Chapter 10

Mouse and AJ went through the drive-through at McDonalds and left
without being noticed.  They decided to go to a local park to eat their food. 
They found a picnic table and began to eat.

“I love McDonalds, I eat this stuff all the time, especially when we are on
tour in Europe.”

“I know it’s so good, but It’s so bad for you.”

“Yeah, I try not to eat when were’re home.”

“So you guys have a concert on Friday, what’s it for, I thought you guys
wrapped up your tour a while ago.”

“It’s a concert for charity.”

“Oh, that’s cool.”

“Yeah, We actually start our European tour for the new album the last
week of June.”

“How long are you guys going to be over there for?”

“About two months cause we have to be back her in September to do the
2nd leg of the tour and we are scheduled for the MTV Music Awards.”

“That’s so cool, I’ve always wanted to go to that.”

“Mabey I’ll take you.”

“That would be cool.”

“So, what do you want to do now?”

“Is there a mall near by?”

Stacy and Nick arrived a few hours later at Nick’s house.

“Thanks Nick for the boat ride, I had alot of fun.”

“Your welcome, I had fun too, I wanted to invite you and Mouse to our
concert on Friday.”

“Cool, I’ve never been to one of your concerts, I can’t wait.”

“We have rehearsals on Thursday, your welcome to come, plus you can
meet the rest of the guys.”

“I don’t know about you but I really need to take a shower.”

“Yeah, I agree.”

Nick and Stacy headed to their rooms and took showers.  During her
shower, Stacy couldn’t stop thinking about Nick, she was really starting to
like Nick, alot.  Nick could not stop thinking about Stacy, he thought to
himself, ‘I think I’m falling for her.’

“A mall, of course it’s about 10 minutes from here.”

“Let’s go then.”

They both hopped in the car and headed to the mall.

“Hey AJ can I borrow your cell, I wanna call Stacy to see if she is home
yet, I wanna find out where those two went.”

“Yeah, sure.” AJ handed Mouse his cell phone.  “All you have to do is hold
down #6.”

“OK, thanks.”

Mouse did what she was told and the phone started to dial.

Stacy had just gotten out of the shower when she heard the phone ring. 
The phone rang a few times and she figured Nick was in the shower and he
didn’t hear it so she picked it up.

“Hello?”

“Hey girl, what’s up?”

“Oh, hey Mouse, oh nothin’ much, you?”

“Where were you and Nick this morning?”

“He took me out on his boat and we went snorkeling, It was a blast.”

“That sounds cool.”

“So where are you and AJ?”

“Oh, we went out for a bite to and now we’re headed to the mall.”

“Cool.”

“Well, I gotta go cause we’re almost there, talk to ya later Stace.”

“Kay, see ya later.”

“Bye.”

“Bye.”

As soon as they hung up AJ asked, “So where were they this morning?”

“Nick took Stacy out on his boat and they went snorkeling.”

“That’s what I thought, Nick is always going out on his boat.”

Stacy headed downstairs to the kitchen to make some lunch. She looked
through the cabinets and decided to make Spaghetti with sauce.  She
grabbed all the ingredients and started to prepare when Nick came down.  

“Hey, who was on the phone, I didn’t catch it in time?”

“It was Mouse calling from AJ’s cell, she just wanted to say hi.”

“Oh, OK, mmm that smells good, you love to cook don’t you?”

“Yeah, when my mom went back to work, I had to cook for my brothers,
so I’m used to it.”

“Your a good, cook, this morning those French toast were really good.”

“Thanks.”

Nick and Stacy sat down and started to eat.

“Wow, this is really good too, you can stay here anytime and cook for me.”

Stacy laughed, “I’m going to start charging.”

“I really miss homecooked meals, especially since my family moved away.”

“So your all alone here, why did you stay?”

“Cause I grew up here, and It’s close to Orlando where our management
company is.”

“I know what you mean, in a few months I’m going to start college, me
and a few of my friends are gonna get apartment to share.”

“Where?”

“It’s about 10 minutes from the university.”

“That’s cool.”

Nick had been wanting to ask Stacy something all day so he finally decided
to ask her.

“Do you have a boyfriend?” Nick blurted out all of the sudden.

“Nope.”

“You don’t?”

“Nah, the guys at my school aren’t datable.”

“What do you mean?”

“They’re assholes.”

“Oh.”

“Sure here and there I’ve dated a few guys but the guys at our school have
egos the size of Texas and all they want from you is sex, plus all they care
about is looking good and being popular and seeing who can get the
prettiest girl, it’s really sad.”  

“Really, It’s that bad?”

“Yep, you’re lucky you didn’t go to highschool cause you might have
turned out like that.”  “You’re different from most guys I’ve met, I can
actually have a decent conversation with you.”

“Yeah, well you’re different from most girls I’ve met too, most girls that
I’ve dated only date me cause I’m a Backstreet Boy, It’s hard to trust
people these days.”

“Well, you can trust me.”

“I know I can.”

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