"Guess what guess what guess what?!" I heard Steph nearly yell.
"Right now I don't really care 'what'. It's..." I looked at the clock,
"It's seven thirty in the morning!"
"Oh, you'll care. Just let me tell you!"
"Alright, alright, out with it." I said, groggily.
"Okay, here goes, ready?"
"Yeah, yeah, ready." I was becoming impatient.
"I'M GOING TO A BACKSTREET BOYS' CONCERT!!!" she yelled in my ear,
happily.
"That's great, kid. Can I go back to bed now?"
"Aren't you excited?" She asked.
"Not really. I mean, you know I never liked them."
"Yeah, but..." she paused, "I have two tickets and.. I was wondering
if you wanted to come with me."
"Steph, I don't really-"
"Aw, come on," she cut me off, "front row seats, right next to the
stage. I need to go with SOMEONE right? And what friends do I have other
than you?"
"Good point, Steph," I said, with a bit of a laugh. She sounded so
desperate."So, since I'm such a great friend, yeah I guess I'll go with you."
"Thanks so much!"
"No, thank YOU." I said, mockingly.
"Yeah, whatever!"
"How'd you get those tickets, anyway, front row seats and all? I asked.
"I won them. On the rado station, DRQ. I was the ninth caller or
whatever."
"Oh, Okay"
"When I find out the date and time and stuff, I'll call you."
"Alright, Bye"
"Bye"
Aaron finished singing after a while and the Backstreet Boys jumped on
to the stage, counting down from ten(which i thought was really dumb) and
then sang a song that I hadn't heard before. From the lyrics I guessed that
it was called something like "Let's Have A Party". I looked over to Steph
and she was jumping up and down, cheering, and singing. I just didn't see
it. But I did se this one blonde guy that sang a lot of the song. What a
cutie! I didn't want to admit it, though. So I just watched him. Steph was
still going nuts. So I figured, why not? And kinda got into it, sort of
dancing and stuff.
"That's Nick" Steph said
"What?" I asked, confused.
"The one you keep staring at, that's Nick, Aaron's brother."
"I know which on Nick is!" I lied, "and I wasn't staring at him."
"Yeah, right." Steph said with a smirk. I didn't want to argue with
her, so I turned my attention back to that guy.
"You're doing it again!" she said, laughing at me.
"No! And so what if I was?"
"So you're admitting to it"
"No, I'm not. Please answer the question."
"It's just that I don't know what you see in him. I'm a Howie girl,
myself."
"Really?" I asked, "Which one's that?" I was glad to change the subject.
"See the hispanic one wearing the red shirt? That's him."
"Yuk"
"Oh, shut up! You're the one who likes NICK!" She made a wierd face.
"I DO NOT!"
"Mmmmmmhmmmmmm" she blew me off.
"Yeah, fine." I said under my breath. I looked back up at Nick again,
to see him wink at me.
"He was looking at you!" Steph said.
"Yeah, I saw."
"He was looking at you! He likes you!"
"I know."
"Don't you get it?"
"Um....I guess not."
"Lucy, there are, like, ten million girls who would die for that!"
Steph was excited.
"Oh, cool!"
"Really"
We Turned our attention back to the show. The five guys were gathering up all the presents that the girls had thrown up onto tha stage. "We'll be back out in a couple of minutes." one of them said. The audience cheered. Just before they left, Nick looked back at me again. At least I think it was me. It could have been Steph. After all, she was really pretty. I was just... me.
When they were done resting or whatever, they came back with different clothes on. When Nick came out, he was holding a rose. I wondered what that ws for. They started to sing another song I didn't recognise. When it was Nick's turn to sing, her walked along the edge of the stage which made the girls scream even louder as they reached out to touch him. When he was in front of Steph and I he kneeled down. I listened to him sing, "..... I won't lose my way, believe me, even thrugh the darket nights you know," When he said "you" he'd pointed at me. ".....I'd go anywhere for you.." He handed me the rose. Then he got up and walked the rest of the was down the stage while he continued to sing.
"Oh my god. Ohmygod! Lucy! Nick gave YOU a rose!
Specifically gave YOU a rose! This is amazing! I can't believe-" yelled Steph.
"Yeah, it's pretty neat." I interrupted.
"Pretty neat? PRETTY NEAT?! It's more than pretty neat, it's-"
"Pretty cool?" I suggested. At this, Stephanie began to laugh.
"You don't understand, do you?" she asked.
"No, I do. It's just, for some reason I'm not excited. Hey, look.
Thee's a tag on it."
"Open it"
"I am! It says: 'Who's that girl beside you? Howie likes her a lot'" I
said.
"REALLY?!?!"
"No." I answered
"That was mean" Steph was a bit upset.
"I'm sorry, I had to."
"OK then, what does it really say?"
I opened the card. It read:
--Nick C.