Lizzi's Fan Fiction
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My Dream Come True
Part One
We giggled like 12-year-old as we huddled
together for our pre-show ritual. But before we
could start, a fourth person joined Sarah, Laura
and me. Brian Littrell, a member of the
Backstreet Boys, the group I opened for, had
joined our little huddle.
"Whatcha doin'?" Brian asked, though he knew full well that we did this before every show.
"We're plotting our take-over of the Western Hemisphere," I told him, "Either that or we're
doing our little chant, you choose."
"Well," he whined, "I just wondered what you guys say every night in your little huddle. So I
came over to see." It all seemed logical.
We kinda glanced at eachother and decided he could stay; though Lord only knew what would come of it. So we started. "A singer is not just a singer, a singer is a songwriter and poet in one. A singer is an inspiration to all who have a dream. A
dream like we do; to sing."
"Aww" cooed Brian, "How sweet." But we weren't
done.
"God made Coke," we continued, "And God made
Pepsi. God made...." we burst into a fit of
giggles.
"What?" Brian asked, "What did He make that's so
funny?"
We took deep breaths and finished. "God made
Brian," the look on his face at that point was
worth a million dollars, "So damn sexy!"
With that, we ran off - Sarah (my pianist and
best friend) to the wing where she would enter to
the piano, Laura (my manager and other best bud)
to the pit where she would watch the show, and I
(Lizzi, a rising pop star) to the wing opposite
Sarah where I would dance my way onto the stage.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
When my set was over, I ran off the stage.
There, I met up with Laura. "You were great!"
she exclaimed, just as she had every night she
had been with me.
"I messed up 'Dance', though," I countered. I'd
always been my own biggest critic.
"Hey," Sarah called, coming over to join us.
"Where are we gonna sit tonight?" she asked. She
was reminding us of the best part of being on
tour - seeing a Backstreet Boys concert every
night. "I saw 3 empty seats, like, 10 rows
back," she told us, "Why don't we go sit there?"
I was pretty sure I knew the ones, "The 3 back by
Leighanne?" I asked.
"Yeah," Sarah confirmed, "Is that alright?"
"You bet," I told her.
So we went back to our dressing room so Sarah and
I could change, then headed out to go to our
seats.
"Break a leg, Rok!" called Laura as we passed
Brian.
"Yeah, sure," he said, a little preoccupied.
But Nick called out, "You guys were great!"
before going over to the Boys' own huddle.
As we took our seats, we said "Hi" to Leighanne,
Brian's longtime girlfriend, and my favorite
actress. "I think we freaked Brian out," I told
her, "We kinda let him listen to our pre-show
chant."
"And" she prompted.
"It kinda refers to our own little crush on him."
She knew we liked him, but that we all had a
grip on reality, not to mention Sarah's boyfriend
and Laura's off-and-on thing. I wasn't worried
about telling her.
"He'll get over it," she assured us before
settling into her seat next to Sarah to watch the
show.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
The next day, all the busses from our tour were
headed to our next stop… I think it was
Cleveland. The three of us were on our bus,
talking.
"What's after this show?" Sarah asked.
"Beats me," I said. "Enlighten us, oh manger
one," I teased, giving Laura a smile.
"We've got a couple free days, then Summer Dance
at home," Laura told us.
"Really? I forgot we were doing that," I told
her. Last Chance Summer Dance was- is- an annual
show put on by our local radio station at home,
KDWB. I had gone to the first one, and now we
were headed to the 7th. I was pretty excited.
"Mark said that he and Grant have tickets," Sarah
said, "I told them they'd have to come hang
backstage for awhile, too. We haven't seen them
in so long. I was just talking to Mark about it
the other day. I miss him so much."
"God," I said, "The 2 of you are so pathetic,
but cute." They'd been dating since our
freshman year, I think. They were still just as
in love as they always had been.
"You're just jealous," she told me, "I've got my
Mark and Laura's got her well, she's got Justin.
You just wish."
"You don't think I could get a guy if I wanted
to? I could get a lot of guys. Just read my
mail." But I knew that I was indeed jealous.
Just then, my cell phone rang, interrupting our
conversation.
"Hello?"
"Hi, this is the police. We have called to
inform you that you have violated code 826 -
obsessing over a guy with a girlfriend."
"Hi Brian," I said. "There's no such law," I
teased, "We checked. Actually, it's just a
stupid idea."
I heard AJ in the background, telling Brian to
hurry up, or we'd miss it.
"We're gonna stop at the Mickey D's up here, you
in?"
I checked with the girls, and then told Brian,
"We're in. Catcha later."
"Bye."
I turned off the phone and turned to my buds.
"Y'know what's cool?" Sarah asked, "Most groups
who tour together don't get to be friends. But
we're close with the guys."
"Well," I pointed out; "It doesn't hurt that
we've been crazy about them for, like, 6 years.
We kinda helped it along." But she was right.
It was pretty cool that we were friends with the
guys, especially since they were half the reason
we were in the business.
*~*~*~*~*~*~* FLASHBACK *~*~*~*~*~*~*
It was during our 8th grade year that we had
finally been hooked on the Backstreet Boys.
After the concert we went to on November 18,
1998, we were addicted. The concert on October 9,
1999 just made us worse. Ever since, we had
dreamed of joining them at the top. It had been
their inspiration that had gotten us to where we
were that summer - touring America together.
*~*~*~*~*~* END FLASHBACK *~*~*~*~*~*
Part Two
After the show that night, we were hanging out
with the Boys for awhile:
"Hey," AJ was saying, "Lizzi, you're pretty good.
I wasn't sure about having an 18-year-old girl
opening for us, but you're cool."
"Yeah," agreed Nick, "After we heard about you,
we thought you were just doing this to get close
to us, but you've got talent." I liked it that
the guys could hang with us. I felt lucky to
have such good friends.
Laura added, "We were just saying earlier today
that we're glad that we've been able to be
friends with you guys. Not many openers get the
chance to be friends with their headliners. It's
been so great."
"It's too bad that the tour's almost over," Sarah
mused, "It's been so fun." She had taken the
words right out of my mouth. I, too, was
counting my blessings on this tour.
"Well," Brian pointed out, "We'll see you guys at
those MTV Awards, and we'll still stay in touch.
I don't know how we could not."
"You girls have been a fun part of this tour,"
Leighanne told us, "I'm sure you'll be moving on
to bigger and better things."
"Nothing could be better than this," I said, "I'm
on tour with the band I've loved since I was 13,
and I'm sitting here talking to them, and my
favorite actress. What could be better than
this?"
"You flatter us," teased AJ, "We're just a bunch
of old guys pretending we're still 19. This guy
over here," He said, gesturing towards Kevin,
"He's over the hill!"
"I'm only 33," Kevin pointed out, "I'm not old
yet."
"Yet is the key word," AJ teased.
"Anyway," Howie said, "You ladies have been great
to have around. But it's late, so I'm gonna go
clubbing before they all close. Who's with me?"
Kevin, AJ and Howie left, leaving Laura, Sarah,
Nick, Leighanne, Brian, Tyk (their dog) and
myself. But it was late, so I left to go
upstairs to go to bed.
The next morning, I woke up to the sound of the
phone. Sarah and Laura were still sleeping like
babies, so I answered it, "Hello?" I mumbled.
"Yo," the voice on the other line said, "This
Lizzi?"
"Yeah, but who is this?"
"Justin. Is Laura there?" It was Laura's
on-again-off-again guy, and N SYNC member, Justin
Timberlake.
"She's still asleep. Can I have her call you
back?"
"Naw, jus' tell her I called and that I'll catch
y'all at that concert in Minneapolis."
"You're coming to that?"
"Yeah, we were just added to the line-up."
"Well, I'll tell her."
"Catcha later."
"Bye."
Just as I hung up, Laura rolled over, "Who was
that?" she asked.
"Justin," I answered, "He said he'll see you at
Summer Dance."
"He's coming?" she asked, still half-asleep.
"Yeah," I clarified, "He said they were just
added to the line-up."
Laura just kinda nodded and rolled over to go
back to sleep.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Since it was our last day before we went home, we
went out to lunch with the Boys.
We were all sitting around a table together,
Laura, Sarah, Nick, Brian, AJ, Kevin, Howie, and
myself. We were talking about how much fun this
tour had been:
"You guys don't even know how great this has been
for us," I said, "We'd been dreaming of touring
with you guys since we were, like, 13. So,
finally being out here with you guys has been
great."
"It's been nice for us, too," Howie pointed out,
"To be with fans who really like us and not just
our looks. It's been refreshing, since most fans
just scream at us."
"Well, we've just gotten used to you guys," Sarah
said, "Don't you remember the first time we met
you?"
"You guys were just a little star struck," Brian
said, "We're friends now. Besides, if you got
tongue tied every time you saw us, you'd never be
talking!"
*~*~*~*~*~*~* FLASHBACK *~*~*~*~*~*~*
It had been about 6 months earlier, and we were
meeting the Boys for the first time- a meeting
set up by our management. We walked into the
room, and there were the Boys we had been longing
to meet for so many years. The three of us
looked at eachother, then the Boys, then
eachother a few times. When the Boys stood up to
introduce themselves, we still just sorta stood
there. When it became clear that we were too
star struck to talk, the Boys talked to us. They
told us what to expect on the tour, and a little
bit about themselves. I think the only words any
of us said were our good-byes as we left but
none of us would ever forget that day.
*~*~*~*~*~* END FLASHBACK *~*~*~*~*~*
"I know," I said, "That's what's so cool. We see
you guys so much! And we were able to become
friends. That's something I'll always treasure.
But you know I'll always remember the way I was
before, too. And I'll always be an obsessed
fan!"
"I probably will be, too," Sarah agreed,
"Although Liz always has been and always will be
a lot worse than me."
"Well, it's been great to have y'all around," Kev
said. "We'll always count you three as our
friends. We'll be able to count on y'all
anytime."
"You know you can." Laura said.
"I hate to leave," Laura said, "I really do, but
I think we have a plane to catch."
"You think?" Brian asked.
"Okay, okay I know we have a plane. So, we'll
see you guys."
"At the MTV awards." I reminded her. "They're
gonna win a ton of awards. Oh, and I'm nominated
for something too. But atleast I'll get to
present."
"You'll win," AJ said with a smile, "Hands down."
With that, we hugged them good-bye and left for
the airport.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
When we landed at the airport, we looked out to
see a crowd. But, they weren't fans, not normal
fans, anyway. We saw our families and friends
all waiting for us. It was nice to have everyone
there, cuz we hadn't seen some of them in so
long. I looked around at them as I walked into
the airport, and I felt truly blessed. I had all
these people who loved me, and I was able to make
a living doing what I love.
On the way home, I caught up with everything that
had been going on in the lives of my siblings and
parents. The hardest thing about being on tour
for me had always been being away from my family-
especially my brother and sister, who were so
young. I wished they could have me around to
talk to, but I was always gone. But I tried to
talk to them as often as possible, and they
didn't seem to be too hurt by my being gone.
"Are you coming to the show tomorrow?" I asked my
sister.
"Yeah, Lindsey's gonna bring me. She said she
wanted to see NSYNC perform." My 9-year-old
sister was so cute, trying to get a rise out of
me by making me think that my closest cousin
didn't want to see me.
I reached over and tickled her. "But you're
coming to see me, right?" I teased her.
"Well" she taunted, "of course I am!"
It was the times like this when I was most sorry
for having to be gone while my baby girl was
growing up. I wasn't there for her last day of
third grade, or her first softball game. And I
would have to miss her very first hockey game,
too. But she never seemed too hurt by it.
"What about you, Tom?" I asked my 14-year-old
brother, "You comin'?"
"Um yeah," he replied, "Matt and I are gonna
come see what you can do."
"It really means a lot to me, you guys. I like
to have you around, especially for my
performances."
The next day, we showed up at Canterbury at about
8, and did our sound check at 9:30. Then, Sarah,
Laura and I slipped out into the crowd to see if
there was anyone we knew out there. We ran into
Mark and Grant, his best friend, back by the food
stands. Sarah ran up and gave Mark a big hug.
"I missed you so much!" she exclaimed, "I'm so
glad that you came!" She was pretty near tears.
"Yeah," Mark said, rather nonchalantly, "I missed
you, too."
"Well," trying to make the best of a rather
awkward situation, let's go backstage and we can
talk some more."
Backstage, we saw Justin and his group. He and
Laura just went right to eachother and stayed
that way for most of the night. We sat and
talked to them for awhile about music and the
tour, but then I had to go perform.
"what went wrong?" I sang, as I finished up
'Into Your Heart'.
" At this point, I wanna give a big 'Whatz up' to
everyone here tonight!" I yelled, "It's great to
be back in the Twin Cities! I've been all over
the country, but this this is my dream come
true. I went to the very first Summer Dance, and
now I'm back. This next song is for all y'all
out there from Eagan & Burnsville." With that, I
went into 'Side By Side'.
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