"Leave me alone, god why do you have to drag me out here! Take me home now!" I screamed in a fit of anger. My two best friends Ashley and Amy had been trying for the past 45 minutes to comfort me but the anger was too much I just couldn't control myself.
"Jen come on you've gotta listen to us and calm down. Screaming is making it all worse." Ashley said putting a hand on my shoulder.
"No it won't help to stop! I can't believe this. Everything was finally going good for me and now I'm back where I was." I whimpered.
"Ashley, let's get her over on that couch so she can rest." Amy suggested.
They led me to this red couch that sat against the wall in this open room in the rear of the venue.
"We're going to run to the car and then get you a drink. Don't move" Ashley said as they turned around and left me alone in the already abandoned room. I looked around at my dull surroundings which made me hurt even more inside. I began my weeping and asking myself the same series of questions I'd been asking myself for the past 15 minutes.
"Why me? Wasn't I good enough? Of course I was good enough, he's the asshole who dumped me over my fucking cell phone." she sobbed as she threw her phone across the room. "I loved AJ so much and could've for the rest of my life but why did I trust him. WHY?" I must have sat there arguing with myself for 4 minutes unaware that someone was standing beside me.
"Excuse me are you ok?" a male voice said. It seemed to be coming from my right.
"yea I'm fine." She said still hiding in her hands. "Who am I kidding? I'm miserable and I'm an awful person and I'm better off dead."
"Don't talk like that about yourself. It's not true." He said. I finally was done arguing and lifted my head up and looked at the man responsible for the sweet comment.
"Oh my god." I said seeing that Lance Bass of *NSync stood right before me. "I had no idea it was you. But thank you for being so caring."
"Sure. Haven't I seen you before?" He asked looking at me.
"You might have. I've been to so many music awards with my ex I'm sure you saw me. God knows I've definitely seen you many many times before. I'm Jen by the way." I said with a smile.
"Nice to meet you. Who is your ex who you speak so highly of?"
"Oh AJ, you know one of the backdoor...I mean backstreet boys." I laughed at my own hatred coming through.
"Yes, that's where I've seen you. Doesn't sound like you like him and his crew that much."
"Got that right. A few months ago I thought they were ok and all but I absolutely adore you and the other guys. You're not as stuck up and out of it as they've become. It's been hard being with a Backstreet Boy and hating them with a passion while loving their rivals deeply." I said with a smile being able to admit all of this.
"Well how did you two stay together?" Lance said as he sat down next to me.
"I have no idea. AJ seemed so sweet at first and was but then all of a sudden over night success blew up their brains and all he thought about was living the life and how he looked. I dealt with it thinking it was a phase and began to believe it was over. We were so in love the past 2 months but then something snapped and he dumped me over the phone not too long ago."
"What a jerk. Why did he dump you? You seem so sweet?" He commented.
I blushed at the comment. "Thanks. I mean I am but he said it wasn't what was in me it was everything else. He never had the problem before but all of a sudden he told me I was too young to be with him and he needed a more serious relationship and he found someone his age that wasn't as foolish who he's been seeing while we were dating. He just broke my heart like that."
"All of a sudden he broke up with you over your age? Age doesn't matter and if he fell in love with you for who you were in the beginning why does it matter now? How old are you?"
"I don't know what went wrong with him. At first he didn't mind my age which was good because I've never had a successful relationship past 3 days with someone my age. I need more maturity in a man so I've always gone about 4-5 years older than me. I mean I'm only 17 its not like he was involved with a 13 year old."
"I see nothing wrong with that at all. Well listen forget about him. You can do so much better. So are you here for the show?"
"Yea, I didn't know why I was here till I saw you. My friends were trying to surprise me."
"Your friends?" He said looking around.
"Oh yea." I said "They went to the car to get me some medicine and a drink to calm me down. But I really don't need that now. You were all the medicine I needed."
"Glad to help you out. Listen let me surprise you in a way of my own. You and your friends come sit up in the front row. "
"Thanks so much. I really appreciate you being here for me."
"Like I said, it's nothing. Just do me a favor now."
"Anything" I replied.
"Go out with me sometime."
"Are you serious? I would be more than happy to."
"Great, I've gotta go get ready now, but hold on a second." He said as he ran into the dressing room and came out with 3 front row tickets along with passes for after the show so we could work out details on our little date. "Here. I'll see you after the show. Cheer up some more and flush that Backstreet Boy out of your mind." I smiled and gave him a 'thank you' hug and he retired down the hall to meet up with the other guys.
Moments later Amy and Ashley appeared coming down the hall.
"HEY!" I said jumping up from my seat. "Guess what? I HATE THE BACKSTREET BOYS ! I HATE THE BACKSTREET BOYS! I HOPE THEY ALL DIE!!! And I LOVE *NSYNC WITH ALL MY HEART! DID I MENTION I HATE THE BACKSTREET BOYS"
"Oh my god what happened to you" Ashley said still from a distance where her and Amy were frozen in their places.
"I met the sweetest guy in the whole world. And admitted that I don't like the backstreet boys and never did. And I made the biggest mistake giving my heart to him. And now life is sweet as candy." I said with a smile. "Come on be happy for me give me a hug" I said running up to them and giving them a hug.
"Uh Jen" Amy said.