After the meeting, everyone gathered by the cart. Justin reached for his Apple Jacks. As he poured it, a note fell out and he read it. "Justin you ok? Your lookin' a little pale. What did the apple loose its jacks?" Brandi said trying to be funny. "No. A note was in my cereal box." "What did it say?" Justin read the note out loud so everyone could hear (including the security)
LoVe AlWaYs, YOUR NUMBER 1 FAN
The room was silent. Just then, Cheryl ran out of the room. Chris followed her. "Are you ok?" he asked. "No!" she replied as she started to cry "I'm so scared of this, this, stalker." She could barely get the words out of her trembling lips. "Shhh, its ok." "No, it's not. I love my job and I really want to do this tour, but I'm so scared." "It'l be all right. I won't let anything happen to you." He caressed her cheek as he looked into her eyes. He was shocked at how amazing they were, with their hazel middle and green/gray rims even though they were tear filled. He then bent down and kissed her lips ever so softly. Then he embraced her with a hug that made her feel safe for the first time in months.
"Let me have that." Jake said, very concerned." This is to much. Group members are starting to find things, in their breakfast no less. This is getting to close. I think we need to get a detective in on this. I'm gonna go make a few calls." "You ok Justin?" Brandi asked noticing he was still a little pale. "Yah. I'm aight,'" he said,not to convincingly. "You guys seem to be handling this pretty well," Joey remarked. "Yah well, you get used to it," Chels answered. The guys were really concerned at this remark.
( they had 3 rooms, one with beds on either side of a sitting room, just like the guys that was right across the hall from theirs) "I am soo tired," Kimber said. "Me to, this day was long, right from the get go." Katy replied referring to the cereal incident "I felt so bad for Justin, I've never seen him that pale," Brandi said. "Cheryl, are you ok? What happened with you and Chris when you ran out?" Chels asked. "It just got to me, I needed some space. As for me and Chris, well, he finally kissed me. He's soo sweet. For the first time in months I felt safe." "Aww, how sweet!" the girls said, half joking, half serious.
"Man that stalker guy is really freaky!" JC said. "Hey man, at least you didn't find a note in your breakfast. I don't think I'll ever be able to eat AJ's again. And dude, I really liked that cereal." Justin answered. "Well the girls seem to be taking it in stride," Lanced remarked. "But it is taking its toll," Chris answered, serious for the first time in a while, the guys could tell that something had happened with Cheryl and him, but weren't gonna ask. "Come on this is gonna be a busy week, lets just move on and get some sleep," JC said as they all headed off to bed.
There weren't any incidents with the stalker who was commonly referred to as "the psycho" over the next six days. But this was the day of the first joint concert, and anything is possible in love and war (ok its not an exact quote, but it works)
"Rise and shine sleepy heads!!" Brandi yelled, all to perky. "Just five more minutes ma!!" Kimber yelled.( de ja vouz huh?) "Nope. Up and at em! We've got our first concert of the tour tonight, plus we gotta go to all those interview things." "All right! We're up, just stop bein' so darned perky this early. Its nauseating," Cheryl exclaimed, a little repulsed.
The guys were in the girls room. They were looking through the stuffed animals that were thrown on stage during the show. "Here is a bag addressed to the girls," Joey said with a little smirk on his face. "Oooooooooooh!" the guys all teased as Katy opened it. "AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!" she screamed as she threw the bag down and started to cry. "What is it?" they all asked, having a pretty good idea that it was from the psycho. "Just look for yourself!" she replied, as she got up and subconsciously ran straight to Lance. He was more then happy to be able to comfort her. He just held her. She finally felt a little at piece in his strong arms. Chris, who was sitting by Cheryl, held her hand tightly as Joey got up and looked in the bag. "It is a stuffed dog, covered in blood!" He replied as he pulled out a note, disgusted and scared. "Shouldn't we get Jake?" JC asked. "Yah, I'll call for him," Kimberly replied as she got up to use the phone. The note read:
LoVe AlWaYs,
YOUR NUMBER 1 FAN Ps. I LoVed ThE ShOw ToNiGhT. StAy N SyNc, Oh I MeAn N SiDe WhErE ThEy CaN KeEp An EyE OuT FoR Me, LiKe It WiLl Do AnY GoOd.
"This guy is crazy!" Joey said. "Yah," they all replied, every one of the girls through tears.
