Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Laura’s POV

“Do I have to go?” I whined to my mother, shoving more clothes into a duffle bag.

“Yes, come on, you’ll get to know him better,”

“I don’t wanna know him better! I wanna spend my summer vacation here, in New York, with all my friends. Mandy and I were gonna spend it at the beach,” I complained. Let me fill you in. Last week I found out my biological father was Kevin Richardson, yeah, of BSB. Fun? Hardly. This was going to be hell on earth.

“Come on Laur, do this for me? Please?” my mother begged me.

“Ugh, fine!” I said rolling my eyes.

“Thank you! Thank you! THANK YOU!” she squealed at me. “There’s a bag on the counter in the kitchen full of necessities. Chocolate, Freddie, and of course, candy!” She smiled at me. “Now hurry up, the bus should be here soon.” I gathered up my bags and all last minute items, and left it all by the front door. Soon I heard a loud honk outside. It could only be one thing… them.

“Bye girlie,” my mom said kissing my check.

“Bye Mamasita, love ya,” I told her hugging her one last time before going onto the tour bus to begin my o-so-wonderful summer.

I walked onto the bus, and was greeted with smelly socks, underwear, Nintendo game consoles scattered, feet hanging out of bunks, and food thrown over the entire bus. I made a loud dog whistle, causing everyone to look at me. “CLEAN IT!” I yelled at them before finding myself a bunk and going back to sleep while being cursed out in the other room.

I must have been asleep for a good few hours until something was flung into my face. I opened my eyes to see a pair of boxers. “BRIAN!!!” I screeched.

“What?” he whined back to me.

“Get you ass over here!” knowing I meant business, he ran his little hiney over as fast as his stumpy legs could carry him.

“What?”

“Next time I find a pair of your underwear, in my bunk, I will personally stick them on a flag pole and put them outside the bus, then if it happens again, your address will be all over the Internet,” I warned.

“Those aren’t mine. Nick’s the one who wears Scooby on his ass… not me!” he argued.

“If you’re gonna lie, make it believable… and don’t have your mother sew your name into the tag of your underwear… it’s not very manly,” I told him before walking away to find something better to do, leaving his blushing a deep red.

It was now 3:00 and I needed to find a TV a.s.a.p. I walked into the entertainment room and grabbed the remote from AJ, and changed the channel.

“Hey!” he said after realizing what I had done.

“Shut your mouth. General Hospital is on…” I told him as I settled down on the couch.

“KEV!” he yelled.

“What?” was the response from the man laying in his bunk.

“Laura just took the remote from me!”

“Bone, stop acting like a baby. Laura, give him back the remote.”

“Hell no! GH is on!” I told him. “Now everyone shut the hell up!” There was some mumbling from AJ, but that soon subsided when I told him I had candy in my bunk. I’ve never seen someone run so fast in my life… no, I shouldn’t say that. There was the time I started running after Brett… but we won’t get into that.

~An Hour Later~
Ah… that is the best show! “AJ! You can have the TV back now!” I called towards the bunks.

“FINALLY!” he yelled racing towards the TV before someone else could get to it.

“Um yeah, ok,” I said getting up to go find some food… I was starved. “Bri Bri, do we have any food?”

“Check the fridge,” he mumbled.

“You aren’t still mad ‘bout the underwear thing, are you?”

“No…” he mumbled again.

“Then what’s up?” I said sitting down across from him, munching on Pringles.

“Nothing…”

“Brian… you can’t take me seriously,”

“My mom doesn’t sew my name into my underwear,” he said.

“Oh? Then who does?”

“Kevin…” he laughed.

“Oh lordy! Why oh why did he have to be my father???” I questioned, throwing my hands in the air.

“Cause your lucky,” my dad said coming into the room.

“Ha! Yeah right,”

“Oh, come on, what girl doesn’t want to be here right now?”

“An *Nsync fan?”

“Besides from that.”

“Me?”

“You don’t like it here?” he asked.

“Oh no, I love it. The smell of socks, dirty underwear, and hair dye, all mixed together, with no friends! Just the way I wanna spend my summer!” I said sarcastically.

“Sorry, they’ll clean it,” my dad said putting his arm around me. “Won’t you guys?” he asked them.

“YES SIR!” the other 4 boys… well, men, said saluting them.

“At ease,” he said, causing them all to drop down their arms and go back to what they were doing.

“Um… you can take your arm off me now,” I told my father.

“Oh, sorry… I just missed you over the past few years,” he said sighing.

“Then how come you never came to find me? Or called? Or wrote? Do you know how long I’ve been waiting to see you? You never called, hell, until a few days ago, you didn’t know I existed!” I told him, almost in a whisper.

“I’m sorry… I tried to find your mother once I got to Florida, I did really, I just never did, and after 2 years… gave up.”

“So we meant just oh-so-much to you didn’t we?” I said sarcastically walking out of the room, and into my bunk to find something to do. I got out my lab top and cell, and logged online, and called my mom.

“You’ve got mail!” the computer said as AOL logged on.

“Oh goody!” I said to myself sarcastically.

“Hello?” someone answered on the other line.

“Huh? Oh, hi Mom!” I said forgetting I was calling someone.

“Hey babe, what’s up?”

“Remind me again why I had to come here?”

“Cause your father loves you, and I want you two to get better acquainted with each other.”

“So in other words to make my life a living hell huh? Thanks, I love you oh-so-much,”

“I love you too… I gotta jet, work calls! Ciao baby!”

“Bye Mommy!” I said before hanging up the phone. Now… onto AOL.

I checked my mail and responded to what I wanted to, deleting the rest. Then went to talk to my friends. “Who be on now?” I asked my self. “Amanda, Rob, Bobby, Liz, Fun!” I said, IM-ing Liz.

Me: Hey chicky!
Liz: Hey!
Me: What’s up?
Liz: Nuthin’… OO! AARON PIC! ::Drools::
Me: Oh no! Not again!
Liz: lol.. yes again!
Me: What would you do if you ever talked to him?
Liz: Umm… in person or on the phone?
Me: Phone…
Liz: I dunno…
Me: K, think about it, h/o a sec k?
Liz: Mmm Hmm

“Hey Nick?” I called, sticking my head out of my bunk.

“Hmm?”

“Aaron’s on tour… right?”

“Yeah, why?”

“Wanna do me a huge favor that will make me love you forever?”

“Not really, but I got nothing better to do.”

“Thankies!” I said, and ran over to him, and began whispering in his ear.

“Mmm Hmm, ok, yep..” those were just a few reactions that came from his mouth.

“Really? You’ll do it?”

“Sure, give me a phone,” I ran and grabbed my cell.

“Gracias!”

“What’s the number?” I gave him the number, and sat up on the couch next to him.

“Hey Airboy!… Wanna do my friend a huge favor?… please?… She’s 13… yeah I know, just your age. But what it! Kev’s her dad… yeah I know….” He mouthed ‘he says poor you’ to me. I laughed. “We found out a few days ago… yeah next time we see you I’ll introduce you two… sure, now wanna do her the favor?… yeah let me see.” He said then covered the receiver. “Laura, he wants to talk to you,” he said handing over my phone and settled back down on the couch and played with his game boy. He may be 21, but he still likes that thing the most out of everything there is in this world.

“Hello?” I said into the phone.

“Hey, this Laura?” Aaron asked.

“Dat be me!”

“Hey, what’s up?”

“Nothin’ much, wanna do me that favor now?”

“Does it involve streaking and fans?”

“At the moment, no.”

“Then sure, what the hell,”

“Ok,” I said and began to tell him what I had planned. “I’m gonna let you go. IM me some time, my screen name is Candy69.”

“69?”

“Si senor. I’m gonna go now, ok.”

“Yeah, it’s ringing, bye”

“Ciao,” I said hanging up the phone and running back to my computer.

Me: Sry. Answer your phone
Liz: How did you know it was ringing?
Me: I’m physic… or was it psycho?
Liz: Psycho my dear, psycho… h/o let me get it.
Me: Ok… don’t scream!

Yeah, sure she didn’t! A few minutes, she came back and IM-ed me again.

Liz: How? What?
Me: Let’s say I now have connections.
Liz: THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!
Me: lol. Welkies, anytime, just don’t tell anyone ‘bout my connections?
Liz: Anything!
Me: Lol, ok, I gotta go now. Call my cell later
Liz: Ok, I LOVE U! BYE!
Me: lol, ciao.

Maybe I should fill you in. I just granted a teenybopper one of her wishes… to talk to her idol. Aren’t I so nice? Ha! Yeah right! My phone rang, and was soon thrown at me by Howie.

“Thanks How! Love ya too!” I called to him.

“Anytime!” he called back. I laughed before answering it.

“Hello?”

“You’re the best!”

“Ha ha! I know, I know, I’d like to thank the academy, and my family first….” Sorry, but I have to go now and deal with my friend having a teeny moment, and a confused, upset father… Until then, Peace, love, and cookie dough….



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