The guys start their European tour June and Rae, B, Aurora, and I all go with them. Usually their concerts start around 7. So Aurora usually comes along, or we stay on the bus or in the hotel. On the first tour after they do their opening song, they pause. AJ begins talking.

" You know, my little girl is backstage, do you want to meet her?" He asks with a big grin. The crowd roars a yes. " OK. Aurora honey, come out here"

He calls as she runs across the stage to AJ. He scoops her up holding the mic to her. " Say hi honey"

" HI!" she squeals and waves. She begins giggling and a big " awww!" comes from the audience. " What doin daddy?" she asks.

" What am I doing?" He asks. " I'm singing for these wonderful people! SO you go see mommy again. Daddy will see you in a little bit." He kisses her forehead and puts her down as she runs back to me.

Afterwards while they are doing their backstage stuff I am in a small dressing room rocking Aurora to sleep when I look up and gasp.

" Oh my God" I whisper as I lay her down on the couch.

" Hi" Will says quietly.

" Hi"

" How are you?"

" Good. You?"

" OK"

" Why are you here?"

" Well, you know my sister Wendy?"

" Yeah she's what? Sixteen now?"

" Yeah, well she got tickets from some contest to see a BSB concert here and come backstage and well I heard that, AJ I think his name is, is your baby's father. And so I wanted to come see you and her" He looks at Aurora. " She's very pretty"

" Thank you"

" Hey, come to dinner tomorrow with me?"

" Sure"

The next afternoon the guys are just hanging out because they are off for the night. I tell AJ I am going out with an old friend. I meet Will in the lobby and we go to a small Italian restaurant.

We talk about how AJ found out. How school and work was going. He told me he reads my articles everyday. And we just catch up.

" So you love him?" He asks.

" Yes, I do"

" That's good. I admit I'm jealous"

" Why?"

" Because he has you"

" Well correct me if I'm wrong you told me you wanted nothing to do with me or the baby"

" I know. And I apologize"

" No, I mean she isn't yours, you had no tie to her. But she is a wonderful baby and I love her so much. She is my world, I'm glad her daddy is in her life"

" She's gorgeous too. Just like her mama"

I blush " Thank you"

After AJ sings a lullaby to Aurora and lays her in her crib he picks up the phone and calls Brian.

" Hey can you come over and watch Aurora. She's in bed I just need someone to watch her while I go downstairs for something"

" Sure" Brian says. Minute later he is in the room and AJ leaves for the lobby.

As I enter the lobby after saying good bye to Will I walk towards the elevator and notice AJ sitting on the couch where he had been observing Will.

" What're you doing down here?" I ask. " Who is with Aurora?"

" Brian"

" What're you doing down here?"

" I wanted to see you come in. Who was that guy?"

" Will"

" As in ex-boyfriend Will?"

" Yes" The elevator doors open. We both get in. " Quit trippin AJ! We're just friends"

" Are you sure?"

" What's that supposed to mean?"

" Well he had big brown eyes like, oh I don't know, Aurora maybe?"

" Are you accusing me of lying to you about your daughter?" I scream.

" Well..." Just then the elevator jerks all the lights go off and it stops moving. The emergency lights come on.

" Damn it!" I yell. " Why now?!" I sit down.

" Is she mine?" AJ asks.

" I can't believe you are accusing me!"

" Well Jesus Mallori. How do you know whose it is?"

" Oh Jesus" I mutter. " Look, I said I'd get a blood test. It is not Will's! We hadn't had sex in three months when we met!" I sigh.

" I'm sorry" he says sitting next to me and putting an arm around me.

" Don't touch me" I hiss.

" Mallori, I believe you, she's mine"

" Don't touch me. You know maybe I never should have told you. We were fine without you" I move away from him.

I call Brian quick and tell him what's going on. About 10 minutes later we are told it'll be at least 2 hours. We sit in silence for a straight hour.

" I'm scared" I say. I walk over to AJ, I want to feel his touch. It always makes me feel safe. " Honey, I'm sorry for yelling. I'm just kind of stressed. This touring is hard on me and Aurora"

He tries to stay mad. " Come on" I say as I straddle him. I lightly scratch his neck with my long nails. He smiles and kisses me. I turn around and he massages my shoulders.

" Oh that feels good" I moan.

" I know what else would feel good" He whispers in my ear.

" AJ!" I shriek. " Here?" He grins slyly.

" Come on baby, they won't be here for another hour" He lays me on the floor.

He takes my shoes off and begins sucking on my toes. He slips a hand up my dress. He grins. All he feels is bare skin.

" Mallori!" He says. " You have no panties on!"

I laugh. " I know!"

" Well, that did it. I'm overly excited. Foreplay over, I'm ready!" He pulls down his pants and boxers and rams into me. He rolls me over so I'm on top of him. I rock back and forth on him.

" I'm ready!" I cry.

" Me too" he groans as we begin to climax together. I roll off him and lay next to him. He pulls his pants and boxers up. We sit together. " We have 10 more minutes" I say.

He laughs. " Good thing we finished when we did! That could've been embarrassing"

We both lean up against the wall, he lays his head down in my lap.

When the doors open a radio is playing. It's playing an old Aerosmith song " Love in an Elevator" I laugh as we walk back to our room.

" Appropriate song huh?" I ask as AJ starts cracking up. We walk into our room and see Brian asleep on the couch. Aurora is asleep in her play pen. We let Brian sleep. We both change and get into bed.

The tour goes on and finally on July 3rd it's over and we get to celebrate July 4th at home. We all go over to Kevin's for a big barbecue after we eat and clean up we all go up on a hill to watch the fire works. Aurora oohhs and aahhs at the bright colors.

The guys start their U.S. tour August 23rd. Once again we go with them. We're all taking a semester off of school.

The fun part is all the meet and greets before each show. The fans have gotten over the fact that they have girlfriends and AJ is a dad. In fact they love Aurora. They are constantly asking for pictures with her. She loves all the attention.

One Saturday they have off and we are lounging by the pool when AJ says he wants to go shopping. I say I'm tired and stay behind. Nick says he doesn't feel good and goes up to his room.

I'm in mine and AJ's room sleeping. I wake up an hour later and am bored so I decide to go see if Nick is feeling better. When he answers the door he is in just his boxers and his tan body is exposed. I find myself staring, and drooling a bit.

" Hey what's up Red?" He asks using the nickname him and the fellas made up for me.

" Not much" I say. " Just wanted to make sure you were OK"

" Yeah, I'm fine" he says. He walks over to the mini bar. " Want this fruit punch, soda stuff?"

" Uh, sure" I laugh.

He opens it and hands it to me. AS it gets to my hand it slips and spills freezing red liquid all over my shorts. I screech from the coldness. He tries not to laugh.

" I'm so sorry!" He says trying to stop laughing.

" It's ok" I assure him.

" You're uh, gonna have to take your shorts off" He laughs.

" OK, I have my bikini on anyway" I say slipping my shorts off.

" Wanna watch TV or something?" He asks.

" Sure" I say as we sit on the bed. We start watching a movie. Before we know it we're both asleep. We are awaken by someone screaming.

" What the hell is going on?!" Rae screams. We both jerk awake. I look and see everyone standing there. I feel my bikini top falling off. Nick re-ties it for me. " What the fuck is going on?"

" Nothing!" Nick and I both say.

" I leave you for 2 hours Nick! Two hours!" Rae goes on. " I come back and my friend is in bed with you!" Then she looks at me. " And you! What kind of friend are you? Jesus, you already have one kid. Can't you quit fucking for two minutes?! Are you sure it's your kid AJ? I mean Mallori opens her legs for just about anyone!"

" Rachel!" B screams.

" Well it's true. God Mallori you are such a whore!" She hisses. Her words rip through me. I try to hold back the tears. " A slut!"

" Shut up Rachel" I say.

"Whore!"

" Shut up!"

" Hoe."

" Shut the hell up NOW"

Then bam! She punches me right in the eye. I place my hand where she hit me. I can feel tears forming.

" Rachel!" Nick and Rae both scream.

" She's a fucking slut!" Rae goes on. I know, or hope she doesn't mean what she is saying. The room goes silent as they I guess expect me to hit her back. I don't. I take Aurora and walk out of the room. I feel even worse because I'm afraid AJ believes the same as Rae, but would you blame him? I wouldn't the whole situation is odd. But I find out he doesn't. Minutes after I get in the room he comes in. Wordlessly he walks over to me and hugs me as I begin to sob.

" I can't believe you hit her!" Nick yells overly angry. " What is wrong with you? You know we would never do that!"

" Yeah well what happened Nick?" Rae screams. Nick just shakes his head and walks out of the room with Brian. Howie follows as do Kevin and B.

The next morning I wake up. I go look in the mirror, there is a big black and blue ring around my eye.

" Shit" I curse under my breath.

I see AJ walk up behind me. He just got out of the shower and is in his towel.

" Whoa!" He exclaims. " She gave you quite a shiner there baby doll"

" I can't believe she punched me"

" I know sugar" He frowns. " You know, people are going to think I hit you"

" No, I'll put my make up on it and wear sunglasses"

" OK baby. Are you OK?"

" Yeah" He gives me a big kiss.

We go on for days, not talking, Rae and I. Finally Bekah is tired of it. She asks Nick, Rae, and myself to come into a room and actually locks us in it. She tells us we have to make up before she lets us out. Finally after 20 minutes Nick speaks up. " This is stupid" He says. " Rae this is what happened..." He tells her the whole story.

" Oh God" She cries. " Mal, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean any of it" She hugs me. We hear the door open.

" Good job B!" Howie congratulates her.

" Thanks" B says.

" That's my girl!" Kev says hugging her.

Soon the U.S. tour is over. Aurora and I move in with AJ. Nick and Rae move in and B and Kev do too. On my 22nd birthday AJ proposes to me.

Later on Kevin proposes to B and Nick to Rae.

AJ I were married on July 4th, 2001. Kevin and B on December 24th. Nick and Rae on May 31st, 2002.

The End!

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