As I pull the plug from the kitchen sink, the phone rings. I grab the dish towel to dry my hands and fling it over my shoulder.

It’s Bruno, part of the band’s management team. He called to remind us that the car will be picking us up early this afternoon. I hang up the phone and walk up stairs to get Kevin up.

“Kevin, it’s 10:30 - time to get out of bed.” I pulled the blankets off the bed to reveal his naked body.

“Get up sweetie.”

“5 more minutes, please.”

“Time’s up. Bruno just called. The car will be here at 12:00 noon. Come on, get that great, looking ass out of bed.”

“Just 5 more minutes.”

“Come on…” I take the dish towel from my shoulder and give him a warning. “Move that body out of bed or I will towel whip that cute ass of ours.” 10 seconds pass. Still no movement from Kevin. I quickly swirl and twist the towel and get ready to aim. As I take my aim at his ass, Kevin rolls over and jumps out of bed.

“Missed me!” he exclaimed.

“Next time you won’t be so lucky.”

Kevin walks slowly over to me in all his naked glory. “Good morning, my sweetheart.” He says as I kisses me on the forehead. He places his strong hands on my shoulders and draws me closer for a hug. I inhale deeply. Oh my god… he smells so good. The sweet smell of his aftershave. The heat from his body was becoming too much for me to handle.

I let go of him and motion towards the bathroom. “Go get yourself dressed.”

“Shhhh!!! Don’t say a word.” He says as he takes my right hand and leads me into the bathroom. He reaches into the linen closet for a couple of towels.

“Kevin, what are…” I try and question him before his lips come crushing down on mine. Our tongues entwine themselves. His hands start to undress me. When he finishes he reaches to turn the water on. As the steam starts to rise from the hot water, Kevin first steps into the shower and then pulls me in. He takes the soap and the cloth and starts to wash me. I pull my hair out of it’s ponytail and let the water run down my body. It feels so good.

My hands roam up and down his sculpted body. Once he is done washing me, Kevin reaches for the shampoo and pours some into hands. While he is washing my hair, I take the soap and the cloth and wash his body. His muscles ripple at my touch.

Once we are both rinsed of all the shampoo and soap, I reach for Kevin to bring him closer to me. Kevin takes my face in his two hands and looks deeply into my eyes. “Alie, I love you with all my heart, my soul, my body, I really want to make love you to you right here, right now but I can’t. I want to wait until tomorrow night when we have all the time in the world. I have a surprise I want to give to you. My gift to you. I hope you understand. Can you wait for tomorrow night?”

“Yes I can.” I reply.

“I really love you Alie.”

“I love you too.”

With that we both got out of the shower and got dressed. It was almost 11:30 a.m. The phone rang. It was Brian. He called to check up on the “two lovebirds to see if we had come up for air yet”. The rest of the guys must have been with Brian because I heard Kevin say something about Nick and A.J. calming their hormones. As I was walking back into the bedroom, Kevin hung up the phone.

“You know what?” Kevin asked me.

“What my dear…”

“I was expecting those fools to call early this morning. But I warned them. All hell was going to break loose if they called that early.”

“That is why the guys nick named you 'Train.' Correct?”

“You are always right, my dear and I will not forget it.”

“Well my dear, are you ready to go and wow the rest of the screaming girls waiting for you. The car is waiting downstairs for us.”

“You are the girl that I want to make scream. Scream out for pleasure, passion and pain. I want you and only you.”

With that we walked hand in hand downstairs and into the waiting car.

For the next several hours Kevin and the rest of the band were kept quite busy with arrangements for this final concert. I met up with Julia, Nick’s girlfriend, Anna, Brian’s girlfriend, Alicia and Sophia, who were twin sisters and were also A.J.’s and Howie’s girlfriend. (A.J. and Howie would not have it any other way, hehehehe). We all decided to go to a local restaurant and have dinner and gossip. Just us girls. Everyone had questions about my honeymoon – where were we going, (I didn’t know – Kevin won’t tell me.)

During dessert, my cell phone rang. It was Kevin, just checking up on me. “Just having our weekly hen pecking session… Okay, sweetie,… Yes… Love you too… Bye.”

Alicia said, “If the boys are wondering what we are doing… let them wonder… let their imaginations run wild.”

“Sounds great to me” Anna agreed.

Julia took her glass of wine and raised it in a toasting gesture. “Okay, girls… let’s toast our men… everyone get your drink… To wild imaginations!!!!”

Everyone said in unison “TO WILD IMAGINATIONS!!!!”

Soon we were backstage at the concert venue, helping out in what ever way we could. I sensed Kevin was extremely nervous. His eyes looked glazed over. He reassured me that he was feeling fine but every nervous. We found a quiet corner in one of the dressing rooms. Kevin laid face down on the couch and removed his t-shirt so I could give him a back massage. After two or three minutes, he finally began to open up about what was really bothering him.

“Kevin, what’s bothering you. What’s making you so tense.”

“We have called for a meeting with the lawyers for tomorrow morning.”

“It must be serious if you are this tense and distracted”

“We all want to find out what is going on with the record company and the next record. We had scheduled to go into the studio in 3 weeks to lay down some preliminary tracks for the next record when Bruno called to confirm all the details and found out everything had been cancelled.”

“I am sure that somebody somewhere got the wrong message.”

“Nobody really knows. Brian sensed something was going on about 2 weeks ago, when he over heard a phone conversation. We want to get to the bottom of this.”

“Everything will work itself out, Kevin. Try and concentrate on the next four hours and then you will be back at home in bed.”

“I guess you’re right. Four hours I will be in bed with a sexy, mysterious, red head, beauty. That thought will definitely get me through the next couple of hours. Everyone has agreed that we will all get together in the next couple of days to have dinner. I was thinking that we could have everyone up to the cabin for a bar-b-que.”

“Sounds great to me.”

Kevin and the rest of the band, gave every bit of raw energy and ounce of strength to get through the next few hours. Everyone’s efforts paid off big time. It was the best concert that they have ever given. Even suffering from a case of the flu, Brian’s voice held up for the entire concert.

Kevin was true to his promise that we would just head home after the concert. No big party, no clubbing. Just peace and quiet for a few days. Everyone was exhausted. We all agreed to meet up at the cabin in Kentucky for a bar-b-que.

The cabin was Kevin’s hideout. When things were becoming unbearable, we would just jump into the car and head for the cabin. It was rustic, situated on a small hill overlooking the most beautiful lake front beach you will ever see. I would sit on the front porch, knit or read and watch Kevin chop wood. That is what he did to get out his frustrations. Then like clockwork he would come and sit with me playing his guitar or his keyboard for hours on end working through his emotions and thoughts.

After Kevin had finished with the media conference, showered and changed it was almost 12:30 am. Nick, Julia, Howie, Sophia, A.J. and Alicia had made plans to go to a club for a party but decided to head back to their homes for a good nights sleep. Anna took Brian home to feed him some hot chicken soup. We said our goodbyes to everyone. Kevin reminded the guys about the meeting at the lawyers the next morning.

On the way home in the car, Kevin fell asleep in the car. He looked like a little boy all curled up in the corner of his seat with his head resting on my shoulder. This concert tour was hard on everyone from the band’s management to the roadies. Everyone was completely wiped.

When we got home, both Kevin and I headed straight upstairs to the bedroom. Kevin’s body felt so limp like there was no life in it. We both got undressed and got underneath the blankets. We both fell asleep holding onto each other’s naked bodies.