Chapter 13

In the morning everyone was sleeping in different spots. Joey was now sitting on the ground and had the chair for his pillow, Jenn and Chris weren’t even in the room, along with Holly and Lance, they must have left sometime earlier that morning. JC was up in Holly’s bed, and Justin was up by me. When everyone finally woke up, it was around 11.

“Where did Lance and Holly go?” I asked.

“I don’t know.” Joey said looking around the room like he just noticed that they were gone.

“Where’s Jenn and Chris?” JC asked.

“Oh, they’re next door in Jenn’s room.” I said. Just then the door opened and Holly and Lance walked in with bags of stuff.

“Breakfast for everyone!” Holly said putting the bags on the table.

“Did we hear the word ‘Breakfast’?” Chris said walking in behind Lance with Jenn.

“Well, there they are!” Holly said.

“We were wondering where you two went to.” Lance said.

“Huh- that’s ironic, we were wondering where you two were!” Justin said to Lance and Holly.

We all watched cartoons and ate the breakfast that Holly and Lance got us. We got today off because we put on such a wonderful concert. The next one was on Saturday, which was in 3 days, but it consist of the same dance movements. This one was at Virginia Beach, and their opening act was going to be B*WITCHED.

Till about 3, we watched cartoons and I Love Lucy. Then we all thought that maybe we should get dressed and go out and do something. So, everyone left and went to their own rooms and Holly and I were left alone.

“So Holly, spill EVERYTHING!” I said walking into the bathroom.

“What are you talking about?” She asked.

“YOU......LANCE!” I said to her.

“Oh, that’s what your talking about.” she said trying to act dumb.

“Yeah, that’s what I’m talking about!” I replied.

“Well......he’s really nice, and hot...” Holly was saying before I interrupted her.

“That’s not what I was aiming for!” I said.

“Oh,...I see.” Holly said with a smile.

“Well, who made the first move?” I asked.

“He did. When we went on that walk and saw the sunset.” Holly said with a big grin on her face.

“Is he a good kisser!” I asked unpatiently.

“OH-YEAH!” Holly said followed by a laugh.

“That’s so awesome!” I said turning on the shower.

“I know!” she said putting in her contacts.

“Well, is that it?” I asked.

“For now,.....what about you and Justin!” Holly said changing the subject.

“What about us.” I said. Holly left the bathroom and I got in the shower.

“So, there’s an ‘Us’!” Holly said walking back into the shower.

“No, not really.” I said.

“Hello! Melissa. Are you having a ‘Hot Flash’?” Holly said as she turned on hot water so I got a very cold spurt of cold water.

“Ahh!” I yelled.

“Did that cool you down?” Holly said with a laugh.

“Every much so!” I said.

“Melissa, Justin didn’t just happen to climb up in your spot last night, or out of the kindness of his heart, he gave you a back rub.” Holly said.

“Wait wait wait! How did you know....” I said trailing off.

“Lance and I woke up when you did.” Holly said. I stuck my head out of the shower.

“So..you heard everything!?” I asked her.

“Yup!” Holly said looking over at me.

“Ok, I feel stupid!” I said washing my hair.

“Why?” Holly asked me.

“Ya know what, why did you change the subject so quickly from you and Lance to me and Justin?!” I asked her.

“Well, whose changing the subject now!” she said walking out of the bathroom.

I got dressed and Holly took a shower. While Holly was in there, Jenn came by.

“So, what’s going on with my sis and Lance?” Jenn asked me.

“I don’t know, she won’t break. Not yet, atleast.” I said with a grin.

“How was that back rub?” Jenn asked me.

“How....”

“Oh, Chris and I were awake, along with JC and Joey...” Jenn started to finish, but I interrupted her.

“...and Holly and Lance were awake also.” I finished for her.

“Oh, I didn’t know they were also.” Jenn said with a laugh.

“Well, it was GOOD!” I said with a smile.

“MELISSA!” Jenn yelled at me, for she must of known what I was thinking.

“What, I can’t help it. But who was the one that left here to go someplace along with someone!” I mocked.

“What, we could sleep on the hard floor.” Jenn said.

“Well, Joey and JC had no problems with it.” I replied.

“Well.....Holly’s in the shower still!” Jenn said changing the subject.

“Yeah.” I answered.

Once Holly got out and dressed, we went down to the guy’s floor. Joey let us in. Lance and JC were in the showers. (there are three bathrooms, and both of them were taking a shower by themselves!)

“Where’s your sink?” I asked Joey.

“It’s right over there.” He said pointing to it. I ran over to it and turned on the HOT water. Just then we heard both of them yelling.

“HEY!! CUT IT OUT!” JC yelled, “I’M GOING TO KILL YOU GUYS!”

“STOP MESSING WITH THE WATER!” Lance yelled.

“It’s not us, it’s Melissa!” Chris yelled.

“Thanks alot CHRIS!” I said smacking him on the back.

“MELISSA, WATCH OUT!” JC yelled. I turned off the water.

“I think shrinkage is undergoing!” I whispered to Holly and Jenn.

“MELISSA!” Jenn yelled.

“Ha, good one!” Holly said laughing.

“What?” Chris asked.

“Nothing!” Jenn said still giving me the ‘I can’t believe you just said that’ look.

“Where’s Justin?” Holly asked.

“Oh, he’s in the other room getting dressed.” Joey said.

“I’m not even going to say anything!” Jenn said.

“What!” Holly asked annoyed because Jenn always does that.

“Nothing. Just think Holly.” Jenn said. I hit Jenn because I thought about it and I didn’t like what I thought she was thinking.

“What was that for?” Jenn said rubbing her arm.

“For thinking about what I thought that you were thinking about!” I replied.

“Wanna go sit down?” Joey asked. We all went into their living room where they had a small bar, TV, a couch and a couple of chairs.

We all were just sitting around talking. Justin came out of his room dressed in a pair of khakis and a white wife beater with a flannel button up shirt over top of it. “How long have you been here?” He asked sitting down in a chair across from me.

“About 20 minutes.” I said. We all were just hanging out when all-of-a- sudden JC comes running through the living room and throws a cup full of freezing cold water on me.

“OH-MY-GOD!” I yelled getting up and running after him. He ran into the other room and was on the other side of the table. We circled the table a couple of times.

“Yo Justin, man! I need you help!” JC cried out.

“Hey, you started it man!” Justin yelled from the doorway.

“You get’em Melissa!” Holly yelled out to me.

“Ok, truce!” JC tried saying.

“I think not!” I said holding out my soaking wet white T-shirt.

“Come on man. Help me out!” JC pleaded.

“Ok.” Justin said handing me a cup of cold water.

“That’s not the kind of help I asked for!” JC said with one of his funny voices. We circled around the table till JC was in front of Justin. Then Justin grabbed a hold of him and I ran over with the cup of water. I threw it, but JC ducked and I got Justin right in the face. Everyone from the other room that has been watching this little circus started laughing.

“Oops!” I said running away from him.

“Ha ha man!” JC said pointing at him.

“Oh, ya both are gonna get it now!” Justin yelled running towards us. Both of us took off. I followed after JC and he ran into one of the bedrooms. We locked the door. And Justin started pounding on it.

“That’s not going to protect you two!” Justin yelled. But then , he stopped pounding. Just then the other door swung open and in ran Justin. He came in through the hallway entrance. I had to unlock all of the locks, and there were about 4 of them. Justin ran over at us, but JC jumped on the bed and got out the door. I just got the last lock unlocked when Justin got a hold of me.

“HOLLY!” I yelled, “HELP!”

Justin had a hold of me and dragged me into the bathroom. He opened up the shower curtain and climbed in with me. I was in the front right by the shower head. He turned on the water, as cold as it could be. The water came out full blast, freezing cold, all over me. I tried to get away, but couldn’t, so I ducked down and Justin got some of the nice cold water. There we were, soaked to death. I was in the back of the shower and Justin had his back facing the shower head that was now running warm water out against him. I was laughing at the sight of him. He looked like a drowned rat.

“What are you laughing about?” He asked.

“Nothing. Brrr...I’m freezing!” I said.

“Well, get up here, it’s hot water now!” he said stepping aside and letting the water hit me.

“Yeah know, I already had a shower today!” I said jokingly.

“Yeah, well now you had two!” Justin said grabbing a hold of me and pulling me closer to him. Just then we kissed, and soon were interrupted by the shower curtain being flung open. Startled, we looked out to see Joey standing there with his video camera and Holly with her camera. Everyone else was standing behind them.

“Hey guys, look right here at the red light and smile!” Joey said. Holly was standing there flashing her camera.

Justin took a hold of the curtain and shut it. Then he kissed me again.

“Hey guys!” Joey said peeking the camera in around the side of the curtain.

Justin shut off the shower and JC handed us some towels.

“Did you have a nice shower?” Holly asked me with a smile.

We climbed out of the shower and dried ourselves off. Joey was still video tapping everything. I went up to our room to get out of these wet clothes and into some nice dry clothes. When I returned, they were watching the video tape that Joey got. He got everything on tape, from when I was chasing JC around the table to when Justin snuck around and got me to the shower scene. They rewound it, and I got to see everything. It was so funny. Especially Justin’s face when I got him with the water. It was around 5 when we left the hotel to get a bite to eat. Later that night, we were to fly down to Virginia Beach.

Chapter 14

We were flown to Virginia Beach at 8. Once we got there, the limo drove us to the beach house that we got for the next couple of days. As soon as we got to the house, Holly and Lance left to go for a walk on the beach. They never got back till late that night.

In the morning, we had to get up early to go and practice. We were in the studio till late in the afternoon. Then we moved out to the stage area on the beach. We practiced there for a while, till about 2, 2:30 when the sun got really hot, and from the spot that the stage was in, we could see and smell the ocean.

“Alright, none of your attentions are here, so an hour break to go swimming.” Johnny said. We all jumped off stage and ran towards the ocean. There was no one on the beach that we were on because it was on a private beach. Everyone ran into the water fully dressed.

“OH-GOD THIS IS COLD!” Joey said.

“Hey Chris, catch this.” Justin said throwing Chris his soaked T-shirt.

Chris was up on the beach with Jenn.

Lance, Joey and JC took of their shirts and throw them up on the shore also.

“Watch out for Jaws!” Jenn yelled out to us.

“FUNNY!” I yelled back. Just then someone grabbed a hold of my leg.

“Ahh!” I screamed turning around. Justin was there laughing.

“Did ya think that I was ‘Jaws’?” He said laughing.

“Yeah!” I said splashing water at him.

“Oh, no, don’t get him wet, he’s only in the water!” JC yelled.

“You’re just a little jokester today, aren’t you!” I said walking towards him.

“Hey Justin, get a leash on your woman!” JC yelled running away from me.

“When did I become ‘Justin’s woman’?” I asked with a smile.

“Since the shower scene.” JC said from up on shore.

Justin came up behind me and whispered in my ear, “Let’s reenact that scene.”

“Anytime.” I answered him.

We all just swam around having a blast. The Johnny yelled down to us to come back up. We all got out and started walking u towards the stage. I ran up behind JC and grabbed his T-shirt.

“Hey!” JC yelled turning around, “Melissa, don’t make me come after you!” He said.

“Oh, I’m scared!” I yelled back.

“That’s it!” JC yelled running after me. I took off towards the water.

“Melissa, throw it here!” Holly said.

“Come on Holly, give it to me!” JC pleaded walking over to her.

“Ok.” She said. She extended her hand to him, but threw the shirt back over to me.

“Oops! I’m sorry about that!” Holly said with a laugh. I ran out farther into the water.

“Come and get it!” I yelled to JC.

“Melissa......Holly.....this calls for war!” JC yelled running towards Holly. He grabbed a hold of her and put her in a choke hold. “Give me the shirt of else Holly gets it!” JC yelled.

“Promise!” I yelled back with a laugh.

“Not funny Melissa. Just give him the shirt.” Holly yelled back to me. JC pulled Holly out into deeper water.

“Melissa, give it to him, I’m getting wet!” Holly yelled over to me.

“Lance, go save your girlfriend!” Joey yelled.

“Yo JC. You better leave her alone or else!” Lance yelled out to him.

“Wait, was that a threat?!” JC said with a laugh.

“No, it was a promise!” Lance said with a devilish smile.

“Hey Holly, wanna take a swim?!” JC said taking Holly out farther.

“Melissa! Give it to him!” Holly screamed.

“I’ll give it to him alright!” I said running over to them. I grabbed a hold of JC and put him in a head lock.

“Let go of Holly or else!” I warned.

“JC, you better listen to her!” Jenn yelled from the shore where she was with everyone else including the video camera.

“JC, man, hold on!” Justin yelled running in towards us.

“Melissa, watch out!” Jenn warned. Just then I felt someone’s hands grab my waist and pull me away.

“That’s it!” Lance yelled running in after JC. Justin had dragged me away from JC and Holly. We were just sitting there watching the action. Lance had gotten out to JC who was walking out farther. He dunked JC’s head under the water and grabbed Holly. He ran into the shore carrying Holly like a princess.

“Go Lance!” Justin yelled. Lance kept running with Holly till he made it up to the rest of the group.

“Alright,.......action.” Justin said leaning over and kissing me.

“Hey you two. Lets get going!” Holly yelled out to us.

“We’re coming!” I yelled back.

“Geeze, I hope not!” JC said with a laugh. Everyone started laughing.

Once we got up to the stage, we ran through the show once more. Although, this time we didn’t get that hot because we were still dancing in our wet clothes.

After practice, we went out to eat with B*WITCHED. They were really cool, and we all loved their accents.

After dinner, we went back to the stage. It was just getting dark after one run through.

“Hey, ten minuet brake.” Johnny said.

“Everyone, follow me!” Lance said jumping off the stage. He stopped and picked Holly up.

“Don’t drop me!” Holly replied.

“Don’t you trust me?” Lance asked.

“Yea, I trust you. I just don’t want to be dropped!” Holly said laughing.

Lance took us down by the water. “They have the best sunsets here.” Lance said sitting down with Holly.

“Looks like we made it just in time.” Chris said sitting down on the sand.

“Oh, I love sunsets!” Jenn said.

“Me too!” I agreed. Justin sat down next to me.

“Hey Melissa, how do you get sandy brown hair?” JC asked me.

“Um, by using hair dye.” I answered.

“Wrong!” JC said dumping a handful of sand over my head.

“Ohh, now that’s it!” I said standing up.

“Now we are even!” JC yelled.

“Whatever.” I said sitting back down by Justin, I mean I wouldn’t want to miss the beautiful sunset.

“Here, let me help get the sand out.” Justin said taking a hold of my shoulders and moving behind me.

“He’s gonna get it!” I said.

“Don’t worry, he will.” Justin replied.

“Sounds like you have something up your sleeve.” I said.

“I’ll fill you in later. Scoot back farther.” Justin said. I did and I was laying there in his lap.

“What a massage?” Justin asked.

“Sure.” I replied getting myself comfortable.

“shh, whose singing?” I whispered. Justin stopped and listened.

“I think it’s Lance.” he said. Just then, JC started singing, then Chris, then Justin, and finally Joey. They sang a ballad I never heard before.

“That was so beautiful!” I remarked.

“What’s the name of it?” Jenn asked.

“We’re not sure yet. It’s for our second album.” JC answered.

“Sing it again!” Jenn bursted out. They started but then stopped.

“What’s wrong?” I asked.

“We’re missing out bass.” Joey said pointing over to the lock-lipped couple.

“Oh--I see.” Jenn said.

“No, I really do see!” I said laughing.

Chapter 15

We went back to the beach house and watched some movies in the living room. I got up to go and get some drinks. Justin came out with me.

“Hey, ya wanna learn the plan?” Justin asked me.

“Yea!” I replied. He told me what he had planned, and walked back into the living room.

“Where’s Melissa?” Jenn asked. “Oh,.....she got tired, so she went to bed.” Justin said.

Ok, that’s my cue. I got the bucket full of ice and went into JC’s room. I pulled back the covers and dumped the bucket of ice in it. I ran back into the kitchen and got another bucket of ice. After 3 more trips, and one bed full of ice, I stopped. Just in time too, cause just as I pulled the covers back over, the door opened.

“Ok, night guys.” JC said stepping in. I had just closed the closet door when he turned around. The closet that I was in had a curtain closet, so I could see his expression when he found all the ice. He shut off the lights and walked over to the bed. I could see everything clear because of the moonlight. He pulled back the covers and climbed in.

“OH-MY-GOD!” JC yelled jumping out of bed. Everyone came rushing in.

“What’s wrong?” Justin asked.

“Somebody filled my bed with ice!” JC said pointing to his bed. Everyone started laughing. JC looked around.

“Ok, where is she?!” he demanded.

“Who?” Holly asked.

“Melissa, who else.” JC said.

“She’s in bed sleeping. I just checked on her.” Justin replied.

JC stormed out of the room. I bursted out of the closet laughing my ass off.

“No you didn’t!” Jenn said looking at me.

“Go Melissa!” Holly said slapping me a high five.

“Hey, pay back’s a bitch!” I said with a laugh.

“Where is she?!” JC said coming back in the room.

“Who was hollering?” I asked whipping my eyes.

“Oh, you’re gonna get it!” JC said walking towards me. Justin stepped in front of him.

“Yo man, how do you know it was her? I mean Holly, Jenn, Chris, and Joey all left sometime during the movie.” Justin said.

“I know it was her. Who else would think of something like that?” JC said.

“What’s that suppost to mean!?” Justin asked, “Are you trying to say that we couldn’t think of something like that?” Justin added.

“No, that’s not what I ment to say......” JC got cut off.

“Well, good, cause I gave her the idea.” Justin blurted out. JC looked at me and started for me. I ran into the other room yelling, “Thanks Justin!”. We were running around tables and chairs. Then I ran into the living room, jumped over the couch and locked myself in the nearest room.

“Melissa,” JC mocked, “this isn’t over.” he said. I turned around and switched on the lights. I was in Justin’s room. I walked over to his dresser where he had all these pictures. He had some pictures of him and his mom, some of his little brothers, and some of him and the group when they first started out. I could tell it was a couple of years ago, because they all looked so different. Then I came across a picture of Holly, Jenn, Chris, Lance, Joey, JC, Justin and I the first time we met up at Holly’s house in her pool. The picture was so cute. I remember that day, it was such an amazing day.

After I relived the moment, I walked into his bathroom. ‘Let’s see, what can I do?’ I thought to myself. Then I saw it. SHAVING CREAM!!

“Melissa?” Justin asked knocking on the door.

“Yeah.” I said.

“You can come out now, JC’s gone.” Justin said through the door.

“Ok.” I said taking the shaving cream and tucked it under my shirt. I opened the door and let Justin in.

“Well, I better get going to bed.” I said walking out the door. Justin grabbed my hand.

“Hey, great prank!” Justin said.

“Thanks.” I said walking away. I went to my room and listened to some music for a while. Then I slowly crept out of my room and over to Justin’s. His lights were off. I slowly opened the door and found him sleeping in his bed. I crept up on him and kneeled down beside his bed. His hand was on the side of him. I squirted some shaving cream into his hand. I got a whole hand full then took my shoe lace and tickled his face with it. He twitched a couple of times. Then he took his hand full of shaving cream and rubbed his face.

“Oh-man! What’s this!” Justin said waking up. I crawled underneath his bed. He turned on the light.

“Ohh, somebody’s gonna get it!” Justin said getting up. I had left the door open and Justin walked out into the living room. Then he walked back in the room and went into the bathroom. He was swearing the whole time while he was in the bathroom. I had all I could do to not laugh. He walked back over to the bed and noticed some shaving cream on the floor. Justin bent down to clean it up. ‘Oh-God, I’m gonna get caught!’ I thought to myself. He only threw a towel over it. ‘Phew’ I thought. Justin turned off the lights and climbed back into bed. I waited for him to go to sleep.

Chapter 16

“Wakey, wakey.” Someone said.

“huh?” I said opening my eyes. There in front of me were Holly, Lance,Justin, Chris, Joey, JC and Jenn.“What’s going on?” I asked feeling confused. They all looked at me andstarted laughing. I went to stretch myarms out, when they ran into something. I look above me and found a hugeboard. I had fallen asleep underJustin’s bed.

“Morning bed-bug!” Justin said laughing.

My face got all red.“Hey Justin, how was that wake-up call last night?” I asked climbing out fromunderneath his bed.

“Oh, that was great.” Justin said.

“What wake-up call?” Holly asked. I told them what I did to Justin and theyall died laughing.

“So, that’s why you were underneath his bed.” Jenn said just catching on.

“Very good!” Holly replied.“I can’t believe you fell asleep underneath my bed! I feel,.....I feel soviolated!” Justin replied.

“Stop it man, you just wished she fell asleep on top of your bed!” Chris said hitting Justin’s back.

After everyone got dressed and ate, we went back to the stage to practicesome more before the final concert.

Chapter 17

We ran through the show five times before taking a break. Like last time, we went down to the ocean for a break. Lance had gotten a beach volleyball and we got a game going with our invisible net. Jenn, the volleyball pro, had to remain seated in her wheelchair in the middle of the sand court.

“Hey Jenn, do you wanna spike it?” JC asked with a laugh.

“Not funny!” Jenn said frowning.

We played volleyball for a while. Holly and Lance had left and went on one of their walks. We never got back up on stage till around 5.

B*WITCHED was practicing all day. The concert wasn’t until tonight at 8:00.

Chapter 18

“Ok guys, we’re on in 5 minuets.” Johnny said. We all got into a circle and played some hacky-sac. After everyone touched it, we got into a huddle and said a prayer. We broke with an“N SYNC”.

B*WITCHED had been on stage since 8:00, it was now quarter to nine. Like the first concert, the band started and that was our cue. We all ran out on stage dressed in alien suits. Again, this show was sold out. Just like the first concert, everything was perfect.

Chapter 19

Over the next couple of months, things got much more exciting. Holly and Lance spent endless hours with each other. They made it official around mid-July that they were a couple. They are the groups “Love birds”. Jenn’s ankle healed faster than expected, so after a couple of grueling practices, she as back in the show around early August. Her and Chris are doing good. They’ve spent most of their free time together. Justin and I are getting along great. Although we didn’t move as fast as Holly and Lance, we’re like best friends. As for all the pranks, their still coming. The latest one was not actually a prank, but it was cool. While we were up in New York doing some concerts, we had a party at Holly’s house.All of our friends were there. Anyways, I asked if anyone wanted to go swimming. Holly, Jenn and * N SYNC all wanted to go. So, we all went down to the swimming pool and everyone jumped in.

“Ewwe! What’s this!” Holly asked pulling up a handful of the “water”.

“It’s JELL-O!” Joey yelled throwing it up in the air.

“Hey JC, how do you get blue hair?” I asked him.

“I dun-no. Ask the make-up people.” JC answered.

“Wrong!” I yelled smudging handfuls of Jell-O in his hair!

“Alright. Now his is war!” JC yelled running after me.

By: Melissa Potter3-6-99

Dedicated to Holly,

This is what I’ve been working on over the past 3 weeks. I hope you like it.I know that you don’t likelong stories, but I hope that this one was entertaining. Thanks for doing theVariety Show with me. I had somuch fun with it over the past 3 months. Remember that I’m always here foryou Mrs. Bass.

Love Always,

Your ear sis Melissa Timberlake