"Aaron, go... go back over with your dancers." Jane told Aaron right away. He nodded, gave me a grin and then left.
"Mom, this is my girlfriend Torrance, I'm sure you remember her?" Nick asked his mother. Jane sort of nodded, but still looked shocked.
Jane used to look at me like I was her daughter. She loved having me around. I stayed over at their house often, and was always with Nick.
"I don't know what to say right now." Jane stated, looking at me. Her eyes drifted away and I could tell she was looking at my boys. Then she half smiled at Nick. "They are so beautiful." she whispered in Nick's ear. But I heard. Nick nodded.
"Jane... I'm very sorry for-" I began. But she cut me off by holding up her hand.
"You have nothing to be sorry for." she told me. "We all should be sorry, me, my family, the other Backstreet Boys... we shut you out of Nick's life, and ours, just because we were afraid." she continued. I felt my eyes watering as she spoke. "You were like my own daughter for 3 years, and then suddenly you're pregnant... and you're gone. We didn't even think about it, we just shut you out. I'm very sorry." she told me, looking me right in the eyes.
"It's ok..." I started, as tears fell down my face. "I dealt with it, and my family helped, and the boys are fine. I'm just glad we're together now." I finished, grabbing Nick's hand.
"What... what's their names?" Jane asked me quietly.
"This is Emery and this is Eden." I told her. "This is my best friend Shanelle." Shanelle smiled at Jane. She was a little in awe of meeting all these famous people.
"Wow... I... I have grandchildren. I mean, Ginger's kids are my grandchildren, but..." she let her voice trail off. Ginger was Jane's step daughther, who was now about 27. "Can I... hold one?" she asked.
"Oh, of course." I smiled, glad that she wanted to. "Here's Emery. They're both really talkative and they love everyone." I explained, passing my son to her.
"Hello, Emery..." she whispered to him. "You're so beautiful."
"Tank you. Who you?" he asked her. Jane let out a laugh, but she was crying. She was so happy at that moment.
"We'll explain later, Em." I told my son.
"Ok Mama." he smiled back at me.
"Mama?" Eden asked me, holding out his arms to me. Shanelle handed him to me.
"Yeah baby?" I asked back.
"That... Daddy?" he asked me, pointing up at Nick. Nick was shocked, and let out a gasp. I think we all did. The boys knew they didn't have a "Daddy", but they knew what a Daddy was. I guess they've seen me talking to Nick on TV on in a picture.
"Well... baby... yeah." I answered, not sure of how he'd respond.
All he did was reach out his arms to Nick. He gave him a big hug and then told him, "I love you."
"I love you too, Daddy." Emery grinned, copying his brother. They loved to copy each other.
"Oh my God." Nick replied. "I... I love you too." he told them. They just grinned.
Before another word could've been spoken, we heard, "Mom! I'm going on in like one minute!"
It was Aaron calling Jane. Jane smiled, handed Emery back to me, and then kissed Nick's cheek.
"We'll talk more later, ok?" she asked, directing the question to me. I nodded and watched her walk away.
"Wow, that was great." I told Nick. He nodded, still holding Eden and he was starting to cry. He didn't want to cry. He knew we still had alot to talk about and alot to figure out.
"NICK!" I heard someone else scream. Man, being backstage was loud and very exciting, too. I turned around and saw Kevin Richardson standing right infront of me.
"Oh my God, Torrance!" he reacted just like I hoped he would. I knew Kevin. He was the oldest at 29 but that didn't mean he didn't get excited over things. He was one of the main people that presurred Nick to leave me, but I knew he regretted it.
"Kevin!" I yelled, tossing Emery to Shanelle. I wrapped my arms around Kevin's body and just hugged him.
We didn't have anything to say to each other, but that didn't matter because just seeing him was a great feeling, and I knew he felt the same.
"Nicky, we gotta go... now... they sent me to get you." Kevin told Nick. Nick nodded again.
"Kev, this is my son... and him, too." Nick said proudly, pointing to each of them. Kevin hugged Nick and then kissed my cheek quickly.
"I'm sorry we gotta go, baby. Just hang around, ok, I'll be back before I have to go on." Nick told me. I nodded, taking Eden from Nick.
"Bye Dada!" Eden whined.
"BYE!" Emery yelled, copying his brother again.
"Bye guys, I love you." Nick smile, just before he left. "I love you too, Torr." he told me.
All I could do was nod. What else could I do?