Chapter 1
"Would you hurry up already Nickie? You are so slow!", Steph said to her friend. "I don't wanna be late! I want to be the first one on line for tickets!!"
"I hate to tell you this Steph, but NOBODY ELSE IS HERE!!! We're gonna freeze! Tickets don't go on sale for 15 hours yet! Do we really have to sit here this entire time?!", Nickie asked.
"Do you want good seats, or do you want to sit up in the nose bleed section and use binoculars to see how good Justin looks?", Steph asked her.
"Well, I guess, I mean..yes. I want good seats. Let's go!" Steph started to say something to Nickie, but she didn't hear her. She turned bright red, and tried to say something. "S....Steph!...Steph!!! Oh my.....STEPH LOOK!!." Steph couldn't imagine what was wrong. "What on earth could possible get her so excited?" Steph soon found out.
"Nickie, what is it?? What are you looking at?! C'mon! Let's go!" Steph soon found out what was making Nickie so excited. She turned around and walked right into the chest of Lance Bass.
"Oh! Excuse me sir. I didn't mean to bump into you!" She hadn't even noticed who it was. She was too busy trying to figure out what was getting Nickie so excited. "Now Nickie, I don't see anything! What is it?" Suddenly, she realized what had just happened. "Oh my! Hi! It's a pleasure to meet you." She shook hands with Lance, Justin, JC, Joey and Chris. "My name is Stephanie, Steph for short, and this is my friend Nickie." She nuged Nickie to do something besides stare at Justin. "Psst! Nickie...earth to Nickie...come in!! Over!" she whispered to her friend.
"Oh, um, hi!", Nickie managed to get out. "My name is Nicholette!"
"Nicholette huh?" Justin asked. "That's a pretty name."
"Thanks! I think Justin is a pretty name too!....I mean...um...yeah". Nickie turned bright red at this point. The guys just laughed.
"So um, what are you doing here so early?" Chris asked the girls. "You do realize that the tickets go on sale tomorrow morning right?"
"Yeah well, you know how it is. We want to good seats...we're willing to sacrafice having feeling in parts of our bodies to do so!" Steph said. Once again, the guys laughed.
"How long have you been here?!" JC asked.
"About 2 hours, I guess" Nickie said.
"Oh! So you can talk!" Justin teased. Nickie giggled, and nodded her head.
"Are you planning on staying here all night?" JC asked.
"Yup!" Steph and Nickie said at the same time. The guys laughed.
"Man! The fans we have guys!" Joey said. "Look at what they're willing to go through just to see us! It brings a tear to my eye!"
"You're not serious are you?" Lance asked. "I mean about staying here all night? It's freezing now! I can't imagine what it will be like in a few hours!"
"We told you! Getting good seats is worth it!" Steph told him.
"No...we can't let you do that", Lance said.
"Well, why not! Is it illegal or something?"
"No, no it's not", Justin said. "You see, if we let you stay here all night, sure you'll be able to get great seats. But, they'll cost you a fortune, and you won't be able to get backstage passes with them."
"Backstage passes?" Nickie asked. "Well, how do we get great seats and backstage passes and not pay a fortune?" The guys lookes at each other and smiled.
"We were hoping you would ask that!", Chris said as he put an arm around each one of the girls. "C'mon! We'll show you!" Together, the 7 of them walked to their tour bus. "Welcome to our humble home!" Chris said as they door opened. Please, step inside!" The girls couldn't believe it! They were actually standing in front of *N Sync's tour bus. It was making up to be a great day!
"I can't believe this is really happening!" Nickie said
"I know! Me either!!" Steph said. The girls were standing in the airport, wititng for their flight. The day they bumped into the guys turned out to be the greatest day of both their lives. They were hired by the guys as their personal assitants, which meant that they were going to tour all over the country and the world with them. It was like they'd died and gone to heaven, and the couldn't wait to get started.
Their plane arrived in Orlando at 12:30. At this point, the two girls were so excited they practically ran off the plane. They knew they had to act mature though, after all, they didn't want the guys to think they were crazy. They made their way to the baggage claim, where they found Justin and Lance waiting,
"Hey! What are you guys doing here?" Steph asked them.
"Picking up girls" Justin said. "What do you think we're doing here?! We came to help you claim your stuff, and pick you up!"
"You mean we get to ride in your car?!" Nickie asked him excitedly.
"No", Justin said "we're gonna carry you on our shoulders and you're gonna balance your bags on your heads! Of course we're going in my car! Justin, Lance, and Steph laughed as Nickie turned bright red. Justin put his arm aroung Nickie's shoulder and said "I'm just teasing ya! Relax ok? You're all tense! We're just your average guys, no sweat!"
"Yea, sure. No sweat" Nickie said. "Oh! There's my bag!" Justin reached out a grabbed it. Fifteen minutes later, the four of them claimed all the luggage and made their way out towards Justin's car.
"Hey Justin! Can I drive?" Steph asked him. She was only kidding. She knew Justin loved his car, and was were protective of it.
"Yeah, sure," Justin said as he reached into his pocket to get his keys.
"Are you serious?" Steph said as he tossed the keys to her.
"Why not?"
"Hey Justin! You won't even let me drive your car!" Lance said.
"That's cause I've seen how you drive!" Lance threw him a look. "Yeah, well I got shotgun!" Lance said.
"That's cool, I'll ride in the back with Nickie." Nickie turned red again, and continued packing up the car.
"So are we ready to roll?" Justin asked when everything was packed up.
"Yup." Steph said. "Let's go." They all climbed in the car and Steph started the engine. "Ok, where am I going?"
"Oh yeah, directins would help, wouldn't they?" Lance laughed. "Here's what you do."
Half an hour later, the four pulled up in front of a house.
"Where are we?" Nickie asked.
"My house" Lance answered. "One of you will stay here with me, and the other will stay at Justin's place."
"Oh! I'll stay at Justin's!" Nickie quickly said. " I mean, I have a lot more stuff than Steph so, um...it makes sense...you don't mind, do you Steph?"
"Not at all" Steph replied.
"Good" Lance said. "That was easy. Well, let's get you and your stuff inside Steph. Then Justin will take Nickie to his place, ok?
"Sure." The girls said. They got all of Steph' stuff out of thr back of Justin's car, and into Lance's house.
"Just leave everything here," Lance told Steph. Nickie and Justin had just left. "Before you worry about taking everything up to your room, I'll give you a tour, and you can meet my parents."
"Um, ok i guess. But I don't want to make a mess of your house" Steph answered.
"Steph," Lance put an arm around her "It's not my house, it's our house!" He threw a grin in her direction. "C'mon! Let's go!"
Lance and Steph walked out back to the porch where Lance's parents were sitting. Lance introduced them, and they shook hands.
"Thank you so much Mr. Bass, Mrs. Bass. It reall means a lot to me." And it did. They didn't have to let some strange girl move in with them. They were, in Steph's opinion, truely two of the nicest people she has ever met.
"Well it's no problem, really. We're happy to do it. But, we must lay down one rule right now," Mrs. Bass told her. "And we expect you to abide by it, got it?"
"Um, yeah sure" Steph said. She couldn't imagine what it could be. She haf only been in the house for a matter of 15 minutes. How much trouble could she possibly be in that they were giving her rules?
"Whatever you do, don't call us Mr. and Mrs. Bass! Call us Jim and Diane! Mr. and Mrs. Bass is too formal! This is a very casual house! Steph breathed a sigh of relief.
"Sure Mrs. Bass, I mean Diane." She quickly corrected herself. "No problem."
"So, are you hungry?" Jim asked her.
"Starving" Steph answered. "There's just something about airplane tuna that is completly unappetizing!"
Lance, Diane, and Jim laughed. "I couldn't agree with you more Steph!" Lance said.
"Well, I'm glad to hear that." Diane said. "I went to the store and picked up a few things. Let's go inside and eat and talk."
Over the course of the next hour, Diane had Steph talk about every aspect of her life. She talked about her brothers, parents, school, everything she could think of.
"Ok kids", Diane said "Why don't you go upstairs and get settled. Lance give her a hand. I'll clean up here, so don't even worry about it."
"Ok, thanks for lunch." Steph said.
Lance picked up some of Steph's bags and started to walk up the stairs. She followed him up, and carried the rest of her bags.
"Ok, quick tour." Lance said. "My room." He pointed to a door on the right. "Bathroom." He gestured towards a door at the end of the hall. "And this, is your room." He stopped at a door down the hell from his. "Ta-Da!" He said as he swung the door open.
"Oh! It's so pretty!" Steph couldn't help but say. And it was. She fell in love with it the second she layed eyes on it.
"Pretty nice huh?" Lance asked.
"Yeah!" Steph said.
"Well, let me show you the bathroom. They walked down the hallway. "I cleared out half the cabinets and drawers for you, so you can put whatever you want in them. Ok, let's get you unpacked!"
Together, over the course of about 3 hours, Steph and Lance unpacked all of Steph's things into the the room and bathroom. Whey were done, Steph took a second to step back and look around. She felt just like she was back home. Her room was perfect, and she didn't want to change a thing.
"Hey, I got something for ya." Lance said. He pulled a small wrapped box out of his pocket.
"What is this?"
"Open it." He said. Steph couldn't but laugh as she opened the box to find a set of house keys. "Welcome" he said as he gave her a hug.
"Oh, hey thanks!" she said, and gave him a quick kis on the cheek.
"No problem. Well, you're probably want to take a shower and relax now, so I'll let you alone. The towels are in the closet in the bathroom." He told her as he turned towards the door.
"Ok,um, can I ask you a favor?" She asked him.
"Sure, what's up?"
"Can I call my mom to tell her I got in ok?
"Oh! I should've mentioned that sooner. Your phone is right there. It's an extention of my line. I'll give you the number, this way you're family can call here too."
"That's great!"
"Here you go. Take your time. I'll see you later"
"Right, see you later Lance!"
She picked up the phone and began to dial her mother. "Wait 'till mom hears about this!" she thought. She could wait to get started!
