Anya flipped through the channels on Saturday morning When she got to MTV, she stopped. She had never seen the video before but she liked it. She had heard the song on the radio numberus times.
As she looked closer at the five guys jumping around in the rain on a basketball court, two of them looked famliar.
Kevin and Brian? It couldn’t be, could it? Surely they would have called if something like this had happened. But then again she hadn’t heard anything form either one of them in almost four years.
Just then the phone rang. It startled her.
She picked it up. “Hello?”
“Hello, may I please speak to Anya?” She never talked to the person on the other end of the line, but he sounded strangely familiar.
“This is she. How may I help you?” She heard laughter in the background.
“Well, my name is Nick and I was just wondering if you know a couple of friends of mine. Their named are Kevin Richardson and Brian Littrell. Do you know them?”
“Know them? Knew them is more like it. They both went down to Flordia and never talked to me again. That was almost four years ago. Why?”
“Well, they told me to call you and tell you to get on the next flight to Orlando. They have a seat researved for you. Your plane leaves at 5 o’clock this afternoon, your time.”
“Ok, how do I know that you really know them?”
“Well, hold on a second.”
“OK” She heard him whisper something to someone else in the room and she knew that she was on speaker phone.
“Hey Ans! Waz up?!” It was Kevin.
“Yeah! Hi Anya! How are you?” Brian.
“Oh no! You aren’t gonna get away with that! Kevin Scott Richardson, don’t you ‘Hey Ans!’ me! And ‘Hi Anya. How are you?’ isn’t gonna cut it Brian Thomas Littrell” She said in mock anger. She heard what sounded like three people laugh. Then Nick was back on.
“So, no do you believe me?”
“Yeah. But I was wondering if I couls ask you a question.”
“Sure you can! Shoot!”
“Well, first of all, which on in the group are you?”
“You know about the group?”
“Well, I’ve heard the music on the radio, and about a minute before you called the video was on MTV. I wasn’t sure that it was Kev and Bri, but now I know it is. So are you gonna answer my question?”
He laughed. “I’m the one with the bright blond hair, sitting on the bleachers when it’s raining.”
“Oh, OK!” They talked for a long time. She talked to both of the other members of the group. She and Nick came up with a plan to play a trick on Kevin and Brian for them not talking to her for so long.
It was about 2:00 before she looked at the clock. “Well, Nick as much as I hate to do this, I better go. I have to get ready if I’m gonna make that plane.”
“Yeah. Well, I guess I’ll see you when you get to the airport. And remember.”
“I will. Bye Nick.”
“Bye Anya.” She hung up the phone and got up. She went into the bathroom and took a quick shower. After she was dressed, the phone rang again. “Hello?”
“Hi, dear. What are you up to?”
“Mom! I can’t talk right now. I’m going to Orlando to see Brian and Kevin and I need to pack.” As she said this, Anya pulled her suitcase out of the hall closet and put it on her bed.
“You spoke to them? It’s been almost four years! Why didn’y you tell me you were going to Orlando?”
“Cause I didn’t know until about 11:30 this morning.” She explained the situation to her mother while running around the room gathering everything she would need for her trip. All the while, thanking God for cordless phones.
When her mother finally let her go, after making her promise to say Hi to the guys when she saw them, she did a final check, making sure she had everything.
She locked the house and drove to the airport. By the time she got there it was 4:00. After checking her baggage and going threw the metal detecers, she had enough time to stop in one of the shops, to grab something to read on the plane.
She was looking at the magazine rack when she saw one of those teenybopper magazines. She knew two of the faces on the cover. Kevin and Brian. She grabbed the magazine and a PEOPLE and bought them both.
When she reached her gate she sat down and took the BOP! Magazine out of her carry on. She started looking through it and came to a group picture. She was going to have to be able to recognise Nick without any help or introductions. So she tore out the guy that the caption below the picture said was Nick Carter. Having done that she put the rest of the magazine back in her carry on. She studied the face in front of her until she heard her flight being called.
Once on the plane she started going through their plan over and over in her head. After a while she fell alseep.
What kind of plan do they have?
What will it be like for her to see Kevin and Brian after four years?
