Tour--Chapter One
Tour--Chapter One
"BEEP....BEEP....BEEP" . I think to my self as I reach
over and shut off that infernal alarm clock. The
beeping is soooo irritating. It's 7:00 AM Tuesday
Morning. Last night I could barely sleep. All I
could think of was that . You see two months ago I was
listening to my fave radio station, and out of
nowhere I hear Chris Marino say " caller ten now at
------- is going to win the chance to tour with the
Backstreet Boys around the US for a whole month on
their bus, and will get $5,000 dollars in spending
money". Needles to say that I raced to the phone and
dialed, although not with much hope since every
time I had tried to win concert tickets before it never
happened. But I won. Today is that incredulous day.
Those five gorgeous guys are going to be here in two
hours. It's 8:15 AM I'm running through the house
exstatic, my mom is yelling at me " Erika, sit down
and eat breakfast RIGHT NOW OR YOUR NOT GOING
ANYWHERE TODAY!!!" "Allright mom, allright, Megan am
I turning red?, I feel red and really warm, Is my
skin breaking out? I feel it breaking out." I say all
in one breath within 15 seconds. Megan is my best
friend in the whole wide world. She slept over last
night so she could be there to see me off and because
she is obsessed with AJ. "Erika, CHILL OUT, STOP.
BREATH, your gonna pass out if you don't relax. We
did a full facial cleanup last nigh there is no way
your skim will break out unless you stop running
around" she says to me, trying to put a bit of
irritation in her voice but it can't cover her own
excitement. We are sitting at my kitchen counter
having breakfast, or at least looking like it so my
mom will stop complaining. I don't know what I would
do if Megan wasn't here. I am so nervous that my
whole body is shaking. I take a shower, after all
I've been sweating like a pig from nervousness, it's
my 5th shower in three days. It's 8:45. Oh my God,
oh my God only 1 hour and 15 minutes.... "Megan I keep thinking
that I'm forgetting something. I know I'm not but
lets check" I say in a worried tone. She rolls her
eyes at me and lets out a big sigh of real
frustration "THAT"S ENOUGH, you've been running
around for the last 3 days like a chicken with her
head cut off, everything is packed, me and your mom
checked it twice. CHILL." I can't contain myself,
I'm shaking from excitement.It's 9:15. Me, my mom,
Megan. my brother, and my dad are sitting at the
kitchen counter talking about nonsense till the
camera crews get here. There's going to be a TV
station camera and a crew from the boys to tape me
leaving with them to use it in a video. In my mind I
am going over what I'll say and do and make sure I
won't pass out or act real stupid in front of
everyone, especially the guys. I'm packed, I have
two suitcases, my dad's camera bag with a camera and
12 rolls of film, and a carry bag with my 'personal
stuff'. The crew's are finally here...in excitement
& nervousness. It's 9:50 and the boy's crew tell me
that the bus has just gotten off I-95 and will be
here in 5 minutes. Strangely I'm both nervous and
calm. All the TV and newspaper people have been
asking me tons of questions, they are so
irritating..arrgghhh. ...I don't know how the boys
stay so nice & polite to them. My friends are all
here and we are in the house, along with like 50
other people waiting.
We hear a loud horn. It doesn't sound like a
normal horn it play the first 6 notes of "Everybody".
I ruuuunnn out of the house, Megan is right next to
me. WE get to the side walk. All my neighbors are
standing around being busy bodies but I don't care.
And then..we see it. A HUGE travel bus painted in
the guys' favorite colors- green, blue, yellow, and
purple. WE all laugh. Brian is at the wheel of the
bus. Kevin and Nick are holding the bus driver so he
won't make Brian move."...ha.ha.ha.. I can tell that
this is going to be the best moth of my
life..hahahaha.."
Tour--Chapter Two
Brian honked the horn of the tour bus again and by
then there were a total of maybe 50 people on my
front lawn. All the crews were there filming the bus
approaching and my reaction. All the nervousness
of a few moments ago was gone. I don't know. Seeing
Brian and the guys having fun sort of relaxed me and
I wasn't nervous anymore. The bus pulled up in front
of my house and Brian tried to park it but hard as he
tried he ended up blocking the whole road, I don't
think my neighbors minded though. I was surrounded
by reporters but I wasn't hearing them. All I could
focus on was Nick, Kevin (who finally let go of the
driver, Brian, Howie, and AJ. They got of the bus
and were swarmed by reporters and photographers. I
was almost blinded by the continuous flashing of
camera flashes. The guys looked soooo good. Nick
was wearing khaki shorts that went down to his knees,
a tight white muscle shirt with a short sleeved green
flannel over it. AJ was wearing a yellow basketball
jersey and black shorts down to his calfs. His hair
was still in those dreadlocks that I think look so
good on him. Brian was wearing a navy blue gap
t-shirt and khakis like Nick's. Kev was wearing one
of his gray 'phat farm' shirts and blue jean shorts,
and Howie was wearing a tight black shirt with a
silver zipper in the middle of the top. They all
looked sooo good. I turned around and whispered to
Megan "I'm so glad I don't have a boyfriend and I can
look at them without feeling guilty" she smiled a
knowing smile and whispered back "don't do anything I
wouldn't do". We both smiled knowingly. I looked up
again and there were those five gorgeous guys. Nick
came over first and one by one they all hugged me and
I hugged them back. I was so happy that I felt like
I was floating in mid-air. It all seemed soo
surreal.
I must have had a really big smile on my face cause
Nick and Kevin started giggling. They also hugged
Megan. AJ must have realized that she was staring
at him cause he gave her an extra long hug and took
pictures with her. I had never seen her so happy as
she was then. I posed with the guys ( I stood in the
middle and we had our arms around each other) for
what seemed like a million pictures. But I didn't
mind. When they had their arms around me I felt so
elated. I thought that this is probably the absolute
best day of my life. Then we took some REALLY goofy
pictures. We made a cheer leading pyramid and I was
all the way at the top and Nick decided it would be
really funny if he moved(he Kevin and AJ were at the
bottom) and made me Brian and Howie fall. We tumbled
down like a sac of potatoes, and we all started
laughing. Even the camera crews and my neighbors
were laughing. The five of us decide that later that
day, before we left on the bus we were going to get
back at him. Brian came up to me while Nick was
talking to my parents and said "when everybody else
is gone and before we have dinner were going to throw
Nick into the pool (he smiled like a four year old
planning to put a lizard in the teachers desk, his
blue eyes lit up like the sky), your parents and the
camera people know" " you got it" I replied with
that same gaiety. You see the boys were going to
spend the whole morning there. The camera crews and
paparrazzi would leave at around 11:00 AM. We'd all
have lunch at my house and then we'd leave. We were
finally in the house and the crews kept taking
pictures. There were so many people in my house that
my dog hid under the couch. AJ thought that he was
the greatest dog in the world and my dog immediately
liked AJ, which is strange since it usually takes him
a while to like strangers. Before the local and
paper crews finally left the boys sat me, and Megan,
and my whole family down in the living room and sang
an arranged a-capella version of 'I'll go Anywhere
for you'. The camera's were going off like wild
fire. the local and paper crews finally left and the
only other people there was the BSB crew that would
be taping the whole trip (sort of like MTV's The Real
World). I was afraid that my dad wouldn't like the
guys but he and Kevin started talking about airplanes
and cars, and they hit it off. I was glad cause I
didn't feel like hearing my dad nagging me all the
time. I showed the guys around the house. I had
completely forgotten that I have this HUGE poster of
just Nick's face in my room. When you open the door
its the first thing you see. I opened the door to
show the guys my room, actually my mom wanted to show
them around. She has this thing were she loves
showing people our house. When she opened the door
to my room..there were Nick's gorgeous eyes staring
the guys right in the face. They all started
laughing , but I was mortified with embarrassment.
The other four guys, Brian,Kevin,AJ,and Howie were
like "oh I guess we can see who your favorite is?" "
But you didn't look at the other wall" I said- my
cheeks> burning red from emberassement. The guys
walked in and saw that over the head of my bed I had
another HUGE poster of the whole goup, like the
picture from the cover of the 'Everybody' single. We
laughed some more and then the guys wanted to sign my
posters. in a flash I took them off the wall and out
of their
casings. We went to the kitchen and they whipped out
permanent black markers. They all signed both
posters and wrote little notes above their
signatures.
My mom announced that lunch would be ready in twenty
minutes. I went over to AJ and said "so..when are we
getting back at Nick for the stunt?" my eyes were
beaming with mischief. "Right about now..." I heard
Kevin's beautiful voice right behind my ear. I
turned
around and his face was 3 inches away from mine, I'm
5'11" so our heights are very close. Suddenly I felt
his arms sweep my legs out from under me and in a
gasp I reached for his neck because I though I was
about to fall to the ground. The next thing I know
my dad and Howie are holding the door to the porch
open and Kevin is holding me completely off the
ground in his arms. Everyone in this room has this
mischievous look in their eyes. Kevin is still
holding me and we are in my backyard by the pool.
Nick and Brian are standing with my mom, Megan, and
brother by the pool. I looked at Nick and half
laughing, half pleading say "you guys wouldn't...".
They both look at me and giggle. I turn around and
look at Kevin and say 'Kevin come on..' smiling he
looks at me and says 'your parents said you ere so
nervous that you were sweating and they suggested
that you might need to cool off.." The next thing
I know Kevin let's go of me and I am falling into my
backyard pool. I come up from underwater and look at
all of them smiling with pleasure. With one big
sweep I splash them all and it immediately turns into
a water fight. Needless to say that I, Megan. Nick,
Kevin, Howie, AJ, and Brian end up with our hair and
clothes completely soaked and laughing so much that
our stomachs hurt. one thing I can say for sure they
look REALLY HOT wet.
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