The next morning, Stacey called Leighanne to see if she wanted any help for the dinner that night.
"It'd be really great! I think I won't get anything ready on time if I don't get some help!" Leighanne replied with a little laugh.
"That's what I thought too... at what time do you want me to be there?"
"Whenever you want!"
"Alright... wait I'll ask Kevin for a ride to see at what time he'd like to go.." Stacey said before to leave the phone to ask Kevin. "In an hour is it alright??" she added when she came back.
"Wait wait wait... you're going out with Kevin??????" Leighanne asked really confused.
"No!" Stacey laughed. "I'm just staying here for the two weeks off... "
"Oooh I see! I knew Kevin and Kristin were meant to be together... " Leighanne sighed.
"Well... I don't think they were... they aren't together anymore.."
"What?!?!?" she exclamed.
"Look... we'll have all the afternoon to talk about this... " Stacey laughed. "Let me some time to get ready and I'll be there as soon as possible..."
"Alright!" Leighanne giggled. "Make it fast!"
Stacey hung up and ran into the shower. After she got dressed and got her hair done, she waited for Kevin in the living room watching tv.
"You ready??" he asked getting downstair.
"Yup!!!" she exclamed, excited to see her old friend again.
"Alright let's go!" he said taking his keys. They walked out the house to the car. After a couple of minutes, they finally arrived in front of Leighanne's house.
"Thanks for the ride!" Stacey smiled. "See ya later!!!"
"No problem! See ya later!" Kevin replied looking at her walking to the door. When Leighanne answered to the door, she saw him in the car and waved to him smiling. He did a quick wave and leaved. The friends hug and entered in the house.
"Damnit! Everyone has beautiful house here!!!" Stacey shouted.
"Oh well... " Leighanne laughed. "It's true, it's beautiful house. But you're seeing the Backstreet Boys ya know... they aren't the poorest guys in the world!"
"Yeah I know that!" Stacey laughed.
"Oh I'm so happy to see you again!!!" Leighanne said hugging her friend again.
"I'm really happy to! It's great to see an old friend..." she replied.
"I know!! Tell me, why did you left so fast ??? You know, Julia was pretty sad when she heard that... we were all... " Leighanne asked sitting at the table.
"I don't know... it just happened that way... I felt really bad and I had to get away for a while...so I went to my aunt in California and I got a job ... and then I got other contracts so I had to move and travel a lot..."
"But why you never called or gave us some news?" Leighanned asked sadly.
"I ... I don't know...I'm so sorry!! I just thought that everyone hated me..."
"Of course not! It's true it was pretty weird to hear this from you but... ya know, it happened we couldn't do anything about it.. "
"Well... I moved on now and I have a great life now... I use to travel and work with stars...it's really overwelhming!" Stacey said happily.
"Yeah...for how much time are you working with the boys?" Leigh asked.
"Not a long time... 1 month or something! They got a totally new crew for the second part of the tour... we'll have a month off and then another big tour will start..." Stacey said. "But they are so nice! We get along quite great!"
"Yeah they are real angels.." Leighanne replied thinking about Brian.
"And how come do you know them???"
"Oh well... I was on one of their videos. I met them there and well... " she paused. "I've been Brian's fiancee..until 6 or 7 month..."
"Pardon me?!?!?" Stacey asked with her eyes wide open. "You were Brian's fiancee????"
"Yeah...we went out together for.. 3 or 4 years."
"Oh my god!!!" Stacey laughed. They continued talking about their lifes for the past years, cooking and laughing at the same. They had a lot of things to tell each other, their lifes had changed a lot.
"So, tell me... how is it to live with Kevin huh??" Leighanne asked with a huge grin.
"Hey don't look at me like that!" Stacey laughed. "He's really nice...we're great friends...that's all!!!!"
"Yeah yeah right..."
"I swear! Anyway, I don't think he'd like to be with someone right now..he just broke up!!"
"Yeah that's true but..."
"There's no but alright?" Stacey laughed.
"But... I mean, you only knew him for a month and you're living with him... "
"I'm only living in his house for 2 weeks...then I'll probably buy an appartement here... I'm already looking for one..."
"Really?!?!? It'd be fantastic!!" Leighanne exclamed.
"Yeah! I know!" Stacey replied. "Ya know, if you want to sell your house someday... tell me about it! I really really like it!" she added looking around the kitchen.
"Yes, it's a beautiful house! Well maybe someday I'll sell it... "
"Do you live here since you got in Florida?"
"Nah... at first I was in a small appartement. Then I met Brian and we bought this house together... and when we broke up he told me I could keep it... anyway, we were going to buy a new one... well, Brian wanted to..." Leighanne said.
"Oh I see! That's great for you...I mean, you two are still talking to each other...that's cool!" Stacey replied.
"Yeah I'm really happy about that. I was so nervous and he was suppose to come and pick up Tyke the other day...I was so scared something bad was going to happen..."
"Ooooh you were babysitting Tyke?!?!? Lucky you!!!!" Stacey exclamed. "This dog is adorable!!" she added as Leighanne laughed.
"Yes he is! You saw him?"
"Yup! Brian came to Kevin's right after he picked him up... " Stacey paused. "Ooooh I understand everything now!!!!" she exclamed.
"What?!?" Leighanne asked giggling.
"Well, before he was going to pick Tyke up, he ate with Kevin and I...and he was looking so stressed or something... I thought it was pretty weird. And when he came back after, he was looking really happy...I guess it's because everything went fine with you!" she said smiling.
"Oh great.." Leighanne laughed seeing that she had behave the exact same way.
"Oh my god!! Look at the time?!? We should finish everything if we want to be on time!" Stacey shouted.
"Oh Lord yeah!!!" Leighanne shouted looking at her watch. They just finished to clean everything and get everthing done. A few minute later, Kevin, Becky and Aj arrived. They sat in the living room and talked for a while, until Howie and Carly came in too. Finally, Brian, looking a little shy followed by Amber arrived. After some drinks and talks, they all got to the dinning room. Brian was trying to act confortable but he had to admitt that it was pretty strange to have his ex and his new girlfriend together in the same room. But he was starting to be angry at Amber because he could see that Leighanne was trying to be nice with her but Amber wasn't reacting really well. She was answering with little smile and wasn't talking a lot. Brian was trying to be very nice so it could excuse Amber's behavior. He thought she was still angry at him because of how he act the past weeks... but it was over now and he wasn't understanding why she was still upset with that.
On her side, Amber wasnt thinking a second about Leighanne. She wasn't really paying attention to her and what everyone was saying. All that was in her mind waas if she should or not tell Brian about what happened between Nick and her. She was scared to death to loose him but maybe he wouldn't react that bad. Everything was running fast in her head and she couldn't find out what she should do. And she couldn't talk with anyone about it because they would all hate her... especially Nick. She knew that if she'd talk, she'd probably end her career as a Backstreet dancer. The best thing for her was to shut her mouth but she'd have to live with those guilty feelings all the time she'd go out with Brian. Suddently, Leighanne interrupted her thoughts.
"I want to thank you all for coming tonight! It's really great to see you all again!" she said with a warm smile.
"Well, thanks for inviting us!" Becky smiled.
"It's a pleasure to meet you 3!" she answered looking at Becky, Amber and Carly. "And I also want to thank you for letting me see Stacey again... even if it was a big coïncidence!" she added laughing.
"Yeah it was pretty strange!" Howie said. "But it's cool!"
"Thanks Howie! It's because of your club that we saw each other!" Stacey giggled. "And thanks to Aj and Becky who too because they invited me to your club that night.." she added laughing.
"And you could also thank Kevin ya know...for letting you live in his house for the 2 weeks off!" Brian laughed.
"Hey! That's what I was going to do" she pouted as everyone laugh.
For the next hour they laughed, drank and talked about some old memories and things taht happened since the new crew arrived. Everything was going great and they were all having fun...or most of all. Later in the evening, they were in the living room, all talking seperately. Brian, Stacey and Leighanne were on their side, talking about Tyke. Kevin, Howie and Aj were talking about Howie's first date with Carly and looking carefully at Brian and Leighanne. And finally, Amber, Carly and Becky were chatting about things and other. Well, the two girls were trying to find what was bugging Amber but she would not talk. When it was getting late, they all hugged Leighanne and left.
*Earlier at the Carter's house*
"Hey It's me Nick!!but As you can hear I'm not home right now so leave me a message after the beep and I'll call you back see ya!!" Nick's vocal box said.
"Hey it's me..again...where are you?!?I've leave you a thousand messages and you never call me back..well listen I'll be home for the next hour and after that I'm leaving for Mathews house so please give me news ...call me back I need to talk to ya!!see ya later I guess" Bj said as she hung up the phone and ran to the kitchen to see her mother.
"Hummm mommies's cookies!!" BJ said comming in the kitchen
"yup!" Jane smiled to her daughter
"Can I take one?!please?!?!"Bj begged
"yeah yeah but just one!It's for your brother!!"Jane replied looking at Bj taking a cookies
"Aaron's Back?!?"she asked
"No it's for Nick!"Jane confirmed
"Pfff he don't deserve those magical cookies!!!"BJ said looking and tasting the cookies "I've call him a m-i-l-l-i-o-n times today and he never answered..always his vocal box!!!No, he should answer my calls!!"
"Don't be too hard with him he wasn't feelling really well last time he came here!!"Jane explained
"Well I need to talk to him...Is he coming over here tonight?!?!"she asked
"No well I don't think so I planned to maybe go see him tonight and gave him those "magical cookies" like you said but I have to wait until Aaron calls me so I don't know If I,ll go tonight!!you want me to tell him you want to talk to him?!?"Jane asked
"Humm well no I have a better Idea... I have to stop by Mathew's house tonight so Nick's house in on my way so why don't you just give me the cookies and I'll bring them to him!!!"BJ offered
"Yeah ok sounds good!!"
"Ok Cool!!!Just give me the cookies and I'll go right now!!"BJ smiled
"I don't know if he'll eat cookies tonight huh?" Jane laughed knowing that BJ will eat some more cookies on her way to Nick's place
"Haaa Ma I'm not like this!!!I'll eat them...with him!!"BJ laughed taking the big box of cookies
"that's what I tought...be careful on the road and call If you don't come sleeping!!"Jane laughed while BJ was walking to the door
"Yeah I promise and I'll tell Nick to come eat tomorow... I'm sure you'll be happy to see your little boy!!See ya !!"
*A little bit later at nick's place*
Nick was still drinking and completly drunk in his drawing room not paying attention at the phone..even if he heard the rang he was too drunk to even think of answering it...he lay his head down on the table trying to think straight. The image of him kissing Amber was running in his head and the only sound he was hearing was Brian's voice telling him how much he was hurt when Leighanne broke up. He fight the tears not wanting to cry the lost of his bestfriend... He just knew that Amber wasn't going to shut her mouth any longer...
"Ding dong" the doorbell sang...Nick heard it but didn't went downstairs to open the door...he knew that was obviously someone he knows since they past the gate but he wasn't really feeling to see anyone
"Hello?!?!" BJ exclamed to the door when nobody answered it..she pushed the bell for the second time and once again no answer..."I see light Carter comon open the door!!!"She tried to open the door and it wasn't lock so she entered in the huge house "Nick?!?! Nick Bro it's me are you in here?!?!"BJ Yelled a lil scared to not see her brother and not hearing a sounds...plus the door was unlock...it wasn't Nick to not lock his door..he was so scared of everything...maybe a gremlin ate him.. she giggled at this tought..He was so afraid ok gremlin..."Nick Comon answer me it's BJ are you here?!?!"she yelled back..once again no answer..she then ran upstair and looked in his room
"Dammit Carter where are you?!?!'"she wishpered to herself,she pass by the draw room and see by her eyes corner Nick at the table with his head down on the table ...She then got in the room and saw the beer all over the place
"Nick?!?!Hey Bro it's me...Nick?!"she said walking closer to her brother he wasn't speaking to even a sigh nothing..like he was dead
"Comon Nick answer me you scare me what's wrong?!?!"she said scared...she let the box of cookies down on the other table and ran closer to Nick to see his sweet blue eyes with tears she then felt really worry for him and took his head up to make him looking at her
"Nick what is it?!?! what's wrong Bro?!?!"she saw the tears rolling on Nick's cheek and knew that he wasn't going to tell her for now..all he needed was someone to hold him...she pushed Nick's head against her stomac and let him cried...he put his arms around her waist and cried all the tears he had to cry holding his sister tight like he never wanted to let her go... BJ felt tears seeing Nick like this she was feeling so bad not even knowing what was up with him. They stayed like this in the drawing room.. Nick's head on BJ's stomac...crying everything he had to cried for several minutes
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