*Kelly*
AJ and I had spent the previous night speeding along the coast of Florida with the cool breeze blowing across our faces. We eventually stopped and sat on the back of his convertible. We sat there in each other’s embrace, listening to the waves crash violently upon the shore. AJ brought me home sometime around midnight or so, I think.
I was eating my breakfast when the phone rang.
“Hello?” I said, wiping a bit of jelly from my lip.
“Hey baby girl. I’m on my way, ok?” AJ’s raspy voice said from the other end.
“Oh sure, see ya in a few. Bye,” I hung up the phone.
I was still in my pj’s, so I raced upstairs and changed into a pair of white jean shorts, a scoop neck baby blue tee, and my platform sandals. I pulled my hair up into a ponytail as quickly as I could and ran downstairs to put some Pillsbury cookies in the oven, for a special treat.
I was leaning over putting the cookies in the oven when two arms grabbed me from behind.
“Aaaaah!!!” I screamed, slamming the pan down.
“Ssssh!!!” AJ said, laughing.
I playfully hit him across the shoulder and closed the oven door.
“You scared me!” I yelled.
“Yeah, so I noticed…” he said, reaching into the fridge to get a coke.
“So, what is it that you guys wanna tell us?” I questioned.
“You’ll see. Can’t tell ya yet. They’re not all here. The guys all went to pick up each of their girlies, while I came over here,” AJ told me, inbetween bites of my leftover toast.
I leaned over to wipe off a crumb that had fallen onto his goatee. As I lowered my hand, he grabbed it and pulled me closer to him. I reached up with my other hand to pull off his designer glasses and we stood there staring into each others eyes. He was leaning in for a kiss when the doorbell rang.
“Uhhh…let ‘em wait,” AJ said, releasing my hand from his grasp.
I smiled, quickly kissed him, and let all of my friends inside.
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*Gail*
“Yo Bone, Kel, what’s up?” my boyfriend said, being in his gangsta mood. I rolled my eyes and looked hopelessly over at Kelly.
“Hey Nickay!!” Kelly said, going along with his rapper motif. “All of you can come sit in the living room or whatever. I’m really not used to all of this company!” Kelly said, moving some pillows to make room for us on the couch.
We all sat down, beside our respective boyfriends and asked what this was all about.
“Babe, you have a tape player?” AJ asked Kelly.
“Yeah, sure. Just open up the entertainment center and it’s right there,” she said, motioning toward her massive entertainment center.
“Alright, guys, ya ready?” Brian said, as all five of them huddled.
“What in the world are they doing???” I questioned, half laughing.
“Alright, just listen to the words. We’re trying to ask you something, alright?” Nick said to us all.
We all mumbled our okays in anticipation for what they were doing.
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*Claudi*
“Hey, what’s that smell?? Smells like something’s burning!” Brian said, just as they were about to do their thing.
“Ohmygosh!!!!!! My cookies!!!!!!!” Kelly screamed, jumping up and running into the kitchen.
AJ followed her in there to make sure everything was alright while we were all in hysterics.
Kelly came back into the living room with a bit of black smeared across her face, obviously from the burnt cookies. That made us laugh even more!
“Ok, ok…enough! So I can’t cook. Deal with it! Now let’s get on with this thing…” Kelly said, sitting down, trying to sound annoyed.
“Alright….you guys ready??” Kevin asked as they played the tape.
Immediately we all recognized the old Beach Boys song that we used to dance to as kids.
“Come on pretty mama. Keylargo, Montigo, baby why don’t we go? Jamaica…off the Florida Keys, there’s a place called Kokomo. That’s where we wanna go to get away from it all.
Everybody’s in the sand; the coconut melting in your hand. We’ll be falling in love down in Kokomo.
Aruba, Jamaica, oooh…I wanna take ya to Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama. Keylargo, Montigo, baby why don’t we go?
Ooooh…I wanna take ya to the Kokomo. We’ll get there fast and then we’ll take it slow.
Yeah, that’s where we wanna go…way down to Kokomo.”
Our boyfriends instantly turned into who the world knew as the Backstreet Boys just by singing a few verses of an old song to us.
“So, what did you guys think?” Brian asked, taking a seat by me.
“It was great! You guys are awesome! But, we already knew that, didn’t we….??” I complimented Brian, messing with his blue Kentucky Wildcats hat.
“Ok, let’s not over do it. We don’t wanna give them an ego trip!” Gail said, nudging Nick in the ribs a bit.
“So, what do you all say??” Kevin interrupted.
“About what?” I asked, a little confused.
“About going on a trip with us….to oh, say, the Bahamas?” Brian told me.
All of us got excited and instantaneously agreed to go! This was going to be the trip of a life time!
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*Vic*
After we all decided we were going to the Bahamas after the boys’ stunning rendition of that song, Kevin called to book us a flight the next day and to make reservations at a hotel.
“We have a flight at 9 in the morning and we have reservations at the Hilton,” Kevin said, walking into Kelly’s living room.
“Oh great! That means I have less than a day to pick out a new bathing suit!” I exclaimed.
My friends all nodded in agreement as the guys all presented boxes.
“No way….you didn’t!” Kelly said, getting excited, as AJ forced a box into her hand.
“Yes, we did. We knew you guys would be pressed for time, and we had a feeling that you would agree to the trip, so we bought you all some new clothes while we were on tour,” AJ explained.
“Aww!! You guys are sweeties!” I said, leaning forward to kiss Kevin.
We all opened up the packages to find a new bathing suit and a new dress.
AJ had of course picked out the bikini with the least amount of coverage for Kelly! The expression on her face when she opened it was priceless!
“Alexander James!!! I’m not wearing this on the beach!” she exclaimed, holding it up.
“Well, in that case…you can wear it just for me,” he grinned evily.
Kelly gave him a look and then returned to look at her dress.
I loved what Kevin had gotten me. It was a black two-piece camikini. It had a ton more coverage than Kelly’s, trust me.
I was sooo excited about this trip! I couldn’t wait!
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*Theresa*
After all of us had opened our presents from the guys, we watched a video. Nick wanted to watch “Aliens”, but we decided he’d seen that movie way too many times. Brian didn’t want to watch a movie at all…he wanted to see what was on ESPN. After that, they all wanted to watch ESPN! So, we had to quickly decide on a movie. We chose to watch “My Best Friend’s Wedding”.
“Aw, man! Not a chic flick!” Nick whined as the movie come on.
“Oh, deal with it. You love me, so you’re gonna watch it,” Gail said sternly.
Nick glared at her and then leaned his head on her shoulder to get comfy for the movie. They were so cute together!
We watched the movie with our guys as we all cried for like the fifth time since we’d first seen the movie.
The guys were silently laughing at us, we knew, but outside, they acted like they cared. They fed us tissues and held us close throughout the movie. When it was finally over, we decided to order in some extra cheese pizza.
We all played that game Gestures. It was sooo funny because AJ had to pretend to be a ballerina!!! You should’ve seen it… Then, Nick had to be a gangsta…how easy was that for him?? We all took our turns. It was us (the girls) against the guys and of course we won. They couldn’t guess what each other was doing because they were rolling on the floor laughing at each other. It was nearly 8 o’clock when we finished all of that.
“I should be going. I need to pack my stuff and get into bed,” I said, grabbing my purse.
“Yeah, c’mon hon. I’ll drive you home,” Howie offered. Everyone else started to gather their things to leave as well. Howie and I told them all goodbye and agreed to meet at the airport in the morning.
