Chapter 4
At Lunch...
"So, you guys are the Backstreet Boys huh?"
I asked
chomping on my salad.
"Yeah, what you don't know who we
are?" Howie
asked me curiously.
"Well I've heard your music
I just never knew what
you guys looked like or anything," I said looking
at
Brian and Leslie, he sat next to her, his arm
around her whispering to
her to see if she'd talk.
"Hey B? What are you doing to Leslie over
there?" Howie asked as everyone looked at them.
That made Leslie
even more nervous and shy.
"I'm trying to talk to her, now go
away,"
Brian said as he went back to Leslie.
I don't think he liked her in a girlfriend
way, at least
not until I told the guys how old we were.
"I'm 18,
they're both 17," I said
pointing to Wendy and Leslie.
"I'm
18, A.J.'s 20, Brian's 23, Howie's 26,
and Kevin's 27," Nick said going
around the table.
"You're 23?" Leslie asked quietly.
"So!
You're 17!" Brian said laughing.
I knew Leslie liked him, I could see
it in her eyes.
"What time is it Nick?" I asked looking at
his
watch, or trying to.
"3," he said as I jumped up.
"You
guys I'm going to be late for class!" I said
pulling at Wendy.
Leslie
looked at Brian.
"Why don't we give you our apartment phone number
and
you call us later?" I said writing
it down on a piece of paper as fast as
I could.
I handed it to Nick.
"Come on you guys!" I said
pulling at Leslie.
They both got up and followed me out the door.
The
Guys Conversation...
"I like them, they're nice," Nick said
watching them leave out the window.
"Better yet you like Ashley,"
Kevin said.
"So what if I do?" Nick said defending himself.
"Brian,
you and Leslie hit it off," A.J. said.
"At first. But come on you
guys, she's 17,
I'm 23." He said drinking his coke.
"So? Kevin's
girlfriend is 22," Howie said.
"I know, but there's a lot of difference
between 23 and 17," He said.
"How?" Nick said.
The
guys laughed.
"Sex, if he did anything with her she
could take him
to court," Howie said.
"Exactly my point. She's good looking and
nice, but
we're just friends," he said taking a
breadstick out of the
basket.
"What about you A.J.? You seemed
to like Wendy," Nick
said.
"Yeah I do, even if she's 17," he said looking at Brian.
"What? I have different views on it," Brian said.
"Whatever
B, you know you like her. She
is fine, if you don't go out with her," A.J.
said smiling.
"No you will not!" Brian said defending her.
"See!
You like her, don't make any
worse than it already is," A.J. said
as
the other guys laughed.
"Whatever you guys. I want to get outta here,"
he said
getting up. They all got and got into Brian's jeep.
"Brian?"
Nick asked.
"What Frack?" Brian said as he started the car.
"I
like Ashley, a lot," Nick said as he put
on his seatbelt.
