Chapter 4 - The Best Seats In The House

“Thanks for the lift, mum!” Melissa said, after everyone got out of the car.

The car door was still opened. “You’ll be okay, right? All of you girls have enough money to take the bus home tonight?” Asked Melissa’s mum.

“Yes.” The three girls said together.

“Okay then, I’ll see you at home, Bye!”

“Hey mum,” Melissa said, as she popped her head inside the car. “What time do we have to come back home?”

“Well, as it’s the school holidays and that you’re going to see your favourite band, you can come home till morning because you have two of your friends with you and your almost 16 years old. So for once, I’m thrusting you and letting you come home late, okay? But be good and don’t do anything stupid.”

“Thanks mum!” She kissed her mum good night and closed the car door.

The three girls waved their hands, till the car was out of sight. Melissa turned to her friends. “I can’t believe my mum just said!”

“Hey, that means after the bsb concert, we can do anything we want!” Erin jumped for joy.

“But I really wonder, why my mum said that?” Melissa asked.

“Maybe she wanted to have the whole house to herself with your dad…alone.” Katie said in a dull and sarcastic tone.

Melissa and Erin turned towards their friend.

“Cheer up, Kate. Where finally here! Aren’t you the crazy one in this group?” Erin asked.

“Yeah…I guess so.”

Melissa and Erin looked at each other and sighed.

“Kate…come on. Quit thinking about your drawing book, okay? You have been thinking about it, since you lost it.” Melissa said.

“Yeah Kate, right now we’re her to see the Backstreet Boys…in flesh!” Erin added in. Katie grinned. “And to hear them sing too.”

They started to walk towards the stadium, where the Backstreet Boys were going to preform tonight. Most of the Backstreet Boys fans were in the stadium already.

***At the same time***
“Bsb, Backstreet Boys, What time is it?” A black man shouted out.

“It’s time to go to work ya all.” Everyone sang.

“What kind of work?”

“HARD WORK!” Everyone shouted, and after that, they made a ‘who’ sound.

Everyone backstage was in one big group and they soon left afterwards, to get ready for the concert.

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“Hey Brian, what am I going to do with this?” Nick waved the drawing book in his face.

“I don’t know? Leave it in the dressing room.” Brian suggested.

“I don’t think so, someone might come in and steal it.”

“What about the tour bus?”

“Same thing.”

“How about your locker?”

“Nah… there’s too much stuff in there.”

“Okay…what about asking someone to mind it for you?”

“No…they might look inside it.”

Brian sighed. “Well, sorry Nick. I really don’t know where else to put it. Why don’t you ask, Kev?”

“Yeah, I guess so.”

They walked off and headed below the stage.

***Meanwhile***
The rest of the Backstreet Boys members were below the stage.

“Hey Kev, where can I put this?” Nick came through the door, waving the book around, while Brian walked in after him.

“Hey Nick, Brian. Why don’t you leave it in here?”

“I don’t know…” Nick looked at AJ, which said. “I don’t trust this place while he’s here.”

A man with a microphone around his head came in the room and everyone looked at him. “Hey, 3 more minutes, until lift off.”

“Thanks.” Said Howie.

“You got everything ready? Your mics on, your surfboards are attached on…”

“Yeah, it’s all perfect.” AJ interrupted. “We checked it twice. Already.”

“Okay then. Good luck!” The man left the room.

Kevin looked back a Nick. “Well, you have to put it here now, don’t ya think?”

“Fine then...” Nick said, and then he walked into the darkest corner of the small room and came back out. “There.”

AJ walked next to Nick. “Hey Nick, I’m sorry about today, I-”

“It’s okay. I forgive ya.”

AJ grinned. “Thanks man.”

Another man came into the room with a walky-talky in his right hand.

“Okay, places everyone.”

The Backstreet Boys got in their own sections so fly around the stage, with their surfboard. “Ready?” The man said.

“Yeah!” They all said together, and the switched on their mics.

They could hear all the screaming from the stage above, as the music for ‘Larger Than Life’ started to play.

“Ha…ha, ha, ha…!” AJ shouted.

***Meanwhile***
“These are great seats.” Katie yelled, so the others could hear her over the other screaming fans.

“Yeah, isn’t it?” Melissa agreed.

Melissa was sitting in the middle, while Katie sat on her right and Erin was on her left. They were sitting in the middle seats of the second front row.

“They’re coming on!” Erin yelled, and she nearly jumped out of her seat with excitement.

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AJ laughed again and with a loud ‘BANG!’ with a puff of smoke afterwards, the Backstreet Boys was flying above the fans.

“I may run and hide, when you’re screamin’ my name, alright.” Brian began to sing, while the other member of the Backstreet Boys danced with the dancers that was on stage with them. The music kept on playing after one song to the next song.

***45 minutes later***
The Backstreet Boys had already sang, Larger than life, Hey, Mr Dj (keep playin’ this song), Get down (you’re the one for me), We got it goin’ on, I’ll never break your heart, I want it that way, Just to be close. Now it was time for quick 3 minutes break. Just for the bsb to get ready for their solo act.

Everyone stayed in their seats and watched as the Backstreet Boys walked off the stage. But some went out just to grab a quick bite to eat or just to refresh them selves.

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“Hey, you guys…I really gotta go to the bathroom.” Katie said.

“Go then, we’ll meet you back here, okay?” Melissa said.

“Okay.” She started to walk off toward the exit.

“This show is great.” Erin said.

“Tell me about it. And next, they’ll be singing a solo each.” Melissa said.

They continued to talk about the show, as Katie was gone.

***At the same time***
“Well, that went well.” AJ said.

The Backstreet Boys came down from the stage and walked into their dressing room. They were all taking a drink from their water bottles.

“We better get dress and Nick,” Kevin said, as he walked toward him. “You’ll go last for your solo because of the dare. Okay?”

Nick smiled. “Fine with me. But I mostly always go last anyway, Kev.”

“Like we don’t know that.” Brian joked.

“Yeah, well…lets just get changed, okay?” Howie interrupted.

They walked off in different directions to get changed into their suits. They all wore a black suit but different coloured shirts inside. Kevin wore a red, Nick wore a green, Howie wore a light purple, Brian wore a light blue and AJ wore a yellow shirt.

After they finished changing, AJ walked over to Nick.

“Hey, you wanna spy on some of the fans?”

“I think I’ll past. I gotta do something...”

“Please! I beg you.” AJ held his hands together and bend down on his knees.

Nick sighed. “Fine then, I’ll come.”

They ran off after they told the others, what they were doing and then they headed for one of the doors backstage, where you could see some fans walking along the corridor. One of the doors was a bit open, so they took a peek. Nick was standing, while AJ had to bend down to take a look.

“Hey…look at her.” AJ said.

“Which one?”

“The one in the red dress.”

“What about her?”

“She is gorgeous. Look at her legs…”

Nick rolled his eyes and moved back. “Yeah, whatever…” Then he thought. “Where could she be?”

“Oh great!” AJ moved away from the door.

Nick looked at AJ in a puzzled expression. “What…what happened?”

“There’s someone wearing…um…a green…black shirt in the way.”

“What!?!”

Nick quickly turned back towards the door, to take a look for himself.

“She’s here…” Nick said to himself.

AJ was puzzled. “Hey Nick, are you okay, man?”

“Yeah…” He watched her, as she tied her shoelaces together in front of him.

“Hey Nick, we have to go now. It’s nearly time.”

“Okay…just wait.” He watched every movement she made, until she got up and walked away. “Let’s go.”

They both ran back towards the dressing room and ran in.

“Brian…(huff)…(puff)…You wouldn’t believe…who…I just saw…” Nick tried to catch his breath.

AJ came running in the room next.

The Backstreet Boys was in the dressing room, getting ready.

Brian got up from his chair and walked Nick out of the room because he knew that it was gonna be a private talk with the expression on his face.

“Who did you see?” Brian asked, after he closed the door.

Nick finally caught his breath. “Katie.”

“What? Are you sure it was her.”

Nick nodded. “Yeah. I’m definitely sure it was her.”

“Great…just great. Did she see you?”

Nick shook his head “No way.”

“Oh yeah, the spying thing you and AJ were doing, right?”

“…Yeah.” Nick said.

“So, what’s going to happen?”

“I don’t know? I couldn’t see her at the concert at all. Did you?”

“I really can’t remember her that well, sorry.”

They both thought about it.

“Well Nick, unless you see her jumping on stage at ya, then yeah. But besides that there’s nothing we can do, right now.”

“Yeah…I guess so.”

“Let’s get back inside.”

They were about to walk back in the dressing room, until Howie popped out.

“Hey guys. It’s my turn to go up now, so I’ll see ya later.” Said Howie.

“Good luck!” Nick and Brian said.

Howie walked up the stairs with a bunch of white rose and his shirt was unbuttoned, all the way down.

“Thanks guys.” He said.

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