.Chapter.Eight.

Nick decided that it would be a good idea to let someone else pick the music for the drive back to the hotel. Jenn took control of the cd's and put in Big Willie Style. The drive back into the city went pretty well untill they got about four blocks away from the hotel. There were fans everywhere! Mickey and the other girls couldn't believe all the fans, waiting just to catch even a glimpse of the guys they admired so much.

"It's always easier to break out of a place then it is to break in." AJ joked. "So Nick, how do you think we should do this?"

"Let's piss of the security and walk through the front door." He said with a mischevious grin on his face.

"What about the girls? Not that we don't want to be seen with you." AJ expained when he realized he had put his foot in his mouth. "We just don't want to risk it without our gaurds around. How about you drop us off and then go put the truck in the parking garage and meet us back at our rooms? Here I'll give you my room key so you can park."

Mickey dropped the guys off and as soon as they stepped out of the Blazer the crowd went nuts. Mickey was worried that they weren't going to make it to the parkade because the fans were closing in, trying to get closer to Nick and AJ. A few police officers circled the vehicle and kept the fans away so Mickey could drive away. She managed to get into the parkade ok and found a good spot to park. The four girls checked to make sure they had everything and then they got out, locked the doors and headed for the hotel room.

"So Mick, I take it that it was Matthew on the phone." Laura observed.

"Yeah, it seems like him and Jill are going out to the movies tonight."

"What!!!!!" All three of them said at the same time as the stopped. "Are you ok with this?"

"Sure, I mean I think Matthew could do better but it's none of my business."

"Yeah but it's gotta hurt? I mean she's supposed to be one of your friends." Tracee said.

"Hey guys, look where I am and who I'm going to see. Would you be worried about Matthew if you were me? You guys probably wouldn't even remember him. Seriously though, I'm fine. I mean it's gonna be weird when I see them together and stuff but it would be the same no matter who he was with."

"Good point." Laura noted. "Wow, I think this is so cool. All those girls would be so mad if they knew we were going up to see them."

When the girls got off the elevator on the eighteenth floor they saw all the guys in the hallway. Nick and AJ were getting in trouble for walking through the front doors without gaurds. Neither of them were listening as Denise was yelling. Brian was making faces at Nick trying to get him to laugh. Kevin told Brian to leave them alone. Brian gave Kevin a look and then walked away mumbling to himself. They all looked happy to see the girls. That made all four of them feel warm inside. Nick and AJ walked over and met up everyone.

"We're gonna take the bus so you guys can come with us. It could be very difficult to get you guys in there if we didn't go together." AJ described.

"We don't mind going on the bus. I think it would be very cool." Tracee realized that she was sounding like a fan so she backed up and stopped talking.

"Let's go everyone." Denise said as she came out of her room. "Hey girls, how are you today?"

"Fine thanks." They replied.

"That's good. I don't have the time to talk right now but we'll talk later, I'm not ignoring you or anything." She giggled.

They could tell she was really busy. They all went downstairs and out the back door where there were three busses waiting for them. Mickey, Tracee, Jenn and Laura got on the bus with the Boys and their gaurds. It was so awesome, not like any other bus they had seen. It looked bigger from the inside. All of them headed towards the back of the bus where they had the little 'living room'. The gaurds stayed up at the front of the bus. AJ turned the tv onto Much Music and gasped. They were showing all the fans that had already started gathering. John St. and Queen St. had been closed down and that was causing back ups in traffic.

"God if you guys keep doing this I don't think the City of Toronto is going to want you guys to come back." Tracee joked. "You're always causing traffic jams and stuff."

"It's not us causing the jams, it's the fans." Brian explained.

"Yeah we have no control over it." Nick added. "We don't tell them to come down or anything. So we can't be held responsible." They all laughed and watched Much Music untill they pulled up to the building. People started crowding towards the buses as they pulled up. The gaurds and the Boys kinda took their places. You could tell that they had done this a million times before. They must have saw the confused look on the girls faces cause they stopped and told the guards that the girls would be going in at the same time. So the Boys surrounded the girls to make sure nobody could get to them and then the gaurds surrounded the Boys. Outside the bus the Band waited and acted as gaurds as well. They all made it in the building safe.

"Oh my God!!" Mickey exclaimed when they got inside and were able to catch their breaths again. "How can you guys do that every day?"

"Sometimes it's ok but other times it really gets to us." Nick explained. "Sometimes you just feel like telling the people to get the fuck outta your way. But we can't do that though." He finished with a smile.

"I can just picture you saying that too." Mickey told him. She looked around the Much environment. She couldn't believe she was here. She loved Much Music and especially Bill Welychka. The other girls like Rick the Temp though. Both of them were there and all four girl stopped in their tracks! Rick was doing the interview but they didn't expect to see Bill.

"Hey Rick what's up?" Kevin said going over to Rick and giving him a smack on the back.

"Not much, almost got killed coming to work this morning cause of your fans."

"See it's the fans fault not ours." Nick said looking at Mickey. They all started to laugh.

"Bill is going to do part of the interview too, is that ok."

"Yeah sure we don't mind." Howie answered because a beautiful women walked by and grabbed Kevin's attention.

"I'm still getting hate mail cause the fans think I don't like you guys so I want to show them that everything is ok between us. I don't listen to your music much but that doesn't mean that I don't like you."

"That's ok, we don't listen to our music unless we have to either." AJ joked. Howie introduced the girls to Rick and Bill. They all sat around for a bit and talked. The Boys had to go do their sound check and stuff but the girls stayed with Bill and Rick. They were so funny. They were laughing at Master T because he was trying to do Da Mix but all these girls kept screaming and side tracking him. To make matters worse, Brian would run by him as he was trying to talk and then the fans would scream even louder. The place was turning into a zoo but everyone inside was having fun. The girls weren't going to go out into the audience for the interview, they were just going to stay in the back, but everyone convinced them to go out.

Girls started filing into the 'Much Environment' about an hour before the guys were supposed to come out. Bill and Rick were now the on air veejays. They would come over and talk to the girls while they were on live. Of course the girls turned bright red and would start to laugh everytime they did. Rick was always going over and talking to Jenn and asking her what videos they should play. Bill was just sitting back and laughing at nothing in particular, he was having a rough time on air and then he would joke with the fans. About ten minutes before the guys came out Bill and Rick started to get the crowd really psyched. Bill joked around saying that Nick was out back with no shirt on. The girls went nuts!!! Mickey, Jenn, Laura and Tracee just laughed.

The guys came out singing "Let's Have A Party". Usually they don't sing this song till later on in the show but today they were in the mood to party and they wanted to get everyone up. You couldn't hear the first part of the song because the girls were screaming so much. The four friends got wrapped up in it and started to laugh and scream too. They were right up front and the guys would come over to them a lot. After they did their first set they went to a comercial and AJ came over to see how the girls were doing. Everyone around them just stared. When they came back from comercial the Boys were sitting down on a couch and Bill and Rick were sitting across from them.

"Hey everyone and welcome back. This time we're going to do things a little different then from our last Intimate & Interactive with these five gentlemen. Today we'll get to know them a little better and we're going to have a lot more fun." Rick came on saying. He looked towards Bill and said, "And we also have Bill with us just to show everyone that he likes the Guys." There were a lot of screams from the fans.

"That's right Rick. But enough about that. I think all these girls and all the girls at home are waiting to see and talk to the guys." Lots more screams came. "Ok we know your names and we know just about everybody else in this world does to, but for those three who have been asleep for the past five years can we go down the line and get you guys to introduce yourselves."

After the guys said their names Brian told everyone that the Boys and Bill were really good friends and that people should stop writing in hate mail. Bill laughed, knowing that Brian was joking around. The rest of the show went really good. The guys were in a good mood and they were fooling around a lot. Bill was bugging AJ about his hangover, although it had left by now. They asked a lot of questions and the Boys didn't mind answering them. The ninety minutes went by really quick. After the show was over the Boys stayed and signed autographs and talked to the girls that were lucky enough to have been inside for the I&I. Mickey and the others just stayed in the back with Tommy and Tim.

"So did you guys have fun?" Tim asked the girls.

"Oh yeah!" They exclaimed. Jenn was too busy looking at Rick to notice anything that was going on around her. Tracee was trying to catch glimpses of Nick but fans kept getting in her way. Laura was keeping her eye on Mickey, still woundering what Matthew was trying to do to her. She hoped that he was going to leave Mickey alone.

The Boys came over and everyone got ready to leave. They all met back at the hotel about 45 minutes later. The hotel was only about ten minutes away but there were so many fans around that it took them that long to get back. When they got back the Boys had to get all their stuff ready. They were checking out and the buses were leaving at midnight to go to Montreal. The girls were kinda sad that they were leaving. All of them had a lot of fun. Jenn and Laura wished that they had a chance to spend more time with them but they were happy they got to meet them and hang out for a bit. They all gathered in the lobby to say good bye. Mickey gave them her phone number. The other three just told them to call Mickey's if they ever wanted to get in touch with them. They all hugged and then parted ways. The guys promised to keep in touch with them. Nick went over to Mickey and told her he was glad he met her. He reached out his hand and put a piece of paper into hers. The other guys went to leave and when Nick turned to go he still had ahold of her hand. He slowly let go and said bye.

Mickey didn't look at the paper she just turned around and headed for the parking garage. She had tears forming in her eyes. She couldn't understand why, she had only known him for about a day or so. Laura looked over and saw that her friend was hurting. The ride home was pretty quiet and calm. When they got to Mickey's Tracee headed to her house and Laura headed to hers. She asked Jenn to keep an eye on Mickey though. Jenn said she would and hugged her two friends good bye. Mickey headed for bed and Jenn called Rick.