That's The Way Life Goes *Prolouge*
Prologue
by JeN
(C)by JeN and used with permission on this site.
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This story is strictly fiction and not meant to imply anything about anyone 
in the Backstreet Boys or Nsync or anyone connected to them. All other 
besides BSB and Nsync are fictional and any resemblance to people living or
dead is purely coincidental. 
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The photographers and press hovered outside the gate like starving children.  
Each one pushing and shoving to try and make their way to the front for one 
good picture...or maybe a statement from one of the many mourners as they 
left the cemetery that day.   Some had given up hope of even catching a 
glimpse of the grave site and had started taking pictures of the hundreds of 
crying fans also gathered outside the gate.  

The day that was never suppose to come...was here.  They had all imagined a 
possible break up, eventual solo careers, but never had anyone there imagined 
they would loose one of their precious Backstreet Boys forever.  Now, the 
close family and friends gathered around for a last prayer, as the sobbing 
fans outside bowed with them...the hungry press took the opportunity to snap 
more pictures.   And as the weary, heartbroken, young wife collapsed onto the 
fresh dirt of her husbands grave; the dreary overcast day suddenly brightened 
into a bright light of camera flashes.  

It would be the front page of every newspaper from Orlando to Las Angeles.  
The caption underneath reading how the distraught pregnant wife of singer, 
dancer, pop phenomenon AJ McLean had to carried from the cemetery.  His name 
echoing from her mouth as other mourners tried their best to comfort her and 
get her in the limousine that awaited her exit...her final good-bye.