**CHAPTER 18; THE MEET 'N' GREET**
******CHAPTER 18; THE MEET 'N' GREET******
After the show ended, the guys came backstage to towel off and got ready to go out for the meet ‘n’ greet. “Great show guys!” Claudia said enthusiastically. “Thanks,” the guys replied as they sat on the couch. “Aww..is Greggy tired,” I said in a ‘lil baby voice. “Uhuh..” he sighed. I leaned over and gave him a quick kiss. “EEW! You’re all sweaty!” I screamed playfully. Greg got a big grin on his face and before I knew it he had me wrapped in his sweaty arms. “Let me go!” I joked. “Not unless you say it nicely,” he said with a devilish grin growing on his face. “Grreeegg,” I whined. He just stood there and kept on smiling. “Pretty-pretty please?” I said, giving him the puppy-eyed look. “Hmm…” Greg said pretending to be thinking. “Okay,” he said as he let me go slowly. “Okay guys come on!” Mrs. Raposo said, trying to get the guys out from backstage. “Okay,” the guys said as they walked out. “Hold up,” Greg said as he grabbed my arm and gave me one of those kisses that makes you wanna melt. “What was that for?” I asked with a stunned look on my face. “Well..you didn’t think I’d let you get away that easily now did you?” he said slyly. I just smiled and he walked out to meet up with the rest of the guys. I sat down on the couch and Sara, Nikki, Cori and Larissa all looked at me and sighed. “What?” I asked curiously. “Nothing,” they all laughed. “Let’s go out and mingle with people!” Larissa exclaimed. “Okay,” we agreed as we walked out, leaving the back room.
After walking down a little narrow hallway, straight in front of us we saw probably more than 600 fans trying to get autographs and pictures from the guys. We just looked at each other and smiled. A couple girls saw us walking out from the hallway and looked like she was gonna pass out! She whispered something in her friends’ ears and they came running over to us. “Oh my God!” one of the girls screamed. The five us just stood there, exchanging confused looks. “Are you girls umm…umm…well you know!” one of the other girls stuttered. “What are you talking about?” I asked, playing dumb. “You know what I mean! You’re…you’re..” the other girl screamed. With these two girls making a scene, everyone was looking over, trying to figure out what was going on. The five of us just stood there. The guys saw what was happening, and nudged the security guard to come over to get us away from the girls.
“Excuse me..” the security guard said. “What the hell do you want??” one of the girls said in a snotty tone. “If you two don’t stop screaming and making a scene, I’m going to have to kick you two out of here,” he said, trying to remain calm. “Fine!” the girls whined and they walked away whispering and pointing at us, but we didn’t care. “Thanks Myles,” we said in unison. “No problem girls,” he said smiling back at us. After that incident..we walked over to the stage where the guys had performed, and sat down. “That girl was nuts!” Larissa exclaimed. “I know..geeze…” Sara sighed. “That would really suck if one of those girls did that to one of the guys!” Nikki said slowly. All of the sudden, we heard screaming…again.
“How could you do that to your fans!?!” a girl shrieked. We all looked at each other. “Nik!” I exclaimed. “Sorry..I didn’t think it would actually happen!” she said quickly. We noticed that there was more screaming than before and ran over to the guys to see what was going on. The two girls from before were screaming their heads off at all five of the guys. Even though the security guards were in front of the guys, the girls were still going at ‘em. “Who were they!?!” one of the other girls screamed again. “That’s it..” Myles muttered, and he did some sort of signal, telling the other guards that the two girls had to be taken out of the theatre. In less than a minute, the two girls were outside. “Okay everybody, the meet ‘n’ greet is over..the guys have to go home now..thank you for coming!” one of the other security guards announced as the guys walked back through the hallway to the back room.
As soon as we saw that they had gone backstage, we went the other way, so the fans wouldn’t get suspicious. We walked into the back room to see all five of the guys talking. Before we walked in, we decided to umm…listen. “Those girls were nuts!” Jesse exclaimed. “I know, and I feel really bad that they came up and were busting on the girls,” Matt said slowly. “Yeah..but if those two girls so much as touched our girls in any way..I don’t care how many fans were there, I woulda kicked their butts!” Chris said enthusiastically. “Same here,” Greg agreed. Right then, we walked in. “Hey guys,” I said smiling. “Heeeey,” Greg said as he got up and came over to me and gave me a hug and a kiss. The other four did the same. Frankie, Nik, Greg and I went and sat down on the couch, Jesse and Sara sat at this little table, Larissa was sitting on Matt’s lap on a puffy chair, and Chris and Courtney were leaning on the wall. “So, those two girls were crazy!” Larissa said, starting the conversation. “Yeah, we were just talking about that,” Jesse replied. About five seconds later, Claudia walked in. “Girls are you okay!?!” she exclaimed. “Yeah Claud, we’re okay, thanks,” Nikki said. “Are you guys okay?” Claudia asked, directing her attention to the guys. “A little shaken up I think..but yeah we’re okay,” Frankie said slowly. “Okay, good,” Claudia said with a satisfied look on her face. All of the sudden, my cell phone rang. “Laur, you’re ringing,” Chris said. “Yep, thanks,” I said as I got my cell phone out of my back pocket. “Hello?” I said slowly. “Hey honey, it’s Mom,” a little voice said over the phone. “Hey Mommy,” I replied. “Listen, we can’t get back into the city this late, so I called Mitchell, and he said that you and the other four could crash at his apartment again, okay?” my Mom said, waiting for my answer. “Yeah, but is he gonna be there, or will it be just us again?” I redirected back. “Just you five,” she said quickly. “I’ll call you in the morning to tell you girls when I’ll pick you up,” she said again. “Okay, Mommy, bye! I love you,” I said. Then Greg nudged my shoulder. “Who is that?” he whispered. “It’s my Mom,” I whispered back. ‘Oooh…HI MRS. THOMPSON!” Greg said into the receiver. “Who was that?” my Mom asked curiously. “That was Greg,” I replied. “Oh, okay,” she laughed. “Tell Greg, I say hi..I’ll talk to you tomorrow! Bye baby, I love you,” she said as she hung up the phone. I looked at Greg and cracked up. “Soo…what did she say?” Courtney asked curiously. “Well…she said that she can’t pick us up from the city this late sooo….we’re gonna stay at my uncle’s apartment again, is that okay?” I replied. “Yep!” They all said in agreement. “I packed, incase this happened again,” Larissa said, picking up a backpack. “Oh my God..” I laughed. “Us too!” The other three said, picking up their bags. As I started laughing, Greg starting poking my arm. “What?” I asked, as I turned around. “What about us?” he asked, giving the puppy-eyed look. “We’ll call you when we get there okay?” I said smiling. “Okay!” he said with a satisfied look growing on his face.
“Well..we’d better get going then,” Larissa said as she got up from Matt’s lap. “Okay, you guys will be at Chris’ right?” I said slowly. “Yeah,” All five of them said together. “Okay, we’ll call you when we get there..bye,” we said as we gave each of them a quick kiss, and walked out to the busy streets of Manhattan.
