After my break from the tour, the rest of the shows and stops ran smoother. Nick took more time to spend with me, and we grew closer because of it. Soon we were at the last stop of the tour in Tampa, FL
The guys and girls stayed in a hotel but Nick and I decided to go to his house. We were driving along when I looked over at Nick and smiled.
“What are you thinking babe?” Nick asked.
“Oh nothing,” I said back.
“Yea right Araysa. Tell me,” Nick prompted.
“I was just thinking about how well this has turned out. I’m glad I came back to the tour. I really had a lot of fun.” I said.
“Yea, it has turned out good. You don’t know how much I missed you when you were gone. I’m so happy that we ended up this way, I really feel like this tour has brought us closer,” Nick said as he took my hand.
We are closer Nick. But you know what, to this day I still can’t believe that we are together. I’m still shocked from when you dedicated “Get Down” to me over a year ago.” I said.
Nick started to laugh then he started to sing, “Hey baby love I need a girl like you. So tell me if you feel it too...”
I started cracking up. Nick always knew how to make me laugh. A little bit later we made it to Nick’s house.
“I miss my house,” Nick said as we pulled into the driveway.
“I would miss this house too.” I giggled.
“What?” Nick asked with a laugh.
“Nick, my house looks like a shanty compared to this.”
“Well, get used to it because you are going to be living here someday” Nick said with a smirk.
“Mmmmm...promise?” I asked as I leaned for a kiss.
“Promise.” Nick said back and we sealed it with that kiss.
We got inside the house and proceeded to put things away that wouldn’t be needed now that the tour was done. After we were done we settled ourselves on the couch in the living room.
“Are you hungry?” Nick asked.
“Yea I am are you?”
“I’m starving. Let’s order a pizza and have a picnic on the beach.” Nick said.
“Sounds good. Make it double cheese.”
“And extra large?” Nick asked with a laugh.
“Oh but of course.” I laughed back.
When the pizza came Nick grabbed a blanket and we headed out to his private beach. I laid the blanket out and we both sat down to enjoy a nice quiet dinner. Nick and I decided to go to bed early. We knew that we had a big day tomorrow. It was the last show on the tour.
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The next morning Nick and I got up early and got ready to drive to the Ice Palace. This was where the Backstreet Boys’ last show of the tour would be.
“I wonder what the roadie’s have cooked up this time?” Nick said we drove along.
“Why do you ask that?” I asked back.
“Well they always do something to us on the first show of the tour and the last show of the tour. Like a prank or something.” Nick said.
“Oh yea, like in Orlando when they put an echo on all the mikes during “Larger Than Life.” I said laughing.
“That wasn’t very funny I thought. The sound guys were cracking up, but us guys were pissed.” Nick said with a scowl.
“I’m sorry, it was funny at the time. I didn’t know that you guys were upset.” I said.
“That’s okay,” Nick said then started to laugh, “I look back on it now, and I guess it was kind of funny.”
I nodded, “Yea, it was.”
We soon made it to the venue. Nick pulled up behind the venue and down to the back. Good thing there wasn’t and fans there yet, Nick and I took his Durango and everybody would’ve known it was him We were the first ones there so we decided to get settled and look around. In one of the back warehouse areas they had a basketball hoop set up. I looked at Nick and pointed up at the hoop.
“Let’s play some one on one.”
“Are you sure? I don’t want to have to kick your ass.” Nick said laughing.
“Hey, I may have been a cheerleader for basketball in high school but I do know how to play as well.” I said as I put my hands on my hips.
“Well then, let’s get the rock and let’s go.” Nick said as he went to find a basketball, “First one to 21 wins.”
As soon as we got the ball we started the game. Nick was such a good ball player but I kept up. Two hours later we decided to quit. Nick had 19 and I had 18.
“Damn girl, maybe you should’ve played rather than been a cheerleader.” Nick said as he caught his breath.
“Nope, I didn’t like the girls that played. Besides I liked the cute cheerleader uniforms better.”
“I bet you looked pretty good.” Nick said as he put his arms around my waist and leaned in for a kiss.
Nick and I started to kiss pretty heavy in the middle of the warehouse we were in. All of a sudden Nick stopped and looked down at me.
“I want to make love to you.” Nick said in a low voice.
“Right now? Where?” I asked as I continued to kiss him.
“Let’s go find a place.”
Nick took my hand and we walked around trying to find a place where we could get it on. We walked for a bit and made it out to the arena. The stage was set up and there were only a few people walking around. Nick got a smirk on his face and lead me under the stage. There was a table with a blanket on it. Nick pulled me up and laid me down on it.
“How convenient.” Nick said as he started to kiss my neck.
“Nick, what if somebody comes in here?” I asked getting worried.
“Just a second. I’ll go and tell somebody to tell everybody not to come down here for a while.” Nick said getting up.
“You better stick just your head out and not show your lower half.” I said pointing at the rather large bulge in Nick’s shorts.
Nick looked down and laughed, “Oh yea, if anybody asks I’ll just say she makes me horny baby!” I laughed as Nick went to find someone to guard the entrance to under the stage. When Nick was gone I laid back and thought about all that had happened to me this past year and a half. I had so much fun on tour with Nick and the other guys but I was definitely going to be glad to go back to school and back into the swing of things. In the middle of my daydreams I felt a pair of lips on mine.
“Is the coast clear baby?” I asked.
“Oh yea, don’t worry, just relax.” Nick said as he pulled his shirt off.
Nick then started to take my clothes off piece by piece. When I was down to just my bra and panties he started to kiss ever inch of my body.
“Oh Araysa, I never get tired of being able to kiss and touch your body.”
“I never get tired of you either.” I said back.
Nick reached behind my back and unhooked my bra. Then he started to kiss my breasts. I felt his hand rub down my stomach and then underneath my panties. I moved slightly so he could have better access and let his fingers do their magic on me. Not even a couple minutes later I experienced orgasm number one. Nick then pulled off my panties and begin to kiss his way down to my stomach and then he laid soft kisses on my inner thigh. He then put his mouth on my most private part. I was in a complete state of ecstasy. Nick then gave me orgasm number two. After that we were ready for actual sex.
“Nick, this probably is a stupid question but do you have a condom?” I asked.
“Yep, I grabbed one out of my bag before I came back under here. You don’t have to worry about that.” Nick said.
Nick then grabbed the condom and put it on. He sat me up and brought me to edge of the table. He slowly eased himself in me and when he was, we began to have the most passionate and arousing sex ever. I experienced orgasm number three. When we were done I leaned back and Nick laid his head on my chest. We both were dripping with sweat not only from the sex but from the basketball game earlier as well.
“Hey, Nick I think that we should take a shower and stuff before you guys have to get ready. It has to be getting pretty late. I don’t want us to have to come out from under here and there are fans sitting down already.” I said.
“Yea good plan.” Nick said as he helped me up from the table.
When both of us had our clothes back on we made our way out from underneath the stage. We went through the entrance to see the rest of the guys and girls standing out by the stage.
“Hey guys, what were you doing under there” Molly asked.
“We were checking to see if everything was in place.” I said.
“You know that we have people to do that job. You don’t have to help everybody.” Kevin said shaking his head.
I looked at Nick and we both busted out laughing.
“We are going to take a shower. We played a hard game of basketball earlier.” Nick said, “Hey Brian, you might want to watch that blanket in there. I think it’s dirty.” Nick said as Brian went underneath the stage.
All of a sudden we heard yelling from underneath the stage. “NICK, ARAYSA!!! Can’t you guys clean up after yourselves?” Brian yelled as he came out with the empty condom wrapper.
“Sorry, we got caught up in the moment.” I said as I took the wrapper from him.
“I know what you mean.” Brian said as he looked at Mandy. Mandy smiled then blushed.
We then went to take our showers and get ready for the concert that night. After I was done with my shower and I was dressed I made my way out to my seat. Molly, Ashley, and Mandy were already at the seats down front. There were people coming in the venue and the girls were taking pictures and signing autographs. When I walked up to the other girls all of the fans around us said something to me right away.
“Hey, Araysa. How are you?” a girl asked.
“What’s up Araysa.” another girl said.
I couldn’t believe that all of these people around us knew our names.
“How do all these girls know our names?” I whispered to Molly.
“A German magazine got a hold of our names and what we are going to school for from somebody. There is an article about us in there and these girls saw the article online.” Molly whispered back to me.
“I’ve got to find that magazine and see what they said.” I said with a laugh.
“Yea me too. I’ve like changed my major three times this year. Whatever they have in there is probably so not true.” Ashley said in Valley Girl talk.
All of us started to laugh. It was weird but I was actually comfortable with the fact that I was a known girlfriend. I mean a lot of people around Minneapolis knew who we were because we were from there but now the whole world knows who we are and what we look like. I was okay with it but I hoped that the guys were.
“Do the guys know about this?” I asked.
“Yea, we found out about it last night. Nick didn’t know though because you guys were at his house. I’m sure he knows now.” Molly said.
“Were they okay with it?”
“Yea, they were fine. I mean there is really nothing they could about it now. But AJ told me that he was ready to show me off to the world. He loved me too much to care what people thought. What a sweetie!!” Molly said beaming.
“Yea, he is a sweetie. You’ve got a great guy there.” I said.
“What are you talking about? You’ve got a great guy to ya know.” Molly said.
“You’re right I do don’t I?”
“Come on let’s go get settled, the concert is ready to start.” Molly said as we walked to our seats.
The lights went down and the opening acts of Mandy Moore and EYC came out. As the tour went on we had become pretty good friends with Mandy and the members of EYC. It was sad to see their last performances. Mandy was like our little sister. And EYC were like our big brothers. During Mandy’s performance she came over on our side and waved at us.
“Where my girls at?” Mandy said into the mic, “There they are!!” she said pointing at us and waving. We all waved back.
“I’m going to miss her. She’s such a little cutie.” Mandy said.
“Yea, I know, and a damn good singer too.” I said back.
When Mandy Moore was done she came running of the stage and through the crowd like they always do. This time she stopped and hugged each of us. I could see the tears in her eyes.
“I’m going to miss you girls so much.” she said.
“Hey, the tour’s not completely over. We’ll see ya later. And we will always keep in touch.” I said giving her another hug.
“Yes, you guys will always be my big sisters. I’ll catch you later after the concert.” Mandy said as she ran to the backstage.
There was a break in the concert between Mandy Moore and EYC. We were standing there just talking when I felt a little tap on my leg. I turned around to see a girl around five or six and her mother. I knelt down and so I was the little girl’s level.
“What’s up sweetie?” I asked.
“You’re Nick’s girlfriend right? My mom saw a picture of you on the computer and she said that it might be you.”
“That’s right, I am Nick’s girlfriend. My name is Araysa.” I said as I extended my hand to her, “What’s your name?”
“Michelle.” the girl said back as she lightly shook my hand.
I stood up for a second and shook her mother’s hand.
“Hi, I’m Araysa.” I said.
“I’m Gloria. It’s so nice to meet you. Do you think that it would be okay if my daughter and I could get a picture with you” Gloria asked.
“Oh sure, that would be no problem.” I said, “Hey Ash, could you take a picture of us?”
“Sure.” Ashley said as she took Gloria’s camera.
We got the picture. I noticed that they had on BSB special passes. They were the passes that they give the mothers and daughters that come on stage for “The Perfect Fan.” I knelt back down to Michelle.
“What a lucky girl, you get to go up for “The Perfect Fan” don’t you?” I asked her.
“Yep, I’m so excited.” Michelle said
“Who’s your fave? Who do you want to be up there with the most?”
“Nick, I really want to be up with Nick. But they said that we have to go with whoever they give us.” Michelle said with a smile.
“Well, I’ll tell ya what. You stick with me and I’ll make sure that you get with Nick. How does that sound?” I said as I took Michelle’s hand.
“Oh thank you so much Araysa.” she said with a big smile.
“No problem.” I said.
I looked up at Michelle’s mom and she was smiling too. She mouthed “thank you” to me as we walked to the pit area by our seats. I let Michelle sit on my lap. Soon the lights went down again, and EYC took the stage. The guys came out right away and waved to us. The whole time Michelle never left my side. She was holding my hand more than she was holding her mom’s hand. It was weird to see how much of an effect that we had and the guys had on these girls. I then thought back to the time when I was just a fan of BSB. I wanted to meet them so bad and would’ve done anything. Soon EYC was finished and the lights had come back up. We were sitting there when one of the head roadie’s came up to us.
“Hey, here’s the deal. You guys know how we do a prank during the first and last show right? Well, we thought it would be hilarious if you guys get on the rotating stage and during “Larger Than Life” we’ll raise it and you guys are going to be on there. They were going to bring you guys on stage during “It’s Gotta Be You” to be introduced but this would be funnier.”
“When do you want us to under there?” Mandy asked?
“Well, we want you to be on there before they fly out because then they won’t see you leave to come underneath the stage.” the roadie said. “You guys know where to go to get on the platform right? There will be people under there too so you guys know where to go.”
“Oh, Araysa can show us where to go. She’s knows under stage real well.” Mandy said as she punched my arm.
The roadie got a real weird look on his face. “Okay, well, just make sure that you go underneath there before the lights go out. We should be starting in about twenty minutes.”
Twenty minutes later we made it underneath the stage to get on the rotating platform in the middle of the stage. The lights went down and we heard the deafening screaming of the crowd and the familiar Star Wars music.
“This is going to be so much fun.” Mandy yelled.
“What, I can’t hear you.” I yelled back.
“What?” Mandy asked.
I gave her a nevermind look and we waited till they raised the platform. Soon it was in the middle of “Larger Than Life.” The roadies underneath the stage gave us a thumbs up and the platform started to rise. We now above the main stage and just about the point that they were stopping the platform. I saw Kevin and Brian turn around and just about fell backwards from jumping so high when they saw us. Then Nick turned around and AJ and lastly Howie. It was at the end of the song and they all started laughing. They motioned for us to come down to the main stage before they went into “The One.”
“Hey, did you girls take a wrong turn?” Brian asked us.
“Yea, we didn’t know where are seats were and somehow we ended up on this platform.” Molly said with laughter.
All the guys started to laugh and went by there girl. Nick came by me and took my hand. He leaned in and whispered in my ear.
“How ya doing baby?”
“I’m doing just fine.” I whispered back.
“Everybody we want to take a moment to introduce some people. We were going to do this earlier but somebody in the stage crew decided now would be a better time.” Kevin said looking at the head roadie who was laughing his ass off by now.
Nick went first, “Everybody I want you to show some love for my girl, Araysa. She helps with our legal stuff. And as you all know, she’s been really busy these past few months.”
Then Brian, “This is my girl, Mandy. She’s helps us figure out our finances.”
Then AJ, “This is Molly, and she helps with these kick butt costumes.”
Then lastly Kevin, “Everybody, this is Ashley, she helps with PR stuff, like booking the interviews and things.”
Everybody in the venue screamed and clapped for us. We waved to crowd and then made our way back down to our seats. I was starting to get teary-eyed. I knew that there would be more tours, but no tour would quite live up to this first one with all of us together. The rest of the show ran smoothly and the little girl, Michelle, did get to be with Nick. She was smiling and beaming the whole song. When the song was over she ran down the stairs and gave me a big hug and kiss. I gave her mom my email address and told her that I would send her pics of her daughter that I taken. As always the concert went by really fast and soon it was over. We all got into our vans and cars and made it back to the hotel. Nick and I decided to stay at the hotel tonight because we knew that a lot of us we be going our separate ways tomorrow. And we wanted to spend as much time together as possible. Brian and Mandy were going back to Orlando, along with AJ and Molly. Ashley was going to spend some time with relatives she had in Tampa. Kevin was going to Kentucky to spend some time with his mom and Howie was going back to his house in Orlando. The new semester didn’t start until January and it was only December.
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The next morning we all got up bright and early to say goodbye for a while or for a few weeks, depending on if it was one of the guys or one of the girls. I have Brian a hug first.
“Hey B. I’m really gonna miss ya. We’ll see ya this summer.” I said.
“Yea, I had a lot of fun. We’ll see ya.” Brian said back.
I then gave AJ, Kevin, and Howie hugs as well as the rest of the girls.
“I’ll see in a few weeks when the semester starts.” I said to Molly, Ashley, and Mandy.
“Yep, see ya later girl. Have fun in the Florida sunshine.” Molly said to me giving me a hug.
“See ya later.” Mandy said, “Try not to have sex in too weird of places huh?
Mandy!!” I said starting to blush.
"Sorry, I had to say it.” Mandy said back.
Everybody got into their vehicles and took off. Finally we all had some time off. I was looking forward to it. Nick smiled at me as we got into his Durango.
“Ready to go?” He asked.
“Yep, you ready?” I asked back.
“I was born ready.” Nick said with a laugh. “I told my mom that I would stop by today when we were done with everything. Is that okay?”
“Yea, no problem. Is Aaron there?” I asked knowing how much Nick wanted to see his brother.
“No, he’s in Canada on tour. My dad is with him.” Nick said.
“Oh, too bad, I really wanted to see him.” I said.
“Yea, me too.” Nick said as his eyes started to water.
“Hey, Nick it’s okay, you’ll see him don’t worry. You guys have some time off now. You go and surprise him on tour. I bet he would like that.” I said.
“Yea, I might just do that. Good idea.” Nick said back.
We drove in silence the rest of the way to Nick’s mom and dad’s house. I was really looking forward to this downtime with Nick. This was going to the be the best three weeks. I would be here for Christmas, my parents were kind of upset about that but Nick offered to fly them down to Florida for the holidays. I was so happy, I would be able to be with Nick and with my parents during my favorite time of year.
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