Janelle flopped herself down on to the green bean bag chair in entertainment room. She flipped through the cd collection. She paused at one and said "Hanson! Who on this bus listens to Hanson?"

"I do." replied Kelley from the kitchen.

"Oh." She went back to pick out a selection. As she turned the page she notuced Jamie standing in the doorway. "So how did it go with Drew last night?" said Janelle not lifting her eyes of the floor.

"Well he introduced himself and then introduced his girlfriend Tasha. I wanted to die!"

"Aw James, I'm sorry hun." replied Monique who had overheard Jamie's depressing comment from her bunk. "You never know, they could break up."

"True, but I would rather set my sights on someone is single." She left the room to go help Allison bring in boxes and bags. A few moments later, the tw girls carried in a huge box of Christmas lights. "Now this place will be rockin, better then anyone's bus. Eat your heart out Britney!"

Kelley had just finishedher early morning shower. There was no time to sleep in today. She threw on a pair of jeans and a white Abercrombie tank top. Monique sat on the kitchen counter reading over the tour schedule for the week. She was trying to figure out when she could visit family and have her sister and or brother visit. As she was pondering a date, Kelley skipped into the kitchen. She opened the refrigerator door. "Wow, we have no food." She looked over at her cousin who was joiting down a date on the memo board. "Monique, we don't even have ice!" She closed the door. "I could really go for a grilled blueberry muffin." She stood there a second. "Come on let's go to the cafeteria."

At The Same Time
"Yo, wake up!" AJ snapped his fingers infront of the youngest backstreet boys who was staring off into space. He looked at the blonde across from him. "You were thinking about her again weren't you?"

"God, AJ I can't help it. I mean you've seen her." Nick put his face i his hands.

"Yea, I've seen her. But you have Willa. Do you really want to throw that all away?"

Nick's face shot up. "Look who's talking. Like you would win Boyfriend of The Year. You have the worst credit in the National Bank of Fedelity." Nick began to laugh but stopped as he spotted a beautiful blonde in the food line. "Oh no." He put his face back into him hands.

"What?" AJ turned around to see what had caught Nick's eye. "Hey girls." He smiled at Monique ws was sipping at her Pepsi.

Kelley took her plate and walked over. "Is it alright it we join you?"

Nick and AJ looked at each other. "Have a seat ladies." AJ was grillen Monique like a hamburger. The four of them sat and talked. "So is hard being away from your boyfriends?" His plan was to find out if she was taken or not.

"Well, kinda, but me and Jaden were having problems before. He was a sweetheart but he just wasn't boyfriend material. He was jealous and didn't trust me. I mean, if you do not have trust you do not have anything." She looked to her right at AJ. "So what about you Mr. McLean. How is your girlfriend treating you?" Please be single she though to herself.

"I am single as humanly possible." AJ winked at Monique.

"Same here." said Kelley. "It is so hard to find a decent guy to invest in. "Well Nick we all know that you are taken. You and Willa Ford. It's so cute." She lied. She didn't like Willa. Willa was with the man of Kelley's dreams. The only thing cute about Nick and Willa was Nick. "So how are things with you two."

Nick really did not want to talk about Willa. "Good, things are good." Just then AJ's cell phone rang. Yes, I don't have to talk about Willa with Kelley anymore. I'd rather find out about her.

"Hello? Hi mom..." AJ got up from the table and walked around the empty room. Monique went over to the counter to refill her soda, leaving Nick to be alone with Kelley.

"I didn't think you would have remembered me. I mean you have been around the world a ton of times." She looked over at Nick's drink. "May I have a sip?" She asked pointing at the bottle infront of Nick

"Sure." Kelley picked up the bottle and put it to her lips. The cool crisp taste of lemon and lime rushed into her mouth. She took a big long glup. Nick had never seen someone drink soda like that before. He never though that Sprite could be so sexy. A single drop of soda crept from the corner of her mouth. Nick took his finger and whiped it off. When she wasn't looking he licked the Sprite from his finger. It made the soda a hundred times sweeter.

"Thanks." She whiped the corner of her mouth where his fingre just was. Nick wanted to kiss her so badly. Regardless if he had a girlfriend. Kelley was so beautiful and was more beautiful then Willa. He wanted to kiss her but for two reasons decided not to. One, he did not want Kelley to think he was some womanizing bastard and two, he is in a serious relationship with Willa.

The AJ sat back down. "Where's Monique?" he asked looking around.

"Why AJ are you interest in my cousin?"

"She is very beautiful and I was enjoying talking to her."

Kelley heard footsteps behind her. "Sorry Kel, I had to use the little girls room." She smiled and next down next to AJ. "Hey this place is so quiet and boring, do you want to go back to the bus. We could introduce you to the rest of the girls."

AJ and Nick stood up. "Now Nick, do we really want to dissapoint these fine ladies?"

"No AJ we don't." Nick smiled at Kelley. AJ put his arm around Monique as the four of them go to the bus.

In the entertainment room Janelle, still in search for the right music, continued to flip through the cds.

"Why not that one." said AJ pointing to a cd. "Yeah put in Chocolate Starfish." AJ fixed his black wife beater and but the cd in the player.

Four Hours Later
The seven of them were chatting and laughing, Kelley left the room to get a soda. Nick follows her out.

"Wow Nick I had no idea you were so funny." She turned around to wash her hands. She squirted dial into the psalms of her hands and washed them under the steaming hot water.

Nick wanted to kiss her so badly. Every second he spent with her he just wanted to be with her. Nick and Willa have been on and off for two years. The just had a fight about something dumb. He was sick of her jealousy and whinning. He wasn't sure if he still had the same feelings for her that he used to have. He knew he had to do what he was about to do. Regadless of his semi-feelings for Willa. He walked up behind her as she was drying her hands and whisperd in her ear. "You were the hot girl in the baby blue dress."

Kelley paused. A shiver went down her spine. Nick did remember her. She turned around slowly. "You remembered?" she said looking him in the eyes.

"Yea, I did remember." He wanted to grab her and kiss her forever but didn't. All he could do was stare into those ocean blue eyes. He knew that he would have to make a choice. Would it be to choose Willa and forget about his new feelings for Kelley of to choose Kelley and have her break his heart. He was not ready to choose just yet. He took a step back. He looked at his watch. "I'd better go." He turned to go get AJ.

"No, Nick don't go." She walked towards him. "Please stay."

He looked at her beautiful face. "I'm sorry if I made you feel uncomfortable. I should go."

"Well if you have to go I understand. Just don't make it because of me."

"It isn't you Kel, it's just we do a sound check before every show so me and AJ should get going." It was half true. They do make sound check but if Nick had to be alone with her for one more second he knew that someone would have gotten hurt. Even though he doesn't have that same feelings for his girlfriend, she is still his girlfriend an is suppose to be faithful to her.

In The Other Room
"So what is Howie like? Single?"

"He did break up with Helena a few months ago. Why Janelle, do you have a crush on a certin latin lover?" asked AJ smirking.

"Like is hardly the word. She is like totally into him."

"Shut up Allison. He is so sexy and so what if he needs a serious hair cut. He is still super sexy to me. Plus he has a big heart."

"I'll put in a good word for you."

"Be careful Janelle. Just because you like him doesn't mean that he will like you back. So do not invest alot into him." said Monique talking about Jamie's case with Drew.

"And why not Monique?" asked AJ looking at her. "He could like her and she could like him. Just because you do not know if a guy likes you, you shouldn't invest in him."

"But we give so much into guys. We could like them a lot and then have them not care about us at all so most of the time we just wanna save ourselves the heartache. I Just wish that guys could be honest about it. Like even if he doesn't know if she likes him or not. If they would just tell us how they feel then we would continue to invest in them."

AJ smiled. He knows know that she wants someone to be honest about his feelings up front. He felt a tap on his head. He looked up to see Nick in the doorway.

"Hey man we gotta go do a sound check."

Nick waved bye to the girls and hugged Kelley in the kitchen. AJ hugged all of them and went it was time to hug Monique, he gave her the biggest longest hug. He whispered in her ear. "So you want me to be honest with you?"

"Yes." she said whispering back.

AJ looked into her blue eyes. "I like you a lot." He kissed her on the cheek and went into the kitchen with Nick. Monique followed.

Monique and Kelley watched the boys walk out of the bus and down part of the parking lot. Nick turned around and shouted "Stop by later..."

AJ added "the both of you.". They turned back around and headed towards their bus.