Stockholm for less than a week - Chapter 2
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When they entered the bar Nick saw Kevin and Howie standing there, they were talking to a bartender. Nick walked up and introduced them to Jennifer and Jennifer said hi. They ordered their cokes and grabbed a table.
They were talking for a while and Nick learned that Jennifer was still in school and that she would graduate in the spring. He thought she were beautiful, with her long red, long, curly hair and green eyes. He normally wasn't too attracted to girls with red hair, but she was so nice and in a way she was a bit shy too. But he couldn't understand why she was crying.
"Um, are you here alone?"
"Now I am..." He could see her eyes fill up with tears.
"Hey, don't cry, you don't have to get upset, I'm here with you!" he said with a soft voice.
"I'm sorry, it's just so much going on right now."
"Can't you tell me about it? You could say you know me by now, at least a bit, I mean we have been talking for like four hours now... "
"What? Four hours?!! Oh.... well but promise not to get angry with me?"
"Ok, I promise..."
"It was like this, I came here to Stockholm with two of my friends Susanne, Linda, and Linda's little sister, Evelyn. Evelyn loves the Backstreet Boys esp. Brian. Susanne and Linda are kinda big fans of you too so they promised Evelyn that they would take her to your concert. Then they dragged me along, not that I had anything against it, I like your music." She took a short pause then continued.
"Ok...maybe more than like your music... more like LOVE your music... no, REALLY LOVE your music!" and gave him a soft smile.
'So she do know who I am, and she has been to a show....'
"Anyway, Evelyn wanted to do this the right way like a true Backstreet fan, so she made us sleep outside the Globe arena. That was OK and we talked to a few nice girls. But a few of them were fighting over which Backstreet boy who belongs to who. And they all wanted to get in really early so at 8 am in the morning they started to push to get closer to the doors. It was a real hell. "
"They started that early?! Oh, we always think it's fun to watch but we always do that about half an hour before they let them in, and I've never thought how it must feel to be trapped in there. It must be awful!!" Nick was surprised, and could hardly believe his ears.
"Trust me, it's a living hell!! And I swear that I never wanna go trough it again!"
"Did you like the show then?" Nick was anxious to know her reaction to the show.
"Wait, I'm coming to that! Anyway when we finally got in there, Evelyn had to go so bad, that she dragged Linda to the toilet. The guards were absolutely unbelievable! They wouldn't let a 14- year old girl go and pee, and Evelyn really needs to go when she does, she gets cramps in her stomach otherwise. They got to stand in the front row anyway, they were kinda fast!"
"See I told the guys that a pentagon was a great idea!!"
"Before we got in, we was a bit nervous about what to do with our stuff and we talked to a bunch of girls who said that their mum was coming to watch their stuff so we could leave them out side, with all of their things. So we did. It was a bad idea a really bad idea."
"Why?"
"Take it easy, you'll know, soon enough. The show was great I loved it with every bit of my heart. I loved your rap with Howie it's one of my favorite parts of the show."
"Thank you very much!!" Nick did his bad Elvis impression.
"Evelyn was so happy that she cried, Kevin jumped over them where they stood and she got to touch his arm, she said it was really smooth like a baby's butt!!"
Nick couldn't do anything but laugh to the statement.
"Me and Susanne got out and went to get our bags, but they weren't there so we thought that Evelyn and Linda had taken them. So we started to look for them. A while later we found them. Evelyn was still crying in shock and Linda looked a bit shaky too. But there was something missing, our bags, they weren't there. Someone had taken them."
"Oh, that's why it was a bad idea...I'm sorry."
"Don't be, it's not your fault, we were the stupid ones! I didn't lose that much but the others lost almost everything. They were supposed to stay with me for a few more days until another of my friends was going to arrive. They didn't feel like staying since they had lost so much. So they left this morning. Then a few minutes ago my friend said that she as going to be late, like three days, so now I'm here all alone for at least four more days, and I don't know a soul in this city. Well I have cousins somewhere in Stockholm but I don't know them. That was why I was crying, I felt so alone and I was very tired too.. so now you know..."
"I'm so sorry...in a way the whole thing is partly my fault, if it wasn't for the concert you wouldn't have been in this mess. Is there anything I can do to make it better?" he felt kinda bad for this girl, she was so little but in a way she was very brave.
"And see that wasn't too hard, and am I angry?" Nick tried to make her feel a little better.
"No you're not, and you've done enough, just telling someone felt a lot better. Thank you."
"You are very welcome! Have you thought of what you can do while you're here?
"Actually no, I'm thinking of going back home. I mean I still don't know anyone and all..."
"Well, this is a secret so don't tell anybody. The guys and me are staying a few extra days here to do some recording. We're gonna fool the fans to some privacy and take the plane tomorrow back home. But we're really just going to turn after an hour or so and come back again."
He took a short break to see what was going to say, but she was just looking at him in a way that said 'why are you telling me this?'
"Anyway, I was thinking, maybe we could do something tomorrow night. I mean if you want to, that is." He was getting a bit nervous.
She giggled at his sudden lack of confidence.
"You can say no, it's no problem. If you wanna go home, or if you think I'm such a drag, that you rather talk to a wall"
She gazed out of the window. Her face was serious.
"Well I think I'll say no, I think I wanna go shopping by my self." She looked at Nick and saw a big disappointment in his face.
"Hey! I'm only playing with ya! Of course I wanna do something!"
"Ok then! Would you like to meet the rest of the gang?"
"I've already met Kevin and Howie, remember?"
"Well would you like to meet AJ and Brian then?"
"Yeah, why not?!"