The show started promptly at 8:00, after Aaron Carter, Nick's little brother, opened for them. As they walked past his dressing room, Aaron stuck his head out the door. “Hi!” he said as they turned and looked at him.
“Hi,” Sam replied. They walked towards him. He hopped out the door, directly in front of them.
“I’m Aaron. And you two must be Sam and Megan,” Aaron said.
Megan smiled. “I’m Megan, and this is Sam.”
“That’s kewl. I think that I heard Nick and AJ talking about you, but I’m not sure. I mean, I don’t know you guys that well, so they could have been talking about someone else,” Aaron said as he turned towards the mirror and looked at his hair. He frowned and messed it up a bit, and smiled. He turned back to the girls. “Do you know if it was you?”
“Well, um, we don’t know,” Megan said, looking a bit flustered.
“Wow, you look confused. I’m kinda talkative, you know. Anyway, are you guys coming on tour with us? It would be so kewl if you came, I would like that a lot. And if Nick and AJ WERE talking about you, then I’m sure THEY would be happy too.”
Sam laughed. “What were they saying?”
“They like you guys a lot, I think. Anyway, ARE you staying for the tour?” Aaron asked, getting up and hopping on the couch in the room.
“Well, we WOULD, but B rok won’t let us,” Sam said, pouting.
Aaron stopped jumping around and stood still. “Brian won’t let you come?” he said, looking confused. “Well, then, we have to find a way to MAKE him let you come. You guys wanna be my backup dancers on this tour?” Aaron asked playfully.
“Oh my gosh, Aaron, we would love to!” Megan said, a wide grin spreading over her face.
“We’d love it, Aaron,” Sam said, smiling.
Just then Mrs. Carter walked into the room. “Aaron, press work,” she said.
“Okay,” he said, running over to his mother. “I’ll talk to you guys later, k?”
“K,” Megan said as they walked out of the room. “Bye Aaron!”
“Bye!”
"YES!" Megan screamed at the top of her lungs as they left the dressing rooms. "Now Brian HAS to let us come! We promised Aaron!"
"Not to mention the fact that AJ and Nick are like, totally in love with us! I am so psyched!" yelled Samantha.
"This is going to SO ROCK THE HOUSE! I CAN'T WAIT! WE ARE GOING ON TOUR WITH THE HOTTEST GUYS IN THE WORLD!" exclaimed Megan.
They went up to the wings of the stage to watch the boys perform. They were on one of Megan's favorite songs, "Get Down". She watched Nick with loving eyes as he sang the lyrics, "Hey baby, love, I need a girl like you. Tell me if you feel it too. I'm in delusion every minute, every hour. My heart is crying out for you..." He looked back, caught Megan's eyes and winked right at her. She thought that she was going to faint right there and then.
"Oh, my God Megan!" whispered Sam to Megan. "He is like, totally in love with you! This is so cool! Look, there's AJ! He is so fine, don't you think?"
"Yeah, both of them are totally hot! I can't believe how lucky we are, can you?" she whispered back. "AJ really likes you, too. I can tell. Oh, I hope we can go on the tour!"
"What are you talking about? We are going on that tour no matter what your brother says! We'll sneak on the bus if we have to! Hey, we are friends with the security guards, remember?"
Just then, Kevin, Howie, AJ and Nick came backstage, saying that it was time for Brian's solo. The rest of them would do their solos after him.
"Hey, you guys can watch the solos from in front of the stage if you want," said Kevin. "Just go out in front in front of the gate and show the guards your backstage passes. Then tell them that Kevin sent you out there, and if he wants, he can come back and ask me."
"K, thanks, Kev," Megan and Samantha said. Then they both looked at AJ and Nick and ran out front. Megan told the guard that she was Brian's sister and that Kevin said that she and Sam could come out front to watch the solos.
"Sure, ma'am, okay, that's cool. You can sit in the center in front of the fence. But be sure that you go backstage after Nick's solo because that's when the concert is over. You don't want to be caught in the rushing of the crowd, do you?"
"Of course not. Thank you very much, sir! Oh, and one more thing, can you tell me the order of solos?" Megan asked politely.
"I think so. I'm not sure, but I think it's Brian, Kevin, Howie, AJ, and last is Nick."
"K, thank you!" Megan smiled at the kind man and she and Sam ran to the center of the stage. All they could hear were screaming girls. "Gee, all these girls and they picked us!" Megan yelled in Sam's ears to be heard over the din.
"I know!" She yelled back. "I love it!"
They reached the center of the pavilion. Brian waved to them and smiled to them as he finished his solo, a song that he wrote called "That's What She Said." He said into the mic, "Well, that's all for me. Here's Kevin!" He ran off the stage, and Kevin replaced him. Kevin sang, "Nobody But You", and after that Howie sang “My Heart Stays With You”. Then it was AJ's turn.
"Oh my GOD!" Sam screamed when AJ came on stage wearing tight black pants and an unbuttoned black shirt with no back, like Kevin's in the "Everybody" video. "He is soooooooooooooo sexy! I don't think I can take it any more!" And with that, she promptly fainted in Megan's arms.
"Oh my goodness! Samantha!" Megan screamed. AJ saw them just before he started the song and he went backstage. There were audible boos from the audience. Then he came back out and winked at Megan. Nick and Brian darted out of the wings, jumped off the stage, and picked up Sam. They motioned for Megan to follow them as they climbed back up on stage and ran back into the wings. Megan smiled and gave AJ a thumb up sign as she ran by him, and he started his song.
Backstage, Samantha had just woken up. Nick took Megan aside and said, "What on earth happened to Sam?"
"Well...she got a little...um, flustered, I guess you could say..." she said as she gazed into Nick's eyes.
"From what?" Nick said innocently.
"Um, AJ," Megan said.
"AJ? Really? So I guess you guys talked to Aaron then."
"Well, yeah," she paused, tearing her eyes away from Nick's for a moment. "Nick, I~"
"Nick, get onstage! You're on!" Brian yelled at Nick, totally ruining the moment.
"Oh, sorry Meg! Really! After the song! Watch me, K?" Nick said as he scrambled onto the dimmed stage.
Megan went over to Sam, who had just woken up. "Are you okay?" she asked her friend.
"Yeah, I think so. What happened to me?" she said woozily.
"You fainted."
"Really? Why?"
"Um, I think it was because of..." Megan pointed inconspicuously towards AJ.
"Oh! Goodness! Haha, well, I think he's worth it, don't you?"
Megan laughed. "Um, yeah Sam, whatever. You are too much, you know that?"
"Who's too much?" AJ asked as he walked over. "Hey," he said softly as he turned towards Sam. "Are you okay? What happened?"
"Um...I'm going to watch Nick..." said Megan, leaving them alone.
"I um, well, I fainted I think," said Sam, staring dreamily at AJ.
"Are you okay? Can I help you up?" He held out his hand towards her and she took it. She had a huge headache, and she fell into his arms. He smiled and carried her out to the RV, and laid her down on a couch. "Sam, I'm sorry. I have to go and finish the concert, but I want to talk to you as soon as possible. I'll be back okay?" She nodded, and he bent down and gently kissed her on the cheek. Then he got up and went back to the backstage area.
Meanwhile, Megan was watching Nick do his solo. She was going to make fun of Samantha so much for fainting like that over AJ. She looked at Nick, and he was singing his solo song "Heaven in Your Eyes". He looked so incredibly sexy, and Megan couldn't stop gazing at him, even when Brian came up behind her and tried to talk to her.
"So, Meg, did you like the concert?" he asked.
"What? Oh, hi Brian. I didn't realize that you were there. I was just watching Nick..." she trailed off. "I'm sorry, what did you ask?"
Brian laughed, seeing how Megan was totally drooling over Nick. He said jokingly, "So has my buddy Nick proposed yet?"
That got Megan's attention. "What? What are you talking about? Why would he propose to me? We're just friends, you know."
"Yeah, Meg, sure, whatever you say. That explains why you are currently drooling over him while he sings that incredibly romantic song?"
"What? I'm not drooling over him, I don't know what you are talking about. You're crazy. He just asked me to watch him sing, so I am. It's just a nice gesture of friendship."
"Yeah, right. So you are only watching him sing because it's a gesture of friendship? Uh huh, keep dreamin', little sis. You know as well as I do that he is totally in love with you and that you are in extreme like, maybe even love, with him too. I know it, so don't even try to deny it. You guys would be so cute together. I mean, just think of~"
"Brian, stop, you're babbling. Calm down, it isn't love. Ok, so I like him, but I don't love him, and he doesn't love me either.”
"Okay, Meg, whatever you say. Well, honey, I gotta jet, it's the last song of the concert. Then we are going home!" Then him, AJ, Kevin, and Howie joined Nick onstage singing "Everybody".
Megan sighed and went to the RV, where she found Sam playing a game of Go Fish with Aaron.
"Yes! I win again! That's five times in a row! Okay, cough up the cash," Aaron yelled as Megan entered the trailer. He held out his hand to Samantha to collect his winnings.
"Samantha, I can't believe you. First you are so pathetic that an 11 year old has to set up your love life for you, and then you loose to him in a game of Go Fish!" Megan said teasingly to Sam. She started laughing along with Aaron, who found the idea as funny as Megan did.
"Hey, look who's talking!" Sam said, laughing as she threw a pillow at the two hysterical hyenas on the floor. Then the boys came in and found the girls and Aaron rolling on the floor laughing. Sam realized that they were staring at them and she said, "Don't ask, you guys, please, just don't ask!"