"6:30. Why?"

"I've only been here for 4 hours and it feels like I never left. This place is more like home than my mom's house is. I don't even know where the plastic bags are in that house."

"Here I could cook an entire meal and not have to ask once where anything is." she said as she got up and walked to the window that faced her house. "It's weird, I guess."

"PIZZA'S HERE!" Bob yelled up the stairs. "STAMPEED", he exclaimed to his wife, as he walked into the kitchen, followed closely by ten hungry 'kids' ranging in age from 9 to 25. He just had to laugh.

"What was all that noise a little earlier? I thought I heard someone screaming." He asked after everyone had gotten their food and found somewhere to sit.

"That would be me", Megan informed him. He gave her a questioning look. "What? Nick was being the mean older brother that he is."

"No! I wasn’t."

"Yes! You were!"

"No! I wasn’t!"

"Yes! You were!"

"No! I wasn’t!

"Yes! You were!

"No I wasn’t! I was getting you back for messing up my hair!"

"Yeah Nicky, you just keep telling yourself that. If it helps you sleep at night then go ahead. Believe what you want to."

Nick stuck his tounge out at her.

"Oh, that was mature Nicky!"

"I know. Wasn’t it though?"

"See what I mean. When you're not here, he has no one to torture. So when he is home he is really quiet, except when he's on the phone with you."

"He just can't seem get BJ, Leslie, or even Angel to scream that loud." As he said this he looked from his tall, blond son, to his 'adopted' daughter and back.

"Nick? Quiet? Is that possible?"

"You would be surprised how quite Nicky here can get."

"Nick Carter quiet? Wow! Now that is something I have yet to witness!" Megan said as she took a bite of pizza.

After dinner the 'kids' all went upstairs and almost everyone went into the boys' room. Megan was among them. She lay down on Nick's bed and propped her chin up with his pillow.

At about ten the guys noticed that BJ, Leslie, and Angel had gone to bed and assumed that Megan had done the same.

Aaron had fallen asleep while waiting his turn to play Nintendo and Kevin had also dozed off. Nick tucked Aaron in and helped Brian wake Kevin up (That was an adventure).

When they had said goodnight to the other guys, (Brian was sleeping in Nick's room) Nick went to lie down and found Megan sound asleep on his bed. "Uh, Frick? Could you open the door for me please?"

"Why?", Brian said while stifling a yawn.

"See for yourself. Look.", he said pointing to the sleeping girl on his bed.

"Oh, yeah. I can see why you want to move her. Sure. No problem."

Nick bent down and gently shook her. "Sweets, c’mon, wake up" She just groaned and rolled onto her back. "I guess I'll have carry her.", he said to Brian.

"You need some help?", Brian asked with another yawn.

"Nope just get the doors" He bent down and gently shook her again. "I'm gonna carry you but I'm gonna need your help. OK?"

She groaned again, but answered him with a little nod. She sat up, with his help. When he picked her up, she automatically put her arms around his neck, and laid her head on his shoulder. Nick was surprised but just smiled.

He adjusted her so her wouldn't drop her, walked out of the room and down the hall. Brian opened the door to the room that the girls were sleeping in, went over to the bed stand next to Megan's bed and turned the lamp on low.

Following close behind was Nick, who, after Brian pulled back the blankets, put Megan down on the bed. Brian left the room.

Megan still had her shoes on, so Nick untied them and gently pulled them off.

Megan stirred, opened her eyes a little. When she saw Nick sitting on the edge of her bed she smiled and closed her eyes again. Nick pulled the blankets on top of her.

"Shhh, go back to sleep, its OK, BB's here." Nick whispered as he stroked her long brown hair. He leaned over and kissed her on the forehead.

He sat there and watched her sleep for an hour before he was sure she was asleep and he began to doze off himself.

He got up and went over to his sister’s bed and gave her a kiss on the cheek.

He repeated that on his other two sisters.

He took one more look at Megan before pulling the covers up to her chin and giving her another kiss, this time lightly on the lips.

He turned the lamp off and managed to get to the door without tripping over either of his sisters on the floor. "Good night" he whispered before leaving the room and shutting the door behind him.

He went back to his room where apparently Bri had fallen asleep while watching TV. He turned it off and lay down on his bed and closed his eyes.

The last thing he heard before he drifted to sleep was Bri's voice asking, "What does BB stand for?"

But it was too late.

Nick was gone.