The soundcheck started just after 1pm. Our band had been there all morning, setting up and tuning up and everything. They are so great. We were going to be the opening act of the tour, and we were singing three songs. The first one is called What Did I Say, which is a middle paced song about a girl who is confused about why her boyfriend broke up with her. Cher wrote it last Christmas when her boyfriend of a few months dumped her for no reason on Christmas Eve. The second song is called Wandering Eyes which is a fast paced song I wrote it about girl who is accusing her man of checking out other chicks. It's like a party song. The third and final song is going to be our first American single, and it's a new one the five of us wrote together recently called Here To Stay. It's just about us.

We did all the songs once, and then we repeated What Did I Say once more. It was just after 2pm by that time. Joey was so hyper, she was so cute. We were all just having a blast.

"Ok, girls, we're going backstage just to talk to a few more people for a few minutes, so ya'll just stay here. Ok?" Jimmy asked us. We all nodded.

"So... you girls are gonna rock tonight!" Fox told us, smiling at me.

"I hope so." Cher smiled.

"Yeah... but we're even better with you guys." I told them, looking right at Fox.

"So... while we've got a few minutes, I'm gonna go find a phone and call Kent." Darron spoke up.

"Here, you can use my cell!" I yelled excitedly that I had a cell phone. I hadn't showed the other girls yet.

"You have a cell phone?" Joey yelled at me.

"Yeah, my parents gave to me right before we left this morning." I grinned, handing it to Dare. She took it and thanked me. Then she went backstage to find somewhere private to talk to her boyfriend.

While she was gone, the rest of us just fooled around singing and dancing a bit. I looked at my watch just as we saw a small group of people at the back of the room. It was 2:24pm. The seven of us stopped and tried to figure out who it was. None of us knew. Luke pulled out the soundcheck list from his pocket. We were supposed to be done at 2:30pm.

"Well, after us, Aaron Carter is supposed to be here til 4pm. Then soulDecision is til 6:30pm. Then the show starts at... 8pm." Luke read outloud, so everyone heard.

"Aaron Carter! He's so cute!" Cher yelled a little too loudly.

"Yeah... he's Nick Carter's little brother." Joey agreed.

We were all quiet as we watch a little, well he looked little from a distance, boy, who was running closer and closer to us. As he got real close, I saw that he wore a blue and white striped sweater, and baggy blue jeans. He also wore a backwards baseball cap. He ran up onto the stage and right over to us.

"Aaron! Don't be rude! People are still doing their soundcheck!" a voice screamed to him.

"No they're not, they're just standing here." he yelled back to the other people. Then he turned to us, "Hi, I'm Aaron... who are you?" he asked us.

"Hi Aaron..." I started, taking a step closer to him, "we are Cruel Sensation, one of the new groups on the tour."

"Oh, cool, nice to meet you." he shook my hand. "Nick! It's one of the new groups! Come meet them!" he yelled down to the other people again.

"We're coming, Aaron!" a voice yelled back.

I could see them all now. They were the Backstreet Boys, and a woman with long blonde hair. I didn't freak out at all, none of us did. It was just cool to acutally see them in person, finally. When they were all up on the stage with us, the woman said to us,

"I'm Jane Carter... Aaron's mom... sorry about him, we'll get out of your way."

"Oh no, that's ok, we're done." Cher spoke up. "I'm Cher."

"I'm Joey..." Joey stepped forward.

"I'm Marcella." Marce grinned at Aaron. He was grinning, too.

"And I'm Fay." I finished. "And our fifth member is backstage on the phone, I think." I said.

"They are... Cruel... what?" Aaron asked, forgetting our name.

"Cruel Sensation." Joey spoke up, reminded Aaron.

"Yeah, that." Aaron laughed.

"Hey, I think we heard your song on the radio over in Sweden a few weeks ago." Brian Littrell told us. We all smiled.

"Yeah, maybe. We have a few singles over there already, just not here in the US." I explained.

"That's cool, I'm sure you'll be famous after this tour... you're really lucky to be a part of it." AJ McLean told us.

"Yeah, we are. And we've been doing nothing but practising for it for two months. I hope they like us." Cher smiled.

"I'm sure they will. You're real talented." Nick Carter grinned.

"Thanks..." Joey laughed.

There was moment of silence. Actually a few minutes. I was just looking at Nick. He was really really hot. But I could tell he was looking at Joey and Aaron, who were talking now. Our slight silence was broken by Darron, who ran back onto the stage. She stopped dead in her tracks.

"Oh, man..." she sighed, walking closer to me.

"Everyone, this is Darron, our fifth member." I introduced her. She gulped.

"Hey Darron, that's a cool name." Aaron yelled to her, "I'm Aaron Carter."

"You can call me Dare..." she said. I noticed that AJ was kinda staring at Dare. He looked at me and then he looked away.

"Well... we should go, and let you start your soundcheck, Aaron." I said to Aaron. He shrugged.

"I guess... but the guys already had theirs this morning... so you girls can hang out with them." he told us. The guys grinned.

"Yeah, would you girls want to come play basketball down the street with us?" Brian asked us.

"Um... we'll have to talk to our managers, but probably." Cher smiled, and I could she wanted to go. I looked at Joey and Marce and they both wanted to go too.

"Well... only if our dancers can come too, we can't leave them here alone." I said, taking Fox's hand. He grinned.

"Yeah, sure, the more the merrier. We just wanna get a few games in at our favorite park here in Orlando." Brian continued.

"Ok... I'll go tell Jamal..." Cher said and ran backstage. She came back a few minutes later. "Alright, let 's go. He said we have to be back here at 5pm, cause we're going out to eat." Cher told us.

"Awesome! Let's go!" Joey yelled, but then she turned back around to face Aaron. She noticed that he felt left out. He wanted to come play with us too. "Aaron, I'll see ya later, ok pal? We'll play b-ball together sometime." she told me. He grinned.

"Ok, bye Joey... bye everyone." he replied.

Then the Backstreet Boys (Kevin, Brian, AJ, Howie and Nick) the five of us girls, and Fox, Luke and Tony all left the arena excitedly.