Jake left to room to go call the detective. Dana went over and tried to help everyone calm down. About 15 min later the investigator arrived. "Hello My name is Lynn. I am the one who has been assigned this case, normally now is when I ask what happened, but I can already see what happened." The investigator looked around, took some pics, and talked to everyone. Jake and Lynn then left so he could show her the past notes. "So where are we gonna sleep tonight? Our rooms are trashed and the hotel is full," JC asked. "I don't wanna stay here anyway. Its to scary," Kimber replied. "Well, you each have bunks on the bus, so I guess you can all stay there for the night," Dana suggested. Mike, the other security guard there at the time agreed that the bus was a good idea. They all gathered their things and went down to the bus, still shaken by what had happened. Once on the bus, they all just went to bed, (after saying their "goodnights") After about an hour, Joey woke up to hear sobs coming from the TV room. He got up to see what it was. When he went in he saw Chelsea crying softly. "Chels? What's wrong?" He asked as he noticed her tearstained face. "What do you think is wrong?" She replies in a short manner as she wipes some tears from her face. Joey goes over to her, puts his arm around her and pulls her close. "Everything will be Ok. Lynn will get to the bottom of it." Joey tried to comfort her. "But what if everything isn't ok? I don't wanna die. This was supposed to be a tour to help people, but instead we are afraid for our lives," She replies. " I know, its kinda ironic, but you will be ok, I'll make SURE of it. I promise. I never break my promises," He says. Chels looks up at him and smiles as he wipes the remaining tears off of her cheek. He looks at her and says, " You are an incredible person, why anyone would want to harm you is beyond me. I could never hurt you. I'm starting to fall in love with you." He wasn't planning to say that, but the words just came easily to him, for once in his life, when faced with a beautiful woman. "I'm beginning to fall in love with you to." She replied as she looks deep into his chocolate brown eyes and kisses him with a spark that was never there before.
The next day, They all woke up early, even JC, no one could sleep. "Did anyone hears those strange noises last night?" Chris asked. "What noises?" Katy asked, a little paranoid. "It sounded like um, well,, slurping," He replied as everyone kinda looked at him funny when he said 'slurping'. "Well, I think I know what it was," Justin said as he opened the door to the TV room. There were Chels and Joey, asleep in each others arms on the couch. "Should I wake them up?" Justin asked with a smirk on his face. "No let them sleep. At least some of us can," Brandi replied. "Ah man, your no fun," Justin replied as he shut the door. "Ha Ha very funny," was Brans response to that. They gave the concert that night without any problems and left for Atlanta. When they got there they checked into a hotel. All of then were a little hesitant to open the doors to their rooms. The guys were in 2 rooms across the hall from the girls' 2 rooms. The next morning they all went down to the meeting room for the usual meeting. They noticed that Lynn, the investigator was there to.
Dana starts off the meeting," Well, as you can see, Lynn is gonna be joining us until this stalker thing gets taken care of. So we wanna welcome her to our little family. Now lets get down to business. We are gonna have a little different schedule in this city as well." Everyone just looks around at each other like 'not again' "Well, I can see you all are enthused. We will be doing all the interviews today and hive a HUGE outdoor concert tomorrow. Are their any questions?" "Yah, Lynn do you have any suspects?" JC asked. "Yes, but we haven't made any arrests. You all will be the first ones to know when some more progress is made." Lynn answered. "I meant, are there any questions about the schedule?" Dana snapped, as everyone got a shocked look on their faces. "No, I think we got it." Chris replied. "Sorry for snapping, I'm just a little stressed,"Dana replied just a short. All that day they had interviews, individually, as a groups and as joint groups. So far they had managed to keep the "psycho" a secret from the press. It seemed that they were gonna dodge another day without anyone knowing until the last question of the day. "There have been rumors of a stalker following the group is this true?" The reporter asked. None of them wanted to lie, but it was the only way. "What do you mean by "stalker"?" Kimber asked non challantly. "There have been rumors of someone leaving notes in your hotel rooms, and gifts, and I was wondering if it was true," the reporter responded. "Well, we get letters and gifts from fans all the time. We try to read as many of them as we can and we usually give the toys to hospitals," JC responded. Then Dana stood up and said that the press conference was over. They all went back upstairs to Katy and Brandi's room. "Man that last one was close. That's all we need, fan's parents freaking out that our concerts aren't safe,"JC remarked. "Yah, but what do I do when I start thinking that our concerts aren't safe?" Katy asked in reply. Lance grabbed her hand and whispered in her ear, "You remember that I won't let ANYTHING hurt you." and gave her a kiss on the cheek as she blushed. Everyone made gaggy noises and went to the next room (it was adjoining) and started to order a movie. Lance and Katy walked in after them. "What?" They asked as they walked in with all eyes on them"Haven't you ever seen a couple before?" Lance asked as Chris threw a pillow at him and they settled down to watch the movie. They just sat and watched movies together for the rest of the night. In each others arms. (couples respectively, no "extra curricular stuff" here)
The next day they left at 7:30 for the arena. Since it was an outdoor concert, there was a little more technical stuff to go threw. They guys had a radio interview, so they took a van and were gonna meet up at the arena a little later. When the girls got on the bus, they each had a package with their names on it in their bunks, from the guys. "Justin is sooooo sweet!!!" Brandi exclaims as she rips into the box. "They all are!!" Kimber exclaims as all the girls follow Brandi's lead and rip the paper off of the boxes. "What the..AHHHHHHHHH!!" Cheryl yells. Her screams were followed by screams from the other 4 girls. There was a dead rat in each of the boxes. "Is this Chris's idea of a joke? Not only did the rat thing get old a LONG time ago, but this is NOT the time for this." Cheryl yelled as the girls took the boxes to the dumpster.
About an hour after the girls got to the arena, the guys arrived, each with a rose for their girl. Chris noticed Cheryl facing the opposite way on stage, so he came up behind her and grabbed her waist as he put the flower in front of her. She turned around to face him, pulled away, grabbed the rose, threw it on the stage stepped on it and ran off the other way in tears. Each of the other guys roses were NOT excepted warmly. Katy just looked at Lance and told him that she thought he was going to keep her safe, and that she was mistaken and ran off. Chels looked at Joey and all she could mutter was "You promised" before she ran off in tears. Brandi took the rose from Justin and threw it at him before going after her friends. Kimberly just looked at JC with a face of ice that JC never knew was possible for this warm person to have. She just went the other way. "Does anyone know what just happened here?" Chris asked, fighting back tears, like the rest of them. "I have no idea, but I think we should go find out," Joey said. They all went to the backstage area to find the girls in tears. "What is going on here?" Chris asked Cheryl. He tried to put his hand on her shoulder, but she pulled away. He had never felt such a twinge of loneliness in his life. "You all put dead, yes DEAD rats in our bunks on the bus!!!!!!"Brandi yelled, directed mostly at Justin. "That is NOT what I call a good morning gift." "What are you talking about? I don't know anything about a rat. Besides, we left at 5:45 this morning, why would we do something like that at such an ungodly early hour anyway."Justin replied. All the other guys had the same confused expressions on their faces. "What do you mean you don't know. They were addressed to us from you." Chels replied. "Are you saying that someone put a dead rat in your bunk, from us?" Lance asked, a little confused. "When we went to the bus this morning, there was a box on each of our beds from you guys, and there was a dead rat inside each of them."Katy said, wiping her tears away. "We not only didn't put them there, but would never do something that bad at a time like this," JC replied. "Oh, so your saying that you would do it if this wasn't a bad time." Cheryl replied, laughing a little. "Well, maybe." Chris answered as Cheryl went up to him and gave him a kiss. "I'm sorry I yelled," she told him. "If we did that, you had a reason to. But we didn't so, give me a kiss!!" He excitedly said as he pulled her closer to him. "That was beautiful man." Joey and Justin joked as they pretended to cry. They all kissed and made up. Just then Lynn walked onto the stage. "Huh hum." She cleared her throat. "Oh um, sorry." JC stammered out, a little surprised by her sudden appearance. "Well, I was just going around the stage to help security check things out." Lynn stated. "We really appreciate all your help. I just hope you can figure something out soon." Katy told her, as the rest of them agreed. "Is there anything that you haven't told me, that you might have forgotten?" Lynn asked. "Well, this morning...." Kimber begun as she told Lynn what the girls had found. "Thanks for telling me. Why rats? That is disgusting." Lynn asked. "Well, when the 2 groups first got together, there was a prank that involved rats. I guess that is where it was from." Cheryl answered, blushing a little. "Hmm, that's interesting...." Lynn mumbled. "What?" asked Lance. "Well, bec-" Lynn was interrupted by Dana coming up to them. "How's it going?" Dana asked. "Ok.... now." was Chels's answer. "What happened to you shirt?" Brandi asked, noticing a hug pirce of her shirt was missing at the bottom. "I don't know, must have been when I was unloading stuff.," Dana answered. "Since when do you unload stuff?" Kimber joked. "Well, since now I guess," she replied."Now come on, we have a concert to get ready for." She said as she ushered them back to the stage.
backstage before the girls go on that night...... "Man, the weather looks like its gonna get pretty bad." Katy remarked. "Yah, the wind is really picking up." Brandi agreed. "Will everything hold up?" Chels asked Dana. "I think so, there's no reason why it shouldn't. "Well, ok then Lets do it!!!!!!!" Cheryl yelled as the girls ran out onto the stage for their opening number. Just as they hit the last pose of their opening song, a huge gust of wind blew and......
