Tour--Chapter Seventeen and Eighteen
Tour--Chapter Seventeen
"When are you NOT hungry?"Howie shot at Nick
> > sarcastically, who stuck his tongue out at him. I
> > took a Starburst out of my pocket and threw it at
> > Nick, hitting him in the middle of the forehead. We
> > all chuckled. Nick picked up the Starburst,
> > unwrapped
> > it and ate it. "I'm gonna have to agree with Chaos
> > here, I'm starving too" Kevin said "As long as it
> > isn't deli lunch meats I'll eat anything....and
NO I
> > wont eat MCidies AJ" Brian said answering AJ before
> > he could even make the suggestion. I laughed
watching
> > AJ as his eyes gleamed at the possibility of going
> > to
> > McDonalds and then his hopes being shattered by
> > Brian. I couldn't help but laugh. The 7 of us sat
> > around the room "well lets drive around and see
what
> > we find, in the meantime we'll decide what to do
> > this
> > afternoon after the radio show" Kevin suggested and
> > we all agreed. Howie beeped John to get the van. We
> > all went to our rooms to change. We decided to
dress
> > casually and bring a change of clothing so we
> > wouldn't have to come back to the hotel. I decided
> > to
> > put on some of my new clothes. I put on shorts, the
> > Tommy tank top that i found in one of the boxes,
> > mascara, and blue eyeliner.I put on my new Tommy
> > sneakers. I left my hair down because it was still
> > damp. Before leaving the room I picked up the bag
> > with my change of clothes and my backpack purse. I
> > made sure that I had all my IDs and passes and met
> > the guys and our bodyguards in the hallway. On the
> > way to the parking lot we had to stop 4 times for
> > the
> > guys to give autographs and take pictures. Even
> > dressed casually they looked amazing.Kevin wore a
> > white shirt with a blue t-shirt over it, jeans, and
> > sneakers. Brian had on a Tommy shirt, long baggy
> > shorts, and Reeboks, Howie wore a tight yellow and
> > black shirt, with baggy jeans and sneakers. AJ wore
> > extremely baggy overalls that showed about 2 inches
> > of the top of his boxers, a tight black muscle
> > shirt,
> > cool sneakers, and sunglasses of course. Nick
wore a
> > baggy red and white FILA shirt, baggy black surfer
> > shorts, and the latest Nikes. WE finally reached
the
> > parking lot, by now we were all starving.We spotted
> > the van waiting for us. Simultaneously, Aaron,
Nick,
> > Brian, and I yelled 'shotgun', we looked at
> > each other
> > and started running towards the van as if we were
> > being chased by an unruly mob. I reached the
> > passenger door 2 seconds before the three of them,
> > but before I could get the door open and get into
> > the
> > van they caught up to me.Suddenly I felt someone's
> > arms grab me and wrap around my waist. The next
> > thing
> > I knew Nick was holding me in the air while Brian
> > and
> > Aaron tickled the life out of me. In between bursts
> > of laughter I yelled at him to let me go. I
squirmed
> > and struggled to get free but it wouldn't work> I
> > ended up out of breath. While I was being tortured
> > Aaron sneaked into the passenger seat and Nick and
> > Brian finally let me go. We were all laughing but
> > for
> > different reasons. Inside the van, John could
barely
> > breath from laughing. Nick looked menacingly at
> > Aaron
> > through the window as if threatening him for taking
> > the front seat. "are you guys done torturing the
> > poor
> > girl??" AJ came up behind me as he asked Brian and
> > Nick "I... don't know, the day is still young.."
> > Brian rebuttled laughing. "Thats it, if this keeps
> > up
> > Ill end up dying of laughter." I said trying to
> > sound
> > upset with a grin on my face. We dumped our bags
> > into
> > the back of the van. AJ opened the side door. Brian
> > and Nick climbed into the first back seat, the one
> > nearest to the front. "Im sitting in the back with
> > my
> > new best friends" I taunted and climbed into the
> > back
> > with Kevin and Howie. AJ sat next to Brian in the
> > seat in front of us. "man I'm starving, John lets
> > go"
> > Howie said leaning over the middle seat. " Same
> > here,
> > altought I don't think I'd be this hungry if my
> > breakfast hadn't been water logged this
morning.." I
> > said laughing. We all laughed remembering the
> > morning's activities. We drove around town for half
> > an hour looking for somewhere to eat. Every time we
> > drove by a McDonalds AJ would look out the window
> > longingly. After arguing about where to eat we
> > decided
> > to eat at the food court of the nearest mall so
> > everyone could eat whatever they wanted. The whole
> > way there Brian, Aaron, and Nick sang along to the
> > radio in an extremely high pitched out of tune
voice
> > just to irritate someone and to see who would be
the
> > first one to reprimand them. Noone did, we just
gave
> > them dirty looks and chatted among ourselves. By
the
> > time we got out of the van the guys were
> > unrecognizable under their disguises and since we
> > only took one bodyguard with us we didnt attract
> > much
> > attention. Thankfully the mall wasn't very crowded,
> > mainly cause the greater part of their town's
female
> > population was storming the radio station where we
> > would be later on. The closest thing to McDonalds
> > that AJ could find was a place that sold Chicken
> > hamburgers. Kevin and I ate from Sbarro's,
> > Nick,Howie, and Aaron had pizza, and Brian had
> > pasta.
> > A couple of us tried to sneak away and do some
> > shopping when Kev's cell phone rang, it was Denise.
> > Everything was ready at the station and we had to
be
> > there in 25 minutes. Since the station was kinda
far
> > we had to leave right away. Thankfully it was a
> > radio
> > show meaning that the only people who would see us
> > would be the DJs and the few fans that were allowed
> > in the studio, at least we wouldn't have to be
under
> > the eyes of Kiki and Angie, or so we thought. When
> > we
> > reached the radio station cops had to part the mass
> > of fans to allow the van to go through. The rest of
> > the security team met us at the station. What would
> > have taken a normal person 5 minutes to get into
the
> > studio took us 10. I've never seen as much love for
> > their fans as the guys had. They tried to give
> > everyone a hug or an autograph until finally our
> > security pushed us through all the fans. We finally
> > got to the studio. I had never been in a radio
> > station studio so I gawked at all the equipment. AJ
> > kept teasing me to pick up my chin from the floor,I
> > gave him a nasty look and stuck my tongue out. We
> > were introduced to the DJs and in general to the 15
> > fans that won the chance to be in the studio with
> > the
> > guys. We went on t he air and did an interview.The
> > very first thing we were asked about was the
> > accident
> > wit h the fans.We talked about it for a while and
> > then
> > they went on to ask normal stuff- how are you all
> > doing? what do you think of the tour? any news?
> > future plans? etc..They asked me if I had comments
> > and I just told them that the guys were a big pain
> > in
> > the butt, and about the water fight we had that
> > morning.Everyone laughed. The guys did a couple of
> > old songs a capella and answered questions from the
> > fans. Surprisingly they asked me a few
questions.One
> > girl who looked to be about 16 asked me " Whats it
> > like living on a bus with these guys?" the 7 of us
> > laughed "well usually on the bus we are either
> > incoherent or zonked out from exhaustion. Its
really
> > exhausting but Id have to say that so far its been
> > the most fun and the most exilirating week of my
> > life. We have a lot of fun. We usually have a food
> > fight at least once a day." Everyone laughed and
the
> > girl sat back down. We did the radio show thing for
> > about 1 Hour and then it ended. During the show the
> > DJs awarded the guys with a plaque for having the
> > most continuous song at # 1- Every time I close my
> > Eyes
> > had stayed at #1 for 32 weeks straight and was
still
> > #1. The guys gracefully accepted the plaques and
> > posed for almost a hundred pictures. We finally
left
> > and decided to drive around the city for a while to
> > figure out what we wanted to do that afternoon.
> > After
> > about ten minutes we were ready to go play golf
when
> > we drove by a GO Kart/mini golf/ arcade. "John John
> > turn right there" I quickly leaned over the front
> > seat not being able to get the words out of my
mouth
> > fast enough. John was the only other person that
had
> > noticed the place. The guys had bewildered looks on
> > their faces. WE pulled right in front of the place
> > in
> > the parking lot and you could see the Go Kart
track,
> > thats when the guys saw it "OH yeah, I can
> > definitely do this all afternoon" Aaron gasped
> > hanging his head out the window, the rest of the
> > guys
> > doing the same.
Tour--Chapter Eighteen
Within seconds we were all out of the van. The
> > guys had become disguised and almost impossible to
> > recognize within seconds. We all stood there
gazing
> > at the go kart track with gleaming eyes. "I am
> > DEFINITELY doing this" was Howie's only comment.
> > Since we had already told Randy and DEnise that we
> > were taking the afternoon off we didnt have to
check
> > in again. We went inside the arcade to buy tickets
> > for the go karts. Let me rephrase that, Nick,
> > Aaron,
> > and AJ ran into the arcade like mad men being
chased
> > out of hell, the rest of us quickly followed.
> > Inside
> > we found a gigantic arcade and a laser tag room,
> > "hmhmh what to do first....???" Brian exclaimed
> > rubbing his hands together, a look of exhilaration
> > dawning his face. After 10 seconds of discussion we
> > decided t to do the go karts first, "I'm only
gonna do
> > one round, and then im hitting this arcade" nick
> > said
> > a plan of attack already designed in his
mischievous
> > brain. Jim, John and the rest of the guys decided
> > that they weren't gonna let us have fun alone. At
the
> > counter the employee didn't even bother to look
at the
> > guys so they were never recognized, to all our
> > relief. We bought enough tickets for everyone to
do
> > one round. Although the arcade was plagued with
> > kids
> > between the ages of 12 and 23 it was mainly guys ,
> > not a very high security risk for the guys, we
could
> > have fun without being mobbed for once. The 11 of
us
> > raced to the track and got in line, behind 6 other
> > people that were already there. Even though there
> > was no potential of anyone recognizing them
security
> > asked the guys to keep the glasses and hats on just
> > in case. While in line Aaron proclaimed proudly,
" I
> > am soo gonna woop all your butts", "You are sooo
not
> > gonna" Kevin retorted in a challenging tone of
> > voice.
> > "ohhh so the old man is challenging us hey?" John
> > asked Kevin smirking, "you bet ' he replied
smiling
> > 'mannnn this is too good to be true...OK whoever
> > wins..." AJ announced the challenge, "Whoever wins
> > what???" Howie and Brian asked anxiously. Nick
> > jumped
> > in "whoever wins gets to make the rest of you dress
> > in any way he.." I purposely coughed to get his
> > attention "..pardon,<> in any
> > way he or SHE wants you to for the first twenty
> > minutes of the next show", he finished his
> > suggestion. We all looked at each other, you could
> > feel the doubt in the air and see it on our faces.
> > But since all of us were sure that we would win we
> > all agreed "deal?" Nick asked thrusting out his
hand
> > "Deal" we all chimed in and putting our hands into
> > one giant handshake. "I already have you guys's
> > picked out, hehe" Kevin snickered."We'll see, this
> > is
> > were it REALLY counts boys" Jeff laughed at us. We
> > didnt have time to keep boosting our egoes because
> > they finally let us onto the track. "I GET YELLOW"
> > AJ
> > yelled as he ran to and jumped into the go kart.
" I
> > GET RED 7" I yelled imitating AJ and run to my go
> > kart. Everyone else got their fave color. I put my
> > hair in a pony tail and fixed my sunglasses as did
> > everyone else. The guys turned their baseball caps
> > backwards to look cool and so that they wouldn't
fly
> > away. AJ looked like speed racer. After the whole
> > safety belt, no bumping shpeel they let us go. The
> > lap was 1/3 of a mile and our tickets were worth 4
> > laps a piece. Our cars were extremely fast and at
> > first Kevin and Jeff were in the lead. At one point
> > or a another we were all in the lead at least once.
> > Huge signs were posted around the track prohibiting
> > us from ramming the car in front, that is if we had
> > actually obeyed it. Everyone rammed everyone else.
> > At
> > one point Jeff rammed AJ who in turn rammed Aaron
> > who
> > then rammed me, we must have almost rolled over
> > several times. In the last 2 laps john was the
> > leader and no matter how hard we tried noone could
> > catch up to him. He won. "I think we should do it
> > best 2 out of 3" Aaron defended as we all stood
> > around the outside perimeter of the track. John
> > didnt
> > have a problem with it and we all wanted another
> > chance at victory, Ted went and got 3 tickets for
> > each of us. It was useless. No matter how hard we
> > tried he won every single time. WE were so intent
on
> > winning that at one point Kevin drove AJ off the
> > track, but only momentarily. "Come on think about
> > it,
> > Ive been driving you guys around for years in one
> > vehicle or another. Did you really think you could
> > have beat me?" John asked us laughing as we stood
as
> > dejected losers in front of the doors to the
arcade.
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