"I have eggs on my skin."
"You have eggs on your skin, gross."
"What do I do?"
"I don't know, scratch it."
He finally found out that the tv was playing Big Daddy. He saw Muzic sitting on the couch with some cereal.
"Morning."Muzic said.
"Morning."he said.
"Morning."AJ said walking in the room. Howie was right behind him.
"When are we going to get to the Dodgers Stadium?"Muzic asked
"We're almost there." Howie said, "What time is it?"
"8:30 AM" Muzic replied.
"Concert starts 2:00 PM." AJ mumbled.
"So what's the schedule here?" Muzic asked.
"Well, we'll be arriving at the stadium about 9:00am. We'll have breakfast there. At 9:30 we got to practice the dances from our new album. Then we'll have an on stage practice. That will probably last until 12 noon. We'll eat lunch, then we'll get ready for the concert." Kevin said.
"Are the opening acts Mandy Moore and EYC again?"Muzic asked.
"Yup,"Kevin said.
"Cool, but I think she should lay out the slim fast,"Muzic said. The guys laughed.
"That's pretty cold, Muz,"AJ said.
"I'm sorry. She's pretty cool, I guess."Muzic walked over to the phone.
"What's Bus #2's phone number?"Muz asked.
"Just press AUTO then press 2."Howie said flipping a page of his comic book. Muzic punched the numbers and the phone rang.
"Hello?"a voice answered.
"Hello, Megs?"Muzic asked.
"Yeah, what's up?"Megan asked.
"Well, kind of boring since I'm trapped with a bus full of men,"Muzic said.
"Trapped with a bus full of men? Now tell me why does that sound so awkward?"
"Because I have a boyfriend."Muzic said.
"Makes sense. But you know, I heard that if you have sex problems and you're going to therapy to get help with your problem, they'll hire a married man and he'll help you with your problem. He'll touch you, caress you, and do all the way with you. And its not even called cheating, its called therapy."Megan said.
"Whoa, where'd you here that?"Muzic exlaimed, suddenly thinking that her friend may need mental help.
"The Jeffersons." She replied. Muzic laughed.
"But this is for real, right?" Muzic asked.
"I guess, yeah," Megan said.
"Well, how's it there?" Muzic asked.
"Its alright I guess. Fatima beat Bri in Nintendo,"Megan emphasized her words so Brian could hear. Brian glared right at her. They chatted for a little while, until, finally, they arrived at the Dodger's Stadium.
By the time it was 2: 00 they were all gathered around for a short prayer. Megan stood by to shoot some photos, with her real camera this time. They were all gonna start ‘Larger Than Life’. Fatima would be dancing with Howie and Muzic would be dancing with AJ. The music started and they began the show. In the middle of the dance Muzic spotted someone who kept his eyes on her the whole time, and only her. She couldn't put her finger on it, but he looked awfully familiar. The song ended and the song ‘Get Down’ began to play. They didn't need the dancers then, so all the dancers went to the other side.
"Hey Megs?"Muzic said.
"Yeah?" Megan replied from her perch on the huge speaker right next to the stage.
"Look at that guy right there." Muzic pointed at the front row.
"Yeah, what about him?" Megan asked.
"He's been looking at me all through the song. That's kinda creepy." Muzic said.
Megan looked at him harder. "Isn't that Eric?"
Muzic followed her gaze,"Oh my gosh, it is him!"
"More surprises. JC's talking to him." Megan said.
"Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god." Muzic repeated. "I'm getting out of here."
"You can't, they'll be one dancer short." Megan said.
"Well, I just can't let him get to me."
"You know, I think JC and Eric are working together." Megan said. Muzic saw JC shaking Eric's hand.
"I think you're right. I don't want to think of it." Muzic said sitting down. Suddenly the song The One came on.
"That's our cue, Muz." Fatima said. Muzic decided to forget about it and keep the show going.
~Megan's Night~
"Shit Justin! What hell are you doing here?!" She yelled.
"Dang hold on. We're doing a show here." He said.
"What the hell are you doing? Where ever the Backstreet Boys go ya'll go? That's just plain cold." She said.
"Well, it's a dirty job but somebody's gotta do it." He said.
"Leave me alone." Megan said. For some reason she really didn’t want to have Justin anywhere near her. She needed to think and she knew that he wasn’t going to let her do so if he was there.
"Why?" He said wrapping his hands around her waist.
"Get the hell off me!" She said pushing his hands off of her.
"What's the matter?" He asked whispering in her ear.
"Right now, you are." She said. He placed his hands around her waist. Megan hesitated. "Get off me, or I'll make you." She threatened. Justin start nibbling on her earlobe.
“What’s wrong? I know you’ve missed me. I’ve missed you.”
"Stop!!!" Megan said. Suddenly Nick came around to corner of rock that was near them.
"Megan?" Nick froze. Everyone stood still. Megan could see the anger in his eyes, anger that was solely for Justin. She never saw so much hatred on anyone's face before.
"Nick-" Megan started. Nick didn’t even hear her. He charged at Justin and without thinking gave him black eye. "Nick stop! Stop it!" Megan cried. She grabbed onto his arm and pulled, but it didn’t do anything, he was a lot stronger then she was. "Stop Nick!" She yelled, trying to put herself between the two singers, hoping that they would stop if there was a chance of her getting hurt. Nick just moved her out of his way and punched Justin in the jaw. He started to bleed, red blood stains everywhere. Justin touched where he was bleeding before glaring at Nick and charging at him. He got in one good punch. They then started to really fight. "You guys! Stop it! Stop it Nick! Stop!" She screamed, tears streaming down her face. She hadn’t meant for anyone to get hurt or fight over her. Just then Kevin and Brian walked into them.
"What the hell is going on?" Kevin demanded. Brian assessed the situation quickly and grabbed Nick's waist, pulling his friend off of the other singer. Kevin did the same to Justin. "Now would someone tell me, what the hell is going on?!" Kevin repeated.
"That little punk with the fro is trying to steal my girl, again!" Nick yelled, trying to get out of Brian's grip.
"For your information, I did not steal Alison! I rescued her, and she thanked me over and over and over-"
"Let me go Brian!! LET ME GO!!" Nick screamed but Brian held on tighter.
"Fine man, I'll shut up."Justin said. "Over and over and over and over and over-"
“Justin, knock it off right now!” Megan said from where she was standing between them.
“Only if you help me.” Justin said with a sly smile. Megan turned pale and gave him a disgusted look as she took a step away from him.
"Hey, chia head, shut the hell up or I'll let him go."Brian said, nodding towards Nick.
“Go ahead and let him go. I’ll show her who’s the real man here.” Justin said. Megan had heard enough from him. She walked over to where Kevin was holding him and slapped him hard across the face. His hand immediatly flew to where she had hit him. “What was that for?”
“For everything you and guys like you have done to me, Muzic and all the girls I know who’ve had there lives ruined by guys who think that they are God’s gift to women and the Earth! News flash, Timberlake, you aren’t! You are just some guy that kinda sing and tricked me into caring. Well, I don’t! Not anymore. I couldn’t care less if I never saw you again. You can die and rot in hell.”
“You little bitch!” He once again was struggling against the hold that Kevin had on him, but this time he wanted to get at her. “Some day you’ll wish that you hadn’t done that. I’ll get you, some how, some way, you’ll relise that you’ve made a mistake. And you’ll come crawling back to me. You’ll see, someday you’ll wish you had picked me.”
“Brian, let me at him! I’ll kick his pansy ass!!!” Nick yelled.
“Not if I do first!” Megan said, lunging at the *N SYNCer. Kevin immediatly let go of Justin and grabbed onto Megan, holding her back from doing Justin more bodily harm then Nick had already.
"Justin, get the hell out of here." Kevin said. Justin said something under his breath and walked away. A few minutes later Brian let Nick go, making sure Justin was really gone. Kevin let Megan go as well, making sure that she was OK.
"We'll leave you two alone." Brian whispered. Both he and Kevin gave Megan a hug and left. As soon as they were gone she spoke.
"Nick-" She began as she walked towards where he was standing. She stopped halfway when he interupted her.
"Am I being left again?" he asked frankly. He had his hands in his pockets and he was looking down at the ground.
"No Nick. I love you too much. I'm sorry about Justin. I didn't do anything, I swear. He came up behind me, scared the crap out of me and didn’t give me anytime to react before he tried to ...well.... you know... do the same thing he did before. I didn’t want this to happen.... I’m so so so sorry."
"I know. I got out of control there, huh? I hate that Timberlake so much. I just didn't want to lose you."
"Nick, you don't have to worry about that. He was there in Michigan, the entire time we were there. We ended up hanging out with him and JC a lot, but he was just a friend. But now he’s not even that. I’m so sorry, I didn’t think he would do something like that. I thought he had more respect for me then that, but I guess not.” She looked up at him. “I'll always love you and only you. I mean I’m not sure where I would be right now if you weren’t here. I’m not even sure I would still be alive." She walked over to him. They hugged.
"It’s OK. I’m sorry you had to see that. But I could of had him."Nick said.
Megan laughed. "Come on, let's go to the hotel and get you cleaned up."
"I love you." He said as they started back to the hotel.
"I love you too." Megan replied.
They were almost the the hotel when Megan relized that Muzic had gone on a walk of her own. “Oh shit....” She said.
“What?”
“We have to go find Muzic....”
~Muzic's night~
“What the hell am I going to do? What the hell is Eric doing here? What the hell is JC doing here?” Muzic was mumbling to herself as she sat next to the big oak that was at the center of the park.
“Well, we are here doing a show...” A voice came from behind her.
“Holy shit!” Muzic yelled as she scrambled to her feet only to find JC standing next to the tree, an amused look on his face. “What the - how did you find me here?”
“That’s not important. What’s important is that we are here alone, together and we can spend some time together.”
“Or not.” She began to walk away but he grabbed onto her arm. “Let go of me JC.”
“What’s wrong? Not happy to see me?”
“Not really. Just leave me alone.”
“I have a hard time believeing that.” He pulled her to him and grabbed her around the waist. “Come on, I know that you’ve missed me.”
“For a minute there I almost thought I did. But I was wrong. Now get the hell off of me before I yell rape.”
“Where have I heard that before?” Another voice came from behind JC.
The person stepped out from behind the tree. It was Eric. “This day just doesn’t get any damn better does it?” Muzic said to no one in particular.
“It could, if you would let it.” JC said, pulling her even closer this time and kissing her. It was only a second before she pushed him away.
“JC, what the hell is wrong with you?” She all but screamed at him.
“Nothing.”
“What’s wrong with you, Muz?” Eric started walking towards her.
“Eric, get the hell away from me.”
“What’s the matter? A little scared, Muzic?”
“Why are you doing this? Where is this going to get you?”
“A lot further then you would think.” The look on her ex-boyfriend’s face was one she had only seen once before.
“Muzic?” It was a fourth voice. Muzic turned around again to see AJ standing under a light with no expression on his face.
“AJ!” She started to move towards him, but Eric grabbed onto her arm. “Let go of me you asshole!” She yelled. She looked at AJ again and the only thing she saw was the look of sheer anger that crossed his face.
“Let her go, ass hole.”
“Come on now man. You don’t know me, and she’s not worth it.”
“AJ don’t listen to anything he says.” Muzic pleaded. AJ ignored her and walked over to him. He looked at her quickly and before eric could defend himself AJ had punched him in the face. When he let go of her, Muzic ran. Right into JC. “JC, leave me alone. You’ve already made my life hell, go away.”
“Are you gonna be next, buddy? Cause I can beat the crap out of you too.”
“Yeah, I’d like to see you try.”
“Guys, please don’t fight.” JC and AJ couldn’t hear Muzic’s pleas because they were already in a heated argument. None of them saw Eric get up and start walking towards Muzic again.
“I swear to God, if you touch her, I am going to beat the living shit out of your sorry ass.” Another new voice was heard, and Eric turned around so quickly that he almost fell over. Megan was standing near the picnic table under a nearby tree.
“It’s nice to see you too.”
“Cut the cutsie crap Farwell...you think that AJ was pissed before.... wait until he hears what you’ve already done...” Just then Nick ran up beside her.
“Do you have a side kick now? You two run around saving the world?”
“Kiss my ass.”
“Shut up!”
“Eric, shut up!” Muzic yelled.
Eric, only a few steps away, closed the space between them and raised his hand as if he was going to hit her. “You shut up you little slut.”
“I don’t think so.” Nick said, running over to him and grabbing him by the arm.
“Hey AJ, you have Nick do all your dirty work for you now?” JC said from behind AJ. AJ turned around and punched him in the stomach. They he grabbed him by the arm and twisted it behind his back.
“So... now that everyone is all tied up...” Megan said, looking at the guys. “I’m sure AJ would like to know what Eric has done to earn the ‘Jackass of the Century’ award. Lets see.... where to begin... he was abusive... Mentally and physically... he was cheating on her....and the list goes on and on and on....”
At this point Muzic had made her way over to where Nick had Eric. “You are a lowlife pig and someday you’ll regret the day that you were born.”
“And you are a little slut that just goes out with a guy to see if she can get some.” She slapped him for that one and as soon as she had moved away from him Nick started walking him away from the group.
“And as for you.... if I ever see you again it’ll be too soon.” She continued as she walked towards JC.
“Hey... I don’t want any more trouble....Please.... I promise this time that I will leave you alone....” AJ looked at Muzic. After a minute he let the other singer go. He quickly took off down the path.
“I’m gonna go make sure that Nick got rid of Eric... I’ll see you two back at the hotel.”
“OK... and thanks Megs.” Muzic called after her friend. When she was gone there was a silence. Until AJ broke it.
“Was what Megan said true?”
“Yes it was... but it’s not all. Not only did he beat me and cheat on me, but he tried to rape me.” AJ head shot up from the ground that he was looking at. “It was Junior prom and we had gone to a party... Megan was there and was the one that figured out what was going on...”
AJ took the few small steps that seperated them and hugged her. “I’m so sorry sweetie. I had no idea...”
She started to cry softly. “Well it’s not exactly something that you go around advertising. I’m just sorry you had to find out like this.”
“It’s OK. Now that I know I’m not going to let anyone hurt you, ever. You hear me?” AJ lefted her chin up so that she was forced to look him in the eye.
“Yeah. I hear you.” She said, a tear sliding down her cheek.
He gave a quick kiss before hugging her. “Lets get you back to the hotel.” Muzic agreed and they started back to the hotel, hand in hand.
