Without You


written by Andie

Chapter 25

After a quick catch up conversation, everyone decided to hang out. Breanna called Eve at Kevin's hotel to see how she was doing. Eve assured her that she was feeling better and wanted to hang out with Breanna and Howie. Nick and the rest of the guys asked Breanna not to tell Eve or Kevin that they were in town. They wanted to surprise them. "Okay, we'll need my car, too." Breanna told the rest of the room.

"Nick and AJ will ride with me. You, D, and Lex can go in your car. When we pick up Eve and Kevin, all the single people will ride with me and you love birds can be together." Brian told Breanna sticking his tongue out at her. Breanna stuck her tongue back out at Brian.

"Oh that's real grown up!" Nick shouted at them from the living room.

"So, it'll be me, D, Eve, and Kev? What about AJ? He's not single." Breanna looked at AJ who was eating a bowl of Cocoa Puffs.

"I'll ride with Brian. I may not be single but I can still mingle." He sang out.

"Okay, Lex will go with you guys, too. He knows how and most importantly *where* the women are here so he can play tour guide." Breanna teased her brother. Alexei was sitting on the living room floor with Nick while they played Play Station.

"He beat me!" Nick yelled in disbelief while the rest of the room laughed.

"Nick finally met his match. Shit, they even look a like." AJ said shaking his head in disbelief, spooning more cereal into his mouth. Nick and Alexei were both 6'1 with blonde hair and the same haircut. Brian never saw both men side by side but after watching them playing video games he saw the resemblance. He burst out laughing, not sure if he was laughing from disbelief or just because it was funny.

"Okay, let's roll!" Breanna said, rounding up the men.

"Where are we goin' anyway?" Brian asked, grabbing his keys from the coffee table.

"We gotta get Kev and Eve. Then we'll plan something. We're playing it by ear, basically." She explained to Brian messing up his hair.

"Hey, leave my hair alone. Mess up D's." Brian insisted.

"Hell, you don't think I know better than to mess with his hair? What fantasy world have you been living in?" Breanna joked to Brian, her hands on her hip. Brian laughed at Breanna. He felt a twinge of jealousy when he looked at Howie. Howie had the girl he always wanted. She was smart, funny, and beautiful. Breanna was dressed in a very short, violet sleeveless summer dress that she bought from Delia*s and black three inch sandals. She wore little make-up other than a color tinted lip gloss, some violet eyeliner and eye shadow, and powder. She had the front part of her hair pulled back with violet butterfly clips. It was an angelic look that drove Howie (and Brian and AJ) wild. Nick didn't seem to notice what Breanna was wearing or even if she existed for that matter. He was too caught up in the video game he was losing to Alexei.

"C'mon. My sister's gonna get pissed if we're not ready to go. It's okay for her to take three hours getting ready but it's not okay for us to not be ready when she says jump." Alexei complained to Nick.

"I heard that, Lex!" Breanna shouted from the kitchen.

Howie was in Breanna's room picking out something to wear when he heard someone in the doorway. "Give me a minute, Breen. I'm still not ready." He commented.

"Take as long as you need, man." He heard Brian reply.

"Oh hey B-rok! What's up?" Howie asked, slipping a Nautica shirt on.

"Nothing." Brian said glancing around Breanna's room at all the photos of her and Howie together. He found a framed photo of just himself, smiling from ear to ear taken when they were on the boardwalk in Santa Monica. He laughed remembering the fun they all had that day.

"I can't escape you guys when I come out here. You're all over her walls and they're not even posters!" Howie joked when he saw what Brian was laughing at.

"Yeah, I've missed talking to her. Actually I think I've just missed talking to a woman on that level. With Rachel it seemed like I was talking to a child. She changed in the last two years to the point where I didn't want to even talk to her." Brian blurted out. Howie was always the one the guys went to when they had something on their mind. He was always the perfect listener and he never gave out advice until he heard everything the other person had to say.

"Fame changed her, Bri. Not you. Don't blame yourself." Howie said, looking at his friends crestfallen face.

"I know but I'm afraid of it happening again. I don't want to fall in love with a woman and then find out that my career will change her into someone I don't love anymore." Brian explained.

"You won't. Rachel was around for almost 4 years. I think you've learned from that relationship. I learned from my mistake with Helaina. Now I have Breanna." Howie said smiling. Brian nodded his head hoping that his friend was right. He wanted to meet someone who would understand him the way Breanna seemed to understand Howie.

"If you two don't mind, I'd like to get going." Breanna said from the doorway after she had listened to the guys talk for the past few minutes.

"I'm ready!" Howie smiled at Breanna giving her a kiss on the cheek before walking out of the door towards the stairs. Brian didn't say anything as he looked at the other photos on the wall. He laughed when he saw the one of himself with Breanna and Eve both in his lap, his arms around their waists, bottles in both of their hands, visibly drunk.

"I had fun that night, if I can remember. We really need to go to Vegas again." Breanna smiled at Brian. He was still staring at the photo smiling.

"Brian, you'll find someone, I promise." She said placing a hand on his shoulder. He turned around pulling her in for a tight hug.

"I know. I'm just impatient." He explained. Breanna kissed him on the cheek.

"I know. I was the same way and look what happened."

"Ahem." She and Brian turned around to see Howie in the doorway.

"You can borrow my woman on the weekends when we're back home but when we're in LA, she's all mine." Howie told Brian.

"Is that so? Since when?" Breanna asked Howie, Brian's arm wrapped around her waist.

"Since I said so." He told her.

"I like that arrangement." Brian stated with a silly smirk on his face.

"Let's go!" They heard the guys downstairs yell.

"I could have kicked Lex's ass but you made us turn it off. So, let's go!" Nick whined from downstairs. Breanna rolled her eyes at Brian and Howie.

"Yeah, let's go." She agreed as they all headed down the stairs together.

The guys piled into Brian's rented blue BMW 525i. "You had to pick this car, didn't you?" AJ complained.

"What's wrong with a beemer? I own one, remember?" Brian asked as they pulled out of the driveway giving Breanna room to back out her father's new Mercedes M class.

"I mean they had a Porsche! You could have gotten the Porsche." AJ pointed out.

"Yeah and if I did you would have been walkin' cause there wouldn't have been any room for you." Brian explained.

"I like Breanna's car. That's pretty cool!" Nick said from the front passenger seat. Being the tallest and needing the most leg room he was frequently in the front seat.

"That's daddy's car." Brian explained.

"What's her dad do?" AJ asked curiously. It was obvious that her family was way more than just well off.

"Hollywood lawyer or something like that." Brian answered nonchalantly. Brian was parked next to the curb waiting for Breanna to back up so they could follow her to the hotel.

"She seems to be living the Hollywood Brats life. All of the stereotypes fit with her. She lives in the coolest part of LA, in a nice house, her family has nice cars, there's a mom and a dad and the two happy kids. Everything seems like a movie, almost like Clueless except she has a brain." AJ said laughing, the other guys laughing along. Breanna backed the car up so that her window was next to Brian's window.

"Brian, just follow us. We'll figure things out from the hotel." Breanna told him.

"Duh!" Brian told her sticking his tongue out at her again for the second time that day.

"Don't stick it out unless you plan to use it." She said in a flirty voice as she rolled her window up. A look of shock came across Brian's face as Nick and AJ cracked up laughing.

"I don't know why she's dating, D! She's his total opposite." AJ said laughing.

"She's so perverted!" Nick noted. Brian made a U-turn to follow Breanna down the street towards the freeway.

"Man, she made me speechless." Brian said laughing.

"This is going to be fun." Alexei sarcastically said to himself from the backseat.

"Lex, make sure you have your seatbelt on. I'm gonna have a little fun with Brian." Breanna said looking in her rearview mirror at her brother.

"I better turn my phone on. I have a feeling you're gonna get them lost." Howie joked.

"When she says put your seatbelt on, then you better be praying to God that you survive." Alexei said with a slight laugh. His sister behind the wheel of their fathers vehicles only spelt out trouble. As they merged onto the 10 freeway Breanna stepped on the gas. It was Tuesday early afternoon when the freeway had little traffic, or little traffic for LA. Howie glanced over a the speedometer that read 80 MPH and seemed to be gaining speed. Brian was hot on her tail.

"Damn, he's good." She said laughing.

"Am I clear?" She asked Howie about the far right lane.

"Go for it, babe!" He said. He was starting to loosen up and have fun. Breanna switched two lanes going 90 MPH. Brian followed suit. "DAMN!" She yelled out. She saw a car in the left hand lane and quickly signaled for a split second before switching lanes and ultimately cutting the other driver off.

"Sorry!" She muttered to herself and the other drive.

"Stop that, Alexei!" Breanna said to her brother who had just crossed himself with his hand in a sign of prayer.

"Sorry, Breen. But I have just seen my life flash before my eyes twice!" He complained as Breanna and Howie laughed.

"SHIT!" Nick and AJ shouted in unison as Brian caught up to Breanna who was in the process of switching two lanes at once, cutting two people off. Brian did the same.

"Man, we're in LA! We're gonna get shot by some pissed off driver." Nick said, holding on to the cars hand rail.

"Isn't the hotel off the 405 freeway?" Brian quickly asked the guys, concentrating on Breanna in front of him.

"Yeah, why?" They both answered.

"Cause the 405 is way the hell over there and we're way the hell over here." Brian said pointing off to the right of them. They were on a 8 lane freeway in the 7th lane. The 405 merging lane was in the 1st lane.

"Oh God!" Nick yelled out laughing as Brian switched lanes at 100 MPH. They were now next to Breanna but Brian stepped on the gas to be ahead of her.

"I know what he's planning to do!" She yelled out. Just then Breanna looked over her shoulder and noticed all the lanes seemed to be clear. She quickly switched over all the lanes with Brian right next to her.

"I swear to god I'm gonna die!" Alexei complained from the back seat. Howie was so nervous he was laughing. AJ didn't say a word from the backseat of Brian's car. After a second he noticed that they were going way too fast to merge onto the 405 freeway which stated a 25 MPH sign because of the onramp.

"We're insured, right?" He yelled out.

"Yeah!" Brian replied.

"Good cause that sign says 25 miles per hour! It's a curved on ramp!" AJ yelled out as Brian slightly slammed on the brakes. He didn't want to lose total control of the car as it screeched across the freeway lanes. Breanna did the same thing but she was still ahead of Brian. When they finally hit the onramp they were both going 45 MPH. That was still safe enough for them to be able to control their cars. Once they were on the 405 safely, the horse play continued with Brian leading the way.

"You mutha fu..!"

"BREANNA!" Howie shouted in disbelief.

"Sorry!" Breanna said smiling at Howie.

"I'm still alive? Or is this the road trip to heaven?" Alexei asked with a laugh.

"Heaven? You?" Breanna laughed while she concentrated on Brian. He was switching lanes back and forth and cutting people off just for the hell of it.

"I'll show him!" She shouted and with that she stepped on the gas. Her lane was completely clear for the next few miles it seemed.

"Where is she?" Brian asked Nick as AJ giggled in the backseat.

"Who? Breanna? That car that passed us two miles back?" AJ asked pointing to Breanna's car that now looked like a distant memory.

"Right now we're eating her dust." AJ pointed out.

"Damn!" Brian said stepping on the gas. Breanna was at 110 MPH but she could see in her rearview mirror that Brian was catching up.

"Wilshire!" She yelled out as she changed lanes towards the Wilshire exit. Brian saw the Wilshire sign and quickly switched lanes almost causing an accident twice. As Breanna exited the freeway she noticed the light was green.

"By the time he gets here it'll be red. Should I just stop? No one's behind me." She asked the guys.

"No, Brian's behind you." Alexei said glancing behind his shoulder.

"DAMN!" Breanna yelled again turning right on the now yellow light. Brian had to run the red to keep up with her.

"She's good." He said to himself.

"Well, at least she and D have the same driving skills." AJ said with a smirk on his face.

After a few more minutes of horseplay the pulled into the hotel valet parking area. Once both cars were in the care of the valet drivers Breanna pranced over to Brian, throwing an arm around his shoulder. "So, how did I do?" He asked her smiling.

"Eh, I've seen better." She said playfully as she let go of his shoulder and skipped on ahead of him to catch up to Alexei who was walking ahead of the group. Howie, AJ, Brian and Nick walked together.

"Damn! She's nothing I would have guessed you would date, D!" AJ said in disbelief.

"I'm proud of you, D. You finally found yourself a real woman. She's gonna keep you on your toes." AJ was mostly proud with himself for setting them up. Howie walked with his head held high watching Breanna interact with her brother. She ran up behind Alexei and jumped onto his back, her dress riding up so the guys got a good shot of her backside.

"Nice ass!" AJ yelled. Breanna threw her hand up flipping him the bird in response. Brian and Nick giggled. "Stop undressing her, Nick." Howie stated with a smirk on his face.

"You too, Bone!" He said glaring at AJ who only shrugged his shoulders. Brian didn't say anything, he only looked ahead as they walked into the lobby of the hotel. By that time Breanna had jumped off of Alexei's back to stand with Howie.

"So, what's the surprise plan, boys?" She asked AJ, Nick, and Brian.

"We were going to plan something in the car but we were too busy holding on to dear life." Nick explained glancing at Brian who stood next to him laughing quietly to himself.

"Okay, how about this? Have someone working here call them and say something like 'you have a package waiting for you downstairs' or something like that." Breanna offered. The guys thought about it for a few seconds before shaking their heads no.

"Okay, then just go sit in my car and Howie and I will go get them. The car has tinted windows so they won't be able to see you. When they open the door and see you guys it'll surprise them." Breanna offered again.

"No, it has to be something totally crazy!" Brian tried to explain. With that said, all eyes were on Nick who was in deep thought.

"Got anything brewing up there, Frack?" Brian asked his friend.

"I'm thinkin', I'm thinkin'." Nick said racking his brain for ideas.

"I've got it!" Nick finally yelled out.

Chapter 26

"Room service!" A bell boy yelled out at the door of Kevin and Eve's hotel room. When Kevin opened the door, the bellboy rolled the room service cart into the room near the opened closet.

"Thank you." Kevin said tipping the bellboy.

"Go!" AJ said quietly to Brian. The guys had stowed away under the room service cart and were now crawling into the closet.

"Oh please don't be intimate, you two." Brian muttered as he crawled quickly into the closet with AJ behind him.

"What time are they supposed to be here?" Kevin asked Eve.

"I'm not sure. Right about now I think. Are you ready to go?" Eve asked.

"Yeah, I'm just waiting for D and Bree." Kevin was becoming impatient which was unusual for him.

"Calm down! We have two weeks together, remember?" She sighed walking up to Kevin and kissing him slowly. Kevin made the kiss more passionate and started roaming Eve's body with his hands.

"Oh growse!" Brian said grimacing.

"Can we some how switch places, Bone? I really don't want to see my cousin getting it on with his girl." Brian whispered. AJ shook his head no.

"I don't either." He whispered back.

"Where's Nick?" Brian complained again. After a minute there was a knock at the door and Brian and AJ let out a quiet sigh of relief. It was a maid with her towel cart coming to clean up the bathroom and bring them fresh towels.

"Are you busy, sir?" The young maid asked.

"No, we were just about to leave in a few minutes. Come in." He told her, a little bothered by the fact that he and Eve were interrupted.

"I'll only be a minute." She said rolling the cart into the bathroom that was filled with dirty towels. Once she was in the bathroom she closed the door behind her and Nick hopped out of the cart. "Thanks!" He said handing her $10.

"No problem! Hope your little trick works." She whispered to him. Nick stepped into the shower and pulled the curtains so no one could see him. The maid quickly grabbed the dirty towels and threw them into the cart. She placed clean ones on the towel rack. After a minute she looked around, wished Nick good luck again, and left the bathroom.

"Have a good day, sir!" The maid said as she left the room, walking right into Howie and Breanna.

"Finally, D! What took you so long?" Kevin asked giving his friend a quick hug.

"Traffic!" Breanna shouted without realizing it. Kevin looked at Breanna funny before giving her a hug as well. Eve and Breanna ran towards each other and started hugging and giggling as both guys looked on.

"Women!" Kevin smirked.

"Gotta love 'em," Howie smiled.

"So, are we ready?" Kevin asked Howie who was looking around the hotel room.

"Not yet. I gotta use the bathroom." Howie walked into the bathroom and slowly closed the door behind him.

"Nick?" He whispered.

"Yeah, D. I'm here." Nick replied back.

"Okay. Do you know if AJ and Brian are here yet?"

"I dunno. I hope. Check the closet. That was the original plan." Nick whispered slowly.

"Okay." Howie replied flushing the toilet for sound effects. Breanna glanced into the closet and saw Brian's hand slightly sticking out so they would know that he and AJ made it. She looked up at Howie, glanced at the closet, and winked. Howie smiled in response. "Eve, I think I saw one of your rings on the bathroom floor when I walked in. I should have picked it up when I was leaving. It was near the edge of the tub." Howie told Eve. Eve looked at Howie funny for a minute while Howie tried to keep a straight face.

"Um okay I'll go look." She muttered. "Kevin, there's this huge bug on the closet floor!" Breanna yelled out with a freaked out look on her face. "What?" Kevin asked looking into the closet. At the same time Eve let out a yell. "Oh my god!" She screamed. When Kevin's eyes focused into the closet he yelled the same thing. Brian and AJ were now standing in the closet with the goofiest grins on their face.

"Let me guess, Nick's in the shower?" Kevin asked his cousin who nodded his head.

"You jerk!" Eve yelled out to Nick. He jumped out of the shower and picked Eve up swinging her around happily.

"I've missed you!" She told him. He placed her lightly back on the ground before giving her a big hug.

"Me too!" He agreed.

"Where's the rest of the guys?" Eve asked. Nick lead her out of the bathroom to see AJ and Brian smiling fit to burst. "You guys!" Eve yelled as she ran towards AJ and Brian giving them both hugs.

"Hey Frack!" Kevin greeted.

"Hey man!" Nick said with a sheepish grin on his face.

"Let me guess...your plan?" He asked while Nick nodded. After ten more minutes of greeting each other they decided it was time to leave.

"Where to, guys?" Breanna asked.

"Santa Monica!" AJ and Nick yelled out together.

"Has anyone seen Alexei?" Breanna asked after she realized that her brother wasn't in the room with them.

"He's in the lobby. He saw something he liked." Howie informed.

"Okay Eve, you and Kevin will ride with me and D. I got Dads Mercedes." Breanna said smiling proudly. If her parents weren't out of town she would have never touched that car.

"And it's still intact. It won't be for long." Alexei commented walking into the room.

"Lex!" Eve yelled giving Alexei a very friendly hug and kiss that sent tingles down Kevin's back. Howie looked at Kevin and shook his head slowly indicating that it wasn't what it seemed. Kevin gave Howie a small smile.

"All the single guys and AJ will go with Brian." Breanna finished explaining to Eve and Kevin.

"So, we're all going to Santa Monica?" Kevin asked. Everyone in the room nodded their head in approval.

"It's not a good place to take AJ." Brian said with a smirk.

"Relax man. Mya made me agree to no more tattoos." AJ informed his friend.

"She got you whooped!" Nick yelled out laughing. AJ nodded his head in agreement.

"I'm proud to admit it, too!" He added.

Everyone headed down the hallway towards the elevator. All the guys wore different types of hats and sunglasses. Eve wore her hair in a French twist with her sunglasses, Kevin's arm wrapped around her waist. Breanna wore her sunglasses while AJ preferred not to wear any disguise at all. This didn't come as a surprise to anyone. Once they were in the lobby they noticed a group of girls who were obviously looking around for someone. "Damn...fans in the hotel." Nick muttered as the elevator doors opened. Everyone made a beeline for the door as the fans turned around to see them leaving. The fans screamed out all of their names at different times but the guys weren't in the mood to sign autographs. They ran towards the valet parking where the drivers were all busy parking cars. Breanna saw their car keys on a board with other car keys and grabbed them.

"Brian, catch!!" She yelled. She tossed his keys to him as they all started running towards their cars.

"Fans are chasing us!" Kevin yelled in explanation to the valet workers. Breanna arrived at her car out of breath. The fans were in the parking lot looking around. Luckily for all of them they were all parked near larger cars. Breanna's car was near an Expedition. Brian's car was near a Suburban. Breanna quietly unlocked her car door which unlocked the other doors simultaneously. Howie jumped in the front seat while Eve and Kevin piled into the back. Brian's car was in front of Breanna's and the guys were still getting in. Brian got into the driver side while Nick got into the passenger side. AJ and Alexei jumped into the backseat. Breanna looked at Brian and waited for him to start his car before she started hers. They both quickly backed up and took off towards the exit, Brian almost hitting a fan in the process.

"Do you guys have to put up with this all the time?" Alexei asked.

"Yeah." They all said together.

"This wasn't bad. It's normally way worse but we usually have our bodyguards with us. Sometimes there are hundreds of fans who come running at us and we have no place to go." Brian explained. Alexei couldn't comprehend exactly how crazy their lives were. He was worried about his sister. He knew that the fans were young and very possessive. Brian glanced into the rearview mirror and saw the expression on Alexei's face.

"Don't worry, Lex. If Breanna goes on tour with us she'll have her own bodyguard. I'll make sure of it." Brian tried to reassure his new friend. Alexei nodded his head.

"Thanks."

"Don't mention it." Brian smiled back.

"Oh no, here we go again!" Brian yelled out as Breanna merged onto the 405 freeway at over 75 MPH.

Chapter 27

After another game of Cat and Mouse Breanna and Brian arrived at a parking structure near the Third Street Promenade. They all agreed to hang out for a couple of hours. There were celebrities in disguise and tourists all over. They felt safe there. Everyone walked around wondering into shops and watching the street performers. Two street performers stuck out the most. Two black young men decked out in oversized Nike pants and white T-shirts were interacting with the crowd and imitating celebrities. They were the best comedians Breanna had seen in a long time. After an hour of performing and making everyone laugh the guys started jokingly demanding money. "...and if you don't give us some cash, we're gonna rip on you" One of the guys yelled out as the crowd roared with laughter. The young men pulled out buckets and started running around the crowd collecting dollars from everyone. The people who didn't give them money were made fun of. One older Chinese man was the first victim. "Yo dragon! Give me Doll-lah." The second guy said while pulling his eyes back in an attempt to imitate the Chinese man. Both guys started acting like Jackie Chan before doing scenes from The Karate Kid. After a few minutes the man gave them a dollar. The next young man they saw was a tall, blonde guy dressed in Tommy clothes. "Yo, man, where's our money?" The first guy asked. The young man shrugged his shoulders. "C'mon you Backstreet Boy or 98 Degrees whatever the hell you're called. Where's our money?" The second one asked. With that the blonde boy handed them ten dollars to shut them up.

"Damn, that was close." Nick muttered to his group of laughing friends. The street performers didn't really recognize Nick but some of the young faces in the crowd became suspicious.

"Okay, let's check the rest of this joint out." AJ said. After a while Breanna pulled Eve away from Kevin.

"I have an idea." She told her friend as they walked ahead of the guys.

"Oh no. I know that tone of voice, B." Eve said sighing.

"Just hear me out. I wanna get a tattoo. For Howie." Breanna said smiling to her friend.

"WHAT?" Eve yelled making the guys stop in their tracks.

"It's nothing." Breanna told the guys as she and Eve continued to walk.

"What kind of tattoo, Breanna Tatiana?" Eve asked seriously.

"Nothing noticeable. Nothing huge." Breanna explained.

"You've only been with the guy for what, three months almost?" Eve complained.

"Chill out. How long have you been with Kevin? If you weren't afraid of the pain, I'm sure you'd get one for him. Some place mysterious that he'd have to find...." Breanna said with a sly voice. Eve looked at her friend like she was from Mars. After another minute of thinking Eve nodded her head, a small smile crept across her face.

"Okay! Let's do it!" With that both girls ran into one of the clothing stores, French Laundry, to plan what, where, how, and most importantly when they were going to get their new tattoos.

"Shopping? Again?" Kevin complained.

"I'll see you guys later. I'll be across the street with Brok." Nick told Howie and Kevin. AJ and Alexei took off in another direction a few minutes earlier.

Brian and Nick noticed two young women sitting at a table outside of a restaurant eating lunch. They were hungry and thought they'd try to talk to them, what the hell. Brian and Nick sat at a table next to the ladies. One of them looked up at Nick. "Hi." Nick said shyly. The young woman smiled in response and kept on talking to her friend. Her friend wasn't paying attention. She was staring at Brian. She recognized him. After a few minutes she started talking to her friend in another language.

"That guy is from that famous music group. They both are!" The young woman said in Russian.

"What group? What are their names?" The other girl asked.

"I'd tell you but then they'd understand me. It's the group with the English name Back, Street, and Boys in it." The first young woman said, pronouncing all of the words in Russian. When her friend put the words into English her eyes became huge. Brian and Nick realized that the girls recognized them and became disappointed.

"Oh, we gotta meet up with AJ!" Brian told Nick loudly as they got up to leave.

"Later, ladies." Nick told them. "Man, we'll never find girls who don't recognize us." Nick said, thoroughly disappointed.

"So, we're stuck shopping with women." Kevin jokingly complained to Howie. Breanna and Eve were in the dressing rooms trying different things on.

"Where are we gonna get them, Bree?" Eve asked.

"Inner, upper thigh?" Breanna asked. "What about upper hip?" Eve suggested.

"How about near our bikini line?" Breanna offered.

"One of those places. We'll ask the tattoo person about locations. The least pain the better." Eve said. She walked out of the dressing room wearing a white cotton dress that tied with a satin ribbon around her breast. It was backless and tight around Eve's breast giving the illusion that she had bigger breasts than she really did. When she walked out of the dressing room Howie and Kevin both stood there, mouths hanging open in response.

"So it looks okay?" Eve asked. Just then Breanna walked out of the dressing room wearing a long black dress that was very low cut revealing her breast almost entirely. It was completely backless going all the way down towards her tailbone. Breanna looked at Eve in amazement. That dress looked stunning on Eve.

"Damn girl, you could turn me Bi if you wear that around me." Breanna told Eve without thinking. Howie and Kevin didn't realize that Breanna had exited her dressing room and were in complete shock with the statement she just made.

"What!?" Eve yelled out laughing hysterically. "Oh my god!" Eve exclaimed when she saw the dress Breanna was wearing. Howie just stood there staring, not saying a word.

"Breanna! You look...well...um....D?" Kevin asked his friend.

"Say what's on your mind." Howie said still staring at Breanna.

"You just look...wow...ummm..Is there another dress like that in Eve's size?" He asked looking around trying to find where that dress came from. Breanna laughed at Kevin.

"B, don't laugh too much. You'll fall out of that thing." Eve commented laughing at her friend. Howie still stood there staring at Breanna in amazement.

"Do you like it? I've seen it so many times here and I kept promising myself that when I lost weight I'd come back here and buy it." Howie only nodded his head, his fingers pinching his lips together while he stood in a daze. "I guess you like it." She said smiling to

him. She walked over to him and gave him a small kiss on the lips. "I'd like it even more on my bedroom floor." He whispered in her ear.

Kevin found the same dress only in white and handed it to Eve. "I don't care how uncomfortable you are wearing it or how much it is. I'm getting this for you!" He told her.

"Geez, you're horny!" She laughed at him.

"Ever since I've arrived in town you've been sick. You bet your ass I'm horny." He growled into her ear. She glanced over to see Howie and Breanna in a slight makeout session, Breanna still wearing the black dress while Howie's hands roamed her back.

"They've had sex! I can tell!" She whispered to Kevin who was leaning in for a kiss.

"That's something I'd like to be doing right about now but I'll settle for a kiss." Eve couldn't resist his charm and kissed him passionately. Breanna, Howie, Kevin, and Eve were in the middle of the expensive, high class store making out.

"Oh get a room!!" Nick and Brian yelled out in unison to the happy (and horny) couples. Both couples pulled away from each other laughing.

"Holy shit!" Nick said pointing to Breanna. Brian saw Breanna and his mouth dropped to the floor. Eve had already walked back into her dressing room with the dress Kevin had handed her. Both guys were making a fuss over Breanna's dress when Eve walked back out. "Da da da DAMN!" Nick managed to get out. "Look, Frick!" Nick yelled. Brian turned around to see Eve.

"Wow, Eve!" He exclaimed. "I think we need to go back to the hotel." Kevin commented. Everyone laughed at him.

"Hey Cuz, try to keep it in your pants, k?" Brian teased. Howie was still in a daze over the dress Breanna was wearing.

"Will you stop staring at me like that? You're making me uncomfortable." She told him.

"It looks so good on you...my god..." He tried to explain to her. He started feeling around for his back pocket and pulled out his wallet, handing Breanna his credit card.

"Buy it!" He demanded.

"Howie, I have my own credit cards." She told him.

"No, I want this to be a present for you." He told her.

"Wouldn't it be a present for *you*?" She asked playfully. Howie only smiled in return.

After they got dressed the girls walked out of the dressing room with knowing smirks on their faces. "Oh no! What are you two planning?" Brian asked.

"Nothing." They answered sweetly.

"Yeah right. No woman can have that facial expression and say that without lying." Nick pointed out.

"Yeah, we're lying but you're not gonna find out about what." Breanna told Nick. Brian could only laugh. After both dresses were paid for the girls decided to go get their tattoos.

"Hey, we gotta go somewhere. We'll meet you guys at the pier in two hours." Breanna told them.

"Where are you going?" Howie and Kevin asked at the same time. They looked at each other sideways like they were both crazy. Nick and Brian were rolling on the floor.

"They have you both whooped!" Nick shouted. Both guys looked at Nick with an annoyed expression before turning back to Breanna and Eve.

"Don't worry about it. We'll meet you at the pier." Eve told Kevin, giving him a small kiss. Breanna gave Howie a longer kiss before pulling away to join Eve.

"Here, you can have the keys to the car. We really don't need it." Breanna said handing Howie the keys. "Tell Lex I let you drive if he has anything to complain about." She added. Without letting the guys say anything else both girls turned around and walked over to the Henna Tattoo artist. They seemed to talk to him for two minutes before leaving the Promenade all together.

"He said that it's a block from here near Santa Monica Blvd." Breanna told Eve. It took both girls ten minutes to walk there.

"There it is!" Eve shouted pointing to a small building that had a neon tattoo display in front of it. Breanna and Eve entered the tattoo parlor a little hesitantly. After a deep breath Breanna walked up to a freaky looking woman.

"Hi, my friend and I would like to get tattoos today. Small ones." She told the woman. The woman looked up at Breanna and Eve and smiled.

"Sure. It's Tuesday so it's slow today. What kind of tattoos did you want?" She asked with a bubbly attitude that made Breanna and Eve more comfortable.

"I want one in an area where my boyfriend would have to find it. So does she. I want an angel with the words 'Sweet D' written on the wings." Breanna explained.

"Sounds easy. Okay, what about you?" She asked Eve.

"I want a rose with 'Kev' written on one of the leafs." Eve explained.

"No problem." The woman replied. After filling out some safety forms and hearing all about the care of the tattoo they met the tattoo artists. Both girls decided to get their tattoos on their upper hip where there was more body fat. It was less painful and if they wore bikini's the tattoos would still be covered up, unless they wore string bikini's, but both girls agreed they wouldn't. Both girls received their tattoos at the same time, and both were in a lot of pain. Breanna ignored the pain while Eve closed her eyes tight and clenched her teeth. After two hours both girls paid for their tattoos and started walking to the pier.

"Thank god I'm wearing a dress. But my panties are rubbing near it." Breanna complained.

"Breanna, just take 'em off." Eve joked.

"If Howie touches me there I'm gonna smack him!" Breanna said angrily. Eve only laughed at her friend.

After 20 minutes the girls arrived at the pier and started looking around. Breanna spotted Alexei and ran up to him with slight pain.

"LEXI!" She yelled out.

"Where'd you both run off to? The guys were worried. So was I." Alexei said looking back and forth between Eve and Breanna. By that time the rest of the guys noticed that the girls were back. Howie and Kevin were quick to run over to the girls who were giggling uncontrollably.

"What? What's going on?" Kevin asked with a concerned face.

"Relax, Kev. We're okay." Eve managed to giggle out. She was proud of herself for being able to get a tattoo, a *real* tattoo.

C'mere! I have to tell you something!" Breanna joked to her brother.

"Oh what is it!?" He complained as Breanna dragged him behind one of the buildings on the pier. Breanna grabbed her dress and started to pull it up. "Bree! I really don't want to....BREANNA TATIANA WINTERSONOVA! WHAT THE HELL???????" Alexei yelled at the top of his lungs.

"Oh shit! He used her full Russian name!" Eve informed the guys, still giggling.

"What's going on? What'd she do?" Howie asked.

"You'll figure it out." Eve said smiling from ear to ear.

"SHHH! Don't tell Howie. I want him to find it on his own." Breanna said with a silly smile.

"If I didn't believe that he was your soulmate or something like that then I'd be *thoroughly* pissed." Alexei commented. Breanna lowered her dress as Alexei walked away.

"I can't believe her! She's crazy! And Eve? You didn't stop her?" Eve turned red and looked at the floor giggling.

"What? You too?" He asked her. Eve nodded her head giggling.

"Oh my god! You two have your hands full." Alexei informed Kevin and Howie, throwing his arms up in defeat.

"What did they do?" The rest of the guys asked.

"I can't tell you. I promised I wouldn't. You'll figure it out eventually, as long as you don't turn off the lights." Alexei said.

"Now I'm really curious." Brian said.

"Brian, my man, I don't think any of us except the two of them will ever know what they did." Alexei said, putting an arm around Brian's shoulder pointing to Howie and Kevin. Breanna giggled while Howie and Kevin tried to figure it out.

"I know what they did." AJ said with a knowing smile.

"You do?" Breanna asked. AJ looked at everyone else in the group and noticed that no one was paying any attention to him as he pointed to one of his tattoos. Breanna nodded her head smiling.

"I wanna check it out later." AJ informed Breanna.

"You will!" She smiled.

"What did you do?" Howie asked as they all walked towards the boardwalk rides.

"You'll find out. Maybe tonight if you're lucky." Breanna told him.

"Man, it's barely 5. I have a long wait." Howie complained.

"Yeah, and I still have to go home and study. Tomorrow’s my finals, remember?" She informed Howie.

"Dammit! So do I!" Eve whined.

"Okay, so we'll leave in half an hour? We'll leave the rest of the single guys here." Howie said, desperate to get home to figure out what Breanna did.

"Yes!" Kevin agreed, desperate himself.

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