Kev, AJ, Howie and Bri stretched out on the couches, while Nick sat on our blue recliner. I got out sodas and passed them around.
I started to go up to my room to clear up all the crap I had left on my floor and possibly tidying up my brother’s and sister’s room. Just as I made my way up the first step, Nick came up to me and asked,
“And where do you think your going?”
“My room looks like a tornado hit it! I was just gonna go clean it up a little.”
“You shouldn’t worry about how your room looks! Mine always is a disaster!”
“Isn’t that the truth!” laughed Brian, “We don’t call him Messy Marvin, for nothing!”
“Well, I’m still going to fix it up.”
I went to my room, fixed my bed, and put all the clothes away that were laying around from when I was trying to decide what to wear for the concert.
There was absolutely no way I could possibly pick up all the stuff in my brother’s and sister’s room, so I just left it alone.
I came back down to the living room where they had popped in their “ALL ACCESS” video.
They watched themselves goofing around and saying, “I can’t believe I did that!”
I plopped down beside Nick on the chair and watched with them.
“You sure got a lot of our tapes!” Nick said pointing to all the videos I had bought and taped with them on it.
“Yeah, well, I try to keep up with all your stuff as much as I can.”
“I guess so!” laughed Nick.
Just then Leighanne came on the screen in the video, “I’ll Never Break Your Heart”.
Brian muttered what sounded like, “Well you did...” He turned off the tv and asked, “So, are you going to give us a tour of this place or what?” Pain showed in his eyes.
'Aw. Brian!'
“Sure. Follow me.”
I opened the door to my room and they stopped and stared at me bewildered.
“Oh my gosh! I can’t believe this!” Nick squealed, which was then followed by everyone else’s comments.
“What?”
“Look at your walls! How long did it take you to do that!!!”
“Oh. I just put them up whenever I buy a magazine with you all in it.”
“Which is often I guess?!?”
“Yep!” I said to Brian.
“Man! I can’t believe all the space on your wall is completely covered! I don’t see a bare spot, anywhere!”
“That’s the way I like it!”
I threw something into my closet real quick, remembering that I had left it on the floor by accident earlier.
“Hold up!” AJ said amused.
He opened my closet doors back up.
“My gosh, girl! Your closet walls are covered too!”
They all were amazed by all the pictures of them I had plastered on the walls.
“I take it your fav’s Frack over here, huh?” asked Kevin.
I smiled glancing at all the Nick pictures, “You could say that! No offense, or anything fellas..”
“Oh, none taken!” Rok exclaimed.
When we came back downstairs, AJ questioned, “Didn’t you say you had a dog?”
“Oh yeah! I do. His name’s Casey, he’s a collie. But he’s over at my grandma’s along with my brother and sister still.”
“Oh, and what about you? Where have you been chillin’ lately?”
“I’ve been staying over at Nikki’s.. oh crap!”
“What?” Nick asked suddenly.
“I forgot! She’s still mad at me! I never did call, and try to make up with her..or Erin..”
“Why are they mad at you?”
“Actually, I think they were just jealous of me going to the concert. They couldn’t come and I guess they just got fed up with me talking about it every minute of the day.”
“Why don’t you invite them over?” offered Howie.
“Yeah! We could give them a little concert here of our own!”
“Really?”
“Of course! We love to put on little shows-”
“Yeah, I kinda noticed when we were shopping, Nick!”
“What are you talking about?”
B, Kev, and Howie had confused looks on their faces. I gladly filled them in. They were hysterically snickering the whole time!
“So you don’t mind me inviting a lot of my pals over?”
“Not at all!” shouted Kevin.
“Okay, cool!”
I dialed up Nikki’s number.
She answered, “Hello?”
“Nikki! Hi!”
“Oh, hey Mandy. So, umm.. how was the concert?” she asked me glumly.
“Great! But that’s not what I’m calling about.”
“Then why are you calling?”
“There’s another Backstreet Boy concert in town!”
“Really? When?” she asked anxiestly. (I could tell she was already in a better mood)
“In 15 minutes!”
“What? Where?!?”
“At my house!”
“Ok, Mandy. I think that whole ‘concert thing’ is making you kind of loony!”
“No! Nikki I’m serious! Nick, Brian, AJ, Kevin and Howie are all over here!”
“Yeah right!” This is harder than I thought! But you know.. if I were Nikki I wouldn’t believe me either. Unless I had proof...Proof!
“You don’t believe me?”
“Of course not!”
“All right fine. Which Backstreet Boy do you want to talk to?”
“You’ve got to be kidding..”
“Which one?” I repeated.
“Howie I guess.”
“Hello?” Howie answered.
“Hi..”
“You must be Nikki, right?”
“Yeah..”
“Mandy’s been trying to get you to come over here. What’s taking you so long?”
“I..I... Well how do I know it’s really you? I mean, you could just be someone who sounds an awfully lot like Howie but-”
“Have you ever heard my song, “My Heart Stays with You?”
“Yeah it’s great!”
“Does it sound like this?” He started singing bits from his solo into the phone.
“Oh my gosh!!!!”
“Here. Mandy wants to talk to you now.”
“So...” I said.
“I’ll be right over!!!” screamed Nikki.
Okay.. only 5 or 6 more of these calls to go!
RRRING!!
“Hello?”
Erin had answered the phone. She had seemed out of breath.
“Hey girl! What’s wrong?”
“Oh hey Mandy. I was just outside groovin’ to BSB music and I heard the phone ring, so I ran in as fast as I could in here. So why’d you call anyways?”
“Well actually I was wondering.. If you could go to a Backstreet Boy concert right now would you go?”
“What kind of question is that? Of course I would!”
“Good! Then come over to my house A.S.A.P.”
“Why?”
“Because. Erin you’ll never gonna believe me but... the Backstreet Boys are in my living room right this very second and they’re gonna sing a few songs for us..”
“You’re right! I don’t believe you!”
“I knew you wouldn’t. You want to talk to Brian?”
“If he’s really there then YEAH!”
“Ok, hold on a sec.”
I handed the phone to Brian. By now they all knew that they were gonna have to talk on the phone to my pals to convince them that they were really at my house.
“Hey, Erin!”
“Oh my gosh, Brian? Is that you really you?”
“You bet ya!”
“Tell Mandy I’ll be right over!”
Click.
“Well that was easy!” Rok replied.
“As soon as she heard your voice she hung up didn’t she?”
“Pretty much!”
I knew Erin would recognize his voice as soon as he got on the phone with her.
Well after Brian was done talking to Erin, I called up some of my other friends who loved BSB as well. Some of them included Stephanie, Trisha, Crystal, Kelly, (I was going to convince her for sure BSB was better than Nsync!) Diana, Kim, Katie, and any of my pals who I thought would want to come see this once-in-a-lifetime event!
Unfortunately, my sister was out with some of her friends and Kim wasn’t home.
Oh they’re gonna wish they were home right now when I tell them what they’ve missed!
Within minutes Nikki and Erin had arrived. Following closely behind them was Crystal, Stephanie, Katie, Diana, and then Kelly. They were like one behind each other! Trisha was the last to pull up. My guess was she was taking the extra time to look nice for her man, Alex!
