Katrina began to mumble stuff in her sleep, and woke Nick up. He gently shook her awake.
“Baby…wake up…your having a bad dream….” Nick said.
Her eyes flashed open and she stared at Nick coldly. Nick took her into his arms and gently rubbed her back. He felt her pushing him away.
“Baby…whats wrong?” Nick asked when she pushed him away.
“You…Nick just leave me alone….” Katrina said a little upset by the dream.
“Trina, what happened?” Nick tried again.
“You were kissing Aly and I saw you two and…” she broke into tears.
Nick grabbed her, and pulled her into his arms. “I love you baby…I would never do that to you….”
She cried into his shirt, soaking it completely at his neck. Nick just tried to make her stop crying. He glanced at the clock, it read 4:56am. He yawned a little, then heard Katrina’s cries come to a quiet.
She looked up at him, and smiled gently. He leaned down, and gently brushed his lips against hers. He felt her jump a little, but she calmed down, and kissed him back.
She pulled away, a little breathless at the kisses perfection. She laid back down, grabbing Nick’s arms, and putting them around her. She snuggled into his warm body, and fell asleep once again.
“Katrina…you have to wake up!! We have kick boxing this morning….” Laura said, still half asleep herself.
Katrina gently moved Nick’s arm off of her waist, and climbed out of bed. She picked up a pair of Adidas shorts, and a tight baby tee, and walked into the bathroom. Ten minutes later she emerged and joined the other four girls in the kitchen to eat something quickly.
“So all the guys are still sleeping?” Laura asked looking around the table at the other three girls.
“Yep…like little babies….” Erica said, as a playful smiled formed across her lips, as she thought about her and Kev.
“Ok well we have to go it takes a half hour to get there…and we should really leave…” Aly suggested grabbing a water bottle out of the fridge for all of them.
“Come on Katrina! Pick up those legs….nice height Aly…keep it up Erica and Laura!” the instructor yelled to the four sweaty girls.
“Kat….you feeling ok?” Laura said noticing how pail and out of breath Katrina was. Katrina began to feel sick.
“Ok everyone down on your bellies…and its push up time!!” the man yelled once again.
They got down, and he began to count. “1…2….3….4…” he continued and all the sudden Katrina fell, and she saw everything turning black.
“Trina!!” Laura yelled running to her. Aly and Erica followed. Laura began to shake her. Their was no response.
“Look Erica, call Nick and tell him to meet us at the hospital, and I’ll call 911….” Aly instructed.
Both girls did as they were supposed to and the ambulance arrived in 5 minutes. They put Katrina on a stretcher, and took her to the hospital.
<2 hours later>
Katrina was looking at the white walls of the room she was in. She was waiting for the doctor to come in and tell her what happened.
Nick, Erica and Aly went back to the house after Katrina had woken up from her black out. She told Nick to go home and sleep for he was exhausted and she wanted him to sleep.
Laura wanted to stay with her, and Katrina said that she wouldn’t mind.
Just then the doctor walked in. “Katrina McLean?” he asked in a deep voice.
“Yeah?” she replied, as her and Laura both looked at the man.
“Well I will tell you this in the easiest way possible. Your 1 and a half months pregnant….” He stated calmly.
“What?” she said a little worried at what he had said.
“Your pregnant…” he said again. Tears filled her eyes, as she looked over at Laura.
The doctor exited to room, after telling her that she was aloud to go home. She got off of the bed, and put on the clothes she had on earlier. She was silent, with an expressionless look on her face.
“Katrina…” Laura tried as she watched her slip her shoes on.
“Laura…please don’t tell Nick…. I’m not going to tell him yet…not until I have to tell him…” she said quietly.
“Trina….thats not the best-“
“I don’t care Laura! I’m 18 and having a baby! Nick is only 19, and he wants to have a life….”
“But you two are going to get married! You can’t just end things like-“
“Stop it Laura. Me and you are the only ones who can know about this ok? You can’t even tell Brian!” Katrina yelled.
Laura looked at her, and nodded her head, agreeing to everything that she had said.
<2 days later>
“And now a new guy group….their name is the Backstreet Boys…and here is their first single I Want It That Way!!” an announcer said on the radio.
Everyone was over at the McLean’s house in the pool swimming. The guys looked at each other nervously.
They knew that they had to tell the girls, but they weren’t ready to do it so soon.
“Yeah…..You are my fire….the one desire….believe when I say that I want it that way….but we….are two worlds apart…I can’t reach to your heart….when you say…that I want it that way….(you’s know the rest…I’m not going to type it all!! ”
“Brian I swear that is you!” Laura said, looking at him. She remembered the one morning when he was singing.
“Guys…” Brian said looking around at all of them. “Fuck….where is Nick?” Brian cursed, and then Laura noticed them.
“Aww….Brian look at them….” Laura said pointing to the couple in the hammock at the corner of the yard.
Nick had his arm around her exposed waist, and her arm was around his neck, gently combing his hair with her fingers. He was softly kissing her neck, and she was smiling.
“Nick!!” Brian called. Nick stopped kissing his girlfriend, and looked up at him. “Are we going to tell them or not?” he continued.
Nick looked down at Katrina, and smiled a little nervously. He shrugged his arms at Brian, and Brian looked at Kevin.
Kevin cleared his throat. “The backstreet boys are us….we have recorded an album over the past three months, and we just wanted to keep it a secret…but the radio got to tell you before we could. We have to leave in two weeks to go on a year and a half tour of the whole world. To promote the cd.”
Laura looked at Brian a little hurt. “Why didn’t you tell me thats where you were going?”
“I promised I wouldn’t I’m sorry…” Brian tried to explain.
“Thats enough Brian! I’m sick of you lying to me! I want a break from this relationship…I can’ t take it anymore….” Laura got out of the pool , and ran into the house.
Nick looked down at Katrina. She had tears in her eyes. He thought that she would be happy for him, but he guessed wrong.
“Baby?”
“Nick get off of me…”
Katrina climbed out of the hammock, making it turn, and drop Nick face first into the grass.
She ran into the house, and up to her bedroom, and cried.
