Baby Girl 3: There's Always Tonight
© 1999
I looked up into his blue eyes. We were both sopping wet. We stood there for a minute, in the cold water, staring at each other. He then leaned down and kissed me full on the lips.
I pulled away from him. "What was that for?"
"Baby Girl, I love you."
"You don't love me, B, you love Leighanne."
Outside the shower, I heard AJ say, "Man, they've been in there a long time."
"Yeah, I would've expected her to jump out sooner. You did put the shower on cold didn't you D?" Kevin asked.
"Yeah," Howie told them.
I opened the shower door and stepped out. Brian followed me, dripping all over the floor. I hadn't even realized what I was wearing until the Boys started whistling. "Having a wet tee shirt contest are we?" AJ asked. I looked down. If my day couldn't get any worse, I was sopping wet and wearing white. I grabbed a towel and wrapped it around me.
"Alright. Out, all of you. I'll change and be right out. And B?" Brian turned towards me. "Here." I tossed a towel at him. I closed the door behind them and tried to dry off. I gave up, wrapped a towel around me, and stepped out into the room. The guys were in various spots. Nick and Howie were sitting on the bed. AJ was lounging up against the wall. Kevin was sitting in a chair and Brian was standing in the corner drying his hair. I grabbed a fresh shirt from my bag by Brian.
"Baby Girl..." he started.
"In a minute Bri," I said heading back into the bathroom. He followed me. We were in the bathroom alone and he slipped his hands around my waist. He turned me around in his arms.
"Don't tell me you didn't like it," he said. He slid his hands under my shirt and up my back.
I looked at him. I had to admit that I did. I liked everything he did. He leaned down and kissed me again. This time I didn't resist. When we broke for air, I said, "Don't we have a video shoot to be doing?"
"Damn!" He pulled his hands away from me. I motioned for him to turn around, which he did. "Baby Girl, I have a confession," he told the wall in front of him.
I slid my wet shirt off and put the dry one on before I said, "Okay, you can turn around now. What?"
"I really do love you." He turned around.
"Come on," I said, wrapping my arm around his waist. "Let's get going." We walked out of the hotel and into a waiting van. We were driven to a beach that had been closed for the day. We got out and reported in. When they told the director who I was, he immediately sent me to wardrobe. It turned out that I was going to be Brian's love interest in the video. How coincidental. Brian had planned this. I had a feeling that Hawaii was also his idea, and the fact that I spent most of the video in a bikini was probably his doing also. There was a part in the video where we're sitting on the beach and he starts kissing my neck. He was in swimming trunks and I was in this little bikini thing. We were really getting into it, even with two dozen people watching, because we didn't even hear the director yell "Cut!" or the music stop. Kevin, who was getting it all on home video, finally walked up and dropped a beach ball on Brian's head.
"Hey, what'd you do that for?" he asked.
"Shots over, Cuz." Brian and I turned several shades of red.
"There's always tonight!" AJ yelled.
Brian looked at me. I just stared back at him. AJ had spoken my thoughts, but I wasn't going to let Brian know that.
After a short break, we were all back to filming. We broke for the day around ten that night because the director wanted some night shots. As we were heading back to hotel, Brian sat beside me in the van, holding my hand. "I have a confession to make, too, B," I said to him. "I...The whole reason I started sending you cards for holidays is because I thought there was some remote chance that I could come between you and Leighanne. I never expected it to really happen. I feel really bad that I caused you and Leighanne to break up."
"You didn't cause it, Baby Girl. She'd been mistreating the fans for a while and it was bothering me. She used to be so cordial to them, and then all of a sudden she stopped. I couldn't take it. She knew my line of work and that girls would be throwing themselves at me. I lost one girlfriend over the band and now it appears that I've lost another. Plus the guys didn't really like her. But they like you."
We arrived at the hotel and we all climbed out of the van. The guys were tired and just wanted to crawl into bed. It hadn't been an incredibly long day, but they had to get up early the next day, before the sun was up because the director wanted a sunrise on film. Brian walked me to my room.
"Well, I'm glad you weren't upset about this morning," he said, standing outside my door. An awkward silence followed.
"You know, maybe I should walk you to your room. You look really tired," I told Brian.
"Alright," he agreed, even though I could plainly see that he was wide awake. We walked down the hall to his room in silence. "Well..." he said. There was another awkward silence. "Um...you wanna come in?"
"Sure," I said.
We walked into the hotel room. It wasn't a suite, like I had expected. Instead it was just a normal room. It did, however, have a queen sized bed. We stood inside the room for a bit just looking at each other. "Now what did AJ say earlier? 'There's always tonight'?" Brian asked me.
"Yeah."
"He's right you know."
"Yeah. I'm really sorry about the whole Leighanne thing."
He held his index finger to my lips. "Shh. Don't say that name. Right now, there's only us, okay?"
I nodded. He leaned down and kissed me gently. It only took a moment for the passion to overtake us. Within minutes we were in bed, exploring each other's bodies, trying so hard to be quiet, but not succeeding.
The wake up call had been set as three-thirty in the morning. Brian and I didn't get any sleep between ten-thirty and three that morning. At three, Brian rolled over on his side and rested his head on his hand. "Baby Girl, how did you do that?"
"Do what?" I asked innocently.
"You know what."
"Oh, I have my ways. You know, call isn't for another thirty minutes," I said, looking at the clock. "We have time for a shower." I threw the sheet off of my body and stood up. I walked into the bathroom and turned on the shower. Within moments, Brian was with me and we were fighting over the hot water.
As we were getting out of the shower, I heard a knock on the door. "I'll get it, B. It's probably the guys." I threw a towel around my body and walked to the door. I opened it and on the other side stood a blonde girl.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I must have the wrong room," she said.
Just then, Brian walked out of the bathroom, wrapping a towel around his waist. "Who is it, Baby Girl?"
The blonde looked at me. "So you're Baby Girl?" She pushed open the door so she could look in the room. I just backed away. "Brian Thomas Littrell!" She yelled. "So you have been cheating on me!"
"Leighanne?! What are you doing here?" Brian exclaimed.
"What am I doing here? What are you doing with that little slut?!" She screamed at him.
"Don't be calling her a slut! You don't know her!" Brian yelled back.
"I know that she came between you and I and that's all I need to know!"
I wrapped the towel tighter around my body and pushed my way out the door. I ran down the hallway, crying, and nearly ran into Kevin, who was coming to knock on Brian's door.
"Baby Girl, what's wrong?" he asked.
"Leighanne's here. Brian...Oh God, what have I done?" I sobbed.
Kevin put his arm around my shoulder and led me back towards Brian's room. "Come on, let's go see what's going on."
By this time, AJ, Howie, and Nick were all outside heading towards the commotion outside Brian's room.
"She's a fan, Leigh and you don't know how to treat the fans," Brian yelled.
"Oh, and you do? By sleeping with them? Talk about thanking them in a different way!"
AJ looked at me, and I ducked my head. "Look, Leighanne, I have work to do. We'll talk about this later." Brian put his hand out to me. "Come on, Baby Girl. Guys, I'll be out in a minute, okay?"