky girl...if its a guy, make sure its the girl closest to you unless you want five other guys serenading you down on bended knee...would the person sitting in section 406, row 10, seat number 12 please come down here?"
"That's me!!! It's me!!!!!!!!" Bree jumped up and down, "I can't believe this is actually happening to me!"
"Um, Bree...?"
"What Lilly? Can't you see I'm celebrating???"
"Why don't you celebrate with them?" I asked,
"Oh yeah!" then she ran down to the stage, she climbed up the stairs and I could tell she was nervous from where I was sitting.
"Hey, what's your name?" Nick greeted her
"Br-br-brina" she replied
"Hi Br-br-brina." Brian joked.
"Ha ha Bri, hey Brina"
"Hola Brina" Howie added
"We're going to be singing to you Brina, how would you like that?" AJ said.
"I'd...well....I'd...I'd LOVE it!" she answered enthusiastically,
"Well, we're glad!" Kevin laughed, the music for 'All I Have To Give' started up. I sighed, I loved this song, Nick knew that too, I knew that's why he picked it. How corny is that? Nick knelt down on one knee and took Bree's hand in his own, she closed her eyes like she thought she was dreaming or something,
I don't know, what he does to make you cry
But I'll be there to make you smile
Right then Nick gave her a big grin, luckily her eyes were open again by then. After that I kinda quit watching, I just listened to the song. When it finished Bree came back,
"Have fun?" I smiled. She didn't answer me, "Hello? Bree?" and again, no answer, "Bree?" I snapped in front of her face,
"Huh? What?" she said absent mindedly.
"Nothing, never mind, I can see you're still not over it." I laughed. We sat back and watched the rest of the concert. After it got over we stayed for about thirty more minutes and then Brina's cell phone rang, she picked it up,
"Hello? Yeah, she's here...who's this? She'll know? Okay....." she turned to me, "Its for you, says its 'him' or something, you want me to tell him to get a life?"
"No!" I laughed, "My exes generally don't call my friend's cell phone, unlike someone *cough*" I grinned,
"Hey!"
"Just kidding, just kidding!" I took the phone from her, "Hello?"
"Hey! How'd you like it?"
"It was great! The guys were excellent!" Bree heard me and yelled in the background,
"They sure were!" Nick just laughed a bit,
"I take it that was....what's her name? Brina?"
"Yep, you got it...anyways, what's up?" I asked him,
"Well…since I haven't seen you since well, y'know...you wanna stay and talk?" he asked some what hopefully,
"Well yeah I'd want to, but... um, what about Bree?"
"Can't her mom take her? Just tell her you're staying to chill with your buds" he giggled, "Alright, hold on," I tapped her on the shoulder, "Bree?"
"Oh my God, what?" she jumped,
"Sorry," I laughed, "but, I'm gonna be staying a bit longer than you, okay? I'm gonna stay and chill with my buds...hehehe"
"I HEARD THAT Lilly!" Nick yelled into the phone, Bree broke into laughter, "Were you mocking him?"
"Yep yep yep" I replied smiling, "Hey?"
"Yeah" Nick asked.
"I'll stay."
"Cool, seeya in a few."
"K, bye"
"Bye Lilly." I hung up,
"What was that all about?" Bree asked, "Was this 'friend' of your's actually an...old flame?" she said evilly,
"Why do you say that?"
"No reason." she smiled to herself.
"Brina! Llynia!"
"There's my mom, I'll talk to ya later, oh yeah, I left my stuff in your car, I'll stop by tomorrow to get it!"
"Alritey! Talk to ya tomorrow chica!"
"Adios!"
"Bon soir!" I returned laughing. Highschool had rewarded us the ability to intertwine languages, hehe. Anyways, I walked down to the backstage door again (which was actually harder to get to considering I was going against the flow of people). This time there was a different security guard, I went to walk through the door,
"Excuse me Miss, just where do you think you're going?"
"To go see Nick. Why? I've already been through this once today."
"Yeah, uh huh, sure..."
"Look, you can call and check me out, I'm telling you, I'm valid."
"Like I haven't heard that before." All of a sudden the doors opened with a bang and out ran a sweaty Nick.
"Lilly! Now we're gonna have all night to talk!"
"Nick!" I hugged him, his back was facing the security guard, so I took the opportunity to stick my tongue out at him, in return the guard flicked me off (how rude). I just chomped my teeth together really hard making a loud clicking noise, that made him stop.
"So, now that we do have time, how are you?" I asked him,
"I am good, but you were wrong about the having time part, c'mon, we've got to go."
"Uh....Nick?" I said,
"What?"
"I do have to go home, I'm not 18 yet y'know..."
"I know, I know.....what time do you have to be home?"
"Soon."
"How soon?"
"Soon."
"How soon?"
"What time it is?" I said, "I mean, what time is it?"
"Is it," he paused grinning, "I mean, it is 12:00"
"You’re so funny Nick! Why can’t I be funny like you?" I said sarcastically, he started laughing histerically at this, "Shut up...anyways, I have to be home in 45 minutes."
"Okay, where do you live?"
"45 minutes away."
"Oh."
"Yeah."
"You should get going."
"Yeah."
"Well..."
"You wanna come?" I grinned, "You know you want to."
"More like you know you want me to!" he laughed, "Anyways, yeah, I'll come, just let me tell Frick and them,"
"Alritey, or you know, I could just call my mom and tell her I'm staying at Bree's....." I trailed off,
"What do you want to do?"
"Whichever would be more convenient for you, I know you gotta busy schedule."
"True...how 'bout you call her and say that you're just coming with me?"
"I'll try..." I walked back inside with him, I saw Brian walk towards us, "Hey Brian! Great show!" I said exitedly,
"Thanks Lilly, I appreciate it, see I don't care what the critics think...its more of what our friends, family, and fans think." he smiled.
"You're welcome, anyways, you're as good as friends and family!" I smiled putting my arm around him, "Besides 'ole chum', you know if it sucked I'd tell you it sucked" he laughed,
"Yeah, I know"
"Hey Nick, are you sure I should..." I turned to see Nick, but he was gone and then outta no where he was back again,
"Here ya go."
"AH! Nick..you don't scare someone like that!" I shivered, "You just...its just...wrong." I took the cell from him though and dialed my home phone number. My little sister picked up, "Hello?"
"Hey Kat, is mom home?"
"Yeah..."
"Hey, wait a minute, why are you answering the phone? Its like midnight!"
"Uh...well...uh...gotta go, bye....MOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMM!" I shook my head at the phone,
"Hello?"
"Hey, mom?"
"Yeah....."
"I'm gonna stay at my friend's house....."
"Who's? Bree's?"
"No, my other friend, they were at the concert."
"Who?"
"Well...they're from Tampa,"
"Oh! You met one of your friends from Tampa there?"
"Yeah, you could say that."
"Oh thats great which one? Nikki?"
"Yeah! Nicky! How'd you know?"
"Alright, just be back by tomorrow at one."
"Sure thing mom, thanks!" I hung up and faced Nick, "Well....." I started,
"You can't stay?" his face fell,
"Well...." I said again,
"Man, this sucks."
"WELL...." I began one more time,
"What?"
"My mom said YES, which you would have known had you been listening to me from the beginning."
"Oops."
"Ha ha!"
"No fair! Come on, lets go ahead and get on the bus, it'll take us another two to three hours to get to the hotel."
"Nuh uh...where are you guys staying? Tampa?"
"No...the Hilton."
"That's like 40 minutes away!"
"Yeah well, um...hello? Stupid, its a tour bus, its not that hard to miss."
"Shut up. I'm going in my car, see you there," I laughed,
"Dude, now, this is where you and I differ. See, if I had a car, I would gallantly offer you a ride, but you being the *cough* that you are aren't going to."
"Did I say you couldn't, all you have to do is ask stupid butt." I swear, Nick laughed so hard, I thought he was going to explode. AJ walked by,
"What did you do to him?" he gestured to Nick, who was by then lying on the floor. I shrugged,
"Don't ask me, all I said was 'stupid butt'"
"Eh, figures." AJ replied walking away. I looked down at Nick, he was still writhing with laughter,
"Nick....Nick......Get up. You're making a fool of yourself." that just made him laugh harder, then Brian came over,
"What the heck?"
"I don't know! Ask him." I said pointing at Nick.
"Yo Frack......Kaos.....Nick......NICKY." he still didn't stop! I don’t know why, "I think he's hyper Lil" Brian laughed,
"Oh dear, I'm supposed to drive him to your guys' hotel like this?"
"What?"
"Oh yeah, I'm spending the night at your place.....beware." I laughed,
"Yeah Bri, beware of Llynia! 5 foot terror!" Nick said gasping.
"Nick you can talk!"
"Shut up."
"Why Brian, I think blondie over there dissed you." I said in mock surprise,
"I do believe he did.....too bad, after the gift I had..." he trailed off grinning,
"What? Huh? Gift? Why, what gift was this Brian?" I laughed,
"Oh, just a sega DREAMcast."
"Oh dude, I'm so sorry, I swear, I didn't mean it, really, I mean, you're the coolest guy ever, I wanna be just like you, heck, who doesn't wanna be like Brian?"
"I don't." AJ raised his hand,
"Eh, sucks for you AJ, there goes your new blow up doll! Since the old one popped and all," Brian laughed, AJ just smiled,
"Dude, I told you not to talk about her like that, Cindy is real! I know it! One day....." we all laughed at that, then Nick started snorting,
"Oh no, he's getting started again......" I said,
"Shut *snort* up *snort* stupid!"
"Hahahaha! Nicky's a pig!" AJ laughed,
"Am not! *snort*" he just couldn't stop! I was crying I was laughing so hard! Then Kevin walked over,
"Nick! Stop snorting! You sound like an idiot...wait.....that's just you normally...I mean, you sound like a hog!" Kevin made a joke! Kevin, Mr. Serious, made a joke.....well, he made fun of Nick!
"Kevvy Kev, bringin out the humor." Howie added in. "You guys.....we gotta get back to the hotel. Which means, to the tourbus!" he pointed majestically toward the door, that made us all laugh some more,
"Well, I'm going with Lilly." Nick stated seriously,
"Yes we know." Brian said just as seriously,
"Why are you guys so solemn?" I asked,
"Because, I know I'm gonna die laughing at your car! Ohhh, diss!" Nick yelled,
"That's it, you're not coming with me, Brian you wanna come?" I grinned and linked my arm through his,
"I'd love to Lilly!" he said looking straight at Nick.
"Hey! You were my friend first! No fair!" Nick whined like a little baby.
"I'm just kidding, sorry Bri" I said to him,
"It's okay, I *sniff* understand," but he ended it giggling,
"Thanks Bri" I said dryly. "Well, we'll see you cats in 4-5 hours." I grinned,
"Yeah, don't rub it in." Kev rolled his eyes.
"Kev, you should love our fans! I do!" AJ said while walking out the door, I heard the screams, he was followed by Kev, Howie and finally Brian,
"Seeya you two!"
"Bye Bri!" we yelled, then we walked the other way.
~*outside near the tourbus*~
"So, what'd ya think of Lilly?" Brian asked AJ,
"Dude, all I can say is she's grown up....alot." he laughed,
"AJ, that's not what I meant...she's just a kid, we'll have no pedofiles here" he grinned, then
"OH MY GOD, BRIAN! AJ! CAN I HAVE YOUR AUTOGRAPH???"
"Sure, what's your name?" Brian asked the fan,
"My name's Becca."
"That's a cute name," Brian said while signing a poster for her,
"Thanks..." she sighed,
"AJ, sign this!" Brian yelled over to AJ, who had strayed over to a couple of the older fans.
"Alrite, I'm there, don't worry." he walked back over muttering something like, "she was hot"
"Here ya go," he handed it to him,
"Hey Brian?"
"Yes Becca?"
"Where's Nick?"
"Oh, he uh, well, he um, he left, welll, he left, um...well...." Brian stammered, he didn't wanna say Nick was with me, cause I was a girl and all,
"He's with a friend right now," AJ cut in handing the girl her poster back,
"Really? Wow, I thought his only friends were you guys," Brian and AJ started cracking up, the girl looked confused, "Did I say something funny?"
"Very!" Brian laughed,
"Extremely!" AJ said. She smiled,
"Well, I'm glad I could brighten up your day a little"
"Merci beaucoup Mademoiselle." AJ smiled, he took her little hand and kissed, she got so giddy she ran all the way back to her mom,
"Wow AJ, thats the fastest one yet." Brian grinned,
"Thank you, thank you" he mocked a bow,
"Yo guys! Lets go!" Kevin yelled as he boarded the bus,
"Off to rest and relaxation" Brian sighed,
"Not quite dude, remember....day after tomorrow." AJ laughed,
"Yeah yeah, we'll see." then they finally got on the bus and were on their way,
~*Lilly and Nick*~
"So, Lilly, how's life been since the last time I saw you, what was that when you were like 15 1/2 right?"
"Yes Nick. It's been good."
"That's good. Nothing new?"
"No."
"Oh." We walked in silence for a little while and then when we got to my car, "You have a nice car! Almost as good as mine," he grinned,
"Thanks Nick, I'll take that to heart." I smiled sweetly.
"I know, just 'cause it came from the famous Carter lips."
"Yeah yeah Nick, you just keep tellin yourself that." I said. All of a sudden Nick ducked really fast, "Nick, what're you doing?"
"Shhh!"
"What?"
"Fan" he hissed,
"Sorry!" I turned around and there was a 13 or 14 year old girl staring at us, she started walking over,
"Lilly, get in the car like its nothing..."
"Okay....." I opened the doors and started getting in, I was about to shut the door when the girl came over to me,
"Hi, I'm Jenna."
"Hey..."
"Who are you?"
"I'm Lilly...."
"Oh...hey Nick." she grinned, "Didn't think I saw ya, did ya?"
"No....hi Jenna, nice to meet you," he said through clenched teeth,
"Nice to meet you too!" she said, she didn't get he didn't want to talk. "Can I have your autograph, I promise I won't tell anyone I saw you with Lilly." she smiled at me,
"Thanks so much, sure you can have his autograph," I said for him,
"Oh, so now you're talking for me!" he said mocking anger,
"Well Nick, you're just so gosh darn articulate, she might not have understood you." I laughed, Jenna laughed along with me, Nick signed her autograph then and she left, then we could finally leave. For a while we just kinda sat there in the car,
"Nick, what's it like?" I asked suddenly,
"What's what like?"
"Being famous, what'd you think I was talking about? Being a guy? A blonde?."
"Shut up....Ohh, that. Its fun, I love it, I mean, sure it can get annoying, but I'm glad I do what I do."
"How's it annoying? Other than the fact that its kept you from seeing me of course," I grinned,
"Damn, that's what I was gonna say!" he giggled, "Well, thats really part of it though, I don't get to see my friends and family as often as I want, but also its alot of little things, like having to go to the grocery store at midnight, or not being able to go to the movies with out a disguise."
"Aw, poor Nicky. That really sucks. How're we gonna go to the movies tomorrow?" I smiled,
"With my special movie disguise,"
"And what does that look like?"
"You'll see..." he grinned, "I remember my last girlfriend, Mandy, hated it, she hated going to the movies with me!" he burst out laughing, I wasn't paying attention, I'd heard alot about Mandy from Nick and Bree, even Brian on occasion, she didn't seem like to great of a person.
"If its that bad, I'm not taking you, I'll take AJ." I grinned,
"Hey, you see how he dresses normally, how bad do you think his disguise would be?"
"True..."
"Mine's the most normal looking."
"Why do I have a really bad feeling about this?"
"Because you should?" that's how it went the rest of the ride. I pulled into the entrance of the Hilton and parked,
"Lets go mi amigo" I got out (as did he) and locked the doors,
"Lilly..."
"Yeah?"
"Maybe I should let you go in first..."
"Okay," I understood, if the fans saw him with me they would automatically think we were going out...bad idea. So I went ahead and went it. I knew Nick had when I heard,
"THERE HE IS!"
"OH MY GOD!" then off in the distance,
"Where's Brian and AJ?" I laughed to myself and took a seat in the lobby. About 45 minutes later Nick finally came in.
"Okay, we can go now. But you're lucky, I have time for one more adoring fan."
"Yeah, right Nick, whatever."
"You know its true! C'mon, lets go." I followed him to the elevator, he hit floor 10, we didn't say anything in the elevator and when the door opened Nick pushed me out,
"Hey! What-"
"Race you!" he took off,
"No." I walked calmly to the door Nick stopped at. He was trying to open it,
"Hey...Lilly?"
"What?"
"It's not working."
"Let me try." he handed me the card key, I put in the slot, pulled it out, and turned the knob. It didn't work, I tried again, still didn't work. I tried again and again and again, each time nothing happened. "Nick, is this the right door?"
"Yeah, 624...or was it 642..."
"Let's try....." I sighed, we walked down the hall and came to the door, he put the card in, pulled it out, and turned the knob....it opened.
"Oops.." he grinned sheepishly,
"Its okay dork." I laughed, he gestured toward the door,
"After you Madamoiselle."
"Merci beaucoup." I walked in, Nick followed while saying,
"You know we're not gonna get any sleeping done tonight, chick." then he shut the door. I walked in and sat on the bed,
"Perfect."
"Excuse me, you're on my bed"
"See, while I'm here, its my bed." I said innocently. Before he could answer me, we heard a phone, Nick looked at me,
"Its not mine..."
"Oh yeah!" I slapped my forehead and opened my purse, "Hello?" I answered,
"Hey Lil!" Bree said,
"Oh, hey!"
"Where are you?"
"Not at home..."
"Where?"
"With my friend...I'm staying with him tonight."
"Him?" I turned away from Nick, mainly because I was blushing.
"Not like that!"
"Okay, okay, sorry! Well, I just wanted to tell you to stop by tomorrow"
"Alrite, will do"
"Talk to ya later."
"Adios." I hung up,
"You know, just once..." Nick started,
"What?"
"Just once I'd like to hear both sides of a girl's phone conversation."
"Not gonna happen."
"I know....."
"Alright then."
"Yes."
"Yup."
"You suck. "
"Not really."
"I know."
"Ha ha."
"Dammit, foiled again." he sat down on the floor, and thought for a minute, "Well, techniquely speaking, you do suck."
"Nick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't say that again." I shook my head,
"What?"
"It wasn't funny."
"Was to." he muttered,
"No, no, it wasn't."
"Shut up."
"Can't make me."
"Can to."
"Can not."
"Can to."
"Can not."
"Can to."
"And how old are you little boy? Six?"
"No."
"So.....Nick"
"What?"
"Did you really like Mandy?" he looked surprised,
"Well....yeah...at least I thought I did. Now I'm not so sure..."
"Did you really like me?" he looked even more surprised,
"Hey! Yes I did, and I still do, that's why we're friends, duh stupid."
"Yep, I guess. How come you didn’t ever come and see me?"
"You didn't ever give me your new address!"
"You never asked!"
"I didn't think I needed to!"
"Well you did!"
"Sorry! I missed you so much when you left!"
"You never said that before!"
"Well, I did. Humph."
"Well I missed you too! Humph back!" I paused, "We are so weird," I giggled quietly,
"I know!" he right out laughed, soon we were laughing and talking about things that happened,
"Hey Nick! Remember the time when you called me and you were so hung up on how the guys were making fun of you!"
"Yeah! No...."
"I do! You were like 'Yeah Lilly, *sniff* they're makin' fun of me,' then AJ yelled in the background 'Yo Frack, we're just messin' and you were like 'Shut up!'." I laughed,
"You remember that?"
"Yeah, like it was yesterday.....oh yeah, it was yesterday!"
"Ha ha, very funny,"
"I thought so." Then we heard something, "And then," I said, "there was a knock." Nick looked at me weirdly and got up to open the door,
"Brian...hey, have fun on that wonderful tourbus of our's?"
"Ofcourse," he walked in, "Hey Lilly..." he looked around, "What're you doin' in Nick's room?"
"Just talking, y'know."
"Yeah, I know." he grinned, I knew what he was getting at, fortunately Nick was in his ditzy mode again,
"What?"
"Nothing Frack, nothing at all."
"Um...k."
"Nick, you better get to sleep though, its one o'clock and we have something to wake up for tomorrow,"
"What? This sux"
"Eh well, the prices fame." he grinned, "Well, I'll see you kids later, g'night, seeya in the morning Nick."
"Aiight Frick, g'nite," he shut the door behind him, "You heard the man, lets go to bed." he jumped on the bed, I pushed him off, "Hey! Dis is mah bed, yo."
"Nick..."
"What?"
"You're blond, blue eyed, and no."
"Okay."
"Just kidding, I'll go sleep on the couch,"
"No, take the bed! Really, I'll sleep on the couch,"
"No, its your hotel room, you take it,"
"No, you're the guest, you take it,"
"How about niether one of us take it, there're two couches,"
"Good deal."
"Nick, gimmee somethin' to sleep in."
"Aiight," he went to his suitcase, opened it up and threw me a pair of boxers and a teeshirt,
"Nick if these aren't clean I'll kill you,"
"Yeah yeah, they're clean, don't worry."
"I guess I'll have to take your word for it," I walked to the bathroom, which was more like his personal spa! "God Nick! Your bathroom is like......wow." I yelled while I was changing,
"Yeah, I know, its awesome, isn't it?"
"Hell yeah! I want one," I grinned and walked out,
"Maybe for your 18th birthday,"
"Haha, I'm sure my mom would let me,"
"You never know," I just smiled,
"Well," I jumped on the couch, "I guess its time to sleep,"
"Yep," he agreed climbing onto the other couch,
"G'night Nick, sweet dreams."
"G'night, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite."
"You mean there are vermin in this couch!" I jumped up laughing,
"No!" he grinned, "Well, only on your couch,"
"AH! Then I'm gonna have to faint." I pretended to fall back onto the couch,
"Alright, g'nite Lilly"
"G'nite Nick." I laughed quietly and drifted off into a dreamless sleep.
~*The Next Morning*~
I got up and looked at my watch, it was 8:30,
"Damn my school...." I never could wake up any later than 8:30 on weekends, it happened the day before, I think its because that's sleeping late for me, its like waking up 3 1/2 hours after I usually do. I glanced over at Nick, he was fast asleep....and drooling. I suppressed my laughter and decided to just lay in bed....well, on the couch for a while. I was just daydreaming when Nick's hotel phone rang, I didn't wanna wake him up 'cause I felt bad for him, so I got up and got it,
"Hello?"
"Um, hello?"
"Yes, who is this?"
"Who is this?"
"This is Llynia, who is this?"
"This is Aaron, why are you in my brother's room?" I remembered Aaron, he was an adorable little 9 or 10 year old last time I saw him, but I didn't want to shock him, so I just said,
"Oh well, I was just, um, stopping by to, um, yeah..."
"What?"
"Its not important, do you need to talk to him, because he's asleep.."
"Oh, no, don't wake him up, just tell him I called later and that I'll call back later on."
"Alright Aaron, I'll make sure and do that."
"Thanks Llynia,"
"You're welcome, bye"
"Bye." I went back over to the couch and lied down again, all of a sudden I heard whispering,
"Aw, lookit, they're on the couches!"
"That's so cute!"
"I wonder why they never hooked up!"
"And I wonder why Nicky didn't just go for it and use the bed? Ouch! What was that for?"
"Because Nick and Lilly aren't like that! And it was vulgar!" I grinned, I knew who it was,
"Hi Brian, hi AJ." I said without looking up, "G'morning."
"Hey Lilly," I turned around, Brian was grinning, "Good morning to you too."
"Hey Lil, what's up?" AJ said. I got up, "You're in Nick's clothes..."
"Oh yeah, I needed something to sleep in and this is what he gave me,"
"Ooooh.." Aj looked like he didn't believe me, I decided to change the subject,
"How'd you guys get in here?"
"Oh, Brian always has an extra key to Nick's room, ever since a little incident..." AJ grinned,
"Oh yeah, I heard about that! Nick's little 'shaving incident'"
"Yup," they laughed, "But now its time to wake little Nicky up....Go for it AJ."
"No way, this time its your turn," he responded
"I don't think so...I'd rather wake up Howie or Kevin, but Kev's up...."
"He's your best friend!"
"So? What does that have to do with anything?"
"Nothing, but he is."
"Why is it such a bad thing to wake Nick up?" I asked, they grinned,
"Go ahead and find out Lilly," AJ dared,
"Fine, I will." I walked over to Nick and shook him lightly, nothing happened. "Nick.." I whispered, "Nick....NICK!" I yelled in his ear and he grabbed my hair! "OUCH OUCH OUCH!!!!! GET HIM OFF ME!" I screamed, thankfully Brian and AJ came to my rescue and unhooked his fingers from my strands. "He ripped some of my hair out!" my head hurt. "Never again, if you guys ever make me wake him up again I swear...." I trailed off. They were laughing their heads off,
"Now you know why we didn't wanna wake him up Lilly." AJ laughed, Nick had finally sat up,
"Alright, who'd I do it to this time?" he asked, Brian and AJ pointed to me, "You made Lilly wake me up??? You guys are evil, what were you doing anyways?"
"We were talking about the Shaving Incident." AJ said,
"What?! Why in the world were you talking about that?" he blushed ferociously,
"Just 'cause it came up dude, don't worry, we all know what happened," Brian reassured him,
"I know, but I wanted to forget!"
"Well now you can 'cause you gotta get up and get ready in 15 minutes."
"Why?"
"We have an interview or something."
"Aw man, this sux. Lilly write your number down next to the phone, I'll call you about the movies when we get back."
"Alritey Nick, I'll go do that." I walked over and wrote my home and cell numbers down, and underneath that I wrote 'Call Lilly' in really big letters. I walked back over to the guys,
"Dude, what am I supposed to wear to this thing?" Nick asked Brian,
"Well, look at me and AJ, we're semi-formal, there fore you should too."
"Okay okay, just one question...what the heck does that mean?"
"I'll get it for ya Nick." I walked over to his bag and opened it, I rummaged for a bit and finally found what he needed, khakis and a black sweater type thing "Here ya go bud," he grabbed it and hugged me appreciatively,
"I need you around more often, it would've taken the guys at least two hours to do that,"
"I'll take that as a thank you," I grinned, "But, I've got to be going, I promised my friend that I'd stop by her house before I went home today,"
"Alright, I'll call you later, K?"
"Perfect" I replied, "'Later AJ, bye Bri"
"Bye Lilly" they both said,
“Tell Kev and D I said bye too."
"We'll do that."
"Oh yeah, Nick!"
"What?"
"Aaron called earlier, call him back."
"Mmkay, I'll do that, bye nerd."
"Bye dork." I grinned and gathered up my stuff and left. I kinda forgot I was wearing his stuff, this would be a problem. I didn't realize it, until after I got in my car. "Crap," I muttered, what was I supposed to do, he had my clothes, so I couldn't change, oh well. I drove to Bree's house anyways, I just went ahead and walked in,
"Hey Bree, what's up?"
"Hey Lilly.......what are you wearing?"
"Um, well, my friend's clothes," I grinned,
"Interesting boxers....don't think I've seen horses on boxers before."
"Don't ask me, they're not mine."
"I know.." she giggled,
"Shut up."
"Okay, okay, so, who's this friend, does he have a name?"
"Yeah,"
"Do I get to know his name?"
"Later, I'm goin to the movies with him today, I'll tell you after that."
"Okay, okay. Oh dude, guess what I heard!!!"
"What? Is it about the Backstreet Boys?"
"Yeah! You know how Nick said he was single in that interview or whatever?"
"Yeah..."
"Well, I have heard from a reliable source that he took a girl into his hotel room last night!"
"Huh?" this was definitely not good, "Who was it?"
"I don't know, the girl I heard it from was at the hotel and on like the tenth floor or something, and she said she got there just in time to hear Nick say 'you know we're not gonna get any sleeping done tonight chick.' or something like that and then he shut the door! Gee, I wonder what they were doing...maybe Nick's not a virgin anymore!"
"No, he's probably still a virgin, maybe he just meant talking."
"Yeah, right, wishful thinking." she sighed, "Oh well, no biggie, I already emailed like everyone and told them."
"You did what?"
"Told everyone...you know, like I usually do when it concerns the BSB..."
"Yeah, yeah, okay." I wasn't happy, now everyone was gonna know! I shouldn't have gone.
"What's wrong?"
"Oh, nothing...lets watch tv or something."
"Alright." so we spent the rest of the time just chillin and hangin out, I left not to long after that, when I got home, my little sister, Katrina, ran up,
"How was the concert??"
"It was great!"
"But you had sucky seats."
"So? I could still see everything, and you know Bree?"
"No, I don't know Bree." she said sarcastically,
"Well," I said ignoring her last remark, "she got called on stage! And sung to by Nick Carter."
"NO way! Not fair!"
"Yup, that's what happened,"
"Nuh uh, you're lying,"
"No really, you call Bree and ask her what special thing happened to her at the concert she'll tell you what I just did."
"This so sucks! I could've gone!"
"I'm sorry."
"Its okay," for just one second I wondered what it would be like to tell her that I not only knew Nick Carter but that I was in his hotel room all night. "Well, I'm gonna go tell my friends that my sister's friend got sung to by the BSB!!!" she ran off,
"Umm....yeah...." just then the phone rang, I ran to get it, "Hello?"
"Hey Lil! The thing's over,"
"Oh hey Micky!" that was my nick name for him 'cause when I first met him, I thought his name was Mick not Nick, 'cause he said it like he was shy and mumbled it, and I called him that for two straight weeks until he finally told me that it was Nick, not Mick. I felt pretty stupid, but now its just a joke,
"Man, I was hopin you'd forget that!"
"No way!"
"Aiight, aiight, so we goin' tonight?"
"Yeah, but you gotta come pick me up this time, I'm not driving." I grinned,
"Fine fine, I'll borrow Rok's car. What time do you want me to be there?"
"Um, what movie do you wanna see?"
"I don't care, we'll figure it out when we get there,"
"Alright, come here around 6:30."
"Alright, see you then."
"Adios." I hung up the phone and looked at the clock, it was 1:45. "Hmm, what to do, what to do...." I decided to take a shower and get ready first of all, then I had to clean my room, and pick up around the house so that it wasn't a mess, and then I sat down to figure out how to make sure that no one was home when Nick came. My sister was easy, she was gonna be at her friend's house anyways, my parents however....
"Hey, Llynia!" my mom called,
"Yeah mom?" I went out on the landing,
"We're going out tonight, we're going to leave in about twenty minutes," it was 6:00 then,
"Oh, alright, I'm going to the movies tonight with Nicky."
"Alright, I'd love to meet her, but I've got to go, say hi to Nikki for me."
"I'll do that mom." whew, close call, he'd be here ten minutes after they left, or knowing Nick, twenty minutes. I was just about right, at 6:45 he finally pulled up,
"Hey!"
"Hola, come on in, I'm just finishing getting ready."
"Alright," I hadn't seen him yet, I did when he walked in the door and I decided there was no way I was going to the movies with whatever just walked in my house.
"Nick..."
"Don't you like it?" he asked turning around, he was wearing a black baseball hat (the cheap kind) that had Vote For so-and-so on it, a wife beater, a flannel shirt with the sleeves torn off which he had left unbuttoned, black jeans with holes in the knees, boots, and ofcourse a pair of really cheap sunglasses.
"We're not going."
"Why?"
"Go to my brother's room, take some of his clothes, and CHANGE!"
"Okay, okay...I have my own, I was just messin with ya!"
"You are so annoying!"
"But thats why you love me, right?"
"Oh yes, you've guessed it" I said dryly just then we heard the door open,
"Who's that?" Nick asked worriedly,
"I don't know let me go check," I went out to the door and saw Katrina,
"Oh, hey Lilly, I decided not to stay at my friend's house, she was being annoying" Oh dear,
"Alright, there's something I need to tell you first though..." I started,
"What?"
"Well.....see, I know this guy, you don't know that I know him, and he's here now. And I want you to promise that when he comes down you won't like die or kill me or anything."
"What are you talking about?"
"Just promise."
"Okay, I...promise..." she said,
"Good, I'll be right back," I ran back up to my room, "Nick,"
"Who was it?"
"It was my sister, she's gonna be here all night, we're not leaving for another half an hour, I gotta tell her,"
"You mean she doesn't know?"
"Nope, niether do my parents,"
"You know… that explains a lot of things…"
"Yup, but anyways, Kat won't tell anyone, lets go"
"Okay" he grinned, "This should be good." I walked downstairs with Nick behind me,
"Hey Katrina!"
"What?"
"Come here,"
"Um, okay.." she walked in and looked at Nick, "Hey, I'm Kat....wait a minute," she came closer,
"You're-y-you're N-n-nick Carter!!!!!"
"Yeah, that would be me."
"Oh my God...."
"You can not tell anyone!" I said.
"Okay, okay, I won't....but wow, how long, when, what...I'm confused."
"It's okay," Nick laughed, "I've known Lil here for about six years,"
"WHAT?! You've known him for six years and you didn't tell me???"
"You were a baby when I met him!"
"Anyways," Nick cut in so that he could stop the on coming fight, "we've kept in touch ever since,"
"I think I'm gonna faint,"
"That would be bad Kat, don't do that," I said, she sat down,
"How old is she?"
"I'm 11," she answered, even though he had asked me,
"Oh, you're the same age as my brother, Aaron,"
"Do I get to meet Aaron???" she asked eagerly, Nick laughed,
"I guess you're a fan of his, huh?"
"You haven't seen her room Mick," I grinned,
"Shrine to the one, the only, Aaron Carter," he said in an announcer voice, I decided we should stop because Katrina was blushing pretty bad,
"So, is there anything you want to know?" I asked her,
"Yeah, why didn't you tell me?" she pouted,
"Hey ask him! I wanted to tell people, but I wasn't allowed!" I pointed to Nick,
"I just didn't think it was a good idea! Sorry! And I still don't!"
"Oh, okay. How did you guys meet?" we looked at each other and grinned,
"Well, when we lived in Tampa,"
"Wait, you've known him since you were my age??"
"Yes," I said impatiently, "Anyways, when we lived in Tampa, my friend Farah's brother was auditioning for a musical group and she asked me to come along with her, so I did. That’s where we met Nick, I didn't meet the other guys till later, and even then, me and Nick clicked the most,"
"That's it?"
"Well, there was one other thing," Nick started,
"That we don't need to mention because we have to go to the movies now!" I interrupted,
"Okay, Okay, it was nice meeting you Kat, don't tell anyone though, this is our secret,"
"Alright," she looked a little dazed,
"Bye, it was cool meetin ya, I'll make sure and tell Aaron he's gotta fan,"
"Yeah, um, it was really cool meetin you too, man, I can't tell anyone! This sucks," I laughed,
"Now you know how I've felt, but at least we can talk about it,"
"Yeah, well, I'll talk to ya later, I'm gonna go and try to contemplate what just happened here."
"Okay, well, we'll talk to ya later, bye Kat," we walked out to Nick's ...er Brian's car and went to the cinema, it took us about fifteen minutes to agree on which movie we wanted to see, finally we picked 'Sleepy Hollow'. The movie was pretty good, actually I really liked it. Nick on the other hand had his eyes shut over half the time, when we walked out of the theater I said as much to him,
"So? It was disgusting!"
"You're such a woose!" I grinned,
"Am not!"
"Yes, you are..." I laughed,
"Nuh uh! Hey, what time is it?"
"Its like, um, almost 10."
"Alright, you know I gotta leave day after tomorrow,"
"Really? I haven't seen you in almost two years and you have to leave already?"
"Well this time we'll keep in touch, okay?" then a girl came up to him,
"Are you Nick Carter?" she asked politely
"Yeah, I am,"
"Really?"
"Yup,"
"No way!" she said disbelievingly, "Can I have your autograph?"
"Sure," he signed something for her, then she turned to me,
"Who are you? Are you his girlfriend?"
"No, why would I go out with this woose?" I grinned at him,
"I am not a woose, I resent that," I ignored him and looked back at the girl,
"He's a woose," she giggled,
"Aw, he doesn't seem like that much of a woose,"
"I'm gonna drive her home Lil, not you!" Nick said putting his arm around her, she looked like she was in heaven,
"Not if I have your keys Nick," he put his hand in his pocket,
"Hey! How'd you do that," he looked apologetically at the girl, "Sorry, looks like I'll have to take it home after all,"
"Excuse me? Did you just say 'it'?"
"Its okay, thanks for the autograph,"
"You're welcome, and yes," he turned back to me, "I did just say 'it'." he laughed. The girl went back to her friends or family then, who ever she was with.
"Let's go, you wanna go out somewhere else before you drop me home, considering you only have like 36 more hours here,"
"Yeah, but where?"
"Um, how about we go for ice cream? I know a cute little ice cream parlor around here somewhere,"
"Ice cream is good," he grinned, so we went out for ice cream and finally went back to my house, he walked me to my door,
"Well, g'nite Lil,"
"Am I gonna see you tomorrow?"
"I don't know, I think I have a photo shoot tomorrow, you can come see what goes on in those, if you want."
"I don't know if I can, but call me tomorrow and I'll tell you then, but if I don't get to see you, well then, KEEP IN TOUCH!" I yelled,
"Okay, okay! I promise I will,"
"Uh huh, isn't that what you said last time?"
"Well, I'm grown up now,"
"Physically,"
"And mentally,"
"Most of the time,"
"Look, I'll just try and see you tomorrow, okay? If not, good night, good bye, and love you," he gave me a hug and promised to write etc again,
"Good night Nick, love you to bud," he went and got back into Brian's car and drove off. I went back inside and got ready for bed. I finally got to bed around 12 'cause Kat insisted on hearing every detail, she's hung up on this Nick thing.
~*Next Morning*~
RING RING RING
"Hello?" I answered sleepily,
"Hey! Are you gonna come?"
"Nick? Do you know what time it is?" I sat up, "SCHOOL!"
"What?"
"I HAVE SCHOOL, SHIT!"
"Dude, its okay, its only 6:30,"
"Oh whew, good thing I don't have a first hour....I don't have to be up for another hour, why are you calling me now?"
"Oh, because, the shoot's at um, hold on," he put his hand over the phone and I could hear a muffled, "Bri, what time? 5:30? Alright," then he came back to the phone, "Lilly?"
"Yeah,"
"Its at 5:30, can you make it?"
"Where's it at?"
"Um, I don't know, I'll call your cell and tell you later, okay? 'Cause I gotta go, bye"
"Um bye Nick...and don't ever call me before 10 again....."
"Okay," I could practically hear his grin, "I'll make sure and call you bright and early every time." he giggled,
"Bye Nick." I hung up, and I knew I wasn't getting back to sleep, so I went ahead and got ready for school. I left for school at about 8:00, my first class was at about 9:18. I got to school at about 8:45, and remarkably, I ran into Bree,
"Why aren't you in class sophomore?" I grinned,
"'Cause I had to go to my locker,"
"Uh huh, sure, I believe you,"
"So," Bree started, "Do I ever get to meet this mysterious friend of your's? Who has yet to be named, I might add."
"I don't know, he's leaving tomorrow," I replied, "I'm seeing him after school today, but..."
"Well? Can I come?"
"Gee, aren't we the polite one?"
"Can I?"
"I have to call him, he's doing this thing that he'd like me to see,"
"What is it?"
"I don't know," I lied, then I realized this may be just the way to get Nick to understand my friends won't kill me for knowing him. "But, I'll see what I can do."
"I get to meet your friend!" she laughed, "I really need my own life,"
"It's alright, you know you wanna be like me, dude, you better get back to class,"
"Yeah, yeah," she walked back to her classroom then, I had enough time to give Nick a call, good thing I brought his hotel number with me. I punched it into my cell, it took him like five rings to pick up,
"Dude! This is the sixth fucking time you've called me!"
"Um, love you too..."
"Oh oh, I thought it was....never mind, is this BJ?"
"No...this is Lilly..."
"Oh, Lilly, hey!"
"Um...yeah..."
"Sorry, Brian's been calling all morning just to annoy me,"
"It's okay, I was just calling to ask if I could bring a friend with me,"
"Lilly...we went over this before..."
"Nick...please? If she screams or yells I swear I'll listen to you from now on!"
"What if your friend tells everyone?"
"Then I'll tell her I must've taken a wrong turn and we ended up there by luck."
"She'll buy that?"
"Yeah"
"Gullible... alright you can bring her,"
"Woo hoo!"
"You owe me Lil"
"I know, well, I gotta go to class, talk to you later babe."
"Bye Lilly," I hung up and walked to my third hour class. I was giddy all through school that day. I guess Nick was annoyed at me for asking, no, I know Nick was annoyed at me for asking, 'cause right after school I was walking to my car (luckily not with Bree) when I heard a honk, I turned around and saw Brian's car! I ran up to the car and got in and slammed the door shut (thank you tinted windows),
"Brian? What are you doing here?!" I yelped,
"What? Nick told me that you were coming to the shoot and he asked me if I could pick you up,"
"He did what?" Oooh, I was gonna kill him,
"Asked me to come pick you up...is somethin wrong?"
"Yes there's something wrong, do you know how many fans you have at this school?"
"Nooo...."
"Well, you have a lot! And if they see you here, well...you get the picture,"
"Ooooh, I see, why'd Nick do that?"
"Probably because I asked him if I could bring a friend to the shoot with me today, and I guess he decided to get me back, because I kinda conned him into saying yes."
"We have to get him back," Brian grinned,
"Definitely," I agreed, then I looked out the window and saw Brina walking toward my car, "But Brian dearest, we'll have to think of something later 'cause my friend is waiting for me at my car, thank you so much for coming here, make sure to kick Nick in the ass for this, alright? I'll see you there,"
"Do you know where it is?"
"Not exactly, I was planning on calling Nick," I grinned,
"Oh, well, here, I've got the directions right here, just give me a call on the cell phone and I'll direct you the whole way, alritey?"
"Alright Bri, thanks again, you're the sweetest!"
"I know" he grinned, "And I'll make sure to kick Nick for you, or get him back in some other way, shape, or form."
"I like the sound of that," I smiled back, I opened the door a little and slipped out," I'll call you in about ten minutes,"
"Mmkay, talk to ya then Llynia," I shut the door,
"Who were you with?" Bree asked, I didn't know she saw me,
"I was with a friend of mine,"
"Who?"
"You don't know him,"
"Alright, does he go here?"
"No. Come on, lets go,"
"Okay, okay, God, what's up your butt?" I laughed,
"Nothing, c'mon, lets just go, alrite?"
"Mmkay," she hopped in my car and off we went, I went ahead and called Bri, "Who're you calling?"
"Another friend of mine for directions,"
"Oooh, okay,"
"Hello?" he answered,
"Hey Bri,"
"Oh, hey...okay, here's what you do," he gave me a long set of directions and I followed them piece by piece until the last turn,
"Okay Bri, I think I can take it from here,"
"Alrighty, see ya there, and I think I have a plan for Nick," he giggled,
"Good cow," I said and hung up,
"Are we almost there?" Bree asked,
"Yes, just two more minutes," I drove into the parking lot of this huge business type looking place and parked, "Here we are, I think." I said,
"Woo hoo!" she almost fell out of the car she was going so fast,
"Gee Bree, don't fall." I grinned,
"Shut up, lets go!" We walked into the building and I asked for Eric, 'cause that's who Brian had told me to ask for earlier,
"Eric?" the secretary asked me,
"Yeah, he's with a group of people,"
"Okay, let me just make sure you're supposed to be here,"
"Okay...." she dialed up some number, said a few quick words and nodded us in, we walked down a huge twist of hallways before we finally got to the door, before we walked in I turned to Bree,
"Okay, Bree, you have to promise me one thing,"
"What?"
"That you won't freak when you meet him, he's-how can I say this-very good looking,"
"I won't freak! I'd only freak if it was like, Leonardo DiCaprio," whew, she didn't say Ni-"either Leo, or Nick Carter of course," she added, doh!
"Yeah," I agreed some what softly, I turned the handle and slowly opened the door,
"Lilly, is that you?" I heard a voice, I knew it was Nick,
"That voice sounds really familiar dude," Bree said behind me,
"Yeah its me Micky," I walked in, Brian waved and Nick walked over, Bree almost choked,
"Oh my...." she started,
"Bree...remember what you said?" she couldn't say anything, she was actually speechless, Nick looked at me like 'told you so'. "Nick, I know what you're thinking, so don’t even say it"
"Hi, I'm Nick, I believe we met already," he said ignoring me completely, gee thanks Nick, AJ came to my rescue then,
"Lilly! You've been hiding from the rest of us only spending time with Kaos over there!" I grinned,
"That's 'cause I wanted to save this last night to hang with you guys, you know, save the best for last," AJ laughed,
"I heard that," Nick said, I shrugged my shoulders,
"You win some, you lose some," Bree still hadn't said a word, I walked over to her with AJ,
"Bree...." I said waving my hand in front of her face, I glanced around and said to all the guys, "I think she blew a plug,"
"I did not," she whispered, then suddenly she turned to me, "I can't believe you didn't tell me!"
"It wasn't my fault! Go yell at lover boy over there," I said pointing to Nick, "He's the one who wouldn't let me tell you!" she looked over and it finally registered, I guess that wasn't good because then, she fainted, thankfully AJ was there to catch her, he picked her up and laid her down on the couch.
"Good one Lil," Nick started,
"Don't start with me," he turned to Brian,
"What's wrong with her?"
"I don't know, ask her," Nick turned back to me,
"What's wrong with you?"
"Nothing." I was mad now, Nick was acting like such a prick, he looked at me,
"I'm sorry,"
"For what? You were right, I was wrong."
"No, I'm sorry Lil one," he said using my OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLD nickname, which I had eventually limited to where only he was allowed to call me that,
"Its alright," I said, "Really," I glanced around and realized that Brian and disappeared, then Nick's cell phone rang, he picked it up,
"Hello?"
"Hi, is Jo jo there?"
"Who?"
"Jo jo,"
"There's no Jo jo here, sorry."
"Oh, oops, well, if you see him, tell him I'm waiting." then they clicked off, Nick put his phone down,
"That was weird," I looked around and again and suddenly Brian was back, I knew what he was up to. I also noticed that AJ was still reviving Bree. Then I heard,
"Come on Boys! Next picture!"
"Coming," they sighed, they went back for touch ups etc, when they came out, I had to admit, they all looked divine! Poor Bree, she was missing all of this, I shook her trying to wake her up,
"Bree....Bree...." she didn't wake up, "OH MY GOD, NICK CARTER!" she woke up,
"Huh? Where?!" I pointed,
"Right there stupid,"
"Oh my God,"
"Don't faint again!"
"I won't, I feel like such a ditz! I fainted! I can't believe I fainted!"
"Its not that big of a deal, you wanna know how much a male ditz Nick is?”
"Yeah!"
"Well, there was this one thing that happened, we all call it the 'Shaving Incident'..."
"LILLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Nick screeched,
"Never mind," I turned away to see Nick walking towards me in quick brisk steps,
"What were you telling her?" he demanded,
"Nothing,"
"What was she telling you?" he asked Bree,
"Uh...well...um...about...um..." she sighed, he looked a little lost,
"What?"
"About..um..well...about a shaving incident or something.."
"LILLY! Don't you dare! If you do, I swear, I'll tell everyone about-"
"OKAY, that's enough, Nick, I think they want you back for your single shot," he glared at me and then turned to walk back,
"What was he gonna tell everyone about?" Bree asked,
"Nothing. Forget you ever heard that."
"No, tell me!"
"I'll be right back,"
"Dude, I was just messin,"
"I'll be back, just watch the shoot," I walked outside and straight to the payphone, I dialed Nick's cell number and put the bottom of my shirt over the phone,
"Hello?" he answered,
"Hi, is Jo jo there?"
"Why do you keep asking for Jo jo??"
"'Cause this is his number! Is he there?"
"No, stop calling!"
"Sor-ry, I've only called once jerk-off, but if you see him, tell him Clem got out of his cage again,"
"Um....yeah," then I hung up, and slowly walked back like I was coming back from the rest room or something, I walked in right when Nick was telling everyone about the mysterious call, I caught Brian's eye and winked, he understood,
"Did I miss something?"
"Yeah, I got another Jo jo call." Nick announced,
"Ooh, alright, who was it this time?"
"I don't know, some chick,"
"Interesting," then I walked back over to Bree. I looked at my watch, "Uh, Bree.."
"Yes?" she replied dreamily,
"What time did you have to be home?"
"5:30, why?"
"Because, its 5:45" her eyes got real wide,
"I'm already grounded! Man, this sucks!"
"Its okay, let me just go tell Nick we're leaving, I'll call your mom and tell her it was my fault, alright?"
"Okay," she seemed unsure, "Are you sure you want to?"
"What's your mom gonna do to me" I laughed,
"Wait, I don't wanna leave, I wanna watch them," she sighed, "I still can't believe you know them! How long....wait a minute...at the concert, my phone....that night....girl in Nick's hotel room...." then it registered, "OH MY GOD! He called my phone and I answered! And you were in his hotel room ALL night! And I-and you-and he...." she lost her train of thought, happens alot to her,
"Dude, we'll go over it in the car," I giggled, "You wanna say bye to Nick with me? I know he's leaving tomorrow,"
"Aw, that sucks!"
"I know, this is the first time I've seen him in almost about two and a half years!"
"Why?"
"Eh, lost touch, y'know, the usual," even though it had so not been 'the usual'. We walked over to where they were actually shooting the pictures, Nick and Brian were off to the side trying to make AJ laugh while he took his shot,
"AJ, man, DON'T look over here," Nick said,
"Yeah, dude, Nick's got a brush up his butt!" AJ immediately glanced over,
"What the-" the photographer groaned,
"Oh great, another shot ruined, would you boys please stop it?" she said emphasizing the 'boys'. Brian and Nick got it, so they shut up,
"Hey Nick,"
"Yeah?" he asked,
"We gotta go now,"
"Right now? You like just got here!"
"Yeah, two hours ago,"
"Really?"
"Yup,"
"I don't want you to go yet! The shoot goes for another like two hours, right Bri?" he nodded,
"I know, but I gotta drop Bree home, she's grounded and she's already late."
"Fine, then can we all go out tonight, I mean like you, me, Brian, AJ, Howie, and Kev?" he asked pleadingly, Bree looked at me expectantly,
"Alrighty Mick, one more dinner before you all leave,"
"I'll call you in an hour, okay? Wear something nice,"
"I should be telling you that, can you wear what you're wearing now?" I asked somewhat hopefully,
"No," he grinned, "You know you like my style better,"
"Of course," I grinned, "Say bye Bree,"
"Bye N-n-nick and B-brian." Nick grinned at her,
"Bye sweetie," he grabbed her hand and kissed it, if he made her faint again I would...I would...I would like kick him or something. We were safe though, she just sighed really loud and then blushed, Brian just came over and gave her hug,
"It was nice meeting you Bree, next time we're down here, we'll make sure Lilly brings you with her,"
"Alright," she agreed, "Can I say bye to AJ, Howie, and Kevin too?"
"Sure," I laughed, "Bye guys, talk to ya later,"
"Aiight,"
"Bye Brian," I winked, he grinned,
"Bye Lilly," me and Bree went over to AJ since his shot was over and they were takin' a break,
"AJ, we're gonna go now, okay?"
"Aiight, just don't forget me this time Lil!" he pouted,
"I won't! I'll probably be seeing you tonight,"
"Ooh, okay, note to self: do not make an ass out of yourself tonight," he grinned,
"Bree wanted to say bye to you"
"Yeah, bye AJ, it was great meeting you!" she said enthusiastically,
"It was cool meeting you too, and let me just tell you," then he whispered something in her ear and I couldn't hear it. But her smile got bigger and bigger. Then she said bye to Howie and Kev and we went back to my car, we got in and she immediately started talking,
"How long have you known Nick? And why do you call him Mick? Is there something going on between you and Brian? Is AJ always so sweet? Kevin and Howie look better in person, don't they? Is Kev always that serious? Did you and Nick go out? Does Nick have any younger cousins that look like him? Is Brian really as funny as people say? Did you-"
"Hold on! One question at a time! I haven't even started the car and you've asked me like a million questions.." I cut her off, she took a deep breath,
"Okay, first one, how long have you known Nick?" I started the car,
"About, um, six years, yeah, I met him when I was 11 and he was 13."
"How did you meet him?"
"Well, my friend's brother was going to this audition for a musical group in Orlando and she asked me to go along and I did, thats where I met Nick, we were both really shy, and-"
"Why do you call him Mick?"
"As I was about to say, we were both really shy, so when I met him, I told him my name and he told me his, but I thought he said Mick, not Nick. It was a while before he finally told me it was Nick, not Mick. Then I just used it as a nick name, also, we found out we didn't live to far away from each other and became friends,"
"Ooooh, now, is there something going on between you and Brian?" I almost choked,
"What? No way!" I moved the car onto the main road, "We're just friends! Besides, you know he's dating Leighanne"
"Alright, is AJ always that sweet?" she sighed,
"AJ's cool, he's just cool. That's the only word you can use to describe him. And yes Kev and Howie do look good in person," I grinned,
"Did you and Nick go out?"
"Must I answer this?"
"Yes."
"Okay...here goes, I guess you could say that we did kinda sorta a lil bit,"
"Wait, you were that chick, that......no way......nuh uh.....was that......you?"
"What the heck are you talking about?"
"Is Mandy your code name?"
"HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL no."
"Oh, okay.....then, you're that chick Nick always says was his first girlfriend, when'd you two hook up?"
"Dude, I'm surprised you're not jealous...and we 'hooked up' as you so eloquently stated, when I was 14 and he was 16."
"Yes, I am jealous, in fact, if you weren't driving right now, I'd have to kill you."
"Okay.....time to run, wait a minute, I'm driving," I grinned,
"Shut up, really when you were only 14?"
"Yep,"
"How long did you go out?"
"Well, first we went out for like three days, then we broke up, then two days after that, we got back together,"
"Why'd you break up?"
"Because, Nick was a stupid pig,"
"What?"
"He was, it was so not my fault, I don't care what he says, if he ever tries to tell you anything about me, don't listen, its wrong, unless its good of course,"
"Ooooh, so then how long did you go out for?"
"Until I moved, we didn't really end it though, it just kinda stopped by itself, and that's only 'cause we'd like never ever ever see each other,"
"That's so saaaaaaaaaaaad,"
"Um, yeah....it is...but...he was in like Europe after that like forever, that's why we didn't keep in touch, and you can't tell anyone! No one knows! No one."
"Not even the other guys?"
"Not even the other guys."
"Ooh, now what was my last question, well, I'll remember that in a second-"
"Yeah, sure you will, if a second was like ten years," she hit me then, it hurt, "Dude, don't do that when I'm driving,"
"Oops," she laughed, "Sorry, anyways, since you said that, I'm gonna have to ask this question, is Nick a virgin?"
"Nick is SO a virgin, that boy needs to get laid SO bad."
"Nuh uh! Really?"
"Yup, unless he hasn't told me something, if he hasn't, maybe I should ask him tonight," I grinned evilly,
"I wanna come, stupid grounding,"
"Will your mom let you off?"
"No. She let me off for the concert, remember? Why would she let me off for this?"
"Maybe Nick could talk to her, I don't know, he's been being a prick lately,"
"How so?"
"He just has, but I'll see, hold on, I'll call him, here you talk to him,"
"NO! You!"
"Nope, you,"
"Okay..." she winced, I dialed the number and handed her the phone,
"Hello?"
"Hi...um, Nick?"
"This is he....."
"This is Brina...you know, Lilly's friend,"
"Yeah, hey....um, can I help you?"
"Yeah, well....um...I was wondering...um, could I join you guys tonight?"
"Aren't you grounded?"
"Yeah, but...well, if you could possibly, maybe kinda sorta talk to my mom?"
"NO WAY! No mothers, absolutely not! Lilly's mom doesn't even know, there is no way in hell that I am talking to someone's parent!" and he hung up, she looked at the phone and started crying,
"What did he do?"
"He-he-he *sniff* he was mean to me!" she sobbed, I grabbed the phone and called him back,
"Hello?"
"Nickolas Gene Carter, how could you?"
"How could I what?"
"You made her cry!"
"I'm sorry! But no."
"Fine, then you just had to say, what you told me, you made her cry, she's sobbing,"
"Tell her I'm sorry! I can't talk to a crying girl, I'll mess up,"
"Fine, fine, later." I hung up with out waiting for him to say bye. I turned to her, "He's really sorry, he's not to great with words, that's probably why it seemed so harsh,"
"But...but...how could he be so mean?"
"He doesn't try to be, don't worry about it, he's really sweet inside"
"If you say so," we finally got to her house then,
"I'll try talking to your mom, alright?"
"Okay...okay," she sniffed, we walked inside and Bree's mom freaked,
"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN???"
"Woh woh woh, hold up, it was my fault, I got hung up at school, I'm really sorry, really, I'll make sure it won't happen again," I said before she could totally get mad,
"Really?"
"Yes,"
"I called your school, they said you left right on time,"
"Well, okay, I didn't get held up at school, its just something really important came up, and its still kinda going on, but I was just wondering can Bree please go with me to dinner tonight?"
"No."
"Please, oh please oh please?"
"I said no, that's it." with that her mom turned and walked into her room,
"Man this sucks," Bree started, "This is really really sucks!" and she ran to her room, I felt so bad for her! But there was nothing I could do, so I just walked back to my car and drove home<. On the way home my phone rang,
"Hello?"
"Hey Lil one,"
"Hey Nick"
"Alright, we're gonna pick you up around 8:00?"
"Alright, I guess," I said,
"What's wrong?"
"I feel bad for Bree,"
"I'm really sorry Lilly! I can't do anything though,"
"I know, if I get an idea though..."
"Lilly, you and your ideas," he laughed,
"You know you like 'em," I grinned, "Am I still supposed to dress nicely?"
"Yup, really nicely,"
"Formal?"
"I don't know! Just really nice,"
"Alright, alright, I'll talk to ya later, 'cause I'm home now, and I'm gonna go get ready 'cause its already 6:30,"
"K, talk to ya later Lil,"
"Bye Mick," I hung up and ran upstairs, to get ready, it took me until 7:55, luckily, 'cause for once Nick was early! The doorbell rang at 7:58 exactly, "That is so not him," I said to myself, but I ran all the way down anyways and got the door, it was him.
"Hey," I went out and shut the door,
"Alright, lets go, come on,"
"Huh, what? Don't I-"
"No, lets go," we went out to the car,
"We're gonna meet the other guys there," he said when we got in,
"Mmkay," he glanced at me,
"You look nice,"
"Thanks, wow, so do you," I said with mock surprise,
"Yeah you know you want some," he grinned, we drove to the restaurant then, and it was super super nice!
"Nick," I hissed, "This is really nice, are you sure you wanna eat here?"
"Yup, I want our last night here to be special,"
"Awww, that's like the first sweet thing that I've heard you say while you've been here!"
"Has not!"
"Has too!" I grinned, "but that's cool," we walked inside, it was like a French restaurant or something too, the Maitre'D came up to us,
